This is U N B E L I E V A B L E. #Kilauea

It's over. Despite the fact that the academic council recommended against it, despite the fact that the program brought in more tuition than it cost, and despite the fact that Nebraskans need & deserve this expertise, Earth & Atmospheric Sciences will be cut. www.dailynebraskan.com/news/adminis...

When reviewer #2 tells you that you should just do the Incredibly Obvious Thing to prove something that actually has no bearing on the figure you are presenting without realizing that there is a reason no one has ever published the Incredibly Obvious Thing.

This is a cute way of saying 1) people paying attention have become nihilistic or 2) they’ve decided it’s not going to ruin their lives, just those of the plebes.

What’s everyone’s take on reviewing papers written by past advisors or closer associates? I realize that a lot of this is case-dependent, so I’m more interested in hearing folks generalized philosophy.

Every single congressional Democrat needs to be out there, right now, insisting that Pete Hegseth resign right now and announcing that he will be held accountable for committing war crimes. If you do not demand accountability here and now, they will only become more emboldened.

I’m pretty sure that this is the actual plot used to demonstrate when not to use linear regression.

Journalist challenge: Use “Machine Learning” when you mean machine learning and “LLM” when you mean LLM. Ditch “AI” as a catch-all term, it’s not useful for readers and it helps companies trying to confuse the public by obscuring the roles played by different technologies. 🧪

Turns out wearing bunker gear and level A suits for ten years is useful when the paint in your home office *might* have lead in it.

Several months later, we have bike options again.

#ecsmonday on bluesky 17 Katherine Billings (US) conducts #deformation #experiments to understand mechanisms of #mica layer #disaggregation and phase mixing at high #strains. Here are the results: doi.org/10.1016/j.js... #myfault #understanding #structuralgeology #deformationzone

No particular reason, but this is today’s energy. youtu.be/iWB_b480-9c?...

I’m in charge of an article we resurrected from an MS thesis. One reviewer replied with “big feelings” over some minor figure details held over from the thesis (map projection, etc.). Being on the hot seat while slightly removed from minor content makes it feel very “young man yells at cloud.”

Gotta love a system that requires you to use WiFi to connect to the WiFi 🥲

Geology continues to be a small world: I was chatting with someone on a group ride today about paradigm changes and the old guard pushing back, specifically about the advent of plate tectonics. I mentioned that my dad had been at Princeton in the 70s, turns out they went to grad school together.

Artisanal mining occurs in many more places, and with many more resources, than just South Africa and coal. A point absolutely not made to bash this article, but to highlight the abhorrence people in poverty will tolerate to get by.

Pretty damn thrilled to be here!

In a new study, sensors & cameras were operated along roads & in storm drains INSIDE 3 coastal North Carolina communities to study how often flooding—from nuisance to larger—really happens. Answer: A lot more often, & for longer, than the current tide gage network suggests. eos.org/articles/res...

Four Al Jazeera staff, including reporter Anas Al Sharif, were killed in an Israeli attack on a tent for journalists outside the main gate of Gaza's al-Shifa hospital aje.io/onll19

Nothing screams “Welcome to Indiana” like your hotel lobby stinking of stewed beef.

Today’s the day to move out of the office and rock storage at CC. Any guesses on how much the pile weighs? (I have a pretty reasonable idea)

Tonight I discovered my grandma’s Goodreads page. She wrote kid’s books from when my sister was born until her dementia prevented her from it. It’s very odd to see how people interpret parts of my childhood, but more so, it’s heartening to see her work still impacting people.

Soon, we actually get to experience our new kitchen floor! (Plus cats, because always cats)

Pure shear-dominated shear zones that haven’t been mapped previously? Yes, please!

My 38th birthday present to myself was to make our last rent payment (ever?)! At the end of the month we move to Granville to hang out with these new neighbors.

TWO submissions in one day?! Now we just gotta hope reviewers turn up… (photo 1–Slide Lake Shear Zone with CC students, photo 2–Cordillera Blanca Detachment with Nadine and Micah)

Well, I finally got annoyed enough with a Wikipedia article to sign up and edit it.

Congrats to you Jenni Rose!

I regret to inform you that I recently learned that The Youths don’t know the difference between punk and ska and it seems to be affecting the algorithms…

Did you know his character's name? "I'm Nikolas Van Helsing, professor of proctology and other related tendencies. A graduate of the University of Rangoon and assorted night classes at the Knoxville, Tennessee, School of Faith Healing."

Well, that’s neat. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Chilling report from Brown University. Administration advises all foreign students, staff, and faculty to postpone or reconsider (ie cancel) international travel, due to federal government's crackdown on universities. Brown also warns against *domestic travel* -since it's unclear what ICE will do.

Time to avoid the news cycle for a week. (JK, JK, that’s truly an impossibility out of self preservation at this point)

Academic interested in moving to Canada? 🇨🇦 Canada Excellence Research Chairs program is now live. @ucalgary.bsky.social is looking for (amongst others) senior research chair in Mountain Water Security. 🧪⚒️❄️ #academicsky Please repost far and wide! research.ucalgary.ca/research/our...

Democratic Senator Chris Murphy on Mahmoud Khalil.

A new program called ‘Safe Place For Science’ offers American scientists funding to continue their research in France. The program is geared towards researchers working on topics such as climate and environment, health, and human and social sciences. #BrainDrain www.404media.co/french-unive...

🌎 From tracking extreme weather to protecting fisheries and coastlines, #NOAA’s work saves lives and supports economies. AGU opposes the dismantling of NOAA and calls on Congress to defend this critical agency. The future of climate science, public safety, and industry depends on it.

Are you a scientist — or do you know someone — with federal funding who is making serious plans to leave the US so you can continue your research? I'd love to talk with you for a story I'm working on. I can guarantee you anonymity. Contact me securely on Signal: 3162958947

Every single Democratic governor and attorney general needs to do this -- if only to make it clear to voters *right now* that the firings and funding freezes that are about to hurt their states badly are the work of Trump-Musk in Washington. Get ahead of this now, or get blamed for it later.

#HigherEd, head’s up: two of the plaintiffs here are AAUP and the national association of DEI offices. they’re suing trump + the whole cabinet. one to watch.

This paper is now accepted! It's been a long road with multiple journals along the way.

If you went to college 1. what was your career goal when you started? 2. your initial major? 3. if you changed majors, what did you change to? 4. what do you do now? 1. Print journalist (2005), paramedic (2007), advancing my job in the Fire Department (2012). 1/2

Anyone have solutions for keeping rodents away from a car (shy of buying a pellet gun)? We just dropped my Tacoma off at the dealer for what seems to be a second squirrel-eating-a-wiring-harness incident in a month. We tried the sonic/ultrasonic sound emitters and rodent spray after the first time.

How Did This Beloved Thing Get So Bad? a guy wanted to get richer What Happened To All Thos— let me stop you there. a guy wanted to get richer Why Is Th— a guy wanted to get richer Have You Noticed Th— a guy wanted to get richer Where Did— a guy wanted to get richer

I taught an ENTIRE course on why this mine is representative of the “nobody wins” angle of the green energy transition without embracing the “reduce” portion of “reduce, reuse, recycle.” This is an unmeasurably important site, but maybe, just maybe, the byline should mention that mining this deposit