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Upjumped farmboy from Missouri. Visiting Professor at Wesleyan University interested in volcanism of Venus, Earth, Mars, etc. #FirstGen. Do good recklessly. He/Him.
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Edit--- SITUATED (and celebrated?) IN NEW JERSEE!

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I should be in "the best damn place of all" right now, but here I am documenting a student honor code violation. Be still, my orange-and-black plaid heart, I will be there soon.

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Day 6 of End-of-Semester Grade-a-Thon completed! Planetary geology intro class: Final grades submitted!* Volcanology first-year seminar: Final grades submitted!** * Pending one student who might appeal to the dean ** Pending one incomplete But basically done!!! Year two was harder than year one.

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Day 5 of End-of-Semester Grade-a-Thon completed! Planetary geology intro class: Final exams 100% graded! Volcanology first-year seminar: Final papers 100% graded! Tomorrow will be submitting final grades and doing final wrap-up. Most of today was unfortunately taken up by a "student issue."

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Why did I have to start teaching at the rise of genAI?

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People, what the fuck are we doing?

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Day 4 of End-of-Semester Grade-a-Thon completed! Planetary geology intro class: Final exams 100% graded! Volcanology first-year seminar: ~85% of final papers graded Should have had more essays graded but 🤷

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Grading, now blood donation, and then back to grading!

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The eruption of Mount St. Helens, seen shortly after 8:32 am Sunday, 18 May 1980, probably along the forest roads of Gifford Pinchot National Forest. The photographer, Richard Lasher, survived the eruption that killed approximately 57 others. Imagine seeing this in person. Imagine *hearing* it.

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Day 3 of End-of-Semester Grade-a-Thon completed! Planetary geology intro class: Still at ~70% of the final exams. Volcanology first-year seminar: ~57% of final papers graded Should have had more essays graded, but it was a slow day and I started with ones that I knew would be rough.

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Unclear to me why at least three of my students suddenly felt they didn't need to put parenthetical citations in their final papers?

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#MSH45 | 8:25 a.m. The mountain has given signs for weeks. At this moment, it holds steady. But not for long.

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Day 2 of End-of-Semester Grade-a-Thon completed (earlier, but my phone died. Planetary geology intro class: Still at ~70% of the final exams. Volcanology first-year seminar: ~36% of final papers graded

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Mount Saint Helens on May 17, 1980. The view is from Johnston Ridge, 10 km northwest of the volcano.

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The Catholic church near my apartment is having their annual festival, and the DJ is playing "Sweet Caroline." The primal urge to shout "BAHM BAHM BAHM" is so powerful!

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Day 1 of End-of-Semester Grade-a-Thon completed. Planetary geology intro class: TA and I finished ~70% of the final exams. Volcanology first-year seminar: I printed out the final papers.

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Hard to explain how much I love this grainy, long-exposure image from the Perseverance rover showing Deimos in the pre-dawn sky. Just hours before it was taken, I was also out in the cold, taking pictures of the sky, one planet away. Perseverance saw the very same constellations that I did.

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Superheroes (and vigilantes) are at their best when the creative team remains true to the essence of a character. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ox8Z...

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Growing up, I was always told that the Republican Party was the party of personal freedom and liberty, and it remains a little shocking to see that same party today going full-bore into the trappings and mechanisms of authoritarianism.

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....why are they all so dumb?

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Make Ozzy the dean!

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I get the attraction to snow-capped peaks and sheer drops of younger ranges, but there's something about the timelessness and shrouded mystery of an older range.

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Get it for yourself! Give it to a friend! It makes for great reading and gifting, and I can attest to both.

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Truly, 10/10 effort here.

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Sitting on a big piece of arkose on a bluff overlooking a river. Few things better.

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