Celeste Labedz
@celestelabedz.bsky.social
environmental seismologist - doctor of glacier vibes - geoscience educator - she/her - opinions only my own - puns only my worst - www.crlabedz.net
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Celeste Labedz
@celestelabedz.bsky.social
· Oct 18
With a million new users, is ScienceSky 🧪 doing reintroductions?
I'm Celeste Labedz, an assistant instructional professor at UChicago teaching across the geoscience spectrum. My research uses seismometers (the sensors that detect earthquakes) to understand what's going on underneath glaciers.
I'm Celeste Labedz, an assistant instructional professor at UChicago teaching across the geoscience spectrum. My research uses seismometers (the sensors that detect earthquakes) to understand what's going on underneath glaciers.
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I'm really sick of cutesified explanations as to why someone is a fucking fascist.
Is Trump not well right now? Cool, he was a fascist before. It's got nothing to do with that. Is Stephen Miller bald? Y'all, shut the fuck up. His fascism is unrelated to his hair.
Is Trump not well right now? Cool, he was a fascist before. It's got nothing to do with that. Is Stephen Miller bald? Y'all, shut the fuck up. His fascism is unrelated to his hair.
January 6, 2026 at 3:46 PM
I'm really sick of cutesified explanations as to why someone is a fucking fascist.
Is Trump not well right now? Cool, he was a fascist before. It's got nothing to do with that. Is Stephen Miller bald? Y'all, shut the fuck up. His fascism is unrelated to his hair.
Is Trump not well right now? Cool, he was a fascist before. It's got nothing to do with that. Is Stephen Miller bald? Y'all, shut the fuck up. His fascism is unrelated to his hair.
Between this, the bragging at the teaching workshop about an AI TA that was wrong 20% of the time, the climate denier on the disaster policy panel, the firehose of geoengineering $$, and whatever this crypto thing was, it's kind of nice no longer being at UChicago. stanfordreview.org/uchicago-los...
January 6, 2026 at 2:35 AM
Between this, the bragging at the teaching workshop about an AI TA that was wrong 20% of the time, the climate denier on the disaster policy panel, the firehose of geoengineering $$, and whatever this crypto thing was, it's kind of nice no longer being at UChicago. stanfordreview.org/uchicago-los...
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kind of darkly funny that "gender studies" is the stereotypical "useless degree" because gender studies will help you understand a large and important chunk of the current psychosis in american life
January 6, 2026 at 2:00 AM
kind of darkly funny that "gender studies" is the stereotypical "useless degree" because gender studies will help you understand a large and important chunk of the current psychosis in american life
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What a pleasure it was to write the epic story of plate tectonics - and the woman who brought the theory from the ocean to the land - with the fabulous editors at @highcountrynews.org. Give a read! #womeninstem #science #geology #scicomm
The discovery that the continents are in continuous motion is fairly recent—dating back only to the late 1960s — and one woman was responsible for decoding what it meant for California and much of the West Coast.
buff.ly/2vAwspH
buff.ly/2vAwspH
Drifters and the introduction of plate tectonics - High Country News
How the San Andreas fault and Tanya Atwater’s theory changed geology.
www.hcn.org
January 5, 2026 at 5:43 PM
What a pleasure it was to write the epic story of plate tectonics - and the woman who brought the theory from the ocean to the land - with the fabulous editors at @highcountrynews.org. Give a read! #womeninstem #science #geology #scicomm
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lol we're suffering because rich tech bros were uncool in middle school
Plain and simple my politics is that nobody should be wealthy enough to make their insecurities my problem.
January 5, 2026 at 5:10 AM
lol we're suffering because rich tech bros were uncool in middle school
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A sensational guest post by Derek Cronmiller, Theron Finley Panya Lipovsky and Jan Dettmer of the Yukon Geological Survey: Photos and Preliminary Observations from an Overview Flight of the 6 December 2025 Hubbard Glacier Earthquake, Yukon Territory, Canada.
eos.org/thelandslide...
eos.org/thelandslide...
January 5, 2026 at 7:36 AM
A sensational guest post by Derek Cronmiller, Theron Finley Panya Lipovsky and Jan Dettmer of the Yukon Geological Survey: Photos and Preliminary Observations from an Overview Flight of the 6 December 2025 Hubbard Glacier Earthquake, Yukon Territory, Canada.
eos.org/thelandslide...
eos.org/thelandslide...
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After reviewing nearly 200 applications from prospective grad students and postdocs over the past few months for a couple different 🧪⚒️ postings, here are some tips, at least as they apply to North American positions. I hope they help future applicants. Share with your networks. 🧵
January 4, 2026 at 2:17 PM
After reviewing nearly 200 applications from prospective grad students and postdocs over the past few months for a couple different 🧪⚒️ postings, here are some tips, at least as they apply to North American positions. I hope they help future applicants. Share with your networks. 🧵
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I cannot help but think of my former community of Springfield Ohio now. Depopulation that was stopped by immigration that will now be rapidly accelerated by halting work. We have the opportunity to make climate/war/pain exodus less horrible. www.newamerica.org/the-thread/b...
How Climate Risks Are Redefining America’s Housing Market and Making the Midwest a Focal Point
America’s climate migration is coming, and the Midwest’s ability to build affordable housing will shape where people move next.
www.newamerica.org
January 4, 2026 at 2:02 PM
I cannot help but think of my former community of Springfield Ohio now. Depopulation that was stopped by immigration that will now be rapidly accelerated by halting work. We have the opportunity to make climate/war/pain exodus less horrible. www.newamerica.org/the-thread/b...
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“Every empire, however, tells itself and the world that it is unlike all other empires, that its mission is not to plunder and control but to educate and liberate."
― Edward W. Said
― Edward W. Said
January 4, 2026 at 6:13 AM
“Every empire, however, tells itself and the world that it is unlike all other empires, that its mission is not to plunder and control but to educate and liberate."
― Edward W. Said
― Edward W. Said
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"None of these stories of 'apologizing for being white' involved any apology for being white, by the way—or any apology at all. The act of other people bringing awareness to what whiteness does is deemed a de facto apology for whiteness—and an obvious aggression." www.the-reframe.com/apologies-fo...
Apologies For Being White
How supremacists convert responsibility into blame to avoid paying natural costs and to make everyone else pay unnatural ones.
www.the-reframe.com
January 4, 2026 at 12:40 PM
"None of these stories of 'apologizing for being white' involved any apology for being white, by the way—or any apology at all. The act of other people bringing awareness to what whiteness does is deemed a de facto apology for whiteness—and an obvious aggression." www.the-reframe.com/apologies-fo...
Same with scientists. Each "fun" generative AI thing shared makes me a little less confident in the quality of your research.
Deleted a repost of a thread.
Looking closer, the person is comfortable sharing AI images & video. Was the thread also AI? Was it accurate?
I’d rather not take the chance and share it.
Journalists, keep this in mind. “Fun” AI videos & images undercut your credibility.
Looking closer, the person is comfortable sharing AI images & video. Was the thread also AI? Was it accurate?
I’d rather not take the chance and share it.
Journalists, keep this in mind. “Fun” AI videos & images undercut your credibility.
January 4, 2026 at 1:49 PM
Same with scientists. Each "fun" generative AI thing shared makes me a little less confident in the quality of your research.
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Another scientist of unknown birthday: my #linocut of Chinese Han Dynasty #polymath & statesman Zhang Heng (78-139) who invented a seismoscope (simplified seismometer which does not make a record of earth motions) to detect distant earthquakes & indicate their direction 2000 years ago! 🐡🧪⚒️#histsci
January 4, 2026 at 1:14 PM
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Million-year-old seashells preserved in siltstone.
January 4, 2026 at 3:04 AM
Million-year-old seashells preserved in siltstone.
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Don't forget folks: allowing yourself a vision of the future you'd want for our country and planet - not the one you'd settle for, not the one you fear, but the future of your dreams - isn't naive, it's a vital cognitive skill. That's how we articulate what we most value. What's worth fighting for.
Instead of whatever this is, we should have a government getting lots of new homes and apartments built, lots of clean energy built, lots of high speed rail and transit and bike lanes built, human rights for everyone, economic & healthcare opportunities for all, & innovation that leads the world.
January 4, 2026 at 2:34 AM
Don't forget folks: allowing yourself a vision of the future you'd want for our country and planet - not the one you'd settle for, not the one you fear, but the future of your dreams - isn't naive, it's a vital cognitive skill. That's how we articulate what we most value. What's worth fighting for.
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If your position is that regime change should be forced on countries where the president does not respect democratic norms and regularly kidnaps opponents using an officially sanctioned paramiliatary, have I got news for you about your position on the United States
January 3, 2026 at 1:45 PM
If your position is that regime change should be forced on countries where the president does not respect democratic norms and regularly kidnaps opponents using an officially sanctioned paramiliatary, have I got news for you about your position on the United States
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another morning when it’s an existentially shameful thing to be an american huh
January 3, 2026 at 1:49 PM
another morning when it’s an existentially shameful thing to be an american huh
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Do you wonder what a glacier fjord sounds like underwater? Calving icebergs melting ice, melange, and more. Check out our new paper! agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/...
The Influence of Ice Coverage, Calving, and Melt on Underwater Ambient Sound in a Glacierized Fjord
K-means clustering, a machine-learning tool, can categorize ambient sound in glacier fjords into five prototypes linked to glacier activity An 8-month acoustic data set shows glacier and ice-méla...
agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com
January 2, 2026 at 11:16 PM
Do you wonder what a glacier fjord sounds like underwater? Calving icebergs melting ice, melange, and more. Check out our new paper! agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/...
Just say phrenology, this is taking forever
This article advocates for the “Faculty Merit Act” that would — get this — require all faculty applicants to submit their *SAT* scores. 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 Holy shirts that’s hilarious.
January 2, 2026 at 8:54 PM
Just say phrenology, this is taking forever
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It’s no guarantee but the first thing you should do if you see an outrageous story that’s just an image or screenshot or video with no link to a reputable source is to check the replies and see if someone is saying “that’s an AI fake.” And then don’t spread it either way because it’s not sourced.
January 2, 2026 at 7:40 PM
It’s no guarantee but the first thing you should do if you see an outrageous story that’s just an image or screenshot or video with no link to a reputable source is to check the replies and see if someone is saying “that’s an AI fake.” And then don’t spread it either way because it’s not sourced.
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I've been tracking the spread of nonconsensual deepfakes on X for more than two years. Here's a timeline of how Musk's leadership allowed the practice to flourish from a once-underground market to a viral trend, with little recourse for victims or legal enforcement.
spitfirenews.com/p/grok-csam-...
spitfirenews.com/p/grok-csam-...
How Grok's sexual abuse hit a tipping point
Nonconsensual deepfakes on X are nothing new, but now it's built into the platform.
spitfirenews.com
January 2, 2026 at 7:47 PM
I've been tracking the spread of nonconsensual deepfakes on X for more than two years. Here's a timeline of how Musk's leadership allowed the practice to flourish from a once-underground market to a viral trend, with little recourse for victims or legal enforcement.
spitfirenews.com/p/grok-csam-...
spitfirenews.com/p/grok-csam-...
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What’s most disappointing in reading this is the active role of the NYT science desk in spreading transphobic disinformation. Really shameful what Azeen Ghoryashi (used to respect her for covering sexual harassment in science) and Virginia Hughes did to twist science for their anti-trans campaign.
In this in-depth interview Billie Jean Sweeney — a former editor at The New York Times — details how the paper shifted towards openly promoting anti-trans hatred, why this was directed from the very top, how some staff pushed back and the immense damage done by the NYT legitimizing bigotry.
'A directive from above': Former NYT editor lays out how the paper pushes anti-trans bigotry
In this in-depth interview, former New York Times editor Billie Jean Sweeney details how the paper shifted towards openly promoting anti-trans hatred, how some staff tried to stop it, how it's directe...
transnews.network
January 2, 2026 at 11:56 AM
What’s most disappointing in reading this is the active role of the NYT science desk in spreading transphobic disinformation. Really shameful what Azeen Ghoryashi (used to respect her for covering sexual harassment in science) and Virginia Hughes did to twist science for their anti-trans campaign.
The Monster At The End Of This Book
Ok, everyone, what book is sacred enough to you to get sworn in on?
Strange takes on Mayor Zamdani swearing his oath on the Qu’ran. It has nothing to do with church & state. The point of the oath is for the person swearing in to do so upon some text that is sacred TO THEM. Some Presidents swore in w/o any book. John Quincy Adams was sworn on a law book. His choice.
January 2, 2026 at 4:28 AM
The Monster At The End Of This Book
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#EarthquakeReport for 2025 Annual Year in #Earthquakes and #Tsunami
See summaries and interpretive posters for 13 earthquakes from 2025
See cumulative energy release plots for M≥6.5 earthquakes from 2017-2025
earthjay.com?page_id=12459
See summaries and interpretive posters for 13 earthquakes from 2025
See cumulative energy release plots for M≥6.5 earthquakes from 2017-2025
earthjay.com?page_id=12459
January 2, 2026 at 2:24 AM
#EarthquakeReport for 2025 Annual Year in #Earthquakes and #Tsunami
See summaries and interpretive posters for 13 earthquakes from 2025
See cumulative energy release plots for M≥6.5 earthquakes from 2017-2025
earthjay.com?page_id=12459
See summaries and interpretive posters for 13 earthquakes from 2025
See cumulative energy release plots for M≥6.5 earthquakes from 2017-2025
earthjay.com?page_id=12459
The children's museum in my hometown started doing Make-Believe Midnight at 8:00 so kids could do a big countdown but still have a reasonable bedtime.
A bunch of my family now celebrates Make-Believe Midnight at home even without kids.
A bunch of my family now celebrates Make-Believe Midnight at home even without kids.
PROTIP: if you don’t want to stay up till midnight, choose a different country to celebrate New Year’s. It was just New Year’s in Greece, in an hour and a half it will be New Year’s in London. Watch the fireworks on YouTube, do a toast from bed an go to sleep early!
January 1, 2026 at 12:16 AM
The children's museum in my hometown started doing Make-Believe Midnight at 8:00 so kids could do a big countdown but still have a reasonable bedtime.
A bunch of my family now celebrates Make-Believe Midnight at home even without kids.
A bunch of my family now celebrates Make-Believe Midnight at home even without kids.
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They want to wipe out almost a third of the country. It’s got nothing to do with illegal immigration.
It’s white nationalism pure and simple. They’re fascists, and there’s no reason to doubt it.
It’s white nationalism pure and simple. They’re fascists, and there’s no reason to doubt it.
December 31, 2025 at 11:29 PM
They want to wipe out almost a third of the country. It’s got nothing to do with illegal immigration.
It’s white nationalism pure and simple. They’re fascists, and there’s no reason to doubt it.
It’s white nationalism pure and simple. They’re fascists, and there’s no reason to doubt it.