A thing I don't think is widely appreciated by non-geologists is that, if you had similar uplift and incision by rivers in almost any other part of the country, it would reveal strata just as spectacular as the Grand Canyon. There's a lot of stuff under your feet.

I'm back from a week at my mom's house and now I'm getting ads for her toothpaste brand, the brand I've been putting in my mouth for a week. We never talked about this brand or googled it or anything like that. As a privacy tech worker, let me explain why this is happening. 🧵

More exciting #seagrass news- our paper led by Dr. Aurora M Ricart is out! Seagrass-driven changes in carbonate chemistry enhance oyster shell growth: bit.ly/2SwwHKo UC Davis Bodega Marine Laboratory w/ coauthors @Tessa_M_Hill & @priyology

also, i despise this weird disembodied writing where students use “one” as their central pronoun. aren’t we over all this cartesian mind/body split stuff already??!?

It’s so frustrating that this is still considered a novel viewpoint. We need to accept that we are part of a complex & rich system (Earth), learn how it works, & re-build a civilisation that fits in with that system, instead of ignoring & destroying it. theguardian.com/world/2021/jun…

We’re so thrilled to announce that #PictureAScientist will be streaming on Netflix starting June 13. Mark your calendars! #WomenInScience #DiversityinSTEM with Ian Cheney @SharonShattuck1 Manette Pottle

Additionally, the Senate blockages make Biden’s unwillingness to act on student loan debt- something he can do *without* Congress but hasn’t yet- all the more glaring. #CancelStudentDebt is 1 of the few, rare opportunities Biden has to go big w/o the Senate. He needs to take it.

NY Times: How dry is the West? #climate scientist Dr. Daniel Swain: “It’s an alarming picture.” tinyurl.com/9yz7m8e8

Some are surprised that CO2 levels continue to climb even though emissions temporarily dropped 7% last year. We scientists are not: in fact, that's exactly what we expected. My explainer from last year:

It’s not over. This isn’t about politics. It’s about science. The virus only wants hosts to replicate in & mutate. That’s it’s whole reason for existence. The more folks delay the vaccine the more hosts it has to play with. It doesn’t care how you vote or where you live.

Some people make it seem as if we’re not doing enough to stop the climate crisis. But that’s not true. Because to not do enough, you have to do something. And the truth is that we are basically not doing anything apart from “creative carbon accounting” and creating loopholes.1/2

What some call ”climate action” is actually outsourcing and excluding consumption, setting vague distant targets, burning biomass instead of fossil fuels and excluding the emissions, offsetting, switching from one disastrous energy source to a slightly less disastrous one etc.2/2

senior scientists are gaslighting one another on agu connect talking about how the reason all the fellows are so homogenous this year is because they already did such a good job of elevating all the not white men, that white men are the only ones left to award anything to. lol

An *enormous thread* on alleged Google @Facebook collusion based on the just-released *unredacted* complaint from the Texas AG. First filed December. Anything PURPLE is newly unredacted. Yellow/Orange is just normal highlights. 1/?

Breaking!

Speaking as an IPCC Lead Author, these are some of the most important new messages from the #climate report out today: (🧵) 1. For the first time we’re seeing evidence of real, sustained decreases in greenhouse gas emissions from some countries. But take a breath because…

The entire island of Puerto Rico lost power and 60% of households still don't have clean running water. The full resources of the U.S. government must be brought to bear to address the suffering of our fellow citizens.

hot take: when was the last time a climate protest of any kind headlined the NY Times, completely dominated your timeline, disrupted exactly zero working class folks, did no damage — and explicitly named the fossil fuel industry? these protestors are brave. we need more of them.

This illustrates how much Frontiers has automated the process of getting papers accepted so they can make as much money from article fees as possible while window dressing things so it appears that there has been editorial oversight.