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Chris Junium
@chrisjunium.bsky.social
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Stable isotope and organic geochemist at Syracuse University with broad interest in geobiological problems. Dad, husband, and experimental home food scientist. I have a nitrogen fixation. I mostly post science and food.
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Out online today in @pnas.org our paper:

"Aerobic nitrogen cycle 100 My before permanent atmospheric oxygenation"

With coauthors Gareth Izon, @chrisjunium.bsky.social , Shuhei Ono, and Roger Summons.
1/7

www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
PNAS
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), a peer reviewed journal of the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) - an authoritative source of high-impact, original research that broadly spans...
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May 12, 2025 at 8:13 PM
chrisjunium.bsky.social
Whoa! Look at the field in the background.
makakilo-obs.bsky.social Makakilo Observatory @makakilo-obs.bsky.social · May 12
This video claims to be the first recorded video of fault rupture during an #earthquake. I think that's right. Pay attention to the ground beyond the fence to see the motion of this right-lateral strike-slip fault during the M7.9 Myanmar earthquake back on March 28.

youtu.be/77ubC4bcgRM?...
First fault rupture ever filmed. M7.9 surface rupture filmed near Thazi, Myanmar
YouTube video by 2025 Sagaing Earthquake Archive
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May 12, 2025 at 6:23 PM
chrisjunium.bsky.social
#piday turned into pie weekend with some Neapolitan-ish pizza in the Ooni oven.
March 17, 2025 at 1:25 AM
chrisjunium.bsky.social
Pi day pie extravaganza. Chicken pot pie and non-dairy raspberry chocolate custard. Nice way to celebrate the end of a good week.
Raspberry chocolate pie. Chicken pot pie. Yum.
March 15, 2025 at 12:24 AM
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About fifty years ago, NASA strapped a message in a bottle to a rocket and flung it into the deep dark
It wasn’t supposed to go this far, but it did. Long past its mission, it’s still out there so far away now that a simple hello takes a day to reach it, and another day to hear if it says hello back
March 12, 2025 at 5:04 AM
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I hope this helps someone
www.forbes.com/sites/marsha...
Hidden Job Market Skills Scientists Possess
Many federal scientists have lost their jobs. However, they possess several marketable skillsets beyond the lab or field..
www.forbes.com
March 6, 2025 at 4:54 PM
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pixelatedboat.bsky.social
Herman Melville's "Moby Dick" has perhaps the most memorable opening line in all of Western literature: "I hope you motherfuckers like reading about whales"
February 16, 2025 at 3:29 AM
chrisjunium.bsky.social
I feel like I do a lot of things pretty well, but there is nothing I do better than destroying the kitchen when I cook dinner.
February 1, 2025 at 11:28 PM
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geologyjohnson.bsky.social
Last post for #FossilFriday this lovely #Proterozoic #Acritarch because I love it so much. This image was taken with a macro lens at 2x attached to a microscope with a 100x mag lens. It's a combination of over 100 images stacked and stitched. #Geology #Paleontology
Microscope photo of a brown microfossil that looks like a wrinkly old raisin. It is surrounded by a square pyrite crystals and fluffy organic matter on a white background.
December 27, 2024 at 11:36 PM
chrisjunium.bsky.social
Beef Wellington pre-cook. I’m happy enough with this that even if it isn’t perfect, I’ll be ok with it.
Beef Wellington before it is cooked.
December 25, 2024 at 8:56 PM
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lakesuperior.bsky.social
Whatever happens to the water, happens to the people.
December 23, 2024 at 4:44 PM
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As a former whitewater kayaker I can say that duck took an excellent line and hit his boof off that rock perfectly in what looks like solid class IV water. If I paddled that well I wouldn’t be a former kayaker.
evornithology.bsky.social Dan Baldassarre @evornithology.bsky.social · Dec 22
Incredible video here from Violet Wu. Apparently this is Macaulay Library’s top-rated video of 2024. Featuring the GOAT duck- Torrent Duck.
December 23, 2024 at 3:51 AM
chrisjunium.bsky.social
Dueling knives for the duxelles is a lot of fun.
Mushroom duxelles for beef Wellington.
December 22, 2024 at 8:55 PM
chrisjunium.bsky.social
All I want for #crustmas is a pair of these beauties.
Lobster shaped flip flops The bottom of the lobster flip flop is anatomically correct.
December 18, 2024 at 1:43 PM
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haileypiperfights.bsky.social
Remember, a first draft's only job is to exist
"is this a pigeon?" meme, except it's a writer looking at a perfectly normal first draft and asking "Is this the worst thing ever written?"
October 18, 2024 at 2:37 PM
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emmalerae.bsky.social
"Butterfly Effect" is by far my favorite piece I've ever drawn. I know I keep sharing it, but I just hope it brings joy when people see it.

(Plus I don't have a whole lot of new art to share.)

#paleoart #sciart
Artwork of a Stegosaurus gleefully bounding after a monarch butterfly. The Stegosaurus has orange and black patterning that matches the butterfly and the plates on its back look like monarch wings.
December 12, 2024 at 7:40 PM
chrisjunium.bsky.social
Big changes in EAR programs! Check it out.
llautz.bsky.social Laura Lautz @llautz.bsky.social · Dec 12
Interested in all the details about the 4 new science programs in the Division of Earth Sciences at NSF? Read our letter to the community. Also come find me at the NSF booth (1101) at #AGU24 from 2-4 pm today! We have stickers! www.nsf.gov/pubs/2025/ns...
Dear Colleague Letter: The Division of Earth Sciences Realigns the Disciplinary Research Funding Program Portfolio with Four New Programs (nsf25021) | NSF - U.S. National Science FoundationLock
www.nsf.gov
December 12, 2024 at 3:31 PM
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For anyone who thinks this is artistic whimsy, Palaeopagurus was REAL and we FOUND IT

#Crustmas 🧪

onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
December 12, 2024 at 12:12 PM
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December 11, 2024 at 6:53 PM
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Faculty job alert!! Come join the team @oxuniearthsci.bsky.social

We are recruiting an Associate Professor of Climate Science with a Tutorial Fellowship @ www.st-hughs.ox.ac.uk

Application deadline 7th Feb. 2025

Details here: tinyurl.com/yc3axenr

Please Quote. DM/email me for more information.
Job Details
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December 10, 2024 at 5:25 PM
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lianegbenning.bsky.social
Are you an analytical aqueous geochemist interested in a postdoc to study biogeochemical element cycles in terrestrial polar environments ?
Come join us in Potsdam

Team and research details @
www.gfz-potsdam.de/en/section/i...

Application deadline Jan 5th 2025
www.gfz-potsdam.de/en/career/jo...
Postdoc in terrestrial aqueous geochemistry in Potsdam. Deadline January 5th 2025 Applications only via https://www.gfz-potsdam.de/en/career/job-offers/details/10003
December 10, 2024 at 8:21 PM
chrisjunium.bsky.social
The push advertising is hitting a little too close to home right now. Thinking of buying one though. It couldn't hurt right?
#academia #science #research
A candle that you light to pray for grant funding
December 10, 2024 at 7:02 PM
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geogarver.bsky.social
As we enter the winter road-salting season, we need to remember how much damage oversalting does to aquatic ecosystems and our #drinkingwater. Sadly New York - the Salt King - lags behind other states in implementing Best Management Practices. #Salinization

mohawk.substack.com/p/salinizati...
Salinization in the Mohawk Watershed
Road salt contamination in the Great Flats Aquifer threatens public health
mohawk.substack.com
December 10, 2024 at 1:26 PM
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December 10, 2024 at 12:31 PM
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louisathelast.bsky.social
Please tell your kids, every damn day if necessary, that chatGPT is not a goddamn search engine and you shouldn’t believe a word it says. Tell the adults too, but it’s especially imperative to inoculate kids against this
spavel.bsky.social Pavel* @spavel.bsky.social · Jul 6
Well this is grim
weird interaction with a student this week. they kept coming up with weird "facts" ("greek is actually a combination of four other languages") that left me baffled. i said let's look this stuff up together, and they said ok, i'll open a search bar, and they opened... ch*tgpt and i was like "this is not a search bar" and they were like "yes it is, you can search for anything in here" the thing that made me feel crazy is like. every kid that's using this as a browser is getting new BESPOKE false "facts." this isn't "a widespread misconception about X that stems from how it's taught in schools." each individual kid is now hooked into a Nonsense Machine with the "widespread misconception about X" you can start at a baseline. like, ok, in tenth grade we all talk about X thing from history, and that leaves us with some misguided concepts about X, but we can correct that as students get broader understandings of the world but with this, each child is getting UNIQUE wrong facts they are SURE are correct... because they did what we told them to do! they "looked it up"! they got it from somewhere! it's not a kid making up a belief on hearsay and assumption... it's something they think they LEARNED this kid was extremely combative with me, and i understood why. i was sitting in front of him and telling him that the internet, a computer, technology, all these supposedly authoritative things... were wrong. and that i, one person, was right. he basically *couldn't* believe me. 8 135 3.8K 97K ... stillorangecrushed @stilloranged. 7h he decided that i was simply a teacher who'd made a mistake. he could check it, after all! he could look it up! he could find the REAL facts. i obviously hadn't done that, i was just an adult who'd decided i was smarter than him. hence the defensiveness. like i said: i understood 5 760 3.2K 82K stillorangecrushed @stilloranged. 7h ... it was so fucking rough. i did my best, but i am one person trying to work against a campaign of misinformation so vast that it fucking terrifies me. this kid is being set up for a life lived entirely inside the hall of mirrors
December 10, 2024 at 2:38 PM