People should do check in's with themselves about what things they are not saying or doing because they are afraid of conservative backlash, including threats and bombardment You need to pay attention to how you are being worked on and how fear is being used to govern you

We'll be live in an hour! Stop by for some great flash talks, Zoom link in QR code and alt text below ⚒️🪐🧪🧑‍🔬

#30DayMapChallenge Day 2: Lines Faults are a gimme, so I went down a rabbit hole masking a raster with the state polygon and learned about non-exportable objects in R. Code included! ⚒️ saslaw.github.io/posts/MapCha...

I'm tagging myself in to #30DayMapChallenge with a map of all active @iaeaorg.bsky.social Global Network of Isotopes in Precipitation stations (Day 1: Points). I'll be posting these in blog form on my web site here: saslaw.github.io/posts.html Let's see how many of these I make 🗺️⚒️

Please join us this weekend on Zoom for the First International Symposium of Nonbinary Scientists! I'm excited to host a session for Earth, Environmental, and Atmospheric Sciences ⚒️🧪Zoom link in alt text!

this headline hums with ancient autumnal dread

feels like as good a day as any to share an excerpt from my dissertation acknowledgements 🧪⚒️

The entire "free speech on campus" moral panic was manufactured to blackmail us into making space in intellectual life for bigots and charlatans who couldn't get there on their own merits. Its a DEI scheme for fascism. Congratulations to everyone who took it at face value.

this came to me mid lit review 🧪

remakes of horror movies where the protagonists make good decisions and go home before the scary parts happen

For God's sake we all know postdocs aren't real, stop trying to scare PhD students with superstitious nonsense.

Happy Anatomically Incorrect Invertebrate season to all who celebrate

This plate of crinoids is from Crawfordsville, Indiana. The Mississippian aged Edwardsville Fm. has tremendous density and diversity. There are over 85 crinoid species found here, often tangled together. #FossilFriday

HJ Andrews Experimental Forest was where I had one of my first field trips as an undergrad at Portland State! One of my classmates found chantrelles and we ate them! Here's a 35mm pic of a stream there taken on my Olympus XA

A momentous occasion: 'Java Man' is going back to Indonesia, along with more than 28,000 other fossils that Dutch scientist Eugène Dubois collected during the colonial era. My story: www.science.org/content/arti...

This moment from our latest episode with science writer @edyong209.bsky.social is 🔥 We asked Ed — how do we talk up the benefits of science in the face of government cuts? He told us that's the wrong approach. 🧪 Listen wherever, or watch on Spotify 👇 open.spotify.com/episode/7Evh...

No. It is always ethically indefensible to use this stuff in any way. It lines the pockets of billionaires, steals from other artists, ravages the environment, guts creative fields, and stunts your own development. bsky.app/profile/iqlo...

Important: Today is the day to vote for 128 GRAZER, an icon, a queen 🐻👑 explore.org/fat-bear-week

GUESS WHAT WEEK IT IS

Has anyone written an R package or script with plottable data for all the Milankovitch curves? Wouldn't that be so convenient ⚒️🧪

ALRIGHT! Version 1 of the fall zine is ready for ya. For your reading enjoyment, Everything Sucks! Full Zine (for digital reading) here: drive.google.com/file/d/1cYXF... Print-and-fold version coming soon, I need to test print it first and can't do that right now lol

A #ThinSectionThursday redux for #TeamCalcite ⚒️ CaCO3, among other carbonates, is both timelord *and* a thermometer, it records climate, and it sequesters CO2. Can you imagine a world without calcite? I'd prefer not to!

This is why you should never leave bits of the mantle laying around.

Talking Heads first identified submarine hydrogeology as a research area back in 1981. Get David Byrne as a co-PI on your next grant.

YES keep the form alive!! here's my contribution, a zine edition of my dissertation that was so much fun to make and give away

first year postdocs who haven’t been paid in three months can have little a back to school shopping, as a treat

Happy Friday to the Maryland State flag

Guys, come watch bears eating salmon explore.org/livecams/bro...

If anyone is interested in going to grad school in paleo, I run a workshop series that will walk you through the process. It’s through the Society of Vertebrate Paleontology and it’s free! DM me if interested.

Slightly diminish a band: The Treatment

hell yeah @williamfleitch.bsky.social

Never ask postdocs what they'll be doing next year, that's considered terribly offensive in their culture.

deeptime + ggstackplot have improved my figures so much! thank you R geoscience community ⚒️

So, are we as a community going to deal with NSF being used in this way or are we just going to kind of shrug?

I've decided to become an @obsidian.md guy in my postdoc and I've gotten as far as I can in several hours on my own, does anyone here use it with .qmd files AND R AND Zotero AND a nice task board? Please show me your ways 🙏🏻⚒️🧪

Most subjects: "You have to make up fun and creative assignments to get students to not LLM." Geology: *drops rock on table* "Explain rock!"

change log

If you're a trans or non-binary scientist, consider appearing on the podcast Assigned Scientist at Bachelor's, the only podcast dedicating to interviewing, and highlighting the research of, trans and non-binary scientists, cohosted by your truly!

A very happy 30th birthday to bisexuality, born this day in 1995 🎂

dissertation due in a week and it's still a real pain in the ass to write about climate records while clinging to my art school definition of "modern"

if you got one of them women that like rocks ... you better get them some rocks .... some of them resins... tie up some herbs and put it in one of those brown paper bags with the handle

reading about the late Oligocene today, shout out to these guys as always, maybe the only thing i miss about insta

I Can't Believe It's Not in the Texts from my Power Company: You can reduce the amount of energy your fridge uses by keeping more things in it! Fill all your water bottles! Put the booze in the freezer! Stay cool 🌡️

I increased the font size on my laptop/monitor and now I don't crane my neck forward as much, incredible stuff

You learn handy things from your friendly neighborhood Latin scholar.