#Geoscience #JobAlert #PhD Join UW-Madison Geoscience! Our department is recruiting at the Assistant Professor level for someone who addresses problems related to the Energy Transition (expertise in critical minerals, economic geology, and/or decarbonization). jobs.wisc.edu/jobs/assista...

#NSF #GRFP is now excluding 2nd yr #gradstudents. This is a bad move! 2nd yr apps meant students could use the financial freedom to pivot research or advisors. I fear this will reinforce the pattern where a small n of institutions reap the largest % of awards each yr. www.nsf.gov/funding/oppo...

#Perovskite is an major component of brown dwarf stars, and condenses in the clouds to drop as rain. 🤯 Vote #perovskite below. Anyone can vote! Anyone can play and vote on their favorite minerals! #MinCup25 ⚒️ sci-fi 🧪 🖖🏼 scifi Geosciences #WomenInSTEM geology 🔭🪐

"A republic, if you can keep it" -- Benjamin Franklin

Canceling Jimmy Kimmel show is not about Charlie Kirk, just like going after universities was not about antisemitism and occupying DC was not about fighting crime.

In a blistering decision on Friday, a federal judge ruled that the Trump Administration and the OPM acted illegally when it fired tens of thousands of probationary federal employees at NOAA, NSF, and other agencies “for cause” in February. buff.ly/adxZ0IE

Madison friends! Save the date! I'll be joining my #PhD mentors, Annie Bauer + Tyler Blum, in conversation w/ Leah Evans, a local textile artist who we have been working with to produce a piece about geologic time for the #UWGeologyMuseum! #WIScienceFestival #ScienceArt wid.wisc.edu/event/crossr...

With just under eight hours to go, #Calcite has a slight lead over #Perovskite in #MinCup25 Round 1, Match 4. This is one of those matchups that could easily have been a Finals if they were on opposite sides of the bracket. As it is, someone’s going home early. www.mineralcup.org/2025/vote/r1...

Very useful work! Excited to read.

"To be effective, UREs should be thoughtfully designed to meet the needs of students who may otherwise miss out on career opportunities tied to networking and community-building." I love that this program took participant feedback seriously + implemented evidence-based lessons between 2 cohorts!

Reminder as we kick off the academic year that the Geoscience Education and Mentorship Support (GEMS) network is a GREAT resource for folks applying to #EarthScience and #Geoscience #GradSchool! I've been a #Mentor before and am doing it again! They have AWESOME resources! gems-program.org/resources

More than 85 scientists say that a recent U.S. Department of Energy report is full of errors and misrepresents climate science.

You want to see this new geologic map of the contiguous US that the USGS just released.

Let's goooo!

Geo pals, check out this very cool looking lab job!

My dear friend Sarah Trevino is starting a faculty position at SMU in the Department of Earth Sciences this fall, and their department is simultaneously hiring a X-ray/electron beam (EBSD/EDS/WDS/CL) lab manager who would work closely with her + others! Check it out: smu.taleo.net/careersectio...

“universities must stop treating Indigenous Knowledge as supplementary to ‘real knowledge’—this perpetuates white supremacy in science.”

NEW: Earth is the weirdest planet. Exhibit #491: Primeval matter imprisoned within the planet's innermost sanctum – a metallic iron-nickel core – is leaking up and out of the surface via volcanic eruptions. Um...excuse me? Me @quantamagazine.bsky.social www.quantamagazine.org/earths-core-...

Great piece from @mrillig.bsky.social on how lab dynamics change through time. "There is a lot written about starting a lab. And yes, this is a critical time, and it’s difficult... But we should not forget about the other stages of a lab’s life cycle." open.substack.com/pub/matthias...

A tsunami warning is in place in California as waves reach the West Coast six hours after an 8.8-magnitude earthquake near Russia. In Hawaii, there were reports of flooding on the Big Island but no reports of widespread damage. Follow for live updates: wapo.st/3GZi77V

Very cool! My favorite words from Aston: "the mass spectrometer behaves at times in the most capricious and unaccountable manner...after dismantling became imperative and it had to be rebuilt exactly as before as far as anyone could tell, no results of any value were obtained during weeks of work"

⚒️ Overnight there was an M8.8 #earthquake off the Kamchatka Peninsula, Russia Earthquake (160.2°E, 52.5°N), at a depth of 20.7 km, close to the Kamchatka Trench: a subduction zone boundary between the Kuril-Kamchatka and Pacific plates. The USGS PAGER alert level is RED Compiled info🧵follows:

Bacteria from a Yellowstone hot spring do something no other organism has been found to do: breathe oxygen and sulfur at the same time. 🧪 It's both aerobic and anaerobic, a beautiful freaky creature from a beautiful freaky place

We're back for a third season! And now with a new logo and 10 new episodes coming each week over the next few months. @volcaknowledge.bsky.social has just joined #BlueSky So please give a share and a follow to help us spread the good 🌋 word! Tomorrow we take you to country FULL of great geology!

“I don’t know if we’re living in climate denial anymore,” said Leah Aronowsky, a science historian at Columbia Climate School. “We have this new front of denial by erasure.” grist.org/language/tru...

Of course @mckinneykelsey.bsky.social says it better than I ever could: "all we are left with is the misery of tragedy, the shocking reminder that we all survive only upon the whims of the Earth and men, and the dreadful fear that mercy is in shorter supply every day." defector.com/the-floodwat...

Happy birthday to brilliant trailblazing US #geologist & prof Florence Bascom (1862-1945) 🧪🐡👩🏼‍🔬⚒️ #histsci who championed women’s education, & used polarizing microscopes for detailed petrographic analysis to show that rocks previously identified as sedimentary were in fact metamorphosed volcanic 🧵

Living this decline is exhausting. As academic staff, I ensure that investments in instrumentation are maximized for edu + research. Labs like ours will sit quiet w/o staff + leaders to capitalize on investments we've ALREADY MADE. Not to mention the generation(s) we're losing of future innovation.

🧪Thoughts from @aaberhe.com & 5 others in response to the current climate of distrust in science cen.acs.org/sponsored-co...

Why no flood sirens in Kerr County, Texas? “It was probably just, I hate to say the word priorities... Trying not to raise taxes.”

I spoke to @ninalakhani.bsky.social for this article and reading it was still a gut punch. The US’s gold-standard scientific funding system has been completely demolished. I genuinely don’t know what to do with what remains. And it’s going to get even worse under the new budget.

Hometown stripes. #ShowYourStripes showyourstripes.info/b/northameri...

Nice to get to talk to the New York Times @nytimes.com about funding challenges around publicly available precompetitive geoscience data acquisitions and geological mapping right when these data are more vital than ever for national and economic security: www.nytimes.com/2025/06/20/c...

Kudos to #SLEUThLab PI @drandreadutton.bsky.social + former UF PhD Karen Vyverberg for work on Last Interglacial (~129–116 ka) corals from the Seychelles. They identify FAST sea level oscillations + suggest polar ice sheets = MORE sensitive than we thought. #Climate www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Who knows what this feisty toddler will actually be passionate about when she grows up, but I couldn't help but smile at this smallest geoscientist t-shirt from our friends @txgeosciences.bsky.social. She may be a midwest baby, but our Texas roots run deep! #Texas #Hookem #Geology #Geoscience

I’ve worked in an all male science department for 10 years and in my experience, the men don’t even know they’re doing it. (This is not an excuse by the way, just an explanation of what I’ve observed.) Here’s what I have experienced and witnessed:

Every one of us should be demanding our institutions answer: when does it stop? What if we are told to stop providing financial aid to LGBTQIA+ students? To revoke tenure from Black faculty? To fire trans faculty? We know from history that compliance doesn't save what authoritarians want to destroy.

The NSF cuts are nothing short of a scorched-earth attack on US science, orchestrated w/political cynicism & total disregard for US scientific leadership. A 7% success rate doesn’t incentivize innovation; it tells researchers to take their talent elsewhere. nsf-gov-resources.nsf.gov/files/00-NSF...

Yes, because not studying something will clearly mean that it no longer exists!! Snark aside, #P4Climate has been key to a LOT of good #science + the careers of many critical thinkers + doers. The gap it leaves is one that will be painful for society, whether or not society recognizes it. #climate

Scientists fear it's dimming? It's not dimming, the "Beacon for Science" is being unscrewed, smashed to pieces with a brick, and then those glass shards are being rubbed into the face of the scientific community gleefully by the people running this country.

Major update to #SCIMaP visualization of impacts of cuts to federally supported health research. Map now includes information on future economic losses (impact of proposed reduction of NIH IDC to 15%) and current economic losses (impact of terminated NIH grants). scienceimpacts.org

Life is hard if you are a GNSS station on a volcano with lots of fumaroles – everything wants to corrode you. This station was part of a National Science Foundation funded project (details below). Under the FY2026 proposed budget, NSF Earth Science funding would take a 64% hit. #VolcanoMonday 🧪⚒️🌋

There are 2 previous historical cases of countries destroying their science and universities, crippling them for decades: Lysenkoism in the USSR and Nazi Germany. The Trump administration will be the 3rd. It's not just budgets but research, institutions, expertise, and training the next generation.

There’s so much happening right now, I thought I’d put together a running thread on the dismantling of #climate and research and knowledge infrastructure in the United States 🧵

The long inhabited island of Heimaey, Iceland increased in land area by 20% in 1973 when Eldfell volcano erupted and poured lava into Vestmannaeyjar, its only town. An historic effort to pump millions of liters of seawater onto the lava flow successfully slowed, diverted, even stopped it in places.

Hello everyone interested in Mineralogy, Crystallography, Petrology: The Mineralogical Society of America is now on Bluesky! Our website: msaweb.org.

Truly insane. "Hundreds of National Science Foundation staffers turned out this week for a group photograph to celebrate the besieged agency’s 75th anniversary—despite efforts by NSF officials to prevent the picture from being taken." www.science.org/content/arti...

Very cool geochemical insights into magmatic processes at the crust-mantle interface, drawn from high-resolution (in-real-time!) volcanic sampling from Iceland during the Fagradalsfjall Eruption in 2021! Great work @edmarshall.bsky.social and co-authors!

"The employee, who did not want to be named out of fear of retaliation for speaking to the media, said that the NSF's rigorous review process had been disassembled, and that political mandates had taken precedence over scientific merits when assessing proposals." www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

“We’re starting to see some of the worst-case scenarios play out almost in front of us. At current warming of 1.2C, sea level rise is accelerating at rates that, if they continue, would become almost unmanageable before the end of this century, [which is] within the lifetime of our young people.”