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Chris Lowery

@chrislowery.bsky.social

Micropaleontologist

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Chris Lowery@chrislowery.bsky.social · 19h ago

I hardly ever read Earth Science books because that’s Work but I made an exception for this one and I’m very glad I did, it’s such a great perspective on how our planet works

Peter Brannen@peterbrannen.bsky.social · 2d ago

paperback for The Story of CO2 is the Story of Everything is officially out. It got good reviews and I'm pretty sure it's not like any other climate book you've read. Below is my best attempt to summarize the broad themes of the book. If any of this interests you pls buy so I can continue doing this

Kelsey Atherton@atherton.bsky.social · yesterday

there's a host of reasons people don't get tenure and/or wash out of academia and most are sympatheic and structural but the least sympathetic is someone expressing complete and utter contempt for students as people, and doing it constantly

Kau)))@carbon8.bsky.social · yesterday

🚨ATTN: Paleoceanographers + Paleoclimatologists🚨 There's a new (sub)venue for your short-format papers @agu.org's #PaleoceanographyAndPaleoclimatology! 🌊 Take a look at what type of articles we are looking for:

AGU (American Geophysical Union)@agu.org · 2d ago

Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology now offers Research Letters, a new format for brief, timely, scientific communications, launched on the journal’s 40th anniversary. Learn more in #AGUEos: spklr.io/63320ER3ty #AGUPubs #Publishing #Paleo #Paleoclimate #Oceans #Paleoceanography #STEM

Waves crashing on a rocky shore.
Carolyn Bertozzi@carolynbertozzi.bskyverified.social · 2w ago

We already do this and companies who want them are happy to pay for PhD student interns. Why do precious and limited NSF funds need to be deployed for this? Most PhD student pursue industry jobs anyways - that has always been true. Use NSF funds to support basic science that industry wont support!

Jonathan Wosen@jonathanwosen.bsky.social · 2w ago

With academic jobs few and far between, the NSF is testing a new approach to graduate education: Giving Ph.D. students industry experience — and dollars — as part of their training. For more, see my latest for @statnews.com. www.statnews.com/2026/07/29/h...

Luke O'Neil@lukeoneil47.bsky.social · 2w ago

Sorry I’m making a singer’s life about me but that is the deal. They sing about their life and I take it to be about my life and then I write about it and the people reading that take it to be about theirs.

It was incredibly lucky that I was here I’m looking at a video of ___ on stage right now. He sounds like he sounds. Like how you remember him sounding from one day ago when he was still alive. The casually delivered growl of a man who has lived and also very much always almost not lived throughout most of that living. I must have seen this at the time. I was still very young at this point even as old as I am now but this show was a big deal for the people like me watching and an even bigger deal for the bands playing although probably not for ___ who didn’t seem to be impressed by much of anything. Sorry I’m making a singer’s life about me but that is the deal. They sing about their life and I take it to be about my life and then I write about it and the people reading that take it to be about theirs. People love to deify a person on the day they die but then it diminishes incrementally over time. Unless they were a very big deal. Our man here seems like the type of guy whose stature will grow posthumously I’d imagine. People who sing about death and pain a lot become more important when they’re gone because now it seems like they’ve completed the final course prerequisite. That’s a dangerous pattern for a certain type of person to notice. 52 Hold on let me look up how old he was at the time of that performance. He was twenty eight. Old enough to not be too overwhelmed by it all but still. God his voice sounds so good. Jagged but strong. Let’s make a conservative estimate and say at a clip of around 20 smokes a day times almost 11,000 days since then that his voice was about 220,000 cigarettes younger than the day he died. He’s got a black eye and he looks like the type of guy who would have a black eye as a matter of principle. Everyone loves this song. Everyone loves it and it’s still underrated. The day before the band had been in a bar brawl and their drummer fucked up his shoulder which accounts for why there’s some other guy sitting in. ___ is wearing a very n…
Barbara Mellone 🇺🇦@centromellone.bsky.social · 3w ago

America's R1 universities educate ~8–9 million students (undergraduate + graduate) -> more than 1/3 of U.S. college students (vs. the ~0.6% of Ivies). Undermining this system threatens the institutions that train our workforce and drive scientific innovation. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

An American research crisis with real human consequences

Ivy League universities have dominated recent news headlines, having become popular targets for critics of higher education. But the threats they face—cuts to federal research funding, assaults on aca...

science.org

Rodger Sherman@rodger.bsky.social · last mo.

I like how FIFA says "this is in line with Article 27 of our disciplinary code" and you expect it to be something about the specific reasons when they can undo improper VAR decisions or a review of the specific play but its just "we can undo suspensions if we decide to undo suspensions" lmao

SUSPENSION OF IMPLEMENTATION OF DISCIPLINARY MEASURES 1. The judicial body may decide to fully or partially suspend the implementation of a disciplinary measure. 2. By suspending the implementation of the sanction, the judicial body subjects the person sanctioned to a probationary period of one to four years. 3. If the person benefiting from a suspended sanction commits another infringement of a similar nature and gravity during the probationary period, the suspension shall be revoked by the judicial body and the sanction enforced without prejudice to any additional sanction imposed for the new infringement. 4. Disciplinary measures relating to match manipulation cannot be suspende
Tariq Panja@tariqpanja.bsky.social · last mo.

FIFA making the rules up as they go along. Whatever you think of the red card Balogun got, FIFA has upheld the red card but instead of a mandatory one match ban, he gets a probationary period. Following rule changes that allowed Ronaldo to swerve ban at the start of the tournament. Ridiculous.

CJ Fogler@cjzero.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Rebecca: "Chaps, Alexi left us" Zlatan: "Who? Rebecca: "Alexi will be back, Alexi will be back with us very soon" Thierry: "Your plan worked, Rebecca" Rebecca: "Don't you bring me into this, no chance" Zlatan: "America, you're welcome" lmaooooooooooooooooo

Riley Black 🏳️‍⚧️ 🦕@restingdinoface.bsky.social · 2mo ago

A stunning fossil site full of fish uncovered in Egypt reveals how oceans began to bounce back after the devastating mass extinction that closed the Cretaceous. I’ll tell you more in my latest for National Geographic! 🐠 🧪

Scientists unearth a ‘petrified aquarium’ of 62-million-year-old fish fossils

An unexpected haul of nearly 500 fossilized fish in Egypt provides an unprecedented picture of how sea life rebounded from the asteroid that killed the dinosaurs.

nationalgeographic.com

Chris Lowery@chrislowery.bsky.social · 3mo ago

A cool paper (that I reviewed😎) by Rui Ying et al. modeling how global darkness impacted marine plankton (and thus ecosystems) after the Chicxulub impact. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Darkness and body size shaped end-Cretaceous marine extinction patterns - Nature

Trait-based ecosystem modelling shows that impact-driven darkness and body-size-dependent extinction thresholds, rather than carbon-dioxide increase or acidification, drove most of the observed end-Cr...

nature.com

Carl T. Bergstrom@carlbergstrom.com · 3mo ago

This is North Korea level bullshit, and a total fucking disaster for science and for the United States alike. It doesn't matter whether it fails to pass; this kind of thinking is already penetrating NIH, NSF, NASA, etc and causing severe harm. NASEM, AAAS, AAUP, etc must condemn unequivocally.

Lawmakers propose banning all U.S.-Chinese research collaborations

Critics say bill would weaken U.S. science by cutting flows of ideas and talent

science.org

David M. Perry@lollardfish.bsky.social · 3mo ago

More AI Haters (me) should read this rule. I understand the position that making an AI policy is a kind of surrender, but I also think a general rule like this is another way of addressing the situation that doesn't turn the syllabus into a EULA.

Elizabeth Joh@elizabethjoh.bsky.social · 3mo ago

A very, very broad AI policy at Berkeley Law (shared from Chris Hoofnagle)-haven’t seen anything like this before www.law.berkeley.edu/wp-content/u...