Thorsten Becker
@thwbecker.bsky.social
Geophysicist at UT Austin working on the connections between planetary interior and surface systems. The physics of plate tectonics, from earthquakes to global mantle convection. Makes maps.
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We're putting together a Planetary Science Community Meeting at the Kentucky Science Center in Louisville, KY on April 14–16 2026.
This is a grass-roots meeting for planetary scientists to gather, discuss, and organize to address pressing issues our community faces.
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We're putting together a Planetary Science Community Meeting at the Kentucky Science Center in Louisville, KY on April 14–16 2026.
This is a grass-roots meeting for planetary scientists to gather, discuss, and organize to address pressing issues our community faces.
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December 17, 2025 at 10:50 PM
🚨 SAVE THE DATE 🚨
We're putting together a Planetary Science Community Meeting at the Kentucky Science Center in Louisville, KY on April 14–16 2026.
This is a grass-roots meeting for planetary scientists to gather, discuss, and organize to address pressing issues our community faces.
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We're putting together a Planetary Science Community Meeting at the Kentucky Science Center in Louisville, KY on April 14–16 2026.
This is a grass-roots meeting for planetary scientists to gather, discuss, and organize to address pressing issues our community faces.
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@thwbecker.bsky.social and Claudio Faccenna's Tectonic Geodynamics is a comprehensive, integrative approach to tectonics and geodynamics for students and researchers.
Out now (6 Jan UK pub)!
Explore a free preview: press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...
#EarthScience #Science #Geodynamics
Out now (6 Jan UK pub)!
Explore a free preview: press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...
#EarthScience #Science #Geodynamics
December 14, 2025 at 6:05 PM
@thwbecker.bsky.social and Claudio Faccenna's Tectonic Geodynamics is a comprehensive, integrative approach to tectonics and geodynamics for students and researchers.
Out now (6 Jan UK pub)!
Explore a free preview: press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...
#EarthScience #Science #Geodynamics
Out now (6 Jan UK pub)!
Explore a free preview: press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...
#EarthScience #Science #Geodynamics
From the #Med to #Tibet, #geodetic strainrates sometimes match, and sometimes don't, what #earthquakes tell us. #open #science reanalysis of GNSS data by Castro Perdomo et al. in @agu.org's JGR-SE. Figures are so pretty, as if I made them myself.
agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/share/DX5BNA...
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December 12, 2025 at 3:00 PM
From the #Med to #Tibet, #geodetic strainrates sometimes match, and sometimes don't, what #earthquakes tell us. #open #science reanalysis of GNSS data by Castro Perdomo et al. in @agu.org's JGR-SE. Figures are so pretty, as if I made them myself.
agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/share/DX5BNA...
agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/share/DX5BNA...
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Mark your calendars for the Committee on Solid Earth Geophysics Meeting: Emerging Quantitative Methods in Geophysics
January 15, 2026
1:00 PM - 5:00 PM (EST)
Online
Registration is free!
www.nationalacademies.org/units/DELS-B...
January 15, 2026
1:00 PM - 5:00 PM (EST)
Online
Registration is free!
www.nationalacademies.org/units/DELS-B...
Emerging Quantitative Methods in Geophysics: Committee on Solid Earth Geophysics Fall 2025 Meeting
With the rise of multi-physics modeling, data-intensive methods, and innovative community infrastructures, computational geoscience is now an equal partner alongside observation and experimentation. T...
www.nationalacademies.org
December 9, 2025 at 5:21 PM
Mark your calendars for the Committee on Solid Earth Geophysics Meeting: Emerging Quantitative Methods in Geophysics
January 15, 2026
1:00 PM - 5:00 PM (EST)
Online
Registration is free!
www.nationalacademies.org/units/DELS-B...
January 15, 2026
1:00 PM - 5:00 PM (EST)
Online
Registration is free!
www.nationalacademies.org/units/DELS-B...
December 7, 2025 at 7:26 PM
Postdoctoral fellowships at EPS and UTIG at UT Austin now open for 2026
www.jsg.utexas.edu/people/postd...
www.jsg.utexas.edu/people/postd...
Unit-Level Postdoctoral Fellowships - Jackson School of Geosciences
The Jackson School of Geosciences at the University of Texas at Austin invites applications for two separate postdoctoral fellowship programs. These highly competitive institutional awards...
www.jsg.utexas.edu
November 17, 2025 at 10:02 PM
Postdoctoral fellowships at EPS and UTIG at UT Austin now open for 2026
www.jsg.utexas.edu/people/postd...
www.jsg.utexas.edu/people/postd...
Packing up our deployment in Northern Chile, bittersweet.
November 4, 2025 at 10:59 AM
Packing up our deployment in Northern Chile, bittersweet.
Cool summary of related craton dynamics problems including our paper by @scishow.bsky.social
youtu.be/uMhEjGzxHJE?...
youtu.be/uMhEjGzxHJE?...
September 9, 2025 at 7:20 PM
Cool summary of related craton dynamics problems including our paper by @scishow.bsky.social
youtu.be/uMhEjGzxHJE?...
youtu.be/uMhEjGzxHJE?...
Geophysics is serious business.
September 6, 2025 at 11:17 PM
Geophysics is serious business.
Intermediate depth earthquakes can cause destructive shaking in Chile, and may mixed mode rupture. Study led by Jia on the 2024 Calama 7.4 with a number of our Chilean friends, including our field team Bertrand Potin, Sergio Ruiz, Juan Baez, and Marcos Moreno.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
September 2, 2025 at 8:26 AM
Intermediate depth earthquakes can cause destructive shaking in Chile, and may mixed mode rupture. Study led by Jia on the 2024 Calama 7.4 with a number of our Chilean friends, including our field team Bertrand Potin, Sergio Ruiz, Juan Baez, and Marcos Moreno.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Attending @geosociety.bsky.social GSA Connects 2025 and interested in learning about how plate reconstructions can help you in your research or teaching? Come join our short course! More info at store.geosociety.org/products/sc2... and registration at connects.geosociety.org/register.
August 21, 2025 at 4:13 PM
Attending @geosociety.bsky.social GSA Connects 2025 and interested in learning about how plate reconstructions can help you in your research or teaching? Come join our short course! More info at store.geosociety.org/products/sc2... and registration at connects.geosociety.org/register.
Not saying but at least it looks nice.
August 17, 2025 at 10:31 PM
Not saying but at least it looks nice.
Thanks Princeton University Press, students and colleagues for
helping us make this textbook happen. Available widely in November. #tectonics #geodynamics #earthquakes
press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...
helping us make this textbook happen. Available widely in November. #tectonics #geodynamics #earthquakes
press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...
August 16, 2025 at 9:24 PM
Thanks Princeton University Press, students and colleagues for
helping us make this textbook happen. Available widely in November. #tectonics #geodynamics #earthquakes
press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...
helping us make this textbook happen. Available widely in November. #tectonics #geodynamics #earthquakes
press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...
Most excellent workshop with our NNW colleagues and part of the MTMOD crew. Onward in figuring out physics based seismic hazard models. Thanks to Jamie Howarth and his crew.
August 14, 2025 at 4:58 AM
Most excellent workshop with our NNW colleagues and part of the MTMOD crew. Onward in figuring out physics based seismic hazard models. Thanks to Jamie Howarth and his crew.
Awesome start to the NNW-MTMOD meeting on fault dynamics and seismic hazard in St Arnaud. Also Captin Underpants on white board (why?)
August 11, 2025 at 10:38 PM
Awesome start to the NNW-MTMOD meeting on fault dynamics and seismic hazard in St Arnaud. Also Captin Underpants on white board (why?)
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These stunning animations from the USGS and NOAA show modeling of the earthquake waves and tsunami waves generated by the M8.8 earthquake off the coast of Russia. 🧪
August 9, 2025 at 3:39 PM
These stunning animations from the USGS and NOAA show modeling of the earthquake waves and tsunami waves generated by the M8.8 earthquake off the coast of Russia. 🧪
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Intriguing earthquake volcano connection like discussed for Fujisan. Wouldn’t it be nice to have more coupled conduit - seismic wave models to mess around with…
www.bbc.com/news/article...
www.bbc.com/news/article...
Russian volcano erupts for first time in centuries
The eruption of a volcano in Russia's Kamchatka peninsula may be linked to a massive earthquake last week, experts say.
www.bbc.com
August 3, 2025 at 11:09 PM
Intriguing earthquake volcano connection like discussed for Fujisan. Wouldn’t it be nice to have more coupled conduit - seismic wave models to mess around with…
www.bbc.com/news/article...
www.bbc.com/news/article...
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#NISAR will take 90 days to perform commissioning tests & reach its science orbit.
“But as we progress, we’re going to get little peeks behind the curtains...It’s going to be transformational.”
—Alex Gardner, JPL
eos.org/articles/tra...
“But as we progress, we’re going to get little peeks behind the curtains...It’s going to be transformational.”
—Alex Gardner, JPL
eos.org/articles/tra...
“Transformational” Satellite Will Monitor Earth’s Surface Changes - Eos
The mission, jointly operated by the United States and India, will measure minute changes to land, ice, and ecosystems around the globe.
eos.org
July 30, 2025 at 1:25 PM
#NISAR will take 90 days to perform commissioning tests & reach its science orbit.
“But as we progress, we’re going to get little peeks behind the curtains...It’s going to be transformational.”
—Alex Gardner, JPL
eos.org/articles/tra...
“But as we progress, we’re going to get little peeks behind the curtains...It’s going to be transformational.”
—Alex Gardner, JPL
eos.org/articles/tra...
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Four hours after the arrival of the first #tsunami wave at Crescent City CA, as shown by this tide gauge record, more than thirteen hours after the M8.8 Kamchatka #earthquake, the wave height again reached almost 1 meter, not that much lower than the maximum of 1.1 m almost three hours earlier. 🧪⚒️
July 30, 2025 at 12:12 PM
Four hours after the arrival of the first #tsunami wave at Crescent City CA, as shown by this tide gauge record, more than thirteen hours after the M8.8 Kamchatka #earthquake, the wave height again reached almost 1 meter, not that much lower than the maximum of 1.1 m almost three hours earlier. 🧪⚒️
Love the cautious optimism of Deutsche Bahn…
July 27, 2025 at 12:13 PM
Love the cautious optimism of Deutsche Bahn…
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"In the letter, the signatories warned that National Science Foundation grants now underwent a 'covert and ideologically driven secondary review process'...”
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/22/s...
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/22/s...
Amid Fear of Retaliation, N.S.F. Workers Sign Letter of Dissent
www.nytimes.com
July 23, 2025 at 1:29 AM
"In the letter, the signatories warned that National Science Foundation grants now underwent a 'covert and ideologically driven secondary review process'...”
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/22/s...
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/22/s...
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NASA employees have released their own 'dissent' letter, joining NIH and EPA employees in protesting agency changes in the Trump administration. They call it the Voyager Declaration. Words by me: 🧪🛰️
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
‘We dissent’: NASA staff declare opposition to Trump cuts
Declaration of dissent, which warns that science and safety are at risk, joins similar documents from staff at the EPA and the NIH.
www.nature.com
July 21, 2025 at 2:24 PM
NASA employees have released their own 'dissent' letter, joining NIH and EPA employees in protesting agency changes in the Trump administration. They call it the Voyager Declaration. Words by me: 🧪🛰️
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
www.nature.com/articles/d41...