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I am so sorry for your loss.

08.03.2026 20:07 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Nigel making announcement while inflatable donkey costume collapses

Nigel making announcement while inflatable donkey costume collapses

The battery in the fan died and the suit is slowly deflating

03.03.2026 01:32 👍 28 🔁 1 💬 6 📌 0

Sigh.

This is the directorate that funds all of the earth, ocean & atmosphere research at NSF.

01.03.2026 20:55 👍 69 🔁 30 💬 2 📌 1

I love it so much

26.02.2026 18:56 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Wait wait wait, was this dude a TIME traveler?!

(I think about this article at least 3-4 times a year)

26.02.2026 18:49 👍 4 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0

. @cmasteller.bsky.social Claire this feels very you-coded

What other granites could withstand all this rock-on-rock collision, for love of sport

20.02.2026 14:52 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 1
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AGU mourns the passing of Michael McElroy, a towering figure in atmospheric and climate science.

His six decades of research helped shape global environmental policy and inspired generations of scientists.

His legacy will endure.

buff.ly/KCHS5Mb

18.02.2026 20:45 👍 14 🔁 6 💬 0 📌 0
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Tectonics as a Regulator of Shoreline Retreat and Rocky Coast Evolution Across Timescales Marine and tectonic processes jointly shape rocky coast retreat, with uplift, tides and waves as the dominant controls on modern retreat Uplift limits short-term retreat, but the effects of the s...

Hot off the presses!

PhD Student Cesar Lopez leads a new paper from our group focused on the role of tectonic uplift in buffering coastal retreat over decadal timescales and the potentially under recognized role of EQs over millennia.

Give it a 👀 at
agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

03.02.2026 17:26 👍 6 🔁 3 💬 1 📌 0
High‐Resolution Channel Geometry Reveals Contrasting Styles of Gravel River Adjustment You have to enable JavaScript in your browser's settings in order to use the eReader.

New paper out now! PhD Robert Kostynick uses a new automated tool for measuring river width to reveal new styles of river channel adjustment to local changes in channel slope in concave and knickpoint-bearing river channels. Give it a read!

agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10....

12.02.2026 15:37 👍 3 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0

oh man i love it when there’s a callback

17.02.2026 20:54 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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annual Presidents’ Day history lesson.

16.02.2026 14:25 👍 171 🔁 35 💬 6 📌 7

I do love that we named the spacecraft reporting back on what this planet is up to after the wife who spied on him so much she literally invented peacocks to have eleventy jillion eyes in their tail feathers

13.02.2026 02:26 👍 237 🔁 14 💬 4 📌 1

Juno is hardly an unbiased source here, NASA. “‘Guy Not As Big a Deal As He Claims,’ Says Vengeful Wife Guy Cheated On Constantly”

13.02.2026 02:21 👍 466 🔁 93 💬 16 📌 3
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gradient.horse Draw a horse, watch it run!

Excuse me but this is a perfect use of the internet.

gradient.horse

12.02.2026 15:21 👍 160 🔁 69 💬 7 📌 19

I heard y'all wanted a thread on "El Apagón"

11.02.2026 02:00 👍 307 🔁 66 💬 9 📌 16

Disturbingly detailed analysis of my first rewatch incoming

09.02.2026 02:30 👍 6012 🔁 1787 💬 107 📌 923

Becky my two goals for the evening were to get some wings and to make sure my phone was charged for bluesky at halftime

09.02.2026 00:12 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

“Great hustle!”

09.02.2026 00:02 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

What’s on the red-eye playlist?

06.02.2026 06:25 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Look! A planet! It is heroic and cooperative. It has clouds made of neon.

01.02.2026 20:05 👍 7 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0

Did we take it at the same time? Fall ‘03 and Spring ‘04?

31.01.2026 05:14 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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Is that lumpfish the cutest thing you ever saw?! Got to shake hands with an octopus (I know I’ll be visiting him frequently!) and see some incredible things at our experimental aquarium facilities — just another day here @scrippsocean.bsky.social

29.01.2026 05:34 👍 8 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
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I grew up with Alex Pretti The kind-hearted ICU nurse shot by ICE agents was my childhood best friend.

I wrote about my childhood friend Alexi Pretti. Please read it and share it and remember him as a human being. @theverge.com

27.01.2026 16:45 👍 17312 🔁 6910 💬 504 📌 329
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‘A Towering Intellect’: Michael McElroy, Giant of Harvard Environmental Sciences, Dies at 86 | News | The Harvard Crimson Remembered as a pioneering atmospheric scientist who bridged planetary science, climate policy, and undergraduate education, Michael B. McElroy, 86, died earlier this month from cancer.

I was sorry to hear that Mike McElroy has passed away. He was on my Ph.D. committee and was always very supportive of me and my work.
www.thecrimson.com/article/2026...

27.01.2026 03:12 👍 41 🔁 7 💬 3 📌 2

lol $^*#& that’s the Scotia Arc

26.01.2026 17:15 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

They have discovered a planet. It has clouds made of neon. Maybe you could watch the sunset there.

18.01.2026 08:00 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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Spudnik Equipment Company 4 row potato harvester.

01.12.2025 22:23 👍 87 🔁 17 💬 5 📌 7
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This is stunning. Listen to this in Philadelphia.

Thousands singing “Hey-Oh, we won’t be silent while our friends are gunned down.”

Really listen to it.

11.01.2026 04:55 👍 28943 🔁 10274 💬 553 📌 703
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I Tried to Be the Government. It Did Not Go Well. My five-month quest to monitor the weather, track inflation, and inspect milk for harmful microorganisms

if you want a long read that involves udders, a hot air balloon, and some extremely dubious data on egg prices, the story I’ve been working on for the last few months where I tried to single-handedly take on every government function myself is now online! www.theatlantic.com/magazine/202...

08.01.2026 20:41 👍 1570 🔁 361 💬 34 📌 83
NASA Discovers Distant Planet With Conditions That Could Sustain Rocks

NASA Discovers Distant Planet With Conditions That Could Sustain Rocks

NASA Discovers Distant Planet With Conditions That Could Sustain Rocks https://theonion.com/nasa-discovers-distant-planet-with-conditions-that-could-sustain-rocks/

06.01.2026 21:15 👍 2024 🔁 287 💬 33 📌 44