Em Waters

Our geology students sent this around, but not sure where it started. This would make a great series- how about some geophysics ones 😂😂😂

“But if I just start handing out accommodations to anyone who asks, won’t students start abusing them?”

“We’re the ones who perform the majority of the teaching, and we’re the ones who perform the majority of the research,” said Rafael Jaime, a doctoral candidate at the University of California, Los Angeles, who is president of U.A.W. Local 2865 #FairUCNow nytimes.com/2022/11/14/us/…

@topomaddie you might be a sim now

Parents, please check your kids' candy this Halloween! Just found a magnitude 9 Cascadia megathrust earthquake causing a massive tsunami inside this fun size Snickers bar.

@MaraKarageozian Sometimes switching to writing on physical paper helps me! I am motivated by asmr pen scratchy sounds in a way that keyboard clickies will never match. Plus you might save some eye strain with the screen break

How do you deal with the writing roller coaster? I'm either in a writing slump and don't even want to open the doc, or I'm so energized and can write all day. Tips for staying consistent?! 📰💻🆘

grateful every day to have the problems i have instead of some of the other, worse problems out there

finally got street cat bingo with this little friend (and bonus friends lurking in the shadows)

not me once again making a to do list, getting distracted by tasks not on the list, retroactively adding completed tasks to the list so i can still have the satisfaction of crossing them off the list. not me. not again.

i <3 swamps #Everglades

I love run on sentences they fill me with joy.

ahh the sweet symphony of unattended alarms of the graduate housing block

@JessicaNoviello Pretty sure those are toxic to cats

Not often that I get to see two of my favorite things, lichen and efforts to remedy historic erasure of trans women in STEM, in one article. Great read daily.jstor.org/the-unsung-her…

First publication! Tracking California’s sinking coast from space: Implications for relative sea-level rise doi.org/10.1126/sciadv…