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jkakiwi.bsky.social
Coastal Geomorphologist, rugby and soccer enthusiast, frustrated Man United supporter, avid gardener, spending time with the family.
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Happy #ShowYourStripes Day! @edhawkins.org @climatecentral.org #Tammam #WarmingStripes physics.aps.org/articles/v18...

In #GJI Geophysical Journal International "The spatiotemporal properties of afterslip following the 2016 Kaikoura earthquake in New Zealand from GPS observations: its complementary and inherited patterns with coseismic slip", Zhang et al. academic.oup.com/gji/article/... @oxfordacademic.bsky.social

Derek Cronmiller of the Yukon Geological Survey has provided a stunning set of the images of the fascinating recent failure that partially blocked the Yukon River. This is a textbook example of a complex rotational landslide:- eos.org/thelandslide...

🧪⚒️🚨 job alert!

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Just released. My Nature piece: "Never before has the USA seen such an anti-intellectual, anti-science assault... History tells us that there are times when the dangers of inaction become sufficiently threatening to individuals or the planet that scientists... rdcu.be/eo3Hb

Wait WHAT?! People are bracing for storms and this man just found out the weather exists?! This is what happens when you hire vibes over qualifications.

A fantastic opportunity for an open-ended senior post in sea level science in Liverpool. These do not come up very often! Closing date 19th June. @noc.ac.uk 🌊 careers.noc.ac.uk/vacancy/seni...

We are looking for a postdoctoral researcher to lead missions surveying nearshore active faults with an autonomous kayak!

“It’s a recipe for disaster.” Must read.

BEFORE / AFTER Birch glacier collapse 😮😱 There WAS a glacier here! 🧊 Not only the front, but the entire ice mass has slid down the valley! 🌊 Glad Alain Amherd took two pics with the same angle! 📷🙏

remigration is neo-nazi speak for ethnic cleansing. wrote a whole story about the origins of the word here: www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...

When will this media reckoning come? I’m thinking never. New from me https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/may/17/trump-biden-election-media-coverage?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

Everytime I this video of surface rupture/offset from the recent Myanmar #earthquake it’s 🤯 and now a peek athe rupture up close from thr otber side if the fence - so cool! 🧪⚒️ Link to original video: youtu.be/77ubC4bcgRM

A MUST WATCH! 🧪

No words 🧪

Lots of people on my feed are concerned about the destruction of NOAA by the Trump administration and Elon Musk, but much of what I’ve seen people post about is the national weather service. That’s vital, but NOAA does so much more than that! My latest, for @ucsusa.bsky.social 🧪🌎🦑🐠

🚨New Study Alert!🚨 Our new PNAS study shows how earthquake-driven land subsidence + rising seas = major flood hazards along the Cascadia subduction zone. 🌊🌎 @cascadiaeqs.bsky.social (1/🧵) www.pnas.org/doi/epdf/10....

Thanks to @edwardsanthonyb.bsky.social and SFChronicle for sharing the full NOAA FY26 budget passback. After a detailed reading, think it is important for people to really understand just what massive changes are planned for US weather forecasting and research. open.substack.com/pub/balanced...

Here is our government, just quietly disappearing things that scientists and the public use. Be loud about it. www.nesdis.noaa.gov/about/docume...

I saw the list. This is NOT GOOD. Doesn't seem like NCEI is directly impacted, but some API's using Google (like drought.gov) might be impacted.

It's getting a lot of attn today. But even before today most of the country had very little idea of what has happened at NIH or through it the entire ecosystem of biomedical research in the US. Simply put, Musk, Kennedy & Trump exploded a bomb right in the middle of cancer cure research in the US.

Our paper is out, and it is distressing. Rapid butterfly declines across the United States during the 21st century | Science www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

"‘Stand up’: Scientists launch major protest against ‘devastating attacks’ by Trump administration" via @juliaelenamusto.bsky.social for @theindependent.bsky.social: www.the-independent.com/news/science...

“Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances”

Criminalizing protest is a hallmark of authoritarian regimes

Nice swell waves (~16ft, 20 sec period) on the central Oregon Coast.

I worry that the focus on NOAA's weather predicting value is ignoring the millions of other ways NOAA researchers enrich communities and local economies. There are no oysters without NOAA. There are no blue crabs without NOAA. NOAA trains teachers. NOAA is the lifeblood of coastal communities.

Anyone had success growing Fuscospora fusca (NZ beech tree 🌳) from seed? I’ve tried the recommended 4 weeks of cold stratification, but no luck so far 🌱🌱

“The NOAA cuts followed layoffs at the U.S. Geological Survey that resulted in all earthquakes being tracked by observing the sudden rattling of a glass of water set on a table.” ….I can’t even laugh.

Absolute 100% required reading in re Big Balls and the Federal payments systems and [waves hands around] all this paulkrugman.substack.com/p/musk-in-yo...

We are speechless. 🌊 We lost so many from the #OceanAcidification #mCDR team and so many other #NOAA departments today.

The U.S. has two tsunami warning centers, both operated by NOAA. Employees were terminated from these centers today. The Pacific Tsunami Warning Center covers Hawaiʻi, and now it is less safe to be near the beach. www.tsunami.gov