From February: “Those people should be given every opportunity to seek the relief they’re eligible for. Why are we creating rules or laws, then not giving people the opportunity to use them?”

RIP Joides Resolution. Thanks for the holes (and sediment from them!)

If you owe a woman $5 million for sexual assault, you also owe the country your resignation.

We are pleased to announce that the Dept of Earth & Environmental Geosciences @colgate.edu is hiring a tenure-stream asst professor in paleoclimate! For additional info regarding the position & to apply: apply.interfolio.com/188708 . Please share broadly & contact us with your questions. Thank you!

Really important article from @drjudystone.bsky.social, describing some of the very serious problems with the proposed OMB rule that would put political appointees in charge of federal grant funding.

What these shitbirds do not care about is that a healthy population does, in fact, yield financial benefits to society as a whole. But not enough of it will go to their crooked friends, so this is their solution, at the expense of everyone else. Our taxes are going to further enrich rich men.

More terrible news for science in the US: NSF slashing physical sciences funding by 30% and halting all pending awards — www.science.org/content/arti... 🧪 🔭 ⚛️

"Because faculty no longer control the curriculum, Texas A&M is quickly becoming an institution of dead dogmas." - Martin Peterson His full resignation letter below. Hear from him directly at our next Resistance Salon - June 24 @ 12pm ET. Register 👇 www.resistancestudiesseries.com/salon

⚒️ Article: The burial of terrestrially-derived organic carbon in coastal marine sediments greatly increased during the Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum @climategordon.bsky.social @sotonoceanearth.bsky.social @unisouthampton.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s41...

🚨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. 🧪⚒️

NEW: In 2022, Bitcoin miners promised Corpus Christi millions in tax revenues in exchange for the de-annexation of their water-sucking cryptomine. Four years later, the city is in a water crisis & the mine has yielded only a minute fraction of what was promised. www.texasobserver.org/corpus-chris...

Heck yeah, of course I did this! I let them know I didn't want a triumphal arch that commemorates no victories and means nothing other than to stroke the ego of a man-child playing with his toy city. @hcrichardson.bsky.social, perhaps folks who follow you might also want to chime in? Closes 6/15.

IODP Exp 372/375 paper alert: New Insights Into Hikurangi Subduction Inputs and Megathrust Host Rocks Spanning Along-Margin Changes in Fault Slip Behavior by Barnes et al. doi.org/10.1029/2025...

Callum Pearman, Chia-Yu Tien, Nicky White, @johnmaclennan.bsky.social, Bramley Murton, Sally Gibson, Jason Day, @rosspt.bsky.social and the #IODP #Exp395 Science Team on dramatic changes in plume-ridge interaction in the North Atlantic over the past 55 Ma and resulting impacts on seafloor spreading:

Thrilled to see @eirinipoulaki.bsky.social’s paper on granites drilled during IODP exp 402 out! Granites are normally found in continental crust, but their association with mantle rocks underneath the Mediterranean gave insight into faulting during ocean basin formation. share.google/rHyrf41YBNy4...

#WeekendReading: Burke et al., on oxygen deficiency in the Atlantic during the Miocene. We're slowly building a nice global picture of the oxygen minimum zones through that period, and their relations to planetary temperatures. 🧪🌊⚒️ Link: ​https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-026-73732-7

There’s been a lot of talk in this race about what makes a "real man." A man does what’s right when no one is watching. He upholds his commitments to his family and neighbors. He doesn’t lie, cheat, & steal his way through life. Real men serve others. Weak men serve themselves.

Fascinating results from #IODP #Exp400 recently published by Jiliang Wang (王吉亮), Andrew M. W. Newton, Mads Huuse, David R. Cox, Lara F. Perez & Paul C. Knutz @ecord.bsky.social @us-sciod.bsky.social @anzic.bsky.social

This week, the 2026 Teacher/Research and Curriculum Experience (TRACX), a step-child of the long-running School of Rock, is taking place at the Gulf Coast Repository. Ten teachers and three researchers are teaming up to advance SciOD research while creating classroom resources.

This right here.

From our magazine: GOP legislators repeatedly insisted that “Texas Education Freedom Accounts” would be open to any and all types of private schools—of all creeds and persuasions. In predictable fashion, they haven't quite lived up to that promise.

Congress should make very clear that anyone participating in this has lost the ability to be in a position of public trust.

Of what use was the [23.5 years in the U.S. Senate]? www.texasobserver.org/ken-paxton-r... from @byjustinmiller.bsky.social

In case you’re wondering about the status of the start of melt season on the Greenland Ice Sheet, keep on wondering… #Arctic #Climate @zacklabe.com @ruthmottram.eurosky.social

In April, researchers from across Europe and beyond met in Granada for the IODP Expedition 401 post-cruise meeting. Scientists shared post-cruise research results, providing new insights on how the Atlantic and Mediterranean exchanged water during the Messinian Salinity Crisis. (cont. in thread)

So this happened today. My office, lab, husbands office, lab… students offices… not great. Tough times ahead

As a scientist, this is my worst nightmare. There are one-of-a-kind instruments that you spend your life perfecting. When they’re lost, no amount of time or money will bring them back. My thoughts are with @oceanandclimate.bsky.social @ashevenell.bsky.social and others @cmarinescience.bsky.social. 🥺

Fire is out at the USF St Petersburg College of Marine Science - happily nobody was injured, but it doesn’t look good for the building

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🚨Super excited to share our latest Exp403 publication. Our data from the Arctic Fram Strait highlight the importance that local tectonics and up-current geomorphology played in the buildup of an invaluable archive of past climate and ice-sheet dynamics. #NSFfunded doi.org/10.1130/G542...

Two volcanoes near the Greek island of Santorini may be linked, according to new research from Abigail Metcalfe of @ucauvergne.bsky.social (now at @bristoluni.bsky.social) & colleagues. Comments from Jens Karstens of @geomarkiel.bsky.social. eos.org/articles/tra...

Subscribe to the SODCO email list to receive news and opportunities related to scientific ocean drilling: eepurl.com/jwQ9TA This email list now sends the biweekly Scientific Ocean Drilling Community Update. Check out the latest one here: mailchi.mp/ldeo/sciod-community-update-mar11

"A carrier strike group is designed for blue-water power projection, not littoral escort through a corridor where a $500 contact mine can cripple a $4 billion destroyer." open.substack.com/pub/shanakaa...

A causal link between severe Covid or flu and lung cancer risk by impairing immunity and promoting inflammation, as shown in multiple murine models www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...

SODCO is hiring a Science Program Officer based at the Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory. If you’re a scientist with excellent organizational skills and excited to advance the next phase in U.S. scientific ocean drilling, check it out: academic.careers.columbia.edu#!/177103

🚨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

Dr. Martin Peterson delivers "The Lecture that Texas A&M Banned" on Wednesday, February 25! 530pm MSC Room 1400 Texas A&M University Come on out! docs.google.com/form...

Very proud of this one: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Happening tomorrow at 2pm! sodco.org/operational-...

New paper out in Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology: We used Cenozoic-spanning marine sediments to determine whether archived grain-size sorted sediments can be resurrected for biomarker analysis. Great to see my first piece of PhD work published, available #openaccess: doi.org/10.1029/2025...

Application deadline 𝘁𝗵𝗶𝘀 𝗙𝗿𝗶𝗱𝗮𝘆, February 20th! Details below 👇

If this is real, a bit alarming. Earth's magnetic field protects us from all sorts of cosmic nasties. Due to the way the magnetic fieds is generated, it sometimes reverses, weakening in the interim. This study shows that those reversals can be rather long. ⚒️🧪 Link: www.nature.com/articles/s43...

An essential next step. Spread the news!

🚨It's time to dust-off your shelved scientific ocean drilling proposals! To help science teams prepare for developing an NSF drilling proposal, our office (SODCO) will host a webinar to walk proponents through the operational planning process. Sign up here: columbiauniversity.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

🚨Job alert🚨 Want to work as a Chem Tech for @us-sciod.bsky.social at Texas A&M University? Then apply below! Responsibilities include prep lab containers for seagoing expeditions, mobilization/demobilization, sailing to operate instruments at sea... tamus.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/TAMU_Externa...

🚨The first paper from Exp403 to the Fram Strait is out. If you ever worked in the High Arctic, you know how hard it is to age-scale the sediments. Here we present an unprecedented record of key nannofossils in the region that will make this a bit easier. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

🚨Check out our new IODP paper on Kolumbo Volcano in Greece. Despite being one of Europe's most dangerous volcanoes not much is known about its eruptive history. The paper led by @abigaillily.bsky.social adds important insight into the Kolumbo-Santorini system pubs.geoscienceworld.org/gsa/geology/...

Excited that this paper, led by former PhD student Natalia Varela (based on her dissertation), is now out! We use the occurrence & characteristics of thin, silty turbidites from the Ross Sea to interpret Antarctic Bottom Water outflow since ~3.3 Ma. agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/...

Welcome to bsky US Scientific Ocean Drilling! @us-sciod.bsky.social