Of all the impacts of government shutdowns, I know my classes are minor, but is anyone aware of links to energy infrastructure maps like the EIA Atlas, which apparently isn't accessible right now?

I just did my first in class exams in over 5 years (mainly for LLM reasons), and I really did not anticipate how much better and well thought-out their responses are then when I would run a similar test on our LMS.

That's quite the chart annotation. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Submitting a microplastics proposal today. Hopefully some funders somewhere in the US still care about pollution.

🚨 NCA5 is now LIVE! 🚨 They took it down, but we've brought it back at: nca5.climate.us Bookmark. 👏 this. 👏 page. 👏 This is just our first step in restoring trusted science information that Americans need to understand what's happening with the climate.

Three weeks into the fall semester with newly outsourced IT at my campus; its going as a lot of us expected. Will the GIS license problem be solved by the spring semester so I can actually teach my GIS class? We have the license! I just don't have access to change the location for the application.

I'm going to try interacting on here again, though, like probably everyone else, my ability to focus is completely shattered.

Got an ftir spectrometer and got it to successfully identify ldpe as ldpe. Am I a chemist now?

Collapse of the Vallunaraju Glacier front (~5060 m asl, Cordillera Blanca, PER) yesterday! 😱🌊 🎥 Jose Forero www.instagram.com/p/DIaDPQmNuYF/

Who knows if it will go anywhere with all the federal grant chaos, but I'm excited to potentially do some preliminary glacial research again this summer. (Also I do still exist on this platform, I promise)

In some needed good news, I just got my tenure board-approved. (I had it at my old institution but academic is weird and you can't always get hired with it)

I think the only thing keeping me grounded and not completely devastated right now is interacting with idealistic college students all the time.

I'm taking all the little victories I can get right now, so hurray for all my GIS students successfully making maps on day 2 of class.

Tagging for the science/geo feeds since the war on science seems to only have just begun 🧪⚒️

Tell the AGU what all of Donald Trump's illegal executive orders are doing to science and to scientists, staff, and students.

That NSF is combing through grants for keywords like gender, equity, scientific literacy, etc, in order to cancel those grants, is frustrating when you consider that Broader Impacts ARE A REQUIREMENT OF GETTING THE GRANT. In case you're not familiar, here are examples 🧪 new.nsf.gov/funding/lear...

Relentless and grim. It’s increasingly hard to see where any positives are going to arise in the next few months. Years, even.

One impact of the NSF freeze: They fund the small nonprofit, EarthScope, that manages seismic and GPS stations used worldwide to detect and warn of earthquakes and navigate autonomous vehicles. EarthScope can maybe make payroll this week. A prolonged freeze could see stations fail.

My 8-year-old's hand drawn 'meme' operating with more sense than we'll ever see in the next 4 years.

Schrödinger’s funding freeze.

The US just revoked an executive order aimed at making EV sales 50% by 2030. “The US will not sabotage our own industries while China pollutes with impunity,” Trump said. But China is already stomping the US in EV sales. This decision will widen the gap. Source: www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

My new post on The Climate Brink: LA fire's toxic legacy: When wildfires turn cities into smoke. It talks about air pollution from wildfires, the connection to climate change, and Table 12.12 from the last IPCC report. www.theclimatebrink....

Went night skiing with my family and got ditched by the 8 year old so he could ski black diamonds and tree terrain while I hang on the greens.

A sign of the times is reading texts/posts from friends dealing with major infrastructural issues due to the east coast snow storms and friends dealing with the devastation of the CA fires.

From the inimitable @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social: "Catastrophic fire erases what was there before. So does forgetting. Memory is a resource for facing the future; it’s equipment for imagining, planning, preparing. Forgetting creates terrible vulnerabilities" www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Is this the final death throes of the Thwaites Eastern Ice Shelf? Let's hope that tomorrow's launch of #Sentinel-1C is successful and polar ice monitoring can get even better!

Our deep-time emissary, Marcia Bjornerud, takes us on a metamorphic journey. ⚒️🧪 geology GIS

Submitted grades and have officially finished this semester of curricular chaos. Now time to mentally prepare for all the upcoming non-curricular chaos.

I know people have said it before, but wow AGU is way too big for me. I'm missing my quaint little GSA corners.

The cognitive transition from this semester full of basically all curriculum crises immediately into AGU is really a lot.

Am I excited for 1.5-2 hour curriculum meeting today? No, no I am not.

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Curricular change is 75% there and I finished grading one set of projects before the last ones roll in. Are there AGU elves who will write my talk for me before next week?

Random student wandered into my office to talk about climate change and had their mind blown by the Keeling Curve. I'll take it.

Working from home today, and I'm really catching some good squirrel dramas during meetings and grading.

I've been teaching classes explicitly and implicitly centered around climate change for over a decade now, and I don't think I'll ever stop being exhausted by them toward the end of the semester.

Hola - with all the new folx on here, I realized we didn't have a starter pack of glaciologists and people who like glaciers. PLEASE let me know if I've missed someone or an organization! go.bsky.app/HG2KgXZ 🧪⚒️❄️🗻

Microplastics group at MCSR 2024!

Impressed that a student in Idaho from Florida got my favorite cryptid from my shirt (mothman).

Realizing two years later that I've traded Wisconsin system chaos for small, private liberal arts school chaos.

The only hurricane conspiracy is the one trying to cover up how our addiction to fossil fuels is making them worse.

Quick microplastics related question: does anyone have a rough estimate for how much FTIR microscopes cost? Trying to finish out my startup and just want an idea if it might even be possible at all.

My college is about to do a massive curricular overall. My service load is about to explode because I though being on our curricular oversight committee would be "interesting."

Sorry calcite lovers, but rhodochrosite absolutely dominated in the #mincup vote for my class.

Let me walk through all the ways this essay in The Chronicle fails and the potential harm it can cause to an already marginalized group--students with disabilities. I'm not linking to it, because I don't want to drive more clicks. 🧵 1/x

Showing kitten pictures in intro geology this morning. I swear it was semi-relevant.

Field trip day! No pictures of rocks just Owyhee overlooks.

Really loving grading this greenhouse gas quiz where one of the answers can be methane with the students giving one of the the mechanisms for its production being 'cow farts.' Flatulence, never not funny!

I've started, but I'm a long way from having finished! go.bsky.app/4C6kgSv