Hey look at my alma mater!

Mary Washington wins the NCAA D3 men's basketball national title!

This is so, so well-articulated.

learning that astronauts have to use microsoft outlook in space is unspeakably depressing. we have set microsoft outlook free from the bounds of earth. polluting the stars with that janky piece of shit

One thing that amazes me is that two of the three American astronauts on board Artemis II graduated from public universities: Christina Koch earned three degrees from NC State, and Victor Glover was a defensive back on the Cal Poly football team. We are not going anywhere without public education.

let’s get shaq and chuck on the next shuttle

Hmmmmmmmmmmmmm. So if somebody got their PhD in their 40s do they just start out as mid-career?

Until you change the incentive structure of academia you will continue to see people fear losing their status and use AI as a way to fast-track productivity bc academia doesn't currently value the meaningful production of knowledge, only the performance of producing it.

“If you’re gay or transgender, I love you. And if anybody gives you shit, tell ‘em Charles said fuck you.”

CBS turned their news operation into propaganda, kicked Colbert off the air for making too much trouble, and all that just to have Charles Barkley go on the air on one of their most-watched telecasts of the year and say this lmao

This is a Final Destination death sequence

The incidents in Austin raise questions about how self-driving cars “learn” and adapt to their surroundings. www.wired.com/story/a-scho...

The situation (as far as I understand it) seems to be that OMB has approved the apportionment (unlike with NIH). See: openomb.org/file/11505250 So the money may even have landed at NSF... but it can't/won't be distributed down to the program level until a spending plan is approved by OMB.

I need this good news.

Hi there, Your AI flyer looks like shit

Happy Monday

Klassy Karrot Holtville, CA

Man, one of the most depressing aspects of modern scholarship is finding a great article and then looking up the scholar to see what else they’ve done and just catching a glimpse of an abbreviated career hopping between visiting positions and publishing great pieces before disappearing from academia

I’m looking for a post doc (up to five years) interested in phylogenetics and earth systems - please spread the word!

Don't Forget that FORAMS 2026 (in scenic Amherst Massachusetts!) abstracts are due on March 15! If you just submit this video as an abstract it'll probably be accepted. sites.google.com/view/forams2...

If you want to use AI to review manuscripts you should just quit your job. The whole point of being a scholar is to critically engage with other people’s work! If you don’t even want to do that then why bother?

In a related note, I spent three years looking into the looming disaster that is the Coastal Bend for @thexylom.com. Did you know that San Patricio County, partially folded into Pulido's #TX15 district, has seen a 17-fold increase in toxic chemical risk, but has zero state-installed air monitors?

Don't Forget that FORAMS 2026 (in scenic Amherst Massachusetts!) abstracts are due on March 15! If you just submit this video as an abstract it'll probably be accepted. sites.google.com/view/forams2...

today at the World Metaphors Classic the leader of the USA didn't bother to find out the details of the situation his team was in and blindly assumed they would win a matchup they ended up losing, jeopardizing their long-term standing for no good reason

Dang! That is so much for satisfying than the usual petri dish pictures. Maybe a Beella digitata?

Hey fellow scientists, I'm just letting you know that if you're promoting something with some junky AI image, I'm not gonna click. You've got a workshop, a conference, a new paper? Just not gonna bother. You want a bespoke image? Hire an illustrator.

In a further setback to scientific ocean drilling, the SODCO advisory board (pictured) have all made invisible in some sort of laboratory accident

Urbino Summer School in Paleoclimatology 2026 : 22nd July to 7th August in Urbino, Italy. 🇮🇹 Application DEADLINE 13th March 2026)   ECORD Summer School Scholarship Applications also open: www.ecord.org/education/sc... DEADLINE 20th MARCH 2026 Please share widely in your paleo circles 🌲🌊⛰️

Did yall see the finish to the 2026 LA Marathon?

mew mew mew i dont wike daywight savings time, i wost a whole hour of my wifetime—oh sorry i am outside in the bright sunshine at 6:30pm for the first time in half a year and cannot hear your babyish mewling over the clinking ice in my glass of lemonade

Today I Will Look The Burrito Man In The Eye and other stories of manifesting success

If you took $1 billion and gave it to the endowment of a different small college each day, they could each provide a free college education to several hundred students per year in perpetuity. Instead we are using that money to bomb schools and kill students in Iran, for no clearly stated purpose.

Boooooooo

In case anyone else needs one (yes you do), a portion of the proceeds go to support the Earth Science Women's Network

"I get a pain in my gut, and my heart, imagining how much time I have spent in the past couple years, and will continue spending, on suggesting edits for sentences my students did not write. Sentences that, in fact, no one wrote." www.welcometohellworld.com/sentences-th...

Deadline: 15th March The UK-IODP Proposal-Writing Workshop 2026 (22-24 April, University of Leicester) will provide expert tuition & mentoring to support scientists in how to develop IODP3 expedition proposals. Bursaries are available for UK-based scientists. www.ukiodp.org/proposal-wri...

amichai.

1) Farewell Transmission is a perfect song that still regularly gives me chills 2) check out this community access tv recording I found on YouTube of a 2004 concert: youtu.be/jc6aKGYbB_k?...

23 years old today

“Oil lobbyists have made the case to Trump officials in recent weeks that his attacks on wind farms off the U.S. coast risk derailing congressional efforts to speed up permits for energy projects, according to people familiar with the matter.” www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

🚨If you're working on a US scientific ocean drilling proposal @us-sciod.bsky.social just added several info pages on: The Operational Planning Process Vessels and Platforms Coring and Downhole Measurements Containerized Laboratories sodco.org#proposals

where I’m from, killing people illegally is called murder, and I’d just like one if these guys to say that

Scouting America says transgender kids are still welcome after Pete Hegseth claimed they weren’t- "We have transgender people in our program, and we’ll have transgender people in our program going forward,” the group's CEO, Roger Krone, said. www.advocate.com/politics/nat...

The National Science Foundation is systematically being converted to the National AI and Quantum Research Foundation. “I see it as the administration exerting political control over what has traditionally been NSF’s ability to fund the best science.”

National Science Board meeting starts in 20 mins—I'll try to follow along and do some live coverage. Open session will discuss merit review and changes to agency management/decision-making.

PhD student Ali Mohamed has a new preprint w/ results from our cruise on the Langseth back in 2023. Here we connect the northern and southern U.S. Atlantic margins w/ a stratigraphic framework extending back to the Oligocene in a previously data-sparse area. doi.org/10.22541/ess...

btw if Canada wants to retaliate by burning the White House down again that's fine