Amber Kumpf

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19.02.2025 04:28 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

If there is anyone I want to survive this shitstorm, it’s this excellent science translator.

Time to upgrade my YLE subscription to paid. ✅

09.02.2025 02:15 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

I hate when the slimy things that bite get in the way of the real science. 🤣

24.01.2025 07:18 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Fitness watch “body battery” chart showing predicted swimming activity.

Happy start of the semester!

My fitness watch thinks I’m swimming when I lecture 🤣🏊‍♀️ (talk with my hands much?) Interpretive dance of natural disasters 🌋⚒️💃

Also: don’t judge - Monday was the kids’ morning routine with their dad & I didn’t have class until 12:20. 💕😴🦉

20.01.2025 16:28 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Teaching intro geo once, I boasted that geology was relevant for all and challenged them to say any topic & I could relate it back to geology. I was a bit nervous, but luckily the first student replied with: D-day, where the shape of the shoreline certainly influenced battle! Science is everywhere!

08.01.2025 17:09 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Finding the Science in Any Story - The Open Notebook You don’t have to consider yourself a science writer to write about science. There’s at least a little bit of science in everything people do, and becoming attuned to it could open countless avenues f...

Finding a scientific angle on a trending news topic can make a pitch pleasantly unexpected, and more likely to pique an editor’s interest, writes freelancer Kate Morgan. 🧪

08.01.2025 16:48 — 👍 8    🔁 4    💬 1    📌 0

Two photographs from the same building, Akademia Górniczo–Hutnicza, the mining academy in Krakow. From 1940s till 2010s.

One might think that Nazi crimes and palaeontology never overlapped, and yet... Have you ever wondered what happened to tens of palaeontologists & geologists in the Nazi-occupied Poland? How academics helped to bring down the fascist regime. And a curious story of Schindler-equivalent in geology. 🧵

05.12.2024 21:40 — 👍 457    🔁 146    💬 9    📌 11

This is SO interesting! Perfect timing for Thanksgiving & next semester’s historical geology class! 💕🦃🍗

20.11.2024 20:19 — 👍 5    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

JWST holiday ornament hanging in tree

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20.11.2024 00:07 — 👍 316    🔁 180    💬 27    📌 25