Claire Richardson

Still, even though everything is on fire, I’m proud of this degree, the work I’ve put into it, and the science that I’ve done. Here’s hoping there’s still a scientific enterprise to come back to after a few months off! 🥲🫠

Some exciting news, I defended my PhD two weeks ago! Gotta say, it’s a pretty messed up time to be getting a PhD in science while I watch friends and family who are civil servants at NASA and the USGS either get fired or have to hang on by a thread.

Black History Month STEM - Learn More About These 40 Scientists for Black History Month! | Science Buddies Blog Celebrate Black History Month by learning more with your students about these 38 African American scientists and engineers.

Good morning Ppl! Happy start to #BlackHistoryMonth ! Here’s a fun article to get it started for all us science nerds out there. www.sciencebuddies.org/blog/black-h...

Others have said it better before, but:

Doing the best science *requires* considering "DEIA principles and frameworks."

Science is done by communities. Science affects communities. Communities are diverse. If you ignore that diversity, you are doing worse science than someone who includes it well.

Greyhound drivers out here with more of a backbone than any congressional dem apparently.

No votes, at all!

Greg hello! Arizonan here asking you to do literally fucking anything material to stop this. Until you and your colleagues have something new to tell us about what you’re doing, get off of the socials. Turns out we already know it’s “absurd”.

One of the best things you can do right now is read books. Buy them. Borrow them from the library. Gift them.

Read history. Read fiction. Read science writing. Read anything that shows you the world is bigger than what fascists say it is.

Read to remember why your resistance matters. 📚💙

This, and similar for calling cops “pigs”. 1) it degrades the fact that cops are humans brutalizing other humans and should be held to account as such, and 2) it’s unfair to pigs. Let’s call things what they are so we can more effectively fight back against them.

A photo from one end of a large plunging anticline, showing the eroded interior and the far end of the fold.

A satellite map of the fold

Alkali Anticline from my field camp in 2018 up in the Big Horn Basin #foldfriday

Here, we used the first whole-mantle 3D attenuation model to interpret the longevity & viscosity of the large low velocity provinces (LLSVPs). To explain our observations the #LLSVPs need to be not only hotter but also have larger mineral grains, in contrast to their surroundings

FWIW I appreciate that these are *also* propaganda tools, but I think that’s maybe exactly the point. They were coined to make America a symbol of anti-fascist liberty. Let’s reclaim that.

THIS. Captain America, Rosie the riveter, “back to back world war champs”, the space race, etc etc etc were all about crushing fascists

The NASA/fed agency DEIA email is giving the same vibe as the TX email address to report women who have had abortions. Hopefully similar spam email response campaigns arise.

Everyone who works at nasa must have come there with hearts full of exploration and wonder and love of humanity and I don’t know how you can read that email and not feel like you work at a place that is small and cruel

simultaneously demanding that colleges eliminate DEI admissions policies and turning colleges into automated rubber-stamp credential factories is the most effective way of establishing a ruling caste of sub-mediocre white men with authority

I hope I live long enough for the next Nuremberg.

By the way, I use @librofm.bsky.social for my audiobooks. It’s a platform that lets you support local bookstores.

Screenshot of an audiobook player showing the book “They Thought They Were Free: The Germans 1933-45” by Milton Mayer. The tagline says “how and why ‘decent men’ became Nazis—the life stories of ten law-abiding citizens”. The cover is red with a black swastika in the lower right corner.

Starting my “next four years”requisite reading with a bang.

Yes. When people tell me “we survived four years of Trump, we’ll survive four more,” I remind them that many people did not survive Trump’s first presidency. They’re often shocked to have the policy decision linked explicitly to deaths.

The only? thing I sometimes miss about twitter is the excellent and beautiful geology content. I present these gorgeous chevrons along the Barnhardt Trail NE of Phoenix for today’s #foldfriday

You Blamed DEI for Hurting Your Career. Now What? For people who pin their failures on diversity, corporate America’s DEI retreat removes a barrier—or maybe an excuse.

this confirms something i have long suspected, which is that certain people are told that their professional and academic failures are because of “affirmative action” or “DEI” as a way to avoid difficult conversations about their mediocrity www.wsj.com/lifestyle/ca...

Twin Peaks changed a lot for me. It was one of those pieces of art that made me feel seen and affirmed in lots of unexpected ways. Sad news indeed.

In it, we give an overview of the two large velocity anomalies that dominate the landscape of the core-mantle boundary, and talk about some of the current research trying to figure out what they are, how they got there, and what their role is in the dynamic Earth system 🌀

The mysterious, massive structures in Earth’s deep mantle Seismic waves traversing the interior of the planet reveal continent-sized regions with distinct physical properties. Researchers are investigating what they ar

(Fashionably) late to the party here, but I wanted to share this article that my advisor Ed Garnero and I wrote for Physics Today last month:

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Really it’s your fault I’m here in the first place 🤷🏻‍♀️ can’t back out now!

Hello world (this is an original joke)