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Cubs fan. 🌋 & magma, mineral resources, tectonics, wilderness, pawpaws, outdoor gear, 🏝⛰🏕, Rectal cancer survivor. Geology Professor in the Flint Hills (USA). Views and opinions expressed are mine. #geology #earthscience #geoscience ⚒️
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The energy provisions in the Republicans' One Big Horrible Bill are truly so bad! Who wants this? The country's automakers don't want it. Electric utilities don't want it. Data center developers don't want it. Manufacturers in energy intensive industries don't want it. 🔌💡

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While I understand why princess Kate would want to be private about her cancer treatment, she could do a world of good for cancer survivors by being more open about her recovery and (seeming?) need for time for recovery www.marieclaire.com/celebrity/ro...

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Nice to get to talk to the New York Times @nytimes.com about funding challenges around publicly available precompetitive geoscience data acquisitions and geological mapping right when these data are more vital than ever for national and economic security: www.nytimes.com/2025/06/20/c...

submitted 8 days ago • 1 comment

While Mike Lee and Steve Daines' Senate Natural Resources Committee amendment to the budget reconciliation package mandates the sale of up to 3.3 million acres of public land, what most people miss is that it also authorizes the sale of 258 million acres. That's 40 percent of all public land:

submitted 11 days ago • 33 comments

This gets worse every time I look at this map- insane amounts of giant swaths of land in Idaho, Colorado, Wyoming…

submitted 13 days ago • 2 comments

FYI: The House Committee on Science, Space, and Technology, Democratic Staff, is trying to get more info on the impact of recent research grant terminations. If your award has been canceled since Jan 20, you can fill out this survey: democrats-science.house.gov/grantcancela...

submitted 15 days ago • 0 comments

Current events call for a "don't let the bastards grind you down" kind of post. These #Ordovician #bryozoans, #brachiopods & #gastropods entered the #fossilrecord ~450 MYA only to be scoured by a Pleistocene glacier. Be like these #fossils - endure! Verulam Fm, Ramara Tp, #Ontario 🇨🇦 #FossilFriday

submitted 15 days ago • 2 comments

someone claiming they will lower prices at the pump AND drill-baby-drill:

submitted 18 days ago • 0 comments

Just loving MS-word spellchecker today.. #trashybasalt ⚒️

submitted 19 days ago • 0 comments

US Earth Scientists: We know you have questions, come get them answered directly from NSF/EAR POs! Tuesday, June 17, 2p Eastern. Register here: www.nsf.gov/events/nsf-d...

submitted 19 days ago • 1 comment

Pacers games looking like the Holocene

submitted 23 days ago • 1 comment

The craziest thing about this fight between Trump and Elon Musk is that Republicans are trying to take away health care from 16 million people to pay for tax cuts for billionaires.

submitted 23 days ago • 162 comments

New isotope tracer?! 🤷‍♂️⚒️🧪

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What is the use of discussing “the state of science 🧪 “ without stating the current truths about this and offering solutions to those terrible truths??? Agreed: The National Academies should do what they’ve done since Lincoln and “stand up for the truth.” arstechnica.com/science/2025...

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Read this last night when my new issue of HCN arrived… really good!🧪

submitted 25 days ago • 2 comments

Finally, some unqualifiedly good news: “those who consumed the most caffeine (equivalent to nearly seven eight-ounce cups of coffee per day) had odds of healthy aging that were 13 percent higher than those who consumed the least caffeine (equivalent to less than one cup per day)”

submitted 25 days ago • 5 comments

Cuts have consequences, illustrated. As seen on TV 📺

submitted 26 days ago • 857 comments

A live feed of the current eruption of Etna can be found here: www.youtube.com/live/pO2zFFe... 🌋⚒️

submitted 27 days ago • 0 comments

First day of winter, magnetic storm over the lights of Tathra and under the Milky Way. #SouthernSkies #Photography

submitted 27 days ago • 9 comments

This proposed budget is a policy statement, not an appropriation. There are still a lot of steps and potential changes ahead before it becomes one. This is not a time to sit quietly, team. Let's go.

submitted 29 days ago • 2 comments

“These students are not just participants in science. They are crucial to its evolution…The termination of programs that have been shown to reduce barriers to STEM inclusiveness means a narrowing of scientific inquiry and a missed opportunity to expand the scope and relevance of research.”

submitted 29 days ago • 2 comments

🧪⚒️ destruction of American expertise

submitted 29 days ago • 0 comments

Geologist doing cool stuff deep underground. www.forbes.com/sites/christ...

submitted 30 days ago • 1 comment

I spent five weeks talking to federal workers about knowledge loss and brain drain across the federal government, and its implications, both right now and for decades to come. Their stories are frightening, but I think it's important to know what we're facing: www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

submitted 30 days ago • 35 comments

He should RTO and make sure to send the shareholders a list of five things he’s accomplished every week

submitted 31 days ago • 49 comments

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submitted 33 days ago • 0 comments

Absolutely surreal to have lived through the Napster days and watched as the titans of industry moved hell and high water to lock down any possible chance that someone's song might get swapped online without giving the studios a cut and now those same people are just like "well we gotta steal music"

submitted 33 days ago • 140 comments

you are all sharing an incomplete and inferior version of the hot dog list which, it so happens, was originally posted ten years ago this week

submitted 34 days ago • 29 comments

Dear science journalism, Please start including the funding source and whether it has been imperiled by the coup in your coverage of cool new science papers. The public should know the floor is being cut out from under us.

submitted 35 days ago • 10 comments