Olivia L. Williams (she/her)
@oliviawilliams-geo.bsky.social
PhD candidate studying ice cores at Oregon State University. Formerly Si cycling in marshes at BU Earth & Environment. Part-time poet. Find more at https://www.oliviawilliamsgeo.com/
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Olivia L. Williams
www.oliviawilliamsgeo.com
I recently did a major revamp of my website, which includes information about my research and outreach activities, as well as samples of my creative writing. Check it out! www.oliviawilliamsgeo.com
Fellow scientists & other people who enjoy going full Ms. Frizzle at the function: keep an eye on Maya Kern's hand-illustrated skirt drops. I got so many compliments on my winter aurora skirt at my last conference, and I have one with a crystal print as well!
This is your reminder to emotionally and technologically prepare.
Thursday at 2pm ⏰ CST. #shop
Thursday at 2pm ⏰ CST. #shop
January 7, 2026 at 8:06 PM
Fellow scientists & other people who enjoy going full Ms. Frizzle at the function: keep an eye on Maya Kern's hand-illustrated skirt drops. I got so many compliments on my winter aurora skirt at my last conference, and I have one with a crystal print as well!
Fave books read in 2025!
Nonfiction (pop history) - "The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder" by David Grann*
Poetry (compilation) - "The Universe in Verse: 15 Portals to Wonder through Science & Poetry" ed. Maria Popova
Fiction - "North Woods" by Daniel Mason
*wish it had footnotes 😭
Nonfiction (pop history) - "The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder" by David Grann*
Poetry (compilation) - "The Universe in Verse: 15 Portals to Wonder through Science & Poetry" ed. Maria Popova
Fiction - "North Woods" by Daniel Mason
*wish it had footnotes 😭
January 6, 2026 at 10:02 PM
Fave books read in 2025!
Nonfiction (pop history) - "The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder" by David Grann*
Poetry (compilation) - "The Universe in Verse: 15 Portals to Wonder through Science & Poetry" ed. Maria Popova
Fiction - "North Woods" by Daniel Mason
*wish it had footnotes 😭
Nonfiction (pop history) - "The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder" by David Grann*
Poetry (compilation) - "The Universe in Verse: 15 Portals to Wonder through Science & Poetry" ed. Maria Popova
Fiction - "North Woods" by Daniel Mason
*wish it had footnotes 😭
I recently did a major revamp of my website, which includes information about my research and outreach activities, as well as samples of my creative writing. Check it out! www.oliviawilliamsgeo.com
Olivia L. Williams
www.oliviawilliamsgeo.com
January 6, 2026 at 9:54 PM
I recently did a major revamp of my website, which includes information about my research and outreach activities, as well as samples of my creative writing. Check it out! www.oliviawilliamsgeo.com
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A team of #NSF Center for Oldest Ice Exploration #COLDEX scientists recently found 6 million year old ice in Antarctica. That's old ice!
Air bubbles trapped inside this #ice provide an unprecedented view of Earth's past #climate.
Read the paper in PNAS: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
Air bubbles trapped inside this #ice provide an unprecedented view of Earth's past #climate.
Read the paper in PNAS: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
Miocene and Pliocene ice and air from the Allan Hills blue ice area, East Antarctica | PNAS
Antarctic ice cores provide a unique archive of Earth’s atmosphere and its largest
extant ice sheet. The oldest continuous ice core extends back 80...
www.pnas.org
December 8, 2025 at 9:39 PM
A team of #NSF Center for Oldest Ice Exploration #COLDEX scientists recently found 6 million year old ice in Antarctica. That's old ice!
Air bubbles trapped inside this #ice provide an unprecedented view of Earth's past #climate.
Read the paper in PNAS: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
Air bubbles trapped inside this #ice provide an unprecedented view of Earth's past #climate.
Read the paper in PNAS: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
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📣 TERROR CAMP V PROGRAM ANNOUNCED!
Register now: www.eventbrite.com/e/terror-cam...
We’re thrilled to bring you a fantastic line-up of presentations for Terror Camp V, from deep dives into Inuit texts and polar history to queer naval fiction & scurvy. Find out what we've got in store! 🤩
Register now: www.eventbrite.com/e/terror-cam...
We’re thrilled to bring you a fantastic line-up of presentations for Terror Camp V, from deep dives into Inuit texts and polar history to queer naval fiction & scurvy. Find out what we've got in store! 🤩
October 11, 2025 at 2:07 PM
📣 TERROR CAMP V PROGRAM ANNOUNCED!
Register now: www.eventbrite.com/e/terror-cam...
We’re thrilled to bring you a fantastic line-up of presentations for Terror Camp V, from deep dives into Inuit texts and polar history to queer naval fiction & scurvy. Find out what we've got in store! 🤩
Register now: www.eventbrite.com/e/terror-cam...
We’re thrilled to bring you a fantastic line-up of presentations for Terror Camp V, from deep dives into Inuit texts and polar history to queer naval fiction & scurvy. Find out what we've got in store! 🤩
Omg... who could that be opening the last day of The Terror fan conference with an ice core talk...? ;)
And last but not least, Sunday the 7th! 🐻❄️
We hope to see you there - remember to register now at www.eventbrite.com/e/terror-cam... ✨
We hope to see you there - remember to register now at www.eventbrite.com/e/terror-cam... ✨
October 12, 2025 at 12:34 AM
Omg... who could that be opening the last day of The Terror fan conference with an ice core talk...? ;)
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AGU’s Voices for Science advocates are in Washington D.C. for Congressional Visits Day! 🌎
Yesterday, 20 scientists from 16 states participated in a science policy workshop to prepare for 32 meetings with lawmakers.
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Yesterday, 20 scientists from 16 states participated in a science policy workshop to prepare for 32 meetings with lawmakers.
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September 30, 2025 at 6:27 PM
AGU’s Voices for Science advocates are in Washington D.C. for Congressional Visits Day! 🌎
Yesterday, 20 scientists from 16 states participated in a science policy workshop to prepare for 32 meetings with lawmakers.
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Yesterday, 20 scientists from 16 states participated in a science policy workshop to prepare for 32 meetings with lawmakers.
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![Comic. [Two people on shore looking at body of water] PERSON 1: Hey, where’s that big island we were looking at this morning? PERSON 2 with short hair: Oh, it’s underwater. The ocean’s depth here goes up and down by like ten feet every day. PERSON 1: What? PERSON 2: It’s because the planet has a big moon orbiting near the surface. It causes weird gravity effects. PERSON 1: *What???* [caption] People here are used to them, but tides are one of the weirdest and most sci-fi elements of life on Earth.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:cz73r7iyiqn26upot4jtjdhk/bafkreidj2tdqhkgoamiqf5reqt7kvbpt26x3cgjxsp4rtwwb46qumcltdq@jpeg)
September 2, 2025 at 8:00 PM
I just went to update my ORCID page and typing "Oregon State" into the education field auto filled as "Oregon State Insane Asylum"
September 2, 2025 at 9:42 PM
I just went to update my ORCID page and typing "Oregon State" into the education field auto filled as "Oregon State Insane Asylum"
Surely Xfinity should want to stunt on me with a fast functional website to inspire me to give them more money, not throttle their own loading speeds to make it impossible to do anything
July 25, 2025 at 1:22 AM
Surely Xfinity should want to stunt on me with a fast functional website to inspire me to give them more money, not throttle their own loading speeds to make it impossible to do anything
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![Comic. [two people in labcoats look at body pierced with blade draped over bench] PERSON 1: We found him lying uncomformably on the lab bench. I wonder if the iron-rich intrusion in his back is related. PERSON 2 with ponytail: It could be clastic. Maybe a rift opened in his body, and the intrusive material later fell into the hole. [caption] The Geology Department Investigates Their First Murder](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:cz73r7iyiqn26upot4jtjdhk/bafkreidexczuo22iq6o77sexfgdpvgx6baetimwtkzoeb7h7glon7enx4y@jpeg)
July 9, 2025 at 1:19 AM
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It's hard to believe that nearly a decade has passed since @geojane.bsky.social went to B.U.'s administration and detailed her shocking experiences as a grad student under my then-adviser, Dave Marchant.
In the years since, we have learned of so, so, so many others who likewise abused their (1/7)
In the years since, we have learned of so, so, so many others who likewise abused their (1/7)
May 14, 2025 at 11:59 AM
It's hard to believe that nearly a decade has passed since @geojane.bsky.social went to B.U.'s administration and detailed her shocking experiences as a grad student under my then-adviser, Dave Marchant.
In the years since, we have learned of so, so, so many others who likewise abused their (1/7)
In the years since, we have learned of so, so, so many others who likewise abused their (1/7)
I'm way behind on my 2025 reading goals, but everything I've read this year so far has been really really good!
July 22, 2025 at 10:10 PM
I'm way behind on my 2025 reading goals, but everything I've read this year so far has been really really good!
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Me talking about the Heat Death
Don’t look at me like that’s my fault. I’m just telling you shit I know.
July 22, 2025 at 2:45 PM
Me talking about the Heat Death
All right, I admit it, I missed having a professional social media account to post about science things. I'm here.
July 22, 2025 at 9:43 PM
All right, I admit it, I missed having a professional social media account to post about science things. I'm here.
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See interviews from lab alum Ben Riddell-Young and PI Ed Brook in this Mother Jones article on the future of ice core research.
The critical research that unlocks our climate's past and future may be on thin ice
“There’s questions that we don’t know we should be asking yet.”
www.motherjones.com
July 22, 2025 at 6:27 PM
See interviews from lab alum Ben Riddell-Young and PI Ed Brook in this Mother Jones article on the future of ice core research.
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Lab member Olivia Williams explains how we measure the gases inside ice cores in this video for the National Science Foundation Ice Drilling Program. www.youtube.com/watch?v=i9PQ...
Unlocking our Climate Past-Extracting Gas from Ice Cores
YouTube video by NSF Ice Drilling Program
www.youtube.com
April 13, 2025 at 7:14 PM
Lab member Olivia Williams explains how we measure the gases inside ice cores in this video for the National Science Foundation Ice Drilling Program. www.youtube.com/watch?v=i9PQ...