Geoscience teachers, interested in playing my GeoTimeline Game? You can now buy your own copy, these little timescale cards come in a cute mint tin! www.thegamecrafter.com/games/geotim...
Rowan Martindale
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Associate Professor @ UT Austin researching extinctions (global carbon cycle perturbations), reef ecosystems, & exceptional fossilization. She/her/hers 🇨🇦
Check out this awesome virtual field trip of Jamaican Mangroves by my colleague Denise Henry and her team at Forestry!! 🇯🇲 🌳 💕 Take a virtual tour of the beautiful mangrove ecosystem and learn about the different types of mangrove trees and their habitats. www.forestry.gov.jm/wetlands/vir...
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My History of Earth and Life lab is having fun playing @rowanmartindale.bsky.social “Taphonomy: Dead and Fossilized” game today. I always find it interesting how different groups of students organize their boards, erm, differently. Highly, highly recommend this game.
Congratulations to Travis Stone on the acceptance of his third PhD Manuscript! Early Jurassic Reef 🪸 Recovery patterns following the Pliensbachian-Toarcian crisis in Maroc 🇲🇦 The paper is open access, and you can find it here: doi.org/10.1016/j.pa...
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It has been online for a year, but it is now published, (w)undergrad Barbara Sulbaran's thesis is a paper! Factors that promote cooperation, learning, & engagement with geoscience concepts when playing educational board games in an entry-level college paleontology lab. doi.org/10.1080/1089...
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Hey Everyone, this is the last week to apply for GEOPAths GO Jamaica www.jsg.utexas.edu/geopathsgoja...! This is the last year, so be sure to have interested students sign up!
Things are pretty awful in the US right now, so I am trying to channel my nervous energy into creative and educational things... So I'm designing a new geoscience education game for my freshman class. It's a quick play card game about the geological timescale... Anyone want to play this semester?
So this happened... ❤️ Thank you so much to all the wonderful students, colleagues, and mentors, I would be lost without you all and the science wouldn't be anywhere near as fun! 💕
Last day of #gsaconnects2025, but there are lots of great posters and talks by our @txgeosciences.bsky.social team and Jamaican collaborators 🇯🇲
#gsaconnects2025 people, go check out some cool posters and talks this afternoon! Gabriel and Wilson both have cool posters incorporatibg machine learning with forams or ooids... I'll also be giving my talk about ooids and acidification this afternoon! @txgeosciences.bsky.social
If you're at GSA Connects today there are going to be some great talks & posters given by current & graduated @txgeosciences.bsky.social mentees, check them out!
Job Alert: UT Austin is hiring TWO Professors of Practice and Curators in Charge, one for the Vertebrate Paleontology Lab and another for the Non-vertebrate Paleontology Lab at the Jackson School of Geosciences Museum of Earth History. Apply here: apply.interfolio.com/175702 Review begins Oct. 27th
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#Job Alert! UT Austin is opening applications for Assistant #Professor (tenure-track) or Associate Professor (tenured) in #Sedimentary #Geosciences Apply here - apply.interfolio.com/173688 or send your inquiries to @rowanmartindale.bsky.social #sedimentology, #stratigraphy, #paleoenvironments
🚨JOB ALERT🚨 We (JSG @ UT Austin) are looking for an Assistant Professor (tenure-track) or Associate Professor (tenured) in Sedimentary Geosciences More details here: apply.interfolio.com/173688 Or ask me!
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Mass extinction/Paleozoic friends... I have some folks in my Extinction class eager to read about Paleozoic biotic crises, so what's your favorite paper/papers about these events? Both new/exciting and classic/seminal work in the field would be appreciated. Self promotion welcome 😜.
🚨Heads up GSA Abstract submitters🚨 This year you cannot edit abstracts after they have been submitted/paid for. I don't think this is GSA's intention (their confirmation email says you can edit up to the deadline), but don't pay for your abstract until you are done and have no more edits!
Check out this great press release about @brontonorris.bsky.social's first paper! @txgeosciences.bsky.social www.jsg.utexas.edu/news/2025/07...
Clues for Dinosaurs’ Diets Found in the Chemistry of Their Fossil Teeth
Some of the dinosaurs and other prehistoric creatures that roamed the western U.S. during the Late Jurassic about 150 million…
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Hey check out this new paper by former UT postdoc Katya Larina (plus former UT postdoc @foradamifera.bsky.social, @anshumans.bsky.social, @rowanmartindale.bsky.social, and Cori Meyers who I don’t think is here?) www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Regional restructuring in planktic foraminifera communities through Pliocene-early Pleistocene climate variability
Nature Communications - The Pliocene–early Pleistocene interval was characterized by climatic fluctuations. Here, the authors apply a bipartite network analysis to a database of planktic...
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Need advice: Colleagues and I recently published a paper, but the journal modified our figures after the proofs, they are now problematic. The only option seems to be to retract the publication, but that seems ridiculous when the journal could have worked with us to modify the figures. Suggestions?
Congratulations to Katya on this awesome paper!
Chris Lowery@chrislowery.bsky.social · last yr.Hey check out this new paper by former UT postdoc Katya Larina (plus former UT postdoc @foradamifera.bsky.social, @anshumans.bsky.social, @rowanmartindale.bsky.social, and Cori Meyers who I don’t think is here?) www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Racist and sexist roots in the cancellation of NSF grants under Trump: Grants with female PIs canceled 2x more than men Grants with Black PIs canceled 4x over White PIs Grants with Hispanic PIs canceled 2x over White PIs Grants with PIs with disabilities canceled 2x more than without
David Malakoff@davidmalakoff.bsky.social · last yr.Another scoop from Jeff Mervis (@policyhound.bsky.social): NSF's ~1400 grant terminations have disproportionately affected PIs from groups underrepresented in science: women, racial & ethnic minorities, & those with disabilities. 1/3 www.science.org/content/arti...
“The entire landscape of American science, research, and engineering are under heavy attack,” the employee says. “It’s really critical that we all speak against it and be unified in our opposition.”
NSF employees brace for major restructuring
Although paused by a court order, reorganization plan creates concern about the agency’s future
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A lifeline for researchers with cancelled grants: www.spencer.org/grant_types/...
Rapid Response Bridge Funding Program
In the face of recent abrupt shifts in federal funding for education research, including large-scale terminations of National Science Foundation (NSF) research grant awards, we have developed a rap...
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Check out the @txgeosciences.bsky.social press release www.jsg.utexas.edu/news/2025/04... @chrislowery.bsky.social @fraass.bsky.social @glyptocrinus.bsky.social
New Study Shows How ‘Marine Revolution’ Shaped Ocean Life
A scanning electron micrograph of Globorotalia tumida, a calcareous planktic foraminifera. This specimen was collected from IODP Site U1559 in…
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Dr. Or M. Bialik |📚|🔬|🌊|⚒️@obialik.bsky.social · last yr.#WeekendReading: Faulkner et al. (w/ @rowanmartindale.bsky.social; @chrislowery.bsky.social) on how the test walls of foraminifera change through the Phanerozoic and what might that have to do with ocean chemistry. 🧪⚒️🌊 royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...
Anna's paper on ecological turnover at the PETM has been published! Shallow-Marine, Benthic Ecosystems Show Compositional Shifts in Response to the Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum (PETM) on the Adriatic Carbonate Platform @txgeosciences.bsky.social agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/...
Shallow‐Marine, Benthic Ecosystems Show Compositional Shifts in Response to the Paleocene‐Eocene Thermal Maximum (PETM) on the Adriatic Carbonate Platform
Significant changes in benthic marine assemblages in response to the PETM PETM caused the extirpation of red algae, a turnover in larger benthic foraminifera, and a protracted recovery Disappear...
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#WeekendReading: Faulkner et al. (w/ @rowanmartindale.bsky.social; @chrislowery.bsky.social) on how the test walls of foraminifera change through the Phanerozoic and what might that have to do with ocean chemistry. 🧪⚒️🌊 royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...
NOTE: This will not change policy and is not a substitute for calling your representatives! Please send postcards AND call to demand full funding and staffing for NOAA. Very helpful for calling: 5calls.org/issue/noaa-n... @5calls.org
Condemn the Illegal Firing of NOAA and NWS Employees ⭑ 5 Calls
On February 27th, the Trump administration terminated hundreds of employees at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) and National …
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NOAA is going to lose 1000+ employees today. Will you join me in sending love notes to the remaining employees at NOAA labs & offices around the country? Instructions & ~200 addresses here: docs.google.com/spreadsheets... I'm starting to send mine today. 💙 @noaa.gov 🌊 @savenoaa.bsky.social
TX Science & Natural History Museum is updating their paleontology exhibits. The new Discovery Center will be a hands-on learning space. They are seeking a full-time Education Associate to oversee the day-to-day operations. utaustin.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/UTstaff/job/...
Education Associate, Texas Science & Natural History Museum
Job Posting Title: Education Associate, Texas Science & Natural History Museum ---- Hiring Department: Texas Memorial Museum ---- Position Open To: All Applicants ---- Weekly Scheduled Hours: 40 ...
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