UMaine Earth and Climate Sciences grad students made a good showing at the spring Geology Society of Maine meeting today. Our M.S. student Ria Raval (middle) won the award for best presentation! Zander Roman (left) and Katie Westbrook also gave a great talk and a great poster, respectively.

Millennial-scale Atlantic overturning circulation led by the Southern Ocean www.nature.com/articles/s41... #jcampubs 🌊

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🚨New paper alert: Check out our new paper led by @gordonbromley.bsky.social on the timing of deglaciation of the Burren, western Ireland, in the Journal of Quaternary Science... 1/ onlinelibrary-wiley-com.wv-o-ursus-proxy02.ursus.maine.edu/doi/10.1002/...

On the way out from work, passing through the lobby of the Green Building at MIT. I was lucky enough to catch the Artemis launch on the big screen in the lobby. The lobby was packed with enthusiastic undergraduates. It took me back to when my elementary school used to cancel classes so we could all

Many of us don’t work directly in space science, but we were inspired to become scientists by NASA. Today was an inspirational day, and I hope Artemis II galvanizes the public to recognize the importance of having a strong science program for our identity, not to mention our security and prosperity.

Hasn’t it been about six years since this President told us that Covid would magically go away? History repeating, etc.

Spring is springing…

Here’s some positive science news: researchers at MIT have shown that messenger RNA can activate a biological pathway that triggers the immune system to attack tumors. news.mit.edu/2025/turning...

No Kings in Utqiaġvik (Barrow) Alaska!

1/ It's not just that unilaterally paying TSA agents is illegal. It's that Trump has now repeatedly undermined the core of the congressional power of the purse. He's not spending money that has been appropriated by law (impoundments) and he's spending money that has not been appropriated.

And so it begins, or at least the next chapter. As the reality of global climate disruption becomes increasingly impossible to ignore, even for MAGA, is the MAGA administration now starting to position solar geoengineering -- hacking the planet -- as the favored solution?

We had a ‘families dinner’ tonight (usually on Sunday, but we postponed b/c of snow). We made Samin Nosrat’s Joojeh kabob chicken and crispy rice. This is in honor of the Iranian people, especially Iranian women, who are caught in the crossfire.

It is the 43rd annual Maine Maple Sunday today! We visited Williams Family Farms in Clifton and got to see their impressive operation. We also undertook a thorough sampling of maple syrup varieties and candies! #mainemaplesunday #maplesyrup

We’re terrible stewards of our planet.

If we made the green energy transition this war would be unthinkable and these authoritarians wouldn’t be in power — not in the US, not in Iran, not in Saudi Arabia, not in Russia. Hydrocarbons are killing our freedom and just plain killing us.

Happy Pi Day, to all who celebrate. ❤️π

The 2026 National Science Foundation budget is $8.75 Billion.

Check out my PhD research, finally published! New polar bear research gives insight into human-animal encounters - News | University of Saskatchewan share.google/warmThD0d2YD...

I would like to interrupt your doomscrolling for an important announcement: This figure from Ellen Dymit et al., 2025, depicts the proportion of vertebrate prey in felid scat, recorded as a Proportion of Occurrence (PoO). 💩

Oil prices wouldn't be all over the news today if more of our economy was powered by local, secure renewable energy. This isn't an "energy crisis". It's a fossil fuel crisis. 44% of UK electricity came from renewables in 2025. More of that plus an electrified economy => no more oil shocks.

What can you do with all the sensors on your smartwatch? Here are some ideas to get you started. - Build a Wave Buoy - Measure Tidal Inundation - Deploy as a stream gauge - Classify road quality while bicycling and 10 additional projects below. www.tiniscientific.com/field-projects

Here we go…

This this this! Though I'd argue the Maduro regime is still the Maduro regime, too.

Well, I tried to introduce my 7-yr old to Star Wars (A New Hope) this evening. I was worried she would be startled by the violence, but thought she would be enthralled like I was as a kid. Nope - just bored. 😔 She liked Chewbacca, but that’s about it. Will try again in a few years.

1/9. In 2020 Iran did try to interfere with the presidential election.

“Many that live deserve death. And some that die deserve life. Can you give it to them? Then do not be too eager to deal out death in judgement. For even the very wise cannot see all ends.” - Gandalf’s advice to Frodo.

Just received the latest issue of Rolling Stone. 😢❤️

FFS. Stockdale - a Navy A-4 pilot - studied the Stoics at Stanford. He was later shot down and held for 7 years in North Vietnam. He credited his studies with helping him survive. He received the Medal of Honor in 1976. If all you know of him is from later life, look again

High temperatures over the ocean can cause more rain to fall over coastal communities, increasing the likelihood of flooding, property damage, and fatalities, according to new research in @natcomms.nature.com. 🧪🌊🌧️ eos.org/articles/mar...

My new Commentary on the disasterous decision to pull back from pollution controls that protect children from toxic mercury Also bad for climate, btw… www.yahoo.com/news/article...

With potential geophysical implications (I.e., understanding fault stick-slip cycles and earthquakes)… Great discussion with the author on CBC’s ‘As it Happens’. 🧪⚒️

A Boston Celtics ☘️ game inspired this study into the sneaker squeaks on the basketball court. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

👀🤯 The first ice-core record of historical atmospheric *hydrogen* levels back to 900 CE 🧪❄️ www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Anyone have a spare I can use to get around Rhode Island for the next few days?

Wow, they just upgraded the forecast from 1-2 feet to a runaway snow-albedo feedback and 60 million year-long low-latitude global glaciation

The U.S.'s decision to withdraw from global climate and environmental organizations and treaties will have ramifications far beyond the current administration. Add your name to our @aguscipolicy.bsky.social letter supporting global climate science: buff.ly/RURRhnt #OSM26

Ahoy there, LDEO alumni! Ellen Kappel and I are organizing an informal dinner Wednesday evening (Feb 25) at #OSM26. We’ll meet after the poster session (~6 PM GMT) near the ASLO/TOS booth. Restaurant TBD. All alumni are welcome! Please join us 🌊

So scared of knowledge. So scared of learning. So sad. Never forget. Knowledge is power. This….this.

Not really a thread guy but an interesting thing about the mountains around Cortina and throughout the Italian Alps is that they’re fundamentally shaped by global warming, only it happened 234 million years ago

Drafts! Finally!

Portland Maine 01/30/2026

Nevermind the jobs you had, tell me five classes you took in college… - Geology of Maine by Sea Kayak - Experimental Music - Buddhism - Scanning Electron Microscopy - Hula Dancing

Don Lemon speaks outside of the courtroom after release: "I have spent my entire life covering the news. I will not stop now ... I will not be silenced."

Iconic. youtu.be/hyPFxh_XXwY?...

Large mountain daisy (Celmisia semicordata, I think) blooming on the south facing slope of a moraine in Kā Tiritiri o te Moana/Southern Alps. I love the tough, silvery leaves of this plant.

The ocean freighting industry is woke now (the containers spell Renee, for Renee Good). www.reddit.com/r/Tacoma/com...

Absolute banger of a comment on r/military: www.reddit.com/r/Military/c...

Hope you all have ways of self care on days like this.