Vanessa Sun

Omg you look so pretty in this photo!!! You’re glowing ❤️

#Zurich, here we come! On my way to #SBE25, the Sustainable Built Environment Conference. 🛤️😃

🎊 I am looking forward to meeting up with many old and new colleagues and to learning more about the latest research and innovations for "Shaping Tomorrow: Systems Thinking in the Built Environment"

Graphic for the AMS webinar "Moving Forward as a Community: Navigating Troubling Times As a Student" featuring headshots, name, and affiliations of the moderator and panelists, with details about the webinar.

Feeling overwhelmed or uncertain as a student studying weather, water, or climate sciences ⛈️?

Join our Board on Student Affairs on Thursday, September 4, for fresh ideas and advice on navigating student life in the atmospheric sciences.

📥Submit your questions before 28 August: bit.ly/4ozwGzM

First day of the semester… it’s my quals year, plz send help 😭

when my advisor says “someone wrote this paper” as if that someone isn’t literally the postdoc i met with every week during my first grad program

🧪I met these two badass scientists while working with the Belmont Forum & they inspire me on the regular. Tune in to ask them questions about working in the international environmental science space, their journeys, and how to keep fighting the good fight in this *waves hands about* space

headshot of intern smiling at camera with green foliage in background

group of 4 interns stand in front of a weight-drop truck used for geophysical experiments

Meet Dylan, one of the Geo-Launchpad summer interns! Dylan is working at the New Mexico Bureau of Geology researching seismic background noise in southeastern New Mexico.

Learn more about Dylan in his interview ➡️ https://loom.ly/G-aolIw

Actually, it’s my advisor but by extension, it’s me

(the scientist in question is me)

scientists be like: i have a plot due on tuesday

We are in serious danger of losing 40% of our history faculty (thru not filling 2 lines) despite growing our grad program etc.. Any advice from those who've been thru it much appreciated.

Ever take a step back from scientific theories you know well and understand and go "oh actually this is mind-boggling and ridiculous sounding"?

Last night it was plate tectonics.

Oh so big slabs of stone are constantly slowly moving, with everything we know and love atop them? C'mon.

Scientists slam Trump administration climate report as a ‘farce’ full of misinformation Experts say the report being used to justify the mass rollback of climate regulations has many claims based on long-debunked research

Scientists slam Trump administration climate report as a ‘farce’ full of misinformation

“It is shop worn, decades-old, discredited climate denier talking points, dressed up in the clothing of some sensible new set of revelations”

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

ily babs

a cartoon character is raising his arms in the air and shouting . ALT: a cartoon character is raising his arms in the air and shouting .

Hey anyone doing Neuroscience/organoid work in Portugal - happy to chat ;)

if anyone in my field sees this, no you didn’t 😉

I’m getting there: my model is running. I’ve forgotten all my background info. Was supposed to have plots but I do not.

It’s just been a bad week 😣

it is august and i still have no research results. how am i supposed to have my first phd committee meeting? 😭

Learned earlier this evening that the #MECFS Collaborative Research Center at Columbia's funding was restored... it's a huge relief to know that their work will move forward. Congrats to the whole lab! 🧪

#NEISvoid

Want to learn more about earthquakes like today's M8.7? Get your info straight from the experts with this spectacular list of seismologists!

Assembled by the awesome @geohenning.bsky.social: go.bsky.app/ND4oS9k

How’s the PhD going? I had a 5 hour meeting with my advisor today 🥲

(troubleshooting! sorely needed! got a lot done!)

Save Bugoma Forest Day 1792 + 1793

I am Endel Stamberg, a climate activist from Germany. Uganda forest cover is shrinking. And one of the forest in Uganda has been sold for agribusiness. I’m calling upon activists around the world to add their voices on mine and #SaveBugomaForest!

Picture of a flyer titled "Pathways to the Ph.D. Conference" on Saturday, September 27th 2025. It is sponsored by MIT at St. Francis College (179 Livington St.). Registration link is shared (https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSf9Bq43T6vBJeMAqFXOe9Mj1ipId1_6XhgijoTdnUEtPxMZww/viewform). There is text that discusses about how Participants will learn valuable insights into the PhD application process and MIT graduate programs. It is for college students and recent graduates. There is a picture of a flower and several sponsorships.

🚀 Join us for our *first-ever* Pathways to the PhD conference on Sat, Sept 27 in NYC — sponsored by MIT!

In-person event for college students & recent grads exploring STEM PhDs. Get insider tips & MIT insights!

📍 St. Francis College, NYC
🔗 Register: cientificolatino.com/phd-conference

Trump Administration Changes at NIH, EPA, NASA, NSF Spark Internal Dissent Hundreds of staffers at the National Institutes of Health, Environmental Protection Agency, NASA and the National Science Foundation have signed public letters to leadership opposing the direction in which the agencies are headed

Federal workers are blowing the whistle. Under Trump, public science is being steamrolled—research canceled, experts fired, truths buried. These brave voices are risking everything to speak out.

Sign your support -

NIH - zurl.co/5NXCX

EPA - zurl.co/7C3gE

NASA - zurl.co/Rw6o6

zurl.co/Kwhfj

Congrats!!!!

Congratulations to Dr. Michael Davern for passing his PhD defense today. He is my 13th PhD student to finish, and my 2nd analytical chemistry PhD. Thank you Professors Barbara Turpin, Yue Zhang and Sarah Brooks for your close collaboration with us! Thank you EPA and NC Collaboratory for funding.

Felsic minerals in cross polarised light from Bau Granite Suite in Borneo. Large phenocryst in centre shows two regions of concentric zoning. Several other plagioclase phenocrysts show concentric zoning and twinning. Crescent shaped crystal (bottom right) is very rounded quartz xenocryst. Very fine grained groundmass of feldspars and quartz.

For #ThinSectionThursday a plagioclase phenocryst (centre) showing double twinning suggesting coalescence of two crystals. Crescent shaped crystal in lower right is part of highly rounded quartz xenocryst. From Bau Intrusive Suite, Sarawak, Borneo 🧪⚒️
doi.org/10.1016/j.li...

Mer de Glace has lost 4.5 m in thickness at the level of the ice cave (1750 m) since the 1st May 2025! 😲😱

On 5th July, it has been recorded 5 cm of ablation in 5 hours... 🔥

Ablation rates are truly absurd now in the Alps! 🥵

Source/pics: Pierre Jeanneret & Luc Moreau

A Google search result for the population of the U.S. using -ai to remove AI results

A screenshot of the AI Mode in Google Labs turned off

A screenshot of the AI Overviews and more slider in the off position in Google Labs

Want to remove AI results from a Google search? The easiest way is just to add -ai to the end of your search. You can also turn off the setting in Google Labs (labs.google.com/search/manage) by clicking the AI Mode slider & AI Overviews slider to the off position.