Nick Barber 🌋

Join us next Wednesday (4th Feb) at 19:00 (UK time) for a webinar by Dr. Alice Paine @alicerpaine.bsky.social

In this talk we’ll look at whether very large eruptions can be treated as scaled up versions of moderate volume historical eruptions or whether they should be treated as fundamentally...

tweet by Casey Lawrence (@LeanandCuisine): "Was playing smash bros with my godson and his Dad tells him if he gets one stock off me then he doesn’t have to eat his vegetables. Slim I cooked him so bad he started crying, this is what I do this for. This is why I love the game. Gon head and eat them veggies son"

dudes rock

Paleotemperatures through the Phanerozoic and the variation of measurement densities through time.

I'm glad to share our new study on the nature of distributions of gaps in empirical geochronologies of geological section as a function of time scale. Measurements of proxies are highly uneven if measured through time.
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 www.nature.com/articles/s43...

🧪 #Geology ⚒️ #Paleobio #EvoBio

I read that paper, and I can see why it was retracted.

Let me know your favorite sediment. Be as general or as specific as you want!

Thin Section Thursday!
Julian schist: Mica schist in XPL from the Julian Schist at Julian, California USA. Contributed by Paolo Sanchez.
You can contribute too! Send image(s) and short caption to akoziol1 (at) udayton dot edu. #thinsectionthursday

carbonated serpentinite

Quartz veins, crosscutting a network of talc veins in carbonated serpentinite from Cavo, Elba

⚒️ #geology

Congrats!!

U.S. government has lost more than 10,000 STEM Ph.D.s since Trump took office A Science analysis reveals how many were fired, retired, or quit across 14 agencies

The US government lost more than 10,000 STEM PhDs last year, according to an analysis by Science of newly released OPM data, with 11 departures for every hire. And many OPM calls "voluntary" separations were probably pushed. www.science.org/content/arti...

crenulation cleavage

Squeezed rock!

#geology #crenulationcleavage ⚒️

Just tuned in and crhrist what a TD

This administration is cooked. Literally no one is scared of them.

Hi @kaine.senate.gov - do you have any thoughts on the events of yesterday in Minneapolis? I'd love to hear someone in your position of leadership speaking clearly and accurately about ICE gunning down a citizen.

a laborious day for dads everywhere. may your icemelt be heavy and your shovels light. take care of your neighbors and stay warm

Having a toddler is like living with your own bully tbh

Kīlauea knows the worst is terrible and is trying to make us feel better

Photo from USGS

Kilauea erupted again yesterday in a fierce display. In only the 2nd time in 40 years, park officials closed the area due to the intensity.

Fountains were officially recorded at 500 m high, grapefruit size tephra were being ejected, and tephra fall was measured up to 20 miles away.
#volcano #hawaii

YouTube video by USGS [V3cam] Kīlauea volcano, Hawaii (south Halemaʻumaʻu crater)

If you need a little time off from the latest atrocities, Kilauea is off the chain right now

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

60 seconds of bomb and lapilli sized tephra pelting my room. Instead of capturing video of the fountains, I spent my time driving around and disconnecting the water catchment systems of friends who couldn’t get home before they closed the only road into our town. #Kilauea

Deep sea mining is reckless, untested, and threatens the very fabric of island communities. @RepKimKingHinds has it right: “In places like the Marianas, American Samoa, and Guam, we don’t get the luxury of being wrong… There’s no ‘fix it and move it somewhere else.’”

Every single person doing ICE watch in Minnesota is doing it knowing that they’re putting their bodies and lives on the line and every ICE agent and cop would shoot at their shadow if it startled them. That’s not professionalism, that’s being a coward.

“IT’S COLD, WHATEVER HAPPENED TO GLOBAL WARMING?” is a common response to winter weather. But in certain patterns, climate change enhances the presence of cold in the US. This is one of those times. Here’s how… 1/

ICE detained a 2-year-old girl in Minneapolis and put the child on a flight to a detention center in Texas, despite a court ordering her release: www.startribune.com/agents-detai...

00Z HRRR forecasted flat ice accumulations are downright scary. Maximum ice corridor from TX to TN and another maximum in N GA through S Appalachia look to be areas that will see the worst of it with extensive tree & power grid damage. These areas also tend to have high socioeconomic vulnerability.

Attention folks in the weather, climate, disaster, wildfire, and Earth science communities: NSF has just published a new "Dear Colleague" letter inviting feedback (by Mar 13) on the proposal to dismantle the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR). www.nsf.gov/funding/...

⚒️ For a bit more historical context on how crazy the current craziness is…

www.macrotrends.net/datasets/133...

It’s -9 degrees. Downtown Minneapolis is packed for the anti-ICE rally and the crowd keeps growing

The clergy just keep coming to this anti-ICE protest.

Genuinely unclear where they all will go — it’s packed outside on the sidewalk already.

From Day 1 big uni’s should have organized regional emergency meetings for heads of all higher ed institutions in the area and planned a coordinated strategy with faculty union reps. That would be the definition of actual leadership! And would have avoided the race to the bottom we saw play out

That is so depressing - I feel for your friend at GT.

My alma matter (Drexel) was enthusiastically complying - DEI office gone and most programs closed down. Also, full medical school scholarship for women scrapped in favor of something more “inclusive” of men.

I won’t be donating to them!