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Olivia L. Williams (she/her)

@oliviawilliams-geo.bsky.social

PhD candidate studying ice cores at Oregon State University. Formerly Si cycling in marshes at BU Earth & Environment. Part-time poet. Find more at https://www.oliviawilliamsgeo.com/

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Surely Xfinity should want to stunt on me with a fast functional website to inspire me to give them more money, not throttle their own loading speeds to make it impossible to do anything

25.07.2025 01:22 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
Comic. [two people in labcoats look at body pierced with blade draped over bench] PERSON 1: We found him lying uncomformably on the lab bench. I wonder if the iron-rich intrusion in his back is related. PERSON 2 with ponytail: It could be clastic. Maybe a rift opened in his body, and the intrusive material later fell into the hole. [caption] The Geology Department Investigates Their First Murder

Comic. [two people in labcoats look at body pierced with blade draped over bench] PERSON 1: We found him lying uncomformably on the lab bench. I wonder if the iron-rich intrusion in his back is related. PERSON 2 with ponytail: It could be clastic. Maybe a rift opened in his body, and the intrusive material later fell into the hole. [caption] The Geology Department Investigates Their First Murder

Geology Murder

xkcd.com/3112/

09.07.2025 01:19 — 👍 5753    🔁 878    💬 50    📌 39

It's hard to believe that nearly a decade has passed since @geojane.bsky.social went to B.U.'s administration and detailed her shocking experiences as a grad student under my then-adviser, Dave Marchant.

In the years since, we have learned of so, so, so many others who likewise abused their (1/7)

14.05.2025 11:59 — 👍 11    🔁 5    💬 1    📌 0
A list of 5 books: The Wager by David Grann, North Woods by Daniel Mason, Buried Deep and Other Stories by Naomi Novik, The Universe in Verse by Maria Popova, and The Patriarchs by Angela Saini.

A list of 5 books: The Wager by David Grann, North Woods by Daniel Mason, Buried Deep and Other Stories by Naomi Novik, The Universe in Verse by Maria Popova, and The Patriarchs by Angela Saini.

I'm way behind on my 2025 reading goals, but everything I've read this year so far has been really really good!

22.07.2025 22:10 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Me talking about the Heat Death

22.07.2025 14:45 — 👍 585    🔁 40    💬 8    📌 0

All right, I admit it, I missed having a professional social media account to post about science things. I'm here.

22.07.2025 21:43 — 👍 3    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
Preview
The critical research that unlocks our climate's past and future may be on thin ice “There’s questions that we don’t know we should be asking yet.”

See interviews from lab alum Ben Riddell-Young and PI Ed Brook in this Mother Jones article on the future of ice core research.

22.07.2025 18:27 — 👍 1    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0
Unlocking our Climate Past-Extracting Gas from Ice Cores
YouTube video by NSF Ice Drilling Program Unlocking our Climate Past-Extracting Gas from Ice Cores

Lab member Olivia Williams explains how we measure the gases inside ice cores in this video for the National Science Foundation Ice Drilling Program. www.youtube.com/watch?v=i9PQ...

13.04.2025 19:14 — 👍 7    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 0

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