gfun.earth
Faculty at UCR! Earthquakes! Fault creep! InSAR! GNSS! Seismology! He/him! Executive Editor at @weareseismica.bsky.social! Yes!
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I do not want AI in Slack. I do not want AI in Google. I do not want AI on Facebook. I do not want AI in documents or spreadsheets. I do not want AI in Adobe Acrobat. I do not want AI in Zoom. I do not want AI on news sites. I do not want AI in the patient portal for my doctor's office. I do not wan
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A staff member for Sen. Padilla shared this photo with @samsteindc.bsky.social:
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These days I don't often respond to that sort of low-effort crap. But when I do...
Me: Your message reads like spam. Spamming faculty who are completely outside your field of expertise is a very poor look for you. You're wasting your time and you're wasting my time.
I don't get follow-up requests.
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And a couple of minutes of Air playing 'Playground Love' – quite lovely!
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A few more photos of Charli XCX last night from my other camera.
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Paris update: beep beeeeeeep beep wooooo! beeeep (neee narr neee narrr) beeep woo!
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Dumb luck?
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It's not "fracking", it's "enhancing"
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In my mind, science is a communal activity, and that is not going to stop being true. The conference experience is not just about presenting, and for me never has been. Meeting and talking with colleagues is the whole point. And maybe now organizing as well.
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Solidarity?
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I'm on it
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I rayleigh love waves!
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Oui. At the Institut de physique du globe de Paris. C'est not so bad.
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Things to do in Paris when you're cheap, episode 3: Tolkien tapestries!
What a fantastical sight at the Collège des Bernardins a few weeks ago! Scenes from the Hobbit, Lord of the Rings and Silmarillion in giant cloth form! A contemporary celebration of Aubusson tapestry! An unexpected adventure!
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My fellow grad students at Oxford took John Woodhouse, mathematical geophysics genius and one of the OG seismic tomographers, to see it in the cinema. His verdict: some of the choices the filmmakers made were "curious".
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Well, you don't see many of those in Minnesota. Je suis retourné! I plan to imminently resume Eating All The Croissants.
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Operation "Get Out Of The Midwest" began yesterday, when the governance meeting ended. However I took a $2000(!) bump to give up my seat to Paris and ended up staying the night in Chicago. Eventually made it out (to JFK!) this afternoon. Only one (full) Paris flight today. Can I get bumped again?
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Update: still at the Mall, sitting in on EarthScope and SAGE/GAGE governance meetings. It's the last day, and am looking forward to being outside again. Meanwhile, I find the chairs in the second floor lobby somewhat disturbing...
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Oh my days! I think that game was bad for my health! I was absolutely convinced we would screw it up. Somehow, anyhow, we won the stupid thing! YAAAAAAASSSSSS!!!!! #COYS #EuropaLeagueChampions
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And now for the final session of the day: a discussion of sportsquakes, remotely presented by our colleagues in Bilbao.
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I liked this point that Hillary made – long-term, continuous, spatially dense observations make this work possible! It took a lot of work and advocacy from a lot of people to get to these capabilities (pictured here is the NOTA GNSS network) and we shouldn't take them for granted!
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Hilary Martens (U Montana): We can use ocean tidal loading, measured using high precision GNSS, as a means of constraining the rheology and strength of the lithosphere. We can also do similar analyses using loading from the atmosphere and surface hydrology!