Grain flow on the lee face of a dune, fed through breaching (Mesquite Dunes, Death Valley National Park) 🧪⚒️

📢 The geocompx project has a new (and fully reproducible) logo! geocompx is a community-driven initiative for reproducible geocomputation in R, Python, Julia, and beyond, all rooted in open-source principles. geocompx.org #geocompx #FOSS4G #GIS #OpenScience

Lanzhou, China, in a basin the Yellow River flows through at the western edge of the Loess Plateau. The thickest known loess is at Jiuzhoutai, beyond the river in the distance. The patch of green to the right of tall white building is Lanzhou University. 1998.

Terrace of the Yellow River at Maqu, southwestern Gansu, 1998.

The kind of thing I find in a drawer in my office desk and have no recollection of why or when I put it there.

Review of the Willy Street Coop North: The customers include mothers who walk over from the apartments along Northport with their kids as well as a guy who makes phone calls from a BMW convertible while his partner shops. The shopping music is great. And no surprise, they carry Miller Lite.

What's next after Miller Light? An ode to Old Milwaukee? Why not go straight to Wisconsin Premium, fondly known in Minnesota as Wis Piss?

For #FossilFriday, an ichnological 2-for-1 deal: Eocene (~50+ mya) shorebird tracks with bonus invertebrate trails (Cochlichnus), either made by nematode worms or insect (dipteran) larvae; little "craters" may be gas-bubble escape structures. From the Green River Formation, Utah. 🧪🐦🐾

The mine was "placed on a national list of disaster-prone coal mines by China's National Mine Safety Administration in 2024 for having "high gas content."" abc7chicago.com/post/china-c...

All the centrist/conservative Democrats who wanted to allow Abrego Garcia and everyone else Trump sent to CECOT to rot in a slave camp should be embarrassed with themselves and think deeply before saying anything about anything.

I can see how a guy who grew up in New Lisbon, Wisconsin, might think about turning sand into thought.

Looking from one loess tableland to another, across the valley of Frenchman Creek, tributary of the Republican River in western Nebraska. October, 2022, taking the scenic route to Denver.

Trying to guess what event will be happening on campus tomorrow, signaled as usual by rows of aesthetically pleasing porta-potties on the Library Mall.

Okay, I don't drink beer at all anymore, but being nostalgic about Schlitz is barely one step above being nostalgic for, say, the Partridge Family

Could easily be the Cutover of northern Wisconsin or Minnesota. Not even that much later in western Washington.

Much to be said here about conditional inclusion...

big john sign, route 2, iron mountain, iron mine, norway, michigan, 1988

Excited to announce the publication (with @chriskucharik.bsky.social ) of a new historical dataset that has been in the works for a long time: the Harmonized Land Nutrient Irrigation Dataset (HLNID) across CONUS from 1938 - 2020. essd.copernicus.org/articles/18/...

Area burned this spring starting to green up a little, Halsey National Forest, Nebraska Sandhills. March 28 and May 19, 2026.

UW-Madison has almost 52,000 students. It has a dairy farm, dairy sciences, forestry and top notch humanities. It also works closely with dairy and other farmers throughout the state to improve their output. Big publics do it all.

I drove through St. Paul twice this week, and each time as always, I recalled cringing as my dad sang "If I were a Larpenteur, and you were 280" as he drove that same route.

I heard a public radio talk show this afternoon about the Mississippi River and they went off on a tangent about people who took canoes, rowboats, or motorboats downstream from Itasca or St Paul to the Gulf. Then someone called in and said he did that, rowed from the Chippewa River to the Gulf.

Sitting in a Days Inn, thinking about the standard hotel room, designed around lying in bed watching TV.

Stop slandering college students. And professors. And curricula. And campus life. Get out & touch grass. No, not just Harvard. Not just Deep Springs, student population 26. You sound ridiculous. And petty. And we're very tired while the authoritarians are trying to destroy us & you're helping.

Hundreds of Cargill employees filled Main Street in Fort Morgan at the Teamsters Local 455 office on Wednesday morning after workers arrived for their shifts at the Cargill plant in Fort Morgan and found the doors closed. An estimated 1,500 employees gathered outside the Teamsters’ office.

Happy International Bee Day! In the Rethinking Lawns lab @negauneeinstitute.bsky.social Chicago Botanic Garden, we're working to help turn our lawns into better spaces for native pollinators. To celebrate, have some id keys for Midwestern/NE American bumblebees! drive.google.com/drive/folder...

Within, Gavin points out that the new High scenario "gets to 8.5 W/m2 only about 20 years after RCP85"

Western Washington, Thurston County, near Michigan Hill. Part of stump farm #Western #Washington #ThurstonCounty #MichiganHill #DorotheaLange #American #America #theGreatDepression #DorotheaLanges #WesternWashington #undefined #photography […] [Original post on mastodon.ozioso.online]

Counterpoint to Mr Nissan: it's great to be here discussing mycology!

In fisheries models, natural mortality (M) is often set to 0.2 per year. A detailed derivation of this result was provided by John Pope in 1975, see below:

Upper Mississippi River and intensely green forests on Driftless Area slopes. The northern part of Prairie du Chien, Wisconsin is visible. May 15, 2026, Sentinel 2.

Drove up the Root River valley in southeast Mnnesota today for the first time in years (did my MS and PhD research and later projects in this area). The left photo is near the mouth at the Mississippi. Right is of a large Late Pleistocene aeolian sand ramp. Sand rather than loess on the ramp and

New Forest, in a sealed camp days before D-day, Frank Rosier 2nd Glosters recollected they played basketball with the black American cooks in the camp. "After white American officers objected, they were forbidden to socialise with us."

The Cerro Gordo 2 webcam in the @alertcalifornia.bsky.social network showed great views of the dust & smoke event today at Owens Lake. 3:00PM, it's clear: 4:25, dust from Owens Lake bifurcates around the Coso Range, 5:38: everything's socked in with dust and smoke advecting from the N & NE.

The SPoRT group did a great job of picking up today's dust. The Near Real-Time Machine Learning GOES East DustTracker-AI shows the dust centered over Inyo County, California and the Chihuahuan Desert.

Even an intensively mitigated playa emits dust when the winds are strong enough. N winds in the Owens Valley gusting >70 mph, Owens Lake has clearly again become a source of satellite-visible dust plumes spreading south (red oval), the Coso Range is splitting them into two parts.

A friend of mine claimed he saw Bob Dylan having coffee, sometime after midnight, in the Big Steer Restaurant at the Osseo exit from I-94.

Find the warm front: Wisconet style.

The post about the new arXiv rule says "incontrovertible evidence that the authors did not check the results of LLM generation" but people are reacting to it as if it says "if my grad student didn't accurately summarize what a real paper says about some complicated issue I will be banned."

How about focusing on the impact on state universities, where the aggregate effect of funding cuts is much larger, and on research that is vital but has little to do with "America's competitive edge"?

I am very skeptical of the idea Trump wrote that RCP 8.5 post. Possibly hasn't even read it.

Pano

Mother and child

This is still an option.

An exuberant dogwood (Cornus alternifolia)

Searching for interesting trichomes. Long fine “hairs” appear concentrated along edge and along veins (abaxial side) of Thimble Weed leaves. Afocal, 24x or 36x.

dear reader, i have a brash confession to make. i have never really read charles olson or robert creeley. for these and my many other literary sins, i am truly sorry.

Searching for interesting trichomes. Similar distribution of long fine “hairs” on both sides of a Compass Plant leaf. Afocal, 24x or 36x.

I did this recently for that statistic that the Abundance people are throwing around about 40% of scientists’ time being spent on paperwork. The commentary (not paper, BTW!) they cite references a 2007 survey that I cannot find and is not cited.