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Wet years alone won’t completely replenish them. Aquifer systems pumped hard enough to cause land subsidence—as in the San Joaquin Valley—are permanently damaged, their ability to store and transmit water irrecoverably reduced. They can’t just be pumped full of water and re-inflated. ⚒️🧵

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This trailer nails it!

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Here's today's #OceanOptimism #EarthOptimism story: Wisdom, the oldest-known albatross, just had another chick! I believe I posted about her laying an egg, it has now hatched! 🧪🦑🌎 news.mongabay.com/short-articl...

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and now that song is stuck in my head

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I've posted this at least once, but just watched it again with the kids tonight and it's such a joyful video. I now find myself desperate to watch a 90 minute Jon Batiste Goes Punk movie. www.youtube.com/watch?v=E0hS...

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Already the news is rather, um, effervescent this morning, so let's all just stop here and rest and enjoy this bird break, featuring a photo of what is definitely, absolutely a bird (photo by me)

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Hardly new info, but BSky should know: Warsaw's water quality is monitored by eight clams with magnets attached to their shells. If contamination in the water causes the clams to close, the magnets trigger an alarm and shut off the city's water supply. Thank you, little guardian molluscs. 🧪🌏🚰

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The California Geological Survey is now on BlueSky! @cageosurvey.bsky.social 🧪⚒️

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"Revamped" (as said by Dolly Parton!)

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It's normal and happens every year. Ignore the comments out there about "rattlers don't hibernate" and "they never go away", etc. It's complicated, and January is exactly when we'd expect to start seeing some rattlesnakes on the surface.

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The Welsh told the Saxons this hill was called "pen" (meaning "hill"). The Saxons added their word for hill, "tor," and called it Torpen (hill hill). Later the Norse added their world for hill. So it became Torpen Haugr (Hill Hill Hill). Now the English call it Torpenhow Hill (Hill Hill Hill Hill)

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Lessons in alt text. These photos by Chuck are a true breath of fresh air.

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If you enjoy snakes and want to learn more about them Rattlesnake Solutions is a great follow. 🐍

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1. Engineer, only because it was suggested 2.Chemical engineering (for the scholarship) 3. Engineering geology because I had no idea I could get a job doing that sort of thing, it sounded cool 4. Landfill Engineer/ municipal project manager (after 19 years as a consulting engineering geologist)

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I believe that it is now official that New Orleans has received more snow this winter than Flagstaff. (note, on average, Flagstaff would have had around 47 inches of snow by this point in winter)

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Here's a couple pics of a red velvet ant I recently saw in Flagstaff, AZ. When I see one, I'm always tempted to pick it up and see if the sting really is that bad. Thankfully, those moments of insanity pass without action.

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I was 'amused' to see an article about train robbers arrested near where I live. Seems a bit too 'old west cliche', but it does seem to be a thing - they are stealing special addition Nike shoes. azdailysun.com/news/local/c...

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GAH

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Where I work, we get a group of bald eagles that hand around every winter. Until this week, they have been absent - probably because of the relatively warm, dry weather this winter. But I finally saw a few yesterday. I really enjoy seeing these birds.

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It is very funny to me that one of the fastest man-made objects in history is a steel bore cap accidentally launched upwards by a nuclear test that is estimated to have reached 125,000 mph which is 5x the escape-velocity off earth. Straight upwards.

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As a once upon a time SFF book blogger and reviewer, I found this very interesting and it expressed much of my lived experience as blogspace transitioned to Twitter et al.

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Popcorn, pints and a pooch’s birthday: life snowed in at the Tan Hill Inn

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Students - join AEG for free and connect with professionals! The best way to get a job is to build your professional network. It's often not entirely what you know, but who you've met along the way. aegweb.org

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Join AEG in Chicago as a Speaker or Poster Author! Speakers receive a discounted rate & free breakfast on the day of their presentation. Students can register for FREE in exchange for volunteer hours. Learn more at aegannualmeeting.org

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In case you need something for your nightmares.

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A slice of what my wife has been up to for quite a while now.

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The terrifying videos of Pepperdine students in a library amid a raging wildfire that had people mad they weren't evacuated? Yeah that was actually intentional. The university is designed with wildfire in mind and other parts of California could learn from it

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I live in Arizona. Living without daylight savings time is amazing.

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AEG friends! AEG is now on Bluesky @aegweb.bsky.social

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Over the weekend I finished up Shigidi and the Brass Head of Obalufon by Wole Talabi. I very much enjoyed it. I'm hopeful that there will be a sequel. wtalabi.wordpress.com/shigidi-and-...

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super lame that Amazon makes you dig up a secret cheat code on your own to make them pay their workers but if you type "thank my driver" into their search bar they'll tip your most recent delivery person

submitted 79 days ago • 3 comments

I always read the acknowledgements.

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I saw this as a fun alternative to Spotify wrapped. www.instafest.app/home

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I really enjoy this series!

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I think we geoscientists—at least academic geoscientists—have collectively painted ourselves into this corner through our hiring, tenure, promotion, and funding choices. We choose what to reward and it’s rarely communications, outreach, and engagement. Only we can change the situation. 🧵⚒️

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Snoods, caruncles, and wattles, oh my! Obligatory Thanksgiving post about turkey anatomy and taxonomy. #birds 🧪 jasonbittel.substack.com/p/here-have-...

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This is a fulgurite that I found in the desert outside of Phoenix, AZ several years ago. It's a pretty fascinating sample (to me anyway), and I'm not really sure how it lines up with typical fulgurite formation. So, chime in if you know more - I'm not and expert in this area.

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I finished this book up over the weekend. It was good and I'm looking forward to reading others from this series!

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