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Coauthor of Lars and Yixi here. AMA, Eric 😆

Physical controls on heterogeneous mesopelagic biogeochemistry Communications Earth & Environment - A patchy distribution of biogeochemical properties in the ocean interior arises from the combined influence of biological and physical processes.

Surface ocean processes impact structure deep into the ocean interior. In our perspective paper, @maratimes.bsky.social, grad student Katarina Merk, and I discuss using physical perspectives to interpret subsurface biogeochemical distributions and why we as a community should care! 🌊

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Hey, how come @nbcolympics.bsky.social doesn’t have a glaciologist on their broadcast to talk about the different types of ices they have to use for different sports? Just seems like an obvious addition. I happen to know one who is available.

Let me know if you ever want to talk about the pew pews! Lotta Colorado connections for this one.

Mines researcher part of NASA-selected satellite mission Mines geophysics professor Matt Siegfried is a member of NASA’s EDGE mission to map the planet’s ice and ecosystems with the most accurate spaceborne altimeter ever.

And now the @coschoolofmines.bsky.social press release for the newly selected EDGE mission www.minesnewsroom.com/news/mines-r...

New NASA missions. If you thought ICESat-2’s six laser beams were great, wait until we have 40 at the end of the decade 🛰️🧊 www.nasa.gov/news-release...

🚨job opportunity🚨

Durham is advertising 3-year fellowships (any field). We are very keen to hear from Antarctic/Cryo people who might be interested in joining a great group. The positions come with some travel & research funds. See here for details or get in touch www.durham.ac.uk/research/ins...

They Studied Dishonesty. Was Their Work a Lie? Dan Ariely and Francesca Gino became famous for their research into why we bend the truth. Now they’ve both been accused of fabricating data.

he is the guy who assumed the data were real after all 🫠 www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

Evolving lake outlines of active subglacial lakes along lower Mercer and Whillans ice streams, West Antarctica.

New GRL paper on the dynamic nature of Antarctic active subglacial lakes that have boundaries that change shape, grow, shrink, or even migrate. We show stationary lake outlines can underestimate cumulative water volume change by up to ~100% and overestimate lakebed area.

📄 doi.org/10.1029/2025...

she didn’t even hashtag #antarctica 😭 anyway my student published a cool paper. read it.

Today, while arguing with @lpadman.bsky.social in the comments of a Google document, I learned that the Oxford Style Guide says “do not use” for em-dashes and the AP Stylebook says “do not use” for en-dashes. British vs. US English strikes again! A good day.

Truly the standard in thickness. More than having a perfect lead image, this nine-minute video is a perfect way to wind down from the Bears game and its thick pressure moments.

YouTube video by NFL Throwback Seabass Epic Career Highlights | NFL Legends

Plz, sicko. Plz. youtu.be/kgJlpZM-V-s?...

👇👇👇 this exactly

Our research impact reaches all the way to Antarctica! 🌎

LSU researcher @icedoctord.bsky.social and team at @lsugeology.bsky.social have documented, in rare detail, a large brine discharge event at Blood Falls. The salty, blood-colored water flows out when pressure under Taylor Glacier rises.

👇👇👇a very fun new paper. I am finally coauthors with dugan 2!

YouTube video by Sickos Committee Do you want to watch 8+ Minutes of the Longest Punts from the 2025 CFB Season?

Do you want to watch 8+ Minutes of the Longest Punts from the 2025 CFB Season? youtu.be/Je7WUk8bAx0

I almost hit a zone 2 heart rate at the end of that game. Ffs, Caleb.

I’m just spitballing here, but what if… we take how much this would cost and instead… create a big pot of money that scientists could propose to… to research Greenland. Think about how many scientists we station there! Maybe even buy some LC-130s to transport them. Maybe even launch some satellites.

Content for @radatmines.bsky.social and @cosmokeir.bsky.social

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And just one last note: I ran almost twice as many miles in 2025 as I did in any other year in the last decade and also was more scientifically productive than any year in career so far. Funny how that works.

Matt started running again as soon as he got tenure

Even a little more on the nose: I received tenure April 2024. Here’s monthly 2024 miles.

Last decade of annual running mileage:

2016 - 809 miles
2017 - 896 miles
2018 - 808 miles
2019 - 435 miles
2020 - 379 miles
2021 - 665 miles
2022 - 578 miles
2023 - 600 miles
2024 - 627 miles
2025 - 1651 miles

Can you tell I started my faculty job in 2019 and received tenure in 2024? 🥶

And today in the @nytimes.com: a fundamental misunderstanding of the marine ice sheet instability. (fun fact: the description in the paper of record is what ChatGPT often gives you when you ask what MISI is. I know this because it is exactly a question on a homework I assign in my glaciology class.)

“gets to” might be slightly too-strong wording 🥶

Also there are some nuggets in there that make it clear some folks might think the last 15 (maybe even 25!) years of science didn’t happen 🤡

“One week before YouTube was founded, a podcaster [cite to a YouTube video]…” 🫠

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You are missing a lot of talking about “mental reps”, “two Super Bowl rings”, and “friend with Patrick”.

I see this answers the pie question.