If anyone knows any MSC or PhD students working in the realm of evaporates or any other chemical sediments then please encourage them to apply for this opportunity to share their research.

Seds Online@sedsonline.bsky.social · 2w ago

We are now accepting abstracts for the 14th Seds Online Student Webinar on 28 October 2026. If you're an MSc or PhD student working on evaporites or other chemical sediments, we'd love to hear from you. Submit your abstract by 30 September 2026: forms.gle/LZ2tXGvxf1fQ...

From February: “Those people should be given every opportunity to seek the relief they’re eligible for. Why are we creating rules or laws, then not giving people the opportunity to use them?”

How Trump's ICE Is Locking Up Longtime Texans with Paths to Legal Status

The case of one Houston man, nearly deported to India after a quarter-century here, shows what happens when prosecutorial discretion is abandoned.

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RIP Joides Resolution. Thanks for the holes (and sediment from them!)

Randall Munroe@xkcd.com · last mo.

Holes xkcd.com/3266/

If you owe a woman $5 million for sexual assault, you also owe the country your resignation.

We are pleased to announce that the Dept of Earth & Environmental Geosciences @colgate.edu is hiring a tenure-stream asst professor in paleoclimate! For additional info regarding the position & to apply: apply.interfolio.com/188708 . Please share broadly & contact us with your questions. Thank you!

Really important article from @drjudystone.bsky.social, describing some of the very serious problems with the proposed OMB rule that would put political appointees in charge of federal grant funding.

How The OMB Rule Could Hurt You And Your Town

The OMB proposal threatens scientific research and ALL federal funding for states, cities, and nonprofits. It politicizes ALL funding. Call your reps and write an objection.

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What these shitbirds do not care about is that a healthy population does, in fact, yield financial benefits to society as a whole. But not enough of it will go to their crooked friends, so this is their solution, at the expense of everyone else. Our taxes are going to further enrich rich men.

Exclusive: NSF slashes research programs to support new tech initiative, insiders say

Unexpected shift in funds has meant sharp drop in grants this fiscal year

science.org

More terrible news for science in the US: NSF slashing physical sciences funding by 30% and halting all pending awards — www.science.org/content/arti... 🧪 🔭 ⚛️

Exclusive: NSF slashes research programs to support new tech initiative, insiders say

Unexpected shift in funds has meant sharp drop in grants this fiscal year

science.org

app.climatecentral.org/dataviz/warm...

"Because faculty no longer control the curriculum, Texas A&M is quickly becoming an institution of dead dogmas." - Martin Peterson His full resignation letter below. Hear from him directly at our next Resistance Salon - June 24 @ 12pm ET. Register 👇 www.resistancestudiesseries.com/salon

⚒️ Article: The burial of terrestrially-derived organic carbon in coastal marine sediments greatly increased during the Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum @climategordon.bsky.social @sotonoceanearth.bsky.social @unisouthampton.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Enhanced marine burial of terrestrial organic carbon through the Palaeocene–Eocene Thermal Maximum - Nature Geoscience

The burial of terrestrially derived organic carbon in coastal marine sediments greatly increased during the Palaeocene–Eocene Thermal Maximum, probably helping to draw down a large portion of carbon r...

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🚨Funding for 2yr postdoc w/ me & @geocron.bsky.social on landslide-tsunami-jökulhlaup project, but (this is the ridiculous part) I need to select someone NOW or I lose the $. If you're NOT in Canada (can be any nationality) and interested, send me your CV and transcripts by midnight MT, June 12. 🧪⚒️

NEW: In 2022, Bitcoin miners promised Corpus Christi millions in tax revenues in exchange for the de-annexation of their water-sucking cryptomine. Four years later, the city is in a water crisis & the mine has yielded only a minute fraction of what was promised. www.texasobserver.org/corpus-chris...

The City of Corpus Christi is Keeping a Cryptomine's Water Usage Secret

The city declined to supply public records on the mine’s water usage, citing a state law that allows nondisclosure of an individual customer’s account.

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Heck yeah, of course I did this! I let them know I didn't want a triumphal arch that commemorates no victories and means nothing other than to stroke the ego of a man-child playing with his toy city. @hcrichardson.bsky.social, perhaps folks who follow you might also want to chime in? Closes 6/15.

OfDragonflies@abitofearth.bsky.social · 2mo ago

I’m not sure it matters anymore, but the “triumphal arch” project is currently open for public comment. If anyone is inclined to share their feelings: parkplanning.nps.gov/document.cfm...

IODP Exp 372/375 paper alert: New Insights Into Hikurangi Subduction Inputs and Megathrust Host Rocks Spanning Along-Margin Changes in Fault Slip Behavior by Barnes et al. doi.org/10.1029/2025...

New Insights Into Hikurangi Subduction Inputs and Megathrust Host Rocks Spanning Along‐Margin Changes in Fault Slip Behavior

Hikurangi subduction inputs and the properties of the megathrust fault vary along the margin with changes in fault slip behavior Hikurangi trench sediments are equivalent to the thickest on Earth...

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Callum Pearman, Chia-Yu Tien, Nicky White, @johnmaclennan.bsky.social, Bramley Murton, Sally Gibson, Jason Day, @rosspt.bsky.social and the #IODP #Exp395 Science Team on dramatic changes in plume-ridge interaction in the North Atlantic over the past 55 Ma and resulting impacts on seafloor spreading:

Collapse and resurgence of the Iceland mantle plume - Nature Communications

The Iceland mantle plume influence on seafloor spreading collapsed ~38 million years ago, and has been progressively re-established to the present-day, according to analyses of basalt samples from an ...

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Thrilled to see @eirinipoulaki.bsky.social’s paper on granites drilled during IODP exp 402 out! Granites are normally found in continental crust, but their association with mantle rocks underneath the Mediterranean gave insight into faulting during ocean basin formation. share.google/rHyrf41YBNy4...

Granitic intrusions enhance strain localization and rapid mantle exhumation along an oceanic detachment fault

Rheologically weak felsic intrusions enhance detachment fault nucleation, strain localization, and mantle exhumation.

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#WeekendReading: Burke et al., on oxygen deficiency in the Atlantic during the Miocene. We're slowly building a nice global picture of the oxygen minimum zones through that period, and their relations to planetary temperatures. 🧪🌊⚒️ Link: ​https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-026-73732-7

There’s been a lot of talk in this race about what makes a "real man." A man does what’s right when no one is watching. He upholds his commitments to his family and neighbors. He doesn’t lie, cheat, & steal his way through life. Real men serve others. Weak men serve themselves.

Fascinating results from #IODP #Exp400 recently published by Jiliang Wang (王吉亮), Andrew M. W. Newton, Mads Huuse, David R. Cox, Lara F. Perez & Paul C. Knutz @ecord.bsky.social @us-sciod.bsky.social @anzic.bsky.social

Gas hydrate dissolution triggered by subglacial groundwater flushing during deglaciation - Nature Geoscience

Subglacial meltwater flushed methane from the gas hydrate stability zone and released it into seawater during Greenland Ice Sheet retreat across the continental shelf in the last deglaciation, accordi...

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This week, the 2026 Teacher/Research and Curriculum Experience (TRACX), a step-child of the long-running School of Rock, is taking place at the Gulf Coast Repository. Ten teachers and three researchers are teaming up to advance SciOD research while creating classroom resources.

This right here.

The Volatile Mermaid@ohnoshetwitnt.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Imagine if a woman president crashed the economy and started a war with no end in sight, and her biggest, seemingly ONLY concern was building a ballroom and redecorating the White House.

From our magazine: GOP legislators repeatedly insisted that “Texas Education Freedom Accounts” would be open to any and all types of private schools—of all creeds and persuasions. In predictable fashion, they haven't quite lived up to that promise.

School Vouchers Are What We Thought They Were

The nascent "freedom accounts" program is, predictably, burdened by Republicans’ insistence on religious discrimination—and likely set to benefit those already outside the public school system.

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Congress should make very clear that anyone participating in this has lost the ability to be in a position of public trust.

Dan Garisto@dangaristo.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Scoop: NSF has been quietly blocking new funds and grants to four top universities: Duke, Harvard, Princeton, and Yale. Dozens of proposals from PIs at these universities—and their collaborators—have been stuck at the Office of Award Management awaiting finalization for months.

Of what use was the [23.5 years in the U.S. Senate]? www.texasobserver.org/ken-paxton-r... from @byjustinmiller.bsky.social

Not with a Bang but with a ‘Truth’

With the press of a button in his social media app, the president puts a probable end to more than two decades of Senate striving.

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In case you’re wondering about the status of the start of melt season on the Greenland Ice Sheet, keep on wondering… #Arctic #Climate @zacklabe.com @ruthmottram.eurosky.social

In April, researchers from across Europe and beyond met in Granada for the IODP Expedition 401 post-cruise meeting. Scientists shared post-cruise research results, providing new insights on how the Atlantic and Mediterranean exchanged water during the Messinian Salinity Crisis. (cont. in thread)

So this happened today. My office, lab, husbands office, lab… students offices… not great. Tough times ahead

As a scientist, this is my worst nightmare. There are one-of-a-kind instruments that you spend your life perfecting. When they’re lost, no amount of time or money will bring them back. My thoughts are with @oceanandclimate.bsky.social @ashevenell.bsky.social and others @cmarinescience.bsky.social. 🥺

Fire breaks out at USF St. Pete Marine Science Lab. Building likely ‘total loss’

More than 60 units and 200 firefighters were called to the scene.

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Fire is out at the USF St Petersburg College of Marine Science - happily nobody was injured, but it doesn’t look good for the building