Katie Gansler

One of my students, Jingqui Liu, has been reported missing (she also goes by Nunnally - like Natalie but with an N instead of a T). She's an international student and hasn't been seen since Sept. 17/18. Please call UMD police with leads:
Non emergency line: 301-405-3555
Emergency line: 301-405-3333

I feel like the entire planetary community is going to hold onto this one not terrible thing for the next 3 years lol

NASA Selects Blue Origin to Deliver VIPER Rover to Moon’s South Pole - NASA As part of the agency’s Artemis campaign, NASA has awarded Blue Origin of Kent, Washington, a CLPS (Commercial Lunar Payload Services) task order with an

Please take a break from today’s doomscrolling.
MY ROBOT IS GOING TO THE MOON!!!!
MISSION UNCANCELLED!!!!!
@hankgreen.bsky.social Optimists finally get a win!

Hiding from society behind a bunch of rocks and craft cider

This loop of the surface rupture is absolutely mesmerizing. I’ve spent the entire week so far watching the whole video repeatedly, and each time I discover something new. ⚒️ 🧪

a man is looking at his phone with a caption that says of all the timelines , this is clearly the darkest ALT: a man is looking at his phone with a caption that says of all the timelines , this is clearly the darkest

I would like to live in a timeline when I don’t feel the need to answer the phone with “what sweet Hell do you have for me today?”

MY LITTLE COUSIN WON MARCH MADNESS!!! I’m so proud of him!
(He’s one of the coaches- second from the bottom left corner)
(And thus ends my sportsball attention span)

How a Giant Sculpture of Mars Rolled Around the Kennedy Center Grounds - Washingtonian It was part of an exhibit of inflatable planets and got loose during yesterday's wind.

The kind of story we need right now:

Trump’s Jewish Cover Story The administration claims to be protecting Jews while advancing an agenda that most Jews oppose.

Trump's antisemitism agenda isn't about the Jews. I wrote about how the president and his allies are using the pretext of protecting Jews to protect their policies from criticism, while advancing an agenda that most American Jews oppose. Gift link:

@ahrensscience.bsky.social relevant to the Colloquium discussion… (GIA = guano islands act)

Bro…I have said this to myself every day for the last 3 weeks with the intent of getting out of bed before 10am. I have yet to actually do this.
At least you have an excuse- for me, it’s just extreme burnout 🫠

Well, then. I guess my burnout weeks curled in my bed full of overwhelm were well spent?

Come to Innovations in Flight at the Air and Space Museum in DC in June! They usually have some WWII warbirds and military aircraft that are good for pictures. This is a C17. Sometimes they have T38 and once they even had an F22 (we couldn’t go in that one but it’s such a cool plane)

I cannot understate how appalling and helpless it feels as a Jew that this is being done under the guise of fighting antisemitism.

I made a critical mistake. I am the only one of my advisor’s students here. My advisor is doing the commentary.
I’m sure I don’t need to elaborate why this was a mistake 🫠

Time for our semi-annual “bad geology” movie night, brought to you by the UMD Department of Geology with commentary by Dr. Nick Schmerr!
Honestly, given *gestures at everything*, we should do this more often…

Still waiting on my “Apollo core rope memory” knitting pattern for a scarf

I recently stumbled into the “are sharks fish” debate that I didn’t know existed

Well, we have reached the “I have used this watershed monitoring site from the EPA as of 2pm but I would get that part of your assignment done first because we don’t know when it’ll get taken down” stage of teaching an environmental geology class

I can’t argue with that

I am responding to repeated public calls to get more scientists to run for office. It sounds like you are having a different conversation.

But lots of politicians absolutely listen to their science advisors. We should support those that do and elect new ones.

I didn’t say you were wrong, per se. But politicians aren’t inclined to listen to those advisors because doing so doesn’t help them stay in office
(TLDR, there is deeper rot in politics than just not listening to advisors or who is in office in the first place. Could do a 25 hour filibuster on this)

@whysharksmatter.bsky.social that’s why what you (science comms) and I (teach intro geology classes for non-majors) is so critically important

@whysharksmatter.bsky.social I disagree. my first degree is in political science. I went back to school for a science PhD to become an advisors. The general public doesn’t understand the scientific process well and thus a lot of science policy isn’t politically expedient when trying to get elected

I hope all seismologists talk to their students about how the political unrest in Myanmar worsens the earthquake’s fallout.
No central control, no trust in first responders/NGOs, justification for ethnic cleansing.
We need big quakes for science, but we stay siloed in seismology at our own peril.

I show this video to my students every year. Mostly so I can laugh. And pick out the ones I have a shot at converting to a geology major 🤣

Breaking News: Series Of Concentric Circles Emanating From Glowing Red Dot Experts are still trying to determine the effect of the concentric circles on the long squiggly green objects located in the blue area.

theonion.com/breaking-new...

I literally bought that pouch for my embroidery/cross stitching. I also partake in crochet and diamond “painting” which all feel stabby in their own way

Good to know. This is absolutely something my advisor would do