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Dr. Sara Polanco
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Earth Scientist with a fascination for rivers, deltas and oceans modern, ancient and virtual 🌍 🐍🇨🇴🇦🇺
Fulbright Scholar
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aunz.theconversation.com
Last week in Sydney, we saw a melodrama acted out that could stand in for the state of Australian universities more generally.
Universities have lost their way, but cost-cutting and consultants are not the answer
theconversation.com
August 25, 2025 at 10:06 PM
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ecord.bsky.social
When science meets poetry 🌎📜

New blog entry from #Expedition501 ➡️ expedition501.wordpress.com/2025/07/14/p...

📷Yakutchik@ECORD_IODP3_NSF
#ECORDScienceOperator #NewEngland #ScientificOceanDrilling #OceanScience
Pure poetry
Beneath ocean floorFossil roots sleep in old soilWhispers of past land Geoscientist Sara Polanco penned this exquisite poem, a haiku, to describe a core that recently arrived on deck of the L/B ROB…
expedition501.wordpress.com
July 14, 2025 at 10:23 AM
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ecord.bsky.social
#Picoftheday
Another day of work aboard the L/B Robert for #Expedition501.
In the photo, Rachel Bell and Alize Longeau collect a sample from a core at Hole M0113A, while Graham Tulloch observes.🌎

📷 LeBer@ECORD_IODP3_NSF

#Oceanlove #ECORDScienceOperator #NewEngland #ScientificOceanDrilling
July 18, 2025 at 10:16 AM
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ecord.bsky.social
#clipoftheday 📹 Sunrise on L/B Robert during IODP³-NSF Expedition 501 🌅

Footage: LeBer@ECORD_IODP3_NSF

#Oceanlove #ECORDScienceOperator #NewEngland #ScientificOceanDrilling
July 17, 2025 at 3:00 PM
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Andrew McIntyre, Adam Wspanialy and Graham Tulloch discuss logging and drilling strategies while Raushan Arnhardt and Margaret Stewart prepare for X501 team transfers.
📷LEBER@ECORD_IODP3_NSF
#IODP3NSF #Exp501 #ECORDScienceOperator #NewEngland #ScientificOceanDrilling #PicOfTheDay
July 1, 2025 at 10:11 AM
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scimpi.bsky.social
Another view of the SCIMPI expedition!

#SCIMPI #marinetech
July 18, 2025 at 12:18 PM
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scimpi.bsky.social
Learn more about the SCIMPI sensor being deployed on #Expedition501 Almost in our backyard 😉 (Transcend is headquartered in Vermont, but we think we can feel the ocean breeze from here.) #oceanresearch #hydrogeology
July 21, 2025 at 2:31 PM
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scimpi.bsky.social
Ever wondered how the crew gets from the transfer vessel to the expedition vessel? Hang on!
ecord.bsky.social ECORD - European Consortium for Ocean Research Drilling @ecord.bsky.social · Jul 10
#IODP3NSF #Exp501 team members being transferred onto the L/B Robert by Billy Pugh basket after a foggy transit.
📸STEWART@ECORD_IODP3_NSF

#Oceanlove #ECORDScienceOperator #NewEngland #ScientificOceanDrilling #PictureOfTheDay
X501 team members being transferred onto the L/B Robert by Billy Pugh basket after a foggy transit.
July 21, 2025 at 3:13 PM
Reposted by Dr. Sara Polanco
scimpi.bsky.social
More about Expedition 501 where SCIMPI (Simple Cabled Instrument for Measuring Parameters In-Situ) is being deployed. SCIMPI is a CORK alternative, notable for being a significantly less expensive, yet full featured option.
ukiodp.bsky.social UK-IODP @ukiodp.bsky.social · Apr 30
Our April Newsletter is out now. Learn about Expedition 501 - the first of IODP3, this joint endeavour with NSF sets sail tomorrow!

@ecord.bsky.social @anzic.bsky.social

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UK IODP Newsletter 2025 Issue 4 April
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July 22, 2025 at 12:15 AM
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scimpi.bsky.social
Great drone shots and overview of the #IODP3NSF #EXP501 mission, currently off the Massachusetts coast. SCIMPI has accomplished its first deployment of this expedition 🙌 THANK YOU to the great team on the L/B Robert –@ecord.bsky.social keep those great sunsets and sunrises coming!
IODP³-NSF Exp 501: Our home for the expedition
YouTube video by ECORD_IODP
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July 21, 2025 at 5:51 PM
saraearthscientist.bsky.social
🧠💥 In a facultatively social bee, brain development is determined by caste role - not group living.

It’s not about living together, it’s about what you do! 🐝👑 #BeeScience #Neurobiology #SocialInsects

www.frontiersin.org/journals/eco...
June 12, 2025 at 12:25 PM
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democratswin.bsky.social
May 17, 2025 at 12:21 AM
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ukiodp.bsky.social
Our April Newsletter is out now. Learn about Expedition 501 - the first of IODP3, this joint endeavour with NSF sets sail tomorrow!

@ecord.bsky.social @anzic.bsky.social

issuu.com/uk-iodp/docs...
UK IODP Newsletter 2025 Issue 4 April
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April 30, 2025 at 11:58 AM
saraearthscientist.bsky.social
It’s great to see M@TE out in the world!

mate.science has been years in the making to make numerical models more accessible.
Huge thanks to everyone who has helped make M@TE possible!
@benmather.info

@louis.moresi.info

@auscope.bsky.social
May 2, 2025 at 6:12 AM
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andy-baker.bsky.social
Even more misleading reporting from The Gaurdian about Australian uni student experience.

Campuses are packed here at UNSW. Yes, they weren't during lockdowns. How about interviewing current uni students?

https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2025/feb/25/australia-university-student-life
‘It’s very lonely’: what are Australia’s university students missing out on? | Australian universities | The Guardian
Many start their studies hoping to find friends, themselves and intellectual stimulation. More and more are finding they’ve been sold something else
www.theguardian.com
February 24, 2025 at 9:00 PM
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agunn.bsky.social
inside a dune!
February 18, 2025 at 7:12 AM
saraearthscientist.bsky.social
Help break the intergenerational poverty cycle!
#education

www.theguardian.com/the-smith-fa...
‘We could break out of the intergenerational poverty cycle’: the scholarship that transformed one man’s life
Access to education can change everything – just ask Mark Ryan
www.theguardian.com
February 17, 2025 at 10:35 AM
saraearthscientist.bsky.social
Nominate your Australia-based female colleagues to be elected AGU Fellows!!!!
deformedearth.bsky.social Matt King @deformedearth.bsky.social · Jan 9
Okay, so it's been 30 years since an Australia-based woman was elected Fellow of the @agu.org (not counting those that moved since they were elected). Surely, it's time to change that colleagues.

Nominations open and due 13 March:
www.agu.org/Honors/union...

www.agu.org/honors/union...
Past Recipients of the Union Fellows Program | AGU
View past recipients.
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January 9, 2025 at 5:08 AM
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deformedearth.bsky.social
Okay, so it's been 30 years since an Australia-based woman was elected Fellow of the @agu.org (not counting those that moved since they were elected). Surely, it's time to change that colleagues.

Nominations open and due 13 March:
www.agu.org/Honors/union...

www.agu.org/honors/union...
Past Recipients of the Union Fellows Program | AGU
View past recipients.
www.agu.org
January 9, 2025 at 2:58 AM
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andy-baker.bsky.social
La Nina conditions have been reached in Pacific sea surface temperatures. Will we have a wet late summer in Eastern Australia? Will there be more groundwater recharge? https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-01-07/australia-la-ni%C3%B1a-could-be-back-summer-wet-weather/104787346 #climate #groundwater
Rare summer La Niña could be forming in Pacific, raising risk of wet weather start to 2025 - ABC News
The current edition of La Niña is not playing by the rule book — for only the second time in 75 years its onset has arrived in the middle of summer.
www.abc.net.au
January 6, 2025 at 9:25 PM
Reposted by Dr. Sara Polanco
sineadlyster.bsky.social
Hello!!! It’s been a while. I’ve been busy setting up the new Coastal Landscape Dynamics (CoLD) Group basin at Penn State (I’m now a plumber?!) and running the first experiments in it. Here’s a sneak preview including the very (VERY 😅) preliminary results I showed at #AGU24. More to come!
December 18, 2024 at 4:55 PM
saraearthscientist.bsky.social
Understand the evidence and where the numbers are coming from!

www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

@australia.theguardian.com
#Netzero
Here's why Peter Dutton's nuclear power plan is a fantasy - video
Guardian Australia's Matilda Boseley dives into the Coalition's plan, which an overwhelming majority of agencies and experts in the field do not believe is credible
www.theguardian.com
January 3, 2025 at 6:31 AM
Reposted by Dr. Sara Polanco
carolinaogeo.bsky.social
Recommended read:

Advising governments about science is essential but difficult. So train people to do it. A great scientist doesn’t necessarily make an effective science adviser — but schooling and practice can help to bridge the gap.

www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Advising governments about science is essential but difficult. So train people to do it
A great scientist doesn’t necessarily make an effective science adviser — but schooling and practice can help to bridge the gap.
www.nature.com
January 2, 2025 at 10:37 PM
Reposted by Dr. Sara Polanco
zzsylvester.bsky.social
Finished reading ‘Breaking Through’, Katalin Karikó’s book - it’s easy to read and it’s full of her refreshingly honest takes on science and careers in science. Here is one example 🧪
My first message is this: We can do better. I believe we can improve how science is done at academic research institutions. For one thing, we might create a clearer distinction between markers of prestige-titles, publication records, number of citations, grant funding, committee appointments, eti-quette, dollars per net square footage-and those of quality science. Too often, we conflate the two, as if they're one and the same. But a person isn't a better scientist because she publishes more, or first. Perhaps she's holding back from publication because she wants to be absolutely certain of her data. Similarly, the number of citations might have little to do with the value of the paper and more to do with external events. When Drew and I published our landmark Immunity paper, it barely got any notice. It took a pandemic for the world to understand what we'd done and why it mattered.
January 2, 2025 at 9:14 PM
Reposted by Dr. Sara Polanco
zzsylvester.bsky.social
I have seen these features before, but I still think these are some of the most amazing landscapes on this planet. Polygonal weathering in the Navajo Sandstone, Paria Canyon - Vermilion Cliffs Wilderness Area
December 27, 2024 at 3:03 AM