Jason R. Patton @earthjay@qoto.org

Starting the new season of #TheCrownNetflix. I’m so excited. No spoilers!

This is a helpful overview of why the search feature is intentionally limited

https://midrange.tedium.co/issues/how-mastodon-search-works/

And it links to this thoughtful blog post on why the influx of new people on Mastodon has been so jarring to the community already here

https://www.hughrundle.net/home-invasion/

Who can see your toots? Whose toots can you see? Found this clarifying graphic at https://axbom.com/mastodon-tips/

The best way to increase everyone's feed diversity is to go follow interesting accounts on other instances :)

Lads this site depends on retoots not likes. So don't be stingy on the sharing of other people's posts - especially new folks just arrived & looking for new pals 😊 We all need to get into a sharing headspace 🥰

Time for an #introduction!

I'm Gareth, a Professor of #Geophysics at the University of California, Riverside.

I use #InSAR, #GNSS and #seismology to study #earthquakes, crustal deformation and the behavior of faults. I am Chair Elect of the EarthScope Consortium board, and one of the founders of the #DiamondOpenAccess journal Seismica.

Originally British, I moved to California because there are lots of earthquakes here! And now I get to respond to them when they occur! I love my job!

Hello world! I am a #seismology Postdoc at #BrownUniversity and soon-to-be Assistant Prof at #SyracuseUniversity. I'm interested in how continents break apart to form new oceans and how today's ocean basins continue to evolve.

I use ground vibrations to image Earth's #crust and upper #mantle. Specifically, I measure anisotropy and attenuation of seismic waves to understand deformation and roles of melt/volatiles in Earth's interior.

#introduction #EarthScience #geophysics #seismologist #geo

As fun as it is to watch the world burn and YOLO about what happened to #twitter, here's a pretty important perspective from MIT Tech Review:

Twitter’s potential collapse could wipe out vast records of recent human history

https://www.technologyreview.com/2022/11/11/1063162/twitters-imminent-collapse-could-wipe-out-vast-records-of-recent-human-history/

This is an ancient beach but it’s no longer at sea level!
The red arrows show the shore platform cut by wave action into mudstone (grey); its overlain by beach sands (orange-brown) and loess (grey-brown). I studied these shore platforms, at the southern Hikurangi subduction margin in NZ, to work out how old they are; this one is ~100k yrs old but others nearby are ~125k yrs old and ~220 m in elevation! That’s an uplift rate of 1.7 mm/yr! What did this? Earthquakes! Lots and lots of #earthquakes!

New data about the growth of the #fediverse. The number of new accounts is now on average around 100k per day after the peak in November 8th of 135k new users.

Hi everyone! I am an #earthquake #geologist and #earth #scientist currently based in #Oxford, UK. I work on #activefaults, #paleoseismology, and #tectonics problems around the world, but particularly in #CentralAsia and in the western USA. I did my PhD in #Reno #Nevada and my undergraduate in #Humboldt #California.