Ryan J Hollister
@phaneritic.bsky.social
Earth & EnviroSci Educator, Central Valley equity/sustainability advocate, Hiker, Photographer, 2015 NAGT FW Outstanding Educator. 🌋 Tissue Box Maker. ❤️🏕⛰🏜 w/ @Xenolith & Z.
Not only is this event spectacular and fascinating on its own, but it's a nice entry point to the new PHX-DUST haboob rating scale from Arizona State University.
Marshall Shepherd @drshepherd2013.bsky.social · 59m agoThank you Randy Cerveny for tipping me to this massive nocturnal haboob event in Phoenix Monday night. Here's what to know about it. Commentary from Tom Gill too www.forbes.com/sites/marsha...
All the projections I've ever worked with predicted an acceleration in the rate of global warming if we continued to increase our emissions. The fact that so many people are shocked about this honestly surprises me. I guess no one ever reads things like the IPCC or National Climate Assessment 🤷♀️
Best way to use purpleair.com map: click on the gear icon at upper left and choose "US EPA" in the "Apply Conversion" setting, or else readings will be too high. Also uncheck the box "show inside" to avoid seeing monitors located indoors, which have a black circle around the colored dot on the map.
Great for Mack, but also shows pure dominance of Jesse Owens. 0.4 seconds works out to about a 4m gap between between gold and silver. That’s a country mile in sprinting.
@LAhistory@lahistory.bsky.social · 2h agoAug 5, 1936: Mack Robinson (Jackie Robinson's older brother) won the silver medal at the Berlin Summer #Olympics 90 years ago today. The Pasadena athlete "finished second behind Owens, crossing the line four-tenths of a second after the gold medalist." www.jackierobinsonmuseum.org/learn/storie...
whomst amongst us were awake in the friggin' middle of the night for the Seven Minutes of Terror?
Dr. Adeene Denton@spacewhalerider.com · 4h agoI'm tired of being angry about AI, so everyone say Happy Birthday to the Curiosity Rover 💗 14 years of Mars science!
Mount Rainier, Mount St Helens and Mount Adams poke above a smoky Washington sky on Wednesday morning. #WAwx
The latest @ecmwf.int seasonal forecast paints coastal California with >8 inches above normal precipitation from December–February. That would be about 170% of normal for San Francisco (~22 inches). This is just a computer prediction, but El Niño may have an outsized influence this winter. #CAwx
New mineral analyses may explain the mysterious gap that was present before oxygen flooded our planet billions of years ago. https://scim.ag/4hQ0lUo
What triggered one of the most dramatic changes in Earth’s history?
New science may explain mysterious gap before oxygen flooded our planet billions of years ago
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Worth emphasizing: *every* good geochemical or geochronologic estimator has a controversial history. That is a big part of what makes it *good*. The arguments are the traces of us figuring out the chemistry & physics of the estimator, & usually mean we can do more with it than originally thought.
The utilities threatening stock buybacks that would increase their shareholder profits while reducing maintenance and upkeep is just craven, man. The corporate structure of the utilities should be vilified too.
Ryan J Hollister@phaneritic.bsky.social · 5h agoNewsom has done a lot of shady stuff while in office, but working with utilities to limit liability for fires their equipment caused (usually due to poor maintenance or some other form of negligence) is just a major betrayal to the people he’s supposed to serve. www.latimes.com/business/sto...
Newsom has done a lot of shady stuff while in office, but working with utilities to limit liability for fires their equipment caused (usually due to poor maintenance or some other form of negligence) is just a major betrayal to the people he’s supposed to serve. www.latimes.com/business/sto...
Utilities threaten action if lawmakers fail to cut their wildfire liability risk
Top executives of California’s two biggest utilities warned they would take action to protect their shareholders if Sacramento lawmakers fail to pass legislation limiting their companies’ liabilities ...
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Shuang Yang—Chang’e 7 will land near the Moon’s south pole Shackleton crater later this year and deploy (via tether) a seismometer that is planned to survive for 8 years. This might be the first node of a long-lived *international* geophysical network! #AOGS2026
Ralph Lorenz—Huygens showed that Titan can be wet, even at low latitudes. As Dragonfly flies across Titan, the odds it’ll land in mud are low (<1%), and if so, the stickiness will be again to sticky wheat dough (and Dragonfly could still takeoff). #AOGS2026
Another community burned to the ground. But yes let’s build another pipeline.
Times Colonist@timescolonist.bsky.social · 15h ago
For the 0-2 followers here who have ever wondered what the ridge traverse segment between The Ramp and Mt. Williwaw is like, here is my trip report from Sat. It is 2.5 km of Class 3/4 gendarmes on top of the ridge for 2 hours, or a 3-hour, side-hilling suffer-fest below the ridge. 0 out of 5 stars.
I will vote for literally anyone who doesn’t actively suck and has a plan to undo all of this
Prof Gavin Yamey MD MPH@gavinyamey.bsky.social · 23h ago🤯🤯🤯 “Steven Quay, a pharma executive known for his books making the case Covid came from a Chinese lab, is on the verge of getting Anthony Fauci’s old job” A Big Pharma executive & lab leaker, what could possibly go wrong? www.politico.com/news/2026/08...
The new #OMB rules would transform funding decisions. I don't know where I would be without #NSF funding. Thanks @agu.org for providing a way to submit comments about the latest set of disastrous OMB rule changes. Deadline Aug 24th #resist agu.quorum.us/campaign/dvw...
Submit your comment now to help stop NSF from implementing harmful grantmaking changes
A new proposed rule would rewrite the terms of U.S. science at NSF. Submit a comment today to fight back.
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Cursed liars. Our precious lands (sacred to many tribes, and to me) are being sold off for short-term profits. I've "recreated" and taught on these lands for years (gift article from The New York Times). www.nytimes.com/2026/08/03/c...
Documents Undercut Trump’s Claims About Bears Ears National Monument (Gift Article)
President Trump said recreation in Bears Ears National Monument was virtually impossible. Documents reviewed by The New York Times show officials knew otherwise.
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Did everyone see @janinekrippner.bsky.social explaining volcanoes for Encylopedia Britannica? www.britannica.com/video/what-a...
Volcanologist Janine Krippner Explains the Science Behind Volcanoes and Lava Flow | Britannica
Volcanologist Janine Krippner dives into the details.
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Our climate scientist Daniel Swain @weatherwest.bsky.social will discuss wildfire & weather with @katiecouric.bsky.social via livestream. Check substack.com/@katiecouric for the link Wed, Aug. 5, at 2:15pm PT/5:15 pm ET
The #GannFire, burning upslope in the Central Sierra foothills west of Angels Camp, is gaining a bit of a foothold despite the lack of extreme fire weather conditions at the moment (though it is quite hot and dry), and has forced some expanding evacuations. Why? #CAwx #CAfire
TONIGHT 6pm El Niño town hall: Join our climate scientist Daniel Swain @weatherwest.bsky.social, Mark Tamayo @ktvufox2.bsky.social, @caloes.bsky.social and host State Sen. Mike McGuire
Daniel Swain@weatherwest.bsky.social · 4d agoOn Tue, Aug 4 at 6pm PT, I'll be participating in a live virtual Town Hall event, hosted by CA State Senator Mike McGuire, on our rapidly-developing #ElNiño event and implications for California from 2026 into 2027. No RSVP required. See you there!
✈️ National Weather Service’s Aviation Weather Center debuted a new turbulence tool to help make flights smoother. The Graphical Turbulence Guidance Nowcast gives pilots more frequent, higher-resolution turbulence information to support safer, more informed decisions. weather.gov/news/260803-gtgn
@callanbentley.bsky.social I’m just browsing the California Natural History Museum Rock and Gem exhibit and who has image credit on this picture of Kansas chalk deposits? Sounds familiar… #RandomRocks
I was on the scene that day and watched people flag police down to talk to someone walking away from the fire. My law enforcement sources confirmed to me this evening my description of the person I saw was consistent with the suspect. Here’s the story so far: www.spokesman.com/stories/2026...
Sheriff: Man, 37, arrested on suspicion of setting Old Trails fire
A 37-year-old man has been arrested on suspicion of first-degree arson for allegedly setting the Old Trails fire, Spokane County Sheriff John Nowels announced Monday night.
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Alexandra (Alex) Duggan@alexdugganreports.bsky.social · 2d agoBREAKING: Investigators have arrested 37-year-old Aaron Farinacci, a former Arizona resident with a manslaughter conviction, in connection to the start of the Old Trails Fire in Spokane.
‘I looked up, and I saw a wave coming’: 2025 Tracy Arm tsunami survivors share experience, researchers search for solutions 👉 https://tinyurl.com/28heyazc
Wow. This is getting pretty sketchy. The Alaska Division of elections used outdated data to justify removing a bunch of citizens from the voter roles and given the opportunity to fix it they were just, like, nope.
Anchorage Daily News@adn.com · 2d agoThe Division of Elections will not immediately restore over 3,000 voters to the state rolls, after it moved them to “inactive” status based on outdated information regarding their citizenship status. www.adn.com/politics/202...
Oak woodland looks to be the primary fuel here and it’s really cooking as vegetation dries out. Indices show the available energy within the flaming front is approaching record levels in the area.
Ryan J Hollister@phaneritic.bsky.social · 2d agoThe Gann Fire, which started earlier this afternoon in the foothills near New Hogan Reservoir was captured by the alert cams at sunset looking apocalyptically stunning. share.watchduty.org/i/112952?ts=...