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Out online today in @pnas.org our paper: "Aerobic nitrogen cycle 100 My before permanent atmospheric oxygenation" With coauthors Gareth Izon, @chrisjunium.bsky.social , Shuhei Ono, and Roger Summons. 1/7 www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

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Whoa! Look at the field in the background.

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#piday turned into pie weekend with some Neapolitan-ish pizza in the Ooni oven.

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Pi day pie extravaganza. Chicken pot pie and non-dairy raspberry chocolate custard. Nice way to celebrate the end of a good week.

submitted 86 days ago • 1 comment

About fifty years ago, NASA strapped a message in a bottle to a rocket and flung it into the deep dark It wasn’t supposed to go this far, but it did. Long past its mission, it’s still out there so far away now that a simple hello takes a day to reach it, and another day to hear if it says hello back

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The time for decorum and tradition is gone. We are afforded none, why should be I be extended in return?

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I hope this helps someone www.forbes.com/sites/marsha...

submitted 94 days ago • 3 comments

-2.8%. Really, really bad. Q4 2008 was -1.9%.

submitted 97 days ago • 19 comments

Printing RFK Jr's lies about infectious disease kills children. Every journalist who has a conscience - and as hard as it to believe there are some of them even at Fox News - should think really hard about how they report on this subject because misinformation here has direct deadly consequences.

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This is phenomenal news. Brandon is a science leader from NSF who brings a perspective infused with experience, wisdom, and expertise.

submitted 100 days ago • 2 comments

Last Tuesday, I was set to give a talk on 'climate change in the Northeast' at a retirement home but had to cancel due to hourly job threats. After nearly two weeks of overwhelming uncertainty, today it happened. I was fired from my dream of working at NOAA. I'm so sorry to everyone also affected.

submitted 101 days ago • 637 comments

No one had died of measles in America for ten years, until yesterday. That 2015 death in WA was preceded by a 12y period of no US deaths. www.nbcnews.com/health/healt... HHS Secretary RFK Jr. says it’s “not unusual.” apnews.com/article/meas... It is unusual. www.cdc.gov/measles/data...

submitted 102 days ago • 179 comments

Good debunk of a notorious fossil fuel lie. In reality, as low-cost wind and solar enter the dispatch queue, high-cost fossil fuel plants in the stack go off-line, saving consumers money. The more they are off-line, the more the savings.

submitted 102 days ago • 23 comments

Secretary of Defense Hegseth says he doesn’t know if Russia invaded Ukraine. This you?

submitted 102 days ago • 969 comments

Yesterday was the darkest day of my professional life so far. Many of NSF’s best and brightest people fired indiscriminately. The terms of their firing cruel. My colleagues matter, they are valued and they make a difference. I have no words. www.npr.org/2025/02/18/n...

submitted 109 days ago • 12 comments

repeating myself a bit here but trump can issue an executive order but that doesn’t necessarily mean shit if it doesn’t have a firm statutory basis. if congress lays out in law what the duties of a particular official are, then no, the president can’t decide those duties are something else

submitted 110 days ago • 332 comments

Herman Melville's "Moby Dick" has perhaps the most memorable opening line in all of Western literature: "I hope you motherfuckers like reading about whales"

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Although NOAA's page on atmospheric CO2 levels has vanished, you can still get this vital information from Ralph Keeling's team at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography, UC San Diego keelingcurve.ucsd.edu Please follow bsky.app/profile/keel... for updates and share Don't let science be hidden

submitted 123 days ago • 47 comments

I feel like I do a lot of things pretty well, but there is nothing I do better than destroying the kitchen when I cook dinner.

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Last post for #FossilFriday this lovely #Proterozoic #Acritarch because I love it so much. This image was taken with a macro lens at 2x attached to a microscope with a 100x mag lens. It's a combination of over 100 images stacked and stitched. #Geology #Paleontology

submitted 163 days ago • 2 comments

Beef Wellington pre-cook. I’m happy enough with this that even if it isn’t perfect, I’ll be ok with it.

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Whatever happens to the water, happens to the people.

submitted 167 days ago • 8 comments

As a former whitewater kayaker I can say that duck took an excellent line and hit his boof off that rock perfectly in what looks like solid class IV water. If I paddled that well I wouldn’t be a former kayaker.

submitted 167 days ago • 0 comments

Dueling knives for the duxelles is a lot of fun.

submitted 168 days ago • 1 comment

All I want for #crustmas is a pair of these beauties.

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Remember, a first draft's only job is to exist

submitted 233 days ago • 18 comments

Isn’t he famous for recycling rockets?

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i am convinced that these people are death worshippers who want to spread as much disease and sickness as possible (i also think this is all tied up in eugenic beliefs about the “survival of the fittest” www.nytimes.com/2024/12/13/h...

submitted 177 days ago • 2820 comments

This cartoon is from 1930. It could have been today.

submitted 178 days ago • 142 comments

Communicating climate change in a way that it highlights how it affects what people value is the key to beginning to push changing sentiments. Keep talking about college football in the south, snowmobiling or ice fishing up north, or apples in the mid-Atlantic. Someone will start to listen.

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"Butterfly Effect" is by far my favorite piece I've ever drawn. I know I keep sharing it, but I just hope it brings joy when people see it. (Plus I don't have a whole lot of new art to share.) #paleoart #sciart

submitted 178 days ago • 107 comments

Big changes in EAR programs! Check it out.

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Banning students from China and India from traveling back to campus would be devastating to those students but also to campuses. These students are an integral part of our courses, majors and the research enterprise.

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For anyone who thinks this is artistic whimsy, Palaeopagurus was REAL and we FOUND IT #Crustmas 🧪 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

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