Karl Lang

inceptionglomerate

Cool new paper from Jeff Prancevic and co-authors. Even more impressive that Jeff wrote this up as a side project while working full time for carbon-free cement startup company.

catch you next time!

This is just gutting.

GeoSPACE, our accessible hybrid field course, has found itself in need of fundraising due to recent events. Part of being accessible is offsetting the financial burden of attending. If you can spare anything to help out, a lot of students without other options would be grateful!!! ⚒️🔭🧪

Google Maps image of North America with a star in the northwest with the words "study area" and words "gulf of mexico" in the gulf of mexico

Thinking of making all future maps for my papers small enough scale so I can include the Gulf of Mexico. 🧪

On the topographic differences following the #PalisadesFire from @opentopography.org 🧪⚒️ #lidar #PiewPiew opentopography.org/blog/using-l...

How a Canadian scientist and a venomous lizard helped pave the way for Ozempic - National | Globalnews.ca In 1984, Dr. Daniel Drucker, an endocrinologist from the University of Toronto, discovered a hormone that helped pave the way for popular diabetes drugs such as Ozempic.

This is the most relevant article to NIH and research cuts I’ve seen.

Imagine if this was today , how many people would be saying “Why are we studying Gila Monsters and their impact on diabetes ? That’s wasted money !”

globalnews.ca/news/9793403...

also, pretty on theme for someone known for not paying their contracts

aren’t overhead rates negotiated contractually with the federal government for a predetermined amount of time? not a lawyer, but this seems like an obvious breach of contract lawsuit, at least for existing grants.

nothing says “i never took a class in economics” like acting as if everything is or should be a market.

newspeak

why does this matter? i will freely admit that i am a pedant, but these (mostly) REEs don’t just come from ore minerals. they come from e-waste, laterites and can even bioaccumulate. to actually address our need for these elements we need to think beyond a minecraft-ian view of earth science

a man with white hair is saying i feel like i 'm taking crazy pills ALT: a man with white hair is saying i feel like i 'm taking crazy pills

99/100 times you hear someone talk about critical “minerals” they are talking about elements. the NYT just published an article in which the identified “rare earth elements” as a “critical mineral” ELEMENT IS IN THE NAME.

oooh, we should trade recipes, i use borax and glue for my glacier goo

4 swing states (red in 2024) in the top 10

remember that most (all?) public R1 universities rely on sponsored programs to function, and there are beloved public universities in every state, red states included.

multilevel ugly

they are going to straight up ban the letters d e and i in any context. W_ ar_ go_ng to hav_ to r_a_ b_tw__n th_ l_n_s.

pretty sure the solicitations wouldn’t pass this filter

i’m curious if anyone has a funded grant without any of these words, it must be almost all grants… which i guess is the point?

*alpaca

almost 250 years of democracy and all it took to end it was a couple of 18 year old CS majors with llama haircuts

omfg. APS really just closed schools because its too cold. Atlanta is not a real place.

incredible changes to the Broad River from #Helene *preliminary* DEM differencing of #NSF supported #NCALM LiDAR data in 2024 and 2017 shows ~168,000 m3 net erosion. figures shows erosion in blue (max of -15m) and deposition in red (max of +5m). more at SE GSA in March

In particular make sure to check Laurel's poster! She is doing really cool work on crater lakes formed by outburst megaflooding aka "Floodles" (Fluddles?)... and it's her first AGU!

while I'm sorry to miss the party, the TECHtonics group + collaborators are well represented at AGU! check us out here:

who decided that we need raspberry containers to *explode* open when we touch them?

www.youtube.com/watch?v=nSz1...

We may never know when it began, but we know when it ends! #RIPAnthropocene
www.nytimes.com/2024/03/05/c...