Having an excellent time at the @seismosocam.bsky.social Environmental Seismology conference so far, and thanks to everyone who came by our poster! (if you missed it, feel free to corner me later this week) Looking forward to the rest of the talks and posters lined up for the next two days 🥼❄🧪

I am now a postdoc at @univofmaryland.bsky.social!

I'm joining the ARROW project to study some very cool seismic data collected at a floating rift in the Ross Ice Shelf, Antarctica. We hope to learn about the ice structure and seismicity of this region and how they're affected by tidal forces 🥼❄🧪

Have we considered classifying geological terranes by making a surface image into a jigsaw and setting professional jigsaw solvers on it?

It’s not even funny how well these (independently evolved) piles are going to line up with descriptions of surface categories I learned during my PhD 😂

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Took the parents to watch the planets align last night. We had moderate success (Mercury had already set by the time we got there) but the stars were very pretty ✨🔭🧪

My partner + flatmates got me these dope moon dice (byFlowerFox on Etsy) and *made* this giant Saturn d20 from scratch, like hand-painted and pressure-cooked resin and everything, all in secret?? The 7 lil guys are the moons you can see from Earth with a telescope?? I cannot comprehend

you’ll never guess what date I submitted my thesis

Me: taking from a break from thesis corrections by watching the new David Attenborough documentary because the next section I gotta do is some really finicky ice crystal anisotropy

David Attenborough: ❄️🧊🥼⚒️

Could this be… a sighting of meat rock #rhodochrosite in the wild (well, the undergrad geology lab)?

I had never heard of it before this year and now, the day of #MinCup24 finals, it appears to me in person?? Could it be a sign???

Thesis: submitted 😤💪🎉🪐🧪

My partner (who has read both my papers and my thesis several times) drafted a thesis abstract for me and I’m trying to decide whether it’s a stronger reflection of my scicomm skills (apparently lacking) or their love for robots (everlasting)

so it turns out I'm wiki-famous* 😂🎉🧪🪐⚒️

*I promise I did not write this page
*shoutout to Wikipedia user "Louiskmn" who apparently did
*other velocity models for Enceladus (and other icy moons) are valid and available

This... isn't really what I meant

(shoutout to cryoseismology which is an incredibly cool field that I'm grateful to dabble in)

At the airport now after a post-#AGU23 detour to Yosemite! Thanks to everyone I got a chance to chat with for being absolutely wonderful and congrats to all the presenters on some incredible science 🎉🧪🪐 hope to see you all at future conferences!

My #AGU23 poster is up! Come find me this afternoon to chat all things Enceladus (only 3000 posters down from the seismology section, arguably much closer than real Enceladus) 🧪🪐