One of my favorite Julia factoids is that in addition to LispSyntax.jl there's also a not-much-discussed built-in S-expresssion syntax for Julia which is normally only used as an alternate way of viewing Julia `Expr`s but can be hacked into a REPL mode in twenty-some lines (code in alt text):

So I'm not sure how aware of it folks were when the fixation on the Himalaya and such began, but the Himalaya and SE Asian islands do seem to play an outsize role in physical erosion and chemical weathering fluxes interestingly, perhaps due to the intersection of uplift+tropical climate..

IIRC the gist was that the system is highly automated and makes it hard to reject a paper..

looking at the more recent threads there it seems to 1) require a majority of reviewers to say "reject" before the editor can reject and 2) auto-invite new reviewers when you get a reject

Oh this is great -- I can't agree with this passage strongly enough:

Personally

This is cool juliaearth.github.io/geospatial-d...

Glad Alex's K-Pg paper has been raising interest, but just since it seems so easy for nuance to be lost in headlines online, I feel like I should especially emphasize this great quote from Paul Renne, which aptly got the closing word in the Wired piece by Matt Simon www.wired.com/story/what-k...

I like #Lizardite too, but there's no way I can say no to #Rhodochrosite! Fun fact, if you're rockhounding in a tailings heap, the rhodochrosite won't be red, it photooxidizes to black Mn-oxides at the surface!