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Kate Freeman
@khfreeman.bsky.social
Scientist, educator, concerned citizen. Isotopes and molecules are my thing. (she/her)
Big news! The 'all scientists who do climate' feed now stands at: 🌏 3500 MEMBERS 🌎 ...more than it ever had on Twitter! Huge welcome to #3949, my fav colleague @brasmus.bsky.social, and #3500, @johndparker.bsky.social, who says he’s “not good at social media.” No longer, John! Pin it here ⬇️
New paper led by Emily Hollingsworth in Geochemical Perspective Letters. We use Raman spectroscopy to evaluate rock organic carbon oxidation during the Paleocene-Eocene thermal maximum and assess its role as a positive feedback mechanism! (1/3) www.geochemicalperspectivesletters.org/article2444/
Applications are open for our 2025 paleoclimate summer school, paleoCAMP, held in the eastern Sierras in late June! Please repost and share with your graduate students. paleoclimate.camp/apply #paleo #carbon #climate
Application — paleoCAMP
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Congrats to all the new members of the NAS elected today, most especially the amazing and geobiologist extraordinaire Ann Pearson! 🧪🧬⚒️ www.nasonline.org/news-and-mul...
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2024 NAS Election
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This is fantastic
I recently made a comic complaining that NASA refuses to listen to my good ideas for improving the Solar System (xkcd.com/2750). To my delight, NASA’s Science Mission Directorate has sent me an actual expert panel evaluation of my “flatten the planets” proposal! Sadly, they decided not to fund it.
A sight to behold!!
NASA's first photo from the inside of OSIRISREx -- you're looking at the sample of the asteroid Bennu! They previously found signs of Carbon and water. Looking forward to hearing what exactly they find. #physics #science #astronomy #NASA 🔭🛰️🧪
Wow. May your day be better than what’s happening today for the good people of Grindavik ⚒️🧪
They caught the beginning of the eruption on camera: www.ruv.is/frettir/innl...
The paleoCAMP application deadline is in one week! If you're a graduate student interested in paleoclimate, apply to join us this summer in the beautiful eastern Sierra for two weeks of proxies, models, statistics, fieldwork, and fun! paleoclimate.camp/apply
Application — paleoCAMP
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Just out, a 66 million year history of atmospheric CO2. Key take away: CO2 hasn't been at today's levels for at least 3 million years. These high CO2 worlds in the geological past had less ice and *much* higher sea levels 📈🌊 ⚒️🧪 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Reposting great tips that helped me to write a guide for my own students. Key points: AI-text 1) is inaccurate, 2) amplifies bias, 3) relies on other people’s words and ideas. But also, useful. I invited students to teach me how they use it. They pointed out things I’d never think of! Amazing 🧪⚒️
BU's Computing Data Science policy is #26 "Give credit to AI tools whenever used...add an appendix showing (a) entire exchange, highlighting most relevant sections (b) precisely which AI tools were used (c) an explanation of how the AI tools were used (d) why AI tools were used" #AcademicSky #Edusky
I’ve taught about climate change for over three decades. I’m allowing myself to be cautiously encouraged for the first time. You should too. Thanks @drkatemarvel.bsky.social for this helpful message and let’s keep it going
Here’s a gift link to my @nytimes.com op-ed arguing that because of the tireless work of the policymakers, engineers, activists, and others who listened to the science, we now have a fighting chance for a better world www.nytimes.com/2023/11/18/o...
We have an amazing lineup of speakers for the Geobiology Gordon Research Conference, Jan 14-19, 2024. Please join us, and round out the scientific program by contributing your best hot-off-the-presses work in geobiology (broadly defined). www.grc.org/geobiology-c...
2024 Geobiology Conference GRC
The 2024 Gordon Research Conference on Geobiology will be held in Galveston, TX. Apply today to reserve your spot.
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This sky place just keeps getting better and better for ⚒️🧪 people, posts, and science-y discourse. So great to see
Are you a doctoral student? Want to explore how Earth and life dance together? 🧪⚒️🌎🔬🧬💃 Join us next summer in Italy and at Penn State! Dates and info for the 2024 International Geobiology Course here: t.co/nv3Ooy88Vn
While deleting all my tweets, I found this thing I made in 2020 for something called the “Dolly Parton Challenge”. Pretty sure I did it wrong
Will love hearing from @khfreeman.bsky.social and her group over the next year and beyond about #Bennu science #AstrobiolgyPSU
A terrific morning for space science! We are thrilled to help the #OSIRISREx team learn more about the early solar system and building blocks for life 🔭🧪🌎🔬
A terrific morning for space science! We are thrilled to help the #OSIRISREx team learn more about the early solar system and building blocks for life 🔭🧪🌎🔬
A thrilling morning! So glad @jmacalad.bsky.social and so many #PSU #Astrobiology and #Planetary friends could join us to watch 👀 the #OSIRIS-REx sample return to Earth 🌎. A few tense moments, but now the sample return container is safely home! 🧪🔬🔭
With @khfreeman.bsky.social and 8 super excited !!! junior scientists watching as the capsule containing material from asteroid #Bennu is curated by a science and safety team #OSIRISREx www.nasa.gov/nasalive
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The watch party @khfreeman.bsky.social continues, here with celebratory coffee drink in hand, watching a helicopter lift the OSIRIS-REx sample capsule away from the landing zone to a clean room 😍 @AstrobiologyPsu @GeoscPSU @PSUEMS #Bennu #OSIRISREx
WATCHING NOW: The capsule to be released from the OSIRIS-REx spacecraft is going to land in Utah this morning. It contains material from the asteroid Bennu, and part of it will be analyzed @khfreeman.bsky.social @GeoscPSU @PSUEMS @AstrobiologyPSU www.nasa.gov/nasalive
Remembering that one time OSIRIS-Rex texted me when they got to Bennu
We are hiring a biogeoscience faculty member at Georgia Tech! We'll start considering applications Oct 1. Feel free to contact me with questions. Apply here: careers.hprod.onehcm.usg.edu/psp/careers/...
Anyone else excited to see asteroid rocks arrive this Sunday from space?? 👀🧪🔭🔬 www.npr.org/2023/09/22/1...