Great to see John Holdren, Obama's Science Advisor, make a very clear statement about how equity and diversity improve science and technology. When I do EDI training for hiring I am clear. We're looking for great researchers and teachers and we risk missing out on those people.

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The "do we need more geologists?" things on LinkedIn recently are... interesting.

Faculty: "Yes!"

Everyone else: "There's not enough demand for existing graduates!"

Both are correct.

You'd think the professional societies would want to dig into this more....

Do they understand that mines require actual, physical resources to be present?

Mining has never stopped in the US--for deposits that are economical.

If you want to irritate your readers, do it on purpose, do it for a reason, and do it knowledgeably.

Once more with feeling, as well as conviction and hard data:

"The Scientific Case for Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion"

greatergood.berkeley.edu/article/item...

What I like about this story is that it explains how the system works: pecan-growing, the allocation of water, what happens when there isn't enough. Some history. If you want to change food and agriculture and respond to climate change, you have to understand this stuff. www.hcn.org/issues/57-9/...

folks, I want to remind you that a ton of federal workers are about to get their last pay check at the end of this month and this stuff is going to get much worse

I recommend reading oilystuff. From this week.

"I've shown you a hundred different ways that at oil prices below $63 WTI NYMEX the U.S. tight oil industry does NOT have the assets to pay back its long-term debt, nor its future plugging and decommissioning costs."

I’m proud to say that @noaa.gov and NCEI has released a 1 year retrospective on #Helene using ESRI Story Maps.

arcg.is/aqCD4

Here is a brief thread of how this came to be and how NOAA can still do good things (even while wearing pajamas).

Meanwhile, DOGE is back… and the GOP has apparently moved on to contrails… 🤔

It so was hard to imagine having successful career in science as a disabled PhD student that eventually I just left.

Who could have guessed that years later I would help create a magazine issue dedicated to highlighting Trailblazing disabled chemists!

cen.acs.org/people/profi...

#DisabledInSTEM

One more thing that makes New Mexico great: legitimate green chile, egg, and Spam breakfast burritos at 5:00 am from the Native-owned Indian Pueblo Kitchen in the new ABQ airport food court (or red instead of green depending on your mood).

My hometown’s public radio and TV station is going to close down because of the loss of federal funding, and because Penn State won’t shell out to make up the difference. It would be a couple million dollars a year. The football coach makes $8.5 million a year.

Currently serving on (and chairing) my second federal advisory committee. Two things: 1) legit federal advisory committees take FACA seriously; it’s the law and 3) FACA helps ensure committees are balanced, impartial, and serve the best interests of the country.

Good question. I remember receiving lots of regularly gridded marine geophysical data like 3D seismic horizons exported as xyz files when just about any kind of raster format would’ve been more logical (for gridded data, not irregularly spaced point data).

Yes! It makes a difference. I brine pinto beans overnight with salt and baking soda, rinse, 12 minutes in a pressure cooker with fresh water, baking soda, and natural pressure release (I'm in New Mexico at 5340 feet, or 1630 m, above sea level). Add salt and either red or green chile afterwards.

Come work with us! The University of Nevada, Reno is hiring an Assistant Professor in Human-Environment Geography, with a focus on energy and/or water sustainability, and environmental justice. Details at this link nshe.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/UNR-ex...

NWS is hiring but candidates are being asked to identify agreement with executive orders. No Administration has screened applicants this way. The job is about merit. Does the candidate have the knowledge, skills, and abilities to complete the mission and save lives?

abcnews.go.com/Technology/w...

Born #OnThisDay in 1907 was geologist and palaeontologist Professor Dorothy Hill FRS. She was the first female professor at an Australian university, the first female president of the Australian Academy of Science, and the first Australian woman to become Fellow of the Royal Society. #WomenInSTEM

Great news. Let's do this everywhere. www.krqe.com/news/politic...

This is basically the takeaway for my qualitative methods class today: All data must be interpreted. And all data are qualitative unless and until they're interpreted quantitatively.

Decades-old barrels of industrial waste off Los Angeles continue to alter the seafloor, creating highly alkaline zones that support only specialized microbes and persist as long-term pollutants. doi.org/g92z79