Wahoo! Go Justin!! Congrats

After all these years, you’d think I’d be a pro at writing/revising papers. Reviewer comments still bite, but after letting things sit for awhile, I realize I always benefit from reviews. And it’s good to be challenged.

"We got dinosaurs completely wrong. They are fundamentally cold-adapted animals. They are fundamentally insulated. And that was the key to their success," says Lamont geologist Paul Olsen, lead author of a new study. Via BBC World Service at 23:56. bbc.co.uk/programmes/w3c…

“I think this paper will be extremely influential for years to come.” #ScienceMagArchives fcld.ly/0vevcjj

rage against the machine never specified what machine they were raging against but i bet it was a mass spectrometer

The not so well kept secret in universities is that the whole apparatus floats on free labor from professors working relentlessly in their unpaid time, often for love of students and craft. The love is weaponized against us to hard-wire that free labor into the system.

I try to get this message through to my students early - so true!!

Even my drying oven is telling me to stop procrastinating on those AGU (American Geophysical Union) abstracts...

“Opinion has caused more trouble on this little earth than plagues or earthquakes.” ~ Voltaire ~ in “65 Earthquake Quotes On Success In Life” – OverallMotivation overallmotivation.com/quotes/earthqu…

i'm dying !

Explaining the peer review process to my brother, a carpenter #academia #phdlife #AcademicTwitter

The rare superbloom that occurred in 2019 in Southern California A superbloom is a rare desert botanical phenomenon where an exceptionally large amount of wildflowers whose seeds have lain dormant in the desert soil germinate and blossom at roughly the same time. 📷 Ryan Resatka

I’m very happy to announce that my very first paper is out now in GCA! In essence: The C3 plant paleo-CO2 proxy doesn’t work for Ginkgo, and we shouldn’t expect it to work for a lot of other plants. A 🧵... sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

Wild stuff here....

Exclusive: Paleontologist Robert DePalma has been accused of faking data in a paper showing the asteroid that killed the dinosaurs struck Earth in the spring. scim.ag/LS

"Severe wintry episodes during volcanic eruptions may have brought freezing temps to tropics, which is where many extinctions of big, naked, unfeathered vertebrates seem to have occurred," says Columbia Climate School LDEO's Dennis Kent. Via BBC Science Focus Magazine sciencefocus.com/nature/dinosau…

Something magic but also strange about drill core. There is Earth history, with all the usually reclusive bits (contacts rarely seen in the wild, recessive units) exposed out in the open, in zigzag lines… here is the contact between Passaic seds and CAMP Orange Mtn Basalt

Ah, AGU (American Geophysical Union), another year where everyone pays $700 to attend a poster session since there are so few talks. This is clearly a choice by AGU. Other societies, like ACS, can run a large meeting with ample oral sessions. This is why I stopped attending @AGU fall meetings.