Please, fuck with Mickey. That'll be a court battle for the ages.

האם מדינה יכולה, כישות שלטונית מדינית, להשאר עם הזין ביד? לא יודע, אבל סומך על ישראל שתנסה.

Bumping it for those of you in the USA who want some light reading for your weekend.

New paper alert: do you crave caves? are you hot for wildfire? Well, Jon Smolen (Harvard, née UConn), myself (UC Davis) and the Stalfire Consortium members just released this little ditty exploring pyrogenic biomarkers in a stalagmite from California! 🧪⚒️ pubs.geoscienceworld.org/gsa/geology/...

Iran has for years made Israelis into a more conservative, right wing, warring people. By arming proxy militia Iran fueled Netanyahu and suppressed the Israeli left- It's hard to push for peace, if you're in survival mode. So why the f$#k does anyone think you can bomb Iran into progressiveness?

I'm not a foreign policy guy but... Nope, that's it. Got no take other than war is hell - any war - that I know from experience. The end.

In 2012 I was wrapping up my masters, recording a podcast, making a bitter mistake about my choice of PhD and promising to never bomb Iran on fb. So much has changed since, but I'm still opposed to bombing countries. www.newyorker.com/culture/cult...

For those of you watching from home, you're going to need one of these, and a years' supply of kernels.

The OIST Graduate School has opened a Special PhD Admissions Portal for students currently enrolled in, or accepted to, universities in the U.S. #PhDProgram www.oist.jp/admissions/s...

Three years ago I published a paper in GEOLOGY journal. It was a nice little ditty on reconnecting paleohydrology and soil dynamics using environmental magnetism in speleothems. Today, for some reason, GSA posted it on their Instagram. Good omen? Maybe. www.instagram.com/share/BAEEBu...

Important. But also, if I may argue for LLM use - I never pasted a manuscript in, but I have once taken my comments, written on the fly, and while I was a bit annoyed (bc data was awesome and manuscript was so terrible it shouldn't have passed the PI), and asked the LLM to tone it down.

If you want to know where we're heading, or what is the ultimate goal of p25 - read "the power broker".

All these Amtrak employees will easily find many lucrative jobs in the private national rail sector.

To generalize and extrapolate - imagine a future, 10 years from now, in which the USA has half of everything. This will destroy American but will also destabilize the globe. Ok, I'm probably exaggerating, the USA will have 80% of everything it needs (traumatic still), nah... 90% (crippling).

Little did we know that Lisa Simpson gif was referring to the second Trump term.

@99pi.org Happening just now is the crowd vote for the Geological Society of America club t-shirt competition, Cordilleran Section Tournament geosociety.co/CD25 It should vex any vexillologist and designer, a testament to our addiction to public opinion over merit, professionalism and judgement.

FFS, all we need now is a little bit of stability. Democracies crumbling, financial systems being demolished, norms obliterated, we could do without the laws of physics being unraveled...

Someone on an internal mailing list "do they expect us to refund grant money?" Me, typing a reply and not hitting send "no Mr. Bond, they expect you to die" It's funny because it's true.

Another shitshow day in shitshowshistan.

I can see the logic behind making the USA so shitty that people stop wanting to immigrate there.

I hope that Elon Musk is reading my feed because this is his last chance to justify his job. Elon, please email me by tomorrow with five bullets in which you explain to me what the fuck do you do.

I had a (respected and successful) prof. tell me "I feel sorry for y'all, I've gotten a job with zero PhD papers and tenure with seven"

People who relocated my grandma: Hitler, Stalin. People who plan for me to be part of relocation of other grandmothers: Trump, Netanyahu.

I guess if we as a society can scrap all human thought and advancement for the 20th, 19th and most of the 18th centuries I can rewrite this paper I'm struggling with from the ground up.

Everyone gets their 15 min huh?

Excited to share our latest research published in @science.org #ScienceAdvances! 🎉 We've discovered the Laacher See eruption 🌋 in a speleothem from Germany, which allows to synchronize European and Greenland Late Glacial climate change. Read more: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... A Thread ⬇️⬇️ 1/n

Hi BlueskySci, this is an EGU25 abstract deadline reminder. If you're hitting those keys hard to get your abstract finished and still don't know where to send it, consider our session CL1.2.12: vegetation-wildfire-climate interactions. meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/EGU25/sessio... #EGU25

How we thought AI would end us, and how it really happened...

Comment: it's appropriate to quote relevant papers from the publication you've submitted to. My brain: unfortunately there are less than 10 works using this method, none published with you guys, so... I guess that makes us the first. Ya welcomed. My reply: here, I forced in a ref. Happy?

On the one hand I really can't support people who complain about censorship in a privately owned media platform. On the other hand... Nope, log off, open bluesky (for now) or mastodon, or... Ignore social media altogether. It's not a basic right like healthcare.

The fact that in all platforms and with all tech companies "AI" is an opt out product is why we should shut down silicon valley. Nay, bomb.

Not only UC Merced is allegedly to become R1 next year, the town of Merced will host its own gravel Gran Fondo! hincapie.com/pages/gran-f...

@romanmars.bsky.social listening to the megalopolis (flop house crossover) ep, after going braindead midway through watching that... movie... reminded me of something I didn't notice - the elements borrowed from Heinleins' "the roads must roll".

My cat is 15 years old and is showing no signs of slowing down. He was impaled in 2019 and had kidney failure in 2015, yet he still wakes up every day at 5am, roams the neighborhood like a monarch, eats the neighbors' cat snacks and falls asleep on the living room sofa. Is my cat prof. emeriti?

Good morning @agu.org 2024! Today's first morning poster session on Speleothem Science and paleoclimate will include StalFires' very own star undergrad (soon to be grad) Jocelyn Cziko on the 8.2ka and 44Ca isotopes from a southern Sierra cave agu.confex.com/agu/agu24/me...

The next Elon Musk is captain Nemo.

In early Nov, CATL announced they will start production on Na-ion batteries with 200 Wh/kg energy density in 2027. Then 3 days later, seven US National Laboratories announced a collaborative venture to work on advancements in Na-ion batteries. The race is on! 🧪🔌💡🔋 arstechnica.com/cars/2024/12...

@elinorigby.bsky.social Have you decided to join the party?

דיווחו לי באוזניה שיותר טוב פה

זה אחרי ישיבה עם מקנזי?

מחר הופעה של הניהליסטית בלי הזרת שלא אוהבת להופיע בעיירות ערפדים בפילמור. האח הידד.

כל פרק של חשיפה לצפון עדיין מהנה יותר מרוב הטלוויזיה היום.

לישראלים פה שלא עוקבים אחרי התקשורת באמריקה- לאחרונה עובדים קשה להפריד בין ישראל לנתניהו או אפילו הליכוד. פרשנים וכתבים מזכירים שוב ושוב שמה שקורה במזרח התיכון הוא הליכוד "והקיצונים הדתיים שהליכוד נשען עליהם". עכשיו, יודעי חן זוכרים שהאמריקאים לא אוהבים להפריד ושומרים על ממלכתיות... לכן, צפו פגיעה.

היום הזה יזכר כיום שבו גיליתי שאני מרוחק מעגל חברים אחד ממועמד לסגנות נשיא ארצות הברית.

גוד דאמ עובר על המוסד שבוע טוב.

אוהבים אלטרנטיב מטאל וגם הייטקיסטים שיכולים להשיג טיסה למפרץ? בואו לבקר אותי בסקרמנטו - העיר שתקועה בניינטיז! aftershockfestival.com

כמה שאני אוהב את פיקארד, ג'יינוואי היא בהחלט אחת הקפטניות היותר טובות.

מה שאני אוהב בקפיטליזם זה שהליום - אחד החומרים הנדירים, היקרים והקשחם ליצור ואכסון *ביקום* - משמש לבלוני מסיבה.

במלחמת המפרץ הכי ראשונה נגמש הבראדלי ראה אקשן לראשונה בחייו הקצרים (ובכן, יודעי חן יטענו שפרויקט הבראדלי היה כבר בן 20, אבל הנגמש עצמו בן 3-4 כי.... שחיתות). הבראדלי תפקד לא רע ואפילו חיסל כמה טנקים. אממה - מתוך 20 נגמשים שאיבדו האמריקאים, 3 נפגעו מאש עראקית ו...17 אבדו לאש ידידותית.