Jascha Polet

BREAKING: ‘This hurts’: UNL eliminates 4 programs despite faculty, student pleas The University of Nebraska-Lincoln eliminates the Earth and atmospheric sciences 8-0, educational administration 7-1, statistics 7-1, textiles, merchandising and fashion design 7-1 programs.

It's over.

Despite the fact that the academic council recommended against it, despite the fact that the program brought in more tuition than it cost, and despite the fact that Nebraskans need & deserve this expertise, Earth & Atmospheric Sciences will be cut.

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Made a little animated GIF showing the demise of the V3 camera at the summit of Kīlauea during today's eruption. #hawaii #volcano

Larger scale map for Yakutat earthquake

And for a larger scale tectonic picture, including the Denali earthquake, I generated this map.

Current screenshot of Kilauea USGS webcam

Also, you should really check out Kilauea right now! ⚒️🌋
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Historical earthquake map for the region of today’s M6.9 Yakutat earthquake generated by Jascha Polet using GMT.

M6.9 Yakutat #earthquake is located very close to the border of the USA and Canada. Preliminary results from GFZ Potsdam indicate relatively high non double couple component with oblique mechanism. ⚒️🧪

Trains cancelled over fake bridge collapse image Rail services were cancelled after a 'hoax' picture of a damaged bridge appeared on social media

After a 3.3-magnitude earthquake in north-west England on Wednesday night, "Trains were halted after a suspected AI-generated picture that seemed to show major damage to a bridge appeared on social media".

So there we are 😱

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NASA Selects 2 Instruments for Artemis IV Lunar Surface Science - NASA Science NASA has selected two science instruments designed for astronauts to deploy on the surface of the Moon during the Artemis IV mission to the lunar south polar

Big news! We have a follow-up to Farside Seismic Suite called South Pole Seismic Station selected that will build a new seismic station that can be deployed by Artemis IV astronauts including an active source survey. More to come, but here's the release: science.nasa.gov/missions/art...

I got so many things to say I don’t even know where to start. But this right here is why we NEED better earth science in K-12 🤦🏻‍♀️

Earthquakes in England always feel like a truck has hit the house! ⚒️

‘There’s no monitoring of earthquakes’: new British Columbia pipeline could spell catastrophe, experts warn Project on ‘very poorly understood’ terrain and likely to pass through Rocky Mountain trench, which researchers say poses immense geological hazard

Today in @theguardian.com from @leylandcecco.bsky.social: "‘There’s no monitoring of earthquakes’: new BC pipeline could spell catastrophe, experts warn" w/ @faultydata.bsky.social & I on geophysical unknowns @mark-carney.bsky.social @davidebybc.bsky.social 🧪⚒️

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AI is Destroying the University and Learning Itself Students use AI to write papers, professors use AI to grade them, degrees become meaningless, and tech companies make fortunes. Welcome to the death of higher education.

„CSU—US’s largest public uni system—went all-in with a $17mill partnership with OpenAI. . .CSU unveiled its grand technological gesture just as it proposed slashing $375mill from its budget. While admin cut ribbons on AI, they were cutting faculty positions, academic programs, student services.“

The California Institute of Technology is launching an AI tool this fall to look for “authenticity” in students who submit research projects with their applications, admissions director Ashley Pallie said. Students upload their research to an AI chatbot that interviews them about it on video, which is then reviewed by Caltech faculty. “It’s a gauge of authenticity. Can you claim this research intellectually? Is there a level of joy around your project? That passion is important to us,” Pallie said.

I asked the machine if you had joy 💀

The Trump admin now says nursing isn't a professional degree.

The admin plan to redefine what constitutes a professional degree to exclude nursing and limit access to student loans — outraging national health care groups and leaving nursing students questioning how they'll pay for graduate degrees.

My hand holding a shortbread cookie in the shape of an airplane. There are red sprinkles in the pattern of the survivorship bias plane.

A plate of the same cookies.

Does anyone want a survivorship bias shortbread

Can’t get good bagels here anywhere so I may just have to try this out! Looks intense though!

Fields with horses, snow covers the ground.

Within a few weeks we switched from peak fall colors to what feels like deep winter!

Scientists reveal what triggered Santorini 'earthquake swarm' Thousands of earthquakes were caused by magma

Some coverage from the BBC on our Santorini swarm paper in Science (www.science.org/doi/full/10....). Features an interactive slider graphic showing the imaged magma dike intrusion using @alomaxnet.bsky.social's Coulomb-based seismicity-stress (CoulSeS) method.
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Screenshot of live Kilauea webcam at https://www.youtube.com/live/tk0tfYDxrUA?si=9z3ZkBVXB1g4c-AW

It’s snowing outside, but I have the live USGS Kilauea webcam to keep me warm ⚒️🌋
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Italy's Campi Flegrei supervolcano is stirring. Could this seismic giant soon erupt? The volcano near Naples is shaking the ground in a way that scientists say it hasn't for centuries, posing risks for hundreds of thousands of people living in the 8-mile-wide crater left by past eruptions.

The volcano near Naples is shaking the ground in a way that scientists say it hasn't for centuries, posing risks for hundreds of thousands of people living in the 8-mile-wide crater left by past eruptions. n.pr/44w8Kox

CONFIRMED: Norris and Piastri are disqualified from the Las Vegas Grand Prix for technical non-conformity #F1 #LasVegasGP

That’s a steal for the Stahl (house)!

I love first snow! After a few months, maybe not as much..

Hillside with houses and minor snowfall

First snowfall at lower altitudes! It’s officially winter.

Administrative support, much lower teaching load, computational infrastructure and admin, research equipment and space, student and postdoc financial support, paid publication fees…

Most if not all geophysics faculty at the R1 where I went to grad school would become ineligible for future federal funding if this ban passes congress. 🧪⚒️

Logo for Icarus flying academy in Farmingdale, NY

This is a real flight school, teaching people to fly planes!!! Like????

a man with a ring on his finger is making a face and says ewww ALT: a man with a ring on his finger is making a face and says ewww

My research space has been flooded by “water” from the restrooms and water from an overflowing sink in a research lab has fallen from the ceiling in my office, but maggots sound even worse!

These numbers are consistent with the % of students in my general ed. science classes at a CSU school that struggled with fractions.

Guy seething with jealousy: Well, I think the normal sky is already pretty cool