If you're interested in the geology & tectonics of the Alaskan and Northern Canadian Cordilleras (who wouldn't be??), consider submitting to our AGU session. Invited speakers are Katie Biegel (UC Davis) and Will Levandowski (TetraTech). Abstract deadline August 5. ⚒️🧪🏔️ agu.confex.com/agu/agu26/pr...

The Trump administration has sought to delegitimize the accomplishments—and the very presence—of Black people in the military, Clint Smith wrote in our July issue.

Geologist Reunited With Beloved Rock He Studied 20 Years Ago https://theonion.com/geologist-reunited-with-beloved-rock-he-studied-20-years-ago/

How President Trump and Utah leaders lied and misled on Bears Ears and Grand Staircase open.substack.com/pub/westwise...

So years ago, the government started investigating a Korean company for dumping aluminum in the U.S. at below-market prices. Then the company started cozying up to Trump. It inked wine deal with Trump. *It paid Trump $2M.* And poof, the investigation ended. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/14/u...

Never in the history of the American Republic has a sitting president put his name & face on government buildings, property, military weapons & instruments. It’s what kings & autocrats do - no US president ever has until now, enabled by Republican toadies, sycophants & cultists.

Sigh

Friends, we need your help—a 🧵 The White House Office of Management and Budget, led by Project 2025's Russell Vought, wants to destroy how U.S. science has been done since World War II. This @arstechnica.com article is a great primer (apologies for the thumbnail): arstechnica.com/science/2026...

Williams makes clear in a footnote that she lacks the power to prevent DOJ and Trump from entering into a private deal, but all that means is that DOJ could try to just do a brazen giveaway of 1.6B to insurrectionists and 100M amnesty to Trump in exchange for nothing. Just raw raid of public money.

ICE does not deny that it's pressuring key eyewitnesses to the shooting of Lorenzo Araujo to agree to deportation without a court hearing, and instead offers no responsive comment at all.

Guys I can’t keep doing this independently. I need a job. If you know of a place—advocacy, OSINT org, think tank, left media, etc—where I could take this work in-house, pls let me know. I admire the folks making independent work for them, but I am collapsing under the weight and the lack of impact.

Suspecting AI cheating, Ivy League prof ordered an in-person final; scores fell 50% arstechnica.com/ai/2026/07/w...

Reminding everyone of this

There's absolutely nothing politically radical about believing that people should be able to access food, shelter, and safety solely by virtue of existing on this planet. That's not radical that's a minimum

We will have a 23 month research associate role opening to support our work on mammal fossils from the Isle of Skye. Open to candidates with substantial CT-segmentation experience with Masters or PhD qualifications. Advert should be out next week - will post soon but do get in touch if of interest.

When I said JD Vance’s racist lies about Haitians in Springfield, Ohio sounded like inciting a pogrom, that isn’t a word I use lightly.

Freedom fuel is sunshine that flows through solar panels and into an EV. It's literally free, every time.

I know it's a good day when I spell "necessary" or its offshoots properly on the first try...twice! Can only go down hill from here.

The Dallas Fed study didn't say that 'unauthorized immigration' caused housing prices to rise 30%, or rents to rise 20%. It said that 30% OF the rise in housing might be attributed to immigration. Same for 20% OF the rise in rents. The actual rise is small. 3/ www.dallasfed.org/~/media/docu...

OU Paleontologists Make "One in a Million" Discovery of Soft Tissue Preserved in 450-Million-Year-Old Fossil 🧪

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The justices that upheld birthright citizenship in 1898 were racist men in a racist era who still could not avoid the plain text of the Constitution. What changed between is that the GOP now sees multiracial democracy as a threat rather than an ideal or aspiration www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

#MicroSky Please share with your network: We have a 4-year PhD position open at the Natural Resources Institute Finland. Come work with me and my team in deep peat in Pallas, Lapland. Mountains, swamps and microbes, what more could you ask for? 🦠

at any given time theres a grand sum total of about a couple dozen trans kids playing hs sports spread out across a nation of 350 million. this is what weve been spending years arguing about. a few dozen kids theyll never meet

Birthright citizenship remains constitutionally protected by the 14th Amendment. But today we learned that U.S. constitutional guarantees — even the "right to have rights" — can be one vote away from being nullified via executive order, if enough justices agree with a fringe legal theory.

What in the actual hell?

On our way up to Lost Lake (then down with mom's bag and a new watercolor painting inside) near Cottonwood Pass (Colorado) on our last full day in Salida. No Utah smoke that day, Friday 6/26. It was especially hazy on Wednesday when we rafted the Arkansas with a very low ~350 cfs.

The Slaughter case, overturning precedent, returns us to a spoils system where a president can “clean house” every four years, destroying our professional, independent civil service.

@bsky.app #MolluscMonday External moulds of the Jurassic gastropod Aptyxiella portlandica in Portland Stone cladding a bridge at Kingston-upon-Thames.

Effectively declares that the Constitutional Convention, the Federalist Papers, Washington, Adams, other presidents, centuries of jurisprudence, and many others were wrong about the presidency, and that the only ones who ever understood it correctly were Richard Nixon, Donald Trump, and their fans.

this is absolutely wild. where does roberts think these agencies come from?!? who invested them with authority to act? whose mandate are they designed to execute? the president is the chief EXECUTive. his job is executing the will of Congress as it spells out in its duly-passed laws!

There's no sugar-coating Slaughter. It's an enormously important ruling (far more important than the other three decisions #SCOTUS handed down today). It's a huge win for Trump/the executive. And it's going to have massive ramifications for the functioning of the government long after Trump is gone.

Come home to find AC not quite working. In the summer. In Oklahoma. Call multiple local AC companies only to find they use AI on the weekends. With the subtle use of background noise. I am probably behind-the-times and hopelessly naive, but that was f-ing annoying.

As someone who does a lot of consulting work: I DO NOT WANT TO BE INVOLVED IN OFFICE POLITICS. Worse when it involves possible micromanagement that is going to make life worse.

Does he understand that passports are given to Americans who go to other countries, not to people visiting the US?

For years, the anti-immigrant go-to line was that they were anti *illegal* immigration, because they believed in rule of law and had compassion for immigrants who "did it the right way." Now, from the White House and Supreme Court on down, it's openly anti-rule-of-law and anti-nonwhite-immigration.

Hey everyone! I just posted 22 new volcano tissue box covers in my Etsy store. They are lidar (or radar)-derived scale models of actual volcanoes that I art-ified. Lots of cool colors in this batch that include Etna, Olympus Mons, and cascade favorites. They sell FAST. phaneritic.etsy.com

Pro-tip for aspiring postdocs - please do not, under any circumstances, use chatGPT (or similar) to write a research proposal to give to a prospective supervisor, especially one who is very familiar with the literature and knows when citations are hallucinated.

President Donald Trump’s family crypto business is expected to soon be allowed to operate like a bank — a decision that would give U.S. companies a new route to steer money to the president. www.notus.org/economy/trum...

New paper! Led by Madeleine Stow on “Rhenium isotopes reveal #enhanced rock organic #carbon oxidation over the Toarcian Oceanic Anoxic Event” ⚒️🧪🥼🛘 A thread … 1/n @oxfordgeography.bsky.social @oxuniearthsci.bsky.social @durhamearthsci.bsky.social @ukri.org www.nature.com/articles/s41...

I know it's easy to go "leopard's eating faces" but it's very, very bad if the dominant party in a growing, increasingly diverse state is getting this openly fascist.

Position Alert! Come be a Curator of Crustacea at the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History. trustcareers.si.edu/en/postings/...

i really, truly, find this offensive

🚨Funding for 2yr postdoc w/ me & @geocron.bsky.social on landslide-tsunami-jökulhlaup project, but (this is the ridiculous part) I need to select someone NOW or I lose the $. If you're NOT in Canada (can be any nationality) and interested, send me your CV and transcripts by midnight MT, June 12. 🧪⚒️

Some of us - actual Geology programs- are trying to do this here in the USA.. just need funding - to support the teaching & learning, infrastructure, and of course ideally student support.. catalog.k-state.edu/preview_prog... 🧪⚒️

There's still time to apply! University of Nebraska State Museum is searching for a Collection Manager for one of the most important Paleontology Collections in North America. Come join us and work with nice people and incredible fossils. Please apply! employment.unl.edu/postings/100...

⚒️ I’m amazed by the totally fossilised whale bones just lying on the surface! A total decoupling of mineralisation from sedimentation (because the sedimentation rate is so low)!

Quiet part out loud

"There are" that's it