Kale Sniderman
@muddypollen.bsky.social
Palynologist, paleoclimatologist, plant biogeographer | vegetation and climate history | fossil pollen
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November 14, 2025 at 11:10 AM
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this is far from over - bonnie prince billy www.youtube.com/watch?v=ON4T... (nice lullaby)
Bonnie 'Prince' Billy "This is Far From Over" (Official Music Video)
YouTube video by Drag City
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November 6, 2025 at 4:50 AM
this is far from over - bonnie prince billy www.youtube.com/watch?v=ON4T... (nice lullaby)
This cleverness fails for earth science papers generally, where the last author is often someone barely involved in the study, and the lab head is often 2nd author. Biologists continue to assume their conventions = science conventions
This also totally fails to account for different fields having different norms. In astronomy, the last author slot is meaningless (and is almost certainly someone who didn’t contribute all that much). 🔭🧪
🧪For those of us who do complex collaborations with multiple corresponding authors this is terrible . I suspect it will also hit female authors disproportionately as they tend to have more collaborations across fields…https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-03281-4
October 26, 2025 at 10:04 AM
This cleverness fails for earth science papers generally, where the last author is often someone barely involved in the study, and the lab head is often 2nd author. Biologists continue to assume their conventions = science conventions
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For those in Australia who prefer/need the old Bureau of Meteorology website, it can still be accessed via reg.bom.gov.au (for now).
October 22, 2025 at 9:48 AM
For those in Australia who prefer/need the old Bureau of Meteorology website, it can still be accessed via reg.bom.gov.au (for now).
October 14, 2025 at 9:29 AM
October 14, 2025 at 9:21 AM
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"I don't need another productivity app"
September 20, 2025 at 1:24 PM
"I don't need another productivity app"
This is excellent. We just need another 50 or 100 similarly minded billionaires. Though taxes are more accountable and probably yield less idiosyncratic outcomes
This is exactly what billionaires should be doing. Gabe Newell, cofounder of Valve who helped create Half-Life and launched Steam, is funding the construction of a state-of-the-art research vessel designed for scientific exploration of the ocean.
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Inkfish and VARD signs contract on steate-of-the-art research vessel - VARD
We are pleased to announce that we has signed a contract with the US based research organization Inkfish for the design and construction of one of the most modern research vessels the world has seen. ...
www.vard.com
September 26, 2025 at 11:41 AM
This is excellent. We just need another 50 or 100 similarly minded billionaires. Though taxes are more accountable and probably yield less idiosyncratic outcomes
On the money as usual. It is actually bad
September 22, 2025 at 8:48 AM
On the money as usual. It is actually bad
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Has anyone written an R package or script with plottable data for all the Milankovitch curves? Wouldn't that be so convenient ⚒️🧪
September 17, 2025 at 9:49 PM
Has anyone written an R package or script with plottable data for all the Milankovitch curves? Wouldn't that be so convenient ⚒️🧪
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Follow me into #PALARQUE ’s coring campaign in the Cape Region I'll be posting here this week! Co-led by my friends & almighty palynologists Saúl Manzano & Lynne Quick, the project explores fynbos Holocene & Anthropocene dynamics in the #Cederberg mntns., N Cape Region. Part of my 💜 belongs here! 1/
September 7, 2025 at 6:28 AM
Follow me into #PALARQUE ’s coring campaign in the Cape Region I'll be posting here this week! Co-led by my friends & almighty palynologists Saúl Manzano & Lynne Quick, the project explores fynbos Holocene & Anthropocene dynamics in the #Cederberg mntns., N Cape Region. Part of my 💜 belongs here! 1/
Which are more painful, desk rejections or rejections following peer review?
If manuscript rejections arrived fast, instead of after >6 months, they would be 10 times less painful
September 13, 2025 at 10:40 AM
Which are more painful, desk rejections or rejections following peer review?
Die back and apparent recent mortality of Eucalyptus macrorhyncha (red stringybark) in the Mullum Mullum valley, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia 🧪🌿.
September 4, 2025 at 12:42 AM
Die back and apparent recent mortality of Eucalyptus macrorhyncha (red stringybark) in the Mullum Mullum valley, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia 🧪🌿.
Angiosperms "kindly" facilitated change-management workshops for sullen Gnetaleans and Cheirolepids 🧪🌾
September 1, 2025 at 12:09 PM
Angiosperms "kindly" facilitated change-management workshops for sullen Gnetaleans and Cheirolepids 🧪🌾
I remember my dad jumping with joy as he brought in the morning newspaper with the all-caps headline, "NIXON RESIGNS". I miss him terribly but he'd be rolling and rolling in his grave now
I miss my dad, but the list of things I'm glad he didn't live to see started with Sandy Hook and has grown every couple of weeks since
August 30, 2025 at 12:56 AM
I remember my dad jumping with joy as he brought in the morning newspaper with the all-caps headline, "NIXON RESIGNS". I miss him terribly but he'd be rolling and rolling in his grave now
One of the truly compelling features of using an LLM as a coding tutor, rather than, say, asking human coders for advice at Stack Overflow, is that the LLM is polite, never complains about your failure to provide a reproducible example, and is uninterested in being an arsehole.
If you want to overlook the largest case of copyright theft in history, the abuse of workers in the global south, the vast drain on essential resources, the huge proliferation of scams using this tech and the tidal wave of junk ruining web searches, so you can code faster, I don't know what to say.
August 3, 2025 at 8:47 AM
One of the truly compelling features of using an LLM as a coding tutor, rather than, say, asking human coders for advice at Stack Overflow, is that the LLM is polite, never complains about your failure to provide a reproducible example, and is uninterested in being an arsehole.
by contrast, Decalobanthus peltatus (Convolvulaceae) belongs to a small (~20 spp) and recent Malesian/inner Pacific radiation of fast-growing vines. It probably arrived in Australia within the past million years or so
July 30, 2025 at 3:23 AM
by contrast, Decalobanthus peltatus (Convolvulaceae) belongs to a small (~20 spp) and recent Malesian/inner Pacific radiation of fast-growing vines. It probably arrived in Australia within the past million years or so
the cycad Bowenia spectabilis (Zamiaceae), Daintree rainforest, Queensland Wet Tropics. Bowenia has been kicking around Australia since at least the late Cretaceous 🧪🌿
July 30, 2025 at 2:04 AM
the cycad Bowenia spectabilis (Zamiaceae), Daintree rainforest, Queensland Wet Tropics. Bowenia has been kicking around Australia since at least the late Cretaceous 🧪🌿
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Crab-like creatures are famed for having evolved five times in evolutionary history. But anteaters have evolved at least 12 times--in half the evolutionary span. Cool story by @jakebuehler.bsky.social for @science.org
‘Things keep evolving into anteaters.’ Odd animals arose at least 12 separate times
Findings speak to the dramatic impact ants and termites can have on mammalian evolution
www.science.org
July 28, 2025 at 3:54 PM
Crab-like creatures are famed for having evolved five times in evolutionary history. But anteaters have evolved at least 12 times--in half the evolutionary span. Cool story by @jakebuehler.bsky.social for @science.org
Decalobanthus peltatus (previously within polyphyletic Merremia) is a megatherm Convolvulaceae vine colonising cyclone-damaged Daintree rainforest (NE Queensland). Totally feral on Pacific Islands, esp where not native (no surprise). See George Staples' superb revision tinyurl.com/42dk4pe2 🌿🧪
July 28, 2025 at 3:16 AM
Decalobanthus peltatus (previously within polyphyletic Merremia) is a megatherm Convolvulaceae vine colonising cyclone-damaged Daintree rainforest (NE Queensland). Totally feral on Pacific Islands, esp where not native (no surprise). See George Staples' superb revision tinyurl.com/42dk4pe2 🌿🧪
How good is this
A friend just shared pix from one of my favorite and easily accessible pockets of large, and likely old, Yellow Buckeye trees in the Smokies. Also known as Aesculus flava, not only do they have some of the most wonderfully textured bark in the eastern US, we found 400+ yrs is not out of the question
July 25, 2025 at 11:54 AM
How good is this
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Preparing to give a popular talk
July 16, 2025 at 3:56 AM
Preparing to give a popular talk
Not a hint of exaggeration
What working in academia is really like: archive.md/2025.06.29-0...
archive.md
June 30, 2025 at 7:15 AM
Not a hint of exaggeration