A rare job opportunity for Invertebrate Zoology: fieldmuseum.hrmdirect.com/employment/j...

Block the numbers from every spam call. That seems to help.

Just got back from mapping Miocene-Pliocene sed rocks and fault blocks in West Turkana, Kenya with my great colleague @danpeppe.bsky.social.

Here's the border fault separating Early Miocene strata (our focus) from the Turkana Basin. Image faces north. Losidok peak barely visible in the distance.🧪⚒️

It’s mostly harder - except the grants and course enrollment, which is auto-populated. Everything else is a PIA to upload and includes dropdown tabs and the like. It definitely took me less time to compile the manual fillable pdfs…

Same here - all submitted proposals are actually auto-populated by the university into our online annual review documents.

Another great summary of our recently published work on the climate, ecology, and environment of the early Miocene in western Kenya @munyaka.bsky.social @mcnultylab.bsky.social urls.grow.me/7Gl5Oyr91N

#nokings Salisbury, CT

We didn’t include figures of any of the vertebrate material, but did publish an updated taxon list in the supplement here: dataverse.tdl.org/dataset.xhtm...

Great summary of @munyaka.bsky.social’s recently published dissertation research reconstructing the environments of our early ape ancestors in Kenya!

A summary of our new paper, featuring the brilliant work of @munyaka.bsky.social and @danpeppe.bsky.social. Always new surprises from the fossil record!

Early apes lived in a land of forest fires, floods, and volcanoes, according to new early Miocene fossils.

Research by @mcnultylab.bsky.social, @danpeppe.bsky.social, @munyaka.bsky.social, @paleosol.bsky.social, @susycote.bsky.social, @abigail-hall.bsky.social & colleagues.

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Congratulations to @munyaka.bsky.social on this outstanding dissertation research! Special thanks to his advisor @danpeppe.bsky.social and to the other authors for a great collaboration: #paleoanthropology ∩ #paleontology ∩ #geology ∩ #forestry!

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Question for anyone who does field mapping - do you have a preferred device for mapping & tracking exposures while in the field?

ATTENTION: NSF GRANT RECIPIENTS

We received a heads up from a trusted source that you should proactively download/print/screen shot any documentation on research.gov pertaining to your NSF awards, both those that are current and any that have closed in the last 5-6 years.

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🚨 Practical URGENT tip for NSF grantees:

Out of an abundance of caution, I would right now go into Research.gov and…

1. Download your NSF award letters.

2. Print PDF your annual reports.

3. Screenshot the status table for annual reports.

NSF is planning maintenance tomorrow to Research.gov

Who needs potentially life-saving weather forecasts and radar when we could all just look out the window.. #CAwx

The Bureau of Reclamation office in Durango is on this list. It manages the dams in the San Juan-Animas-Dolores watersheds of the upper Colorado. (Vallecito, Lemon, Navajo, McPhee, Lake Nighthorse, maybe others that I can't remember)

This includes the USGS Hawaiian and Alaska Volcano Observatories. HVO's Ironworks is a temporary space while a new facility is built to replace the Observatory critically damaged in 2018. Both groups are near their volcanoes. Neither has anywhere to go and both have been forbidden from telework.

Congress has just released a list of federal DOI offices to be closed under the ongoing massacre of our natural resource agencies -- it's extensive and includes many important NPS, BLM, USGS and USFWS facilities across the country. Truly horrific. democrats-naturalresources.house.gov/imo/media/do...

Just got this passed on to us, about the damage at NIH's home campus -- the largest biomedical research institute in the world.

"The articles on cuts and damage assessments are largely grants focused. The grants program is a bit easier to characterize because it’s visible outside the NIH..." 🧪
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It's not much, but it's there to help for any colleagues who find themselves needing it: www.paleosoc.org/paleontologi...

Please let the GEO/EAR community know: Program Directors and Mission Support who’ve been at NSF under two years were just terminated via Zoom. Even those of us whose offer letter stated one probationary year and whose government data states “permanent”.

Very cool! Can’t wait to see what the pots look like! Good luck with the firing.

Is this your kiln? Is it wood fired?