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A pedogenic-carbonate-nodule beach along the Titel Loess Plateau

After offering thoughts and prayers, I propose after each Mass Shooting the we all retweet and circulate Jon Stewart’s discussion with Nathan Dahm from Oklahoma.

Gentle paleotopography visible in this loess wall of the Ruma brickyard...

A reminder to search committees-- please do not ask for recommendation letters for every candidate, ie-- before an initial screening. Doing so wastes many hours for many people.

Where there are brickworks, there is loess

I never tire of dusty paleosols…

An undercover sting operation has exposed a Saudi Arabian government plan to artificially raise global oil demand just days before climate crisis talks begin in the UAE, Channel 4 News can reveal.

Polish artist Nespoon creates street art featuring lace patterns #WomensArt

Reminder: Not a single Congressional Republican voted for President Biden’s Inflation Reduction Act capping insulin costs at $35 a month for seniors on Medicare.

Your periodic reminder that less ice at the Arctic is consistent with a weaker jet stream that allows cold air to drift down into the Great Plains. The frigid temps you're experiencing happen BECAUSE of a warming planet, not in spite of it.

Yep, that’s ⁦Governor Kevin Stitt⁩ for you.

Here are four images that shows capitalisms immense failure to bring about environmental, economic & social wellbeing. 1. 6 of the 9 planetary boundaries have been crossed 2. Poverty is increasing 3. Inequality is getting worse 4. Hunger inflicts 1 in 10 people around the world

Re-posting one of my favorite pics of small-scale eolian stratification (and translatent beneath the grain flows)

To boldly go into the core lab in search of really old core... and discover some from an age when split infinitives were less acceptable.

In honor of Thin-Section Thursday, here is a really disrupted rock. Field of view ~10 mm on left and ~5 mm on right. Plane light. Black is hematite, the rest mostly quartz and very altered feldspar with a few mafics. The origin of the disruption remains under study.

smithsonianmag.com/science-nature… #lynx #balkans #scicomm

Still time to apply to these incredible curator/prof positions in Ornithology & Invertebrate Zoology! Review of applications begins on October 23

Raindrop impressions-- a light sprinkling from perhaps a Tuesday afternoon, some 300 million years ago, give or take. From the Maroon loessite, Colorado. #loess #dust #raindrop #paleoweather

And now for some inferred ice-crystal impressions... from perhaps a crisp winter morning roughly 295 million years ago (Usclas Formation, Massif Central, France). Published in doi.org/10.1130/G49011… #paleoweather #lagerstätte #scicomm #ice

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