Sandra Passchier
@passchier.bsky.social
Geoscience professor at Montclair | Sedimentologist | Glacial-Marine-Polar | Paleoclimate | Scientific Ocean Drilling | Views my Own
Repeated major inland retreat of Thwaites and Pine Island glaciers (West Antarctica) during the Pliocene | PNAS www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
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December 22, 2025 at 10:23 PM
Repeated major inland retreat of Thwaites and Pine Island glaciers (West Antarctica) during the Pliocene | PNAS www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
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🚨POSTDOC JOB ALERT🚨
We have an exciting opportunity for a 2 year postdoc on remote sensing of icebergs and marine terminating glaciers. See the link below for more info!
Please spread widely, and feel free to email me with any Q's :)
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We have an exciting opportunity for a 2 year postdoc on remote sensing of icebergs and marine terminating glaciers. See the link below for more info!
Please spread widely, and feel free to email me with any Q's :)
tinyurl.com/2jjcmea9
December 17, 2025 at 12:16 PM
🚨POSTDOC JOB ALERT🚨
We have an exciting opportunity for a 2 year postdoc on remote sensing of icebergs and marine terminating glaciers. See the link below for more info!
Please spread widely, and feel free to email me with any Q's :)
tinyurl.com/2jjcmea9
We have an exciting opportunity for a 2 year postdoc on remote sensing of icebergs and marine terminating glaciers. See the link below for more info!
Please spread widely, and feel free to email me with any Q's :)
tinyurl.com/2jjcmea9
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If you missed the four tenure track positions' deadline (today) in my department, there's another position in Geography @ucalgary.bsky.social as Assistant Professor in Climate Change and the Critical Zone. Come be my office neighbour! careers.ucalgary.ca/jobs/1710469... 🧪⚒️
December 6, 2025 at 5:35 AM
If you missed the four tenure track positions' deadline (today) in my department, there's another position in Geography @ucalgary.bsky.social as Assistant Professor in Climate Change and the Critical Zone. Come be my office neighbour! careers.ucalgary.ca/jobs/1710469... 🧪⚒️
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Sad to see that my colleagues in Earth and Atmospheric Sciences at UNL saw their combined department eliminated late this afternoon by the UNL Board of Regents. No more meteorology no more geology at UNL. Words escape me!
December 5, 2025 at 11:46 PM
Sad to see that my colleagues in Earth and Atmospheric Sciences at UNL saw their combined department eliminated late this afternoon by the UNL Board of Regents. No more meteorology no more geology at UNL. Words escape me!
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USF’s new ice sheet modeler extrodinare, Dr. Dan Lowry, is looking for a Postdoctoral Researcher and Graduate Students to join his research group. For more details: ice2oresearch.org. Join Dan and our growing Antarctic/ Southern Ocean research group. #Antarctica #glaciology #oceanography
The USF ICE2O Research Lab
From ice sheet change to ocean impacts: connecting Earth system processes.
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December 1, 2025 at 4:52 PM
USF’s new ice sheet modeler extrodinare, Dr. Dan Lowry, is looking for a Postdoctoral Researcher and Graduate Students to join his research group. For more details: ice2oresearch.org. Join Dan and our growing Antarctic/ Southern Ocean research group. #Antarctica #glaciology #oceanography
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Nested glacier surges! This is Liestolbreen in Svalbard, surging into Nathorstbreen (which itself surged from 2008), and then being surged into by Doktorbreen. All brought to you by the magic of Sentinel-1 SAR
June 10, 2025 at 10:02 AM
Nested glacier surges! This is Liestolbreen in Svalbard, surging into Nathorstbreen (which itself surged from 2008), and then being surged into by Doktorbreen. All brought to you by the magic of Sentinel-1 SAR
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To “my students and to anyone who might listen, I say: Don’t surrender to AI your ability to read, write and think when others once risked their lives and died for the freedom to do so.”
www.huffpost.com/entry/histor...
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I Set A Trap To Catch My Students Cheating With AI. The Results Were Shocking.
"Students are not just undermining their ability to learn, but to someday lead."
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November 21, 2025 at 12:22 AM
To “my students and to anyone who might listen, I say: Don’t surrender to AI your ability to read, write and think when others once risked their lives and died for the freedom to do so.”
www.huffpost.com/entry/histor...
www.huffpost.com/entry/histor...
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www.simonsfoundation.org/grant/simons... My lab facilities enable the study of plant wax traits, get in touch if you want to write a proposal for the Dec 4 deadline.
Simons Postdoctoral Fellowships in Plant Biology
Simons Postdoctoral Fellowships in Plant Biology on Simons Foundation
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November 18, 2025 at 11:37 PM
www.simonsfoundation.org/grant/simons... My lab facilities enable the study of plant wax traits, get in touch if you want to write a proposal for the Dec 4 deadline.
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We are hiring a tenure-track Assistant Professor in Environmental Geosciences — with a focus on Soil Science!
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Please share!
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Assistant Professor of Environmental Geosciences
POSITION: Assistant Professor in
Environmental Geosciences RESPONSIBILITIES:The School of Geosciences at the
University of Louisiana at Lafayette...
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November 10, 2025 at 10:22 PM
We are hiring a tenure-track Assistant Professor in Environmental Geosciences — with a focus on Soil Science!
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Please share!
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New paper alert! Super excited to see this paper (by @debsmita.bsky.social, Ganti, and me) in print!
We show a major reorganization of multiscale bedform state at the initiation of significant suspended bed material transport in flume & field data.
agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/...
We show a major reorganization of multiscale bedform state at the initiation of significant suspended bed material transport in flume & field data.
agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/...
Multiscale Bedform Reorganization at the Onset of Substantial Suspended Sediment Transport
We provide experimental evidence of two distinct, transport-stage-dependent multiscale bedform configurations in sand-bedded rivers Bedform groups sharply transition to large dunes with superimpo...
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November 13, 2025 at 6:08 PM
New paper alert! Super excited to see this paper (by @debsmita.bsky.social, Ganti, and me) in print!
We show a major reorganization of multiscale bedform state at the initiation of significant suspended bed material transport in flume & field data.
agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/...
We show a major reorganization of multiscale bedform state at the initiation of significant suspended bed material transport in flume & field data.
agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/...
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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?
www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...
www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...
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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
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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.
www.pewresearch.org
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
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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/...
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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
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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...
www.uni-bremen.de/en/universit...