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Thorsten Becker

@thwbecker.bsky.social
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Geophysicist at UT Austin working on the connections between planetary interior and surface systems. The physics of plate tectonics, from earthquakes to global mantle convection. Makes maps.

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Thorsten Becker @thwbecker.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
UTIG is hiring in coastal scienec, including beach processes, estuarine dynamics, ice-ocean interactions, ocean circulation, paleoceanography, paleotempestology, sea level change, and tropical cyclones. THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION TO THIS MATTER apply.interfolio.com/190267
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Thorsten Becker @thwbecker.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
The Jackson School of Geosciences at UT Austin is hiring an MSc/PhD level Science Program Manager to help with the implementation and design of our school wide research strategy. utaustin.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/UTstaf...
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Science Project Manager
Job Posting Title: Science Project Manager ---- Hiring Department: John A and Katherine G Jackson School of Geosciences ---- Position Open To: All Applicants ---- Weekly Scheduled Hours: 40 ---- FLSA ...
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Gareth Funning @gfun.earth · 08/06/2026
Applications are now open (due July 1st) for the EarthScope ISCE+ course in InSAR processing and analysis! Alongside the usual background, theory and practical applications, we plan to cover some ISCE3 and NISAR content for the first time! www.earthscope.org/event/2026-t...
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2026 Technical Course: InSAR Processing and Analysis (ISCE+) | EarthScope Consortium
This 5-day course covers basic and advanced InSAR theory and hands-on processing of Sentinel-1 and NISAR data using the JPL/Caltech InSAR Scientific Computing Environment (ISCE/ISCE3). Topics include ...
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Thorsten Becker @thwbecker.bsky.social · 07/06/2026
Wow even these days wow
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Jacquelyn Gill @jacquelyngill.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
This is a helpful guide! If you haven’t made a comment yet, please do! Even—especially—if you’re not a scientist!
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Thorsten Becker @thwbecker.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
Y'all: If you're interested in #geodynamics, #earthquakes, or #tectonics, our Tectonic Geodynamics textbook is currently on sale for $65 @princetonupress.bsky.social and a new set of lecture slides along with PUP instructor resources are at www-udc.ig.utexas.edu/external/bec...
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 19/04/2026
"Secretary Kennedy’s unlawful declaration harmed children,” the Judge wrote. “This case highlights a leader’s unserious regard for the rule of law... “Unserious leaders are unsafe." www.advocate.com/politics/nat...
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Federal judge unloads on ‘unserious’ RFK Jr., says anti-trans policy showed his ‘cruelty’
Judge Mustafa T. Kasubhai vacated the “Kennedy Declaration,” finding it unlawfully attempted to override medical standards and restrict care for transgender youth.
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Laura Helmuth @laurahelmuth.bsky.social · 22/03/2026
This is a great list of techniques for getting real information out of a Google search and avoiding AI slop and paid results. (One thing not included is that if you add "-ai" to a search, you block the AI summary) cardcatalogforlife.substack.com/p/google-has...
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Google Has a Secret Reference Desk. Here's How to Use It.
40 Google features to find exactly what you need, the alternative search engines that do things Google won't, and the reference desk framework underneath all of it.
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Thorsten Becker @thwbecker.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
Misty mountain hop.
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Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 30/01/2026
❤️
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Thorsten Becker @thwbecker.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
U.S. government has lost more than 10,000 STEM Ph.D.s since Trump took office | Science | AAAS www.science.org/content/arti...
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U.S. government has lost more than 10,000 STEM Ph.D.s since Trump took office
A Science analysis reveals how many were fired, retired, or quit across 14 agencies
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Molly Ploofkins @mollyploofkins.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
Alex Pretti’s coworkers take a moment of silence this morning
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Thorsten Becker @thwbecker.bsky.social · 21/12/2025
And of course Matt has a seismometer in his bag at #AGU
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Paul Byrne @theplanetaryguy.com · 17/12/2025
🚨 SAVE THE DATE 🚨 We're putting together a Planetary Science Community Meeting at the Kentucky Science Center in Louisville, KY on April 14–16 2026. This is a grass-roots meeting for planetary scientists to gather, discuss, and organize to address pressing issues our community faces. (1/2)
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Princeton University Press @princetonupress.bsky.social · 14/12/2025
@thwbecker.bsky.social and Claudio Faccenna's Tectonic Geodynamics is a comprehensive, integrative approach to tectonics and geodynamics for students and researchers. Out now (6 Jan UK pub)! Explore a free preview: press.princeton.edu/books/hardco... #EarthScience #Science #Geodynamics
Tectonic Geodynamics by Thorsten Becker and Claudio Faccenna. A comprehensive, integrative approach to tectonics and geodynamics for students and researchers.
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Thorsten Becker @thwbecker.bsky.social · 12/12/2025
From the #Med to #Tibet, #geodetic strainrates sometimes match, and sometimes don't, what #earthquakes tell us. #open #science reanalysis of GNSS data by Castro Perdomo et al. in @agu.org's JGR-SE. Figures are so pretty, as if I made them myself. agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/share/DX5BNA...
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Dr. Wendy Bohon @drwendyrocks.bsky.social · 09/12/2025
Mark your calendars for the Committee on Solid Earth Geophysics Meeting: Emerging Quantitative Methods in Geophysics January 15, 2026 1:00 PM - 5:00 PM (EST) Online Registration is free! www.nationalacademies.org/units/DELS-B...
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Emerging Quantitative Methods in Geophysics: Committee on Solid Earth Geophysics Fall 2025 Meeting
With the rise of multi-physics modeling, data-intensive methods, and innovative community infrastructures, computational geoscience is now an equal partner alongside observation and experimentation. T...
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Thorsten Becker @thwbecker.bsky.social · 07/12/2025
#Ideal. Underrated. open.spotify.com/track/4WOGvf...
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Thorsten Becker @thwbecker.bsky.social · 17/11/2025
Postdoctoral fellowships at EPS and UTIG at UT Austin now open for 2026 www.jsg.utexas.edu/people/postd...
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Unit-Level Postdoctoral Fellowships - Jackson School of Geosciences
The Jackson School of Geosciences at the University of Texas at Austin invites applications for two separate postdoctoral fellowship programs. These highly competitive institutional awards...
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Thorsten Becker @thwbecker.bsky.social · 04/11/2025
Packing up our deployment in Northern Chile, bittersweet.
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Thorsten Becker @thwbecker.bsky.social · 09/09/2025
Cool summary of related craton dynamics problems including our paper by @scishow.bsky.social youtu.be/uMhEjGzxHJE?...
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A Strange Thing Is Happening Beneath North America
YouTube video by SciShow
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Thorsten Becker @thwbecker.bsky.social · 07/09/2025
Geophysics is serious business.
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Thorsten Becker @thwbecker.bsky.social · 02/09/2025
Intermediate depth earthquakes can cause destructive shaking in Chile, and may mixed mode rupture. Study led by Jia on the 2024 Calama 7.4 with a number of our Chilean friends, including our field team Bertrand Potin, Sergio Ruiz, Juan Baez, and Marcos Moreno. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Thorsten Becker @thwbecker.bsky.social · 24/08/2025
Five stars
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Edward Clennett @eclennett.bsky.social · 21/08/2025
Attending @geosociety.bsky.social GSA Connects 2025 and interested in learning about how plate reconstructions can help you in your research or teaching? Come join our short course! More info at store.geosociety.org/products/sc2... and registration at connects.geosociety.org/register.
Flyer with an image of the Earth in the geological past, as well as the GSA Connects and GPlates logos. Text reads:
GSA Connects 2025 Short Course 521
Plate Tectonics for Science and Teaching using GPlates Paleo-GIS Software
Date:    Saturday 18th October 2025
Time:    8am-5pm
Instructors:    Jonny Wu & Edward Clennett,                          	                   University of Arizona
Cost:	*Student = $63
	*Early Career = $88
	Professional = $125 
Laptop required. Please install GPlates from          www.gplates.org prior to short course.
More information and registration at: https://store.geosociety.org/products/sc25cn521 
*Register through GSA registration portal for student/ECP rate.
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Thorsten Becker @thwbecker.bsky.social · 17/08/2025
Not saying but at least it looks nice.
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Thorsten Becker @thwbecker.bsky.social · 16/08/2025
Thanks Princeton University Press, students and colleagues for helping us make this textbook happen. Available widely in November. #tectonics #geodynamics #earthquakes press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...
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Thorsten Becker @thwbecker.bsky.social · 14/08/2025
Most excellent workshop with our NNW colleagues and part of the MTMOD crew. Onward in figuring out physics based seismic hazard models. Thanks to Jamie Howarth and his crew.
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Thorsten Becker @thwbecker.bsky.social · 11/08/2025
Awesome start to the NNW-MTMOD meeting on fault dynamics and seismic hazard in St Arnaud. Also Captin Underpants on white board (why?)
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Dr. Wendy Bohon @drwendyrocks.bsky.social · 09/08/2025
These stunning animations from the USGS and NOAA show modeling of the earthquake waves and tsunami waves generated by the M8.8 earthquake off the coast of Russia. 🧪
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Jason "Jay" R. Patton @earthjay.bsky.social · 08/08/2025
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A parade of volcanoes is erupting in Russia following an 8.8 earthquake
Six Russian volcanoes erupted shortly after an 8.8 magnitude earthquake struck nearby, with a seventh possibly to follow.
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Thorsten Becker @thwbecker.bsky.social · 04/08/2025
Intriguing earthquake volcano connection like discussed for Fujisan. Wouldn’t it be nice to have more coupled conduit - seismic wave models to mess around with… www.bbc.com/news/article...
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Russian volcano erupts for first time in centuries
The eruption of a volcano in Russia's Kamchatka peninsula may be linked to a massive earthquake last week, experts say.
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Eos @eos.org · 30/07/2025
#NISAR will take 90 days to perform commissioning tests & reach its science orbit. “But as we progress, we’re going to get little peeks behind the curtains...It’s going to be transformational.” —Alex Gardner, JPL eos.org/articles/tra...
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“Transformational” Satellite Will Monitor Earth’s Surface Changes - Eos
The mission, jointly operated by the United States and India, will measure minute changes to land, ice, and ecosystems around the globe.
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Jascha Polet @jascha.bsky.social · 30/07/2025
Four hours after the arrival of the first #tsunami wave at Crescent City CA, as shown by this tide gauge record, more than thirteen hours after the M8.8 Kamchatka #earthquake, the wave height again reached almost 1 meter, not that much lower than the maximum of 1.1 m almost three hours earlier. 🧪⚒️
Crescent city CA tide gauge record from today
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Thorsten Becker @thwbecker.bsky.social · 27/07/2025
Love the cautious optimism of Deutsche Bahn…
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 23/07/2025
"In the letter, the signatories warned that National Science Foundation grants now underwent a 'covert and ideologically driven secondary review process'...” www.nytimes.com/2025/07/22/s...
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Amid Fear of Retaliation, N.S.F. Workers Sign Letter of Dissent
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Alexandra Witze @alexwitze.bsky.social · 21/07/2025
NASA employees have released their own 'dissent' letter, joining NIH and EPA employees in protesting agency changes in the Trump administration. They call it the Voyager Declaration. Words by me: 🧪🛰️ www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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‘We dissent’: NASA staff declare opposition to Trump cuts
Declaration of dissent, which warns that science and safety are at risk, joins similar documents from staff at the EPA and the NIH.
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Thorsten Becker @thwbecker.bsky.social · 21/07/2025
Join us for session DI012 – Seismic Anisotropy from Surface to Core at AGU 2025, in New Orleans. The session will feature presentations by our invited speakers, Gianmarco Del Piccolo and Xiongwei Liu agu.confex.com/agu/agu25/pr... #seismic_anisotropy #agu25 #new_orleans
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Science Magazine @science.org · 10/07/2025
In the next few months, Japan will finish work on an instrumented network of seafloor cables and wire it directly into a national early warning system. Learn more: scim.ag/44FXkxI
Since the Tōhoku quake and tsunami struck in 2011, Japan has built three offshore monitoring networks comprising more than 200 instrument stations, connected to the mainland by optical fiber. The networks provide real-time warnings and insights into subduction zones, where one tectonic plate dives under another at a seafloor trench.
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Thorsten Becker @thwbecker.bsky.social · 10/07/2025
Dylan in ATX. Or maybe Timothée Chalamet. I can attest to a Dylan sounding person behind the piano.
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Thorsten Becker @thwbecker.bsky.social · 10/07/2025
Meaning, for example, N = 2, once all is said and done. Does make you wonder.
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Dr. Jennifer Wade @volcanojw.bsky.social · 10/07/2025
US Earth Science people: Our June webinar felt so good, we’re making it a series. Join us next Tuesday 7/15 (and again in Aug & Sept) to hear from NSF staff and to get (most of?) your questions answered. www.nsf.gov/events/nsf-d...
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NSF Division of Earth Sciences Informational Webinar
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Thorsten Becker @thwbecker.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
Great to have John Aiken at UTIG to talk about solid fluid interactions and new code development paradigms leveraging AI
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Stephanie Deppe, PhD @spacescisteph.bsky.social · 23/06/2025
I cannot express to you the hours, days, YEARS that went into these images across Rubin. They are spectacular. And truly just a peek. It has been the wildest few months of my life getting my small piece, the social media, ready for this. You're not ready for 11am. ls.st/rubin-first-look-livestream
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First Images from NSF–DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory | #RubinFirstLook
We’re nearly ready to #CaptureTheCosmos! Join the NSF–DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory team on June 23, 2025 at 11am US EDT as they reveal the first incredible ...
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Thorsten Becker @thwbecker.bsky.social · 14/06/2025
#computational #geoscience jamboree in Breckenridge CO this summer. One more day to submit abstracts and apply for EC funding to attend the #CIG meeting. Science includes earthquakes, landscape evolution, subduction zone fluid transport and more! geodynamics.org/events/detai...
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Wonder of Science @wonderofscience.bsky.social · 13/06/2025
The LI-900 silica tiles used on the Space Shuttle were such poor heat conductors you could grab them with bare hands seconds after pulling them from a 2200 degree oven. Full video: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pp9Y...
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Dr. Jennifer Wade @volcanojw.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
US Earth Scientists: We know you have questions, come get them answered directly from NSF/EAR POs! Tuesday, June 17, 2p Eastern. Register here: www.nsf.gov/events/nsf-d...
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NSF Division of Earth Sciences Informational Webinar
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Thorsten Becker @thwbecker.bsky.social · 29/05/2025
Nominations open, and some awards are waaaay undersubscribed
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Thorsten Becker @thwbecker.bsky.social · 24/05/2025
Great time back at JAMSTEC, science discussions and awesome toys
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Thorsten Becker @thwbecker.bsky.social · 18/05/2025
New preprint from our team on Graph Neural Network Simulators as surrogates for dynamic rupture propagation, Bayesian inference, and exploring the physics of the mapping from fault stress state to earthquake scenarios. doi.org/10.22541/ess...
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