Sandra Passchier

#geosociety ad for a new TT Assistant Professor of Structural Geology ⚒️🧪🔬🪨
Application due March 26th.

Come work with us! 😃

www.geosociety.org/GSA/GSA/edu-...

DHS admits it deported more than 80 DACA recipients “Dreamers” who came to the U.S. as children are protected under U.S. law, so deportations of them are unusual.

DHS admits it deported more than 80 DACA recipients

Ice Sheets of North America - AntarcticGlaciers.org During the Quaternary Period, North America was covered by three ice sheets: the Cordilleran Ice Sheet, Laurentide Ice Sheet and Innuitian Ice Sheet. During the last glacial cycle, these ice sheets we...

Delighted to announce a new section on #AntarcticGlaciers devoted to North American glaciation. Read here to find out about the Laurentide Ice Sheet and its Geomorphology, extent at the LGM and deglaciation.
www.antarcticglaciers.org/glacial-geol...

Sciencing for the joy of it Intrinsic motivation > extrinsic motivation. Always.

Have these Olympics been as inspirational for you as they have for me? Are they helping you find more joy? 🧪

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Record-breaking Antarctic drill reveals 23 million years of climate history swais2c.aq/media/record...

Mapping tipping risks from Antarctic ice basins under global warming - Nature Climate Change Climate change threatens the future of the Antarctic Ice Sheet. Here the authors show that individual drainage basins have different thresholds and loss patterns, suggesting the need to consider the d...

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Netherlands' Femke Kok breaks OLYMPIC RECORD in 500m speed skate | Winter Olympics 2026 | NBC Sports Enjoy the videos and music you love, upload original content, and share it all with friends, family, and the world on YouTube.

Enjoyed watching the speedskating live today, and even watched it again. Femke Kok is just amazing!
Source: YouTube share.google/rEp4RvvAHR6a...

Wow! www.nbcolympics.com/news/femke-k...

Deglacial stratification of the polar Southern Ocean | PNAS www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Two speedskaters crossing the finish. Photo AP.

These two made my day twice this week. Speedskating is just so exciting to watch! Can't wait until the 1500 m. Photo AP.

Trump Administration Announces That We Don’t Know Where the Sun Goes at Night After deciding carbon dioxide does no harm, it was the logical next move.

Trump Administration Announces That We Don’t Know Where The Sun Goes At Night

Glacier flowing through a rock trough into the ocean with ice shelf and icebergs.

Found this awesome photo of Pine Island Glacier taken by Michael Studinger during operation Ice Bridge in 2014.
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UNC Admin Can Now, Officially, Secretly Record Faculty The new policy prohibits students from recording class without permission but explicitly allows administrators to surveil professors for any “lawful purpose.”

Surveillance is a tool of weak leadership in my humble opinion.
www.insidehighered.com/news/faculty...

Lab morale got you down? Try a handbook Documents that lay out a research group’s ethos and practical guidelines are becoming increasingly popular in the academic community.

Documents that lay out a research group’s ethos and practical guidelines are becoming increasingly popular in the academic community

go.nature.com/3OzPt0h

Sediment transport by Greenland’s icebergs - Nature Communications Greenland’s icebergs transport 450 megatonnes of sediment to its fjords each year, representing one-third of the ice sheet’s total sediment export. This ice-rafted debris builds shoals at tidewater gl...

Proud to see this work out - field and modeling combination by former graduate student Ethan Pierce, Danish collaborator Bent Hasholt and I. @cubouldearth.bsky.social
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

National Lab of the Rockies, formerly NREL, lays off more than 130 employees The cuts impacted staffers engaged in both research and operations at the lab.

NEW: There's been another round of layoffs at the lab formerly known as NREL.

Weeks after scrubbing “renewable energy” from its name, the National Laboratory of the Rockies in Golden has cut 134 staffers.

www.cpr.org/2026/02/09/n...

Become our colleague!

The University of Lethbridge is hiring a Canada Impact+ Research Chair (Professor/Associate Professor) in Remote Sensing!

Only candidates who are both working and residing outside of Canada, incl. Canadian expats, are eligible to apply.
uleth.peopleadmin.ca/postings/8951

Poster of the post doc opportunity in the lab of Patrick Grunert (University of Cologne)

📢 Postdoctoral Opportunity – Late Quaternary Paleoceanography 🌊 🐚 ⚒️

Patrick Grunert’s working group is inviting applications for a full-time, fixed-term postdoctoral position (20 months).

🗓️ Application deadline: 15 February 2026

More info here - jobportal.uni-koeln.de/bewerben/247...

Space dust reveals rapid evolution after dino-killing asteroid New data detail how tiny forms of life rebounded much more quickly than previously believed

Good write-up in Science on our recent paper: www.science.org/content/arti...

Antarctic ice sheet folk, I'm looking for a Postdoctoral Fellow in Antarctic Ice Sheet Reconstruction [readvertised] for a 3.5yr appointment in Tasmania. Very flexible start date!

Join our new team, figuring out what is happening and what may happen in East Antarctica. 1/4
❄️

The Chemistry Lab at Texas A&M University's department for Scientific Ocean Drilling.

🚨Job alert🚨
Want to work as a Chem Tech for @us-sciod.bsky.social at Texas A&M University? Then apply below!
Responsibilities include prep lab containers for seagoing expeditions, mobilization/demobilization, sailing to operate instruments at sea...
tamus.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/TAMU_Externa...

I think we've all been victim of unscrupulous reviewers at some time or other - you can flag this to the editor if you feel you've been unfairly treated!

Research vessel Meteor III at sea.

Anyone interested in buying a research vessel together? Germany is selling R/V Meteor III. Happy to chip in a few $/€

www.vebeg.de/de/aktuelles...

What researchers are learning as they drill into Antarctica's 'Doomsday Glacier' An expedition to Antarctica has brought scientists and researchers to the widest glacier on Earth. The Thwaites Glacier is nicknamed the Doomsday Glacier because of its potential impact on sea levels ...

www.pbs.org/newshour/sho...

And here is the corresponding global upper ocean heat content (0 to 700 m depth) for 2025 and set a new record too... 🔥

Data (shown as anomalies on the graph) and methods from: www.ncei.noaa.gov/access/globa...

‘Just not monetizable’: humanities programs face existential crisis at US universities Fears over the future of humanities spread amid layoffs and restructurings at scores of public and private universities

Hearing about restructering at my own university from the Guardian. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

On board the voyage to Antarctica to learn why a massive glacier is melting Scientists are worried about the melting of Antarctica's ice sheets and what it could mean for sea levels. There's a two-month-long journey underway to conduct research that will better explain what's...

PBS Science correspondent Miles O'Brien at Thwaites Glacier www.pbs.org/newshour/sho...

Most likely you have autistic students and colleagues and don't even know it. Autism has many manifestations - the spectrum.

As this article points out, which always applies: "Don't make assumptions due to levels or types of engagement" and "Assume the best".

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We’ve wrapped up drilling at Crary Ice Rise with 228m of sediment core. This is an unprecedented record of the history of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet stretching back millions of years. Initial observations indicate the core includes periods of environmental change during past times of warming.