Josh Feinberg

We're one week away from the start of the 14th IRM Conference on Rock Magnetism! Our first invited speaker is Athena Nghiem (Univ. Wisconsin–Madison), who will give a talk titled, "Dynamic iron redox transformations and their impact on contamination in groundwater."

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We're really enjoying working and learning with you in the lab! You're an easy one to host!

A new method for fingerprinting ochre sources using mineral magnetic measurements Fingerprinting of iron-rich natural pigments commonly known as ochre, provides the opportunity to trace the cultural movement of these ochres in the a…

New paper 🧲💡PhD student Maddison Crombie proposes a method to fingerprint ochre with magnetic properties #unimelb #archaeomagnetism

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Exclusive: NSF stops awarding new grants and funding existing ones US science funder also plans to screen grant applications for compliance with ‘agency priorities’.

Not good.
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Opinion | These Are the 77 Colleges With the Most to Lose From Trump’s Cuts Is yours among them?

This is a decent estimate of the cuts in funding that will be coming down the road for the nation's top research universities. Why are we doing this?

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Very pleased about this manuscript coming out! It was a real pleasure to work with Estella Atekwana and James Byrne!

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Poll: Majorities say state of the union is not strong, and Trump is rushing change How Americans are reacting to the first month of the administration, according to an NPR/PBS News/Marist poll.

Each of us have to make the decisions that we feel are right. Please know that the majority of Americans are not onboard with the actions that our government is taking either. See this recent poll: www.npr.org/2025/03/03/n...

I do not like this.

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Cheating Has Become Normal Faculty members are overwhelmed, and the solutions aren’t clear.

I feel like this attitude is present at my university as well. At the same time, I don't feel that the use of AI to generate text is cheating, in and of itself. It's what a person does with that text that is important. www.chronicle.com/article/chea...

Trump Has Issued a Blitz of Executive Orders. Some Could Affect Higher Ed. The new administration’s clear opposition to DEI could prompt colleges to preemptively revisit their diversity offices and programs.

These actions run counter to much of what I've learned from reading American history...
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I totally agree. The common app makes it easier and cheaper for students to apply to more schools.

No, Colleges Haven’t Rushed Back to Requiring Standardized Tests It’s one of four things revealed in federal data about admissions for the fall of 2023.

Originally, I read this short article to learn whether standardized testing is coming back in undergrad education (it isn't yet), but I came away wondering why yield rates have been going down (the percentage of students who enroll after being offered admission).

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Microstructure profiler in Lake Tovel, Italy. Credit: Sebastiano Piccolroaz

In a paper published in Reviews of Geophysics, S. Piccolroaz and colleagues focus on lake water temperature models, summarizing their advantages and limitations, as well as the data sources required to drive them @agu.org #AGUPubs @thecccuk.bsky.social doi.org/10.1029/2023...

This review by Xin Li and colleagues outlines the development of global, regional, and catchment-scale Land data assimilation (LDA) systems and software platforms, proposing grand challenges of generating land reanalysis and advancing coupled land‒atmosphere DA. @agu.org doi.org/10.1029/2022...

Scientists drill nearly 2 miles down to pull 1.2 million-year-old ice core from Antarctic Analysis of the ancient ice is expected to show how Earth’s atmosphere and climate have evolved.

This is really exciting and I can't wait to see how the atmosphere evolved over much of the mid-Pleistocene transition! www.nbcnews.com/science/envi...

How scientists' collective climate advocacy affects public trust in scientists and voting behavior - IOPscienceSearch How scientists’ collective climate advocacy affects public trust in scientists and voting behavior, Viktoria Cologna, Jana Freundt, Niels G Mede, Lauren Howe, Eri Bertsou, Jamie Gloor, Naomi Oreskes, Reto Knutti, Mike S Schäfer

Really interesting paper exploring how people perceive scientists who advocate for public policy in a limited way.

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Here’s How Jimmy Carter Changed Higher Education Many of today’s policy debates and controversies had their origins in the president’s one term in office.

The biggest student-aid legacy of the Jimmy Carter era, by far, was a program that made middle-income students eligible for Pell Grants and opened up the subsidized-loan program to all students, regardless of need. chroni.cl/49UxwjV

We’ve Been Tracking Colleges’ Dismantling of DEI for 8 Months. Here’s What We’ve Found. While many changes have been made as a result of state-level directives, more colleges are eliminating diversity offices and staff even when they aren’t required to do so.

While many changes to DEI efforts have been made through state-level directives, more colleges are eliminating diversity offices and staff even when they aren’t required to do so. chroni.cl/4gFDG9L

Reviews of Geophysics is an invitation-only journal. If you are interested in submitting a manuscript for consideration in RoG, please send a brief proposal to reviewsgeophysics@agu.org

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