Great to be back at in person GSA conference GSA Structural Geology and Tectonics Division GSA's MGPV Division! It’s been a long time. Hopefully my photo of the poster room (rather than the individual poster) did not violate the code of conduct here.

Two SUNY Fredonia Geology students Dominique Martello and Sarah O’Leary are presenting their research on metamorphic rocks from the Grenville and the Tibetan Plateau Tuesday morning at the poster hall. Please stop by.

Grants 😞 Manuscripts 😣 Course evaluations 😫 Rejection is everywhere in academia. But we keep it quiet. Only stories of success get told. So heres a story on rejection: "The potato, the egg and tea bag" Academic Chatter™

The academic career ladder

Let's get freaky.

It's -10 C outside with whiteout conditions and at least >1 ft snow, and the whole county has a travel ban in effect... Although I've been here for a few years, our Buffalo weather always surpasses my expectations 😂

Rt 400, 219, and Interstate 90 are back open!

Amazed by how wavy/ extreme this jet stream structure is. Record warm oceans, developing El Nino, Typhoon Mawar wave breaking, climate change ice melt & uneven heating of the Arctic vs mid-latitudes. Excess energy = extremes. And we ain't seen nothing yet. 1/

Hell on Earth | Updated 48-hour "smoke" forecast through Thursday evening. No improvement. Until these 🇨🇦🔥fires are put out, clouds of smoke will billow southward and then counterclockwise around a low-pressure system over the Northeast. NYC could be blanketed in even

New ⁦U.S. National Science Foundation-funded⁩ instrument is being installed this week. Very exciting!

Very sad to hear this. RIP, An.

Elsevier's revenue: £2.9 billion. WTF? We scientists produce the content for manuscripts and review for free. Then we pay huge fees for open access publishing. Science should not be business. What on earth can we do to fight against this? theguardian.com/science/2023/m…

I’m disappointed, but not surprised, that my amendment to cut military spending by 10% received only 11 votes.

How to write to your instructor or T.A.

The application window for the GeoSPACE Summer 2024 field course is now open! Get those apps in for an accessible opportunity to practice field geology, remote sensing, volcanology, and planetary science in Arizona or virtually. UF Geology The IAGD sites.google.com/ufl.edu/geospa…

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Wrong direction

Agree to review. Download document. Ctrl+F for "Palin" No results. Decision = reject. (this is a joke, FYI😅)

lol great way to review papers 😜