DiatomDiatribes: Embracing Rational Analysis

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.

From Service@agu.org ...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.

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

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

@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.

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

👀Sneak preview! In the final construction facility at Thecla Bodewes Shipyards in Harlingen builders are hard at work on finishing the RV Wim Wolff. With sometimes 30 people working at the same time, a clear and detailed schedule to guide the process comes in handy! @NWONieuws

#Paleoceanography, when we doubt ourselves. @NewYorker

@TyrannosaurCarr Ouzo funny U R

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

@heartypj The Drake is a joy.

After RT crossing the Drake about 20 times, my assessment for pax is that it is the FEAR of the crossing that is far greater than the crossing experience itself. It's a GREAT ride!

@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."

Key point👉@DareCountyGovt's Danny Couch "sympathizes with homeowners. But..points out..people have continued to buy & sell homes along this stretch in recent years. 'If you’re going to buy on the oceanfront, that’s a roll of the dice...It always has been and always will be.'”

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

Did you know that some fossils are also considered gemstones? For National Jewel Day, let's check out one of the most famous gem fossils: Ammolite. This iridescent opal-like gemstone is made of the fossilized shells of ammonites.

@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.

@SchererReed @DrPardi @Ichnologist @ILStateMuseum Becuase the Mazon Creek doesn't represent ponds not does it represent high energy storm surge events. It's a tidally influenced marine basin.

Happy #FossilFriday Is "Essexella" not a jellyfish, but an anemone? Here's the paper from earlier this week doi.org/10.1002/spp2.1… Plus an nice example from the @ILStateMuseum #Geology #collection Another example of how museum collections are essential!

@BrinkhuisIV @JRSO_IODP @TheJR

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

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

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