Seth Finnegan
@sethf.bsky.social
Marine paleobiologist & geologist @ UC Berkeley Integrative Biology & UC Museum of Paleontology
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Collaborate with me! Myself and @peterroopnarine.bsky.social are looking for a postdoc with expertise in quantitative paleoecology to work on our new NSF grant addressing whether communities after the PTME functioned differently than those beforehand.
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Postdoctoral Researcher, Paleontology
San Francisco, CA
job-boards.greenhouse.io
January 16, 2026 at 6:25 PM
Collaborate with me! Myself and @peterroopnarine.bsky.social are looking for a postdoc with expertise in quantitative paleoecology to work on our new NSF grant addressing whether communities after the PTME functioned differently than those beforehand.
job-boards.greenhouse.io/californiaac...
job-boards.greenhouse.io/californiaac...
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Swarthmore College is hiring a 3-year Visiting Assistant Professor in Mathematics. We're a Math+Stat dept. with ~23 faculty. Friendly colleagues, excellent students, beautiful campus, convenient location (Philly suburbs). Happy to answer any questions.
www.mathjobs.org/jobs/list/27...
#AcademicSky 🧪
www.mathjobs.org/jobs/list/27...
#AcademicSky 🧪
January 15, 2026 at 12:22 PM
Swarthmore College is hiring a 3-year Visiting Assistant Professor in Mathematics. We're a Math+Stat dept. with ~23 faculty. Friendly colleagues, excellent students, beautiful campus, convenient location (Philly suburbs). Happy to answer any questions.
www.mathjobs.org/jobs/list/27...
#AcademicSky 🧪
www.mathjobs.org/jobs/list/27...
#AcademicSky 🧪
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Guess what happens when one country stops investing in universities (at federal and state levels) and another country turns up the investment dial?
US higher education was a crown jewel, generating knowledge, wealth, prestige, and power unrivaled by anyone.
And the US is throwing it away, because Americans elected a govt ideologically opposed to truth, science, merit, and racial/gender equality, preferring to weaken the country to reduce that.
And the US is throwing it away, because Americans elected a govt ideologically opposed to truth, science, merit, and racial/gender equality, preferring to weaken the country to reduce that.
Chinese Universities Surge in Global Rankings as U.S. Schools Slip
www.nytimes.com
January 15, 2026 at 2:20 PM
Guess what happens when one country stops investing in universities (at federal and state levels) and another country turns up the investment dial?
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new publication out, led by Dr. Molly Patterson, from the IODP Exp 374 team showing obliquity pacing of iceberg calving events in the Ross Sea (based on ice-rafted debris records) during the late Pliocene to early Pleistocene (~3.3-2.3 Ma)
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Spatially variable response of Antarctica’s ice sheets to orbital forcing during the Pliocene - Nature Geoscience
The West Antarctic Ice Sheet responded to different natural forcing mechanisms than the East Antarctic Ice Sheet through the mid-Pliocene due to a greater sensitivity to oceanic feedbacks, according t...
www.nature.com
January 15, 2026 at 2:50 PM
new publication out, led by Dr. Molly Patterson, from the IODP Exp 374 team showing obliquity pacing of iceberg calving events in the Ross Sea (based on ice-rafted debris records) during the late Pliocene to early Pleistocene (~3.3-2.3 Ma)
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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The Hmong are here because they fought for the US in a war we lost.
"“They specifically asked me if I knew where the Hmong families lived on my street & in the neighborhood.” Lugert-Thom responded, “I don’t know anything about that” & she said they then asked, “Well, what about the Asian families?”"
"“I was a bit shaken & a bit shocked of what I was asked to do.”"
"“I was a bit shaken & a bit shocked of what I was asked to do.”"
A St. Paul resident says federal officers knocked on her door and asked her to identify Hmong and Asian households in her North End neighborhood last week.
January 14, 2026 at 2:57 PM
The Hmong are here because they fought for the US in a war we lost.
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“A campaign of organized brutality against the people of Minnesota by our own federal government.”
January 15, 2026 at 1:52 AM
“A campaign of organized brutality against the people of Minnesota by our own federal government.”
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We're discussing DINOSAUR DIET on today's stream — and raising funds for one of Minnesota's largest food banks to help folks resist the ongoing fascist occupation. Join us, and let's raise some money for VEAP!
twitch.tv/paleontologizing
veap.org/ways-to-give...
twitch.tv/paleontologizing
veap.org/ways-to-give...
January 14, 2026 at 9:59 PM
We're discussing DINOSAUR DIET on today's stream — and raising funds for one of Minnesota's largest food banks to help folks resist the ongoing fascist occupation. Join us, and let's raise some money for VEAP!
twitch.tv/paleontologizing
veap.org/ways-to-give...
twitch.tv/paleontologizing
veap.org/ways-to-give...
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The heat energy we added to the ocean LAST YEAR is the equivalent of:
- Detonating ten hydrogen bombs every minute
- operating over a hundred large power plants continuously for all of written human history
- Five times all the electricity human beings have ever used
- Detonating ten hydrogen bombs every minute
- operating over a hundred large power plants continuously for all of written human history
- Five times all the electricity human beings have ever used
Ocean heat content increased by 23 billion trillion joules, which was around 39 times greater than global primary energy use this year. This is the largest rise in OHC since 2017; overall OHC has increased by over 500 zettajoules since the 1940s.
January 14, 2026 at 9:05 PM
The heat energy we added to the ocean LAST YEAR is the equivalent of:
- Detonating ten hydrogen bombs every minute
- operating over a hundred large power plants continuously for all of written human history
- Five times all the electricity human beings have ever used
- Detonating ten hydrogen bombs every minute
- operating over a hundred large power plants continuously for all of written human history
- Five times all the electricity human beings have ever used
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ICE has escalated from
Arresting undocumented migrants with criminal records to
Arresting undocumented migrants without criminal records to
Arresting legal migrants to
Arresting US citizens who 'look' like migrants to
Arresting US citizens protesting ICE to
Arresting random bystanders.
Who's next?
Arresting undocumented migrants with criminal records to
Arresting undocumented migrants without criminal records to
Arresting legal migrants to
Arresting US citizens who 'look' like migrants to
Arresting US citizens protesting ICE to
Arresting random bystanders.
Who's next?
What is happening in America right now. The arbitrary power of a tyrant deployed against his political enemies.
January 14, 2026 at 12:31 PM
ICE has escalated from
Arresting undocumented migrants with criminal records to
Arresting undocumented migrants without criminal records to
Arresting legal migrants to
Arresting US citizens who 'look' like migrants to
Arresting US citizens protesting ICE to
Arresting random bystanders.
Who's next?
Arresting undocumented migrants with criminal records to
Arresting undocumented migrants without criminal records to
Arresting legal migrants to
Arresting US citizens who 'look' like migrants to
Arresting US citizens protesting ICE to
Arresting random bystanders.
Who's next?
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There you have it; the Trump admin allows ICE lawyer James Rodden to stay on the job. His personal social media account praised Hitler, supported white nationalism, and said that America started going downhill the day that Lincoln was elected.
BREAKING: James Rodden, an ICE prosecutor who the Observer identified last year as the operator of an X account that posted “America is a White nation," “‘Migrants’ are all criminals,” and apparent praise of Adolf Hitler, appeared to be back at work Tuesday.
www.texasobserver.org/ice-prosecut...
www.texasobserver.org/ice-prosecut...
ICE Prosecutor Who Runs Racist X Account Returns to Dallas Immigration Court
James Rodden, who the Observer identified last year as the operator of the account that routinely posted hateful statements, appeared to be back at work Tuesday.
www.texasobserver.org
January 14, 2026 at 1:12 AM
There you have it; the Trump admin allows ICE lawyer James Rodden to stay on the job. His personal social media account praised Hitler, supported white nationalism, and said that America started going downhill the day that Lincoln was elected.
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Read this story and decide if this is the America you want to live in.
ICE saw a Latino man driving a car. Chased him down and rammed him. Just because he wasn’t white.
He was just a guy - an American citizen - driving to the auto shop.
ICE saw a Latino man driving a car. Chased him down and rammed him. Just because he wasn’t white.
He was just a guy - an American citizen - driving to the auto shop.
ICE rams car in south Minneapolis while profiling Latino driver
ICE agents rammed into a man’s car in south Minneapolis Monday afternoon while profiling the Latino driver.
sahanjournal.com
January 13, 2026 at 7:19 PM
Read this story and decide if this is the America you want to live in.
ICE saw a Latino man driving a car. Chased him down and rammed him. Just because he wasn’t white.
He was just a guy - an American citizen - driving to the auto shop.
ICE saw a Latino man driving a car. Chased him down and rammed him. Just because he wasn’t white.
He was just a guy - an American citizen - driving to the auto shop.
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the great David Gutenfelder who’s photographed so many of the world’s most intense conflict zones in the past three decades now reporting from his home town
www.nytimes.com/video/us/100...
www.nytimes.com/video/us/100...
Video: What Our Photographer Saw in Minneapolis
David Guttenfelder, a visual journalist for The New York Times, was at the scene in Minneapolis immediately after an ICE agent killed a 37-year-old woman in her vehicle. He walks us through the photos...
www.nytimes.com
January 13, 2026 at 11:58 PM
the great David Gutenfelder who’s photographed so many of the world’s most intense conflict zones in the past three decades now reporting from his home town
www.nytimes.com/video/us/100...
www.nytimes.com/video/us/100...
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This headline is so dystopian.
Breaking News: The EPA will stop considering lives saved when setting pollution limits and instead calculate only the cost to businesses.
E.P.A. to Stop Considering Lives Saved by Limiting Air Pollution
In a reversal, the agency plans to calculate only the cost to industry when setting pollution limits, and not the monetary value of saving human lives, documents show.
nyti.ms
January 13, 2026 at 8:53 PM
This headline is so dystopian.
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Earlier: “The immediate economic losses projected here are just the tip of the iceberg. International students drive innovation, advance America’s global competitiveness, and create research and academic opportunities in our local colleges that will benefit our country for generations.”
The High Cost of Targeting International Students in Texas
The Trump administration’s bans and airport detentions are derailing the academic dreams of students who carry out important research—and sometimes pay hefty tuition—to attend Texas institutions.
www.texasobserver.org
January 13, 2026 at 9:35 PM
Earlier: “The immediate economic losses projected here are just the tip of the iceberg. International students drive innovation, advance America’s global competitiveness, and create research and academic opportunities in our local colleges that will benefit our country for generations.”
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In a newly published paper, we find that in 2025 human emissions of greenhouse gases added around 23 billion trillion joules of heat to the world's oceans – 39 times as much as the annual energy produced by all human activity on Earth. link.springer.com/ar...
January 13, 2026 at 12:32 AM
In a newly published paper, we find that in 2025 human emissions of greenhouse gases added around 23 billion trillion joules of heat to the world's oceans – 39 times as much as the annual energy produced by all human activity on Earth. link.springer.com/ar...
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New video shows ICE agents detaining a US citizen legal observer in Minneapolis.
The agents smashed his car window, dragged him out, and placed a knee on his neck.
The agents smashed his car window, dragged him out, and placed a knee on his neck.
January 13, 2026 at 4:21 PM
New video shows ICE agents detaining a US citizen legal observer in Minneapolis.
The agents smashed his car window, dragged him out, and placed a knee on his neck.
The agents smashed his car window, dragged him out, and placed a knee on his neck.
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Screenshots from a video DHS is sharing on X, about 20 heavily-armed agents confronting then tackling one guy at a gas station, shoving his partner aside, then threatening photographers with pepper spray. Noteworthy not for its now-routine brutality but for DHS showcasing it.
January 13, 2026 at 2:29 PM
Screenshots from a video DHS is sharing on X, about 20 heavily-armed agents confronting then tackling one guy at a gas station, shoving his partner aside, then threatening photographers with pepper spray. Noteworthy not for its now-routine brutality but for DHS showcasing it.
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This is a beautiful paper examining the molecular genetics of facultative multicellularity in a marine black yeast.
I also love that they figure out the ecological context for the behavior (MC form when in sponges, where there are nutrients, & uni when starving!).
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
I also love that they figure out the ecological context for the behavior (MC form when in sponges, where there are nutrients, & uni when starving!).
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Client Challenge
www.nature.com
January 13, 2026 at 3:00 PM
This is a beautiful paper examining the molecular genetics of facultative multicellularity in a marine black yeast.
I also love that they figure out the ecological context for the behavior (MC form when in sponges, where there are nutrients, & uni when starving!).
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
I also love that they figure out the ecological context for the behavior (MC form when in sponges, where there are nutrients, & uni when starving!).
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Congratulations to all the bankers, hedge-fund managers, private-equity honchos, tech titans, corporate executives and op-ed writers for backing the man who will do more to undermine the system that made them insanely wealthy than any other presidential candidate in their lifetimes.
Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell said the US central bank had been served grand jury subpoenas from the Justice Department threatening a criminal indictment, a dramatic escalation of the Trump administration’s attacks on the Fed.
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Fed Served With DOJ Subpoenas, Powell Vows to Stand Firm
Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell said the US central bank had been served grand jury subpoenas from the Justice Department threatening a criminal indictment, a dramatic escalation of the Trump admi...
www.bloomberg.com
January 12, 2026 at 3:08 AM
Congratulations to all the bankers, hedge-fund managers, private-equity honchos, tech titans, corporate executives and op-ed writers for backing the man who will do more to undermine the system that made them insanely wealthy than any other presidential candidate in their lifetimes.
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Ocean Warming Breaks Record for Ninth Straight Year insideclimatenews.org/news/0901202...
Ocean Warming Breaks Record for Ninth Straight Year - Inside Climate News
Every second of last year, the Earth’s oceans absorbed the equivalent in energy to 12 Hiroshima-sized atomic bombs. Global ocean heat content (OHC) increased for the ninth consecutive year in 2025, a...
insideclimatenews.org
January 10, 2026 at 5:03 PM
Ocean Warming Breaks Record for Ninth Straight Year insideclimatenews.org/news/0901202...
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Only 7 more days to apply for an NMNH Research Undergrad internship/experience! naturalhistory.si.edu/research/nat...
Natural History Research Experiences
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January 9, 2026 at 8:47 PM
Only 7 more days to apply for an NMNH Research Undergrad internship/experience! naturalhistory.si.edu/research/nat...
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The Department of Agriculture announces today it's freezing 129 million in federal funding to Minnesota, continuing the administration's all-out attacks & retaliation against this state. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/09/u...
Trump Administration Freezes Food Stamps in Minnesota
www.nytimes.com
January 10, 2026 at 1:59 AM
The Department of Agriculture announces today it's freezing 129 million in federal funding to Minnesota, continuing the administration's all-out attacks & retaliation against this state. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/09/u...
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The utter disorganization, incompetence, ill discipline, and lack of training here is staggering.
Being there at all is deliberate provocation. They're not protecting anything. ICE could lie low, or leave entirely. But no, they want to incite a violent response to justify further violence.
Being there at all is deliberate provocation. They're not protecting anything. ICE could lie low, or leave entirely. But no, they want to incite a violent response to justify further violence.
January 10, 2026 at 6:02 AM
The utter disorganization, incompetence, ill discipline, and lack of training here is staggering.
Being there at all is deliberate provocation. They're not protecting anything. ICE could lie low, or leave entirely. But no, they want to incite a violent response to justify further violence.
Being there at all is deliberate provocation. They're not protecting anything. ICE could lie low, or leave entirely. But no, they want to incite a violent response to justify further violence.
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What’s that in the sky? Satellite light trails could corrupt images captured by space telescopes like Hubble and potentially make some data unusable. #physics #astronomy
As satellite population surges, so does the impact on astronomy
Images captured by ground telescopes are getting contaminated by sunlight reflected off satellites. Space telescope data can get compromised too.
physicstoday.aip.org
January 9, 2026 at 7:52 PM
What’s that in the sky? Satellite light trails could corrupt images captured by space telescopes like Hubble and potentially make some data unusable. #physics #astronomy
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Shit. Show.
Like, literally with all the extra thousands of folks trampling the meadows far away from overcrowded restrooms overseen by understaffed and underfunded park rangers.
www.sfchronicle.com/outdoors/art...
Like, literally with all the extra thousands of folks trampling the meadows far away from overcrowded restrooms overseen by understaffed and underfunded park rangers.
www.sfchronicle.com/outdoors/art...
Yosemite’s top winter attraction won’t require reservations for the first time in years
An immensely popular park spectacle that draws thousands of visitors each February will no longer require reservations.
www.sfchronicle.com
January 9, 2026 at 10:02 PM
Shit. Show.
Like, literally with all the extra thousands of folks trampling the meadows far away from overcrowded restrooms overseen by understaffed and underfunded park rangers.
www.sfchronicle.com/outdoors/art...
Like, literally with all the extra thousands of folks trampling the meadows far away from overcrowded restrooms overseen by understaffed and underfunded park rangers.
www.sfchronicle.com/outdoors/art...