Dr. Jessica Ball 🍪
Volcanologist, scicomm-er, Magma PI, Field Fiddler. She/her. Tweets, likes, retweets do not speak for or represent past/present employers.
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- Reposted by Dr. Jessica Ball 🍪I don’t want to hear anything from an elected official unless it’s a plan to defund the DHS and impeach Noem, Bovino, etc. No texts. No emails. No talk about the economy. Step up or step off.
- I received a noise blocking screaming pillow for Christmas and I have used it several times today already
- Good riddance. Let's spend 2026 not actively destroying the world, mkay?
- Not on Bluesky because we weren’t allowed to join, but people get mad because we posted updates reminding them that California's volcanoes are NOT erupting.
- Reposted by Dr. Jessica Ball 🍪The dismantling of NCAR should be the trending story on Bluesky, not the fucking Oscars leaving ABC for YouTube.
- Seriously considering asking for one of those noise-blocking screaming pillows for Christmas. Anyone have a favorite brand? (Small business artisinal screaming pillows preferred...)
- Reposted by Dr. Jessica Ball 🍪delete chatgpt and stop using generative AI 🖤🤍
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- Sad news about a colleague of mine at the USGS and a legend in the volcanology field: www.usgs.gov/observatorie...
- Trewly.
- Reposted by Dr. Jessica Ball 🍪Absolutely speechless as this press conference basically ignores that NSF is already working, living, loving this building. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zdct...
- Not seeing nearly enough coverage of this.
- Reposted by Dr. Jessica Ball 🍪it’s even more demoralizing when the history you’re repeating is history you were around for the first time
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- A very important doggo from one of today's #NoKings protests. (The other side of his signs says "No tariffs on treats") @weratedogs.com
- If anyone wants to hear me and my observatory's monitoring chief talk California volcanoes, this week's NSPR Blue Dot podcast is out! 🧪⚒️🌋 Blue Dot: The Golden State's volcanic legacy: The USGS California Volcano Observatory | NSPR share.google/mko4KMElJXsU...
- Imagine this thread, with added volcanoes, and you've got a decent idea of what my job feels like nowadays. I'm either depressed or angry, unable to plan, constantly on edge. Utterly maddening when all I want to do is help people.
- Well, that's the presidential proposed USGS budget for FY26. It’s not just NSF and NASA that would be taking earth science research hits if it's enacted.
- Holy mackerel! Check out today's Kilauea eruption www.youtube.com/live/BqmpkUd...
- Reposted by Dr. Jessica Ball 🍪🚨 Cool new project alert 🚨 WE- you, me, everyone- need to work together to get important science messages out to people. 4 artists & 3 scientists collab'd on these posters. We hope YOU will put them out in your community. Each poster comes w/info about each topic. Get 'em Squidfacts.bigcartel.com
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- Reposted by Dr. Jessica Ball 🍪Looking for scientists to feature! Is your work affected by mass firings and defunding of federal science? Tell us your story! Bit.ly/faces_of_science #sciart #scicomm
- I live in Silicon Valley and the obliviousness and waste when they could be doing some real good for the world is MADDENING.
- Reposted by Dr. Jessica Ball 🍪Becky Burke of Book Island (a picture book publisher in the UK founded by my fellow Tokarczuk translator Greet Pauwelijn) was "detained" by ICE at the Canadian border on 2/28. Her father asked that her story be shared in case someone can help her. He writes:
- Glad I have this elegant lady in my life. #geokitties 🐾
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- I want to be outside getting exercise in nature, but instead I have a headache and cramps and I'm clutching a pillow wrapped in a heating pad and trying not to eat an entire bag of Oreos out of self-pity. Do lemon laws apply to bodies? If so, I want to return this one for a refund.
- Reposted by Dr. Jessica Ball 🍪Post the amazing science things you have done with federal funding.
- This includes the USGS Hawaiian and Alaska Volcano Observatories. HVO's Ironworks is a temporary space while a new facility is built to replace the Observatory critically damaged in 2018. Both groups are near their volcanoes. Neither has anywhere to go and both have been forbidden from telework.
- Congress has just released a list of federal DOI offices to be closed under the ongoing massacre of our natural resource agencies -- it's extensive and includes many important NPS, BLM, USGS and USFWS facilities across the country. Truly horrific. democrats-naturalresources.house.gov/imo/media/do...
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- Dear manager, last week I: 1. Got up early 2. Stayed up late 3. Exhibited uninterrupted prosperity 4. Used a machete to cut through red tape 5. Toured the facility and picked up slack 🎵👩🏼🔬👗🧥🎵
- Reposted by Dr. Jessica Ball 🍪Your weather app gets its info because of NOAA. Your mail arrives at your home because of USPS. Your plane navigates the skies because of the FAA. Your food is safer -- and we get alerts when it isn't -- because of USDA. You hear about earthquakes *worldwide* because of USGS.
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- Reposted by Dr. Jessica Ball 🍪Happy International Day of Women in Science. The National Science Foundation’s list of flagged words includes both “Women” and “Female.”
- Optimist: The cup is half full. Pessimist: The cup is half empty. Volcanologist: I used the cup for sampling and now it's half full of lava and the water has boiled off. Also, it's on fire. 🌋
- Reposted by Dr. Jessica Ball 🍪what we need around here are more dragons
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- #themoreyouknow: All USGS published data is either available on our Publications site (www.pubs.usgs.gov) or Sciencebase (www.sciencebase.gov), in case you're worried about access or want to archive something. ⚒️🧪
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- Heads up, y'all: I finally deleted my account on the bird app, and I'm only posting here. Ping me if you see anyone trying to impersonate me!
- Reposted by Dr. Jessica Ball 🍪Giving access to SSNs, other data on government employees to non-employees like Musk is a violation of 5 USC 552a, and carries with it a penalty of $1000 per person whose data was accessed. We are building a case. Govt employees who want to participate should contact me directly
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- Seems appropriate for today. youtu.be/8G_L9tXEwmc?...
