Sandra Passchier
@passchier.bsky.social
Geoscience professor at Montclair | Sedimentologist | Glacial-Marine-Polar | Paleoclimate | Scientific Ocean Drilling | Views my Own
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Delighted to be advertising an exciting PhD opportunity on South Georgia's glaciers through @iapetusdtp.bsky.social. Please get in touch if you want to discuss and forward to any interested parties! iapetus.ac.uk/studentships...
The glaciers of South Georgia from the 1950s to 2100 CE
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October 27, 2025 at 12:18 PM
Delighted to be advertising an exciting PhD opportunity on South Georgia's glaciers through @iapetusdtp.bsky.social. Please get in touch if you want to discuss and forward to any interested parties! iapetus.ac.uk/studentships...
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A huge basin of rainwater and snowmelt dammed by Alaska’s Mendenhall Glacier has started to release, and officials on Tuesday urged residents in some parts of Juneau to evacuate ahead of what could be a record surge of floodwater downstream.
Ice dam at Alaska’s Mendenhall Glacier releases floodwater toward downstream homes
A huge basin of rainwater and snowmelt dammed by Alaska’s Mendenhall Glacier has started to release, sending a potentially record surge of flooding toward parts of Juneau in what has become an annual concern for residents.
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August 12, 2025 at 6:52 PM
A huge basin of rainwater and snowmelt dammed by Alaska’s Mendenhall Glacier has started to release, and officials on Tuesday urged residents in some parts of Juneau to evacuate ahead of what could be a record surge of floodwater downstream.
I am writing and revising federal proposals, but will NSF still exist when I am done?
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Improving Oversight of Federal Grantmaking
By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, and to improve the process of Federal
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August 11, 2025 at 6:23 PM
I am writing and revising federal proposals, but will NSF still exist when I am done?
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The are many anecdotes for #ChatGPT helping patients. But here's one with fallacious A.I. guidance that resulted in serious complications
www.acpjournals.org/doi/10.7326/...
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August 11, 2025 at 5:33 PM
The are many anecdotes for #ChatGPT helping patients. But here's one with fallacious A.I. guidance that resulted in serious complications
www.acpjournals.org/doi/10.7326/...
www.acpjournals.org/doi/10.7326/...
This is the second major research vessel prematurely retired in the same year. Devastating for Earth and Environmental Science research. www.science.org/content/arti...
NSF plans abrupt end to lone U.S. Antarctic research icebreaker
Imminent termination of the RV Nathaniel B. Palmer shocks polar scientists
www.science.org
August 11, 2025 at 12:57 AM
This is the second major research vessel prematurely retired in the same year. Devastating for Earth and Environmental Science research. www.science.org/content/arti...
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Check out our latest #IODP #Exp379 contribution about the #Antarctic Ice Sheet's history @natcomms.nature.com. Read the full article here: rdcu.be/euikE
West Antarctic ice retreat and paleoceanography in the Amundsen Sea in the warm early Pliocene
Nature Communications - A geological climate archive documents the effects of ocean warming on Antarctic marine ice-sheets. Large sediment fluxes from the interior of West Antarctica precede the...
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July 1, 2025 at 1:28 PM
Check out our latest #IODP #Exp379 contribution about the #Antarctic Ice Sheet's history @natcomms.nature.com. Read the full article here: rdcu.be/euikE
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About 1 in 4 U.S. adults worry they or someone close to them could be deported.
https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2025/06/27/about-1-in-4-us-adults-worry-they-or-someone-close-to-them-could-be-deported/
https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2025/06/27/about-1-in-4-us-adults-worry-they-or-someone-close-to-them-could-be-deported/
About 1 in 4 U.S. adults worry they or someone close to them could be deported
About four-in-ten immigrants (43%) say they worry a lot or some, up from 33% in March.
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July 20, 2025 at 2:15 PM
About 1 in 4 U.S. adults worry they or someone close to them could be deported.
https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2025/06/27/about-1-in-4-us-adults-worry-they-or-someone-close-to-them-could-be-deported/
https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2025/06/27/about-1-in-4-us-adults-worry-they-or-someone-close-to-them-could-be-deported/
It has been a wet couple of months in northern New Jersey.
July 15, 2025 at 7:24 PM
It has been a wet couple of months in northern New Jersey.
I am surprised this isn't discussed more broadly. #scientificpublishing
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Quality of scientific papers questioned as academics ‘overwhelmed’ by the millions published
Mainstream mockery of AI-generated rat with giant penis in one paper brings problem to public attention
www.theguardian.com
July 13, 2025 at 2:11 PM
I am surprised this isn't discussed more broadly. #scientificpublishing
www.theguardian.com/science/2025...
www.theguardian.com/science/2025...
Excited that our paper "West Antarctic ice retreat and paleoceanography in the Amundsen Sea in the warm early Pliocene" is a featured Earth Science article @natcomms.nature.com www.nature.com/collections/...
Earth science
Here we showcase the most exciting recent advances in the Earth and environmental sciences. This research spans atmospheric, terrestrial, freshwater and ...
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July 9, 2025 at 5:49 PM
Excited that our paper "West Antarctic ice retreat and paleoceanography in the Amundsen Sea in the warm early Pliocene" is a featured Earth Science article @natcomms.nature.com www.nature.com/collections/...
Air Quality in the NYC area over the past 24 hours: still lingering effects from the fireworks.
July 5, 2025 at 6:43 PM
Air Quality in the NYC area over the past 24 hours: still lingering effects from the fireworks.
Check out our latest #IODP #Exp379 contribution about the #Antarctic Ice Sheet's history @natcomms.nature.com. Read the full article here: rdcu.be/euikE
West Antarctic ice retreat and paleoceanography in the Amundsen Sea in the warm early Pliocene
Nature Communications - A geological climate archive documents the effects of ocean warming on Antarctic marine ice-sheets. Large sediment fluxes from the interior of West Antarctica precede the...
rdcu.be
July 2, 2025 at 12:04 AM
Check out our latest #IODP #Exp379 contribution about the #Antarctic Ice Sheet's history @natcomms.nature.com. Read the full article here: rdcu.be/euikE
West Antarctic ice retreat and paleoceanography in the Amundsen Sea in the warm early Pliocene
Nature Communications - A geological climate archive documents the effects of ocean warming on Antarctic marine ice-sheets. Large sediment fluxes from the interior of West Antarctica precede the...
rdcu.be
July 1, 2025 at 1:28 PM
Check out our latest #IODP #Exp379 contribution about the #Antarctic Ice Sheet's history @natcomms.nature.com. Read the full article here: rdcu.be/euikE
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🚨Job alert PhD 🚨 We are looking for 15 new doctoral researchers at @marumunibremen.bsky.social @unibremen.bsky.social. Don't miss this fantastic opportunity! The deadline is the 25th of July. More information about the projects and how to apply can be found here 👇
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Job Vacancies - Universität Bremen
Offene Stellen
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June 28, 2025 at 6:29 PM
🚨Job alert PhD 🚨 We are looking for 15 new doctoral researchers at @marumunibremen.bsky.social @unibremen.bsky.social. Don't miss this fantastic opportunity! The deadline is the 25th of July. More information about the projects and how to apply can be found here 👇
www.uni-bremen.de/en/universit...
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Calibrating ice sheet models for northern Greenland against observations results in higher projected sea level ❄️
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Increased sea-level contribution from northwestern Greenland for models that reproduce observations | PNAS
State-of-the-art ice sheet model simulations used in the Ice Sheet Model Intercomparison
Project (ISMIP) that informs the Intergovernmental Panel o...
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June 26, 2025 at 8:12 AM
Calibrating ice sheet models for northern Greenland against observations results in higher projected sea level ❄️
www.pnas.org/doi/abs/10.1...
www.pnas.org/doi/abs/10.1...
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🚨Job Announcement🚨
@tamu.bsky.social's Gulf Coast Repository is looking for a tech to work on instrument operation, maintenance, calibration for laboratory & analytical equipment. This position may be required to sail.
Apply here 👇
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@tamu.bsky.social's Gulf Coast Repository is looking for a tech to work on instrument operation, maintenance, calibration for laboratory & analytical equipment. This position may be required to sail.
Apply here 👇
tamus.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/TAMU_Externa...
June 25, 2025 at 6:26 PM
🚨Job Announcement🚨
@tamu.bsky.social's Gulf Coast Repository is looking for a tech to work on instrument operation, maintenance, calibration for laboratory & analytical equipment. This position may be required to sail.
Apply here 👇
tamus.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/TAMU_Externa...
@tamu.bsky.social's Gulf Coast Repository is looking for a tech to work on instrument operation, maintenance, calibration for laboratory & analytical equipment. This position may be required to sail.
Apply here 👇
tamus.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/TAMU_Externa...
June 21, 2025 at 1:35 PM
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It's already #ShowYourStripes day in many places like New Zealand, Australia, Japan and Papua New Guinea.
All these countries are warming rapidly. Visit www.ShowYourStripes.info to find your warming stripes with 4 different designs.
Start a climate conversation online or with friends and family?
All these countries are warming rapidly. Visit www.ShowYourStripes.info to find your warming stripes with 4 different designs.
Start a climate conversation online or with friends and family?
June 20, 2025 at 3:56 PM
It's already #ShowYourStripes day in many places like New Zealand, Australia, Japan and Papua New Guinea.
All these countries are warming rapidly. Visit www.ShowYourStripes.info to find your warming stripes with 4 different designs.
Start a climate conversation online or with friends and family?
All these countries are warming rapidly. Visit www.ShowYourStripes.info to find your warming stripes with 4 different designs.
Start a climate conversation online or with friends and family?
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Scandinavian Ice Sheet chronology PhD opportunity - deadline to apply 21 July - with Karol Tylmann at University of Gdańsk
June 18, 2025 at 12:58 PM
Scandinavian Ice Sheet chronology PhD opportunity - deadline to apply 21 July - with Karol Tylmann at University of Gdańsk
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💥 🧪 NSF announced an additional 500 Graduate Research Fellowship Program (GRFP) awardees for the 2025-2026 cohort today, June 13, 2025.
Today, NSF announced an additional 500 NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program awardees for the 2025-2026 cohort, bringing the new total cohort to approximately 1,500. | National Science Foundation (...
Today, NSF announced an additional 500 NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program awardees for the 2025-2026 cohort, bringing the new total cohort to approximately 1,500.
#NSFGRFP supports graduate st...
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June 14, 2025 at 2:46 AM
💥 🧪 NSF announced an additional 500 Graduate Research Fellowship Program (GRFP) awardees for the 2025-2026 cohort today, June 13, 2025.
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The Berliner Morgenpost reporting on China‘s ambitions in scientific ocean drilling. Highlighting it’s not „just“ scientific curiosity but also geopolitical considerations that drive this project. www.morgenpost.de/ratgeber-wis...
Durchbruch zum Erdmantel? Chinas neues Forschungsschiff nimmt Kurs in unerforschte Tiefen
China wagt den Durchbruch zur sogenannten Moho: Die „Mengxiang“ soll als erstes Schiff der Welt den Erdmantel per Tiefseebohrung erreichen.
www.morgenpost.de
June 15, 2025 at 1:03 AM
The Berliner Morgenpost reporting on China‘s ambitions in scientific ocean drilling. Highlighting it’s not „just“ scientific curiosity but also geopolitical considerations that drive this project. www.morgenpost.de/ratgeber-wis...
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![5-panel comic. (1) [teacher with long hair next to whiteboard] TEACHER: I’m supposed to give you the tools to do good science. (2) [teacher addressing students] But what *are* those tools? Methodology is hard and there are so many ways to get incorrect results. What is the magic ingredient that makes for good science? (3) TEACHER: To figure it out, I ran a regression with all the factors people say are important: [embedded list in sub-panel, cut off at end] Outcome variable: correct scientific results. Predictors: collaboration; skepticism of others’ claims; questioning your own beliefs; trying to falsify hypotheses; checking citations; statistical rigor; blinded analysis; financial disclosure; open data (4) TEACHER: The regression says two ingredients are the most crucial: 1) genuine curiosity about the answer to a question, and 2) ammonium hydroxide. (5) STUDENT: Wait, why did *ammonia* score so high? How did it even get on the list? LONG HAIR: ...And now you’re doing good science!](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:cz73r7iyiqn26upot4jtjdhk/bafkreigzaphhj4mfgfrxddlvdmw47335gnwzqbfqvrnff5x4oovgpf36nq@jpeg)
June 12, 2025 at 8:28 PM
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Record heat is increasingly outpacing record cold in Alaska.
📍Fairbanks:
• 2000s: 38 records set. 95% record highs.
• 2010s: 44 records set. 70% record heat.
• 2020s (so far): 17 records. 88% record heat. 12% record cold
www.climatecentral.org/climate-matt...
📍Fairbanks:
• 2000s: 38 records set. 95% record highs.
• 2010s: 44 records set. 70% record heat.
• 2020s (so far): 17 records. 88% record heat. 12% record cold
www.climatecentral.org/climate-matt...
June 14, 2025 at 4:50 PM
Record heat is increasingly outpacing record cold in Alaska.
📍Fairbanks:
• 2000s: 38 records set. 95% record highs.
• 2010s: 44 records set. 70% record heat.
• 2020s (so far): 17 records. 88% record heat. 12% record cold
www.climatecentral.org/climate-matt...
📍Fairbanks:
• 2000s: 38 records set. 95% record highs.
• 2010s: 44 records set. 70% record heat.
• 2020s (so far): 17 records. 88% record heat. 12% record cold
www.climatecentral.org/climate-matt...
Excellent essay about the power of the myth and its danger. Origin stories impact many socio-economic trajectories from personal statements in graduate school applications to personal narratives to pursuade investors. Aspirational stories win, true or not.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...
www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...
America’s infatuation with boy geniuses and ‘Great Men’ is ruining us
We’re obsessed with narratives about powerful men and how they got that way. But our mania for founder myths obscures an ideology of inequality
www.theguardian.com
June 8, 2025 at 7:28 PM
Excellent essay about the power of the myth and its danger. Origin stories impact many socio-economic trajectories from personal statements in graduate school applications to personal narratives to pursuade investors. Aspirational stories win, true or not.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...
www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...