When you are sitting there thinking, “but is it really worse than @workday.com?” and the antecedent of “it” is Palantir, well, I guess it’s time to finally subscribe to @foiaball.com 🤷‍♂️ (come for the workday jokes, stay for the FERPA questions)

Carrie Brown@brizzyc.bsky.social · 6d ago

Yikes. UCLA's School of Music “served as the beta test case for UCLA’s Palantir engagement, integrating HR, finance, and student information data in order to foster student success.” www.foiaball.com/p/public-uni... Great reporting from @foiaball.com

Best Norway v England match since 1066 coming up

Ah the worst player in the publishing space continues to be the worst player publishing space

Shocked Surprised Cat Reaction

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Mark Peifer (He, him)@peiferlabunc.bsky.social · last mo.

Truly bizarre story of how two papers from the 1940s by physics pioneer Max Planck have been "retracted" from Naturwissenschaften, potentially by an algorithm, for anachronistic "plagiarism" issues, leaving the current editor baffled (but it is Springer Nature so.... www.science.org/content/arti...

I walked into Petco as this was happening. I’ve been to a Super Bowl. I’ve been to the Eras Tour. I’ve never ever heard a stadium this loud.

Ripley the Oriole ➡️ FWA@ripleytheoriole.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Happy 10 Year Anniversary of Bartolo Colon hitting a home run to everyone who celebrated youtu.be/OVFsq9FQBlc?...

🌊 A team of researchers, including #URIGSO's @nickpizzooceans.bsky.social, has developed a new AI-powered way to study ocean currents. #GOFLOW uses thermal images from weather satellites already in orbit to map ocean surface currents in unprecedented detail, with no new hardware required. 🧪

Everything is the worst, so if you need pictures of the fox family living in Chicago’s downtown Millennium Park, photographer Derek Nielsen has got you. www.facebook.com/share/1CKbRA...

Fresh off the preprint server! @maratimes.bsky.social and I show how data from the overlapping SWOT and PACE satellite missions present a step forward in our ability to observe linked biogeochemical-physical processes in the ocean. We look forward to chatting about this with folks at #OSM2026! 🌊

Surface ocean processes impact structure deep into the ocean interior. In our perspective paper, @maratimes.bsky.social, grad student Katarina Merk, and I discuss using physical perspectives to interpret subsurface biogeochemical distributions and why we as a community should care! 🌊

Physical controls on heterogeneous mesopelagic biogeochemistry

Communications Earth & Environment - A patchy distribution of biogeochemical properties in the ocean interior arises from the combined influence of biological and physical processes.

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Hey, how come @nbcolympics.bsky.social doesn’t have a glaciologist on their broadcast to talk about the different types of ices they have to use for different sports? Just seems like an obvious addition. I happen to know one who is available.

a woman says it 's me hi while standing in front of a window

ALT: a woman says it 's me hi while standing in front of a window

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New NASA missions. If you thought ICESat-2’s six laser beams were great, wait until we have 40 at the end of the decade 🛰️🧊 www.nasa.gov/news-release...

NASA Selects Two Earth System Explorers Missions - NASA

These two missions were selected for continued development as part of NASA’s Earth System Explorers Program, which conducts principal investigator-led Earth

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siegfried@siegfried.bsky.social · 6mo ago

🚨job opportunity🚨 Durham is advertising 3-year fellowships (any field). We are very keen to hear from Antarctic/Cryo people who might be interested in joining a great group. The positions come with some travel & research funds. See here for details or get in touch www.durham.ac.uk/research/ins...

New GRL paper on the dynamic nature of Antarctic active subglacial lakes that have boundaries that change shape, grow, shrink, or even migrate. We show stationary lake outlines can underestimate cumulative water volume change by up to ~100% and overestimate lakebed area. 📄 doi.org/10.1029/2025...

she didn’t even hashtag #antarctica 😭 anyway my student published a cool paper. read it.

Ryan Venturelli@radatmines.bsky.social · 6mo ago

🚨Hot off the press🚨 @coschoolofmines.bsky.social PhD candidate Wilson Sauthoff leads us in sharing how Antarctic subglacial lake outlines change through time and the biogeochemical impacts of those changes!🇦🇶😎💧 With @siegfried.bsky.social! Read it here: agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/...

Today, while arguing with @lpadman.bsky.social in the comments of a Google document, I learned that the Oxford Style Guide says “do not use” for em-dashes and the AP Stylebook says “do not use” for en-dashes. British vs. US English strikes again! A good day.

👇👇👇 this exactly

Parker Molloy@parkermolloy.com · 7mo ago

I feel the same way about the 2025 Bears as I felt about the Cubs in 2015 after they lost in the NLCS

Our research impact reaches all the way to Antarctica! 🌎 LSU researcher @icedoctord.bsky.social and team at @lsugeology.bsky.social have documented, in rare detail, a large brine discharge event at Blood Falls. The salty, blood-colored water flows out when pressure under Taylor Glacier rises.

👇👇👇a very fun new paper. I am finally coauthors with dugan 2!

Dr. Peter Doran@icedoctord.bsky.social · 7mo ago

This is tied to this fun little paper we published recently #scicomm 🧪 nam04.safelinks.protection.outlook.com?url=https%3A...

Do you want to watch 8+ Minutes of the Longest Punts from the 2025 CFB Season? youtu.be/Je7WUk8bAx0

Do you want to watch 8+ Minutes of the Longest Punts from the 2025 CFB Season?

YouTube video by Sickos Committee

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I almost hit a zone 2 heart rate at the end of that game. Ffs, Caleb.

I’m just spitballing here, but what if… we take how much this would cost and instead… create a big pot of money that scientists could propose to… to research Greenland. Think about how many scientists we station there! Maybe even buy some LC-130s to transport them. Maybe even launch some satellites.

Last decade of annual running mileage: 2016 - 809 miles 2017 - 896 miles 2018 - 808 miles 2019 - 435 miles 2020 - 379 miles 2021 - 665 miles 2022 - 578 miles 2023 - 600 miles 2024 - 627 miles 2025 - 1651 miles Can you tell I started my faculty job in 2019 and received tenure in 2024? 🥶

And today in the @nytimes.com: a fundamental misunderstanding of the marine ice sheet instability. (fun fact: the description in the paper of record is what ChatGPT often gives you when you ask what MISI is. I know this because it is exactly a question on a homework I assign in my glaciology class.)

Ryan Venturelli@radatmines.bsky.social · 7mo ago

Did I wake up in 2017 or are we really still writing articles like the last 8 years didn’t happen? www.nytimes.com/2025/12/27/c...

Also there are some nuggets in there that make it clear some folks might think the last 15 (maybe even 25!) years of science didn’t happen 🤡

Ryan Venturelli@radatmines.bsky.social · 7mo ago

Did I wake up in 2017 or are we really still writing articles like the last 8 years didn’t happen? www.nytimes.com/2025/12/27/c...

Love seeing @anamariecox.bsky.social promoting rezdawg. Support nuggets like ours going to good homes.

@mountainsstars.bsky.social · 8mo ago

If anyone is looking to adopt a pet or donate, RezDawg Rescue collaborates with Indigenous and rural communities throughout Colorado, New Mexico, and Arizona to support pets and their people through animal transport, rescue, rehabilitation, fostering, and adoption. rezdawgrescue.org

Since @radatmines.bsky.social is currently in CHC deploying to #Antarctica, I thought I’d post some pictures from (I believe at the time—2019–new) pre-deployment sexual harassment training from the last time I deployed 🫠

Full house for @ericsteig.bsky.social’s @coloradoscholes.bsky.social Climate Seminar today.

I will be sad when it’s not 2025 anymore because we will no longer be exactly halfway between the start of the Industrial Revolution and 2300 😕I suppose I’ll need to start talking about how we are halfway between Benjamin Franklin’s kite experience and 2300 instead ⚡️

Congratulations to #MinesGlaciology’s (and @coschoolofmines.bsky.social’s) latest PhD, Dr. Samara Garvey, who just successfully defended her dissertation, “Applications of Active-Source Multi-Component Seismology to Subsurface Characterization”!

Colorado Mines leads South Dakota Mines at the half.