Dr. Heather McFarlin
@volcanoheather.bsky.social
Mom, Alaska seismology, volcanology, LGBTQ+ rights, abortion advocate, social justice and equity.
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Biologist kidnapped in Mexico news.mongabay.com/short-articl... 🧪🌎
Biologist kidnapped in Mexico
In the mountains of central Veracruz, scientific work is rarely abstract. It means walking narrow paths through cloud forest, speaking patiently with communities, and learning to read landscapes that…
news.mongabay.com
January 4, 2026 at 9:16 PM
Biologist kidnapped in Mexico news.mongabay.com/short-articl... 🧪🌎
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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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In central Alaska, the left-lateral Minto Flats fault zone sits between the the right‐lateral Denali and Kaltag‐Tintina faults. A new #BSSA study relocates earthquakes in order to illuminate the Minto Flats fault zone. ⚒️
pubs.geoscienceworld.org/ssa/bssa/art...
pubs.geoscienceworld.org/ssa/bssa/art...
January 4, 2026 at 3:00 AM
In central Alaska, the left-lateral Minto Flats fault zone sits between the the right‐lateral Denali and Kaltag‐Tintina faults. A new #BSSA study relocates earthquakes in order to illuminate the Minto Flats fault zone. ⚒️
pubs.geoscienceworld.org/ssa/bssa/art...
pubs.geoscienceworld.org/ssa/bssa/art...
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Here is help:
The Trevor Project US LGBTQ: (866) 488-7386
US Suicide Prevention Lifeline: (800) 273-8255
LGBT US Hotline: (888) 843-4564
Trans Lifeline: (877) 565-8860
US Runaway Safeline: (800-786-2929)
US Domestic Violence Hotline: (800) 799-7233
988 US helpline
PLEASE REPOST, THANKS!!!
The Trevor Project US LGBTQ: (866) 488-7386
US Suicide Prevention Lifeline: (800) 273-8255
LGBT US Hotline: (888) 843-4564
Trans Lifeline: (877) 565-8860
US Runaway Safeline: (800-786-2929)
US Domestic Violence Hotline: (800) 799-7233
988 US helpline
PLEASE REPOST, THANKS!!!
December 27, 2025 at 2:44 AM
Here is help:
The Trevor Project US LGBTQ: (866) 488-7386
US Suicide Prevention Lifeline: (800) 273-8255
LGBT US Hotline: (888) 843-4564
Trans Lifeline: (877) 565-8860
US Runaway Safeline: (800-786-2929)
US Domestic Violence Hotline: (800) 799-7233
988 US helpline
PLEASE REPOST, THANKS!!!
The Trevor Project US LGBTQ: (866) 488-7386
US Suicide Prevention Lifeline: (800) 273-8255
LGBT US Hotline: (888) 843-4564
Trans Lifeline: (877) 565-8860
US Runaway Safeline: (800-786-2929)
US Domestic Violence Hotline: (800) 799-7233
988 US helpline
PLEASE REPOST, THANKS!!!
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December 25, 2025 at 3:50 PM
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We're at $633/$1,000 for our Christmas fundraiser! 🎄✨
63% there - only $367 to go!
I did my part! It's everyone else's turn!
Donate today to help healing happen! 🧡🩷🩵💙
63% there - only $367 to go!
I did my part! It's everyone else's turn!
Donate today to help healing happen! 🧡🩷🩵💙
LUSID Psychological Care
lusidpsychcare.org
December 25, 2025 at 3:48 PM
We're at $633/$1,000 for our Christmas fundraiser! 🎄✨
63% there - only $367 to go!
I did my part! It's everyone else's turn!
Donate today to help healing happen! 🧡🩷🩵💙
63% there - only $367 to go!
I did my part! It's everyone else's turn!
Donate today to help healing happen! 🧡🩷🩵💙
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The children also need there to be money for boring shit too.
Otherwise there are no adventures 😕😰
Give like Jesus would 🎄✨
Otherwise there are no adventures 😕😰
Give like Jesus would 🎄✨
We're at $633/$1,000 for our Christmas fundraiser! 🎄✨
63% there - only $367 to go!
I did my part! It's everyone else's turn!
Donate today to help healing happen! 🧡🩷🩵💙
63% there - only $367 to go!
I did my part! It's everyone else's turn!
Donate today to help healing happen! 🧡🩷🩵💙
LUSID Psychological Care
lusidpsychcare.org
December 25, 2025 at 3:57 PM
The children also need there to be money for boring shit too.
Otherwise there are no adventures 😕😰
Give like Jesus would 🎄✨
Otherwise there are no adventures 😕😰
Give like Jesus would 🎄✨
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The children need land to be free! 🎄✨
Do you have space for them to be?
Contact us to let us use your land!
I will traverse the nation to make this happen everywhere.
Do you have space for them to be?
Contact us to let us use your land!
I will traverse the nation to make this happen everywhere.
We're at $633/$1,000 for our Christmas fundraiser! 🎄✨
63% there - only $367 to go!
I did my part! It's everyone else's turn!
Donate today to help healing happen! 🧡🩷🩵💙
63% there - only $367 to go!
I did my part! It's everyone else's turn!
Donate today to help healing happen! 🧡🩷🩵💙
LUSID Psychological Care
lusidpsychcare.org
December 25, 2025 at 3:56 PM
The children need land to be free! 🎄✨
Do you have space for them to be?
Contact us to let us use your land!
I will traverse the nation to make this happen everywhere.
Do you have space for them to be?
Contact us to let us use your land!
I will traverse the nation to make this happen everywhere.
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The children needs vehicles to be driven around in! 🎄✨
Do you have an SUV or truck to donate?
Do you have an SUV or truck to donate?
We're at $633/$1,000 for our Christmas fundraiser! 🎄✨
63% there - only $367 to go!
I did my part! It's everyone else's turn!
Donate today to help healing happen! 🧡🩷🩵💙
63% there - only $367 to go!
I did my part! It's everyone else's turn!
Donate today to help healing happen! 🧡🩷🩵💙
LUSID Psychological Care
lusidpsychcare.org
December 25, 2025 at 3:54 PM
The children needs vehicles to be driven around in! 🎄✨
Do you have an SUV or truck to donate?
Do you have an SUV or truck to donate?
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The children need you to shop! 🎄✨
December 25, 2025 at 3:52 PM
The children need you to shop! 🎄✨
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California Geotour is an index of field trip information for people interested in visiting California's world-famous geologic features. This site contains geologic information, photographs, maps & directions for interesting geologic locations across the state. www.conservation.ca.gov/cgs/californ...
December 23, 2025 at 4:30 PM
California Geotour is an index of field trip information for people interested in visiting California's world-famous geologic features. This site contains geologic information, photographs, maps & directions for interesting geologic locations across the state. www.conservation.ca.gov/cgs/californ...
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New film documents community resilience in Western Alaska alaska-native-news.com/new-film-doc...
New film documents community resilience in Western Alaska
A new short film details ways that residents in Western Alaska are responding constructively to changes to their local environment. “Cumikluten (Pay Attention)” is a 36-minute documentary produced by ...
alaska-native-news.com
December 20, 2025 at 4:04 PM
New film documents community resilience in Western Alaska alaska-native-news.com/new-film-doc...
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If you believe victims of childhood sexual abuse deserve to heal, then step up and help build the solution.
The children are waiting.
lusidpsychcare.org
The children are waiting.
lusidpsychcare.org
December 20, 2025 at 5:03 PM
If you believe victims of childhood sexual abuse deserve to heal, then step up and help build the solution.
The children are waiting.
lusidpsychcare.org
The children are waiting.
lusidpsychcare.org
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University of Alaska funds tsunami detections station through January as federal funding remains uncertain 👉 https://tinyurl.com/43s4ptss
December 20, 2025 at 5:03 AM
University of Alaska funds tsunami detections station through January as federal funding remains uncertain 👉 https://tinyurl.com/43s4ptss
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#UniversityOfAlaska steps in with temporary funding to keep 9 #AK #tsunami detection stations online after fed funding was cut, buying time for possible resolution with #Trump admin. www.alaskasnewssource.com/2025/12/20/u...
#NOAA #NTWC
#NOAA #NTWC
University of Alaska funds tsunami detections station through January as federal funding remains uncertain
Nine Alaska tsunami detection stations will stay online through January after the University of Alaska stepped in with emergency funding, but their long-term future remains uncertain.
www.alaskasnewssource.com
December 20, 2025 at 4:02 PM
#UniversityOfAlaska steps in with temporary funding to keep 9 #AK #tsunami detection stations online after fed funding was cut, buying time for possible resolution with #Trump admin. www.alaskasnewssource.com/2025/12/20/u...
#NOAA #NTWC
#NOAA #NTWC
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ACCAP at UAF is hiring a program manager: it could be you and you too could work with this bunch of wild and crazy (plus extremely nice) people. #AlaskaSky #UAF
careers.alaska.edu/jobs/program...
careers.alaska.edu/jobs/program...
December 19, 2025 at 11:27 PM
ACCAP at UAF is hiring a program manager: it could be you and you too could work with this bunch of wild and crazy (plus extremely nice) people. #AlaskaSky #UAF
careers.alaska.edu/jobs/program...
careers.alaska.edu/jobs/program...
Mine is Jurassic Park if we are going by box office.
December 20, 2025 at 1:08 AM
Mine is Jurassic Park if we are going by box office.
I got one of these calls a few months ago, and some did my colleague. Don't fall for the trap!
Please know that we are NOT going to call you and demand that you pay money to have a warrant quashed for failing to appear for jury service. Even if the phone number "looks" legitimate, it's a scammer. Tell them you'll call back and hang up! Then call us to double check so you can rest easy.
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December 17, 2025 at 3:57 AM
I got one of these calls a few months ago, and some did my colleague. Don't fall for the trap!
Our friends at USGS landslide group have some preliminary results about landslides and rock/ice avalanche that occurred from the M7.0 Hubbard Glacier earthquake on Dec. 6. I remember some people asking about landslides caused by this earthquake. Here you go: www.usgs.gov/programs/lan.... 🪨⚒️🧪
2025 M7.0 Hubbard Glacier Earthquake-Triggered Landslides and Snow Avalanches
A M7.0 oblique-slip earthquake initiated about 6 miles (10 km) below the Hubbard Glacier in the St. Elias Mountains about 55 miles north of Yakutat, Alaska at approximately 11:40am AKST (1:40pm YST) o...
www.usgs.gov
December 12, 2025 at 5:58 PM
Our friends at USGS landslide group have some preliminary results about landslides and rock/ice avalanche that occurred from the M7.0 Hubbard Glacier earthquake on Dec. 6. I remember some people asking about landslides caused by this earthquake. Here you go: www.usgs.gov/programs/lan.... 🪨⚒️🧪
This is such an active aftershock sequence. We are going to be busy with this one for a while. We have had more than a dozen M4+ events since this story was posted a few hours ago. We havent even really looked at events that are less than M3.5 bc there are too many of the larger events to keep up.
Is it too early to jokingly refer to this as the 6-7 earthquake? Read more about what we know so far, summarized in our web story here: https://bit.ly/4aC083z
December 6 Magnitude 7 Near the Canadian Border | Alaska Earthquake Center
On Saturday, December 6, just before noon, a magnitude 7 earthquake was felt across a 500-mile radius around the epicenter, near Hubbard Glacier, about
earthquake.alaska.edu
December 7, 2025 at 9:16 AM
This is such an active aftershock sequence. We are going to be busy with this one for a while. We have had more than a dozen M4+ events since this story was posted a few hours ago. We havent even really looked at events that are less than M3.5 bc there are too many of the larger events to keep up.
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An earthquake "Who-done-it?" 🔎 !!!
in our new paper doi.org/10.1785/0120...
Where was the 1912 Ms7.2 Alaska earthquake?
previously placed within the rupture area of the 2002 Mw7.9 Denali earthquake...
in our new paper doi.org/10.1785/0120...
Where was the 1912 Ms7.2 Alaska earthquake?
previously placed within the rupture area of the 2002 Mw7.9 Denali earthquake...
December 1, 2025 at 5:04 PM
An earthquake "Who-done-it?" 🔎 !!!
in our new paper doi.org/10.1785/0120...
Where was the 1912 Ms7.2 Alaska earthquake?
previously placed within the rupture area of the 2002 Mw7.9 Denali earthquake...
in our new paper doi.org/10.1785/0120...
Where was the 1912 Ms7.2 Alaska earthquake?
previously placed within the rupture area of the 2002 Mw7.9 Denali earthquake...
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Here's a whole list of Native folks you SHOULD be following. They are brilliant, funny, smart and full of heart. The epitome of what community should and could be.
go.bsky.app/MEaiVa9
go.bsky.app/MEaiVa9
November 30, 2025 at 9:25 PM
Here's a whole list of Native folks you SHOULD be following. They are brilliant, funny, smart and full of heart. The epitome of what community should and could be.
go.bsky.app/MEaiVa9
go.bsky.app/MEaiVa9
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Seth Kantner will break your heart. He writes unflinchingly, bearing witness to the disruptive effects of climate changes that upend all our Iives.
Life and death on the coast www.adn.com/alaska-life/...
Life and death on the coast www.adn.com/alaska-life/...
Life and death on the coast
What the flooding in Northwest Alaska took and left behind.
www.adn.com
November 30, 2025 at 7:25 PM
Seth Kantner will break your heart. He writes unflinchingly, bearing witness to the disruptive effects of climate changes that upend all our Iives.
Life and death on the coast www.adn.com/alaska-life/...
Life and death on the coast www.adn.com/alaska-life/...
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It's that time of year again... time for #DisabledInSTEM 2026 Mentorship applications! I'm so excited to be running this program for the sixth year and seeing the growth over the years!
Mentee form: forms.gle/um5DvYnBi3tn...
Mentor form: forms.gle/BvaxnQm8uhUR...
Applications due December 5th!
Mentee form: forms.gle/um5DvYnBi3tn...
Mentor form: forms.gle/BvaxnQm8uhUR...
Applications due December 5th!
October 20, 2025 at 4:44 PM
It's that time of year again... time for #DisabledInSTEM 2026 Mentorship applications! I'm so excited to be running this program for the sixth year and seeing the growth over the years!
Mentee form: forms.gle/um5DvYnBi3tn...
Mentor form: forms.gle/BvaxnQm8uhUR...
Applications due December 5th!
Mentee form: forms.gle/um5DvYnBi3tn...
Mentor form: forms.gle/BvaxnQm8uhUR...
Applications due December 5th!
Of course I'm on duty when this happens on Thanksgiving. Glad there have been no significant damage reports and no reports of anyone being hurt. earthquake.alaska.edu/event/ak2025...
Willow M6.0 | Alaska Earthquake Center
Alaskan Earthquake Center
earthquake.alaska.edu
November 27, 2025 at 7:11 PM
Of course I'm on duty when this happens on Thanksgiving. Glad there have been no significant damage reports and no reports of anyone being hurt. earthquake.alaska.edu/event/ak2025...