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  Do earthquakes repeat? No one can really agree on that, one way or another. Some of them seem to, we call them repeaters. How those are generated might very well depend on specific organization of rupture points on a fault. link: https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.aeb3563 #earthquakes #geology

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  After about twenty odd years in the field (and now working mostly at sea), my family decided it was time I finally started dressing like a geologist (I'll probably still show up to conferences in a waistcoat and a buttoned-up shirt or a Hawaiian shirt, season-dependent, but these are nice for casual days in the office) #Geology #RockPeople

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  #WeekendReading: Yan et al. on the bad, terrible, not-good-at-all future projections for reef dissolution into the rest of the 21st century. (Have I mentioned it's not looking good?) Link: https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/2026GL125720 #Reef #Ocean #ClimateChange

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  Science should be accessible.

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  I could really have done much better without dealing with a pompous, mildly anglophone chauvinist reviewer this week and their supposedly helpful but contempt-dripping, passive-aggressive report. #Reviewer2 #AcademicChatter

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  I'll be very blunt about it, all countries with a coast should be openly sharing oceanographic (physical, chemical, and biological) information. Water recognizes no borders, and eventually, others are affected. #Sea #MarineMonitoring

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  A friend told me they like the work I do on social media and that it's mostly good stuff. I asked her why she never liked or reposted or commented on anything I put up. She shruged as said she usually doesn't do those things. Which I get, ok, but how am I supposed to know if what I post is interesting to anyone without some feedback?

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  With how much I post about marine science 🌊, people sometimes forget that I'm actually a geologist ⚒️ by training. But I am, and I do get excited when I get some mud to play with (and to do interesting science with). #MarineGeology #Mud

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  What if a rocky planet didn't have a core? That can't happen, can it? It should differentiate... well, there might be a set of circumstances under which that might happen. If it does, they're going to be a bit strange. As to how they might be weird. They might deform more due to rotation and gravitational distribution; they might have an unstable or no magnetic field, and the minerals on their surface would definitely be exotic. Link: https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2615884123...

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  Somewhere in the US in the late 1940s. Military transport planner: We need something all-terrain that could also get to a ship on its own. LeTourneau Technologies: We were thinking, two-story-tall boat with wheels the size of a buggy, would that work for you?

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  Sea level change doesn't just flood cities, it can also move the ground under them. up and down. Rapid sea-level rise drives increased faulting, and when we look at it relative to glacial sea-level change, one can also see it. Link: https://nhess.copernicus.org/articles/26/4053/2026/ #SeaLevel #Geohazard #Science

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  OK, hear me out - tentacle hentai sort of makes sense... at least as far as that suckers and tentacles are likely appendages aliens species might have. They show up often enough across many groups here on Earth. Link: https://www.preprints.org/manuscript/202203.0324 #Evolution #Worldbuilding

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  In Frederik Pohl's Gateway, he describes the "food mines". Growing fungi on organic-rich rocks to feed the masses. IRL, there are entire natural ecosystems that are organized around such a base. Link: https://academic.oup.com/ismej/advance-article/doi/10.1093/ismejo/wrag184/8744037 #SciFiScience #fungi #ecology

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  "... participants typically did not enjoy spending 6 to 15 minutes in a room by themselves with nothing to do but think... many preferred to administer electric shocks to themselves instead of being left alone with their thoughts." Link: https://www.science.org/doi/full/10.1126/science.1250830 #Cognition #Boredom #Psychology

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  In retrospect, it makes sense, but I really didn't expect the difference in the ratio of ATP to carbon to be multiple orders of magnitude between plants and animals. (Mobility is energy-intensive) Link: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2589004226022273 #Worldbuilding #Metabolism #Energy

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  At this point, I was involved, directly or indirectly, in the mentorship of students and postdocs from 12 countries (🇳🇱🇮🇹🇩🇪🇬🇷🇮🇱🇮🇷🇷🇺🇨🇳🇮🇳🇰🇪🇳🇬🇺🇸). Each of them was their own person, but there were some common communication issues, some of which cultural. They are what this thread is about. 1/ 🧵 #AcademicChatter #Mentoring

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  Something I didn't know until recently about mitochondria is that different cells have different types of them, and there are multiple types of them. That makes me think of cellular evolution a bit differently. Link: https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC10427836/pdf/nihms-1921885.pdf #mitochondria #metabolics

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  Seriously, why does a site I visited once, months ago, need to store a 50 MB+ cookie on my local machine? (I know the answers; they aren't great) People, remember to check your cookies from time to time. #Internet #Browser

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  Burnout is far from being one thing, and there is no cure-all for it. It's something we really need to talk more about; normalize as an issue people could be dealing with, and that modern work environment (notably for research and creative work) might be inducing. (I'm fine so far. Work and life are taxing, but I'm handling and keeping an eye on my mental health. The same could not be said for some people around me) #MentalHealth #Burnout

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  Interesting new work showing plankton being the primary producers of organic matter in the marine realm throughout the Phanerozoic. Link: https://www.researchsquare.com/article/rs-9940488/v1 #Plankton #CarbonCycle #PrimaryProductivity #Ocean

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  #WeekendReading: Zhang and Huang on the role of weathering and reverse weathering on the Cenozoic cooling. Link: https://doi.org/10.1130/G54403.1 #Weathering #Lithium #ClimateChange #EarthsHistory #Geology

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  Two things I try to avoid are jellyfish🪼 parasite 🪱. Naturally, jellyfish have their own parasites (for maximum creepiness). But the thing is, those parasites don't stay in the jellyfish; they are just a step in their life cycle. 🧪🌊 Link: https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.07.29.741456v1 #Ocean #Jellyfish #Parasites

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  "... Many forms of foundational and integrative labour essential to infrastructure-scale science remain inconsistently recognised within conventional attribution systems." Link: https://eartharxiv.org/repository/view/14096/ #Geology #AcademicChatter #Recognition #ValuingLabor

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  I was looking at a new paper that came out. It had a map in the discussion showing some things. I'm looking at it, and I can spot some glaring omissions in the Indian Ocean. The thing is, I know for sure one of the authors should know about them - we co-authored several papers on them. #AcademicChatter

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  We need more colloquialisms and common-use words in scientific writing; it is becoming too stiff and stifled (and also less legible and accessible). #AcademicChatter #AcademicWriting

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  In a brilliant and unexpected find, it turns out that being repeatedly exposed to homophobic hate speech puts the target of it in a bad mental state and desensitizes everyone else to it. This is why you shut that shit down immediately! Link: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ejsp.70056 #Queer #LGBTQ #Homophobia #Intolerance

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  Climate change, even natural climate change, has been the bane of civilizations before. The Bronze Age collapse was one of the dramatic ones, and extreme drought events might have been at the center of it all. Link: https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.aed5439 #ClimateChange #History #BronzeAgeCollapse

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  Venus doesn't have tectonic plates, or at least not the same way Earth does. But it does have rifting, because tectonic processes work on multiple scales. Link: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41561-026-02044-8​ #Venus #Tectonics

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  Just FYI, the call for Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions fellowships is now open. As a reminder, if you plan to apply or know someone who is about to, Noam Vogt-Vincent and Rita García Seoane wrote a great (unofficial) application guide. https://zenodo.org/records/15377569 #AcademicChatter

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  In the Bronze Age, what we call a small town would be a big city, and what we call a major city would be unimaginable. It isn't simple to grasp just how cities have grown through time. So I used a log scale to visualize. Refs & Data: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Historical_urban_community_sizes #Cities #History