DONKEYS ON CAMPUS

This is all awesome, not least because one of the interviewees is Emily Brodsky (pictured), and the last conversation I had with her was at about 2 am on Monday night, staggering back after the SCEC karaoke, on whether she would sing next year (unlikely) and what (maybe Bob Dylan, still unlikely).

Will Thomas@williamthomas.bsky.social · 6d ago

In today's AIP History Weekly Edition, Anna Doel looks at the variety of ways that recent oral history interviewees found their way into careers in the physical sciences. (Contra the photo, none of them through finding the secret door by the last light of Durin's Day.) #WomeninSTEM

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In Palm Springs for the SCEC annual meeting, and once again I am seeing pictures of me on the screen (e.g. from Roland Bürgmann's keynote talk). Apparently I like to stand next to Roger Bilham

This gets into the forensic process (identifying changes in Planet Labs optical imagery) used to identify the source of the massive flooding seen in Nepal. Well worth half an hour of your time.

Callan Bentley@callanbentley.bsky.social · 2w ago

New video! Interview with geomorphologist @watershedlab.bsky.social about how he rapidly figured out the source of yesterday's catastrophic flood in Nepal and Tibet. youtu.be/qrUx1qYIW4U ⚒️

Working from home today. The sound of braying from the park across the street was just about audible over the noise of my (overtaxed) air conditioner. (Optical zoom on my new phone seems to work well!)

The videos from this year's incarnation of the ISCE+ training course, supported by @earthscope.org are now online! Lots of great material in there for your edification! www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...

2026 Technical Course: InSAR Processing and Analysis (ISCE+) - YouTube

This 5-session course covers basic and advanced InSAR theory and hands-on processing of Sentinel-1 and NISAR data using the JPL/Caltech InSAR Scientific Comp...

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Dr. Anthony Fauci urges Americans not to accept "Normalization of Untruths".

It's that time of year again - the EarthScope ISCE+ course in InSAR processing and analysis is underway! Here (on his short course debut) is Francisco Delgado leading us through a first modeling exercise using InSAR displacements over Okmok Volcano!

We just got in from running errands, and this chap marches up to me as if demanding nose scritches (happily administered) and then settled in to munch on some of the excess grass outside our house.

If a good day is a day when I have seen a donkey, today is a day when I saw at least seventeen

Thoughts on the various Trump administration proposals to revamp US science funding - and what they all have in common:

The Assault On Science Funding Continues

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It's that time of year! Please consider submitting to AGU session G024: Transient Deformation and Creep Processes in the Earthquake Cycle! Studies using geodetic, seismic, geologic and/or experimental data are all welcome, as well as numerical and analytical models. agu.confex.com/agu/agu26/pr...

The data firehose has been turned on! Have fun, InSAR-mavens!

Dr. Eric J. Fielding, PhD@ericjfielding.bsky.social · 2mo ago

NISAR global L-band provisional data products are now released in the NASA EarthData repository, accessible from the ASF and EarthData search. NISAR L-band data acquired on June 17, 2026 and later available as level 0 through level 2 and level 3 products. nisar-docs.asf.alaska.edu/availability...

Excited to share that our paper with @gfun.earth is now published! We investigate how probabilistic interseismic locking models relate to megathrust earthquake rupture, using the 2025 Mw 8.8 Kamchatka earthquake as a case study. agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/...

Linking Interseismic Locking to Coseismic Rupture: The 2025 M_w 8.8 Kamchatka Earthquake

A probabilistic locking approach identifies persistent asperities that control where large earthquakes nucleate and rupture A fully data-driven method infers locking patterns without prescribing ...

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I made this because as far as I can see nobody else has?

Got my comment in today, opposing the proposed rule change that would politicize the award of scientific funding and place many obstructions in the way of scientists for no good reason. It is the last day. If you haven't done it already, please write something: www.regulations.gov/commenton/OM...

elizabethginexi.bsky.social@elizabethginexi.bsky.social · 3mo ago

My summary of OMB's proposed Federal Financial Assistance rule was based on 22 years as an NIH Program Official and the damage I saw to science funding would be. I want to widen the lens now: scientists are not the only ones who should be alarmed. elizabethginexi.substack.com/p/this-new-o...

Under a Binface government, anyone who doesn’t accept human-made climate change as fact will be sent back to school, from Year 1 right the way to A Levels, to see if anything goes in the second time round. #VoteBinface

something something something bear grills

Dom Ervolina@dominicervolina.com · 2mo ago

"Okay, your first mistake here is not letting the fire die out before putting the meat on the grill, but I honestly think your main issue is that you put a bear in charge of making the food."

On my way, Clacton.

Come on Clacton, you have the chance to do the funniest thing

Jessica Elgot@jessicaelgot.bsky.social · 2mo ago

NEW - Greens won’t stand in Clacton. So it is Nigel Farage versus Count Binface.

I can report that Woking town centre was surprisingly lively at 4 in the morning, due to some liberal extension of the normal licensing laws and the explosive decompression following one of the most stressful England victories in my lifetime. Also, it's getting light outside.

Composite plot of the two coseismic interferograms (Sentinel-1, from Copernicus) with the USGS epicenters of the two earthquakes and faults from GEM. The shoreline San Sebastián fault lines up with the fringes in the west and is probably the fault responsible.

Not plotted here but the epicenter is located near the western limit of InSAR fringe, indicating rupture was predominantly towards the east, including Caracas. So rupture directivity, which is like a seismic Doppler effect, likely contributed to stronger ground-shaking effects and damage.

Gareth Funning@gfun.earth · 3mo ago

It's taken me a while, but here is my first interferogram of the Venezuela earthquakes from Sentinel-1. It's an ascending track to the west of the epicenter, and the pattern of displacements is consistent with slip on a fault that runs close to and parallel to the coast.

Another interferogram (Sentinel-1, descending track) covering the bulk of the rupture. The fact that you see essentially (the southern) half of the displacement pattern, indicates that the fault was offshore, or close to it. The noisiness is due to the tropical vegetation in-region.

It's taken me a while, but here is my first interferogram of the Venezuela earthquakes from Sentinel-1. It's an ascending track to the west of the epicenter, and the pattern of displacements is consistent with slip on a fault that runs close to and parallel to the coast.

I am currently in Budapest, where I don't have an earthly about what the talking heads on their World Cup coverage are saying. I don't miss the loudmouthed prat on FOX at all (yeah, you know which one). www.theguardian.com/football/202...

The French aristocrat and the all-American idiot: Henry v Lalas is the World Cup’s most compelling battle

Fox’s broadcast at the tournament has become a story of two contrasting styles. And there is one clear winner

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Went to the salt mines outside of Kraków yesterday and thought I'd model good technique

FRINGE 2026, day 2: Still zombified by jetlag, shotgunning coffee to stay conscious. Also, through some kind of black magic, someone has cut the auditorium in half, which is not doing wonders for my grasp on reality! We're starting with ESA future mission concepts this morning...