Tyler Grambling

Turns out wearing bunker gear and level A suits for ten years is useful when the paint in your home office *might* have lead in it.

A garage with 4 bikes hanging from storage hooks and one additional bike on a work stand. The background is my filthy, not-yet-fully unpacked garage.

Several months later, we have bike options again.

#ecsmonday on bluesky 17

Katherine Billings (US) conducts #deformation #experiments to understand mechanisms of #mica layer #disaggregation and phase mixing at high #strains. Here are the results:

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#myfault #understanding #structuralgeology #deformationzone

Not usually. 😒 Most of the time when you’re deployed on a fire, you do get paid 24 hours a day, but sometimes it’s a reduced rate during off hours. The overtime can add up to a healthy “bonus” on base salary, but it’s still a relatively low wage for a truly high risk job.

YouTube video by Against Me! BLACK ME OUT Against Me! Official Video

No particular reason, but this is today’s energy.

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(The student is still the lead author, but left academia and doesn’t have the time)

old man yells at cloud is written on a newspaper Alt: old man yells at cloud is written on a newspaper, Abe Simpson, an elderly cartoon staple, shakes his fist at a single white cloud in a blue sky with his mouth open as if yelling

I’m in charge of an article we resurrected from an MS thesis. One reviewer replied with “big feelings” over some minor figure details held over from the thesis (map projection, etc.). Being on the hot seat while slightly removed from minor content makes it feel very “young man yells at cloud.”

Gotta love a system that requires you to use WiFi to connect to the WiFi 🥲

Geology continues to be a small world: I was chatting with someone on a group ride today about paradigm changes and the old guard pushing back, specifically about the advent of plate tectonics. I mentioned that my dad had been at Princeton in the 70s, turns out they went to grad school together.

Artisanal mining occurs in many more places, and with many more resources, than just South Africa and coal. A point absolutely not made to bash this article, but to highlight the abhorrence people in poverty will tolerate to get by.

Hot damn! When I was super broke waiting tables this and free shift meals kept me alive.

Pretty damn thrilled to be here!

Residents Know When Floods Happen, But Data Must Catch Up - Eos Federal flood measurements often don’t match what people see in their communities. Scientists have created a hyperlocal solution.

In a new study, sensors & cameras were operated along roads & in storm drains INSIDE 3 coastal North Carolina communities to study how often flooding—from nuisance to larger—really happens. Answer: A lot more often, & for longer, than the current tide gage network suggests.

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Anas al-Sharif among five Al Jazeera journalists killed by Israel in Gaza Al Jazeera staff killed in targeted Israeli attack on a tent housing journalists near al-Shifa Hospital, Gaza City.

Four Al Jazeera staff, including reporter Anas Al Sharif, were killed in an Israeli attack on a tent for journalists outside the main gate of Gaza's al-Shifa hospital aje.io/onll19

Nothing screams “Welcome to Indiana” like your hotel lobby stinking of stewed beef.

My best guess is somewhere between 5000-6000 lbs. When <2/3 were shipped out here from TN a few years ago, the freight weight was 3400 lbs and I haven’t been that busy with geochem! 🤣

The back of a semi-trailer with two shelves stacked with black plastic 4 gallon bins of rock samples. Two igloo coolers rest against the side of the trailer, they are also full of rocks.

Today’s the day to move out of the office and rock storage at CC. Any guesses on how much the pile weighs? (I have a pretty reasonable idea)

Tonight I discovered my grandma’s Goodreads page. She wrote kid’s books from when my sister was born until her dementia prevented her from it. It’s very odd to see how people interpret parts of my childhood, but more so, it’s heartening to see her work still impacting people.

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A photo of a kitchen with blue cabinets and a busy vinyl plank floor.

A photo of the same kitchen with light blue cabinets and hexagonal marble tile floor.

A majestic black and white cat sitting on the center console of a pickup truck.

A small grey cat napping on the center console of a pickup truck.

Soon, we actually get to experience our new kitchen floor! (Plus cats, because always cats)

Pure shear-dominated shear zones that haven’t been mapped previously? Yes, please!

My 38th birthday present to myself was to make our last rent payment (ever?)! At the end of the month we move to Granville to hang out with these new neighbors.

I got it a few years ago. I remember getting a fairly decent welt, an achy arm, and feeling slightly feverish that evening, but that was about it. My wife had a very brief moment of vertigo, but that seemed more like a one-off thing specific to her.

Two students give thumbs up while standing on a steep outcrop of rock.

A man and a woman stand in front of a large fault scarp and a legendary 1980s Toyota wagon.

TWO submissions in one day?! Now we just gotta hope reviewers turn up… (photo 1–Slide Lake Shear Zone with CC students, photo 2–Cordillera Blanca Detachment with Nadine and Micah)

of faculty will embrace that when given the space to do so, but even then there are a lot of people who cling to the habits they learned in grad school and/or the priorities highlighted by the (dominant) R1 portion of the field.

“but [he] just didn’t have time for that” since his tenure package prioritized grants and papers.
I’ve been at a liberal arts college the past three years and am lucky enough to have the freedom to do my damnedest to keep the joy of discovery and collaboration centered in my classroom. A lot

I think there is a significant portion of the higher ed content that is stretched so thin by the commodification of academia that teaching and mentoring are something they’re trained not to value. In grad school, my wife was told by her PhD advisor that he realized that she cared about teaching,

Isn’t it so wonderful to be in a global golden age of science as your hands are being tied behind your back? 😬