Katerina Petronotis
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Geoscientist, Manager of Science Operations (retired) at IODP/TAMU
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Mark Hamill
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Thanks GlobalTV Canada! 🇨🇦
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Timothy Burke
7 days ago
The full spiked 60 Minutes CECOT package, clean & subtitled. 1/5
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Ben Williamson
10 days ago
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...
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Heather Cox Richardson (TDPR)
14 days ago
Well, THIS seems like a good use of taxpayer money! /s
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Andrew Dessler
19 days ago
🚨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...
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Celeste Labedz
23 days ago
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...
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BREAKING: ‘This hurts’: UNL eliminates 4 programs despite faculty, student pleas
The University of Nebraska-Lincoln eliminates the Earth and atmospheric sciences 8-0, educational administration 7-1, statistics 7-1, textiles, merchandising and fashion design 7-1 programs.
https://www.dailynebraskan.com/news/administration/breaking-this-hurts-unl-eliminates-4-programs-despite-faculty-student-pleas/article_e0d11a61-0fcc-4e66-b364-d16e89bea336.html
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Zack Labe
26 days ago
#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...
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about 1 month ago
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 👇
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Emily Estes
about 1 month ago
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...
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A geological carbon cycle sink hosted by ocean crust talus breccias - Nature Geoscience
Mass-wasting deposits that accumulated against mid-ocean ridge faults have high porosity in which calcium carbonate precipitated, storing seawater carbon dioxide, as revealed by cores of a 61-million-...
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41561-025-01839-5
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Dr. Thomas Ronge
about 1 month ago
@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
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Scientific Ocean Drilling
Making fundamental contributions to our understanding of the Earth.
https://sod.tamu.edu
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Dr. Thomas Ronge
about 2 months ago
And we’re up and running. First Antarctic cores have been CT scanned! The GCR has truly become a world-class core analysis facility!
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Fumihiko Ikegami
about 2 months ago
The underwater seismometer network is so great, as evidenced from yesterday's EQ off-Tohoku. Reposting unofficial visualization by
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Dr. Thomas Ronge
about 2 months ago
Looks like the Gulf Coast Repository
@tamu.bsky.social
is getting a new "toy" today. So exciting, can't wait to see it up and running!
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Dr. Nina Davtian (she/her/hers)
about 2 months ago
My co-authored marine GDGT « cookbook » review paper led by Peter Bijl 👨🔬 and
@kasiasliwinska.bsky.social
👩🔬 is now published in
@egubg.bsky.social
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doi.org/10.5194/bg-2...
Again, I am so happy to be the
@cerege.bsky.social
@climatecerege.bsky.social
expert on
#GDGTs
!
@egu.eu
🧪 ⚒️ 🌊
#PaleoSky
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I heard it’s headed to Turkey to be scrapped. RIP
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George Takei
2 months ago
Hear, hear!
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Zack Labe
3 months ago
#Arctic
air temperature rank by month over the satellite era - now updated through September 2025... + Ranks: 1=warmest (red), 46/47=coldest (blue) + Download higher resolution version:
zacklabe.com/arctic-tempe...
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Jeff Tiedrich
4 months ago
it shouldn't be easier to get a gun in America than the covid vaccine
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NPR
4 months ago
Delays and increased screenings for visas mean that many students didn't make it to campus on time – and that has some big implications for the economy.
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Colleges see significant drop in international students as fall semester begins
Delays and increased screenings for visas mean that many students didn't make it to campus on time – and that has some big implications for the economy.
https://n.pr/4fVJdK1
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Dr. Thomas Ronge
4 months ago
🚨Job alert Want to know what’s behind these doors? TAMU’s Gulf Coast Repository is looking for a Curatorial Specialist to support the GCR on shore & who will be sailing on expeditions operated by the Scientific Ocean Drilling Coordinating Office (SODCO).
tamus.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/System-wide_...
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Dr. Thomas Ronge
4 months ago
The article made the cover of GRL, celebrating the now-retired JOIDES Resolution. Floating in the pitch-black Aegean Sea, the JR was an island of light and color.
agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10....
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NPR
5 months ago
Americans love olive oil — and import 95% of it. But tariffs are making it harder for Europeans to sell it to Americans.
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This Tuscan startup sold all its olive oil in the U.S. Then came Trump's tariffs
Americans love olive oil — and import 95% of it. But tariffs are making it harder for Europeans to sell it to Americans.
https://n.pr/45BmW0s
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Mueller, She Wrote
5 months ago
This message is powerful.
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Andrew Dessler
5 months ago
Austin is on the way out as TX most desirable city! Many of the rich and famous are instead moving to Bryan, TX. Elizabeth Holmes moved first, and she has convinced other rich people like Ghislaine Maxwell to join her here.
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EarthScope Consortium
6 months ago
Watch the seismic waves from today's magnitude 7.3 Alaska earthquake ripple across seismic stations in North America. More ➡️
loom.ly/kaJp5I0
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Tyler Norris
6 months ago
Mass layoffs in the US power sector begin following the Big Beautiful Bill: -20% RIF yesterday at New Leaf Energy -15% RIF today at Pine Gate Renewables -Enel suggesting potential exit from US renewable market More likely to come, along with project delays and cancellations
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Melissa Jo Peltier
6 months ago
These people are literally cult members.
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Andrew Dessler
6 months ago
This is great, Marshall. Thanks for posting it.
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George Takei
6 months ago
When history marks the point where we lost the future to China, this will be it.
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Paul Voosen
6 months ago
Japan has managed a huge accomplishment: fully covering the offshore parts of their subduction zones, which generate massive earthquakes and tsunamis, with more than 200 fiber-connected geophysical stations -- at a cost of hundreds of millions of dollars. Nothing else in the world can compare.
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Japan’s new seafloor monitors could reveal how ‘slow slip’ earthquakes turn into big ones
Network could add 20 minutes of tsunami warning at dangerous Nankai Trough
https://www.science.org/content/article/japan-s-new-seafloor-monitors-could-reveal-how-slow-slip-earthquakes-turn-big-ones
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NPR
6 months ago
The Metals Company is applying for permission from the Trump administration to mine for nickel and cobalt beneath a remote patch of the Pacific Ocean. Other countries say the minerals aren't America's to mine.
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This company wants to be the first to mine the ocean floor, with Trump's help
The Metals Company is applying for permission from the Trump administration to mine for nickel and cobalt beneath a remote patch of the Pacific Ocean. Other countries say the minerals aren't America's to mine.
https://n.pr/44rR9xe
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Dr. Thomas Ronge
6 months ago
🚨Check out our latest publication on Low Heat Flow in the Anhydros Basin, indicating that there are no magma bodies within the crust in the northwestern part of the basin. 📸JR drilling off Anydros Island
agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/...
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Robert Rohde
6 months ago
The proposed NOAA budget for 2026 contains the literal line: Total, Climate Research: $0
www.commerce.gov/sites/defaul...
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Robert Rohde
6 months ago
Proposed NOAA budget zeros out ALL climate laboratories and cooperative institutions. GFDL, NSSL, GML, etc. This appears to also end the US greenhouse gas sampling network, including at Mauna Loa, the oldest continuous carbon dioxide monitoring site on Earth.
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Andrew Dessler
6 months ago
How renewables save Texans enormous amounts of money. The buildout of solar in TX reduced the wholesale price of energy by 50%.
#energysky
open.substack.com/pub/theclima...
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How renewables are saving Texans billions
A dive into ERCOT data reveals how solar energy is driving down electricity costs for Texas
https://open.substack.com/pub/theclimatebrink/p/how-renewables-are-saving-texans
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Katharine Hayhoe
6 months ago
Tomorrow! Get your stripes here 
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Dr. Or M. Bialik |📚|🔬|🌊|⚒️
6 months ago
I don't want to say this was completely unexpected, because this is something changes in ice coverage can affect, but increasing seismic hazards is not the first impact of climate change that comes to mind. 🧪 Link:
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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The Tennessee Holler
6 months ago
“A horrible display of waste… rotting fruits and vegetables… store after store closed… if the ice raids continue be ready for even bigger sticker shock when you go grocery shopping…” 🍎 🥕
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Zack Labe
7 months ago
What a hot mess. Climate change dashboard updated through last month:
zacklabe.com/climate-chan...
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Prof Sam Illingworth
7 months ago
🌧️ A climate shift changed Southern Africa’s rain New research shows that 1 million years ago, a shift in ocean winds changed Southern Africa’s rainfall patterns. This ancient change could help us understand future water risks from climate change. 🔗
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
#SciComm
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Southern Hemisphere subtropical front impacts on Southern African hydroclimate across the Mid-Pleistocene Transition - Nature Communications
Leaf wax isotopes and climate modeling show that Southern African rainfall and vegetation zones shifted in response to a stronger Meridional Temperature Gradient during the Mid-Pleistocene Transition.
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-025-58792-5
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Dr. Lucky Tran
7 months ago
South Florida meteorologist
@johnmoralestv.bsky.social
told his viewers live on air that he can no longer accurately predict hurricane season, due to federal government cuts.
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Donna Ladd said what she said. 😘
7 months ago
Watch every fcking second
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Jason Koebler
7 months ago
Scoop: Texas police used Flock's license plate cameras to search *nationwide* for a woman who had a self-managed abortion. Claim it was "about her safety"
www.404media.co/a-texas-cop-...
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A Texas Cop Searched License Plate Cameras Nationwide for a Woman Who Got an Abortion
The sheriff said the woman self-administered the abortion and her family were concerned for her safety, so authorities searched through Flock cameras. Experts are still concerned that a cop in a state...
https://www.404media.co/a-texas-cop-searched-license-plate-cameras-nationwide-for-a-woman-who-got-an-abortion/
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Don Moynihan
7 months ago
*International students represent about 15% of all higher ed students. *They subsidize US students, so expect domestic student costs to increase *Trump complains about tariffs but he is destroying an industry where the US is a huge net exporter
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/23/u...
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Shel Winkley
7 months ago
It's not just the heat. It certainly is the humidity. And it most definitely is the low temperatures that are a blinking sign that something has changed. Let's talk sweaty mornings & detail how science (we) know climate change has played a role ⤵️
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The not-so-low lows...
Climate Change is making our warm mornings not only more likely, but record breaking
https://open.substack.com/pub/shelwinkleywx/p/the-not-so-low-lows?r=3ciu4s&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true
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Katharina Hochmuth
7 months ago
Very proud of my
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#Exp395
. We are looking at the onset of deepwater formation in the North Atlantic and its relation to Greenland‘s ice sheet. ⚒️🧪⛰️🪨🚢🧊
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Onset of strong Iceland-Scotland overflow water 3.6 million years ago - Nature Communications
This study examines the history of North Atlantic deep-water masses, as recorded in marine sediments. Major lithological changes and increased rate of deposition reveal that stronger deep-ocean circul...
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-025-59265-5
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Michael E. Mann
7 months ago
Given that the economics of this will price oil & gas out of the market (relative to renewables), this amounts--effectively-- to a sunsetting of oil & gas production by EU:
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Dr. Diaz Eaton up to Good Trouble
7 months ago
NSF just released a public list of terminated awards. It’s linked on the bottom of the FAQ page at:
nsf.gov/updates-on-priorities#termination-list
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Updates on NSF Priorities
https://nsf.gov/updates-on-priorities#termination-list
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Melaine Le Roy
7 months ago
Update of the situation at the Klein Nesthorn landslide above Blatten 🏔️ 2M m3 have broken off and 3M are unstable! 😰 'The pressure on the glacier is increasing and there are concerns that it could collapse, as it has accelerated by 0.5 to 0.8 metres per day' (Matthias Ebener) 🧊🌊 📷 Pomona
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Dr. Thomas Ronge
7 months ago
🚨Publication Alert on "The FUTURE of the US Marine Seafloor and Subseafloor Sampling Capabilities"
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