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Aqueous geochemist and mineralogist, soon-to-be-former journal editor-in-chief, director of an interdisciplinary undergraduate program on the environment, dog lover.
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Any US-based folks have recommendations for best place to rent a satellite phone for international travel? A colleague is taking a course to Madagascar. They are using a network of sites operated by a local partner, and each location has phone service, but university wants them to have a sat phone.

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New at @stlmag.bsky.social: City Hall insiders share their thoughts on what went wrong for Mayor Tishaura Jones this election -- and what comes next for Mayor-elect Cara Spencer www.stlmag.com/news/won-car...

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Jeffries: "It was a terrible week. So what happens on Sunday? Trump says, intentionally, 'I'm serious about running for a third term.' He can't run for a third term! ... why does he say it? ... to distract from the terrible week that they've had. We're not gonna take the bait."

submitted 41 days ago • 118 comments

The President talking about a third term has proven to be an effective strategy to move on from his team releasing classified military plans to a reporter on Signal. Everyone needs to stop falling for this! Just ignore him, it is purely a distraction. Don't let him move on from tariffs and Signal.

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Resubmitting former grad student's paper to ES&T (once he send me the figure files). I have the hardest time finding what sections are counted in word count. ES&T makes this hard to find. I asked Google, it's AI response thing got the right answer. I'm good with that kind of use of AI.

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This has become an ongoing discussion in my university's faculty senate. Everything in this article is spot on.

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This seems like something Democrats should have figured out a year ago. The economy looked great on paper, but only the top 10% were benefiting. Most democratic advisers were probably on the top 10%. www.wsj.com/economy/cons...

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No longer in charge of GCA but still doing some Associate Editor work. Figure looked weird, so I opened data file. Plot was manipulated. Found other examples, also fabrication. Rejected the paper. Big reason a journal must require sharing of numerical data is to check for misconduct.

submitted 80 days ago • 1 comment

Not trying to raise unwarranted alarms, but the proposal status page for NSF in Research.gov says "Information in Proposal Status is unavailable due to an error." Similarly, the NSSC grant status page for NASA says "This search form is currently under maintenance." Something bad is likely going on.

submitted 82 days ago • 1 comment

Exited to share our new OA paper in GCA, led by my brilliant student Emily Wright: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... In this paper, we adapt methods used to study contaminants to investigate critical mineral behavior during weathering, specifically how chloride affects palladium mobilization.

submitted 100 days ago • 1 comment

Rumor: A US law passed in December is being interpreted by the Trump administration to ban foreign nationals from "sensitive countries" from being employed at US DOE labs. OK if have a green card, but not if on a visa. Apparently many Chinese, Russian, & Iranian postdocs will get laid off in April.

submitted 110 days ago • 2 comments

New one for me: First lecture of the semester and 5 minutes in I get a paper cut from the printout of my lecture notes. Bled on the back of my notes before I noticed. Shoved my hand in my pocket to stop the bleeding. Was super embarrassed!

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(former) Editor Insight: The number of new papers a journal receives each month varies randomly. While I was Executive Editor of GCA, submissions in a month varied between 71 and 130. Editor workload was very difficult to predict!

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Can anyone explain to me why there are so many Marnaviridae in wastewater? They allegedly only infect photosynthetic marine protists, but there are hundreds of them in wastewater. Not much light down there.

submitted 132 days ago • 2 comments