What are the sort of people do you need for these nomination letters? Anyone in Earth Sci with some outreach involvement or specifically outreach and education professionals?

If you can maintain powered athmospheric flight and aren't fuel-limited, yes. But you're still limited on aprotch by fuel (assuming you can get past detection on aprotch and don't need to evade) and orbital machinery, and bleeding off speed safely has preferred vectors.

Calling it:
"הימים האחרים" בגלגלץ

Depends, what is the legal framework in the settings?
(Which in Star Wars was never really consistent)

There are some caveats that need to be added, like drop supply, aerial supremacy, orbits, and planetary population distribution, which need to be accounted for. But if you math it, there is a limited keyhole for insertion.

Cartoon illustrating overshoot and undershoot re-entry corridors Found originally here: https://spaceandscience.fr/en/blog/atmospheric-entry

When you think about it, a spaceship can land safely only in a handful of locations on a planet, and the entry corridors for those at the right angles are rather tight... which makes a planetary blockade surprisingly possible in #HardSciFi.

Also, if you know the original Little Orphan Annie strip, how Daddy Warbucks made his fortune, and Harold Gray's politics (and what he thought of the movie), it adds so many layers to this...

Performance of the musical Annie as depicted in The Orville season 3 ep. 4.

Can the war not restart, tomorrow
Would be nice for a change, that tomorrow
There’ll be calm!

Just hoping for, tomorrow,
For no guns ablaze, nor for sorrow
Just for change!

אז מה תהיה נקודת המעבר בין שירי יום הזיכרון לשירי יום העצמאות השנה?
(וכמה מהשירים אני אכיר בהתחשב בזה שזה בערך היום היחידי בשנה שאני פותח את הרדיו, בכוונה)

Typical textures of layers composing microbialites on the humid side of the Island of Hawai’i. (A) Schematic of the five observed layers; (B, C) cut through the surface of the microbialite (Layer 1) showing fine crystalline texture and trapped grains; (D) collapsed surface layer revealing underlying Layer 2; (E) enlargement of Layer 2 showing filamentous biomorphs; (F) Layer 3 with altered and tightly cemented biomorphs; (G) view of Layers 1, 2, and 3 in a broken surface of a microbialite; (H, I) increase in crystal size of cements enclosing trapped and bound grains with cement showing peloidal textures in Layer 4; (J, K) peloidal texture and syntaxial aragonite needle cement on ascidian spicules in Layer 5 samples.

If there is one trumpet I won't put down is that reefs aren't just corals. But the span of what else is there, even in tropical reefs such as around Hawaii, is amazing. There, cyanobacterial mats have really been doing work.🧪🌊

Link: egusphere.copernicus.org/preprints/20...

@brenhinkeller.bsky.social, could be cool to do something with this option after all these years, maybe crustal/ocean evolution, but I don't have any specific idea right now.

So naturally, I found out about this grant a week after the deadline, but there is another one in November.
Anyone at Dartmouth interested in doing a small Earth/Marine sci project?

kalaniyot.dartmouth.edu/collaborativ...

Nah... you need tenure to pull that off and hold around until the journal gets its impact factor.

Comparison between modeled and proxy-derived ranges of atmospheric pCO₂ during the Phanerozoic. Panels (A), (B), and (C) show comparisons for the Paleozoic (∼541–251.9 Ma), Mesozoic (251.9–66.0 Ma), and Cenozoic (∼66 Ma–present), respectively. In each panel, the modeled pCO₂ range reflects simulations in which volcanic outgassing rates are varied within plausible bounds, and is compared with proxy-based reconstructions for the corresponding interval. The results indicate that variations in outgassing exert a first-order control on long-term pCO₂ variability, with no statistically significant difference (p-value >0.05) between the modeled ranges and proxy-derived estimates.

Sometimes I nead to deal with the line "if no one was burning fossil fules in the geologic past, how come we got temprature spikes?"
The answer is outgassing by deep Earth processes, which can tap huge carbon pools. 🧪

Link: www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S000...

It's kind of remarkable how much cooking focus into five base mediums: salt water, fermentation products, oil, milk product/substitute, and tomatoes 🍅. (yes, we can talk about stocks and mother sauces if you want, but I just want to find some new ideas for dinner)

"This has always been a problem for our kind. Even our dreams are small." The Expanse, S4.Ep10: Cibola Burn

I finished a draft and sent it to a co-author for input, also asked, "Where do you think we should send it?"
They replied shortly, "PNAS".
I wasn't expecting that, not where I was thinking.
🤷 I might be missing something about the value of the work, or just not dreaming big enough.
#AcademicSky

A friend of mine works on the development team of an ML-driven academic search engine. "You have all sorts of wired reaserch quastions all the time," he told me today. "Would you mind stress testing it?"
"Sure," I said.
First question I asked, the thing crashed.

The Xing et al. paper, in case you missed it
https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.adz7738​

Comparison of OC methods applied to the future AMOC. Comparison of four OC methods with the MMM method applied to the 2091-to-2100 mean AMOC using either a single observable variable (left columns in solid) or multiple observable variables (right columns in dashed). The scenario considered is SSP2-4.5. linear regression stands for unregularized linear regression, while ridge regression stands for ridge-regularized linear regression. (A) Comparison of the estimates of the different methods and the 90% model uncertainty (±1.64 the SD). (B) Comparison of the mean leave-one-out error, of the different methods. The definition and difference between the model uncertainty and the leave-one-out error can be found in Materials and Methods. The best method in terms of leave-one-out error is shown in bold.

Damn, lots of stuff is coming out on Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC) slowdown. Earlier this month, the Xing et al. paper (link in comment) observed it, then another work indicated it's going to go down by 50%. 🧪🌊

Link: https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.adx4298

You know what's great for everyone's mental health and ability to make long-term decisions?
<sacrasem> uncertainty </sacrasem>.

I think it also depends a lot on what sort of interdisciplinarity it is. Take a tool from one discipline, apply it ad nauseam in another - no problem. Occilate in projects and publications between two - there issues might start.

Ha... in the undergraduate level, I always felt it was a bit under-specialized. But that is an outside looking in; I only dealt with it at later stages and in the graduate level, everything is specialized.

Modern academia isn't actually that big on interdisciplinary research; it's harder to publish, and people have a hard time putting researchers who do that into a box, which is an issue for hiring.

There is a merit in putting in the idea that one can wander off the path in undergraduate, but I the scope of knowledge is so large nowadays, building a good foundation doesn't open enough time to cover everything, unless we want to push everyone to do a spacialization masters.

I really wish people would open a paper outside their discipline from time to time. Sitting in the junction between disciplines, I ran into a share of "little is known about X" when I know stuff is known about X; it's just not published in journals the authors frequent, or by people they know.

Two weeks until #EGU26, I still have no idea if there will be flights, but if I make it there, I am beginning to question if I'll get any sleep, given everything pouring into my calendar.

A graphical interpretation of the third theme reviewed in the paper under “Employability and destructive practices.” Depicting jobs in geology as primarily extractive-related.

And I have no doubt that the current crisis in student enrolment across Earth Sci departments owes a fair bit to that perception.
Although not only, which gives me an excuse to link to this wonderful paper:
www.lyellcollection.org/doi/full/10....

Is not an easy path to walk.
Things have been a bit messy since I got there (also because regional politics spares no one). Not going to open it here (yet), but it makes the rift in self-perception more pronounced and visceral.

The state, for it's part, isn't helping matters; they want both, and ideally, that the institute would also generate some independent income (grants, commercial projects) on top of that.
Because marine science is expensive.
Needless to say, all that makes things a bit complicated there.
🧵 3/3

I personally fall in the middle, where I think there is a need for strong academic merit so recommendations and information we provide have internationally verified expertise behind them. Which oddly puts me in a minority. 🧵 2/3