Author | Lightnews

Rowan Martindale @rowanmartindale.bsky.social · 5d

Yay! Man, my students get vicious... Board games bring out something primal in some of them 😜 and it's never the ones you expect!

2

Rowan Martindale @rowanmartindale.bsky.social · 9d

So this happened... ❤️
Thank you so much to all the wonderful students, colleagues, and mentors, I would be lost without you all and the science wouldn't be anywhere near as fun! 💕

1 2 25

Rowan Martindale @rowanmartindale.bsky.social · 11d

Last day of #gsaconnects2025, but there are lots of great posters and talks by our @txgeosciences.bsky.social team and Jamaican collaborators 🇯🇲

2

Rowan Martindale @rowanmartindale.bsky.social · 12d

#gsaconnects2025 people, go check out some cool posters and talks this afternoon! Gabriel and Wilson both have cool posters incorporatibg machine learning with forams or ooids... I'll also be giving my talk about ooids and acidification this afternoon! @txgeosciences.bsky.social

3

Rowan Martindale @rowanmartindale.bsky.social · 14d

If you're at GSA Connects today there are going to be some great talks & posters given by current & graduated @txgeosciences.bsky.social mentees, check them out!

2

Rowan Martindale @rowanmartindale.bsky.social · 15d

Job Alert: UT Austin is hiring TWO Professors of Practice and Curators in Charge, one for the Vertebrate Paleontology Lab and another for the Non-vertebrate Paleontology Lab at the Jackson School of Geosciences Museum of Earth History.

Apply here: apply.interfolio.com/175702
Review begins Oct. 27th

Apply - Interfolio {{$ctrl.$state.data.pageTitle}} - Apply - Interfolio

apply.interfolio.com

7 6

Rowan Martindale @rowanmartindale.bsky.social · 18d

Strange... Michel Sepfontaine is a coauthor on both papers...

1 1

Reposted by Rowan Martindale

EGU SSP @egu-ssp.bsky.social · Sep 16

#Job Alert!
UT Austin is opening applications for Assistant #Professor (tenure-track) or Associate Professor (tenured) in #Sedimentary #Geosciences
Apply here - apply.interfolio.com/173688 or send your inquiries to @rowanmartindale.bsky.social
#sedimentology, #stratigraphy, #paleoenvironments

2 3

Rowan Martindale @rowanmartindale.bsky.social · Sep 14

www.jsg.utexas.edu/martindale/p...

Paleontological Board Games | Martindale Research Group

www.jsg.utexas.edu

1

Rowan Martindale @rowanmartindale.bsky.social · Sep 11

🚨JOB ALERT🚨
We (JSG @ UT Austin) are looking for an Assistant Professor (tenure-track) or Associate Professor (tenured) in Sedimentary Geosciences

More details here: apply.interfolio.com/173688
Or ask me!

Apply - Interfolio {{$ctrl.$state.data.pageTitle}} - Apply - Interfolio

apply.interfolio.com

8 7

Rowan Martindale @rowanmartindale.bsky.social · Sep 9

Awesome, thank you!

Rowan Martindale @rowanmartindale.bsky.social · Sep 9

Mass extinction/Paleozoic friends... I have some folks in my Extinction class eager to read about Paleozoic biotic crises, so what's your favorite paper/papers about these events? Both new/exciting and classic/seminal work in the field would be appreciated. Self promotion welcome 😜.

2 4 4

Rowan Martindale @rowanmartindale.bsky.social · Sep 3

See Drew Muscente's work in 2018 and 2020 using network analysis!

2

Rowan Martindale @rowanmartindale.bsky.social · Aug 1

Yes, she was super quick (I did email the "contact us" thing and didn't just complain here 😜)

Rowan Martindale @rowanmartindale.bsky.social · Aug 1

UPDATE: looks like it was just a weird glitch and they have fixed it now!

1 2

Rowan Martindale @rowanmartindale.bsky.social · Aug 1

🚨Heads up GSA Abstract submitters🚨
This year you cannot edit abstracts after they have been submitted/paid for. I don't think this is GSA's intention (their confirmation email says you can edit up to the deadline), but don't pay for your abstract until you are done and have no more edits!

2 1 2

Rowan Martindale @rowanmartindale.bsky.social · Jul 24

Check out this great press release about @brontonorris.bsky.social's first paper!
@txgeosciences.bsky.social
www.jsg.utexas.edu/news/2025/07...

Clues for Dinosaurs’ Diets Found in the Chemistry of Their Fossil Teeth

Some of the dinosaurs and other prehistoric creatures that roamed the western U.S. during the Late Jurassic about 150 million…

www.jsg.utexas.edu

3 15

Rowan Martindale @rowanmartindale.bsky.social · Jul 24

Yeah, we are resubmitting and the journal said they will fast track the publication

1

Rowan Martindale @rowanmartindale.bsky.social · Jul 24

You would think right? Nope "nothing they can do"

1

Rowan Martindale @rowanmartindale.bsky.social · Jul 24

Yep, we had to retract and resubmit the paper

1

Reposted by Rowan Martindale

Chris Lowery @chrislowery.bsky.social · Jun 2

Hey check out this new paper by former UT postdoc Katya Larina (plus former UT postdoc @foradamifera.bsky.social, @anshumans.bsky.social, @rowanmartindale.bsky.social, and Cori Meyers who I don’t think is here?) www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Regional restructuring in planktic foraminifera communities through Pliocene-early Pleistocene climate variability

Nature Communications - The Pliocene–early Pleistocene interval was characterized by climatic fluctuations. Here, the authors apply a bipartite network analysis to a database of planktic...

www.nature.com

1 4 7

Rowan Martindale @rowanmartindale.bsky.social · Jun 12

Need advice: Colleagues and I recently published a paper, but the journal modified our figures after the proofs, they are now problematic. The only option seems to be to retract the publication, but that seems ridiculous when the journal could have worked with us to modify the figures. Suggestions?

3 1 5

Rowan Martindale @rowanmartindale.bsky.social · Jun 12

Congratulations to Katya on this awesome paper!

Chris Lowery @chrislowery.bsky.social · Jun 2

Hey check out this new paper by former UT postdoc Katya Larina (plus former UT postdoc @foradamifera.bsky.social, @anshumans.bsky.social, @rowanmartindale.bsky.social, and Cori Meyers who I don’t think is here?) www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Regional restructuring in planktic foraminifera communities through Pliocene-early Pleistocene climate variability

Nature Communications - The Pliocene–early Pleistocene interval was characterized by climatic fluctuations. Here, the authors apply a bipartite network analysis to a database of planktic...

www.nature.com

4

Reposted by Rowan Martindale

Trevor A. Branch @trevorabranch.bsky.social · May 13

Racist and sexist roots in the cancellation of NSF grants under Trump:

Grants with female PIs canceled 2x more than men
Grants with Black PIs canceled 4x over White PIs
Grants with Hispanic PIs canceled 2x over White PIs
Grants with PIs with disabilities canceled 2x more than without

David Malakoff @davidmalakoff.bsky.social · May 13

Another scoop from Jeff Mervis (@policyhound.bsky.social): NSF's ~1400 grant terminations have disproportionately affected PIs from groups underrepresented in science: women, racial & ethnic minorities, & those with disabilities. 1/3
www.science.org/content/arti...

Trump officials take steps toward a radically different NSF

Efforts to shrink staff, budget, and focus have alarmed members of Congress

www.science.org

12 380 520

Reposted by Rowan Martindale

Leslie Rissler @ljrissler.bsky.social · May 13

“The entire landscape of American science, research, and engineering are under heavy attack,” the employee says. “It’s really critical that we all speak against it and be unified in our opposition.”

NSF employees brace for major restructuring

Although paused by a court order, reorganization plan creates concern about the agency’s future

cen.acs.org

2 52 97