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Not homeless—notice the phone 📱 …just humid! 😅 #Beijing

The first paper on the first wave of results from Asteroid Bennu has been published . Preliminary analyses show a wide range of results and I'm presenting a few of the finds that I found the most interesting in this 1P~1M video. Paper: tinyurl.com/mvnenrhe #Bennu #OSIRISREx

Fully enrolled Science Writing lecture at China University of Petroleum in 昌平 [Salute] Great to see so many young university students eager to learn the “lost art” 🖼️ of writing ✍️..even (especially!) when it comes to #Science 🔬

Back on the pulpit preaching! And with my very own bible 📖 to hawk too! 🌍 🌎 🌏 🤓 💯 UChicagoPress Great bunch of students this year for my co-taught class with Peng Peng. Day 1, Pangea (of course!)

Good #teaching 👨‍🏫 is good #workout 💪 好的教学👨‍🏫就是好的运动🏋️ 🇺🇸 🇨🇳 #USChina

#zpain #getlow Mark Zuckerberg T-Pain Not same song at all. Covers should at least be reminiscent.. But this is just a bad trite song. Only good part is T pain.. (At least sssome soul there.) But auto tune can’t hide the fact Zuck has no vibe. “Reinvention” my ass. Sadly, I presume this

Very recent volcanoes 🌋 popping up through a gorgeous wetland.. and great food and flowers 🌺 to boot. And love it when students and driver wanna work as (or harder!) than you ❤️ 🪨 🔨 🌏 💯 #volcano #geology #china

Best view 🏔️ Best threads 🧥 Best company 🐶

Graph of the first nine harmonics and an x-ray of a conch shell's inner structure

Nearly 4 billion years old.. one of Earth’s oldest rocks. Amazing layering, but some mafic minerals and has suffered amphibolite grade metamorphism.. so.. POLL: a) Earth’s oldest sedimentary rock or b) Not sedimentary 🪨 🌍 💯 🤓

Very sad news. Zhang Shihong passed tonight from a heart attack tragically at the age of 59 and arguably at the height of his scientific career. Here we were dancing only a few years ago by the time Shihong had become a closer collaborator with my Yale PhD advisor David Evans

My student Chen Fangfang a co-author 🤩

🥳#2024recap 🥳was a good year—27 publications, half of which were Nature-index…not a record year, but maintaining balance of quantity and quality 🤓😎 What made it a record year was the highlight of a lifetime, marrying my lovely wife 徐曼妮 Manni Xu 🌹 Thanks for giving me a

#HappyNewYear2025 #Geology 😂😂

Olympic 2022 mountains 🏔️ just outside Beijing 🎿 Wanlong ski resort ❄️ ⛷️ 🇨🇳 When your skis weigh 20 lbs (and you can somehow control them) .. You. Go. FAST!

四十不惑 🤠 In China, they say “at forty, no doubt” 😮 Now I’m not sure I’m quite there yet 🧐 but with my career established and marriage, I may know what they mean..Either way, at least it’s something to try to live up to ✊

Great obit Niles Eldredge for an amazing woman Elizabeth Vrba whose Macroevolution class—sat around her desk in her office—often spilled over into one-on-one conversations about speciation dynamics.. so blessed to have met her!

Science must go on! Given today's research climate, the Chinese Academy of Sciences is hoping to poach Chinese PhDs that might be keen in coming back to China for a relatively lucrative postdoc! Please comment, message, or email me ([email protected]) if it's you or

#NBAPlayoffs NBA NBA on ESPN 🏀 double-standard alert 🚨 All the hand-wringing over the “European” players who (Luka Luka Doncic ) is said to “indulge” in beer 🍺 too much and (now Jokic FAN JOKIC ) who mentioned drinking some beer 🍻 after a tough end to the season… and no