Glad to see all the work folks have put in to getting testate amoebae into @neotomadb.bsky.social is paying off! Great new paper about their use as paleoecological indicators: doi.org/10.1016/j.qu... #paleoecology

NEW - North Vancouver RCMP is investigating after an explosive device went off beside MLA Bowinn Ma’s office in North Vancouver-Lonsdale. NDP MLAs have been told to close their constituency offices today. #bcpoli

Are all dog’s teeth canines? How do dentanarians even know which tooth to work on?

Interesting bibliometric analysis of #palynology papers and NeotomaDB datasets noting that papers per year has peaked, but the number of international coauthorships has grown, suggesting that the field has reached a new stage of maturity journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.... @neotomadb.bsky.social

I had a fantastic week at the Karst Record #KR10 conference in Cape Town 🇿🇦. Sharing the joy of #speleomag and learning all about cave rocks science! Thanks @pickeringrobyn.bsky.social and the organisers ⭐️. 3 awards went to #unimelb students!

Many UK #peatlands are degraded due to historical drainage, reduced #biodiversity, #carbon and water storage. New findings show testate amoebae as #bioindicators for tracking habitat peatland and #restoration @yesiuoy.bsky.social @anthropocenebio.bsky.social authors.elsevier.com/c/1krTD8g13f...

My #bonsai app is reminding me it’s spring! Lots of work to do when I get home.

Excellent mid-week field trip to the West Coast Fossil Park today! The fossil beds are incredible, I had a lot of fun picking through sediment in their sieves for microfossils. Found a shrew tooth, which was pretty exciting! The short necked giraffe is a […] [Original post on fediscience.org]

Day 2 of the #KR10 field trip took us to three caves in the cradle. Sterkfontein (home of famous australopithecus' little foot and Mrs Ples), Coopers (we got to get into the deposit and look for fossils - SO MANY!) And Wonder - the biggest formations I've […] [Original post on fediscience.org]

Really exciting to see the SISAL and speleothem community working with @neotomadb.bsky.social to improve a whole-environment understanding of the past! #kr10 #paleoecology #paleoclimatology

Happy to see that our recent work has been featured in this article out now in @eos.org !!

🚨Job alert🚨 Ongoing hydrogeology position at #uwa, open to international applicants. https://internal.jobs.uwa.edu.au/en/job/519834/lecturer-hydrogeology #academicchatter #fedijobs #getfedihired

Great talk by @pickeringrobyn.bsky.social at #kr10 talking about issues of neo-colonialism in karst & speleothem research. Includes this cool paper looking at volcanology: doi.org/10.30909/vol... @pages-ipo.bsky.social

Super cool work on outreach at #kr10 go do a virtual cave tour in Thailand: www.geo.sc.chula.ac.th/virtual/klan... @pages-ipo.bsky.social

Just saw this really cool paper using paleoecological data to discuss conservation issues around settlement in Madagascar. Good pollen, great multiproxy #palaeoecology #paleoecology @neotomadb.bsky.social doi.org/10.1177/0959...

Hey, my friend is collecting data for her dissertation. Can y'all repost this and share with your networks that work with the youth? Thanks!

Will Signal ban their accounts for breaking the law? It's in the TOS after all.

Holy crap-o-saurus! This is really impressive! Amazing job!

Apologies for missing a couple talks by Silvia Frisia and Adam Hartland. Listening to Gang Xue now, talking about 14C in speleothems from dissolved and carbonate ages. Ages are consistently older than U-series dates because of old soil carbon pools. #kr10 @pages-ipo.bsky.social

Really cool stuff from @arachnocampa.bsky.social talking about sources of detrital Th into caves that can impact U-Th dating. The challenges of working in places where humans, tephra, coconut crabs and seismology exist (aka, everywhere).

Now @arachnocampa.bsky.social talking about dating difficult speleothems at #kr10. Nice to start the day off with geochronology! @pages-ipo.bsky.social

Now Christopher Kinsley talking about Curaçao stalagmites and the IBIS Bayesian approach for age-depth models in U-Th dating. Learning lots about how we need to modify our age modeling tables in @neotomadb.bsky.social! #kr10 @pages-ipo.bsky.social @pickeringrobyn.bsky.social

One thing I’ve already learned at #kr10 that really surprised me is that most work is done on stalagmites, because the interaction between flow-water and the cave atmosphere is a critical element in capturing the climate signal. I’ll have to learn more, but I think that’s the gist 😅

Cool talk by Denis Scholz about geochronology, laminae counting and Monte Carlo simulation. Now Georgina Luti talking about petrography and the dating of the Cradle of Humankind. #kr10 @pages-ipo.bsky.social @pickeringrobyn.bsky.social

Prof Mosa Moshabela, Vice Chancellor of the University of Cape Town reminding us the importance of this conference, and our studies for the real lived experiences of people, particularly as we face increasing climate pressures in our countries. #kr10

Apparently there’s also this little tidbit??

First day of #kr10 today! I'm presenting after lunch on the past few years of work done at ANSTO/UNSW, and what we're working on now. This is the first time ever that I've gotten to get my presentation done and dusted on day 1, I'm looing fwd to being able to relax and enjoy the rest of the week.

Excited to be representing @neotomadb.bsky.social at the #kr10 karst and speleothem meeting in Cape Town, South Africa! Looking forward to learning more about speleothems!

New essay out in EOS: The Valuable, Vulnerable, Long Tail of Earth Science Databases. eos.org/opinions/the... These data resources are essential to Earth system research and have enormous costs of replacement. With Andrea Thomer, @sjgoring.bsky.social, & Jessica Blois

New op ed estimating the replacement value of community curated data resources and "long tail" data they contain by me, Jack Williams, @sjgoring.bsky.social and Jessica Blois. We've been working on this for a while, and it now feels both timely and out of date: eos.org/opinions/the...

(And me, but it felt self serving to thank myself in a post I wrote…)

@geolatinas.bsky.social FYI :)

The Spanish language outreach @suzetteflantua.bsky.social @sarahivory.bsky.social and Alejandra Domic have been doing for Neotoma is really fantastic! Thanks :) (trying to find Alejandra's BlueSky account, sorry!)

Roberta Flack, the magnetic singer and pianist who was one of the most popular artists of the 1970s, died on Monday at 88. Flack was known for her majestic anthems like “Killing Me Softly” and “The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face.” nyti.ms/4h1KzSh

We're hiring! Concordia University (Montreal) has a position open in Synthetic Biology and Biomanufacturing. Looking for expertise in synthetic biology, bioengineering and bioprocessing with an applied focus on sustainability, food security, or human health: www.concordia.ca/artsci/about...

I had an REU position at Colorado State University in 1994 screening for genetic enhancers of the juvenile hormone analogue, methoprene, a WHO-approved mosquito control agent with extremely low toxicity. It set me on my path to PhD research on the developmental roles of the cancer gene Ras. :(

Just trying to focus on the future. Getting things ready for summer, planning on co-planting red winecap mushrooms in my garden. I inoculated these jars of rehydrated wheat berries and I’m going to plant the mycelia between rows of sunflowers in the back yard. Crossing my fingers!

UVA students are gathering outside the rotunda to protest a closed meeting of the board of visitors scheduled to discuss the fate of gender affirming care at UVA hospital

Just added @cesar-morales.bsky.social and @laurahmt.bsky.social to this starter pack in #palaeoecology go.bsky.app/5Z2LANk Do not hesitate to 1) follow these wonderful folks and 2) suggest more names!

This new lawsuit against the University of California for doing admissions without a race-conscious practices, and basically for having more Black and Latinx UC students than the plaintiffs like, is an extended project going back at least two decades. publicpedagogy.substack.com/p/the-latest...

#Ciencia en español! 🧪👩‍🔬⚒️ #CienciaÑ

NASA did a feature on me last year. It was up this weekend but now when you click on the link you get a 404 message.

New on Academe Blog: "DOE Announces Investigations of Five Campuses" by Jennifer Ruth. academeblog.org/2025/02/04/d...

Exciting to see more #paleoecology talks in #spanish by the LAPD & @neotomadb.bsky.social group! @geolatinas.bsky.social

Certainly curious who actually drew up this list. Someone who has never learned the difference between Type I and Type II errors obviously. How many AI/ML teams will get flagged for discussing how "Historically, models have been biased towards . . . "

Great to see these papers going up! Congratulations Simon! A new constituent database in @neotomadb.bsky.social, published in @codata-isc.bsky.social's Data Science Journal. Looking forward to more of these in the future! #FAIR #CARE #pollen @annikaherbert.bsky.social @anu-chl.bsky.social

Suddenly, out of nowhere, a declassified World War II-era CIA guide to sabotaging fascism in the workplace has become one of the most popular free ebooks on the internet: www.404media.co/declassified...

So happy to finally have a copy of this book in my hands today! The weight of the knowledge in this book is amazing to hold!! Preorder from @osupress.bsky.social and use code S25 for 20% off and free shipping with March delivery!

To be clear: this article is a free, public resource and you can do whatever you want with it (as long as you credit me). Print out 1000 copies and give them to community centers. Sell the zine in your bookstore. Send it to all of your relatives. You have my permission to distribute in any way.

A little late to the party, but this is amazing!