Nate Stevens (@ntstevens) — Bluesky Profile

8 hours ago

IDITAROD 2026: A musher on a mission - ICT Jody Potts-Joseph wants to encourage young Alaska Natives to travel the way of the ancestors

If you aren't keeping up with the Iditarod this year, here is a good reason to: Four mushers are Alaskan Native: Kevin Hansen, Inupiaq; Ryan Redington, Inupiaq; Kaiser, Yup’ik; and Jody Potts-Joseph. Another, Jesse Terry, Anishinabe, is Indigenous from Canada. #Uglydogs

ictnews.org/news/iditaro...

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1 month ago

Cornell University, Earth and Atmospheric Sciences/College of Engineering Job #AJO31560, Postdoctoral Associate, Earth and Atmospheric Sciences/College of Engineering, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, US

A great pair of post doc opportunities in cryoseismology working with a top-notch scientist and human!

academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/31560

academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/31559

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1 month ago

Share one boring fact about yourself.

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2 months ago

Proud to have helped in a small way with this amazing study peering under the ice and back in time!

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2 months ago

I know Jack in the Box is a thing out here, but I honestly freeze every time I think to go.

What’re the gems on (and off?) menu?

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2 months ago

Having just experienced transit in 15 North American cities over the past 7 weeks I can attest that at lot of transit agencies are leaving so much money on the table by not making merch out of this stuff.

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3 months ago

Depictions of evolution where a phylogeny often has humans on the far right or top can give an impression of evolution being progressive of leading to ‘increased complexity’ when it does not. Top figure shows such a phylogeny which can look the same as ‘the March of progress’ depiction most commonly used to depict evolution (showing monkey to man erroneous march of evolution) - instead swiveling some nodes on a phylogeny where humans are shown closer to the center (which doesn’t change relationships) can lead to better ‘tree thinking’

New post by me on #MITPressReader @mitpress.bsky.social

On the 100th anniversary of the #ScopesMonkeyTrial
the ways we depict #evolution can still give an erroneous progressive view (that evolution leads to humans or ‘increased complexity’).

thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/is-our-pictu...

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3 months ago

Introduce yourself with 5 animals you’ve seen in the wild.

Whitetail deer
Tui
Reindeer
Sandhill crane
Weddell seal

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3 months ago

One of my favorite bike lane protests:
1) Clearly demonstrates the issue
2) Proposes a systemic solution
3) Creates content that can be spread and shared easily
4) Does so with humor and heart

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4 months ago

Good news!!

The deadline to apply for this job has been extended to November 24. 🗓️

Get your applications in soon!

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4 months ago

Whose ear do I need to start bending to deal with the storm water ponding issues in the Seattle bike lanes?

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4 months ago

This lab is key for tracking deadly waves. Its sensors are about to go offline. After NOAA cut funding to the lab that’s been monitoring seismic activity for more than 25 years, nine stations tracking tsunami-causing earthquakes for the agency will go offline by the end of the mo...

NOAA cut funding to the Alaska Earthquake Center, directed by my friend Mike West. As a result, seismic monitoring by nine stations in Alaska tracking tsunami-causing earthquakes will go offline by the end of the month. This endangers people in Alaska, Hawaiʻi, and other parts of the Pacific.

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4 months ago

U.S. tsunami warning system, reeling from funding and staffing cuts, is dealt another blow Seismic monitoring stations in Alaska are closing after a denied federal grant, risking delayed tsunami warnings for people living on the West Coast.

Another unnecessary blow to public safety for the whole pacific

www.nbcnews.com/science/tsun...

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4 months ago

xckd coming of a flowchart. The top reads "someone is claiming to predict the exact date of a future earthquake. Should you listen?" A diamond-shape says "start" and one arrow leads to a box reading "NO" in very large letters, followed by "(there are big earthquakes constantly, so if anyone ever DOES figure this out, it will be immediately obvious that their method works and then the world's seismologists will not shut up about it. You won't need this flowchart."

Fellow seismologists, we're going to get a lot of mileage out of the latest @xkcd.com

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4 months ago

King County Elections Led by Director Julie Wise, King County Elections conducts accurate, secure, and accessible elections for King County's over 1.4 million registered voters.

You can check if your ballot is valid here or if you need to fix it here. Most of the issues are related to a lack of signature or the signature being different than that on your driver's license: info.kingcounty.gov/kcelections/...

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4 months ago

There’s your thunder on seismics, for the Seattle-area interested! Station UW.BRKS

pnsn.org/seismogram/c...

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4 months ago

Ballot Chasing for Katie Wilson Fills this form out if you want to help ballot chase!

Want to play a role in making sure Katie wins? Sign up at the following link to help our team - make sure that every vote gets counted. docs.google.com/forms/u/0/d/...

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4 months ago

Butter charred cabbage in spiced tomatoes.

Cut large green or red cabbage into 8ths, keeping stem in, remove guard leaves. Sear with olive oil (or ghee) on cut sides. Finish with 3-4 tablespoons butter. Season with garam masala + cinnamon. Add 28oz crushed tomato. Simmer covered till stems are soft

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4 months ago

IT IS TIME FOR BLUESKY RECIPE POSTING

do you have a cheap, healthy, low-cost recipe? post it here! or quote tweet this post. or dunk on me for something I don't care just post easy meals that people can make right now.

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4 months ago

Excellent thread

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4 months ago

PNAS: Six-million-year-old ice discovered in Antarctica offers unprecedented window into a warmer Earth via our NSF COLDEX & US Antarctic Program. ❄️ www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

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5 months ago

Machine learning in my field:
-does this wiggle match approximately wiggle from a known earthquake or is it from some other source?
-does this receiver function meet a particular set of "good" receiver functions?

Basically an advanced form of template matching.

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5 months ago

A free, open-source piece of software, SeismicUnixGui, helps introduce interns to active-source seismology. Find out more in #SRL ⚒️

pubs.geoscienceworld.org/ssa/srl/arti...

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5 months ago

Seismogram showing ground motion at T-Mobile Park for game-winning single by Seattle Mariner Jorge Polanco, JP Crawford scores!

MLB poster for PostSEAson 2025 that reads Seis the Moment with a small seismogram between the Seis and the The. Has website for PNSN seismograms of the game. mariners.pnsn.org

You feel that Seattle?! Check out that Polanco P-Wave! Polanco Game Winning Single, Crawford Scores, MARINERS WIN!! @Mariners are Toronto Bound! @Tmobilepark @FoxSports
#SeisTheMoment #SeizeTheMoment

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5 months ago

UCalgary is awesome! Check out these opportunities, Geo Sky! ⚒️ 🧪

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5 months ago

It took my brain a moment to process the red bubbles on the preview image were not earthquake patterns from waste water reinjection…

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5 months ago

"Family and friends," he said, "then home – where you live, your neighborhood, your town, your city – then your state, then your region, then your country."
My father was explaining to me when I was 11 or 12 why he went to war when he didn't have to. He was driving me to Boy Scout camp, and we had some time to talk. When the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor, he was an engineer, and his company had government contracts that could keep him here. At almost 33, he was also getting long in the tooth for war. My mother would also have me tell you he also had two small children, my brothers, one eight months, and the other five.
He joined the Navy a week after Pearl Harbor.
"Those are the priorities in the order of priority," he continued. "But if your country is threatened, really threatened, everything flips. If your country, this country, falls, everything in that lineup falls, everything in that lineup is at mortal risk."
"So, I'll know when it's country first?"
"You'll know," he answered.
Last week, I shared the mayor's plan for peacefully enduring, if not gaining, from the National Guard presence in our city.
That was last week.
This week changed everything.
This week, the president called an extraordinary meeting. He and the secretary of defense addressed a room of some 800 generals and admirals called from their command posts around the world to hear the president's words in Virginia.
He told our country's top brass their attention would soon be turned inward. That they would be commanding military operations in our cities against the "enemy within." Further, he said that they should hold military training exercises in our cities.
Never mind what Secretary Hegseth told them. His message was as empty as his suit. He basically told them they had to shave and lose weight.
The Commander in Chief told them their enemies are Americans, and that their field of battle would be Democratic cities. The great power and might of America's military would be turned toward its own.

Toward here, people. Not here in general terms, here in very specific terms. Memphis is an official battlefield.
"Family and friends," he said, "then home – where you live, your neighborhood, your town, your city ..."
As the rest of the world rages, the president told his top military leaders that we will disengage from the protection of our interests and those of our allies and attack the political enemies of our president, root out the "radical left," crush "the woke," seal our borders against mighty Venezuela, and reduce blue cities and states to whimpering vassals of the federal government.
The president who would be king.
Before this week, he commanded the justice department to intimidate and threaten, even indite, his political enemies including a former director of the FBI, and DA's in Georgia and New York.
A president can't do that. Not just because it's blatantly personal and political. Not just because it's abuse of power, petty, and childish.
Because most if not all of what he's doing is straight-up, in-your-face, unconstitutional. It is, in fact, just the latest additions to the long list of unconstitutional that defines the dangerous actions of this man.
You know this is wrong. No what-about this or that. You know this is wrong. No bemoaning the awful state of something or somewhere. You know this is wrong.
Nothing excuses this. Nothing.
Now, he has openly told the military that anyone in America that challenges him is the enemy, and where they live the new front.
The National Guard deployed here will be unarmed and have no power to arrest. They are a camo-covered smokescreen, eye candy for the cameras disguising what will really be going on, click bait for the internet.
We now know that Trump and his minions are sending hundreds of ICE agents and FBI agents to Memphis, not to mention a small army of Justice Department prosecutors and investigators. The mission is to arrest, prosecute, incarcerate/deport as many people as possible.

Pam Bondi, U.S. Attorney General, was here this week to tell us that, along with Pete Hegseth, the Secretary of Defense, and Stephen Miller, Trump's Deputy Chief of Staff. Not to mention, Tennessee Governor Bill Lee, looking very much like he was waiting to be told wat to do, bless his heart.
Here, ready to rumble.
Who wasn't here or invited was Steve Cohen, the duly elected Democratic representative in Congress of all the people who will be in that rumble.
Republicans should be every bit as alarmed as Democrats – every American should – because every time Trump stomps on the Constitution, he leaves that boot print on every one of us.
Or, as the very first Republican president, Abraham Lincoln, famously put it, "A house divided against itself cannot stand."
Due process and habeas corpus are becoming quaint reminders of a once proud nation of constitutional laws and justice.
What happened in that room in Virginia this week, and what happened out at Shelby Farms give us more than a hint of what could follow the National Guard to Memphis.
"So, I'll know when it's country first?"
"You'll know," he answered.

One man has put 340 million people at risk of losing this democracy. Just as surely as he's made the Oval Office look like a bad imitation of royal chambers at Versailles, just as surely as he's made the majority of both house of Congress look like lackeys waiting to empty the king's chamber pot, just as surely as he's turning the Constitution into a Mara-a-Lago doormat, just as surely, he's coming for us.
You're right, Dad. I know.
I'm a Memphian, soon under siege.
(Lt. Frank E. Conaway Sr., 1943)

Memphis writer Dan Conaway, who helped found the @dailymemphian.bsky.social & comes from a century of local journalism, has just been censored by his own publication.

Here’s the column they wouldn't run.

Please consider writing:
barnes@dailymemphian.com
mcashiola@dailymemphian.com

Stand with Dan.

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2 years ago

Absolutely nobody asked for this but I reformatted my animal yeetability thread into printable poster & zine files.

Introducing, the "Pocket Guide to Responsible & Sustainable Animal YEETING" featuring a revamped rating system. Download links below.

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5 months ago

I get that the news cycle is packed right now, but I just heard from a colleague at the Smithsonian that this is fully a GIANT SQUID BEING EATEN BY A SPERM WHALE and it’s possibly the first ever confirmed video according to a friend at NOAA

10 YEAR OLD ME IS LOSING HER MIND (a thread 🧵)

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