Scott K. Johnson

How GPS data navigate from satellites to your screen GPS stations in Yellowstone can clearly show how the ground moves, but this simple measurement requires the data to go on a complex journey.

GPS stations in Yellowstone can clearly show how the ground moves, but this simple measurement requires the data to go on a complex journey.

Read more in this week's EarthScope-contributed Yellowstone Caldera Chronicles.
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Gemini made that up, those numbers aren't even close.

If only there were another way to see it communicated, in words, what was new in the world. A sort of paper copy of the new, if you will. A connected web of such sights.

This Chairry from Pee Wee's Playhouse costume is only $1850.

YouTube video by GNCA - GamersNexus Consumer Advocacy Our Future of Subtle Corporate Manipulation: AI Overviews of Independent Content

I've had to think a lot about YouTube's AI invasion from the perspective of hazard communication, where you take great care because of the stakes.

So it was interesting to hear Steve @gamersnexus.bsky.social talk about reputation effects and manipulation potential.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=MrwJ...

But also definitely an inevitable sentence, let's be honest.

We have a mission!

Both HydroGNSS satellites have sent their first signals 📡

HydroGNSS is a Scout mission under FutureEO: compact in size, but built to deliver big science insights into Earth’s water cycle💧

🔗 www.esa.int/Applications...

There are already searches I give up on after a solid page of trash results. Next step is searches I won't bother to attempt.

There are already clearly/possibly fake videos/images that make me close social media apps. Next step is not opening them.

"Flood the zone with shit", the political project, has been a resounding success that destroyed our information environment.

"Flood the zone with shit", the genAI tragedy of the commons, feels real near the threshold of destroying the internet and social media.

Has there *ever* been something with this adoption pattern?

How have daily marketing emails become the default rather than a glitch that gets followed by an apology? Did some marketing conference have a negging pickup artist as a keynote speaker or something?

"Furthermore, he put his hand in front of his face and briefly disappeared from this plane of reality. Therefore, I am reinstating the Salem Witch Trials, which were stupidly ended by Barack Obama."

Eruptions Newsletter Extra for November 23, 2025 Unexpected eruption from Hayli Gubbi in Ethiopia.

I whipped up a new post/newsletter extra for the Hayli Gubbi eruption. First time I've had to post an extra edition! #volcano #eruption eruptions.beehiiv.com/p/eruptions-...

Said to be starting December 1st, so less than 2 weeks before the start of the AGU Fall Meeting. 🫠

The potential existential threat of large language models to online survey research | PNAS The advancement of large language models poses a severe, potentially existential threat to online survey research, a fundamental tool for data coll...

Many have asked for the LLM Survey paper. The release was bungled a bit by PNAS, but it is live now: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Via Underpants Gnomes?

YouTube video by Anna Mills Perplexity Comet completes quizzes

Welp, the first example I've seen of an "agentic" LLM functioning like at all is... completing an entire course's quizzes for you with a single prompt.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=R4qN...

Daily Mail stories may have made a prominent appearance in a video I recently did on Yellowstone...
youtu.be/xPN8h3NEbKU?...

nice generalization... it'd be a shame if someone were to point out an edge case

Lowell Observatory slashes research funding in the midst of financial struggle Flagstaff’s Lowell Observatory plans to cut nearly all its research funding and reduce the number of paid science staff to just two positions next year.

Flagstaff’s Lowell Observatory plans to cut nearly all its research funding and reduce the number of paid science staff to just two positions next year.

OpenAI’s Sora 2 Floods Social Media With Videos of Women Being Strangled X and TikTok accounts are dedicated to posting AI-generated videos of women being strangled.

X and TikTok accounts are dedicated to posting AI-generated videos of women being strangled.

A figure showing all ghg emissions rising

Global Greenhouse Gas (GHG) emissions rise again in 2024, up 2.3%.

This is our collective progress, 10 years after the Paris Agreement.

www.unep.org/resources/em...

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New video: A glacier on Antarctica’s Eastern Peninsula experienced the fastest retreat recorded in modern history—in just two months, nearly 50 percent of the glacier disintegrated. Watch this video to understand what happened. Study by @ciresnews #Antarctica #glaciermelt

This is quite a story: the US employed every strongarm tactic available, including personal threats against delegates and their families, to derail an agreement on reducing shipping emissions that was almost finalized. on.ft.com/47lq3dZ

NOAA cancels longstanding funding for seismic data collection crucial to tsunami warning systems The Alaska Earthquake Center has long provided NOAA with seismic data for tsunami monitoring and warning purposes. That work will wind down in November, after the federal agency said it can no longer fund the contract.

NOAA’s National Weather Service holds the federal responsibility for tsunami warnings, and has historically been a primary supporter of seismic data collection in Alaska

Science Writing Resources (Elsewhere) That We Like - The Open Notebook We aren't the only show in town when it comes to supporting high-quality science journalism! On this page, you’ll find lots of other resources (elsewhere) that center on science journalism craft, incl...

Interested in science writing degree programs? Here’s a list of more than 50 in the U.S. that offer specialized undergraduate or graduate degree programs or individual courses in science, health, or environmental writing. 🧪

I don’t think I have ever been this burnt out and demoralized and part of this is because institutions are not taking our concerns about the pedagogical harms of widespread and uncritical adoption of LLMs in higher education seriously.
It’s exhausting to do this without any support.

This document is … insane? Incredible?

In it the USG shakes down a university for $1.17 BILLION “to avoid legal action” and dictates how hiring, promotion, admissions, scholarships, and CURRICULA REVIEW will be conducted. It stipulates how and when students can protest on campus.

It is un-American