Adam Forte
@topoismyforte.bsky.social
Associate Professor at LSU leading the SPATlab and studying mountains, rivers, and the things they do to each other | AE of Tektonika | Software tinkerer | he/him/his | https://sites.google.com/view/adam-m-forte
Louisiana elected official using money donated for a totally different purpose to throw themselves a giant party in DC: No ethics violation.
Me as a professor at a Louisiana public university accepting a pencil from a former student: Ethics violation.
Cool.
Me as a professor at a Louisiana public university accepting a pencil from a former student: Ethics violation.
Cool.
DC CARNIVAL CASH: The Louisiana Board of Ethics has confirmed elected officials and political candidates can use their campaign money for expenses related to Washington Mardi Gras following a law change earlier this year. @jsodonoghue.bsky.social reports lailluminator.com/2025/11/10/l...
Louisiana officials, candidates can use campaign cash for D.C. Mardi Gras, ethics board confirms • Louisiana Illuminator
The Louisiana Board of Ethics confirmed Friday that elected officials and political candidates can use their campaign money for expenses related to Washington Mardi Gras following a law change earlier...
lailluminator.com
November 12, 2025 at 4:04 PM
Louisiana elected official using money donated for a totally different purpose to throw themselves a giant party in DC: No ethics violation.
Me as a professor at a Louisiana public university accepting a pencil from a former student: Ethics violation.
Cool.
Me as a professor at a Louisiana public university accepting a pencil from a former student: Ethics violation.
Cool.
It really does feel like either many of our elected leaders are idiots or they think we're idiots. Maybe both.
November 11, 2025 at 12:24 PM
It really does feel like either many of our elected leaders are idiots or they think we're idiots. Maybe both.
Assuming for a moment that there are actually "notebooks full of ideas", how many do we think start with the equivalent of "Let the poors die"?
Mike Johnson on the Republican healthcare plan: "We've got notebooks full of ideas."
November 10, 2025 at 9:40 PM
Assuming for a moment that there are actually "notebooks full of ideas", how many do we think start with the equivalent of "Let the poors die"?
Given the prevalence of work on Tibet and adjoining regions with Chinese collaborators, this would lock out huge swaths of the tectonics community from federal funding.
Conferees on Defense bill asked to jettison House language that would end US collaborations with Chinese scientists and former students back in China www.science.org/content/arti...
U.S. Congress considers sweeping ban on Chinese collaborations
Researchers speak out against proposal that would bar funding for U.S. scientists working with Chinese partners or training Chinese students
www.science.org
November 7, 2025 at 10:05 AM
Given the prevalence of work on Tibet and adjoining regions with Chinese collaborators, this would lock out huge swaths of the tectonics community from federal funding.
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If you are interested in grain size variation across landscapes, please check out this paper by my wonderful collaborator Dr. Tingan Li.
The talk I gave a few weeks ago also highlights his work, if you prefer listening rather than reading 😉
The talk I gave a few weeks ago also highlights his work, if you prefer listening rather than reading 😉
October 30, 2025 at 3:25 PM
If you are interested in grain size variation across landscapes, please check out this paper by my wonderful collaborator Dr. Tingan Li.
The talk I gave a few weeks ago also highlights his work, if you prefer listening rather than reading 😉
The talk I gave a few weeks ago also highlights his work, if you prefer listening rather than reading 😉
We're all busy, I know, but if you don't have time or don't want to review a paper, just decline the review, please don't ghost the AE scouring the barren wastelands for people willing to review a paper.
October 29, 2025 at 5:23 PM
We're all busy, I know, but if you don't have time or don't want to review a paper, just decline the review, please don't ghost the AE scouring the barren wastelands for people willing to review a paper.
Lol, can I start sucking at my job and then get paid an exorbitant amount of money to stop doing my job too?
LSU has fired Brian Kelly eight games into his fourth season as football coach
Here's what we know about Brian Kelly's firing by LSU.
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www.theadvocate.com
October 27, 2025 at 1:09 AM
Lol, can I start sucking at my job and then get paid an exorbitant amount of money to stop doing my job too?
Given the diversity of ways author order is chosen between fields, they should modify this so that your credit for a paper is a random number chosen from the number of authors on the paper and it changes every time you reload google scholar, that would be a more valid metric than this horseshit.
Google Scholar tool gives extra credit to first and last authors
Researchers welcome the initiative, but say it doesn’t go far enough to capture the nuance of researcher productivity and impact.
www.nature.com
October 26, 2025 at 12:59 PM
Given the diversity of ways author order is chosen between fields, they should modify this so that your credit for a paper is a random number chosen from the number of authors on the paper and it changes every time you reload google scholar, that would be a more valid metric than this horseshit.
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ER doc here! This is a lie. Wait times are up because the American healthcare system is an unsustainable business model and a for-profit national healthcare system just doesn’t work. These problems will continue to get worse until we change that system. It literally has nothing to do with immigrants
Vance: "If you're an American citizen & you've been to the hospital in the last few years, you've probably noticed wait times are especially large & very often somebody who's there in the ER is an illegal alien. Why do those people get healthcare benefits at hospitals paid for by American citizens?"
October 1, 2025 at 6:49 PM
ER doc here! This is a lie. Wait times are up because the American healthcare system is an unsustainable business model and a for-profit national healthcare system just doesn’t work. These problems will continue to get worse until we change that system. It literally has nothing to do with immigrants
It's probably annoying to complain about home ownership given that's out of reach for so many in the US, but every time some new random thing breaks in my house, I kind of pine for the days of being a renter and being able to email my landlord like, "Pipe broke in ceiling, you want to fix?"
September 17, 2025 at 12:39 PM
It's probably annoying to complain about home ownership given that's out of reach for so many in the US, but every time some new random thing breaks in my house, I kind of pine for the days of being a renter and being able to email my landlord like, "Pipe broke in ceiling, you want to fix?"
Perhaps not 100% across the board, but quite often any time someone starts a statement with "in my humble opinion...", it should actually be phrased, "in my completely uninformed and totally uneducated opinion..."
Sen. Roger Marshall: "Look, President Trump picked Robert F Kennedy Jr to be a disrupter to the CDC, and that's exactly what he's doing ... in my humble opinion not every person needs every vaccine"
September 7, 2025 at 3:41 PM
Perhaps not 100% across the board, but quite often any time someone starts a statement with "in my humble opinion...", it should actually be phrased, "in my completely uninformed and totally uneducated opinion..."
All sorts of other comments aside, surely this should be named, "The Concrete Slab That Was Formerly The Rose Garden Club" instead.
I really resent my tax dollars being spent on this
September 7, 2025 at 3:29 PM
All sorts of other comments aside, surely this should be named, "The Concrete Slab That Was Formerly The Rose Garden Club" instead.
It's amazing just how often I can't access my email because Outlook has some random error or just doesn't respond and yet organizations, like my employer, just keep on choosing it as their email service.
September 7, 2025 at 3:25 PM
It's amazing just how often I can't access my email because Outlook has some random error or just doesn't respond and yet organizations, like my employer, just keep on choosing it as their email service.
This is hilarious and vindicating, but it also suggests that most universities should really force all of their admin within the educational side of the university without any prior teaching experience to teach at least one, preferably large enrollment, class early on in their time.
I am fascinated by this guy who was a Higher Ed administrator and has now moved into teaching classes as a faculty member. He is documenting his whole journey on TikTok. Over the summer, he had so much excitement 🧵
September 5, 2025 at 3:36 PM
This is hilarious and vindicating, but it also suggests that most universities should really force all of their admin within the educational side of the university without any prior teaching experience to teach at least one, preferably large enrollment, class early on in their time.
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#hydrology USA friends- what happened to all the precipitation time series data? I used to get data from USGS and NWS, but I can’t find gauges I used to use for class. I can find derivative products (eg recurrence interval distributions) but not raw data. Hopefully I’m overlooking something
September 4, 2025 at 1:50 PM
#hydrology USA friends- what happened to all the precipitation time series data? I used to get data from USGS and NWS, but I can’t find gauges I used to use for class. I can find derivative products (eg recurrence interval distributions) but not raw data. Hopefully I’m overlooking something
In my random thought / annoyance for the day, what UI designer for Mac OS thought that putting "Eject Disk" and "Erase Disk" right next to each other on the pop up menu when selecting an external hard drive was in any way, shape, or form a good idea?
September 2, 2025 at 3:29 PM
In my random thought / annoyance for the day, what UI designer for Mac OS thought that putting "Eject Disk" and "Erase Disk" right next to each other on the pop up menu when selecting an external hard drive was in any way, shape, or form a good idea?
This proposed rule would effectively make it impossible for international students to complete a PhD in the US. This is a dumb rule that benefits no one and is designed to solve a non-existent (and/or completely made up) problem.
I know there's a lot happening today, but this is sneaking in under the radar. This proposed new rule would absolutely crush foreign PhD students, potentially making it impossible for them to enroll with any certainty of their ability to finish www.politico.com/news/2025/08...
August 28, 2025 at 7:01 PM
This proposed rule would effectively make it impossible for international students to complete a PhD in the US. This is a dumb rule that benefits no one and is designed to solve a non-existent (and/or completely made up) problem.
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CTA: Call Your Member of Congress and U.S. Senators
Regardless of which party your Member of Congress and U.S. Senators belong to, please call them (actually call them on the phone if at all possible) and tell them:
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Regardless of which party your Member of Congress and U.S. Senators belong to, please call them (actually call them on the phone if at all possible) and tell them:
www.patreon.com/posts/137525...
![Urgent CTA: RFK Jr Moving to Destroy CDC. Call Your Reps
Hello my name is [$NAME]. I am a constituent calling from [$CITY/TOWN, $ZIPCODE]. I'm calling to urge [the Senator / the Representative] to demand the removal of RFK Jr. as HHS Secretary.
RFK Jr. is a clear and present danger not just to the health of the American people but to the entire world. Firing CDC Director Dr. Monarez because she was carrying out her duty to ensure that life-saving, safe, and effective vaccines against COVID, a disease which has killed more than 1.2 million Americans, are available to all Americans is inexcusable. RFK Jr's deliberate, determined campaign to undermine the public health mission of CDC has caused the principled resignations of four other senior CDC leaders, including the expert who heads the national center that combats emerging infectious disease — the top CDC official in charge of preventing bird flu from killing millions of us. RFK Jr. is compromising the biosecurity and national security of the United States and endangering me and my family.
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August 28, 2025 at 4:55 PM
CTA: Call Your Member of Congress and U.S. Senators
Regardless of which party your Member of Congress and U.S. Senators belong to, please call them (actually call them on the phone if at all possible) and tell them:
www.patreon.com/posts/137525...
Regardless of which party your Member of Congress and U.S. Senators belong to, please call them (actually call them on the phone if at all possible) and tell them:
www.patreon.com/posts/137525...
Discussions of the destruction of the CDC, HHS, etc. by RFK Jr that do not lay a hefty part of the blame on Senator Cassidy feel woefully incomplete. He could have stayed true to his principles as a medical professional and blocked RFK's confirmation. He did not and he should not be given a pass.
August 28, 2025 at 4:16 PM
Discussions of the destruction of the CDC, HHS, etc. by RFK Jr that do not lay a hefty part of the blame on Senator Cassidy feel woefully incomplete. He could have stayed true to his principles as a medical professional and blocked RFK's confirmation. He did not and he should not be given a pass.
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For the eleventy billionth time:
Attacks on science funding and science jobs in the United States don’t mean that science will just move elsewhere.
It means a lot less science for everyone.
There aren’t enough jobs or funding everywhere else )combined) for US scientists to just move.
Attacks on science funding and science jobs in the United States don’t mean that science will just move elsewhere.
It means a lot less science for everyone.
There aren’t enough jobs or funding everywhere else )combined) for US scientists to just move.
Some are embracing the fantasy that the cuts to #NIH funding will only have an impact here in the USA. As Nature reports, the NIH is the largest global funder by far and dwarfs the rest of the world’s funders of biomedical research.
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
How the NIH dominates the world’s health research — in charts
Abrupt cuts by the Trump administration to the US National Institutes of Health threaten progress in medical research globally.
www.nature.com
August 27, 2025 at 9:35 AM
For the eleventy billionth time:
Attacks on science funding and science jobs in the United States don’t mean that science will just move elsewhere.
It means a lot less science for everyone.
There aren’t enough jobs or funding everywhere else )combined) for US scientists to just move.
Attacks on science funding and science jobs in the United States don’t mean that science will just move elsewhere.
It means a lot less science for everyone.
There aren’t enough jobs or funding everywhere else )combined) for US scientists to just move.
Getting all the "This year's GSA meeting will be it's largest ever" messages in the context of my and Matt Rossi's GSA session getting being cancelled after getting single digit abstracts is sort of amusing in a sad way. I prefer the GSA meeting to AGU, but feel like an outcast most of the time.
August 27, 2025 at 3:20 PM
Getting all the "This year's GSA meeting will be it's largest ever" messages in the context of my and Matt Rossi's GSA session getting being cancelled after getting single digit abstracts is sort of amusing in a sad way. I prefer the GSA meeting to AGU, but feel like an outcast most of the time.
I get it, the world is on fire and everyone wants money. But for all the "nonprofit" callers, if you have my phone number, you probably also have some basic demographic info and should know that I'm in an age bracket that would rather be drawn and quartered than talk on the phone with a stranger.
July 31, 2025 at 3:32 PM
I get it, the world is on fire and everyone wants money. But for all the "nonprofit" callers, if you have my phone number, you probably also have some basic demographic info and should know that I'm in an age bracket that would rather be drawn and quartered than talk on the phone with a stranger.
I do wish we all went into reviewing with a bit less of a gatekeeping mindset. Especially now with the scientific enterprise being attacked from nearly all quarters, turning the guns on ourselves for no reason just feels extra shit right now.
July 9, 2025 at 2:36 PM
I do wish we all went into reviewing with a bit less of a gatekeeping mindset. Especially now with the scientific enterprise being attacked from nearly all quarters, turning the guns on ourselves for no reason just feels extra shit right now.
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Also, today's news about Grok posting antisemitic filth shows how vulnerable these "services" are to manipulation by their owners. If educators partner with these companies, what protection do they have from a billionaire deciding to tweak the systems to push hatred and filth?
None.
Just say no.
None.
Just say no.
July 8, 2025 at 11:34 PM
Also, today's news about Grok posting antisemitic filth shows how vulnerable these "services" are to manipulation by their owners. If educators partner with these companies, what protection do they have from a billionaire deciding to tweak the systems to push hatred and filth?
None.
Just say no.
None.
Just say no.
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🚨 New paper from the T@P group! 🚨 We performed diffusion experiments on laboratory deformed apatite samples, and demonstrated that the deformation-induced dislocations can create helium diffusion 'sink' like behavior observed in some natural samples. Check it out!
New in #GPLetters: Tremblay et al. show that when you squeeze & twist apatite, helium can get trapped when it would normally diffuse away.
Read more here: buff.ly/874F9tU
#OpenAccess
@tremblaymarissa.bsky.social
Read more here: buff.ly/874F9tU
#OpenAccess
@tremblaymarissa.bsky.social
July 8, 2025 at 7:49 PM
🚨 New paper from the T@P group! 🚨 We performed diffusion experiments on laboratory deformed apatite samples, and demonstrated that the deformation-induced dislocations can create helium diffusion 'sink' like behavior observed in some natural samples. Check it out!