Dr. Erik Klemetti Gonzalez

I am deeply amused that this knockoff Transformer jet is named "Subduction".

🌋🇦🇶 Images of the globally the southernmost active volcano Mt. Erebus, Antarctica 📸🛰 Sentinel-2 & Sentinel-3. 2026.10.24 Close-up: with a clear view of the plume, you can also see the shadow well 3 wider views

A full moon rising over the Denison Earth & Environmental Sciences fall field trip crew.

The problem with learning is then you know stuff like the fact that there are 25 different forms of ice.

Bluesky hivemind: Recommendations of a short story of speculative/science fiction that is specifically about discovering life on another planet? I'd like to avoid the fantastical and find more hard science stories. Thanks!

I mean, I get this. The problem for me is that of the major US sports, I've always like hockey and baseball the most. I do sometimes wonder how to exist in a world where trying separate the artist/athlete from the art/sport is challenging at best.

Some great investigative reporting here, from @woolsox.bsky.social. Really worth a read.

I'm advertising a funded PhD position with CENTA - please share widely! Interested in the impact of volcanoes on the built environment? Interested in the fate of microplastics and plastic pollution? Then I have the project for you: centa.ac.uk/studentship/...

Ah yes, it is horse or laminator day.

Working on the field trip guide for the Earth & Env Sci upcoming trip. Here's a little taste of what I've been writing. Gonna be a fun trip.

🌋Kilauea SO2 plume 2026.10.17 📸🛰 Goes-18 (West, 137.0W) @cira-csu.bsky.social

#Kilauea episode 55 😍🌋

Kilauea is being its beautiful amazing self. Incredible lava fountain and lava flow scenes on the webcam 🌋🧪🧑‍🔬🌎⚒️ www.youtube.com/live/gXKuUyK...

Dawn over Kīlauea 🌋 volcano as its 55th episode is under way — www.youtube.com/live/HggWKlZ...

I am greatly disappointed that the internet has never created a "I live for Bach" X-Files t-shirt. youtu.be/BJJLKCxpelk?...

I’m thrilled to announce three new professorships in compressed air thruster ethics, compressed air thruster policy, and social impact of compressed air thrusters. we are also headhunting a Vice Provost of Thrust

I am always fascinated how MLB pitchers can throw 4 pitches totally outside the zone to walk a guy then turn to the next batter and only throw stuff in the zone. I mean, sure, some is gameplan but wow, talk about living a life of uncertainty.

Listen, I love "The Hunt for Red October" but when they splice in footage of a Grumman F9F Panther crashing on the deck of the aircraft carrier after showing a F-14 Tomcat on approach, it drives me bananas.

I mean, this explains a lot. www.404media.co/our-solar-sy...

What do you think @jonostrower.com?

Somehow we have kept child #1 alive for 15 years. I suppose it is also an accomplishment that we kept ourselves alive, too.

Big signal on our Raspberry Shake in Granville from the M7.7 earthquake in Panama today.

USGS PAGER for M 7.7 in Panama earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/...

I get that people don't like "doomerist", but when it comes to the current GenAI that we are being sold, there is no upside for education. Education is supposed to be hard. You don't go to the gym and replace your weights with Styrofoam so you get your reps done faster. That's GenAI but for you mind

You know what they say (they being Bruce Cockburn): "Got to kick at the darkness until it bleeds daylight".

Here in Ohio were are hitting maximum "Democrats eat babies" ads. Good times! youtu.be/MTqOM6pEhbM?...

Honestly, my reaction whenever I hear a tech bro talking about the "clever uses" of AI.

AI allows you to be "productive" by offloading the thinking to someone else (and it's not the LLM), part 1.

I processed this Seestar S30 image of M33 (Whirlpool Galaxy) from the raw image file. I took it last night with my class as we observed Saturn in my reflector. This was only a 6 minute exposure so not too bad ... I think.

I've been sort of in science communication stasis for a few months now and feel no closer to understand what kind of scicomm is "worth doing" these days. I would appreciate any thoughts from the audience about it because I am stumped.

One thing I find endlessly funny about the rise of AI is that it has revealed that there is a large number of people who believe that the reason they wrote essays at school or university is their teachers were desperately waiting for them to provide a definite answer to “Lear: what’s up with him?”

Maybe @jfruh.bsky.social knows this but ... what 1980s/1990s comic featured the main character conversing with the 900 foot Jesus? I can't remember and it is driving me nuts (and yes, I know it is an Oral Roberts rather than Jim Bakker thing but whatever).

This is your occasional reminder that generative "AI" in particular could have been developed on public domain materials and/or licensed and compensated works but the major players intentionally, methodically and systemically chose to steal labor from working creative folks instead

So, great for making a list of the biggest science questions but maybe ask more than one scientist ((Tufts, and it has a grad school) at a liberal arts college? Science happens at liberal arts colleges. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/05/s...

Well then, Brewers.

I have no horse left in the baseball playoffs, so instead I will rank the remaining managers on likability (in my opinion). 1 Will Venable. 2 Dave Roberts. 3 Kevin Cash. 4 Steve Vogt. 5 Pat Murphy. 6 Craig Stammen. 7 Walt Weiss. 8 Aaron Boone. Booo. Booo.

Based on the reports of AI tech bros trying to schmooze the pope into endorsing AI, you'd think their next move would be install an antipope in Austin or something. This is real Western Schism action.

get in, losers.

Hawaii's iconic 550-year-old Hōlei Sea Arch collapses www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

📻 To celebrate College Radio Day, tune in to more than a century of college radio history. In 1906, Harvard students formed what was described as the first college radio club. By the 1920s, students were building stations and broadcasting campus events. 📚 More: blog.archive.org/2026/10/02/1... 🧵

Say it with me folks: people shouldn't be forced to prove they aren't using AI. Instead, AI users should be forced to clearly label their slop as such. (Sorry, that might be hard to say in unison. I'm bad at slogans.)

The Pope has this one figured out. The distinction between AI art (and by extension, any AI "creative or intellectual" product) is so clearly elucidated in this brief statement. Folks who say otherwise might want to question their understanding of humanity.

Everyone seems to be cheating when you ignore the idea that maybe you're incompetent.