Benjamin Sulman

Post Doctorate Research Associate - Peatland Rhizosphere and Trace Gas Processes in Richland, Washington | Pacific Northwest National Laboratory PNNL is hiring a Post Doctorate Research Associate - Peatland Rhizosphere and Trace Gas Processes in Richland, Washington. Review all of the job details and apply today!

My colleague @avnimalh0tra.bsky.social is hiring a Postdoctoral Research Associate to investigate rhizosphere processes influencing methane (CH₄) dynamics in northern peatlands! Super cool opening -- please circulate careers.pnnl.gov/jobs/11061?l...

U.S. Border Patrol Launches Operation in Charlotte

"It was not immediately clear how many undocumented immigrants had been detained as of early Saturday afternoon, but the reach of the operation, dubbed “Charlotte’s Web” by the agency, appeared to be spreading." www.nytimes.com/2025/11/15/u...

Next absurdity: Past or future collaboration with Chinese students and scientists would disqualify American researchers from access to funding. 🧪
#academicsky
#psychscisky

Good grief, this would be a catastrophe

Job alert!!! My department (Geology at @wwu.edu ) is searching for a hydrogeologist at the assistant professor level (tenure track). Fabulous colleagues and students (undergrad and master's level), spectacular setting. Ping me with questions.

hr.wwu.edu/careers-facu...

Our School District Can Now Keep Track of Your Child with Just Three Terrible Apps Other than lawsuits, losing track of a child is every school district’s worst nightmare. We haven’t lost anyone yet, but an EdTech company has pain...

"If you forget your login, call our wonderful school secretary, Marjorie. No, you can’t just call the office to tell Marjorie your kid is sick; you’ll need to call the office to retrieve your PITA login information, then log in to PITA to tell PITA your kid is sick."

China’s CO2 emissions have been flat or falling for past 18 months, analysis finds World’s biggest polluter on track to hit peak emissions target early but miss goal for cutting carbon intensity

This a big deal: "China’s carbon dioxide emissions have been flat or falling for 18 months"

China's economy has grown by ~5% in the last year, so this comprehensively debunks the idea (again) that emissions are tied to growth. So yes, faster progress needed, but this is how you turn the corner.

Postdoctoral Scholar: Remote Sensing to FATES: Wildfire Impacts on Western U.S. Forests University of California, Irvine is hiring. Apply now!

New #FATESmodel job focused on fire modeling at UCIrvine :) recruit.ap.uci.edu/JPF09965

A particular interest of mine has been how Earth system processes, including terrestrial methane cycling, have been perturbed by past warming events. Our new paper, led by Wuhan colleagues, is another contribution to that understanding!

pubs.geoscienceworld.org/gsa/geology/...

Amazing meteorological analysis of the storm that sunk the Edmund Fitzgerald, with archive satellite images!

No half-term visit to Dublin would be complete without a visit to World of Soil | The Observer

Last week, I took my kids to a city farm in Dublin, and had a magical adventure in the World Of Soil.

observer.co.uk/news/columni...

Peatland coverage from Doug the worm! 💖💖💖 Soils are the best

A meme depicting a woman staring at her phone with one hand on her head, with the following text below: IS YOUR CHILD TEXTING ABOUT THE WRECK OF THE EDMUND FITZGERALD? What your Great Lakes maritime history-obsessed teen's text messages actually mean: brb = bell rang bro rofl = rang out for lost (crew) bff = big freakin' freigher lol = Load of Ore on the Lake smh = shift minutes to hours glhf = Great Lakes hella freighter tbh = taconite be haulin' stfu = steer the freighter upwind tfw = that freakin' witch (of November) asl = a ship lost gg = Gitche Gumee idc = immoderate deadweight capacity btw = beneath the waves afk = a freighter kaput hbd = hauler's beacon down ily = iron load yonder jk = just [24] kilometers lmao = lost my abyssal ore nbd = north bound draft glhf = good lord, hold flooding omg = obliteratingly massive gales tmi = too much iron wtf = White Fish (Bay)

I'm so worried about what'll happen when our kids are old enough to have phones!!!! 😮😮😮

U.S. tsunami warning system, reeling from funding and staffing cuts, is dealt another blow Seismic monitoring stations in Alaska are closing after a denied federal grant, risking delayed tsunami warnings for people living on the West Coast.

Quoted supporting our counterparts and friends at the Alaska Earthquake Center. The cost of the U.S. tsunami warning and mitigation effort is really a pittance. None of it has ever been adequately funded in any administration, and now things are worse. ⚒️ www.nbcnews.com/science/tsun...

Professor of History - Madison, Wisconsin, United States Current Employees: If you are currently employed at any of the Universities of Wisconsin, log in to Workday to apply through the internal application process.Job Category:FacultyEmployment Type:Regula...

We're hiring in history of science at UW Madison! TT Assistant Professorship with a focus on water. Joint appointment between the History and Integrated Liberal Studies depts, and part of a university-wide hiring cluster on earth/sustainability science. jobs.wisc.edu/jobs/profess... #STS #HSMT

Assistant Professor-LowTemp Geochemistry-Earth and Planetary Sciences The Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences (EPS) at the University of New Mexico invites applications for a tenure-track Assistant Professor pos...

🚨Job Alert!🚨Faculty Position in Low-Temperature #Geochemistry at University of New Mexico ⚒️ 🧪#geology

unm.csod.com/ux/ats/caree...

Does anyone have specific leaf area (SLA) or leaf mass per area (LMA) measurements for adult leaves of #Eucalyptus pellita or #Corymbia tessellaris that they'd be willing to share with me?

🧪 #PlantTraits #ecophysiology #physiology #WildOz #botany #ecology #AusTraits

Faculty Position in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering and the Schwarzman College of Computing - cee.mit.edu The Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering (CEE), together with the Schwarzman College of Computing (SCC) at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in Cambridge MA, seeks candidate...

If you're looking for a faculty position at the intersection of ecology and computing (both broadly defined), please apply to this joint search between the CEE Department and the College of Computing at MIT: cee.mit.edu/people/share...

UC to Stop Funding Systemwide Postdoc Program Established in 1984 to encourage women and minority Ph.D.s to pursue academia, the program has attracted right-wing criticism for prioritizing diverse candidates.

this seems to be a bit premature, no?

www.insidehighered.com/news/faculty...

A monkey is hanging off a branch trying to catch the reflection of the full moon on the surface of the water.

'Monkey and Moon' - Ohara Koson, ca. 1910.
#FullMoon #shinhanga #JapaneseArt

imagine how good these ents would be

DNR proposes limiting commercial whitefish harvest after steep population decline The Wisconsin DNR is proposing to reduce the commercial harvest on whitefish in Lake Michigan as the population has seen a dramatic decline.

Whitefish is the highest value fishery in Lake Michigan (estimated value ~$2.8 million last year), but invasive zebra/quagga mussels have contributed to the population declining by 75% in the last 2 decades. Now, the Wisconsin DNR is proposing limiting commercial harvest www.wpr.org/news/dnr-lim...

Scientists Must Join Forces to Solve Forecasting’s Predictability Desert - Eos To strengthen societal resilience to worsening natural hazards, siloed Earth system science communities must collaborate to understand conditions that favor skillful subseasonal-to-seasonal forecasts.

it’s essential that scientists, decisionmakers, & end users codevelop forecast tools & information. Close integration ...would focus scientific innovation on user-defined needs of what is useful and actionable, allowing scientists to build tools that meet those needs. eos.org/opinions/sci...

Important pedantry. This is interesting in part because he explains it well enough that I think most laypeople will understand why the pedantry matters. Journalists should take notice!

Florida Universities to Stop Hiring Foreign H-1B Workers Under DeSantis Plan

This is a bad idea. Recruiting talented people from other countries is a good thing. American universities have been very good at it in particular. Recruiting talented people tends to benefit everyone. We should keep doing it. I am speaking in short sentences for the benefit of the Governor.

For those who may be interested Ameriflux Youtube posted the Fluxnet Early Career Webinar on Writing & Peer Review Process for Early Career Researchers

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

The best scientific talk advice that gets ignored Here are some prescriptions for a case of UCPS (Unengaging Conference Presentation Syndrome).

I find there's a huge mismatch between the standard advice that people give about scientific conference talks, and how people actually give talks.

So I picked out the most important pieces of advice that are most often ignored. 🧪

Nearly a Century Ago, American Chestnut Trees Died Off. Now, Hikers Can Walk Among Them Again. Efforts to restore the American chestnut comprise "one of the most epic conservation stories ever told.”

Oh hey, a reason to be hopeful: groves of American chestnut trees have once again become self-reproducing in the wild.

Turned off comments so 12 people don't show up to tell me why this is actually very sad. Be happy, you assholes.

It's been really fun working with you on this!

Creepy Crayon, a children's book by Aaron Reynolds and Peter Brown. Cover illustration of a scared looking rabbit in grayscale with a purple crayon that has a face with a sinister expression

This book my daughter brought home is seriously one of the best treatments of gen AI that I've read... Impact on writing and art, cheating, creepy pushiness, eating into the things you enjoy doing, addictive potential...