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Ryan J Hollister
@phaneritic.bsky.social
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Earth & EnviroSci Educator, Central Valley equity/sustainability advocate, Hiker, Photographer, 2015 NAGT FW Outstanding Educator. 🌋 Tissue Box Maker.
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Ryan J Hollister @phaneritic.bsky.social · May 22
I’m Ryan, an earth science educator & curriculum developer at two colleges in Central California. I’ve had a hand in some cool virtual field experience innovations, but lately I’m the “Volcano Tissue Box Guy”. I’m pinning my Etsy store link here for when I release batches.

phaneritic.etsy.com
Me, a white guy standing on Johnston Ridge in front of Mount Saint Helens on a partly cloudy day. The mountain is visible with lots of green growth on the landslide zone in the mid ground. I’m leaning on a stone wall with my butt holding a black tissue box cover holder that also looks like Mount Saint Helens. Screenshot of science Fridays website that hosts my virtual field trip to columns of the Giants and Central California. It says science Friday in the top left-hand corner underneath which is a picture of the tallest pile at the columns of the Giants full of brown and black, the salt boulders with a few pine trees in the distance There is a hexagon with a light bulb as a page brake with a title underneath that says embark on a 360° geologic expedition. https://www.sciencefriday.com/educational-resources/360-degree-expedition/
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joshvoorhees.bsky.social
Via @grist.org:

grist.org/politics/tru...
Screenshot of article reads: Nevertheless, API pioneered many of the arguments now wielded against the endangerment finding. In 1999, the group held a meeting of industry lobbyists who strategized challenges to an early EPA proposal to regulate greenhouse gases, according to documents first reported by DeSmog and compiled by Fieldnotes, a research group focused on the oil and gas industry. At the meeting, the API circulated a legal analysis noting that there is “no clear-cut, explicit answer in statute” on the greenhouse gas question, and that “CO2 does not endanger public health and welfare and there are no cost-effective systems of emission control.” In 2008, after the Massachusetts decision, the group argued that the EPA had not produced “sufficient evidence of potential effects and harm,” and it opposed reducing tailpipe emissions in the U.S. on the grounds that this would not end climate change on its own.
February 12, 2026 at 7:54 PM
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felinecannon.bsky.social
Coal plants the Trump administration has ordered to remain open are now shoveling money into furnace.

www.mlive.com/news/2026/02...
Tab for keeping Michigan coal plant open under Trump orders grows to $135M
Utility Consumers Energy is seeking permission to pass an initial $42 million in costs for running the J.H. Campbell coal power plant on to power customers in 11 states.
www.mlive.com
February 12, 2026 at 3:17 PM
phaneritic.bsky.social
Nice little interactive maps embedded within this SF Chronicle article (gift link) www.sfchronicle.com/climate/arti...
These maps show where California sank the most over the past decade
Over the past decade, parts of California have plummeted by multiple feet. Satellite data shows where subsidence and uplift occurred the most across the Bay Area and Central Valley.
www.sfchronicle.com
February 12, 2026 at 5:35 PM
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keubiko.bsky.social
The cost of datacenters is getting expensive. Therefore I will build them on the Moon. Where I'll also be building my satellites. That I'll be yeeting into Earth's orbit with a giant space catapult. Because I'm all about low cost.
February 11, 2026 at 6:55 PM
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andrewrumbach.bsky.social
Want to know how many disaster declarations are being made under the 2nd Trump Administration, and how long they are taking? I made a simple dashboard to help: andrewrumbach.substack.com/p/a-dashboar...
A dashboard for tracking FEMA major disaster declarations
My last post described how presidential disaster declarations are an important indicator of how the 2nd Trump Administration intends to govern disasters.
andrewrumbach.substack.com
February 12, 2026 at 4:35 PM
phaneritic.bsky.social
My @raspishake.bsky.social caught the teleseismic waves of this morning’s M6.2 quake on the coast of Chile. PAGER model suggests this is not a majorly impactful quake although close to a million folks experienced at least some light shaking.

earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/...
Three panel image left showing epicenter distance of 5695 miles away from my house on a large western hemisphere map. Right panels are stacked showing the S wave arrival on top panel waveform graph and showing low frequency noise on bottom panel. Way bigger USGS page image than I intended. But the shaking exposure info is as follows. MMI Shaking Population I Not Felt 0 k* II-III Weak 95 k* IV Light 671 k V Moderate 167 k VI Strong 4 k VII Very Strong 0 k
February 12, 2026 at 3:35 PM
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costasamaras.com
This is incredible. Like the previous few years, near all of the electricity capacity added to the grid was clean energy. The Inflation Reduction Act helped this - it made solar & wind cheaper but it also for the first time had a standalone incentive for grid storage. Look at the growth in storage!
bistline.bsky.social John Bistline @bistline.bsky.social · 1d
Final EIA-860 is out, and 2025 really did it: 54 GW of new U.S. electric capacity, 96% clean. Solar again carries the offense, and we built more storage in 2025 than the cumulative total through 2023. More and more and more additions... but also record low retirements.
February 12, 2026 at 4:38 AM
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weratedogs.com
This is Bailey. She normally gets kibble for dinner but she's pretty sure there's meatballs in here so she's very excited. 14/10 (TT: baileycarriesthings)
February 12, 2026 at 12:02 AM
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seismosocam.bsky.social
🌟OPEN ACCESS🌟 Can Raspberry Shake stations monitor geothermal-related seismicity in urban environments? A new #SRL explores this question based on a deployment near Strasbourg, France. ⚒️

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February 12, 2026 at 3:00 AM
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calacademy.bsky.social
In support of our local community and San Francisco’s youth, we’re offering free non-holiday weekday general admission for SFUSD students and discounted admission for caregivers during school closures.

More information on free admission here: bit.ly/4tnhI…
A child looks at a fish in its habitat. Text reads: Free Admission for SFUSD Students. Details in caption. Two students and their caregiver look at butterflies in our Osher Rainforest. Two students sit and look at fish under the glass in our Philippine Coral Reef. A student and her family walks past the entrance to the California Academy of Sciences.
February 12, 2026 at 12:36 AM
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mathchaos.bsky.social
New paper to reflect on during the International Women in Science Day.
🧪⛏️⚒️🦕🦖
"Barriers Affecting Mexican Women in Paleontology: Challenges and Proposals for Building a Women’s Support Network"

paleontologiamexicana.geologia.unam.mx/index.php/pa...
Vista de Barreras que afectan a las mujeres mexicanas en la paleontología: desafíos y propuestas para formar una red de apoyo femenina
paleontologiamexicana.geologia.unam.mx
February 11, 2026 at 10:00 PM
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gbrockell.bsky.social
So DOD risked civilian airspace to obliterate some fucking balloons; when FAA found out and asked them to stop they refused; FAA did what it had to keep people safe; when the public rightly freaked out, DOD relented, lied, and blamed the FAA.

Sounds like Hegseth!

www.cnn.com/2026/02/11/u...
February 11, 2026 at 10:58 PM
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shmermel.bsky.social
a person is holding a medal that says polluting on it
Alt: Professor Farnsworth is holding a medal that says polluting medal of pollution on it and then a gray cloud of smoke comes out of it
media.tenor.com
February 12, 2026 at 12:29 AM
phaneritic.bsky.social
What a DEAL!!
February 12, 2026 at 12:32 AM
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geology.bsky.social
"Overdue" has always been taboo; this counters the more genteel term "characteristic earthquake" the profession entertained for a while.
February 11, 2026 at 9:45 PM
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standupforscience.bsky.social
This is why we have NOT celebrated the FY26 budget. Trump doesn't follow laws.

NASA science is the first victim of Vought's schemes to destroy science & Congress can't hide from their responsibility anymore.

We will fight it in streets and the courts!

subscriber.politicopro.com/article/2026...
POLITICO Pro: White House withholds NASA science funds
The administration did not say why it had done so.
subscriber.politicopro.com
February 11, 2026 at 6:36 PM
phaneritic.bsky.social
Swedes have always had best hockey uniforms.
February 11, 2026 at 9:20 PM
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drwendyrocks.bsky.social
TODAY at 10 am PST! www.youtube.com/live/msNMg4m...
MegaQuakes: The Science Behind the World's Largest Earthquakes
YouTube video by Exploring By The Seat Of Your Pants
www.youtube.com
February 11, 2026 at 3:37 PM
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andrewkarre.bsky.social
This is the aftermath of an ICE kidnapping a few blocks from my home in St. Paul—an hour ago. A quiet street full of broken glass and at least three wrecked cars. The target of the kidnapping was taken away by ambulance. He was on a stretcher and covered by a sheet, though a cop said he was alive.
February 11, 2026 at 4:46 PM
phaneritic.bsky.social
Even though I know who Harvey Milk is, I completely misread the headline and thought Sam Smith was doing the covers of Harvey Danger…
February 11, 2026 at 9:10 PM
phaneritic.bsky.social
@skepticalscience.bsky.social has some pre-packaged mythbusters regarding this administrations unscientific (and scientifically refuted) views on CO2.
skepticalscience.com/co2-plant-fo...
February 11, 2026 at 4:10 PM
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bencollins.bsky.social
Brawndo’s got what plants crave.
atrupar.com Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d
Burgum: "CO2 was never a pollutant. When we breathe, we emit CO2. Plants need CO2 to survive and grow. They thrive with more CO2. So the whole endangerment thing opens up an opportunity for the revival of clean, beautiful, American coal."
February 11, 2026 at 3:39 PM
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msatris.bsky.social
in sum: chinook salmon in California are showing a vitamin deficiency linked to their diet becoming overly reliant on anchovies (which is probably due to climate-driven shifts in fish populations as well as overfishing/habitat destruction of herring, crab etc) www.biographic.com/a-mysterious...
A Mysterious Salmon-Killing Affliction is a Mystery No More - bioGraphic
In California, scientists tracked the source of a severe vitamin deficiency that’s killing endangered fish.
www.biographic.com
February 6, 2026 at 6:10 PM
phaneritic.bsky.social
One of my first photo dabblings in the late 90’s at Cal Poly was using scans of my K-12 photos and a morphing program to show the evolution of my bowl cut. Am I an introvert b/c of my hair or was the hair a reflection of me just wanting to be left alone until college?

youtube.com/shorts/i9865...
February 11, 2026 at 7:44 AM
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nataliajagielska.bsky.social
It is International Day of Women in Science! For this ocassion, a thread on influential women that illustrate prehistoric life🧵

Marta Szubert. Creator of one of the first to-scale feathered dinosar models (1997). If you've been to Poland or Slovakia, you've probably seen her models on display.
marta with dyzio the feathered dilophosaurus from 1997 A protoceratops family from the museum of evolution Muzeum Przyrody i Techniki w Starachowicach
February 11, 2026 at 2:42 AM