Wow. Foraminifera!

ROV pilots paused and carefully zoomed in to collect footage of these single-celled microorganisms, or protists, at 843 m during the #OBVI #LivingBioreactors expedition w/ @schmidtsciences.bsky.social offshore of Argentina. Read the full caption: youtube.com/shorts/Yv_ud...

SODCO is hiring a Science Program Officer based at the Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory. If you’re a scientist with excellent organizational skills and excited to advance the next phase in U.S. scientific ocean drilling, check it out: academic.careers.columbia.edu#!/177103

Whoa that’s some wild data! Cool paper too

📣My department is hiring a hydrogeologist!📣 Note the priority application deadline of Nov. 15. Find me at #GSA2025 or email me if you have questions. We’re excited to find our next new colleague! Please share!

Earth and Planetary Science Letters, Elsevier

screenshot from a 2025 paper that states 'Data will be made available on request'

In the Lord's Year 2025 we're still doing this!?!?! C'mon EPSL. What happened to FAIR publishing principles....

Day88 of photoshopping @lastweektonight.com's John Oliver with fossils in the hopes that he saves the Paleontological Research Institution -

in critical need of donations

Fossil is Paranthropus boisei, comedian is H. sapiens. Reconstruction by PRI artist John Gurche #fossilFriday #savePRI ⚒️

Shifting foundations of the Antarctic food web - AAPP “We may be witnessing a fundamental reorganisation of life around Antarctica": study tracks change in polar phytoplankton

🌊 “We may be witnessing a fundamental reorganisation of life around Antarctica. Tiny algae at the base of the Antarctic food web are changing in ways that could ... alter how the ocean helps regulate our climate.” — Dr Alex Hayward

▶️ aappartnership.org.au/shifting-fou...

‘Don’t burn bridges’ they tell you. Listen here: a bridge provides access. ANYONE who treats you poorly does not deserve access to you. Protect your peace and respect yourself; burn the bridge 🔥

Rapid Response Bridge Funding Program In the face of recent abrupt shifts in federal funding for education research, including large-scale terminations of National Science Foundation (NSF) research grant awards, we have developed a rap...

**Rapid Response Bridge Funding Program** -- $25,000 grants earmarked for early-career researchers whose NSF-funded research on STEM and education has just been terminated.

www.spencer.org/grant_types/...

hub.jhu.edu/2025/04/28/j...

Thanks @lizneeley.bsky.social !

What it looks like walking out the door in remote northern Alaska…

Scholarships and Awards The AWG Professional Excellence Awards go to women who, throughout their careers, have made significant and distinguished contributions in the following three areas: government/regulatory; industry/consulting; and academia/research. Nominations are due June 15th of each year.

The deadline (April 30th) is approaching for the Association of Women Geoscientists Undergrad Excellence in Paleo and Winifred Goldring Awards! Please share wide and far! Both awards are open to applicants (undergrad, MS, PhD) across the globe 🌍🌎🌏 Info & to apply: www.awg.org/page/Scholar...

I think yes, he’d be okay.

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This is wild; and also, illegal. Ugh.

Anyone have funding ideas for getting a Canadian graduate student to an American university? The NSERC CGS D grant isn't a possibility, and I'm already planning to submit an NSF for potential graduate funds.

Southern Hemisphere subtropical front impacts on Southern African hydroclimate across the Mid-Pleistocene Transition Nature Communications - Leaf wax isotopes and climate modeling show that Southern African rainfall and vegetation zones shifted in response to a stronger Meridional Temperature Gradient during the...

Very proud to announce that our new paper is out in Nature Communications! rdcu.be/ehvip

Special thank you to my coauthors: @triptychphrases.bsky.social @hl-ford.bsky.social @erinmcclimate.bsky.social Paul Valdes and Alex Farnsworth

Happy Birthday!

“Thirstwaves” Are Growing More Common Across the United States - Eos Like heat waves, these periods of high atmospheric demand for water can damage crops and ecosystems and increase pressure on water resources. New research shows they’re becoming more severe.

Earth’s atmosphere is getting thirstier. New research from @agrohydrology.bsky.social & Mike Hobbins explores how this thirst is affecting crops.

eos.org/research-spo...

A love for insects inspired an undergrad’s research — which was just published - Binghamton News Leah Rosenheim explores color changes in praying mantises

Aspiring entomologist Leah Rosenheim loves insects. 🦗🐜🪳 She began researching praying mantises in high school -- and just had her results published in the journal "Ecology and Evolution." Read more: tinyurl.com/yc784eyr

FEMA to Dismantle Popular Disaster Preparedness Program - Eos The Trump administration has announced plans to dismantle a program responsible for funding billions of dollars’ worth of projects meant to help communities prepare for disasters such as flooding, hur...

An internal memo this week directed the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) to cancel existing grants and stop disbursing promised funding under the Building Resilient Infrastructure and Communities program, which helped communities prepare for hazards and disasters.

eos.org/research-and...

MBARI expands capacity for ocean research with new state-of-the-art ship • MBARI MBARI’s marine operations team begins preparations for science missions aboard our new flagship research vessel David Packard later this year.

Welcome our newest addition to the fleet! ⛴️

We're excited to announce the arrival of our new flagship vessel, R/V David Packard, at our headquarters in Moss Landing, California. This state-of-the-art ship will expand our capacity for ocean exploration.

Learn more: www.mbari.org/news/mbari-e...

Check out the interview I did for the @profilesafr.bsky.social! I discuss my research mainly in the context of #ScientificOceanDrilling and conducting science at sea aboard the JOIDES Resolution. Check out this podcast for more interviews with STEM scientists!

A New Perspective on the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill: What Can Benthic Foraminifera Tell Us 14 Years After the Spill? Contributed by Jeanette M. deCuba, GSA Graduate Student Research Grant Recipient On 20 April 2010, an explosion caused the discharge of approximately 172 to 206 million gallons of oil and gas into …

My PhD student, Jeanette, wrote this fabulous blog post about her MS research using benthic foraminifera to look at ecosystem changes associate with the Deep Water Horizon oil spill speakingofgeoscience.org/2025/03/13/d...

A large shelled cephalopod, covered in spots, on the floor of an ancient reef

When the edible hits and it’s also the Ordovician.

Like morphometrics, micro-CT scanning, and morphological evolution? Then please consider applying for our 18 month postdoc position at the university of Southampton! Details here: www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DMF402/r...

My Obituary of Elisabeth Vrba—out today in Nature in read-only format:

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Hey congrats!! Can’t wait to read it!!

Defend the liberty of a stranger as you would defend your own, or that of a loved one, because that is what's actually on the table—whether we are a society that will sit still as our neighbors are snatched in the night, and disappeared into darkness, or a society that will fight for each other.

Did you see "DEI" written into the federal grant you're reviewing, no you did not it absolutely was not there I have no idea what you're talking about.