Chris Junium

Out online today in @pnas.org our paper:

"Aerobic nitrogen cycle 100 My before permanent atmospheric oxygenation"

With coauthors Gareth Izon, @chrisjunium.bsky.social , Shuhei Ono, and Roger Summons.
1/7

www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Whoa! Look at the field in the background.

#piday turned into pie weekend with some Neapolitan-ish pizza in the Ooni oven.

Raspberry chocolate pie.

Chicken pot pie. Yum.

Pi day pie extravaganza. Chicken pot pie and non-dairy raspberry chocolate custard. Nice way to celebrate the end of a good week.

About fifty years ago, NASA strapped a message in a bottle to a rocket and flung it into the deep dark
It wasn’t supposed to go this far, but it did. Long past its mission, it’s still out there so far away now that a simple hello takes a day to reach it, and another day to hear if it says hello back

Hidden Job Market Skills Scientists Possess Many federal scientists have lost their jobs. However, they possess several marketable skillsets beyond the lab or field..

I hope this helps someone
www.forbes.com/sites/marsha...

And will drive a 1996 Honda Accord

Herman Melville's "Moby Dick" has perhaps the most memorable opening line in all of Western literature: "I hope you motherfuckers like reading about whales"

The whole point is to attack higher education, not to cut costs.

I feel like I do a lot of things pretty well, but there is nothing I do better than destroying the kitchen when I cook dinner.

They deleted it but it still showed up on your post.

They aren’t even good at picking examples. The above plot is a perfect example of CO2 control on the climate system and feedbacks that stem from rapid change.

Vans does custom prints.

Microscope photo of a brown microfossil that looks like a wrinkly old raisin. It is surrounded by a square pyrite crystals and fluffy organic matter on a white background.

Last post for #FossilFriday this lovely #Proterozoic #Acritarch because I love it so much. This image was taken with a macro lens at 2x attached to a microscope with a 100x mag lens. It's a combination of over 100 images stacked and stitched. #Geology #Paleontology

Funny thing is that I have been hiking two places in Arizona. Kaibab Nat Forest and South Mountain Preserve.

I agree- South Mountain Preserve.

Beef Wellington before it is cooked.

Beef Wellington pre-cook. I’m happy enough with this that even if it isn’t perfect, I’ll be ok with it.

Whatever happens to the water, happens to the people.

As a former whitewater kayaker I can say that duck took an excellent line and hit his boof off that rock perfectly in what looks like solid class IV water. If I paddled that well I wouldn’t be a former kayaker.

Cooked mushroom duxelles.

800 g of mushrooms and 300 g of shallots cooks down pretty much to nothing. But oh what a nothing it is. It smells like heaven.

Mushroom duxelles for beef Wellington.

Dueling knives for the duxelles is a lot of fun.

And think about what they are paying here at SU compared to VT.

Indeed

This is why I went back to in person, handwritten exams.

curry comb for a horse

The pic is a curry comb. The name comes from the french word corroyer (older versions spelled differently that yielded curry). At least from what I have found, it translates to "prepare" or "make ready." As in to make your horse ready, not prepare your curry.

Lobster shaped flip flops

The bottom of the lobster flip flop is anatomically correct.

All I want for #crustmas is a pair of these beauties.

"is this a pigeon?" meme, except it's a writer looking at a perfectly normal first draft and asking "Is this the worst thing ever written?"

Remember, a first draft's only job is to exist

Artwork of a Stegosaurus gleefully bounding after a monarch butterfly. The Stegosaurus has orange and black patterning that matches the butterfly and the plates on its back look like monarch wings.

"Butterfly Effect" is by far my favorite piece I've ever drawn. I know I keep sharing it, but I just hope it brings joy when people see it.

(Plus I don't have a whole lot of new art to share.)

#paleoart #sciart

Big changes in EAR programs! Check it out.