Jackie Caplan-Auerbach
@geophysichick.bsky.social
Seismologist, volcanologist, professor, and hazards junkie. Soapbox stander. Opinions are my own but I'm happy to share. She/her.
Global seismology has entered the chat.
I told him that I just went to a conference with several hundred people whose jobs would be VASTLY easier on a 2D Cartesian plane
November 7, 2025 at 11:14 PM
Global seismology has entered the chat.
This is horrific. I've been counting down the days to his concert next week. Sending all good thoughts for healing to this king of singing and songwriting.
Todd Snider, already coping with a recent spinal stenosis diagnosis, has had to cancel shows after he was assaulted outside his hotel in Salt Lake City.
November 4, 2025 at 12:18 AM
This is horrific. I've been counting down the days to his concert next week. Sending all good thoughts for healing to this king of singing and songwriting.
Never realized how much excellent life advice is available in the comments to the New York Times cooking section.
October 25, 2025 at 10:11 PM
Never realized how much excellent life advice is available in the comments to the New York Times cooking section.
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Finally there's something better than the lobster scene in Annie Hall.
This is exactly what the NYC subway is like, and it's beautiful (trimmed video by Ian O'Connor via instagram.com/p/DAbHW7txiiv)
October 24, 2025 at 4:53 PM
Finally there's something better than the lobster scene in Annie Hall.
ABC News pulled the satellite imagery of the White House comparing Sept. 26 to today.
abcnews.go.com/Politics/new...
abcnews.go.com/Politics/new...
October 23, 2025 at 7:30 PM
Worth reading the whole thread to see how @brandontbishop.bsky.social got to this question.
A magnitude 46 earthquake would release the equivalent of 3x10^68 metric tons of TNT, or 5.597x10^45 Death Star laser blasts.
Which is something like 4.48x10^33 Milky Way's worth of planets (assuming an average 6 planets per star and 400 billion stars for the Milky Way).
I may have dropped a zero.
Which is something like 4.48x10^33 Milky Way's worth of planets (assuming an average 6 planets per star and 400 billion stars for the Milky Way).
I may have dropped a zero.
October 23, 2025 at 2:25 AM
Worth reading the whole thread to see how @brandontbishop.bsky.social got to this question.
This was behind a paywall for me (ironic, since I'm quoted in it), but if you can read it, it's worthy.
If you can't read it, it describes the Tracy Arm landslide and other similar events, the number of which may be increasing due to climate change.
edition.cnn.com/2025/10/22/c...
If you can't read it, it describes the Tracy Arm landslide and other similar events, the number of which may be increasing due to climate change.
edition.cnn.com/2025/10/22/c...
Cruise ships are flocking to Alaska to chase ice. But receding glaciers are leaving a new threat behind | CNN
It was a very early morning in August when an entire mountainside in Alaska’s Tracy Arm fjord detached and slid into the deep ocean water beneath it.
edition.cnn.com
October 22, 2025 at 8:00 PM
This was behind a paywall for me (ironic, since I'm quoted in it), but if you can read it, it's worthy.
If you can't read it, it describes the Tracy Arm landslide and other similar events, the number of which may be increasing due to climate change.
edition.cnn.com/2025/10/22/c...
If you can't read it, it describes the Tracy Arm landslide and other similar events, the number of which may be increasing due to climate change.
edition.cnn.com/2025/10/22/c...
It wasn't enough to overthrow their queen, steal their land, and nearly destroy their language? Now we want to take their schools away?
This is despicable. Haoles (and yes, that includes me), leave Kamehameha Schools alone.
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/21/u...
This is despicable. Haoles (and yes, that includes me), leave Kamehameha Schools alone.
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/21/u...
This School Has Taught Native Hawaiians Since 1887. Is That Discrimination?
www.nytimes.com
October 21, 2025 at 10:34 PM
It wasn't enough to overthrow their queen, steal their land, and nearly destroy their language? Now we want to take their schools away?
This is despicable. Haoles (and yes, that includes me), leave Kamehameha Schools alone.
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/21/u...
This is despicable. Haoles (and yes, that includes me), leave Kamehameha Schools alone.
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/21/u...
It takes a lot to render me speechless, but I truly have no words. I swear I thought this was the Onion.
Wow. Everyone needs to ask @SpeakerJohnson and every GOP candidate about this. As if he isn’t corrupt enough…
Trump Said to Demand Justice Dept. Pay Him $230 Million for Past Cases - The New York Times
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/21/u...
Trump Said to Demand Justice Dept. Pay Him $230 Million for Past Cases - The New York Times
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/21/u...
Trump Said to Demand Justice Dept. Pay Him $230 Million for Past Cases
www.nytimes.com
October 21, 2025 at 9:04 PM
It takes a lot to render me speechless, but I truly have no words. I swear I thought this was the Onion.
We are perilously close to Total Recall.
A new iPhone app, Endless Summer, uses AI to create photorealistic vacation photos starring you — no travel required
Too burned out to travel? This new app fakes your summer vacation photos for you | TechCrunch
A new iPhone app, Endless Summer, uses AI to create photorealistic vacation photos starring you — no travel required
techcrunch.com
October 21, 2025 at 2:21 PM
We are perilously close to Total Recall.
Chip Roy: antisemistism is evil.
Also Chip Roy:
Also Chip Roy:
Chip Roy: "The truth is the marxist, radicals, and Islamists the Democratic Party promoted this weekend, they cannot handle the truth. The truth is that there is a king and that king is Jesus. And the president has been willing to say it, & Charlie Kirk was willing to say it & he got killed for it."
October 20, 2025 at 4:34 PM
Chip Roy: antisemistism is evil.
Also Chip Roy:
Also Chip Roy:
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This is not a minor issue: it’s a serious threat to democracy. We’re rapidly transitioning into a world where, as long as you support the president, you can be above the law; if you’re in the opposition, you have a target on your back. Opposition can’t survive under these conditions.
I think at this point it’s fair to say that we’re no longer under the rule of law.
Trump Orders Santos to Be Freed From Prison ‘Immediately’ www.nytimes.com/2025/10/17/u...
Trump Orders Santos to Be Freed From Prison ‘Immediately’ www.nytimes.com/2025/10/17/u...
Trump Orders Santos to Be Freed From Prison ‘Immediately’
www.nytimes.com
October 18, 2025 at 12:54 AM
This is not a minor issue: it’s a serious threat to democracy. We’re rapidly transitioning into a world where, as long as you support the president, you can be above the law; if you’re in the opposition, you have a target on your back. Opposition can’t survive under these conditions.
Important post from @seismosocam.bsky.social! This is a great opportunity to work with SSA's flagship journal and cutting edge seismology papers!
📣 SSA is seeking nominations for the Editor-in-Chief of the Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America #BSSA. Nominations are open through October 2025.
www.seismosoc.org/news/ssa-see...
www.seismosoc.org/news/ssa-see...
October 18, 2025 at 1:19 AM
Important post from @seismosocam.bsky.social! This is a great opportunity to work with SSA's flagship journal and cutting edge seismology papers!
Intrigued by this extraordinarily inclusive list of languages one can select at a local doctors office. They apparently welcome time travelers and aliens as well as global citizens.
October 9, 2025 at 2:32 PM
Intrigued by this extraordinarily inclusive list of languages one can select at a local doctors office. They apparently welcome time travelers and aliens as well as global citizens.
Reposted by Jackie Caplan-Auerbach
The most accurate graph I have ever come across
October 8, 2025 at 10:11 PM
The most accurate graph I have ever come across
Reposted by Jackie Caplan-Auerbach
If you come for my people, you come through me.
October 8, 2025 at 6:00 PM
If you come for my people, you come through me.
Grading the first assignment of the quarter. First student, first question: answer most likely written by AI.
It's gonna be a long quarter.
It's gonna be a long quarter.
October 6, 2025 at 8:56 PM
Grading the first assignment of the quarter. First student, first question: answer most likely written by AI.
It's gonna be a long quarter.
It's gonna be a long quarter.
Just thinking about the American citizens I know who have been sick/injured abroad, in countries with nationalized health care. They received healthcare benefits paid for by the citizens of those countries.
It's what good people do--they care for the sick. Period.
It's what good people do--they care for the sick. Period.
Vance: "If you're an American citizen & you've been to the hospital in the last few years, you've probably noticed wait times are especially large & very often somebody who's there in the ER is an illegal alien. Why do those people get healthcare benefits at hospitals paid for by American citizens?"
October 1, 2025 at 7:09 PM
Just thinking about the American citizens I know who have been sick/injured abroad, in countries with nationalized health care. They received healthcare benefits paid for by the citizens of those countries.
It's what good people do--they care for the sick. Period.
It's what good people do--they care for the sick. Period.
In case you didn't know what that military shaving ban is all about:
With his ban on military shaving waivers, Pete Hegseth knows damn well who he’s pushing out: Black troops.
If only Pete Hegseth's military shaving crusade was just stupid
Hegseth knows damn well who he's pushing out: Black troops.
www.motherjones.com
October 1, 2025 at 12:42 AM
In case you didn't know what that military shaving ban is all about:
Bit of fieldwork nostalgia--these photos of an amazing cave in columnar jointed rocks on Tanaga Island. Back in the day when my hair was still brown (almost all grey now).
September 29, 2025 at 8:29 PM
Bit of fieldwork nostalgia--these photos of an amazing cave in columnar jointed rocks on Tanaga Island. Back in the day when my hair was still brown (almost all grey now).
Hey, that's my student featured in this story on new monitoring stations on Mt. Rainier! Please note the tidy and organized hut interior, a hallmark of Craig's installations. I also appreciate his "my bad" right after they refer to the team as "volcano cowboys". Really proud of this guy.
USGS installs new sensors to detect, warn communities of deadly lahars from Mt. Rainier
The US Geological Survey (USGS) has just installed some of the first sensors of their kind on the east side of the mountain.
komonews.com
September 28, 2025 at 4:23 PM
Hey, that's my student featured in this story on new monitoring stations on Mt. Rainier! Please note the tidy and organized hut interior, a hallmark of Craig's installations. I also appreciate his "my bad" right after they refer to the team as "volcano cowboys". Really proud of this guy.
Someone just brought me a scrapbook that was found under the floorboards of my attic before I lived here. Includes some interesting news articles from 1927 and apparently the cure for diphtheria. Don't tell RFK.
September 27, 2025 at 11:42 PM
Someone just brought me a scrapbook that was found under the floorboards of my attic before I lived here. Includes some interesting news articles from 1927 and apparently the cure for diphtheria. Don't tell RFK.
Honestly, you can't make this stuff up.
September 26, 2025 at 8:53 PM
Honestly, you can't make this stuff up.