Maya Wei-Haas, PhD
@mayaweihaas.bsky.social
Science writer | Lover of rocks and rxns | Ex-National Geographic reporter | Words at NYT, Science Mag, Smithsonian, & more | Author of What a Rock Can Reveal | Follow for geology and weird happenings on Earth and beyond!
https://bio.site/mayaweihaas
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Awe, thank you so much! I’m so glad she loves it. She sounds like a gal after my own heart — a large portion of my first rock collection was most definitely gravel! Let her know I approve of her methods 😅
May 3, 2025 at 2:44 AM
Awe, thank you so much! I’m so glad she loves it. She sounds like a gal after my own heart — a large portion of my first rock collection was most definitely gravel! Let her know I approve of her methods 😅
Oh! That makes sense. I think Dan Fornari (who is the second author on this study) was the one who i heard the term from while reporting the story 😅
May 3, 2025 at 2:40 AM
Oh! That makes sense. I think Dan Fornari (who is the second author on this study) was the one who i heard the term from while reporting the story 😅
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It break my heart after reading a story like this today - such cool, exciting NSF research, and it's going to be lost. The world will be a much poorer place for it. Just imagine having fewer stories like this to read in the years to come: bsky.app/profile/maya...
**BIG NEWS in the geology world!** For the first time, scientists spotted an active eruption along the mid-ocean ridge!!
They visited the hydrothermal vent the day before, where a vibrant ecosystem thrived in the sweltering water. The next day, everything was gone. ⚒️🧪
My latest for @nytimes.com
They visited the hydrothermal vent the day before, where a vibrant ecosystem thrived in the sweltering water. The next day, everything was gone. ⚒️🧪
My latest for @nytimes.com
Volcanic Eruption in Deep Ocean Ridge Is Witnessed by Scientists for First Time (Gift Article)
Researchers diving in a submersible in the eastern Pacific realized that the landscape they had studied the day before had been glassed over by fresh lava.
www.nytimes.com
May 2, 2025 at 7:35 PM
It break my heart after reading a story like this today - such cool, exciting NSF research, and it's going to be lost. The world will be a much poorer place for it. Just imagine having fewer stories like this to read in the years to come: bsky.app/profile/maya...
Earth is truly a wondrous planet.
May 2, 2025 at 7:29 PM
Earth is truly a wondrous planet.
It is! Idk why it makes me chuckle. One of the researchers mentioned the term and I failed to work it in. Next time I guess! Haha
May 2, 2025 at 7:28 PM
It is! Idk why it makes me chuckle. One of the researchers mentioned the term and I failed to work it in. Next time I guess! Haha
I will never get over the term “worm barbecue” hahaha. I now need to write sometime that includes that precise phrase 😅
May 2, 2025 at 5:09 PM
I will never get over the term “worm barbecue” hahaha. I now need to write sometime that includes that precise phrase 😅
Oooh interesting. That seems to be a third way to say it?! That's definitely not the same as May-fic and the alternate I had heard previously was more of a long a as if you were yelling "ahhh," so Mah-fic.
April 16, 2025 at 7:52 PM
Oooh interesting. That seems to be a third way to say it?! That's definitely not the same as May-fic and the alternate I had heard previously was more of a long a as if you were yelling "ahhh," so Mah-fic.
Oh that's interesting! I was starting to think Mah-fic was a British pronunciation.
April 16, 2025 at 7:49 PM
Oh that's interesting! I was starting to think Mah-fic was a British pronunciation.
Haha yeah, I hadn't either until recently. I guess there some tomato -- tom-ah-to going on here!
April 16, 2025 at 7:48 PM
Haha yeah, I hadn't either until recently. I guess there some tomato -- tom-ah-to going on here!