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Sickos Committee @sickoscommittee.org · 10h

Colorado Mines leads South Dakota Mines at the half.

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siegfried @siegfried.bsky.social · 5d

Please stop interrupting the cubs game.

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Blue Skynet @blueskynet2123.bsky.social · 7d

@sickoscommittee.org D2 football rules

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siegfried @siegfried.bsky.social · 12d

Scotland?!???!!!

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siegfried @siegfried.bsky.social · 15d

Are you saying westerlies aren’t caused by someone taking a deep breath and blowing really hard in one direction?

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siegfried @siegfried.bsky.social · 17d

AGU awards announced. AGU website doesn’t work. Clockwork.

siegfried @siegfried.bsky.social · 17d

Not an outlier.

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siegfried @siegfried.bsky.social · 28d

Yes. Also tied directly to Lieberman being an asshole 😡

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siegfried @siegfried.bsky.social · Sep 10

Always good to be a coauthor with our busyboi Keir.

Keir Nichols @cosmokeir.bsky.social · Sep 10

Chuffed to be included in this review paper on the Foundation-Patuxent-Academy ice stream system, Antarctica led by Neil Ross - you can see the preprint in open review here: doi.org/10.5194/egus... - featuring the busiest figure I've ever made 🇦🇶🧊

A busy figure with three panels (a, b, and c). Panel a is a plot with distance along centreline (in km) on the x axis and elevation (in metres above sea level) on the y axis. The plot shows the location (along flowline) and elevation of samples collected for cosmogenic nuclide exposure dating at sites adjacent to the Foundation Ice Stream. Panel b is a map that shows the Foundation Ice Stream (and neighbouring ice streams and glaciers), the flowline used in panel a, and the locations from which the samples in panel a were collected. Panel c is a plot with age (in thousands of years) on the x axis and elevation above modern ice surface (in metres) on the y axis. Exposure ages (between 20 ka and the present day) from the sites in panels a and b are plotted, with most of them falling between ~4 and 9 ka. The ages show that the Foundation Ice Stream thinned by hundreds of metres (at least 700 to 800 m) between about 9 and 4 ka.

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Chris Vannini @chrisvannini.com · Sep 9

Bears had a 94% win probability and are now losing by two scores

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siegfried @siegfried.bsky.social · Sep 7

Vibes worked.

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Keir Nichols @cosmokeir.bsky.social · Aug 22

New paper alert 🚨🏔️ We use 10Be exposure dating and ELA reconstructions to shed light on glacier advances in the tropical Andes during the Younger Dryas. You can find the paper led by Neil Glasser @aberuni.bsky.social in Scientific Reports tinyurl.com/uwmt8rcn

Younger Dryas glacier advances in the tropical Andes driven by increased precipitation - Scientific Reports

Scientific Reports - Younger Dryas glacier advances in the tropical Andes driven by increased precipitation

tinyurl.com

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MayhemMel! @melindameyer.bsky.social · Aug 10

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siegfried @siegfried.bsky.social · Jul 30

Enjoy your new space home, NISAR.

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the Inner Ring blog @inrng.com · Jul 20

Involved in the crash in Auterive soon after the start of the stage, Julian Alaphilippe dislocated his shoulder but popped it back in himself, via L'Equipe www.lequipe.fr/Cyclisme-sur... (🇫🇷)

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Geography at Durham @geogdurham.bsky.social · Jul 11

Great work by our colleagues Stewart Jamieson and Guy Paxman: "We have been using satellite data to map an ancient river landscape beneath the East Antarctic Ice Sheet:. The landscape has been frozen in time for up to 34 million years." ⚒️🧪

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Extensive fluvial surfaces at the East Antarctic margin have modulated ice-sheet evolution - Nature Geoscience

Extensive flat surfaces observed beneath the East Antarctic Ice Sheet margin were formed by fluvial erosion and have modulated the ice-sheet response to climate change, according to an analysis of rad...

www.nature.com

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · Jul 10

sure why not

Trump announces Duffy will be intern administrator of NASA

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siegfried @siegfried.bsky.social · Jul 6

Just tell me about the tour, le monde — I don’t need to hear about my officesuitemate’s project 20 years in the making. I hear about it enough already.

(jkjk read about @coschoolofmines.bsky.social’s bestest Geophysics faculty Brandon Dugan’s IODP cruise)

Le Monde in English @english.lemonde.fr · Jul 6

Scientific expedition off the US coast seeks out freshwater beneath the sea

While the existence of freshwater beneath the sea in aquifers has been known since antiquity, geophysicists still understand very little about the mechanisms that govern it. An international mission dedicated to studying one of these offshore hydrological systems now has the tools to learn more, thanks to a specialized research vessel.

www.lemonde.fr

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siegfried @siegfried.bsky.social · Jun 26

Homer’s ice cream shout out 3 minutes into The Bear… amazing.

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siegfried @siegfried.bsky.social · Jun 24

🤷‍♂️ www.espn.com/nba/story/_/...

Pacers confirm Haliburton has torn Achilles

Pacers star Tyrese Haliburton sustained a torn right Achilles tendon in Game 7 of the NBA Finals against Oklahoma City, the team confirmed on Monday.

www.espn.com

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siegfried @siegfried.bsky.social · Jun 24

Man, from smoking DMT at Dartmouth to part of that line up in <5 years 🥹

siegfried @siegfried.bsky.social · Jun 23

Bad take. See 2019.

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Jerad Walker @jeradwalker.bsky.social · Jun 22

From Hunter S. Thompson’s ESPN page 2 column one week after 9/11.

We are At War now, according to President Bush, and I take him at his word. He also says this War might last for "a very long time."
Generals and military scholars will tell you that eight or 10 years is actually not such a long time in the span of human history - which is no doubt true - but history also tells us that 10 years of martial law and a wartime economy are going to feel like a Lifetime to people who are in their twenties today. The poor bastards of what will forever be known as Generation Z are doomed to be the first generation of Americans who will grow up with a lower standard of living than their parents enjoyed.
That is extremely heavy news, and it will take a while for it to sink in. The 22 babies born in New York City while the World Trade Center burned will never know what they missed. The last half of the 20th century will seem like a wild party for rich kids, compared to what's coming now. The party's over, folks.

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Sickos Committee @sickoscommittee.org · Jun 18

A reminder that the last American team to win the CFL’s Grey Cup was more recent than the last Canadian NHL team to win the Stanley Cup. The 1995 Baltimore Stallions.

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siegfried @siegfried.bsky.social · Jun 17

As someone who has been punched in the face with a giant maglite by a (surprise! Chicago) cop for asking “…wait what?”, I will just point out here the entire interaction is recorded. So, as I’ve argued before, if there was an assault, just show the video. (They can’t because there was no assault.)