Matt Brueseke
@matttg.bsky.social
Cubs fan. 🌋 & magma, mineral resources, tectonics, wilderness, pawpaws, outdoor gear, 🏝⛰🏕, Rectal cancer survivor. Views and opinions expressed are mine. #geology #earthscience #geoscience ⚒️
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Guess my plan to not learn anything at all about TikTok wasn’t so dumb after all.
January 26, 2026 at 3:41 AM
Guess my plan to not learn anything at all about TikTok wasn’t so dumb after all.
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Question for @brunota2003.bsky.social and @alaskawx.bsky.social and any other weather folks.
Is this hoar frost or something else? Long columnar formations coating virtually everything, especially in shady areas. Seems to have grown longer over successive days. No precip. Clear skies. In KTN.
Is this hoar frost or something else? Long columnar formations coating virtually everything, especially in shady areas. Seems to have grown longer over successive days. No precip. Clear skies. In KTN.
January 24, 2026 at 11:48 PM
Question for @brunota2003.bsky.social and @alaskawx.bsky.social and any other weather folks.
Is this hoar frost or something else? Long columnar formations coating virtually everything, especially in shady areas. Seems to have grown longer over successive days. No precip. Clear skies. In KTN.
Is this hoar frost or something else? Long columnar formations coating virtually everything, especially in shady areas. Seems to have grown longer over successive days. No precip. Clear skies. In KTN.
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Some of my favorites were the ones growing vertically from the ice on a muskeg pond. Found a few that were about 2” tall!
January 25, 2026 at 12:14 AM
Some of my favorites were the ones growing vertically from the ice on a muskeg pond. Found a few that were about 2” tall!
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[V1cam] Kīlauea volcano, Hawaii (west Halemaʻumaʻu crater)
YouTube video by USGS
www.youtube.com
January 24, 2026 at 9:56 PM
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We might be heading for the next eruptive episode at Kīlauea. Check out the action on the USGS livestream: www.youtube.com/live/gXKuUyK...
January 24, 2026 at 5:10 PM
We might be heading for the next eruptive episode at Kīlauea. Check out the action on the USGS livestream: www.youtube.com/live/gXKuUyK...
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This sure seems more like the tyranny the Constitution is supposed to protect against than forgiving student loans.
January 24, 2026 at 5:02 PM
This sure seems more like the tyranny the Constitution is supposed to protect against than forgiving student loans.
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LLMs evolving to become more effective at flooding the world with right-wing ideology. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
Latest ChatGPT model uses Elon Musk’s Grokipedia as source, tests reveal
Guardian found OpenAI’s platform cited Grokipedia on topics including Iran and Holocaust deniers
www.theguardian.com
January 24, 2026 at 2:17 PM
LLMs evolving to become more effective at flooding the world with right-wing ideology. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
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Attention folks in the weather, climate, disaster, wildfire, and Earth science communities: NSF has just published a new "Dear Colleague" letter inviting feedback (by Mar 13) on the proposal to dismantle the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR). www.nsf.gov/funding/...
January 23, 2026 at 9:57 PM
Attention folks in the weather, climate, disaster, wildfire, and Earth science communities: NSF has just published a new "Dear Colleague" letter inviting feedback (by Mar 13) on the proposal to dismantle the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR). www.nsf.gov/funding/...
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🚨HOLY CRAP. An ICE whistleblower just revealed a secret memo authorizing ICE officers to break into homes without a judicial warrant, which DHS's own legal training materials say is unconstitutional!
ICE then hid the memo from the public, passing it along by word of mouth and private conversation.
ICE then hid the memo from the public, passing it along by word of mouth and private conversation.
January 21, 2026 at 10:00 PM
🚨HOLY CRAP. An ICE whistleblower just revealed a secret memo authorizing ICE officers to break into homes without a judicial warrant, which DHS's own legal training materials say is unconstitutional!
ICE then hid the memo from the public, passing it along by word of mouth and private conversation.
ICE then hid the memo from the public, passing it along by word of mouth and private conversation.
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incandescently enraged. They kidnapped a 5 yo and shipped him to Texas with no way for his family to know where he was.
January 21, 2026 at 11:34 PM
incandescently enraged. They kidnapped a 5 yo and shipped him to Texas with no way for his family to know where he was.
A life goal of mine is to get up to this outcrop sometime.. 🧪⚒️ someday!
Burgess Shale in British Columbia is one of the most important fossil sites in the world.
With fossils that date back over 500 million years, it provides the clearest record of Cambrian marine life on Earth.
This is the story of this UNESCO World Heritage Site.
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With fossils that date back over 500 million years, it provides the clearest record of Cambrian marine life on Earth.
This is the story of this UNESCO World Heritage Site.
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January 20, 2026 at 3:16 PM
A life goal of mine is to get up to this outcrop sometime.. 🧪⚒️ someday!
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If you want to know why human civilisation is collapsing it’s because so many of us think it is OK to comment on a post without reading the article first.
January 20, 2026 at 7:18 AM
If you want to know why human civilisation is collapsing it’s because so many of us think it is OK to comment on a post without reading the article first.
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We are watching one of the wildest things a nation-state has ever done: A superpower is committing suicide because the GOP Congress is too cowardly to stand up to the Mad King.
This is one of the wildest moments in all of geopolitics ever.
This is one of the wildest moments in all of geopolitics ever.
Footage shows Danish troops arriving in Greenland as part of a new military deployment. Among the personnel who landed on the island is Major General Peter H. Boysen, Chief of the Danish Army Command. #Greenland
January 19, 2026 at 10:59 PM
We are watching one of the wildest things a nation-state has ever done: A superpower is committing suicide because the GOP Congress is too cowardly to stand up to the Mad King.
This is one of the wildest moments in all of geopolitics ever.
This is one of the wildest moments in all of geopolitics ever.
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"Donald Trump now genuinely lives in a different reality, one in which neither grammar nor history nor the normal rules of human interaction now affect him. Also, he really is maniacally, unhealthily obsessive about the Nobel Prize."
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
www.theatlantic.com
January 19, 2026 at 3:21 PM
"Donald Trump now genuinely lives in a different reality, one in which neither grammar nor history nor the normal rules of human interaction now affect him. Also, he really is maniacally, unhealthily obsessive about the Nobel Prize."
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
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Really cool summary of a recent paper in Geology (gift link 🎁): www.nytimes.com/2026/01/16/s...
If the Volcanic Eruption Doesn’t Scare You, the Mudflow Should
www.nytimes.com
January 19, 2026 at 2:11 PM
Really cool summary of a recent paper in Geology (gift link 🎁): www.nytimes.com/2026/01/16/s...
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Follow along with ground motions at Lumen Field as the Pacific NW Seismic Network @pnsn1.bsky.social livestreams our seismometers in and next to Lumen Field! Seahawks up 17-6 late in 2nd qtr. Stream: seahawks.pnsn.org
2026 Seahawks - Seahawks-49ers
seahawks.pnsn.org
January 18, 2026 at 2:58 AM
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Also true. 🧪⚒️
I have some more bad news.
If an admissions committee even suspects you used ChatGPT for your application letter, they'll almost certainly decide not to waste a precious admissions spot on you.
Instead they'll give it to, you know, someone who actually likes to write and knows how to do it.
If an admissions committee even suspects you used ChatGPT for your application letter, they'll almost certainly decide not to waste a precious admissions spot on you.
Instead they'll give it to, you know, someone who actually likes to write and knows how to do it.
I have some bad news. One, if you need to use ChatGPT for your graduate application letter, you are not ready for graduate school.
Two, no, not "everyone is doing it" and those who don't do it aren't "losing out." ChatGPT is not an advantage.
Two, no, not "everyone is doing it" and those who don't do it aren't "losing out." ChatGPT is not an advantage.
January 17, 2026 at 11:32 PM
Also true. 🧪⚒️
Yep, this is accurate. ⚒️🧪
No, these are very serious comments.
ChatGPT has absolutely no goddamn place in graduate education. It steals from other authors, routinely gets major facts wrong, hallucinates sources, and generally makes the prose flat and boring as hell.
And if you shill for it in my mentions, I'll block you.
ChatGPT has absolutely no goddamn place in graduate education. It steals from other authors, routinely gets major facts wrong, hallucinates sources, and generally makes the prose flat and boring as hell.
And if you shill for it in my mentions, I'll block you.
January 17, 2026 at 11:31 PM
Yep, this is accurate. ⚒️🧪
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I have some bad news. One, if you need to use ChatGPT for your graduate application letter, you are not ready for graduate school.
Two, no, not "everyone is doing it" and those who don't do it aren't "losing out." ChatGPT is not an advantage.
Two, no, not "everyone is doing it" and those who don't do it aren't "losing out." ChatGPT is not an advantage.
An impressive number of graduate applications this year used the phrase “curiosity-driven approach” 🤔
January 17, 2026 at 10:46 PM
I have some bad news. One, if you need to use ChatGPT for your graduate application letter, you are not ready for graduate school.
Two, no, not "everyone is doing it" and those who don't do it aren't "losing out." ChatGPT is not an advantage.
Two, no, not "everyone is doing it" and those who don't do it aren't "losing out." ChatGPT is not an advantage.
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THE REDHAWKS ARE A TEAM OF DESTINY
January 17, 2026 at 8:34 PM
THE REDHAWKS ARE A TEAM OF DESTINY
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New at Can We Still Govern?
"I am writing as an ordinary citizen of Minneapolis/St Paul...to share with the outside world what is really going on ─ the terror being inflicted upon a U.S. city and state by our federal government."
Please read, share, help. 🧵
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/dispatch-f...
"I am writing as an ordinary citizen of Minneapolis/St Paul...to share with the outside world what is really going on ─ the terror being inflicted upon a U.S. city and state by our federal government."
Please read, share, help. 🧵
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/dispatch-f...
Dispatch from the occupation
What life is like in Minneapolis now
donmoynihan.substack.com
January 17, 2026 at 1:49 PM
New at Can We Still Govern?
"I am writing as an ordinary citizen of Minneapolis/St Paul...to share with the outside world what is really going on ─ the terror being inflicted upon a U.S. city and state by our federal government."
Please read, share, help. 🧵
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/dispatch-f...
"I am writing as an ordinary citizen of Minneapolis/St Paul...to share with the outside world what is really going on ─ the terror being inflicted upon a U.S. city and state by our federal government."
Please read, share, help. 🧵
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/dispatch-f...
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every single successful general strike in US history has had union backing through the local AFL-CIO
this is the first time it’s been called for since the 1940s
this is the first time it’s been called for since the 1940s
January 16, 2026 at 9:24 PM
every single successful general strike in US history has had union backing through the local AFL-CIO
this is the first time it’s been called for since the 1940s
this is the first time it’s been called for since the 1940s
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Anyone looking for a good teaching example of the importance of understanding your analytical blanks (background) could do worse than this. 🧪
Are our bodies full of microplastics or not? There’s a way to resolve this debate, and scientists must hurry | Debora MacKenzie
Are our bodies full of microplastics or not? There’s a way to resolve this debate, and scientists must hurry | Debora MacKenzie
This week’s furore is microplastics researchers’ ozone moment. If they fail, the powerful plastics lobby will step into the breach, says science journalist and author Debora MacKenzie
www.theguardian.com
January 16, 2026 at 11:47 AM
Anyone looking for a good teaching example of the importance of understanding your analytical blanks (background) could do worse than this. 🧪
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whoever comes up with a piece of software that with one click will make ALL the goddamn AI bots/tools/etc that exist on every other piece of software and website disappear can have all of my money
January 15, 2026 at 7:37 PM
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A new American Cancer Society report shows that the US reached a historic milestone in cancer survivorship. 70% patients now live for 5 yrs after diagnosis. A notable advance is targeted immunotherapy for cancer treatment.
Thank sustained #NIH funding.
🧪 www.nbcnews.com/health/cance...
Thank sustained #NIH funding.
🧪 www.nbcnews.com/health/cance...
A new milestone in the cancer fight: 7 in 10 patients now survive five-plus years
Better treatment options have improved survival rates in the U.S., according to a report from the American Cancer Society.
www.nbcnews.com
January 15, 2026 at 2:33 AM
A new American Cancer Society report shows that the US reached a historic milestone in cancer survivorship. 70% patients now live for 5 yrs after diagnosis. A notable advance is targeted immunotherapy for cancer treatment.
Thank sustained #NIH funding.
🧪 www.nbcnews.com/health/cance...
Thank sustained #NIH funding.
🧪 www.nbcnews.com/health/cance...