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Heartbreaking. The University of Nebraska will terminate its entire Earth science department.
One of the country's most successful and respected geology & climate programs: gone.
When ideologues & politicians are threatened by the very act of studying climate change, I wonder: who of us is next?
One of the country's most successful and respected geology & climate programs: gone.
When ideologues & politicians are threatened by the very act of studying climate change, I wonder: who of us is next?
It's over.
Despite the fact that the academic council recommended against it, despite the fact that the program brought in more tuition than it cost, and despite the fact that Nebraskans need & deserve this expertise, Earth & Atmospheric Sciences will be cut.
www.dailynebraskan.com/news/adminis...
Despite the fact that the academic council recommended against it, despite the fact that the program brought in more tuition than it cost, and despite the fact that Nebraskans need & deserve this expertise, Earth & Atmospheric Sciences will be cut.
www.dailynebraskan.com/news/adminis...
BREAKING: ‘This hurts’: UNL eliminates 4 programs despite faculty, student pleas
The University of Nebraska-Lincoln eliminates the Earth and atmospheric sciences 8-0, educational administration 7-1, statistics 7-1, textiles, merchandising and fashion design 7-1 programs.
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December 6, 2025 at 8:40 PM
Heartbreaking. The University of Nebraska will terminate its entire Earth science department.
One of the country's most successful and respected geology & climate programs: gone.
When ideologues & politicians are threatened by the very act of studying climate change, I wonder: who of us is next?
One of the country's most successful and respected geology & climate programs: gone.
When ideologues & politicians are threatened by the very act of studying climate change, I wonder: who of us is next?
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I have a very bad feeling about this...
October 27, 2025 at 4:51 PM
I have a very bad feeling about this...
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The Walton family (who own Walmart) are worth over $400 billion, yet many of their employees are on SNAP.
Bezos is worth over $400 billion, many Amazon employees require SNAP.
The people who need help are not the problem.
It’s corporate greed. It’s an unwillingness to pay a living wage.
Bezos is worth over $400 billion, many Amazon employees require SNAP.
The people who need help are not the problem.
It’s corporate greed. It’s an unwillingness to pay a living wage.
October 27, 2025 at 9:08 PM
The Walton family (who own Walmart) are worth over $400 billion, yet many of their employees are on SNAP.
Bezos is worth over $400 billion, many Amazon employees require SNAP.
The people who need help are not the problem.
It’s corporate greed. It’s an unwillingness to pay a living wage.
Bezos is worth over $400 billion, many Amazon employees require SNAP.
The people who need help are not the problem.
It’s corporate greed. It’s an unwillingness to pay a living wage.
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Unbearably violent images from Downtown Chicago where a classical music concert was played on the Chicago River. This is too elegant and magical to be seen.
October 11, 2025 at 12:31 PM
Unbearably violent images from Downtown Chicago where a classical music concert was played on the Chicago River. This is too elegant and magical to be seen.
Thin Section Thursday:
The matrix of devitrified glass and microlites has flowed around this large composite feldspar grain. In XP, the central grain is black because it has been rotated to extinction. In other orientations it is gray to white. Contributed by Matt Kohn. #thinsectionthursday
The matrix of devitrified glass and microlites has flowed around this large composite feldspar grain. In XP, the central grain is black because it has been rotated to extinction. In other orientations it is gray to white. Contributed by Matt Kohn. #thinsectionthursday
October 9, 2025 at 1:12 PM
Thin Section Thursday:
The matrix of devitrified glass and microlites has flowed around this large composite feldspar grain. In XP, the central grain is black because it has been rotated to extinction. In other orientations it is gray to white. Contributed by Matt Kohn. #thinsectionthursday
The matrix of devitrified glass and microlites has flowed around this large composite feldspar grain. In XP, the central grain is black because it has been rotated to extinction. In other orientations it is gray to white. Contributed by Matt Kohn. #thinsectionthursday
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October 6, 2025 at 7:05 PM
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NEW: For the last several months, I have written and spoken regularly about the rise of authoritarianism in the United States. This is not something I ever envisioned for myself — and it is certainly not something my ancestors envisioned for their great grandchildren.
I Refuse to Stay Silent. Will You?
Read more here.
www.democracydocket.com
October 6, 2025 at 9:40 PM
NEW: For the last several months, I have written and spoken regularly about the rise of authoritarianism in the United States. This is not something I ever envisioned for myself — and it is certainly not something my ancestors envisioned for their great grandchildren.
Dear World:
Please remember at least 49% of us did NOT vote for the orange one.
Please remember at least 49% of us did NOT vote for the orange one.
September 24, 2025 at 1:42 PM
Dear World:
Please remember at least 49% of us did NOT vote for the orange one.
Please remember at least 49% of us did NOT vote for the orange one.
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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
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Yesterday we visited Green Mountain Falls, CO to visit the kinetic sculpture Off the Beaten Path by Patrick Shearn. I wasn’t ready for just how dynamic it was even in the slightest breeze. Reminds me of a murmuration of starlings. Incredible artwork. It’ll only be up through October 19th.
September 2, 2025 at 7:47 PM
Yesterday we visited Green Mountain Falls, CO to visit the kinetic sculpture Off the Beaten Path by Patrick Shearn. I wasn’t ready for just how dynamic it was even in the slightest breeze. Reminds me of a murmuration of starlings. Incredible artwork. It’ll only be up through October 19th.
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Just another yes-man lackey who doesn’t care about the history or the mission of the agency he was appointed to lead. He could never do the job of any of us at the agency so he sees no issue with destroying it.
bigthink.com/starts-with-...
bigthink.com/starts-with-...
NASA chief to defy agency's charter, terminating science
NASA's 1958 charter's top priority was, "the expansion of human knowledge of phenomena in the atmosphere and space." Is this how it ends?
bigthink.com
August 23, 2025 at 9:29 PM
Just another yes-man lackey who doesn’t care about the history or the mission of the agency he was appointed to lead. He could never do the job of any of us at the agency so he sees no issue with destroying it.
bigthink.com/starts-with-...
bigthink.com/starts-with-...
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I hope he writes a book when all this idiocrasy is over.
Last one for tonight.
Zelenskyy has the patience of a Jedi master.
Zelenskyy has the patience of a Jedi master.
August 20, 2025 at 4:45 AM
I hope he writes a book when all this idiocrasy is over.
American Mineralogist:
A machine learning-based approach using clinopyroxene data to improve accuracy and efficiency in predicting tectonic settings: Implications for Rodinia supercontinent breakup triggered by mantle plume events
Hengxu Li, et al.
doi.org/10.2138/am-2...
A machine learning-based approach using clinopyroxene data to improve accuracy and efficiency in predicting tectonic settings: Implications for Rodinia supercontinent breakup triggered by mantle plume events
Hengxu Li, et al.
doi.org/10.2138/am-2...
July 25, 2025 at 1:02 PM
American Mineralogist:
A machine learning-based approach using clinopyroxene data to improve accuracy and efficiency in predicting tectonic settings: Implications for Rodinia supercontinent breakup triggered by mantle plume events
Hengxu Li, et al.
doi.org/10.2138/am-2...
A machine learning-based approach using clinopyroxene data to improve accuracy and efficiency in predicting tectonic settings: Implications for Rodinia supercontinent breakup triggered by mantle plume events
Hengxu Li, et al.
doi.org/10.2138/am-2...
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Sillimanite; rutile; garnet; reddish biotite; and somewhat altered plagioclase. XP: garnet is black, sillimanite is gray, and feldspar shows some exsolution. Contributed by Matt Kohn. You can contribute too! Send images and short caption to akoziol1 at udayton dot edu. #thinsectionthursday
July 24, 2025 at 1:08 PM
Sillimanite; rutile; garnet; reddish biotite; and somewhat altered plagioclase. XP: garnet is black, sillimanite is gray, and feldspar shows some exsolution. Contributed by Matt Kohn. You can contribute too! Send images and short caption to akoziol1 at udayton dot edu. #thinsectionthursday
American Mineralogist:
Ezochiite and shiranuiite are cuprorhodsite and are not new mineral species
Louis J. Cabri and Andrew M. McDonald
doi.org/10.2138/am-2...
Cabri & McDonald examined the data for ezochiite and shiranuiite and argue they represent varieties of cuprorhodsite, ideally CuRh2S4.
Ezochiite and shiranuiite are cuprorhodsite and are not new mineral species
Louis J. Cabri and Andrew M. McDonald
doi.org/10.2138/am-2...
Cabri & McDonald examined the data for ezochiite and shiranuiite and argue they represent varieties of cuprorhodsite, ideally CuRh2S4.
Ezochiite and shiranuiite are cuprorhodsite and are not new mineral species | American Mineralogist | GeoScienceWorld
Abstract. Ezochiite was described as a newly discovered platinum-group mineral in the thiospinel group having an ideal formula of Cu+(Rh3+Pt4+)S4
doi.org
June 29, 2025 at 12:51 PM
American Mineralogist:
Ezochiite and shiranuiite are cuprorhodsite and are not new mineral species
Louis J. Cabri and Andrew M. McDonald
doi.org/10.2138/am-2...
Cabri & McDonald examined the data for ezochiite and shiranuiite and argue they represent varieties of cuprorhodsite, ideally CuRh2S4.
Ezochiite and shiranuiite are cuprorhodsite and are not new mineral species
Louis J. Cabri and Andrew M. McDonald
doi.org/10.2138/am-2...
Cabri & McDonald examined the data for ezochiite and shiranuiite and argue they represent varieties of cuprorhodsite, ideally CuRh2S4.
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They’re planning on building a detention center for migrants in the middle of the fetid swamps of Florida.
If you think this is something new, the first internment camp they sent me and my family to in 1942 was a barbed wire prison called Rohwer. It was located in the swamps of Arkansas.
If you think this is something new, the first internment camp they sent me and my family to in 1942 was a barbed wire prison called Rohwer. It was located in the swamps of Arkansas.
June 24, 2025 at 9:43 PM
They’re planning on building a detention center for migrants in the middle of the fetid swamps of Florida.
If you think this is something new, the first internment camp they sent me and my family to in 1942 was a barbed wire prison called Rohwer. It was located in the swamps of Arkansas.
If you think this is something new, the first internment camp they sent me and my family to in 1942 was a barbed wire prison called Rohwer. It was located in the swamps of Arkansas.
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A message from Carl Sagan from 1995—some of his last prophetic words.
June 10, 2025 at 5:04 PM
A message from Carl Sagan from 1995—some of his last prophetic words.
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I love the books.
May 19, 2025 at 5:59 AM
I love the books.
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“One attendee, arrived straight from a protest.
‘And it was no accident,’ he said.
‘These two events are connected. I can protest because of the sacrifices and the vision people like John Brown had all the way at our country’s beginning’...”
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‘And it was no accident,’ he said.
‘These two events are connected. I can protest because of the sacrifices and the vision people like John Brown had all the way at our country’s beginning’...”
www.berkshireeagle.com/news/central...
How a Pittsfield tavern contributed to America’s first offensive victory in the Revolutionary War — and why it still matters 250 years later
Two and a half centuries ago, in a Pittsfield tavern, three men discussed plans for a secret raid that would become America’s first offensive victory in the Revolutionary War. On
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May 4, 2025 at 2:45 AM
“One attendee, arrived straight from a protest.
‘And it was no accident,’ he said.
‘These two events are connected. I can protest because of the sacrifices and the vision people like John Brown had all the way at our country’s beginning’...”
www.berkshireeagle.com/news/central...
‘And it was no accident,’ he said.
‘These two events are connected. I can protest because of the sacrifices and the vision people like John Brown had all the way at our country’s beginning’...”
www.berkshireeagle.com/news/central...