Things are pretty awful in the US right now, so I am trying to channel my nervous energy into creative and educational things... So I'm designing a new geoscience education game for my freshman class. It's a quick play card game about the geological timescale... Anyone want to play this semester?

So this happened... ❤️ Thank you so much to all the wonderful students, colleagues, and mentors, I would be lost without you all and the science wouldn't be anywhere near as fun! 💕

Last day of #gsaconnects2025, but there are lots of great posters and talks by our @txgeosciences.bsky.social team and Jamaican collaborators 🇯🇲

#gsaconnects2025 people, go check out some cool posters and talks this afternoon! Gabriel and Wilson both have cool posters incorporatibg machine learning with forams or ooids... I'll also be giving my talk about ooids and acidification this afternoon! @txgeosciences.bsky.social

If you're at GSA Connects today there are going to be some great talks & posters given by current & graduated @txgeosciences.bsky.social mentees, check them out!

Job Alert: UT Austin is hiring TWO Professors of Practice and Curators in Charge, one for the Vertebrate Paleontology Lab and another for the Non-vertebrate Paleontology Lab at the Jackson School of Geosciences Museum of Earth History. Apply here: apply.interfolio.com/175702 Review begins Oct. 27th

#Job Alert! UT Austin is opening applications for Assistant #Professor (tenure-track) or Associate Professor (tenured) in #Sedimentary #Geosciences Apply here - apply.interfolio.com/173688 or send your inquiries to @rowanmartindale.bsky.social #sedimentology, #stratigraphy, #paleoenvironments

🚨JOB ALERT🚨 We (JSG @ UT Austin) are looking for an Assistant Professor (tenure-track) or Associate Professor (tenured) in Sedimentary Geosciences More details here: apply.interfolio.com/173688 Or ask me!

Mass extinction/Paleozoic friends... I have some folks in my Extinction class eager to read about Paleozoic biotic crises, so what's your favorite paper/papers about these events? Both new/exciting and classic/seminal work in the field would be appreciated. Self promotion welcome 😜.

🚨Heads up GSA Abstract submitters🚨 This year you cannot edit abstracts after they have been submitted/paid for. I don't think this is GSA's intention (their confirmation email says you can edit up to the deadline), but don't pay for your abstract until you are done and have no more edits!

Check out this great press release about @brontonorris.bsky.social's first paper! @txgeosciences.bsky.social www.jsg.utexas.edu/news/2025/07...

Hey check out this new paper by former UT postdoc Katya Larina (plus former UT postdoc @foradamifera.bsky.social, @anshumans.bsky.social, @rowanmartindale.bsky.social, and Cori Meyers who I don’t think is here?) www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Need advice: Colleagues and I recently published a paper, but the journal modified our figures after the proofs, they are now problematic. The only option seems to be to retract the publication, but that seems ridiculous when the journal could have worked with us to modify the figures. Suggestions?

Congratulations to Katya on this awesome paper!

Racist and sexist roots in the cancellation of NSF grants under Trump: Grants with female PIs canceled 2x more than men Grants with Black PIs canceled 4x over White PIs Grants with Hispanic PIs canceled 2x over White PIs Grants with PIs with disabilities canceled 2x more than without

“The entire landscape of American science, research, and engineering are under heavy attack,” the employee says. “It’s really critical that we all speak against it and be unified in our opposition.”

A lifeline for researchers with cancelled grants: www.spencer.org/grant_types/...

Check out the @txgeosciences.bsky.social press release www.jsg.utexas.edu/news/2025/04... @chrislowery.bsky.social @fraass.bsky.social @glyptocrinus.bsky.social

Anna's paper on ecological turnover at the PETM has been published! Shallow-Marine, Benthic Ecosystems Show Compositional Shifts in Response to the Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum (PETM) on the Adriatic Carbonate Platform @txgeosciences.bsky.social agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/...

#WeekendReading: Faulkner et al. (w/ @rowanmartindale.bsky.social; @chrislowery.bsky.social) on how the test walls of foraminifera change through the Phanerozoic and what might that have to do with ocean chemistry. 🧪⚒️🌊 royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...

NOTE: This will not change policy and is not a substitute for calling your representatives! Please send postcards AND call to demand full funding and staffing for NOAA. Very helpful for calling: 5calls.org/issue/noaa-n... @5calls.org

NOAA is going to lose 1000+ employees today. Will you join me in sending love notes to the remaining employees at NOAA labs & offices around the country? Instructions & ~200 addresses here: docs.google.com/spreadsheets... I'm starting to send mine today. 💙 @noaa.gov 🌊 @savenoaa.bsky.social

TX Science & Natural History Museum is updating their paleontology exhibits. The new Discovery Center will be a hands-on learning space. They are seeking a full-time Education Associate to oversee the day-to-day operations. utaustin.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/UTstaff/job/...

Just a reminder that NSF program officers aren't reaching out to you because they can't - no communications allowed.

Congratulations to Travis Stone for our new publication about Jurassic Reefs in Maroc 🇲🇦🪸 Ecological differences in upper Pliensbachian (Early Jurassic) reef communities determined by environmental conditions in carbonate settings kwnsfk27.r.eu-west-1.awstrack.me/L0/https:%2F...

I just did this using indivisible's system which makes it completely brainless. you put in your info and then you get a script on your screen and a callback on your phone that tells you what your reps name is and then automatically connects you to their number. indivisible.org/resource/cal...

This website makes it very easy to find your reps. It even gives you a script you can use when making calls: 5calls.org/issue/omb-fe... It’s a fantastic tool. They cover a wide variety of issues, too. Let your reps hear from you!

If you’re in the US and you’d like to know what projects and vital services federal grants currently fund in your state, you can search here: www.usaspending.gov And you can find the contact information for your elected representatives here: www.usa.gov/elected-offi... They need to hear from you.

This will of course hurt the most vulnerable within the scientific enterprise- students, postdocs, non tenured faculty. NSF funding supported 30 undergrads in my lab, my salary as a postdoc, and medical leave from a toxic workplace... #fundingmatters

NEW: The federal spending pause does not affect federal direct student loans, Pell Grants or federal work-study funds for campus jobs (thanks to those of you who prompted me on that last one). Our story, with @tarasiegelbernard.bsky.social. Keep the tips/memos coming. www.nytimes.com/2025/01/28/b...

Always 💖 Don't make me tap the sign

Love this awesome lab group! 💖

Last paper of 2024 submitted!

✨Happy holidays to all! 🎄Christmas tree worms (Spirobranchus giganteus) in mustard hill coral (Porites astreoides). This coral shows notable genetic diversity and connectivity across its range, but such info for the worm species is sparse. #wormWednesday #reefmas 🪱🧬🦑🌎 🪸

We can’t control the timing of things appearing on the NSF Earth Sciences website but finally the announcement, FAQ, and full solicitations for our realignment are out! DCL: www.nsf.gov/pubs/2025/ns... FAQ: www.nsf.gov/pubs/2025/ns... All EAR programs: new.nsf.gov/geo/ear

We haven't met our goal yet and we are in the last 24 hours of the GEOPAths GO Jamaica HornRaiser! The fundraiser ends tomorrow, December 6 at 9:00 AM CT. Help support interdisciplinary geosciences research on vulnerable coastal ecosystems! 🐢 🇯🇲❤️🪸🪨🦎🌴 hornraiser.utexas.edu/project/4402...

If you're in a giving mood for #GivingTuesday, please consider supporting our service learning experience in Jamaica!! 🇯🇲 hornraiser.utexas.edu/project/44029

Everyone get hyped: although #Nudivember is ending, #Crustmas (25 days/advent style) starts tomorrow. It's not an art challenge with a list, just post any crustaceans you like in whatever format you like throughout the month! 🧪🦑🦀

Mass bleaching of corals on the Great Barrier Reef in early 2024 was the most severe and most widespread yet recorded - surpassing 1998, 2002, 2016, 2017, 2020 & 2022. The overall mortality rate this year will exceed the 30% loss in 2016. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

I am totally overwhelmed by the amount of people following me (thanks starter packs!). Thanks for following me, sorry if I haven't followed back.... There has been a lot going on in my life (some good things, some heartbreaking things) over the last month!

🚨PhD Opportunity: Come to Edinburgh and study ichthyosaurs with us! Study Scottish fossils from Skye! New ones & historic specimens! Project led by Stig Walsh, co-supervised by @davfoff.bsky.social Nick Fraser, Erin Maxwell & me. Details👇 e4-dtp.ed.ac.uk/e5-dtp/super...

The Paleobiology Database has landed on Bluesky! ✨ Here we'll be posting database updates, new publications and all things fossil-data-related 🌍🐚 Be sure to check out our website for more info on how to contribute to and use PBDB data as well as loads of other resources! 🦕📊 paleobiodb.org

Ok, I’m loving the starter packs! This one is for women (inclusively defined) in Ocean Science. You need more ocean 🌊 in your feed! Follow these folks. If you would like to be added please just let me know 👋 … if I forgot you, please don’t be offended, it was an accident! go.bsky.app/7MdiLgo

I have recently been reading #Burnout and let's be honest... The stress cycle ends with Tracy Clapman crescendo-ing to A-I-Y-Iyah in "fast car"... Tears, guaranteed!

A lot of folks are giving up in advance. Capitulating before a single skirmish. Well, not this old warrior. I’ve seen much worse from the U.S. government in my day. I’m concerned for our country, but not a bit scared of these miscreants. I’m ready to do my part. Who’s with me?

Faculty mentoring in academic institutions, a thread. As I advance in my academic career (read: as I keep getting more gray hair), I've come to appreciate, even more than before, the profound responsibility we (senior-ish faculty) have to support and nurture emerging talent, not diminish it.

Also, many thanks to @luca.run for creating an easy to use script to automate tweet deletion. github.com/lucahammer/t...

Welcome palaeos! Remember to find the starter packs on palaeontology to find more of us! @alinemghilardi.bsky.social's pack is a good start! go.bsky.app/QWhLarC

Congratulations to the newly minted Dr. Sinjini Sinha! @txgeosciences