Ruling that the land owner owns the pore space under their property is interesting. Do you own the pore space but not what’s in it if it happens to be natural gas or whatever (unless you also own the mineral rights)? I have a lot of questions about this.

I am (again) ashamed to be a Bama alum: www.nytimes.com/2025/12/02/u... There's already a significant gap between the states demographics and the university's. Things like this are just flat out attacks to make the student body even more white and less diverse.

I more or less grew up in one of these libraries. My mom was a librarian for many years in rural middle Tennessee. This is a travesty either way, but it's also personal.

On my deathbed, I will regret not mobilizing my actionables in order to maximize my market impact.

Every year around Thanksgiving, I see tons of grad students post heartbreaking messages on social media about how their loved ones don’t understand or support their decision to study what seems like something pointless or silly. Perhaps my American Scientist essay can help! 🧪🌎🦑 #SciComm

We have reached peak... Something... I don't know what, but this is a peak!

It's not every day you get to see a rock glacier flow!!

Oregon is the only state that has a two sided flag

"Play a train song, pour me one more round. Make em leave my boots on when they lay me in the ground" We'll sure as hell miss you Todd...

Apparently my punishment for complaining about how STAC does not apply to datasets that aren't fairly "tame" geotiffs is now to shoehorn STAC to describe a large and complex set of HDFs/tiffs/geojsons/etc... Thanks, I hate it. Also, the STAC catalog will be mostly wrong, so why do this?

Tonight’s aurora in Michigan.

Breaking: Judge Gibson rejects the Legislature’s congressional boundaries. Chooses the plaintiffs Map 1. A solid northern SLCO district that strongly favors a Democrat.

Today I learned something very cool I did not know about my backyard!!

Today’s the day there’s an XKCD comic about something I have upstairs in a cabinet. xkcd.com/3162/

Wow. Just wow. This whole series, y'all. It's a thing!

ladies and gentlemen...we got him

Holy crap! Free baseball. Damn....

Whatever happens, this has been an insane world series to watch! And with that said, as an Astros fan (yeah, I know), let's go blue jays!

This is obvious to anyone who's been in academia or even industry R&D, but this explicit link to consumer goods gets made often, but still not often enough. Basically, this. This exactly.

“ICE officials have told us that an apparent biometric match by Mobile Fortify is a ‘definitive’ determination of a person’s status and that an ICE officer may ignore evidence of American citizenship—including a birth certificate" - House HSec. Comm. Bennie Thompson www.404media.co/you-cant-ref...

It's v hard to tell but it might be Didal Glacier, which is surge-type and actually was surging in the months prior to this video. I don't know if something switched allowing the runaway mode seen in the video. Curious for thoughts of other glaciologists 🧪⚒️❄️ www.planet.com/stories/dida...

The editorial board at the NYTimes: www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

What the fuck? Again, there is no way this is constitutional... And it's clearly horrifying regardless....

Halloween costumes to scare scientists (by @twisteddoodles.bsky.social) 🧪

The cruelty is here in SLC too...

Featured story, @francescadnunz.bsky.social: It was two days before his 50th birthday and he already had plans to celebrate with his wife, a U.S. citizen. Instead, ICE placed him in a detention center he once protested against.

Overheard: "I mean, 4 T-Rex is a lot more than 4 of me...."

That was quite the 6th inning! Also, I think the last time I watched a blue jays game this closely was in 1996, and I was 14 and a die hard braves fan...

Playing around tonight... 1 oz Applejack 1 oz Rye 1/2 oz Allspice Dram 3/4 oz Kina (or cocchi americano)

At the empty USGS booth at GSA. More out of view on both sides

I lived a couple of blocks away from here for 12 years. The rainbow crosswalks have been up for half of that time and were a memorial. Why in the world remove them?!? This is pointless and petty and expensive. www.chron.com/culture/arti...

If ICE was doing to unlicensed pets—dogs and cats—what they’re doing to human beings, the outrage would be exponentially more ferocious

Motor City kitties!!

This is wild! I was vaguely aware of this from some relatives, but I hadn't fully appreciated just how crazy it is...

There are steps everyone can take to help make our communities safer for trans people and all of us.

"[A]gents engulfed my car in tear gas, smashed my driver-side window, and pepper-sprayed my face.... I spent three nights and three days in federal custody. No explanation. No charges. No apology. One day, I was just told, 'you’re free to go.'" #KavanaughStop

Dr. Jane Goodall filmed an interview with Netflix in March 2025 that she understood would only be released after her death.

I forgot my camera, so these are just phone pictures, but today was _really_ pretty! First snow, but fall colors still out.

Okay, this is a fantastic cocktail, if you happen to have the ingredients around (I do, so yay): youtu.be/iLcXU3W1wVQ?... 1 oz cask strength bourbon 3/4 oz Suze 3/4 oz Apricot liqueur 1/2 oz lemon luice

As if irony isn’t already dead, the Hatch Act violation on the DOJ website, which blames Democrats for the shutdown, appears on the page advising DOJ employees they are subject to the Hatch Act. joycevance.substack.com/p/a-note-abo...

“This is scary. It’s adding to the vigilante state we live in.” Out today from @kitoconnell.com: The new law, recently signed by Governor Greg Abbott, represents not just a fresh threat against trans rights, but also what experts call an attack on the American legal system itself.

A thread about how two geologists went to a beach with a plywood board and a protractor to see how variable wind directions influence bedform orientation - and published a paper in Science that blew my mind. 🧪⚒️🧵 1/23

At a time where it feels like we're losing, we need to remember our victories that not only have happened in the past, but continue to exist today. Thus I give you, California Condor 926 of the SoCal flock. Great grandchild of Condor # 1. We as humanity can still do good things. #birds

A lot of people think that every international student admitted means one fewer spot for domestic students, when the opposite is more likely true - the tuition revenue international students bring allows public universities to provide substantial discounts to domestic students, improving access.

Yokonami melange, a paleo-megathrust, and so, so much chert, near Kure, Shikoku Island, Japan

Oh hell no. As someone who lives in the immediate vicinity, absolutely not. Also, it's a city street. Not a state highway. We changed it. Why does some asshole in a different district get to try to overrule local voters on a local street name??

Good to be back in Madison, even if it is only for one night.

Most people don't get it -- but this study nature.com/articles/s43... is co cool! Usually we think about the sequence stratigraphy as uniformitarian discipline/process/structure. But what if the evolutionary events, such as dinosaur extinction changed how stata look!? 🧪 ⚒️ #Paleobio #Geology 1/2