Michele Cooke
@geomechcooke.bsky.social
Fault system evolution in the Earth’s crust, in scaled experiments and in numerical models : deaf STEM 🧏♀️🦻🏻👩🔬 : she/her
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Michele Cooke
@geomechcooke.bsky.social
· May 10
Sometimes when things get tough, I like to watch strike-slip faults grow.
Over and over again.
Over and over again.
In this wonderful new post, engineering professor Tim Anderson describes some delightful ways that his hearing loss has provided him problem solving opportunities and connection with others.
We’re not ones to shy away from the sometimes challenges that come with hearing loss, but there are opportunities too! In this thoughtful and joyful post, Tim Anderson shares the many ways he has found to “make lemonade” from his hearing loss experiences.
themindhears.org/2025/09/17/m...
themindhears.org/2025/09/17/m...
Making lemonade with hearing loss - The Mind Hears
I would like to talk about treating the hearing loss disability as an opportunity. As the expression goes, “when life gives you lemons, make lemonade!”
themindhears.org
September 17, 2025 at 8:41 PM
In this wonderful new post, engineering professor Tim Anderson describes some delightful ways that his hearing loss has provided him problem solving opportunities and connection with others.
"Being a deaf or hard of hearing person was not something that we chose but integrating that into our core sense of self is. " - Leslie Frazier
“Does how you see yourself vis-à-vis your disability influence how you present yourself to the world?” asks Leslie Frazier in this new and thoughtful post. Her hearing loss path invites reflection on the development of a disability identity that now involves pride.
themindhears.org/2025/07/31/h...
themindhears.org/2025/07/31/h...
Hearing and Sense of Self - The Mind Hears
It was a turning point because once I had disclosed at work, to my students, and to the office of civil rights compliance and accessibility – there was no going back
themindhears.org
August 5, 2025 at 4:52 PM
"Being a deaf or hard of hearing person was not something that we chose but integrating that into our core sense of self is. " - Leslie Frazier
Reposted by Michele Cooke
A new The Mind Hears profile is out! Meet Dr. Tim Anderson from Portland State University and learn about his twisty travails as engineering faculty and chair with hearing loss. In the process you may discover if he talked to a robot. Or was it his wife? themindhears.org/2025/06/26/p...
Profile: Dr. Timothy Anderson - The Mind Hears
My first phone call . . . was clearly a prank. It sounded like someone was using a bad 1970s era robotic voice like a Speak ‘n Spell toy . . . Moving it to my right ear revealed it was my wife. Left-R...
themindhears.org
June 27, 2025 at 2:00 AM
A new The Mind Hears profile is out! Meet Dr. Tim Anderson from Portland State University and learn about his twisty travails as engineering faculty and chair with hearing loss. In the process you may discover if he talked to a robot. Or was it his wife? themindhears.org/2025/06/26/p...
Reposted by Michele Cooke
In this post reprinted from Talk Psych Blog, Dave Myers shares his experience and recommendations. The bio at the bottom has links to Dave's other writings on deafness. themindhears.org/2025/06/05/h...
Hearing while deaf - The Mind Hears
Had I been left out in such settings because of wheelchair inaccessibility, people would be aghast, and would engineer a remedy. Hearing loss, by contrast, is unseen and thus often unremedied.
themindhears.org
June 5, 2025 at 2:59 PM
In this post reprinted from Talk Psych Blog, Dave Myers shares his experience and recommendations. The bio at the bottom has links to Dave's other writings on deafness. themindhears.org/2025/06/05/h...
How do releasing bends evolve in weaker crust? Lots of sinistral cross faults!! (compare to previous post)
Gabriel, Alana, Hanna M. Elston, Michele L. Cooke and Christ F. Ramos Sánchez, 2025, Impact of material strength on style of faulting at releasing bends, Tektonika, doi.org/10.55575/tek...
Gabriel, Alana, Hanna M. Elston, Michele L. Cooke and Christ F. Ramos Sánchez, 2025, Impact of material strength on style of faulting at releasing bends, Tektonika, doi.org/10.55575/tek...
May 22, 2025 at 9:06 PM
How do releasing bends evolve in weaker crust? Lots of sinistral cross faults!! (compare to previous post)
Gabriel, Alana, Hanna M. Elston, Michele L. Cooke and Christ F. Ramos Sánchez, 2025, Impact of material strength on style of faulting at releasing bends, Tektonika, doi.org/10.55575/tek...
Gabriel, Alana, Hanna M. Elston, Michele L. Cooke and Christ F. Ramos Sánchez, 2025, Impact of material strength on style of faulting at releasing bends, Tektonika, doi.org/10.55575/tek...
Development of an experimental releasing bend shows significant strain partitioning on faults.
Read more at: Gabriel, Alana, Hanna M. Elston, Michele L. Cooke and Christ F. Ramos Sánchez, 2025, Impact of material strength on style of faulting at releasing bends, Tektonika, doi.org/10.55575/tek...
Read more at: Gabriel, Alana, Hanna M. Elston, Michele L. Cooke and Christ F. Ramos Sánchez, 2025, Impact of material strength on style of faulting at releasing bends, Tektonika, doi.org/10.55575/tek...
May 22, 2025 at 8:43 PM
Development of an experimental releasing bend shows significant strain partitioning on faults.
Read more at: Gabriel, Alana, Hanna M. Elston, Michele L. Cooke and Christ F. Ramos Sánchez, 2025, Impact of material strength on style of faulting at releasing bends, Tektonika, doi.org/10.55575/tek...
Read more at: Gabriel, Alana, Hanna M. Elston, Michele L. Cooke and Christ F. Ramos Sánchez, 2025, Impact of material strength on style of faulting at releasing bends, Tektonika, doi.org/10.55575/tek...
Reposted by Michele Cooke
Temblor CEO Ross Stein, Paul Segall, Greg Beroza, and Ahmed Elbanna are urging Congress to reauthorize the National Earthquake Hazards Reduction Program and the National Volcano Early Warning System.
Add your signature. Public support is welcome. Do not sign if you work for a U.S. federal agency.
Add your signature. Public support is welcome. Do not sign if you work for a U.S. federal agency.
Letter For House of Natural Resources Committee
The House Natural Resource Committee is expected to have a hearing on the National Earthquake Hazards Reduction Program (NEHRP) and the National Volcano Early Warning System on Tuesday May 20. The at...
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May 16, 2025 at 7:50 PM
Temblor CEO Ross Stein, Paul Segall, Greg Beroza, and Ahmed Elbanna are urging Congress to reauthorize the National Earthquake Hazards Reduction Program and the National Volcano Early Warning System.
Add your signature. Public support is welcome. Do not sign if you work for a U.S. federal agency.
Add your signature. Public support is welcome. Do not sign if you work for a U.S. federal agency.
Bruce, one of my American Chestnut trees, is looking strong. There is a metaphor in this photo of a tree that is vulnerable to blight that has wiped out its species (another chestnut sapling in my yard has cankers) and still grows strong and tall.
#persist
#persist
May 14, 2025 at 11:30 PM
Bruce, one of my American Chestnut trees, is looking strong. There is a metaphor in this photo of a tree that is vulnerable to blight that has wiped out its species (another chestnut sapling in my yard has cankers) and still grows strong and tall.
#persist
#persist
Former UMass undergrad, Alana Gabriel led this study that came out today. Great job Alana! 🎉
Gabriel, Alana, Hanna M. Elston, Michele L. Cooke and Christ F. Ramos Sánchez, 2025, Impact of material strength on style of faulting at releasing bends, Tektonika, doi.org/10.55575/tek...
Gabriel, Alana, Hanna M. Elston, Michele L. Cooke and Christ F. Ramos Sánchez, 2025, Impact of material strength on style of faulting at releasing bends, Tektonika, doi.org/10.55575/tek...
May 12, 2025 at 11:43 PM
Former UMass undergrad, Alana Gabriel led this study that came out today. Great job Alana! 🎉
Gabriel, Alana, Hanna M. Elston, Michele L. Cooke and Christ F. Ramos Sánchez, 2025, Impact of material strength on style of faulting at releasing bends, Tektonika, doi.org/10.55575/tek...
Gabriel, Alana, Hanna M. Elston, Michele L. Cooke and Christ F. Ramos Sánchez, 2025, Impact of material strength on style of faulting at releasing bends, Tektonika, doi.org/10.55575/tek...
If you have been wondering how strike-slip faults evolve in the presence of pre-existing weaknesses, wonder no more. We got you!
Yup, the early slip along the weaknesses increase strike-slip fault roughness, just like you thought.
(Check out the cute ephemeral sinistral connector fautls in red!)
Yup, the early slip along the weaknesses increase strike-slip fault roughness, just like you thought.
(Check out the cute ephemeral sinistral connector fautls in red!)
May 11, 2025 at 1:52 AM
If you have been wondering how strike-slip faults evolve in the presence of pre-existing weaknesses, wonder no more. We got you!
Yup, the early slip along the weaknesses increase strike-slip fault roughness, just like you thought.
(Check out the cute ephemeral sinistral connector fautls in red!)
Yup, the early slip along the weaknesses increase strike-slip fault roughness, just like you thought.
(Check out the cute ephemeral sinistral connector fautls in red!)
Sometimes when things get tough, I like to watch strike-slip faults grow.
Over and over again.
Over and over again.
May 10, 2025 at 4:21 AM
Sometimes when things get tough, I like to watch strike-slip faults grow.
Over and over again.
Over and over again.
Reposted by Michele Cooke
A victory for the federal scientific workforce! We could not stand by while this irreparable harm continues at NSF, NOAA and all our scientific agencies.
TODAY the judge granted our request to temporarily HALT the mass firings at federal agencies under Trump’s Executive Order.
TODAY the judge granted our request to temporarily HALT the mass firings at federal agencies under Trump’s Executive Order.
May 10, 2025 at 2:03 AM
A victory for the federal scientific workforce! We could not stand by while this irreparable harm continues at NSF, NOAA and all our scientific agencies.
TODAY the judge granted our request to temporarily HALT the mass firings at federal agencies under Trump’s Executive Order.
TODAY the judge granted our request to temporarily HALT the mass firings at federal agencies under Trump’s Executive Order.
Reposted by Michele Cooke
Hello astronomers! I'm thrilled to share my newest article, "Including Deaf and Signing Audiences in Solar Eclipse Outreach and Astronomy Education," which was just published in the Bulletin of the AAS. I'm thankful to my wonderful coauthors...
baas.aas.org/pub/2024n9i0...
baas.aas.org/pub/2024n9i0...
Including Deaf and Signing Audiences in Solar Eclipse Outreach and Astronomy Education
A contribution to Celebrating the Wonder of Science in the Shadow II
baas.aas.org
December 30, 2024 at 8:21 PM
Hello astronomers! I'm thrilled to share my newest article, "Including Deaf and Signing Audiences in Solar Eclipse Outreach and Astronomy Education," which was just published in the Bulletin of the AAS. I'm thankful to my wonderful coauthors...
baas.aas.org/pub/2024n9i0...
baas.aas.org/pub/2024n9i0...
In 3 of 4 interviews today about the Portsmouth earthquake I mentioned the need for federal funding of science to understand earthquakes. Only one story by @masslive.bsky.social published that part of the interview. Thanks massLive and Will Katcher for a nice report!
January 28, 2025 at 12:37 AM
In 3 of 4 interviews today about the Portsmouth earthquake I mentioned the need for federal funding of science to understand earthquakes. Only one story by @masslive.bsky.social published that part of the interview. Thanks massLive and Will Katcher for a nice report!
Reposted by Michele Cooke
It’s here! A TheMindHears annual tradition - our recommendations on how to improve deaf/HoH accessibility in the workplace. Read our post. Share with colleagues and allies!
themindhears.org/2025/01/07/n...
themindhears.org/2025/01/07/n...
New Year’s Resolution 2025: Improve accessibility of your workplace for your deaf/HoH colleagues
Chances are that someone in your department has hearing loss, whether they’ve disclosed this or not, and will benefit from your efforts to make your workplace more accessible.
themindhears.org
January 15, 2025 at 4:37 PM
It’s here! A TheMindHears annual tradition - our recommendations on how to improve deaf/HoH accessibility in the workplace. Read our post. Share with colleagues and allies!
themindhears.org/2025/01/07/n...
themindhears.org/2025/01/07/n...
Reposted by Michele Cooke
Looking for training to help you respond to harassment, bullying and microaggressions in the learning environment? Apply to join @eurogeosciences.bsky.social EDI &
@advancegeo.bsky.social for a free Bystander Intervention online workshop on 22 November, 14:00CET. Register TODAY: egu.eu/8JTFKE/
@advancegeo.bsky.social for a free Bystander Intervention online workshop on 22 November, 14:00CET. Register TODAY: egu.eu/8JTFKE/
November 16, 2024 at 9:25 PM
Looking for training to help you respond to harassment, bullying and microaggressions in the learning environment? Apply to join @eurogeosciences.bsky.social EDI &
@advancegeo.bsky.social for a free Bystander Intervention online workshop on 22 November, 14:00CET. Register TODAY: egu.eu/8JTFKE/
@advancegeo.bsky.social for a free Bystander Intervention online workshop on 22 November, 14:00CET. Register TODAY: egu.eu/8JTFKE/
🎉My 3 year old American Chestnut is growing flowers! 🎉Btw His name is Bruce. His sibling Margaret does not have flowers but she is looking grand.
May 24, 2024 at 12:36 PM
🎉My 3 year old American Chestnut is growing flowers! 🎉Btw His name is Bruce. His sibling Margaret does not have flowers but she is looking grand.
Wonderful and thoughtful The Mind Hears post by Ana Caicedo about her self advocacy journey. Finding our community is critical for building resilience. themindhears.org/2024/05/01/m...
My academic path from self-reliance to self-advocacy to peer-support
Self-reliance seems more of a recipe for isolation and alienation than for increasing the presence of disability in academia
themindhears.org
May 1, 2024 at 11:38 PM
Wonderful and thoughtful The Mind Hears post by Ana Caicedo about her self advocacy journey. Finding our community is critical for building resilience. themindhears.org/2024/05/01/m...
Who sends email on Saturday morning setting up a meeting for 9 am Monday?
Academics, thats who.
Yes, I was the academic who checked their email Saturday morning and accepted the calendar invite. I am part of the problem.
Academics, thats who.
Yes, I was the academic who checked their email Saturday morning and accepted the calendar invite. I am part of the problem.
April 27, 2024 at 5:35 PM
Who sends email on Saturday morning setting up a meeting for 9 am Monday?
Academics, thats who.
Yes, I was the academic who checked their email Saturday morning and accepted the calendar invite. I am part of the problem.
Academics, thats who.
Yes, I was the academic who checked their email Saturday morning and accepted the calendar invite. I am part of the problem.
Just filled out demographic information for an NSF project. Many of the demographic choices need updates! Why still only binary genders?
For disability status I chose 'Deaf or serious difficulty hearing'
srsly? Um yes, I do have serious difficulty with situations designed only for hearing people.
For disability status I chose 'Deaf or serious difficulty hearing'
srsly? Um yes, I do have serious difficulty with situations designed only for hearing people.
April 24, 2024 at 7:05 PM
Just filled out demographic information for an NSF project. Many of the demographic choices need updates! Why still only binary genders?
For disability status I chose 'Deaf or serious difficulty hearing'
srsly? Um yes, I do have serious difficulty with situations designed only for hearing people.
For disability status I chose 'Deaf or serious difficulty hearing'
srsly? Um yes, I do have serious difficulty with situations designed only for hearing people.
Reposted by Michele Cooke
“What’s happening is unprecedented,” Rancho Palos Verdes’ contracted geologist, said this month after reviewing more than 16 years of data. “We haven’t seen this kind of movement in the upper areas of the landslide in the whole history of monitoring the landslide.” 🧪⚒️
www.latimes.com/california/s...
www.latimes.com/california/s...
February 18, 2024 at 12:00 PM
“What’s happening is unprecedented,” Rancho Palos Verdes’ contracted geologist, said this month after reviewing more than 16 years of data. “We haven’t seen this kind of movement in the upper areas of the landslide in the whole history of monitoring the landslide.” 🧪⚒️
www.latimes.com/california/s...
www.latimes.com/california/s...
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El Centro in the Bradley seismic zone is experiencing an earthquake swarm. I have plotted today’s events with a green outline in a map that I made when the previous swarm happened (blue outline) in April of 2023. The biggest quake in this sequence is a M4.8 & the swarm may already be dying down. 🧪⚒️
February 12, 2024 at 6:05 PM
El Centro in the Bradley seismic zone is experiencing an earthquake swarm. I have plotted today’s events with a green outline in a map that I made when the previous swarm happened (blue outline) in April of 2023. The biggest quake in this sequence is a M4.8 & the swarm may already be dying down. 🧪⚒️
Looking good Socal!
Woodford-Eckis @ Pomona Geology.
Woodford-Eckis @ Pomona Geology.
February 11, 2024 at 12:20 AM
Looking good Socal!
Woodford-Eckis @ Pomona Geology.
Woodford-Eckis @ Pomona Geology.
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I gotta tell you, as a professor who cares for all his students, I'm super deeply disappointed in Texas, Utah, and now Ohio. If my trans students aren't safe in your state, I'm not bringing my classes there for fieldwork or conferences. I'll advise them to go to grad school somewhere safe.
January 25, 2024 at 1:03 AM
I gotta tell you, as a professor who cares for all his students, I'm super deeply disappointed in Texas, Utah, and now Ohio. If my trans students aren't safe in your state, I'm not bringing my classes there for fieldwork or conferences. I'll advise them to go to grad school somewhere safe.
Visiting Los Angeles and just felt a lil 4.5 earthquake with epicenter near Riverside.
January 25, 2024 at 3:53 AM
Visiting Los Angeles and just felt a lil 4.5 earthquake with epicenter near Riverside.