Dylan Ward

Geoscientist at the University of Cincinnati. Lover of emergent behavior. Cynical idealist. Tasteless humor my own.

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Hint: “The mountains and the canyons start to …. … …. / the children of the sun begin to awake”

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I am going to spend my one annual tweet on this visual pun for geoscientists.

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@Saidlacheque think dems will show up to vote this next midterm?

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#slightlyovershadowedbycurrentevents 🫤

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Just back from a superb @prf2022 (Progressive Failure of Brittle Rocks) Penrose Conference. Man there are a lot of cracks in my house I never saw before.

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(mis)Applied Science

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Haters gonna hate, but I had a great time at #agu21, learned a lot, and some aspects of the new format are maybe not so bad.

Also shout out to the convention center staff and A/V and IT folks. The spaces were super clean and sessions ran pretty smoothly all things considered.

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@LEW999 @OpenAcademics I was more wondering if the students were all masked in class but yeah the preschool vector…

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@OnAMoraine This makes me feel better about whatever I uploaded last night. Eventually I’ll even figure out how to watch the things. I can’t find them in the app.

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@LEW999 @OpenAcademics Are you all masked in class? We’ve had a number of students out here and there but nothing like that.

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@AdamForte83 At this point I might fill my slides with text and then just read the text.

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See, kids, this deposit right here is what's known as a "geomech lag"

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Last class period dispatched, and it's still 2 weeks until my AGU session, plenty of time to get my talk polished u...

... wait, what?

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Why do I keep getting AGU journal pub invoices a full year after the paper came out? Guess what else happened during that year: the grant ended.

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This is one of the stupidest software limitations to persist in 2021 on machines running modern filesystems.

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I want to sell clarified butter in a spray can.

Obviously we’d call it Ghee-Whiz.

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Time to submit an abstract: NC/SE GSA meeting April 7–8. Abstract deadline December 14. Here are 2 of the many great sessions: T12. Karst Hydrology and Speleology… and T14. Utilizing the Current Critical Zone RCNs to Study Carbonates in the Critical Zone.

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@LEW999 Have done this 10/10 would recommend. The fun bonus is seeing the color of the hot water even without adding grounds.

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@SimonWLewis @johnburnhamshaw I would prefer this system.

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@SimonWLewis @johnburnhamshaw Finally: I always feel like I'm being super aggro when I post four or 5 replies to the same topic, but if you've ever read any of my papers -- don't -- you'll see that 260 chars is not enough for me to make an argument!

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@SimonWLewis @johnburnhamshaw In the original context of the post, the additional publication step serves to apply a broader standard. (though we all know how this varies by field and journal).

IOW 🤷‍♂️. Not exempting myself from any of the above criticism.