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Dr. Lynne Elkins

@ljelkins.bsky.social

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Volcanologist, petrologist, isotope geochemist, & geology instructor and researcher, now restarting at West Chester U! I study the Earth using fieldwork, geochemistry, and computational modeling. **Personal account, does not reflect employer positions.

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Dr. Lynne Elkins @ljelkins.bsky.social · 2h

Remember, kids, people should still measure U-series in stuff!

Kevin Anchukaitis @thirstygecko.bsky.social · 4h

This is cool - new paper from Hali Kilbourne et al. 'Dating a Medieval Tsunami With Uranium-Series Techniques on Caribbean Corals' agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/...

Dating a Medieval Tsunami With Uranium‐Series Techniques on Caribbean Corals

Uranium-series analyses provide dates for 15 annually banded coral skeletons on the low Caribbean island of Anegada A subset of the corals was likely washed ashore in a Puerto Rico Trench tsunami...

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Dr. Lynne Elkins @ljelkins.bsky.social · 4h

Update: the gluten free blend only made folds!

Class experiment with compressed layers of flour and blue chalk, showing a compressional fold

Dr. Lynne Elkins @ljelkins.bsky.social · 7h

101 lab experiment day!

Box of layered flour and orange chalk, compressed and then cut open so it forms faults

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Cris @crisvector.com · 9h

Chat GPT

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Deanna Kreisel 🌱 @doctorwaffle.substack.com · 6d

In honor of National Poetry Day, the greatest parody rewrite of all time:

Screen cap of parodic version of William Blake's "The Tyger" that begins:
Tyger! Tyger! Burning bright
(Not sure if I spelled that right)
What immortal hand or eye
Could fashion such a stripy guy?
What the hammer that hath hewn it
Into such a chonky unit?
Did who made the lamb make thee,
Or an external franchisee?

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Dr. Lynne Elkins @ljelkins.bsky.social · 5d

@mit.edu alumna here: Oh no, you had better not do that.

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Scott Kardel aka Palomar Skies @palomarskies.bsky.social · 7d

The view is even better on camera 3. www.youtube.com/live/BqmpkUd...

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Dr. Lynne Elkins @ljelkins.bsky.social · 7d

Yeah, sadly, I know lots of people who are now considering cancelling fall field trips, because they rely on national parks, including the visitor centers for facilities access.

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Cabel Sasser @cabel.panic.com · 8d

portland update: this just crossed the street in front of me holding a bright yellow sign that said WELCOME TO HELL

(a person in an inflatable unicorn costume to be clear)

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Dr. Lynne Elkins @ljelkins.bsky.social · 8d

Me, with reading comprehension skills, "what's a face table"

Dr. Lynne Elkins @ljelkins.bsky.social · 8d

Yes, I figured. The release has a very dramatic description!

Dr. Lynne Elkins @ljelkins.bsky.social · 8d

Wow, this looks great! And you're overturning science!!

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Dr. Lynne Elkins @ljelkins.bsky.social · 11d

Save Earth and Atmospheric Sciences!!
eas.unl.edu/save-earth-a...

Save Earth and Atmospheric Sciences! | Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences | Nebraska

The University of Nebraska-Lincoln is proposing to close the Department of Earth & Atmospheric Sciences (EAS) as part of its budget reduction plan. We strongly oppose this plan. EAS conducts research ...

eas.unl.edu

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Karl Jacoby @karl-jacoby.bsky.social · 12d

Only an administration intent on committing war crimes in the present and future would stoop to calling Wounded Knee a "battle" rather than what it truly was: a massacre of over 250 Lakotas, mainly women, children, and the elderly. 1/

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Dr. Lynne Elkins @ljelkins.bsky.social · 15d

did you ask them to please touch all of the mints in a tin for you

Dr. Lynne Elkins @ljelkins.bsky.social · 18d

Sure, possibly?

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Alex Spahn 🌋🌪️☄️ @spahn711.bsky.social · 19d

Kilauea is putting on quite the show once again!
Live stream here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=tk0t...

A screenshot from a USGS live stream of Kilauea erupting, showcasing enormous lava fountaining and rivers of lava.

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Dr. Lynne Elkins @ljelkins.bsky.social · 21d

Yeah I was pretty upset to see that, too. I think their undergrad program is very new, but the grad program is long running and well respected.

Dr. Lynne Elkins @ljelkins.bsky.social · 23d

Yeah yeah yeah, I saw the xkcd today, but mantle plumes DO exist, you just shouldn't be really intellectually lazy about it.

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Dr. Lynne Elkins @ljelkins.bsky.social · 24d

Do you mean new classes of incoming majors, or all the core major classes? (Not gen ed, I assume.) There are prob about 80 majors across both programs, down from when it was ~100 pre-pandemic, but not catastrophic. Graduating classes average ~8-10 students in each program (with two programs).

Dr. Lynne Elkins @ljelkins.bsky.social · 24d

Not sure what you mean by low admission? The met/clim major has had higher post-pandemic enrollments than geology at UNL. But this also isn’t a done deal, it’s a proposal, and they are going to fight it any way they can.

Dr. Lynne Elkins @ljelkins.bsky.social · 26d

🤷🏻‍♀️ folks I know talk about it all the time

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Dr. Lynne Elkins @ljelkins.bsky.social · 26d

Maybe the faculty should have finished that whole unionizing thing they were trying...

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Dr. Lynne Elkins @ljelkins.bsky.social · 26d

Here is the list. It's not just EAS, of course; it's brutal and targets multiple medium-large, successful departments. And I'm really not sure if they have any sense of the donor anger and loss of expected foundation funds they are about to face. budgetprocess.unl.edu/proposed-bud...

Proposed Budget Reductions | Budget Process | Nebraska

budgetprocess.unl.edu

Dr. Lynne Elkins @ljelkins.bsky.social · 26d

Include minerals and mining in this discussion since that's the currently booming industry. And AGI has all these stats and publishes job market projections regularly, and things are very rosy in geoscience on the whole.