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Thorsten Becker @thwbecker.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

We are hiring an AI Computational Scientist. This position is part of a broader effort at JSG to advance #AI and #geoscience, with machine learning grounded in physical models and an understanding of Earth processes. Details and application are at utaustin.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/UTstaff/job/...

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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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Thorsten Becker @thwbecker.bsky.social · 21/12/2025

And of course Matt has a seismometer in his bag at #AGU

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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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Thorsten Becker @thwbecker.bsky.social · 07/12/2025

#Ideal. Underrated. open.spotify.com/track/4WOGvf...

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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 · 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 · 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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Thorsten Becker @thwbecker.bsky.social · 27/07/2025

Love the cautious optimism of Deutsche Bahn…

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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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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 · 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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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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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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Thorsten Becker @thwbecker.bsky.social · 22/04/2025

New preprint on Tethyan belt crustal deformation and lithospheric dynamics based on a comprehensive new GNSS based model, led by Nicolás Castro-Perdomo doi.org/10.22541/ess...

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Thorsten Becker @thwbecker.bsky.social · 19/04/2025

A nice summary of our team effort synthesizing the role of mantle convection for closing the Tethyan seaway and perhaps contributing to mammal migration patterns. www.jsg.utexas.edu/news/2025/04...

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Thorsten Becker @thwbecker.bsky.social · 01/04/2025

New full waveform imaging for the mantle underneath North America shows craton dripping induced by past subduction (we think). www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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Thorsten Becker @thwbecker.bsky.social · 21/12/2024

Not “nature” nature but thankful to have this close by.

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Thorsten Becker @thwbecker.bsky.social · 12/12/2024

Hess Medalist be photo bombing #agu24. Congrats to the awardees, great to see tectonophysics folks recognized.

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Thorsten Becker @thwbecker.bsky.social · 08/12/2024

And may I introduce to you… MTMOD friends and PIs and paduans got together for a pre #AGU24 meeting, awesome to see the great science happening in the team. sites.utexas.edu/mtmod/

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Thorsten Becker @thwbecker.bsky.social · 24/11/2024

Hello from UTIG's broadband seismometers in Northern Chile.

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