Joe Allen

Sublime weather for an outdoor poster session! Enjoying the #NNCI REU Convocation at UC San Diego for undergrads finishing their summer research. 🧪

Moose in a pond

Wet moose disguised as an outcrop.

The discourse surrounding precipitation changes in a warming climate (both public discussion and even scientific one at times) is complicated by widespread conflation of changes in averages vs extremes (and also actual vs *potential* evaporation/evaporative demand). [Thread]

Red Paintbrush and purple columbine

Purple columbines at timberline.

Some #Colorado wildflowers, Mosquito Range.

Student pouring liquid nitrogen into TEM dewar

Diffraction pattern showing crystal lattice in a nanoscale mineral

TEM sample after Ga ion milling.

Scenes fromTEM lab work at Virginia Tech #NanoEarth with a #ConcordU undergrad student last week. 🧪

Remarkable video captures fault slip in the Myanmar earthquake We deep dive the possibilities presented by a witnessed rupture

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Two weeks ago, a video appeared showing slip in the Myanmar earthquake - the first time this has ever been recorded on video.

What can we learn from it? We deep-dive the science.

earthquakeinsights.substack.com/p/remarkable...

Metallica causes seismograph spike at Virginia Tech football stadium concert Seismographs are usually used to measure when pieces of the earth slam into each other, but they’re pretty good at measuring whenever Metallica is on the stage.

Fanquakes at the Metallica concert at Va Tech last night! 🤘 🎸 www.si.com/fannation/co...

Looks like Climax Moly and Pb ville mining museum too!

Outcrop covered by stone

Well so much for that outcrop. Get thee gone geologists. ⚒️

Yes I noticed the error a week ago.

Some microprobe time for mineralogy class. First use of newly upgraded Concord U probe with all digital SEM controls.

NSF starts to kill grants that violate Trump’s war on diversity efforts Attracting women and minorities into science and studying misinformation are no longer priorities, agency says

NSF has spent decades—and billions of dollars—trying to attract more women and members of underrepresented groups into STEM. Not anymore. scim.ag/3RUtgZg

Nearly 3,800 attendees, including many from colleges in NC and FL, which will be moving from the Southern Association to comply with state laws

Chicago today. #HandsOff

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LOL overheard mineralogy students today: amphiboles suck.

Sure looks that way. Maybe a mylonitized foliation-parallel vein on the right, but maybe the cross-cutting veins are also statically metamorphosed?

Tenure-track position in Geospatial Science / Phys #Geography / Surficial Geosystems at Concord Univ. Environmental Geosciences program! Seeking interdisciplinary environmental #geoscientist. ⚒️ #GISchat #geosky #aag jobs.concord.edu/postings/3243

What does an earthquake look like beneath your feet? This visualization shows seismic waves in action.

We’re studying how such visuals improve public communication after major earthquakes. We'd love your input! Please take our short survey & share: ww3.unipark.de/uc/SIOseismi...

Looks like all staff at NSF HEGS Human Environment and Geographic Sciences were terminated. www.aag.org/wp-content/u...

Trump’s siege of science: how the first 30 days unfolded and what’s next The breakneck pace and devastating impact of the administration’s policy changes has shocked researchers.

“No one has ever seen a [presidential] transition in which one of the most valuable parts of our government enterprise is being taken apart," says Harold Varmus, former NIH director.

Our latest, from the @nature.com reporters covering Trump 2.0:

www.nature.com/articles/d41...

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Ironically, this old kids homework emerged at the top of the scrap paper stack today.

Lots of bad news out there, but we have open positions in #chemistry (TT analytical/inorganic, open rank) jobs.concord.edu/postings/3235, #geosciences (postdoc tephra data mgmt) jobs.concord.edu/postings/3211, and #computerscience (TT cybersec/data analytics/etc) jobs.concord.edu/postings/3229 🧪⚒️

The 2025 Chemistry Faculty Jobs List

The 2025 Chemistry Faculty Jobs List has 481 tenure-track positions and 81 teaching positions: bit.ly/facultychemj... #facultychemjobs #chemjobs #chemsky 🧪⚗️

Faculty, if you know of tenure-track positions that I should be listing, or see an error, please e-mail me at chemjobber@gmail.com

Here's the broadening participation website as of 1/30/2025.

Also, "Broadening Participation" has been removed as one of the three NSF priorities on the front-facing website. Old vs. New screenshots.

The first sentence used to extend beyond the word STEM to say: "The U.S. National Science Foundation is committed to expanding the opportunities in STEM to people of all racial, ethnic, geographic and socioeconomic backgrounds, sexual orientations, gender identities and to persons with disabilities"

and "EPA should embrace so-called citizen science and deputize the public to subject the agency’s science to greater scrutiny, especially in areas of data analysis, identification of scientific flaws, and research misconduct."

Examples: "Abolish the Biological Resources Division of the U.S. Geological Survey" "The Department of Commerce should dismantle NOAA"

Wondering what P-2025 holds in store for climate and the environment? Here's a concise and disturbing summary. www.law.berkeley.edu/wp-content/u...