description from Huntington library: "A lithograph printed on heavy paper. Satirical "death certificate" issued for the Southern Confederacy. Mourning border, each line in different typeface, with: Died, Near the South-Side Rail Road, / on Sunday, April 9th, 1865, / The Southern Confederacy, / Aged Four Years, / Conceived in Sin, Born in iniquity, Nurtured by Tyranny, Died of / a Chronic Attack of Punch. / Abraham Lincoln, Attending Physician. / U.S. Grant, Undertaker. / Jeff Davis, Chief Mourner. Below in smaller print an epitaph that ends with: And this one line shall grace your grave-- / Your death gave freedom to the slave." https://hdl.huntington.org/digital/collection/p16003coll6/id/5033

to all who celebrate...

The tech industry props up the richest people on the planet and pays far less than its fair share of taxes. It can absolutely afford its own R&D. But instead, it’s effectively hijacked our public science infrastructure because having more wealth than anyone could ever spend is still not enough.

if you invented public libraries today, every opinion page in the country would be arguing for means tested subsidized Amazon Prime memberships

Honorary Graduation Ceremony YouTube video by Ulster University

please enjoy this timeline cleanse of dancers, dressed as the Terminator, performing in front of Arnold Schwarzenegger as he gets an honorary PhD
www.youtube.com/live/TITqQ3E...

doorbells all the way down

an older, secret doorbell

transmisogyny is just misogyny with extra steps. it was always about controlling how we define women so that they fit a profile consistent with cishetero men's desires and "gender critical" feminists played right into it. now any woman who doesn't look "feminine enough" is in the crosshairs.

imagine taking even one moment to consider why women from Afghanistan might want to come to the UK to pursue education and concluding that it’s definitely for scam reasons

Lao Gan Ma chili crisp: 10/10
Lao Gan Ma chili crisp, down the wrong pipe: still 7/10.

what it's like after you wake up, but before you put your glasses on:

oh man, yours too?

We compiled regional datasets to generate a comprehensive global inventory of lake-terminating glaciers. While these glaciers account for only ~1% of glaciers, they hold ~10% of global ice area. Lake interactions could therefore be significant in shaping glacier change in the decades to come!

I remember a hockey team from a certain place I grew up (239 m a.s.l.), having been unexpectedly swept by UAF in Fairbanks (136 m a.s.l.) that weekend, blaming their poor performance on the "high altitude".

Opinion: It’s not you, it’s the glacier A field guide to coping with a breakup measured in 160 feet per year.

As someone experiencing a fraught relationship with a different retreating glacier I find Naomi Klouda’s essay in ADN delightful and affirming! Read!

Opinion: It’s not you, it’s the glacier www.adn.com/opinions/202...

loaned my copy to someone before I left Alaska, now it feels like I should go pick up another one...

In addn to the “opportunity theft,” as Sonja 🤌 calls it, I’m struck by how this prof thinks of grad students: purely as cheap labor to serve him. Zero acknwlwgmt of the ethical / intellectual responsibility or *joy* of sharing your knwledg with others, learning *from* them, supporting the next gen.

I assumed that the reason that Fairbanks had like no building code enforcement is because it was the wild west, but apparently everywhere is the wild west?

Historian of French Revolution here to say that in periods like this, squeamish compromisers do as much to drive radicalization as do ideologues. If you keep making excuses for the unfit king, eventually folks come for you and him.

Brook trout, polar bear, chickadee

This is honestly the treatment Trump voters should get in the U.S. too. Don't let them try to hide from the effects of their choice. It's always the people who believe in the worst things that get mad when someone "makes things political."

I have so many examples of students questioning whether I know enough about a topic to teach it. I asked in faculty meeting "who has been questioned whether they are qualified to teach a class?" The women raised their hands, the men didn't. It's definitely rooted in sexism and racism.

Greg Davies: Great task, well done. Didn‘t eat a thing.

Persephone: Thank you.

Alex Horne: Ah. Well. Let’s take another look at that pomegranate.

Glacier Loss in Alaska

Alaskan glaciers are retreating faster than ever, threatening ecosystems, communities, and ways of life. ❄️

Join me and others for a webinar on glacier loss, tipping points, and cultural consequences in Alaska.

🗓 Monday, March 23
⏰ 18:00–19:30 CET
🔗 futureearth.confetti.events/glacier-loss...

Global mapping of lake-terminating glaciers Abstract. Proglacial lakes at glacier termini have received widespread attention in the literature for their role in accelerating melt, velocity and contributing to cryospheric hazards. Although globa...

🚨dataset/paper alert!🚨

Our community effort to identify lake-terminating glaciers in the Randolph Glacier Inventory is published in ESSD!

check out the associated dataset here: doi.org/10.5281/zeno...

and, if you would like to contribute any updates/corrections: github.com/GLIMS-RGI/la...

This is not just cursed, its monstrous. The digital resurrection of a historian who died in January of this year, all so Grammarly can get some more clicks and engagement from students and/or scholars and/or others.

It feels so wrong on so many levels, these ghosts enslaved to AI forever

can't believe I missed @iestynbarr.bsky.social 🫠

tagging the small number of co-authors who I was actually able to find on bluesky:

@app-glaciers.bsky.social @rodaguayo.bsky.social @icealek.bsky.social @levantielidze.bsky.social

Global mapping of lake-terminating glaciers Abstract. Proglacial lakes at glacier termini have received widespread attention in the literature for their role in accelerating melt, velocity and contributing to cryospheric hazards. Although globa...

🚨dataset/paper alert!🚨

Our community effort to identify lake-terminating glaciers in the Randolph Glacier Inventory is published in ESSD!

check out the associated dataset here: doi.org/10.5281/zeno...

and, if you would like to contribute any updates/corrections: github.com/GLIMS-RGI/la...

I built a free tool that shows how night-time lights have changed anywhere on Earth.

Here's how it works and why it's useful for monitoring conflict, disasters, development and growth. 👇

I was really hoping this one would work