geology | paleoclimatology | geochemistry | soils | sed/strat | Assoc. Prof. at JMU | views are my own
Lab website: https://sites.google.com/view/lukenslabjmu
Scholar profile: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=Nlx0NacAAAAJ&hl=en&authuser=1&oi
Bill Lukens
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🚨Funding for 2yr postdoc w/ me & @geocron.bsky.social on landslide-tsunami-jökulhlaup project, but (this is the ridiculous part) I need to select someone NOW or I lose the $. If you're NOT in Canada (can be any nationality) and interested, send me your CV and transcripts by midnight MT, June 12. 🧪⚒️
The World Cup and Olympics are neat because every country’s national anthem is an equally embarrassing, hokey ditty written so long ago that it bares no resemblance to any surviving culture.
Is it legal to update these once a century?
#WorldCup26
[me, for the first 17 mo of my son’s life]: there will be NO screen time! My son will never learn that the TV even turns on!
[first day of #WorldCup26]: I’m so pumped to watch soccer with my son for the first time!
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I’m gonna cheat a little on this. Bill Walton was hanging out with us in the pit during various portions of all 3 Grateful Dead 50th anniversary shows at Soldier Field.
He was certainly the best athlete in attendance.
Striking directly into the hearts of the millennial geologists, Randall!
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As an associate editor, I experience so much joy when a pretty good paper is reviewed by competent and kind people and leads to a very good revised product.
When the system works well, it's very rewarding. Wish it happened that way all the time.
#AcademicSky #publishing #peerreview
This is exactly why I'm confused by the "liberals don't like technology" nonsense. This van is my literal dream vehicle.
Am I not allowed to love this, and novel renewable energy projects, and also despise data centers?
Hey look, NSF is investing in sustainable ecosystems!! 🥹
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Oh, it’s actually just more public money being funneled to tech. Huh.😕
🧪⚒️ #AcademicSky #NSF
What's with the notion that liberals don't like technology?
Am I the only one with a mental pic of an America "liberal" being one of those iPod Silhouette people driving a Prius?
#tech #culture #liberal
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A deep-sea whale necropolis that has:
1) Far more whale falls than you can imagine,
2) At wild depths, &
2) Whale fossils as old as the Mio/Plio boundary, still on the seafloor?? 🤯
Gets my vote most interesting publication of 2026 (so far).
#AcademicSky 🧪⚒️
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Dr Dan Shugar 🇨🇦
Bill Lukens
Researchers uncovered an enormous deep-sea accumulation of whale remains in the southeastern Indian Ocean, showing long-term, specialized ecosystems and an extensive fossil record that offers new insi...
