Steve Holbrook

Head of Geosciences at Virginia Tech. Tweeting whatever takes my fancy, but mostly higher education and science. Opinions not my employer's fault. He/Him.

[Geosciences at VT @vtgeosciences]

Congratulations to @GeoPlanetKing - a 2023 @theAGU fellow!

[Steve Holbrook @WStevenHolbrook]

Virginia Tech Geosciences is hiring at the tenure-track level, in the area of Energy Transition Geoscience. Please spread the word!
https://t.co/W4YTYuyUyV

[Steve Holbrook @WStevenHolbrook]

@seismoholique @vtgeosciences @YosemiteNPS In a general sense, just to understand the subsurface beneath the sequoias. We would like to know where they get their water, for example.

[Steve Holbrook @WStevenHolbrook]

Deploying the world’s smallest seismic nodes among the world’s largest trees. ⁦@vtgeosciences⁩ ⁦@YosemiteNPS⁩

[Steve Holbrook @WStevenHolbrook]

@Eileen_Machine Stryde

[Steve Holbrook @WStevenHolbrook]

@BedrockZone @NSF @CZCNet

[Steve Holbrook @WStevenHolbrook]

O Wyoming I’ve missed you

[Kevin Pitts @KevinTPitts]

Honored to celebrate National Academy of Sciences ⁦@theNASciences⁩ inductees Bob Bodnar and Shuhai Xiao along with our other ⁦NAS member Trish Dove. ⁦@vtgeosciences⁩ ⁦@VT_Science⁩ Three members from one very proud department!

[Steve Holbrook @WStevenHolbrook]

I'm delighted for the two new @theNASciences members from @vtgeosciences -- Shuhai Xiao and Bob Bodnar. Whether it's the evolution of life in the Precambrian, or the evolution of Earth's crust as seen through fluid inclusions, these two have changed geoscience. Congratulations!

[Steve Holbrook @WStevenHolbrook]

If they're accurate, these poll results (from my 3000-level oceanography class) suggest that the panic among professors about ChatGPT and academic integrity may be out in front of adoption of AI tools by our students... (caveat emptor; not a scientific poll!)

[Steve Holbrook @WStevenHolbrook]

This is so cool, Ali!

[Alireza Namayandeh @ali_namayandeh]

Excited to lead this workshop for @EJWGStanford and @IDAStanford In light of growing concern about climate change we should use all the tools at our disposal, including theater, to raise awareness about this issue. Join us to explore the intersection of Theater and ClimateJustice

[Steve Holbrook @WStevenHolbrook]

@vtgeosciences Definitely better to be pitching than catching on Pi Day!

[Steve Holbrook @WStevenHolbrook]

It's @vtgeosciences vs. Biology Dept. on #GivingDay - winning dept gets to throw pie in the face of opposing dept head. Fighting words from Biology below! It's neck-and-neck. Even a $5 donation gets $10 added by an alum! Help us win by noon today here: https://t.co/PzFXbBEjsM

[Steve Holbrook @WStevenHolbrook]

@stress_driven @DoctorApatite I think you’re giving it a lot of credit - you’re implying that it meant static Poisson’s ratio, not dynamic, but didn’t say so. What’s fascinating about the example is that it produced a whole page of facts but still missed the point (or at minimum buried the lede by your take).

[Steve Holbrook @WStevenHolbrook]

OK, maybe the AI revolution isn't as close as I thought. #ChatGPTFail

[Steve Holbrook @WStevenHolbrook]

Great job by ⁦@Khorrami93⁩ of ⁦@vtgeosciences⁩ in his lightning talk on carbon capture and earthquakes, at VT’s 7th annual Nutshell Games! Great example of a memorable stage prop. ⁦@VT_ACT⁩

[Steve Holbrook @WStevenHolbrook]

Congratulations to ⁦@EEllis_Geo⁩ of ⁦@vtgeosciences⁩ for a terrific and award-winning lightning talk at the 7th annual Nutshell Games! ⁦@VT_ACT⁩

[Steve Holbrook @WStevenHolbrook]

@GeomorphYuggs I like this - but of course it adds a big task to already overburdened faculty. Reading all the qualitative feedback from all of our courses will be…time-consuming.

[Steve Holbrook @WStevenHolbrook]

On the annual occasion of reading faculty activity reports, I wish I could say I found solace in the wisdom of Wendell Berry. But no, I still have to summarize everyone's teaching with a single number.