clasticdetritus.bsky.social
Virginia Tech Geosciences professor (vtsedsystems.org) ⏐ sedimentology, (paleo)climate, tectonics, sedimentary basins, subsurface geology, geoeducation ⏐ listening and learning
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I respect decisions of those who decide to leave and those who stay — there's no clear-cut response applicable to every person
that said, I hope that many will stay — the design of this is to create the conditions that make people leave on their own (so they don't have to actively purge everyone)
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on the plus side, the most egregious of these examples are a relatively small proportion — most students took my advice and wrote in their own 'voice' and took the project seriously
if 10-20% of students want to scam their way through college (and life) I probably can't deter them
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this is an important question ... if the flying volcano is not erupting (which I suppose could happen from the bottom or sides, in addition to the top) and the melt is not in contact with the surface then I think it would still be "magma"
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I did not go (mistake?) but @sedgeochem.bsky.social did ... I could hear it from my house, lol
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I was wondering when that shoe might drop ... ugh
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Don't put this solely on one person in the White House (and the executive branch). Congress could stop this *today*. They either agree with it or are too scared to oppose it.
All of this is on the Republican Party (they control both chambers of Congress) and their voters (who made this choice).
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this discussion reminds me (in very broad strokes, not in details) about when the internet became very accessible ... and what it would mean for students, for teaching and learning, etc.
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Yes, many will blame the 'system' and anything but themselves
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The students that embrace the using-ChatGPT-without-thinking-for-yourself approach will likely have a rude awakening one day when they completely embarrass themselves in a professional situation — they will come off as a combo of lazy and unethical
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Our information system is so fragmented now that efforts to better explain the value of public investment in science simply will not be seen/heard.
A lot of people are disconnected and have a built-in expectation that everything will 'work'. What happens when things don't? How will people react?
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it sure looks like we (the U.S.) are on the path to citizens having to directly and personally feel the negative consequences to appreciate what has taken decades to build and sustained effort/dedication to maintain — people don't know what they got until it's gone I guess
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in absolute dollar amount, the bottom two (DoD and DHS) are almost equal to all the red summed together
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I hope U.S. citizens learn (quickly) that this is not about saving money ... this is about destroying research, destroying academia, destroying higher education (and destroying the lives and livelihoods of people) ... that is the goal
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my master's degree advisor had us read T.C. Chamberlin's essay from Science in the context of a grad-level stratigraphy course, I hadn't heard of it until then (or, if it was mentioned in ugrad, I don't remember!) –– I assume Americans are more familiar with it b/c he was American
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wow
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that reminds me, I need to get mine set up ... it's around mid-late April they start to show up around here
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absolutely ... Republicans control Congress and could enact laws to stop (or, at a minimum, slow down) much of this ... but they are choosing not to ... almost everything happening is because of the *entire* Republican Party (and they will absolutely try to dodge accountability for all this someday)
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absolutely ... speaking of, I'm teaching my 'Sedimentary Basins' course this coming fall and I usually try to do some kind of field trip (if schedules allow) ... I'll keep you posted about that in case you (and others) would want to join
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that's awesome! ... don't have the time to watch right now, but have saved for a future time
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if 45% of Americans are totally cool with all the other things this regime is doing, then they are definitely fine with destroying scientific research (and all the careers and potential careers that go with it)
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some do see it as a punishment or a chore and then there's another proportion who see it as 'transactional' ... I do this thing and then you grant me my grade and I move on to the next transaction ... which leads to having to distribute points broadly, and at different scales, across the work
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I'm cool with late-stage PhD students or early-stage post-PhD folks doing it ... to show that stuff is indeed in the pipeline ... but, yes, a one-sentence description of stage would be helpful
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thanks for sharing this, I browsed Ember's page and it's a great resource! — question: what constitutes 'bioenergy' in this graphic?
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one of my favorite uses of Spilhaus ... I show this figure in lectures (teaching and research) ... I give it some time because it can take a few moments to 'see' it, which is a fun thing
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those that support this surely think that they would never be the one to be kidnapped/detained because this is only for those "other" people that don't belong (regardless of citizenship) ... if they support this, they would likely support much worse
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lol
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Lidya visited our department the week-before-last to present a seminar on this very topic
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it's a short (50-minute) session and introductory level, so the analyses are necessarily simplified, but they get some experience making time-series plots in Excel and discussing their observations in groups of 3-4
we then discuss as a whole class (~30 students) and I emphasize some take-aways
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for the ones that can't fire, they will make it awful for the others — this is the culmination of decades of a deep, deep hatred for civil servants (not just the concept of 'government', but of the actual people themselves) — I won't disparage anyone for not wanting to stay, but I hope some do
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I think this polar bear will do a fantastic job as Greenland's special envoy 🐻❄️
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when I teach my Climate History (an intro paleoclimate) course I talk about *rates of change* every week — many of the most "rapid" events in Earth history were likely slower than today (acknowledging the uncertainty in constraining past rates) and they still impacted the biosphere in major ways