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.

"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...

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.

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...

Misty mountain hop.

❤️

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

U.S. government has lost more than 10,000 STEM Ph.D.s since Trump took office | Science | AAAS www.science.org/content/arti...

Alex Pretti’s coworkers take a moment of silence this morning

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

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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.

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Tectonic Geodynamics by Thorsten Becker and Claudio Faccenna. A comprehensive, integrative approach to tectonics and geodynamics for students and researchers.

@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

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...

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...

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...

#Ideal.

Underrated.

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Postdoctoral fellowships at EPS and UTIG at UT Austin now open for 2026

www.jsg.utexas.edu/people/postd...

Done.

Packing up our deployment in Northern Chile, bittersweet.

Thanks for hanging in there.

Cool summary of related craton dynamics problems including our paper by @scishow.bsky.social

youtu.be/uMhEjGzxHJE?...

Geophysics is serious business.

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...

Five stars

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.

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.

Not saying but at least it looks nice.

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...

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.

All about high standards.

Awesome start to the NNW-MTMOD meeting on fault dynamics and seismic hazard in St Arnaud. Also Captin Underpants on white board (why?)

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. 🧪

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.

www.livescience.com/planet-earth...