How did we get seafloor emplacement/uplift in the Mid-Atlantic? Well, you can thank the Taconic-Appalachian-Alleghenian orogenic sequence that started during the Ordovician for that. The closure of the Iapetus ocean fundamentally controlled the formation of what we now know as the US East coast.

What's *really* neat (and not shown here) is that the pressure gauges we have deployed in the CORKs well below the seafloor on the JdF flank will also have recorded this earthquake! I need to resolve my lack of MATLAB, then I can de-tide things again....

Nice article about the quake off the coast of Japan and the subsequent advisory. 🧪

This is essentially true for all of federally funded science at this point. 🙃 And it really is a multi-decade thing.

Reminder that today is BOGO free entrees at Chipotle if you wear a hockey jersey (after 3 pm)!!

Yep I was right, didn't get this either. :/ 137 applicants for 4 berths (according to PIs) is absolutely fuckin insane tho.

Extra savage wearing my CWS ring to a rematch of that championship. 😎 #Umiami #stanford

A report from the House Science Democrats documents how, at OMB direction, NASA attempted to execute the president’s FY26 budget request rather than follow Congressional appropriations

Last week we had the excitement of space exploration with #Artemis II. This week right here on Earth we are embarking on a discovery mission with new tools in our own frontier, the open ocean, aboard the Falkor (too). I am filled with wonder on our #OceanPlanet @schmidtocean.bsky.social

it’s weird how “having a job that isn’t actively evil” now feels like a genuine luxury

I have been violently attacked by a cartoonist.

Tale as olde as tyme Song as olde as rhyme Wastinge tyme onlyne

One of my faves, as is the *fantastic* sparkly shoujo anime it's based on: The Rose of Versailles. (Berusaiyu no Bara)

The other thing is that in a gig economy there is no degree that promises a good career anymore, not because you should have studied computer science or social media management instead of history or Russian literature, but because there are no careers

They want to eliminate Ecosystems research. Cut Natural Hazards funding by a third. Cut Water Resources funding by a fifth. And if you think they might care about the finding and digging things out of the ground part of geology, apparently not since they want to cut Core Science Systems by 43%.

Willful stupidity is its own kind of malice.

"When deep-sea mining companies are the only ones with the resources and capacity to monitor these sites, how do we safeguard this potential for discovery?"

Bonus: who's got CV tips for an employment gap *not* related to kids or caregiving? 💀

Four specific #editinghell requests within 3 hours, all with similar deadlines...guys can you *please* space out your submissions so I can pick up more than 1 of these at a time? I picked the one with the best pay and then when it was assigned it was $70 less than the quoted fee. Fuck everything.💀

I bet there are some ocean scientists who would be happy to support cancer research by bidding on original SeaQuest stuff! Please spread the word, ocean fans! @whysharksmatter.bsky.social @drandrewthaler.bsky.social @drcraigmc.bsky.social #OceanSky

It’s time to show off your Penguins pride 👏 Yard signs are now available at select local @DICKS locations! See the full list of stores here: http://pens.pe/4cGdwnZ

"...it’s a lobotomy of U.S. marine science that shifts our entire blue backyard from a managed ecosystem to an unregulated gas station." I fucking hate everything.

Piling in to the quote posts to say: We know from the old Creationist vs Evolution “debates” that no one really wins or changes their mind. But holding an event with both scientists and science deniers on the same stage makes it SEEM like there is equivalent evidence for both sides.

Green line is GEO. A big part of why I didn't bother with the GRFP. They'd never fund a marine geo project that would need shiptime that we didn't already have.

Saved *several* cruises from major problems just bc I'm super detail-oriented but didn't even get thanked in the acknowledgements. Was thrown under the bus asap by 1 supposed mentor who did zero mentoring.

I’ve been thinking about this a lot. for the first time I can remember, there’s no supposedly obvious alternative path to reliable employment that our leaders can demand we pivot to. indeed, they’re not even bothering to try to offer an alternative - and scamming starts feeling like the only answer

The JdF CORKs likely recorded these....I'll have to get on the ONC data portal to see if 1026 and 1027 caught them, but I still haven't solved my lack of MATLAB problem so IDK how I'm detiding the data.

Since most of you proooooobably weren't following me back on Twitter.... Apologies in advance...it's playoff hockey season and I'm a massive Penguins fan 😎🙃

THE PENGUINS ARE PLAYOFFS BOUND‼️

Before the season, Vegas oddsmakers gave the Penguins a 91% chance of missing the playoffs for the fourth year in a row. But they believed from the start. Read more: http://pens.pe/47RfnUn

Oops made a thing 😎🙃 LFG BOYS!!! PLAYOFFS!!!

Once again, the national average pay for adjunct professors with PhDs is a flat fee of $3900 per course.

How it feels doing literally any task right now.

Lost amid the madness of the last few days: Trump Administration plans to recombine BOEM and BSEE, agencies that were split following the Deepwater Horizon disaster that killed 11 workers and poisoned the Gulf. The cozy relationship between government and industry was a key factor in the crisis.

Oh no. NSF Long Term Ecological Research (LTER) program shuttered. This one leaves me winded. A good story from 2025 by @seattletimes-rss.bsky.social offers insight into what we are losing: www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...

a cool thing about "cd's" is you push one button and it plays an entire album of music ad free and then (unless you request otherwise) it just stops and awaits further instruction. a very elegant system.

If you are developing a numerical method to improve the calculation of edge cases, I AM BEGGING YOU TO MENTION WHAT THESE EDGE CASES ARE AND UNDER WHAT CIRCUMSTANCES THEY MIGHT OCCUR IN ACTUAL DATA. YOUR READER IS NOT PSYCHIC. FML. #editinghell

If you think 2025 was bad, 2026 is even worse. It doesn't matter what the budget was because OMB has found ways to not allow NSF and NIH spend their money.

Has either a discipline or a profession ever been built wholly on 1-3-year stints of gig work? And, at that, gigs open only to those 0-7 years out of their training, on the pretence that this is preparation for a career? Because that’s where we’re going. To a great extent, it’s where we already are.

He is risen

I told you they would go after contraception. I *told* you. *So many* of us told you. And so many of you did. not. believe. us.

Statement from Rep. Lofgren (ranking member of House Science Committee) re dissolving SBE: "What NSF is reportedly doing is in illegal contravention of the laws enacted by Congress this January. For over 75 years, NSF’s guiding light was how to best support cutting-edge research across all...

The Trump budget once again proposes to eliminate NOAA OAR, which brings you the CO₂ Keeling Curve. In this piece, I argued that the Keeling Curve is a treasure that belongs to humanity as the most poignant indication of our impact on the environment and as a testament to our ability to document it.

I feel like if you were educated mostly or completely before the 21st century you just know things more than other people

Not the main point here, but I do not ever recall a federal agency making significant programmatic and personnel changes as a result of the PRESIDENT'S BUDGET PROPOSAL, which does not change any law or funding allocations. Congress hasn't acted yet. What are we doing here?

This is very very big. Like a big deal and massive cuts. These can’t even be seen as budgetary since you don’t get much savings in the context of trillions budget. They want the US out of R&D out of science research.

Oh my gawd