Morgan Schaller

Geochemist and Earth System scientist
@rpi ... Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

[Ben Black @magmatist]

Something magic but also strange about drill core. There is Earth history, with all the usually reclusive bits (contacts rarely seen in the wild, recessive units) exposed out in the open, in zigzag lines… here is the contact between Passaic seds and CAMP Orange Mtn Basalt

[LDEO @LamontEarth]

"Severe wintry episodes during volcanic eruptions may have brought freezing temps to tropics, which is where many extinctions of big, naked, unfeathered vertebrates seem to have occurred," says @columbiaclimate @LamontEarth's Dennis Kent. Via @sciencefocus https://t.co/EF7eqVvcFT

[News from Science @NewsfromScience]

Exclusive: Paleontologist Robert DePalma has been accused of faking data in a paper showing the asteroid that killed the dinosaurs struck Earth in the spring. https://t.co/FTF5kjDzet

[Morgan Schaller @OnlyOneIon]

Wild stuff here....

[Mason Scher @scher_a]

I’m very happy to announce that my very first paper is out now in GCA! In essence: The C3 plant paleo-CO2 proxy doesn’t work for Ginkgo, and we shouldn’t expect it to work for a lot of other plants. A 🧵...
https://t.co/p9SokjxkeQ

[Riley/A Dog's Life @adogslifeTO]

The rare superbloom that occurred in 2019 in Southern California

A superbloom is a rare desert botanical phenomenon where an exceptionally large amount of wildflowers whose seeds have lain dormant in the desert soil germinate and blossom at roughly the same time.
📷 Ryan Resatka

[Morgan Schaller @OnlyOneIon]

@ullarohl @ECORD_IODP @TheJR @Chikyu_JAMSTEC @LamontEarth One of my favorite exposures! The Talcott Pillow Basalts, part of the first pulse of the CAMP eruptions.

[Sarah Barr @Sarah_Barr]

Explaining the peer review process to my brother, a carpenter #academia #phdlife #AcademicTwitter

[Morgan Schaller @OnlyOneIon]

i'm dying !

[Simon @DadAndTwo]

It’s the circle of life

SOUND ON

[Morgan Schaller @OnlyOneIon]

Even my drying oven is telling me to stop procrastinating on those @theAGU abstracts...

[Morgan Schaller @OnlyOneIon]

I try to get this message through to my students early - so true!!

[Michael D. Jones @Policy_Stories]

The not so well kept secret in universities is that the whole apparatus floats on free labor from professors working relentlessly in their unpaid time, often for love of students and craft. The love is weaponized against us to hard-wire that free labor into the system.

[alexa zytnick @zzzytty]

rage against the machine never specified what machine they were raging against but i bet it was a mass spectrometer

[LDEO @LamontEarth]

"We got dinosaurs completely wrong. They are fundamentally cold-adapted animals. They are fundamentally insulated. And that was the key to their success," says Lamont geologist Paul Olsen, lead author of a new study. Via @bbcworldservice at 23:56. https://t.co/hNy57SysY2

[News from Science @NewsfromScience]

“I think this paper will be extremely influential for years to come.” #ScienceMagArchives https://t.co/Zhz23ILjAv

[Cin-Ty Lee @CinTyLeeEarth]

After all these years, you’d think I’d be a pro at writing/revising papers. Reviewer comments still bite, but after letting things sit for awhile, I realize I always benefit from reviews. And it’s good to be challenged.

[Morgan Schaller @OnlyOneIon]

Wahoo! Go Justin!! Congrats

[Justin Park @J__Park17]

I’m incredibly honored to be selected for Academic All-America again and I am incredibly thankful for the 5 years I had with @RPITRACKFIELD! Thank you to everyone who helped me along the way! #letsgored

[Justin Park @J__Park17]

3 items each shipped in their own comparatively massive box…

[Morgan Schaller @OnlyOneIon]

Very sad news... one of my science heroes

[Dr. Susan Hough @SeismoSue]

Geophysics lost one of the giants: Peter Molnar lost his battle with cancer this morning 😪

[Clive R. Neal @Prof_Clive_Neal]

The U.S. has led the world in scientific ocean drilling for over 50 years. Now we need a new drill ship as the @TheJR is approaching an unprecedented 45 year dry dock. @NSF leadership: are you ready to fund the next 50 yrs? Reasons to do this are found at https://t.co/H0TcCtYDlI