Riley Balikian

Ha I have definitely used screenshots (of the left especially) in teaching/training, apparently because my stick figure skills do not match that of your colleagues

Red and green aurora with some red pillars in central Illinois

Aurora with mostly red and some green blobs

Saw an aurora tonight for the first time, in Central Illinois of all places

New video: A glacier on Antarctica’s Eastern Peninsula experienced the fastest retreat recorded in modern history—in just two months, nearly 50 percent of the glacier disintegrated. Watch this video to understand what happened. Study by @ciresnews #Antarctica #glaciermelt

Glacier Outburst Floods: Mendenhall Glacier Every year since 2011, Juneau, Alaska, has been impacted by a unique type of flood that can only occur near places with glaciers.

If you're a storymap kind of person, here's one that nicely explains what's happening & why with the glacial lake outburst flooding now underway on the Mendenhall River near Juneau. #akwx #ClimateChange #Flood #Glacier @spiraledu.bsky.social @alaska.bsky.social

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This interactive online map is a must for animal tracking enthusiasts. We see the travel paths of GPS tagged whales. This is who I can spot in my neck of the woods (or seas) if I wasn't constantly looking at maps. Make sure to explore your favourite regions. Source: buff.ly/siQJUb3

First fault movement ever filmed. M7.9 surface rupture filmed near Thazi, Myanmar YouTube video by 2025 Sagaing Earthquake Archive

I am speechless...
>> First fault movement ever filmed. M7.9 surface rupture filmed near Thazi, Myanmar
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Hilarious idea for a map beautifully executed: Does your country “Live, Laugh, Love”? Source: buff.ly/G1T6Iho

STAND UP FOR SCIENCE March 7, 2025. Washington DC and nationwide. Because science is for everyone.

Maybe because, per NY Times - Francis Collins, the NIH Director resigned today. Sad day for science. #StandUpForScience2025

standupforscience2025.org

Gorgeous vintage map compares the longest rivers and biggest lakes around the world. Source: https://www.davidrumsey.com/luna/servlet/detail/RUMSEY~8~1~312672~90081910#

I dug into this a couple weeks ago and wrote about it on my blog. While it's properly just one part of a layered defense system against contamination, it is indeed true: bivalves control valves.

www.someweekendreading.blog/valves-bival...

Not aware of any, but you could look into an eBike kit like Swytch? www.swytchbike.com

The 2024 Headline of the Year Nominees

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Thanks @kellyhereid.bsky.social for making the #AGU24 feed. It really enhanced my experience there. I felt like I was able to at least catch glimpses of 2x what I would have otherwise, and I saw or heard about events/things I wouldn't have otherwise known were happening.

Three panel black and white comic. Panel 1. A smiling eel-like primitive fish shows off it's new iPhone in front of it to two trilobites. Fish dialogue: check out my new phone! It's got 16 gigabytes it can hold! Trilobite dialogue: oh yeah? How many trilobites can it hold? Panel 2: the fish looks on, concerned, as the two trilobites crawl onto the phone and others join. Panel 3: the fish looks upset, its phone is buried in several trilobites. Fish dialogue: please stop

An oldie from Inktober 2018: trilobyte

Hobbyist beekeepers are buzzing after reversing America’s critical bee shortage in just 5 years Tax breaks for beekeepers and the country’s need for pollinators help explain the busier hives—but climate change still threatens colony collapse.

Oh hey, in case you need some good news, the population decline of honeybees has actually reversed: fortune.com/2024/04/03/h...

Comet Tsuchinshan-ATLAS pointing downward just over some trees

Saw the comet! (Binoculars on a tripod helped, but also the pre installed android camera app has an "astrophotography" mode that will activate if you use "Night Sight" and hold it up very still (ie, with a tripod or leaning against something)). Anyway... Yay, Comet Tsuchinshan-ATLAS!

How Dark Is the Night Sky? The night sky isn’t perfectly dark—instead it glows faintly, and the source isn’t exactly local

Wanna know how dark the sky can get? You have to get away from city lights, and atmosphere lights, and even solar system lights. In fact, launching a probe to interstellar space past Pluto is the way to go. And then you find the universe itself glows..…

www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-...

Planet (not)-Earth

UK Coal xkcd.com/2992

Some of the most surreal shots of #helene
Left picture from Kat P in Pass-a-Grille and right from the Pinellas County Sherff’s in Pass-a-Grille as well.

Framing the United States through a train window Photographer Katie Edwards captures America from the window of a train.

Very cool:
Travelling nearly 10,000 miles by train, British photographer Katie Edwards crossed the United States capturing the landscape through a window.

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You want to check out the free BBC sound effects library.

This is such a GREAT way to explain a science paper. Love it 🧪

In case you don’t believe the same equations describe motion in the atmosphere and the ocean.

Mysterious 9-day seismic event was caused by a mega tsunami bouncing around inside a fjord, study reveals In September, a strange nine-day signal rocked our planet and baffled scientists. Now they have finally found the cause.

In Sept 2023 a strange global seismic signal lasted 9 days & oscillated every 92 seconds. Very unlike an earthquake. No one knew what caused it.

Paper just out points to a giant glacial collapse & subsequent 200 m (650') wave that sloshed for 9 days inside a tall & narrow east-Greenland fjord. 🧪⚒️

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Rancho Palos Verdes faces 'unprecedented new scenario' over landslide danger New drilling in Rancho Palos Verdes has revealed that devastating land movement has been caused, at least partially, by a deeper slip plane — meaning a larger area could be affected.

Saw somebody else post it, but can't find it now, so just posting myself. www.latimes.com/california/s...

‘Corn Sweat’ and Climate Change Bring Sweltering Weather to the Midwest A heat wave is sending temperatures soaring in the Midwest, and “corn sweat” is pushing humidity sky-high

CORN SWEAT www.scientificamerican.com/article/corn...

I've been seeing bits about this megatsunami that occured in a remote Greenland Fjord for months, and am so interested in the full story of the weird seismic signal it produced! ⚒️🧪

Why were the 1930s so hot in North America? » Yale Climate Connections Climate skeptics sometimes point to heat records from that decade to dismiss the reality of global warming. They're leaving out crucial context.

Sure, lots of U.S. stations set all-time extreme heat records in the 1930s. But the globe was nowhere near record-hot. Bob Henson provides great context on the records, which were due to a combination of natural variability and poor farming practices.

yaleclimateconnections.org/2024/07/why-...