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the academy: sports are a culturally-insignificant object unworthy of study the literal pope:

submitted 15 hours ago • 40 comments

The photos coming from Trump’s birthday parade are just incredible. No one showed up.

submitted 1 day ago • 211 comments

About 1.5% of the U.S. population protested today. (Closer to 1.9% if you only count the adult population.)

submitted 1 day ago • 14 comments

Nobody showing up to watch his stupid parade is honestly way funnier than a huge protest would have been

submitted 1 day ago • 11 comments

Liberal stronghold, Waco, TX

submitted 1 day ago • 267 comments

Lol the turn out for this parade is so pathetic

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Watching my favorite team play.

submitted 2 days ago • 1 comment

“‘I should be paid for reviewing.’ Nope.” Absolutely correct.

submitted 5 days ago • 0 comments

Can tropical corals find refuge at higher latitudes under future warming? In our new paper in Science Advances, we argue that coral range expansion will be far too slow for most coral species to outpace climate change. 🪸🌊 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... A short 🧵 (1/16)

submitted 8 days ago • 2 comments

ICE crossed a line in LA

submitted 7 days ago • 831 comments

“Firing back”

submitted 7 days ago • 111 comments

I have said this several times and I'll say it again - how McNutt is still the President of the National Academy of Sciences I simply do not understand. It's time for courageous leadership and she shows none of that. If the NAS can't stand up for science, who can? arstechnica.com/science/2025...

submitted 9 days ago • 4 comments

kind of just endlessly sad and grieving that there are so few voices in the public sphere making the basic principled argument that immigration is an affirmative good in every way and the best way for this country to serve humanity is to welcome people who want or need to leave their homes

submitted 8 days ago • 102 comments

DID YOU KNOW that the Pacific Highs are A Treasure Trove of Past Warm Climate? Archiveshttps://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/2025PA005133

submitted 9 days ago • 1 comment

Just like forams!

submitted 10 days ago • 0 comments

must be incredibly frustrating and disheartening to have federal funding that was promised to you for important work suddenly and arbitrarily ripped away

submitted 10 days ago • 643 comments

If you're coming to the @geosociety.bsky.social GSA meeting in San Antonio may I recommend this awesome field trip to visit the K/Pg boundary along the Brazos River and in a bunch of cores at the Gulf Coast Core Repository: store.geosociety.org/products/ft2...

submitted 10 days ago • 1 comment

Out today in Nature, our paper on the drivers of the record 2023 summer heating of the North Atlantic. Temperatures warmed to record levels in just a few months. The impacts on climate & ecosystems were severe. A thread on how this work came about and what we found.👇👇🧵 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

submitted 11 days ago • 9 comments

Deadline for session, field trip, and short course proposals is July 18!

submitted 11 days ago • 0 comments

Hey! Did you know you can Propose Sessions, Short Courses, and Field Trips for the FORAMS 2026 conference in Amherst? Because you can: sites.google.com/view/forams2...

submitted 55 days ago • 0 comments

You, too, should be very excited at the opportunities presented by there being no money to do science anymore.

submitted 12 days ago • 1 comment

When warnings of Insectageddon were issued a few years ago, there was widespread denial. Less so now. It's devastating. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

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I talked to 15 teachers/professors about how AI and ChatGPT is ruining their lives: www.404media.co/teachers-are...

submitted 13 days ago • 116 comments

Argh. The P4CLIMATE program solicitation will be archived (the program website itself hasn't been updated) www.nsf.gov/geo/updates/...

submitted 13 days ago • 0 comments

Important! Jonkers et al Community guidelines to increase the reusability of marine microfossil assemblage data jm.copernicus.org/articles/44/...

submitted 16 days ago • 0 comments

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...

submitted 13 days ago • 1 comment

This is such a perfectly condensed little parable of the horrors of the bullshit machines: a completely ignorant and illiterate shibboleth against standard punctuation, born from nothing and threatening to take over in no time—meme as prion chewing holes in the brains of a generation

submitted 14 days ago • 16 comments

"Enhanced water column stratification and nutrient export to mesopelagic depths, associated with the intensification of..Glaciation, likely drove shifts in species diversity and ecogroup latitudinal gradients toward modern patterns" www.nature.com/articles/s41... 🧪⚒️ #Paleobio #Macroecology #Geology

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There are 2 previous historical cases of countries destroying their science and universities, crippling them for decades: Lysenkoism in the USSR and Nazi Germany. The Trump administration will be the 3rd. It's not just budgets but research, institutions, expertise, and training the next generation.

submitted 16 days ago • 464 comments

I am looking at NSF's budget request, in awe at the disinvestment in learning anything. nsf-gov-resources.nsf.gov/files/00-NSF...

submitted 16 days ago • 1 comment

Behold: the master at work

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It's #ForamFriday! They're bizarre and beautiful, and their fossilized shells are a window into the past! UTIG's @chrislowery.bsky.social talked with @knowablemag.bsky.social about what forams can tell us about mass extinctions and climate change. Read more: knowablemagazine.org/content/arti...

submitted 16 days ago • 1 comment

This is SO COOL! Very rarely do I get to see a foraminifera actually using its pseudopodia, let alone one from the order Miliolida! I’ve seen lots of shells from this order, but none ALIVE and doing things! I’m very pleased to have witnessed such a wonderful process. 🦑 #plankton

submitted 23 days ago • 3 comments

🧪 Listen to my colleague Dr. Andy Fraass @fraass.bsky.social talk about his recent work re: levels of graduate student funding in Canada 🇨🇦 compared to the US 🇺🇸 & UK 🇬🇧. He was on CBC Radio One On the Island yesterday morning www.cbc.ca/listen/live-... @seos-uvic.bsky.social @uvicscience.bsky.social

submitted 19 days ago • 0 comments

evil, racist, stupid, shameful

submitted 18 days ago • 0 comments

My latest story for @knowablemag.bsky.social is all about the astonishingly plentiful fossils of foraminifera, featuring @chrislowery.bsky.social, @fraass.bsky.social and @tracyaze.bsky.social! knowablemagazine.org/content/arti...

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Pretty cool to get interviewed for this with a bunch of people I respect: knowablemagazine.org/content/arti...

submitted 18 days ago • 1 comment

" [...] the country’s ocean research fleet is shrinking, and the country has lost its 𝗼𝗻𝗹𝘆 𝗱𝗲𝗲𝗽-𝘀𝗲𝗮 𝘀𝗰𝗶𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗶𝗳𝗶𝗰 𝗱𝗿𝗶𝗹𝗹𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘃𝗲𝘀𝘀𝗲𝗹, says the report […] and it is unlikely that […] U.S. leadership can be regained without a U.S.-based drillship”

submitted 19 days ago • 0 comments

“I tried to walk into Target, but I missed”

submitted 24 days ago • 2 comments