Hey, geology friends, my nephew would like to know what we’re looking at here. This is from a beach in Maryland.
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Jacquelyn Gill
Профиль VivelyClimate, extinction, and biodiversity scientist at the University of Maine researching Earth’s past for a better future. Writing and podcasting for the planet. Chaotic good professor. She/her.
This might have broken my record for fastest pre-order ever.
Annalee NewitzDid you know I have a new book coming out about a graduate student who is a slime mold from beyond the galaxy? Who comes to Earth to do fieldwork and meets a badass sex worker in ancient Pompeii? It's called "A Wall Is Also a Road." You should pre-order it now! torpublishinggroup.com/a-wall-is-al...
Another paper from our NASA-funded project on ferns has dropped! UWyoming MS student Fern (really!) Holian, developed a new schema for classifying fossil ferns, which are understudied. 🧪🌿☄️
Application of a novel schema for describing fossil fern foliage and investigating taxonomic and morphological change across the Cretaceous–Paleogene boundary in western North AmericaPremise
The Chicxulub asteroid impact at the Cretaceous–Paleogene (K–Pg) boundary triggered a mass extinction 66 million years ago. Ferns thrived in the aftermath of the extinction, evidenced by the.....bsapubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.comI’m sure this was not fun to come home to but it was an absolute delight to read about!
Katharine HayhoeOvernight, a masked bandit broke into our kitchen. Armed with opposable thumbs, he proceeded to sample everything on offer. I’d just visited the farmers market, so the menu was extensive. I can now share a highly specific peer-reviewed list of what this particular raider did & did not enjoy. 🧵
My alma mater (College of the Atlantic) is hiring faculty in Field Ecology, Agroecology, and Chemistry. If you're looking for a very cool small liberal arts college on the coast of Maine with a strong environmental focus, check it out (happy to answer questions!): www.coa.edu/human-resour...
Career Opportunities | College of the AtlanticCareer opportunities at the College of the Atlantic in Bar Harbor Maine.www.coa.eduReally loved this @longreads.com interview with s.e. smith, a writer whose work I love, and also so excited to pick up their new book on grief (out today, in fact!).
All My Dead Cats and Other Losses"Both a grief book that doesn't read like a clinician's notes and a memoir wrapped around a bigger subject, All My Dead Cats takes grief from t...www.harpercollins.comChevron, by total emissions over the last decade, but ExxonMobil is a close second and has outspent them on lobbying and denial campaigns (though Koch Industries and the American Petroleum Institute have spent more overall).
Chris BatailleSometime in the next ~5 years I’m facing the privilege of a hefty bill to retrofit my house with heat pump cooling & heating, which was designed & built for super high efficiency gas. Where I live never needed AC until ~ 5 years ago. To which which fossil company/petrostate do I send the bill😉
Can we take a moment to appreciate the many services @doctorzen.net has provided for our community? Starting with the Better Posters blog, and now this lovely curated AI slop collection. A true champion for the people.
Zen FaulkesJust telling people now that if that graphical abstract made with AI 🤖 is published, I WILL include it in my collection: bit.ly/academic-slop