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Emily Mixon, PhD
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Hey look, Kīlauea is back at it yet again. And by it I mean erupting www.youtube.com/live/gXKuUyK...
This 'living document' online course looks fantastic and so needed. Highly recommend to any of my prof/instructor friends in any/all fields!
"This is not a how-to course for using generative AI. It's a when-to course, a why-to course, and perhaps most importantly a why-not-to course"
Key misunderstanding I want to get ahead of: NCAR isn't really a government agency like NIH or NSF. It's one of the largest NSF grants in history, and is given to a non-profit org called UCAR, whose job is to make NCAR exist (www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/...). That means the buck stops with NSF right now
Friday fun! New work now online in @geosociety.bsky.social Geology! Writing this up was a ton of fun and I learned a lot from my co-authors. We hope to see more folks using (well-characterized!) #tourmaline for 40Ar/39Ar #geochronology in the near future!
doi.org/10.1130/G547...
The White House Office of Management and Budget is moving to take more control of billions of dollars in federal grants. Critics say the proposed change would jeopardize the integrity of U.S. science. n.pr/4uNA78T
Dating authigenic K-feldspar is difficult, but a new study at Wisconsin’s Reef Au-Cu deposit used in situ 40Ar/39Ar dating on micro-vein K-spar to identify a 499.7 ± 0.8 Ma Paleozoic fault-fluid event—offering new clues to midcontinent tectonics.
Read more: geosociety.co/feldspar
So exciting!! Tanya is an amazing person (I was SO fortunate to have her for plate tectonics during my time at UCSB). Her stories about going to sea before women were accepted on ships are 🤯 and she's an inspiration for seagoing women scientists.
75 faculty from cut departments (like Earth & Atmospheric Sciences) received notice that their jobs will end in Jan 2027.
A year seems like a lot of notice, but it's basically too late for this year's job cycle and too early for next year's.
From Nebraska's AAUP:
thebugeater.com/uncategorize...
Is your geoscience department running a search this year? UNL administration made a terrible decision to cut this amazing department, and all of these awesome faculty deserve better than Nebraska could offer them:
eas.unl.edu/about/direct...
Amid a whole host of other upheaval—their last day in the building is this Friday—NSF is making some changes to its grant review process. I spoke to staff about the potential benefits and drawbacks:
The White House Office of Management and Budget is moving to take more control of billions of dollars in federal grants. Critics say the proposed change would jeopardize the integrity of U.S. science.
Apparently some people and some interactions don’t matter. If you’re reading The Bugeater, you likely already know that on December 5 the NU Board of Regents voted to eliminate four academic departmen...
Modern-Day Oracles or Bullshit Machines?
Jevin West (@jevinwest.bsky.social) and I have spent the last eight months developing the course on large language models (LLMs) that we think every college freshman needs to take.
thebullshitmachines.com
The discovery that the continents are in continuous motion is fairly recent—dating back only to the late 1960s — and one woman was responsible for decoding what it meant for California and much of the West Coast.
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Agency staff members say that the changes are reasonable, but they are worried about the potential effects on review.
