DiatomDiatribes: Embracing Rational Analysis

Reed Scherer: (Paleo) Climate Scientist, Diatomaniac, Glaciophile, Paleophile, Antarctican, Oceanophile, Culinista, NIU Professor, I strive for global justice

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Well, they have extended through tomorrow. Still messed up as of now, though. Good luck getting it back online soon, @theAGU geeks.

Frustrating enough that it actually drove me today back to The Little Blue Bird currently known by another name.

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#AGU24 and all of @theAGU seems to be overloaded today. I hope it clears so I can get my abstract submitted.

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From [email protected]
...Due to high traffic volume on our website, customers are experiencing intermittent service disruptions...

No decision has yet been made regarding the extension of the abstract submission deadline.

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AGU website & abstract portal seems to be having issues today. Anybody else having same?

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@ForamWhisperer Great! But…Um…
Full disclosure: this drone photo of @TheJR is actually from @AmundsenSea #Exp379.

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Hi friends. I haven’t gone on this cesspool in quite a while.

In other Elon Musk news, his latest rocket just blew up. SpaceX called it a “rapid, unscheduled disassembly”.

That’s some next-level bs. To call that a euphemism doesn’t even come close.

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@ResearchFleetNL @BrinkhuisIV @NWONieuws Can you put a derrick on it and core >1k in 5k water? If not, who cares #SavetheJR

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#Paleoceanography, when we doubt ourselves.
@NewYorker

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@TyrannosaurCarr Ouzo funny U R

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@TyrannosaurCarr Is it true that absinthe (or tyrannosaurs) makes the heart grow fonder (or fiender)?

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@heartypj The Drake is a joy.

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@Revkin @DareCountyGovt I'm certainly not one to ever quote scripture, but Matthew's got it right here:
"...a foolish man who built his house on sand. The rain came down, the streams rose, and the winds blew and beat against that house, and it fell with a great crash."

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@EonsShow Here's a beauty from our collection. Minimal preparation. The iridescence results from early diagenesis of aragonite. Long axis is 20cm.

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@Thomas_Clements @DrPardi @Ichnologist @ILStateMuseum Yes, but how can normal tidal cycles result in the chemistry to allow rare lagerstätte preservation?

You can't argue that there weren't storms that might have displaced the critters into evaporative tidal ponds, can you? They can't live where soft tissue preservation happens.

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@BrinkhuisIV @JRSO_IODP @TheJR

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The proposed Biden budget. Congress will say no, but stand strong, Mr. President, especially on @NSF and @epa!

(source: @washingtonpost)

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@yarrowaxford A spiny nasselarian (radiolarian) hits the runway. Beautiful!