The 2026 Barkley Marathons is over. There are no finishers. #BM100

My Olympian

Prudhoe Dome, a 2,500 km^2 by 500 m thick ice cap in NW, Greenland, completely melted away and then regrew all within the Holocene 🤯 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

OLYMPICS NEWSLETTER, DAY 6 🛷I cannot believe how invested I got in doubles luge🛷 👎 The French Judge strikes back👎 🔫⛷️The Olympics of Biathlon Mess continues🔫⛷️ AND MORE!!!! sports.beehiiv.com/p/olympics-d...

Reminder that applications for this unique summer undergraduate research internship are due tomorrow (Feb 13)! Learn more and apply here: www2.whoi.edu/site/paleofishes/accessible-ichthyoliths-internship/ Lets continue to work towards building a better tomorrow, together.

Braves winning it all this year

Good write-up in Science on our recent paper: www.science.org/content/arti...

She posted this yesterday and, I say again, athletes are INSANE

Months after Texas A&M fired a professor over a gender identity lesson, she is suing the university, alleging administrators knowingly violated her free speech and due process rights to appease political critics.

God, for the millionth fucking time. We had it right before. School/rec: Play with who you want NCAA: Need doctor's note Pro/Olympic: Blood testing for T levels It worked. It was fair.

Highlighting the speaker who stood in front of the Surprise mayor and told him to consider what the Mayor of Ohrdruf must’ve thought before he died by suicide: “He might have thought ‘how is this my fault I had no jurisdiction over this’ maybe he said ‘this site was not subject to local zoning.’”

Welcome to bsky US Scientific Ocean Drilling! @us-sciod.bsky.social

Excited that this paper, led by former PhD student Natalia Varela (based on her dissertation), is now out! We use the occurrence & characteristics of thin, silty turbidites from the Ross Sea to interpret Antarctic Bottom Water outflow since ~3.3 Ma. agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/...

ICE caused a car chase and accident in one of Austin's north central neighborhoods today. This is not community safety.

I reject this. They’re real robots, and they’re alive, and they’re my friends.

Researchers from Europe are visiting this week, conducting experimental observations of foraminifera. Seeing healthy specimens extend their long pseudopodia is reassuring.

I have a great idea for retraining ICE agents: defector.com/i-have-a-gre...

Alex Pretti was a colleague at the VA. We hired him to recruit for our trial. He became an ICU nurse- I lover working with him. He was a good kind person who lived to help and these fuckers executed him. White. Hot. Rage.

Immigration is a fake problem. We have politicians on the one hand who want to use immigrants as scapegoats for our real ones and politicians on the other who are too cowardly to stand against them and tell the truth. That is the entire situation. Until that changes, people will continue to die.

At the end of the day, the Black Lives Matter era was about whether people should be killed in the street, and lots of people decided yeah and put those little blue flags on their cars. It spread to everyone because it stopped for no one.

I just thought everyone should see this

Here's the UT press release for our paper www.jsg.utexas.edu/news/2026/01...

"it’s unclear when or whether Liam will be able to return for his stuffed turtle, his hat, and his W worksheet" sahanjournal.com/education/ic...

Re ICE actrocities in MN, I’ve already said that lately I feel consistently angrier than I’ve ever felt in my long life. But I also feel absolutely heartsick. That poor little 5-year old baby kidnapped, imagining how scared he was… I know many of you feel the same. Love and solidarity to you.

Our paper on the mysterious Devonian organism Prototaxites has now finally been published! See the paper here (www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...) and our explainer thread below! Prototaxites reconstruction by Matt Humpage

☄️New Paper!!☄️just out in Geology, in which we re-calibrate the ages of the earliest planktic foraminifera to evolve after the K/Pg mass extinction and found that new species began to appear within 2,000 years (YEARS) of the impact: pubs.geoscienceworld.org/gsa/geology/...

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Writing is thinking Outsourcing the entire task of writing to LLMs will deprive us of the essential creative task of interpreting our findings and generating a deeper theoretical understanding of the world.

don’t make me tap the sign

🚨New paper out with @alexauderset.bsky.social! We show that the Arabian Sea oxygen minimum zone (OMZ) was better oxygenated during the warm Miocene Climate Optimum than today, but its path to full deoxygenation was slow and complex. Link to paper: www.nature.com/articles/s43...

Since it's MLK Jr.'s birthday and MLK Day is Monday, I'd encourage any politicians claiming "Don't give em a show" or "You're not helping" to read King's speech on "The Other America" and reflect on it — specifically how he felt about riots

unambiguously good news. amidst all the shit.

This YouGov poll on ICE is really eye-opening. Public opinion has really swung against DHS/ICE and their terror regime. d3nkl3psvxxpe9.cloudfront.net/documents/IC...

Republicans forced the Bureau of Land Management to put over 20,000 acres of public land in Colorado up for auction at the discount price of $10/acre with reduced royalty rates for oil and gas drilling. No one bid for it because demand for oil is crashing though. 🔌💡 www.cpr.org/2026/01/09/b...

The US’ “strong interest” would lead to end of Greenland’s sovereignty. www.bbc.com/news/article...

I appreciate this from @us.theconversation.com by Jonathan Paul. However, I think it’s making a mistake I commonly hear geologists make with regards to current events. I have a hunch that this mistake is one of the reasons geology programs are struggling 🧵🛠️🪨🧪 theconversation.com/greenland-is...

This thread gets at something I’ve been worrying over for a while now: particularly in terms of how we teach it, geology remains very much focussed on centring rocks as resources, and an unwillingness to grapple with this lies at the heart of our recruitment problem.

Intolerable to spend even one more minute under this, to see my neighbors grappling with living under this, to make the little practical concessions and plans it requires. countless little tragedies all over the city

Paper Alert❗️We present the first Oligocene record of orbital variability in abyssal ocean temperature based on benthic foraminiferal clumped isotopes. Temperature changes up to 4 degrees C with a 110 kyr pacing, indicating Antarctic ice-volume at this time was less dynamic than previously thought.

That’s a slightly different animal but yeah, I don’t even accept drafts anymore from anybody who attaches anything like that. If you can’t at least pretend you think your work is good for the space of an email why should I read it

kind of darkly funny that "gender studies" is the stereotypical "useless degree" because gender studies will help you understand a large and important chunk of the current psychosis in american life

And what better way to celebrate this anniversary than attending the FORAMS 2026 meeting in Amherst this June! Abstract submission is now open: sites.google.com/view/forams2...

this is great moultano.wordpress.com/2025/12/30/c...

The last bombshell paleontology discovery of a year of bombshell discoveries: Ammonites survived the K-PG extinction! www.nature.com/articles/s41...

And what better way to celebrate this anniversary than attending the FORAMS 2026 meeting in Amherst this June! Abstract submission is now open: sites.google.com/view/forams2...

That’s right

This and the discussion about how academics can now just read AI summaries of things really drives home how much these guys always confuse the product for the goal. You don't do a coloring sheet because you want to have a colored sheet at the end!!! The coloring is the point!!!

incredible weekend for haters from the University of Texas