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

Only one month left to apply for the SODCO undergrad internship at @tamu.bsky.social! Deadline is February 20th. sodco.org/opportunitie...

First 2026 issue @pnas.org features @khorikawa.bsky.social et al.'s work on deep marine sediment from #AmundsenSea. #Pliocene muds contain material from bedrock sources as far inland as #EllsworthWhitmore Mountains: a sign of major #WAIS retreat & #glacial- #deglacial switching ow.ly/wHeq50XTv2n

Intercepted mail.... A former student sent this email to the provost and president and cc:ed one of our members:

⚒️ Article: The West Antarctic Ice Sheet responded to different natural forcing mechanisms than the East Antarctic Ice Sheet through the mid-Pliocene due to a greater sensitivity to oceanic feedbacks @harpurcollege.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Seit Mitte Dezember ist ein internationales Forschungsteam unter Leitung GEOMAR mit der METEOR unterwegs, um neue Erkenntnisse über das Vulkansystem vor Santorini zu gewinnen. ✏️ Auf Oceanblogs.org berichten sie über ihre Forschung und das Leben an Bord. Schaut vorbei: www.oceanblogs.org/m215/

www.nature.com/articles/s41... @bjerknes.uib.no @marumunibremen.bsky.social @unibremen.bsky.social

From an email to one of our faculty members.... Not even Plato can escape censorship at Texas A&M!

New Year, New Us. Looks like our new Scientific Ocean Drilling branding is up. You can still find us at our usual spot on @tamu.bsky.social’s West Campus.

Let's break the Internet with this today.....

Thanks GlobalTV Canada! 🇨🇦

The full spiked 60 Minutes CECOT package, clean & subtitled. 1/5

Closing out my year with a journal editor shocker 🧵 Checking new manuscripts today I reviewed a paper attributing 2 papers to me I did not write. A daft thing for an author to do of course. But intrigued I web searched up one of the titles and that's when it got real weird...

Well, THIS seems like a good use of taxpayer money! /s

🚨Workshop alert🚨 High and Ultra-high Resolution Modeling of the Earth System April 13-15, 2026, in College Station TX. sites.google.com/tamu.edu/tam...

It's over. Despite the fact that the academic council recommended against it, despite the fact that the program brought in more tuition than it cost, and despite the fact that Nebraskans need & deserve this expertise, Earth & Atmospheric Sciences will be cut. www.dailynebraskan.com/news/adminis...

#Arctic air temperature rank by month over the satellite era - now updated through November 2025... + Ranks: 1=warmest (red), 46/47=coldest (blue) + Download higher resolution version: zacklabe.com/arctic-tempe...

On the behalf of the Organizing Committee, I am thrilled to announce that the 2nd Submarine Volcanism Workshop will be held on 19–22 October 2026 in Santorini, Greece, and online 🌊🌋 📣 Interested in participating? Please sign up here: lnkd.in/e4-nfpAK 🔎 More information provided in the flyer below 👇

New publication!! Featuring some of the most gorgeous rocks I’ve ever cored, tremendous work by an international, interdisciplinary team, and interesting implications for marine CDR. Article: www.nature.com/articles/s41... News & views: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

@tamu.bsky.social's new Scientific Ocean Drilling website just went online! Your hub to all things repository, sample requests, SOD reports, news, expeditions... sod.tamu.edu

And we’re up and running. First Antarctic cores have been CT scanned! The GCR has truly become a world-class core analysis facility!

The underwater seismometer network is so great, as evidenced from yesterday's EQ off-Tohoku. Reposting unofficial visualization by x.com/kotoho76/sta...