Ian
@winkelstern.bsky.social
Rocks and stuff.
Assistant Prof, Geology, Grand Valley State University
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Assistant Prof, Geology, Grand Valley State University
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Ian
@winkelstern.bsky.social
· Jan 3
ScienceDirect.com | Science, health and medical journals, full text articles and books.
authors.elsevier.com
Contributed a little bit to a great paper out today in QSR (open access!): authors.elsevier.com/sd/article/S...
Long story short, it reviews the great potential seashells have as seasonal climate archives through time
⚒️🧪#paleoclimate
Long story short, it reviews the great potential seashells have as seasonal climate archives through time
⚒️🧪#paleoclimate
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Absolutely fucked up beyond all recognition.
NSF has an insanely low administrative overhead. Laying off staff saves nothing and the cost to our leadership in scientific advancement (with massive public and business implications) will be long-lived and dire.
NSF has an insanely low administrative overhead. Laying off staff saves nothing and the cost to our leadership in scientific advancement (with massive public and business implications) will be long-lived and dire.
NSF plans to lay off a quarter and a half of its staff in the next two months. www.eenews.net/articles/sci...
This reckless move will shatter U.S. scientific leadership and cripple innovation for generations.
This reckless move will shatter U.S. scientific leadership and cripple innovation for generations.
Science funding agency threatened with mass layoffs
National Science Foundation staff heard the plans at a meeting Tuesday.
www.eenews.net
February 5, 2025 at 1:54 AM
Absolutely fucked up beyond all recognition.
NSF has an insanely low administrative overhead. Laying off staff saves nothing and the cost to our leadership in scientific advancement (with massive public and business implications) will be long-lived and dire.
NSF has an insanely low administrative overhead. Laying off staff saves nothing and the cost to our leadership in scientific advancement (with massive public and business implications) will be long-lived and dire.
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When Trump paused federal funding to all grants and loans, it plunged scientific research into chaos. Though the freeze was rescinded for some sectors, it's still in largely place for universities and research institutions. The damage will be lasting.
The Damage to Federal Medical Research Is Already Done
Clinical trials may have to be scrapped, research applications will be pushed back, and unpaid researchers will quickly leave the sector—even if the Trump administration’s funding pause is only…
wrd.cm
February 1, 2025 at 1:00 PM
When Trump paused federal funding to all grants and loans, it plunged scientific research into chaos. Though the freeze was rescinded for some sectors, it's still in largely place for universities and research institutions. The damage will be lasting.
Also got this email. In addition to everything else, "activities related to DEI" is incredibly vague.
NSF grantees - people who have already received their grants based on a previously funded and approved research proposal - are being told to stop any activities related to DEI and accessibility.
Call this what it is: government censorship of ongoing research projects.
www.opm.gov/policy-data-...
Call this what it is: government censorship of ongoing research projects.
www.opm.gov/policy-data-...
January 29, 2025 at 2:54 PM
Also got this email. In addition to everything else, "activities related to DEI" is incredibly vague.
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Most of the money that researchers spend is on paying other researchers. In other words, canceling research funds is taking money out of local economies by removing people and their spending power from them. 🧪
In Astronomy, NSF has only 1 call per year (grants last 3 years). This means that if the process is paused (or worse), it has a huge ripple effect: it changes how we do graduate admissions, as ~1/2 of our graduate students are funded by NSF grants. It changes if we can hire postdoctoral researchers.
January 27, 2025 at 10:21 PM
Most of the money that researchers spend is on paying other researchers. In other words, canceling research funds is taking money out of local economies by removing people and their spending power from them. 🧪
politico put up the pdf of every federal grant program currently frozen, which is many: www.politico.com/f/?id=000001...
www.politico.com
January 28, 2025 at 7:39 PM
politico put up the pdf of every federal grant program currently frozen, which is many: www.politico.com/f/?id=000001...
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The National Science Foundation has canceled all grant review panels this week. It's unclear how long the pause could last.
National Science Foundation freezes grant review in response to Trump executive orders
The National Science Foundation has canceled all grant review panels this week. It's unclear how long the pause could last.
www.npr.org
January 28, 2025 at 1:32 PM
The National Science Foundation has canceled all grant review panels this week. It's unclear how long the pause could last.
Got some major new toys in the lab!!! 🧪⚒️ #waterisotopes
January 25, 2025 at 2:12 PM
Got some major new toys in the lab!!! 🧪⚒️ #waterisotopes
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I hear there are stories coming, but putting the brakes on our country’s world-leading medical research system feels like a five alarm fire and I don’t see a newspaper that even has it on the front page yet
Shutting down medical research — not just within NIH, but everywhere that’s funded by NIH — will have long-term effects on medicine & short-term effects on state, higher education & hospital budgets. This affects all of us, not just researchers.
The assault on NIH is a test for how the national media covers the Trump admin: Trump is shutting down medical research!
That is easy to communicate. Will they treat it as a 5 alarm fire in a way that forces the government to respond, or will they downplay & caveat it?
That is easy to communicate. Will they treat it as a 5 alarm fire in a way that forces the government to respond, or will they downplay & caveat it?
January 23, 2025 at 3:29 AM
I hear there are stories coming, but putting the brakes on our country’s world-leading medical research system feels like a five alarm fire and I don’t see a newspaper that even has it on the front page yet
Submitted a paper today ⚒️🧪🔥
Stating it publicly so it happens: 2025 is the year Ian writes a bunch of papers
My h-index in 2032 is gonna be 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
My h-index in 2032 is gonna be 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
January 15, 2025 at 11:49 PM
Submitted a paper today ⚒️🧪🔥
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tech companies are always trying to put dumb shit in my pocket like Online Banking or The Power Of Google AI. How about put some Cool Rocks in my pocket you fucks
January 12, 2025 at 4:54 PM
tech companies are always trying to put dumb shit in my pocket like Online Banking or The Power Of Google AI. How about put some Cool Rocks in my pocket you fucks
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1/ This cool new study decoded each of the 20,000 days of this giant clam, written in the daily increments of its shell during the 53 years of its life, unlocking environmental and climatic conditions…
Except this clam lived 10 million years ago!
#Paleosky🧪🦑🌊
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Except this clam lived 10 million years ago!
#Paleosky🧪🦑🌊
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
January 11, 2025 at 2:49 PM
1/ This cool new study decoded each of the 20,000 days of this giant clam, written in the daily increments of its shell during the 53 years of its life, unlocking environmental and climatic conditions…
Except this clam lived 10 million years ago!
#Paleosky🧪🦑🌊
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Except this clam lived 10 million years ago!
#Paleosky🧪🦑🌊
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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This Maxar Technologies sat image with SWIR shows what was on fire in Altadena, California this morning at 10:45 a.m. local time.
Nearly everything.
Nearly everything.
January 9, 2025 at 1:36 AM
This Maxar Technologies sat image with SWIR shows what was on fire in Altadena, California this morning at 10:45 a.m. local time.
Nearly everything.
Nearly everything.
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The insanity of being a fire ecologist in the epicenter of a major fire event, bags packed and ready to evacuate, watching active fire from my window, while taking media requests and explaining to the public, for the 100,000th time how climate change is largely responsible for this
January 8, 2025 at 7:52 PM
The insanity of being a fire ecologist in the epicenter of a major fire event, bags packed and ready to evacuate, watching active fire from my window, while taking media requests and explaining to the public, for the 100,000th time how climate change is largely responsible for this
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i dunno and the fire is horrible but
I want to drive the luxury car smashing bulldozer
I want to drive the luxury car smashing bulldozer
What stage of climate crisis is bulldozing abandoned luxury cars to make way for firetrucks?
January 8, 2025 at 5:06 PM
i dunno and the fire is horrible but
I want to drive the luxury car smashing bulldozer
I want to drive the luxury car smashing bulldozer
Looks like about half of my followers are bots and/or weird garbage accounts.
Seems bad!
Seems bad!
January 6, 2025 at 3:38 PM
Looks like about half of my followers are bots and/or weird garbage accounts.
Seems bad!
Seems bad!
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Contributed a little bit to a great paper out today in QSR (open access!): authors.elsevier.com/sd/article/S...
Long story short, it reviews the great potential seashells have as seasonal climate archives through time
⚒️🧪#paleoclimate
Long story short, it reviews the great potential seashells have as seasonal climate archives through time
⚒️🧪#paleoclimate
ScienceDirect.com | Science, health and medical journals, full text articles and books.
authors.elsevier.com
January 3, 2025 at 2:47 AM
Contributed a little bit to a great paper out today in QSR (open access!): authors.elsevier.com/sd/article/S...
Long story short, it reviews the great potential seashells have as seasonal climate archives through time
⚒️🧪#paleoclimate
Long story short, it reviews the great potential seashells have as seasonal climate archives through time
⚒️🧪#paleoclimate
Contributed a little bit to a great paper out today in QSR (open access!): authors.elsevier.com/sd/article/S...
Long story short, it reviews the great potential seashells have as seasonal climate archives through time
⚒️🧪#paleoclimate
Long story short, it reviews the great potential seashells have as seasonal climate archives through time
⚒️🧪#paleoclimate
ScienceDirect.com | Science, health and medical journals, full text articles and books.
authors.elsevier.com
January 3, 2025 at 2:47 AM
Contributed a little bit to a great paper out today in QSR (open access!): authors.elsevier.com/sd/article/S...
Long story short, it reviews the great potential seashells have as seasonal climate archives through time
⚒️🧪#paleoclimate
Long story short, it reviews the great potential seashells have as seasonal climate archives through time
⚒️🧪#paleoclimate
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Best 8-5 season ever
December 31, 2024 at 8:20 PM
Best 8-5 season ever
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The suffering continues
December 31, 2024 at 2:52 PM
The suffering continues
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Stating it publicly so it happens: 2025 is the year Ian writes a bunch of papers
My h-index in 2032 is gonna be 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
My h-index in 2032 is gonna be 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
December 19, 2024 at 5:11 PM
Stating it publicly so it happens: 2025 is the year Ian writes a bunch of papers
My h-index in 2032 is gonna be 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
My h-index in 2032 is gonna be 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
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I'm dead serious: we need to communicate at like an 8th grade reading level. The words "tree equity" should never leave our lips.
This is an interesting case of language overriding substance in determining the ideological valence of an issue because “every neighborhood should have parks and street trees” is the most anodyne statement of environmental justice possible
December 18, 2024 at 2:44 PM
I'm dead serious: we need to communicate at like an 8th grade reading level. The words "tree equity" should never leave our lips.
I am live and in person in the dreaded Friday afternoon poster session. Come to 0648 to hear about Bahamas Last Interglacial climate. #agu24 ⚒️
December 13, 2024 at 7:18 PM
I am live and in person in the dreaded Friday afternoon poster session. Come to 0648 to hear about Bahamas Last Interglacial climate. #agu24 ⚒️
Congrats to GVSU undergrad Noah Valentine on their first conference presentation!
Still a chance to come learn about modern dolomite in the Keys at 0367 if you're in the poster hall. #agu24 ⚒️
Still a chance to come learn about modern dolomite in the Keys at 0367 if you're in the poster hall. #agu24 ⚒️
December 12, 2024 at 3:24 PM
Congrats to GVSU undergrad Noah Valentine on their first conference presentation!
Still a chance to come learn about modern dolomite in the Keys at 0367 if you're in the poster hall. #agu24 ⚒️
Still a chance to come learn about modern dolomite in the Keys at 0367 if you're in the poster hall. #agu24 ⚒️