“If New Orleans goes, we won’t lose mere possessions but one of the world’s greatest cities and many of its greater citizens.” - me on August 28, 2005 20 years ago, we had just reached Houston after 16 long hours on the road, and I stayed for what turned out to be six months. vatul.net/640

Hi #geosky, it’s been a minute. Where can I find the latest trends and techniques in geologic map making? How are undergraduates learning to map - on paper or using digital techniques? If digital, what tools are prevalent and who are the leading experts/researchers in this area? TY! #geology #maps

Book 19 of 2025: Signs Preceding the End of the World by Yuri Herrera, political scientist & Tulane prof. Second 5 stars given. 📚💙 “Don’t let it get you down. They don’t understand it either, they live in fear of the lights going out, as if every day wasn’t already made of lightning and blackouts.”

Even when the political winds shift, science must keep moving forward. That’s why @AGU and @ametsoc are stepping up with a first-of-its-kind special collection on climate change in the U.S.—across 29+ peer-reviewed journals. 🌍📚 Read all about it: buff.ly/6G05hQD

If you're interested in downloading available data quickly, I found the DownThemAll website scraper extension for Firefox pretty useful. ⚒️🧪

Jenna C. Hill@chillocean.bsky.social · last yr.

NOAA just announced a long list of datasets that are going away🧪⚒️🌊: www.nesdis.noaa.gov/about/docume... Download what you need asap and send comments to: ncei.info@noaa.gov

The Sierra Nevada Earth Atlas showcases California’s longest and tallest mountain range and its iconic geologic features. It represents the most current, complete, and largest-scale, range-wide syntheses of geoscience data. Learn more - www.conservation.ca.gov/cgs/document...

On, Wisconsin! On! 🦡 🧀 💚

The New York Times@nytimes.com · last yr.

Breaking News: Susan Crawford, a liberal judge, won a pivotal Wisconsin Supreme Court seat despite $25 million in spending by Elon Musk on her opponent.

Where can someone who lives in Yakima, WA (in the ash fall path of a Mt Adams eruption) get accurate scientific information as they are hearing only inflammatory local news? They are far away enough that they would not have to evacuate, but would like to be better informed/prepared. 🧪⚒️

Book 5 of 2025: Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin. Read this bit of dialogue set in the 1980s and now staring at Oregon 2025. #youdiedofdysentery #BookSky💙📚

Mardi Gras Day | March 4, 2025 | New Orleans, LA “The system of patriarchy can function only with the cooperation of women.”

I won Muses! #mardigras #NOLASky

the rise of the fascist nerds was anticipated by Ellen Ullman's 1995 essay "Out of Time: Reflections on the Programming Life."

⚜️ KREWE OF KING ARTHUR PARADE RAIN DELAY!⚜️ Due to 100% chance of downpour tomorrow, King Arthur is now a night parade and will roll on Tuesday at 5:30pm. See y’all on the route! #NOLAsky #mardigras

Listen to me about deep and indiscriminate layoffs in science, tech, and engineering (private and public sector). Once the talent is gone, it is gone. For a whole generation or more. A company/research institution cannot simply recoup its former power by hiring back staff/contractors here and there.

Krewe du Vieux rolls! We march and dance and claim these streets tonight with even more of our sociopolitical satire because this is what we are fighting for. Let’s remember the krewe’s philosophy following Katrina: Preserve our culture and heritage first, and the recovery will follow. #NOLASky

Happy Krewe du Vieux Eve! #mardigras

“But it is up to scientists to do the reading — and to follow our consciences. More than universities are on the line: the lives of our students and colleagues are on the line.”

US science in chaos as impact of Trump's executive orders sinks in – Physics World

US science hit by staff layoffs, slashed budgets, axed diversity programmes and cancelled conferences

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We have so many things to do!

Ashley C. Ford@smashfizzle.bsky.social · 2y ago

We could just be reading great books, watching good movies, and eating fruit. Instead we have to survive/fight miserable power hoarders. What a waste of limited time.

Reported a Google Maps content error: This portion of the Gulf of Mexico is erroneously labeled. The Gulf of America does not extend beyond the southern maritime boundary between the US and Mexico. If you’re going to do it, do it correctly. Higher accuracy generates greater use.

It better be kaiju

The Independent@the-independent.com · 2y ago

Something is happening inside the Earth, scientists say

“human drivers who sometimes demonstrate a unique interpretation of the standard rules of the road” - So much to unpack just in this clause of the whole sentence.

Marta Jewson@martajewson.bsky.social · 2y ago

You, pedestrian Carnival traffic, are the "varied conditions."

All of this to lower the earning power of qualified people they consider less than. Newsflash: This is a time of mergers and layoffs. If you can’t do the remaining jobs, it doesn’t matter that you belong to the oberklasse.

jamelle@jamellebouie.net · 2y ago

this is the "merit" two-step. first, you strongly imply or state outright that the presence of anyone who isn't a straight, able-bodied white man is unfair "DEI," then you argue that just because an institution is all-male and lily-white doesn't mean there is discrimination. that's just merit!

DEI is not the inclusion of unqualified people. We are extremely (over) qualified, do not want to be segregated and excluded because we look different, and just want to do the damned work. Support us or get out of the way.

Franklin Leonard@franklinleonard.bsky.social · 2y ago

Pete Hegseth isn’t DEI. Daniel Penny isn’t DEI. That’s not what DEI is. They’re just grossly unqualified for their jobs and add no value that any replacement legacy job applicant wouldn’t bring. So stop saying “it’s DEI” like it’s a clever commentary on the situation. It’s not.

Timely. Humans are the barely self-aware descendants of jacked-up prokaryotes on a somewhat rare floating rock, on our way to becoming something else. Can we take a collective step back and chill?

Randall Munroe@xkcd.com · 2y ago

Stromatolites xkcd.com/3046

It is #BlackHistoryMonth - I will be sharing info about historic marginalized Black geoscientists with department students & highlighting some Black geoscientists I follow. Plus I will be sharing data on who gets cited/why it matters. #StandingForDEI blogs.egu.eu/divisions/ts...

Marguerite Thomas Williams: The US’ first black person to obtain a doctorate in Geology

Women in Tectonics and Structural Geology by Lucia Perez-Diaz   On the day of Christmas Eve, five years before the turn of the century, Marguerite Thomas Williams (December 1895 – August 1991) was bor...

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All glory to the HYPNOTOAD!!!!

Dr Mark D. Scherz@markscherz.bsky.social · 2y ago

Bluesky has not yet had any Rhombophryne testudo. Let’s fix that. I think it will do all of us some good. 🐸🟤

Good opportunity to update the names of the scientists listed on the museum’s crown molding to reflect the contributions of women to science and industry. 🧪

Block Club Chicago@blockclubchi.bsky.social · 2y ago

The Museum of Science and Industry is getting a $10 million facelift. https://buff.ly/3WHB7MB

If people knowing the law is stopping you from doing what you want, then the people knowing the law is not the problem.

From the Andrea Carlson “Shimmer on Horizons” collection at Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago. Oil, acrylic, gouache, ink, colored pencil, and graphite on paper. Ancestor and Descendant, 2023 Perpetual Care, 2024 Cast a Shadow, 2021