TIL about a memorial ceremony in Iceland in 2019 to mark the end of a glacier, changing the place name from Okjökull to Ok (jökull = glacier). Uncompromising wording on the bronze plaque: "This is to acknowledge that we know what is happening and what needs to be done. Only you know if we did it".

I assume a lot of people are gonna be getting into Olympic ice hockey this winter, so I just want to share two things that make these Olympics EXTRA high stakes: 1. This is the first time that NHLers have been allowed to compete since 2014. 2. THEY HAVENT FINISHED BUILDING THE FUCKING RINKS.

It could take decades to recover from where we are.

50 positions across four cancelled programs and two mergers will save the University about $8.7 million dollars, or a little more than the base salary of their head football coach who failed to make the playoffs.

Another thing @agu.org could do is highly visible trainings for attendees on civil liberties and immigrant rights by groups like @aclu.org and @aila.org (whose resources they are already sharing), and promoting the work of their litigation partners like @democracyforward.org and @aaup.org

I don't think Netflix should get to eat anything else until it finishes all the prematurely cancelled shows on its plate

That’s not a fire fountain. That’s a fire sprinkler.

Y'all the latest episode of the #Kilauea #eruption just went CRAZY. It looks like pressure built up enough to explode out the ground around the two existing vents (first few seconds), leading to a massive surge in lava fountaining.🌋🤯 USGS Live stream: www.youtube.com/watch?v=fiyt...

Made a little animated GIF showing the demise of the V3 camera at the summit of Kīlauea during today's eruption. #hawaii #volcano

These findings underscore the need for adaptive environmental monitoring following battery fires and raise critical considerations for ecosystem protection and infrastructure as energy storage systems expand. #MossLandingFire 🔋🔥 #ElkhornSlough

Well if you attended a scientific congress in, er, a white nationalist police state, this is the preparation you'd expect.

so it begins

Remember that battery fire just up the road from me? Here's some new findings. YIKES.

This afternoon, I was in a meeting with Jay Bhattacharya, and I can confirm this is *exactly* what he both wants and will be doing. THIS IS NOT HYPERBOLE.

If you're attending #AGU, I'd at the very least get a loud whistle and have it at the ready at all times.

For those who will be attending, please think very hard about what you intend to do if you encounter people getting detained. I'm not advocating for any particular action, but the best time to consider how you want to respond is before you're in the moment.

So the AGU Fall Meeting policy is entry with conference badge *or* entry with mask, no ID, and guns. 🙃

"[...] New Orleans Ernst N. Morial Convention Center (MCCNO), which is the main venue for AGU25. MCCNO officials have informed us that they are not in a position to refuse entry to federal immigration enforcement officials. Similarly, AGU does not have the ability to restrict access to the venue."

The USPS posting a NINE BILLION DOLLAR LOSS!!! sounds terrible. Certainly worse than if you said "USPS costs thirty dollars per person per year" even though that means the same thing and more accurately describes a government service

⛏ Happy #BarbaraDay ⚒ Since the 12th century, "St. Barbara's Day" has been celebrated on December 4th. 💐 Barbara: Patron Saint of Miners and Geologists 💐 ⚒ Miners and ⛏ geologists commemorate Saint Barbara on this day. 🎶 🎉 🍻 ⛏ Glück Auf! ⚒ #BarbaraTag #Geology #geoscience #minerals #history

Pantone picking white as the color of the year seems to be the straw that might break my sanity.

As an aside, this would be a great AGU meeting to wear my #resist blazer, but it would ABSOLUTELY get me disappeared by those fucking goons. 😬 (I'm not attending at all...who can afford it now?)

I get emails from *at least* 6 different organizations about the fall AGU meeting. NOT A SINGLE ONE has advised not attending or addressed the giant fucking elephant in the room (i.e. it ain't safe here). 🤦‍♀️💀

I hope @agu.org is going to speak to #AGU25 attendee safety, and acknowledge the potential increased threat to some attendees based on what some morally corrupt, bigoted CPB/ICE agent thinks about how they look or where they're from. Allow people to cancel & refund their registration $.

Open kettle canning has been known to be unsafe for a looooong time. If you're canning ANYthing it needs to be processed after filling the jars and your recipe *must* be a tested one. You can't just throw shit in a jar, slap a lid on it, and expect it to be shelf stable. 💀

The Institute of Museum and Library Services, the federal agency that provides funding for America's libraries, has announced it is reinstating all grants it had previously terminated, including those to libraries and library organizations across the U.S. Read more: https://bit.ly/4496W4V

Found some gooood shit that I know would be on the chopping block. All squirreled away now. 😎 #TrulyOutrageous #HiBarbie

At a minimum, please wear a well-fitting mask in airports and on planes, and in healthcare settings. If people did this, COVID transmission would fall demonstrably. It’s not that hard, and it’s not all or nothing. It’s also not just a cold—it’s an organ-damaging virus.

If you think the Mariana Trench should be protected from deep sea mining, drop a 🌊 in the comments. Then go write a comment in the federal register and sign the petitions (links are in my bio). #OceanJustice

The rationale is “I’m mad that science is hard.”

"The challenge for Canada is that the vast majority of its seismic monitoring instrumentation is heavily concentrated along the country’s southern border, where the bulk of the population lives." "'Science funding in Canada is pretty threadbare compared to America.'" *That's* saying something.

Not particularly obscure, but some painted concrete and an orange plastic GA seat (complete with a bird poop stain!) from the Orange Bowl (RIP) And a wall hanging made from Bills stadium turf.

The #editinghell company has now screwed up my invoice for the third month in a row, shorting me AGAIN. 🤦‍♀️ I swear these ppl are maliciously incompetent.

Meet the new Deputy Chief of Staff at the CDC.

The former oil executive/DOE official who held the all-staff meeting announcing the change repeatedly told the scientists who work on clean energy that she "hates" clean energy.

Gave my folks a streaming box for early Xmas (so I could set it up for them) so they can watch PBS passport on their TV that's too old to support the app (they've never had cable). My brain is done explaining the difference between streaming and OTA TV for at least a month. 💀

This year, the NSF funded 35% fewer grants in geoscience, with 25% less money. Meanwhile, the Office of the Director spent almost three times as much money as in a regular year. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

“Thousands of very competitive projects in areas like cancer, diabetes, aging, neurological disorders and public health improvements most like went unfunded in 2025. Similarly, at the National Science Foundation, the roughly 3,000 fewer new grants encompassed reductions to every area of science”

Hard fuckin agree. I used to do this when I was employed. It was awesome. #Istillwouldliketodothis

If you run across a gen A.I. slop 🤖💩 diagram in an academic journal, I’d love to know about it! Please fill out this form: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F... Slop in journals is illuminating about journals’ quality control. And journals would like you to forget their mistakes. #AcademicChatter

Do not underestimate how much we are compelled to persist bc of pure spite. 🔥

Post your favorite "The Lord of the Rings" character. Wrong answers only.

The example here *will absolutely* happen! Anyone working with the Earth Sciences and Bio-related stuff older than about 30 will remember the extremist Christians attempt this with Creationism.

I've been yelling about this for a literal decade. 💀

Furious at myself for not hiding more things from my parents last year. 1776 film cast (only available on vinyl 😭) OLC JC Superstar OLC Tommy All in NM condition. Gone. Probably donated. 1776 is impossible to find and worth $100+. They owned like 12 records total. I'm so tired.

The best advice I can offer everyone who wants to keep copilot out of their applications is to GET OLD VERSIONS OF MICROSOFT PROGRAMS. I run Office2003 (+ a built in converter for the *.___x extensions) on Win10 and it's fucking fantastic.

It’s useful to think about things like this in numbers of tenure track professors. $53M is 575 assistant professors. Or more than thirty percent of the total number of full-time faculty at LSU.

We used to call it "nightposting" on Tumblr 🙃

Enshittification is depressing Everything that was cool is struggling to survive or has become a deranged version of itself And it’s everywhere. Ugh

Wicked For Good sounds like a Boston area non profit