tl,dr; Scientists no longer allowed to use federal funding to publish, attend meetings, or talk to the public. They cannot collaborate internationally. Grants can be cancelled for any reason, at any time, political appointees have a final say over what gets funded, and who gets funded.

Hello fellow scientists, I see a lot of conversation about this document, encourage you to read it, and would like to reinforce that it is open for Public Comment until July 13. www.federalregister.gov/documents/20...

Also, please, please go learn CPR.

The US Department of Education is currently overhauling federal accreditation rules for colleges & universities. The April 6, 2026, Proposed Changes to Initial Draft Regulations unacceptably seek to narrow & control what can be taught, learned, & researched on college & university campuses. 🧵 1

UC Berkeley Law creates new AI policy that bans AI for "conceptualizing, outlining, drafting, revising, translating, or editing any work submitted for credit" or exams because "thinking remains the sine qua non of good lawyering (and of a quality legal education)." That's what I'm talking about.

With hurricane season once again upon us, here's my resource page on "ingredients" that support TC formation: 1) warm ocean water 2) atmospheric moisture 3) low vertical wind shear 4) atmospheric instability 5) distance from the equator 6) a "seed" disturbance kouya.has.arizona.edu/tropics/ingr...

Yes. “Reactive, not aggressive.” Hostility breeds hostility. Here’s a secret: I live for confrontation. If you’re an asshole, I’ll match that energy; if you’re respectful, I’ll match that energy. If I lash out when you deliberately provoke me, 𝙮𝙤𝙪 𝙖𝙧𝙚 𝙣𝙤𝙩 𝙖 𝙫𝙞𝙘𝙩𝙞𝙢. bsky.app/profile/ange...

Home! I don’t think I’ve spent more than 2 days in Albuquerque since moving out of state in 2017. 30 years living in this amazing city. It was too much and will never be enough. When I left I could tell you every corner I had worked a body on. I needed to leave. But goddamn I miss this place.

Weird not to see real estate expansion projects, chatbot TAs, or ed-tech privatization on this report of what makes university experience valuable to students

Trump on Iran War: Reporter: What extent are Americans’ financial situation motivating you to make a deal? Trump: Not even a little bit. I don't think about Americans’ financial situation

Had my first colloidal silica-induced thin section lifting this afternoon (making it this long made me feel special). Caught it before the slide was ruined, but does anyone have any tips for re-securing the edges?

This hit me so hard this week.

He was born before the Great Depression, came of age in WWII, and is still making wildlife documentaries. Brits call David Attenborough a national hero, as he celebrates his 100th birthday. n.pr/42ngiIV

Going to GSA in Denver? Hoping to present on fluid-rock interactions (or lack thereof) during deformation? Corey Flynn and I are are running the session for you: Following the Fluids: Characterizing Hydrous and Fluid-Absent Processes in Orogenesis and Critical Mineral Development (no T # yet)

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JFC.

Whelp, that stinks... www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...

Who am I talking to? A Handy Guide: If you are advocating for policies that protect the vulnerable & you get a person commenting that you are choosing to be a victim by addressing abuse - you are talking to an ABUSER.

Maybe I’m tainted by ten years of watching people die, directly or passively, from the actions of others, but 10% is grossly optimistic. Collectively, humans will let you die a horrible, unfair death if it benefits them. Most people are implicitly, consciously, and unaccountably cruel.

The eddy subduction pump might not be transporting all that much carbon after all. eos.org/research-spo...

The fatal collapse of an under-construction irrigation tunnel above the Stanislaus River claimed the life of a 37yo engineering geologist that was a mother of two. No word yet on how the tragedy occurred, but the local community has started a GoFundMe for her family. www.modbee.com/news/local/a...

$30m an hour: big oil reaping huge war windfall from consumers, analysis finds #Climate

Heat batteries delivering up to 1,200C using off peak electricity: A Scottish whisky distillery just claimed a world first — producing high-temperature steam for distilling using stored green electricity instead of fossil fuels. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Anyone in Bluesky-land have experience with EGU’s publication process? I’m very intrigued by it and have a manuscript that would fit well with one of their journals, but am still not quite sure I “get” it.

I remember learning about the Cold War fear of The Bomb shortly after the fall of the USSR. Even as a kid I remember being relieved not to experience that. I never thought that 30 years later I’d be considering what I will say to my students tomorrow if our nation triggers nuclear war tonight…

Jump to 1:40 if you’re in a time crunch…

If you or a student you know are in need of financial support to attend a field camp this summer, check out this scholarship!

Well, that was an enjoyable lab.

Oklahoma Geological Survey has a choice position for the right (geophysically oriented, program-minded scientist) candidate! Spread the word: apply.interfolio.com/183787

🌋 Éruption au Piton de la Fournaise Prise de vue du site éruptif ce matin à 9h10, heure locale. On y observe un lac de lave toujours actif, au sein d’un cône désormais bien refermé (© OSUL – Lyon 1 Université)

CO folks near the wildland/urban interface, have a bag packed and a detailed plan. This summer is likely to get real bad. www.denvergazette.com/outtherecolo...

Another one for the books! (Well, a few weeks ago, but I’ve been busy) Our epic excursion into spatial variation of fluid flow in plastic shear zones via hydrogen isotopes in synkinematic micas. We analyzed micas in 50 samples & identified variations in fluid sources ranging from magmatic 1/7

Today, one year ago, the devastating Mw 7.7 Myanmar #earthquake produced the first-ever surface rupture footage, caught on a building's webcam. It shows the exact moment this section of the Sangain Fault ruptured in a right lateral strike-slip movement. 🧪⚒️ youtu.be/77ubC4bcgRM?...

The good twin to Tuesday’s NYT profile…

Arellano: Goodbye, Border Patrol bogeyman Gregory Bovino, and good riddance

The day the marketing department dictates academic offerings at a university is the day that university dies, in a sense.

This is now the LOST generation for all doctoral research, from engineering to public health, from literature to psychology, from religion to economics. Some programs will suffer more than others, but this is a tremendous loss to the future. This is ALL on #RussellVought #DonaldTrump #JDVance.

This is a great list of techniques for getting real information out of a Google search and avoiding AI slop and paid results. (One thing not included is that if you add "-ai" to a search, you block the AI summary) cardcatalogforlife.substack.com/p/google-has...

Wonderful to be back in the field with students! Granites, ophiolites, blueschists, serpentinites, complex faulting, coastal ecology & geology, glacial incision, mass movements, and fires. Central CA let us see it 6 days. Should we have covered all of that? Probably not. Worth it? Absolutely.

Ready to oppose the National Book Ban Republicans are moving through the House of Representatives? Use 5 Calls to contact your Representative in the House. They'll find your rep for you and even have a script!

Trump policies set to increase rates of lung disease and death, study finds #Climate

This is anti-human behavior. This is what a space alien villain says in a comic book. Our ability to contemplate the world around is as universal as breathing. Whatever the limited technical benefits of AI, giving these ghouls ownership of “intellect” is something I can’t abide.

Every now and then you see older photos of yourself and the realities of the aging process set in… (Alongside the understanding that I’d be two years from retirement if I had stuck that out)

Further proof that the average person has no problem speaking authoritatively on something absolutely no context for, the size of cargo ships, for instance… 😂

This year, we celebrate 25 years of interactive #OpenAccess #publishing, with 20 interactive open access journals, more than 50,000 high-quality peer reviewed #scientific articles published, and 250,000 interactive comments and replies from the scientific community! 🧵Read more: egu.eu/3Z82VX

I'm no fancy political consultant, but, hey, if you're in Dem comms, you should notice that Fox News panicked over Trump wearing a cheap Trump merch baseball cap to receive the bodies of soldiers he got killed for no reason he can articulate, and you should absolutely lean into that.

So yeah, Markwayne Mullin is absolutely not qualified for anything in national security, but continuously reposting memes that start by calling him out for not having a bachelor’s degree isn’t it… 1/2

When the US govt terminated the National Nature Asst, @phillevin.bsky.social + the author team were determined not to let that stop them. They re-organized, set up an advisory committee, found funding…and now the brand new Nature Record is open for public comment. 👏🌳👏🌲 Check it out (link below)!

Excited to share a new paper written by a AAAS Policy Fellow I mentor, Dr. Lisa Walsh. “This review synthesizes literature on fieldwork safety across scientific disciplines, highlighting four facets of safety for leaders and researchers to address: physical, social, financial, and psychological.”