Sandra Passchier

Today we (@propublica.org) published this map of every location with an active 287(g) agreement with ICE. (with the help of @tituslegaldesign.com's initial data analysis). Read the story: "The Small-Town Cop Who Helped ICE Deport His Ingram, Texas, Neighbors" www.propublica.org/article/depo...

Students from North Carolina A&T can be seen marching back to their HBCU after voting on the first day of early voting in the state. The Guilford County Board of Elections voted to remove the school’s on-campus polling site. (video via Todd Simmons) greensboro.com/news/local/g...

I want to talk a little bit about this new Science paper led by star student Caroline Needle, Catherine Walker and myself. The idea goes back to this controversial new idea called the marine ice cliff instability. @whoi.edu @umich.edu

Scientists found evidence for wildfires that burned only around 560 miles from the South Pole 90 million years ago, making them the southernmost fires ever documented. eos.org/articles/wil...

Last month saw a very large temperature anomaly gradient between the Weddell Sea region and West #Antarctica. In fact, this was one of the very few places anywhere on the globe with colder than average temperatures in August, especially compared to older baselines (e.g., 1951-1980). Data from ERA5.

If you haven't been masking, give it a try. What do you have to lose? Just wear one in crowds and on planes, trains, and buses. Find a style that fits, so you don't futz with it. You don't have to get sick all the time.

High temperatures and low precipitation in the American West last winter led to record-low snowpack. A study finds that such a snow drought is 4.4 times more likely in the current climate than it would have been in the pre-industrial climate. In PNAS: https://ow.ly/LKKh50ZtquX

HI HELLO. Mitch McConnell and Tom Kean got longer medical leaves (with literally zero transparency and fully funded healthcare) than I, and most women get after having a baby…including having a baby via major surgery 💁🏻‍♀️

Ooooops we did it again New all-time high melting in #Greenland 19.07.2026 #ClimateCrisis #cryosphere #Metacrisis

A possibly worthwhile point of clarification: the 'models' discussed here are statistical fits to the last ~100 years of data (from NOAA Atlas 14). This is inevitably backwards looking and will be an underestimate of current probabilities of rainfall intensity in a changing climate.

Antarctica’s first dinosaur fossil confirmed from 1985 Antarctic expedition www.bas.ac.uk/news/antarct...

This without daycare in the child's first year.

🚨Funding for 2yr postdoc w/ me & @geocron.bsky.social on landslide-tsunami-jökulhlaup project, but (this is the ridiculous part) I need to select someone NOW or I lose the $. If you're NOT in Canada (can be any nationality) and interested, send me your CV and transcripts by midnight MT, June 12. 🧪⚒️

Full-time or part-time Research Technician in Micropalaeontology available in my lab @bridgetwade.bsky.social @es-ucl.bsky.social as part of the NERC TONIC Large Grant. Closing date: 18th June 2026. More details: www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/... #technician #micropalaeontology #plankton #NERC

We're searching for a postdoc fellow to conduct research on biological nitrogen fixation in boreal forests! The postdoc will join a dynamic and fun research group in Umeå. Deadline Aug 27th. Reach out if you have any questions! www.slu.se/en/about-slu... @michael-gundale.bsky.social

Journal #reviewers: your work is very much appreciated, especially your acceptance of review requests from lower-tier journals, authors you do not know, from diverse identities and countries, and from research institutions that are less well-known. Remember this: www.science.org/content/arti...

Paris air pollution is down 50% after its radical bike-friendly transformation Cars have been banned from more than 100 streets. Tens of thousands of parking spots have been eliminated. Hundreds of miles of bike lanes have been added. And air pollution is plummeting

On the day the Joides Resolution is on its way to be shredded, we also find out about NSF's removal of ocean observation arrays; here is the update that was posted before a U.S. holiday weekend oceanobservatories.org/2026/05/nsf-...

Today, the legendary JR begins her last journey to the shipwrecking yard. Home to many of us, she helped to understand plate tectonics, climate, deep biosphere, earthquakes/volcanoes, and was an integral part in international science and collaboration 🫡 www.marinetraffic.com/en/ais/home/...

The White House today announced it plans to make major changes in how the U.S. government manages research funding. https://scim.ag/43HgW4s

It reads like a chapter in a distopian novel... sadly it could become reality.

Scoop: NSF has been quietly blocking new funds and grants to four top universities: Duke, Harvard, Princeton, and Yale. Dozens of proposals from PIs at these universities—and their collaborators—have been stuck at the Office of Award Management awaiting finalization for months.

✨Open PhD student position✨ I'm looking for a PhD student in biogeochemical modelling of past abrupt changes. The PhD candidate will explore interactions of rapid ocean circulation changes with marine biogeochemistry during past abrupt climate change. Apply by 31 May. jobs.unibe.ch/job-vacancie...

Study (N=3,500) finds 68% of researchers observed gift authorship (credit w/o contributing); 55% observed ghost authorship (no credit for contributing). Women researchers reported more conflicts over authorship & felt less comfortable raising concerns. theconversation.com/who-gets-cre...

Come join me in Oslo in August for the SCAR Open Science Conference on Antarctic Research

Find out what it is like to do field research in Antarctica. seamapantarctica.org

A study in Nature Sustainability shows sea-level rise is already causing population retreat in coastal Louisiana and uses geological history and demographic data to argue that early, planned relocation can guide global climate adaptation. go.nature.com/4eHOh6q 🌍🌊🧪

A Europe-wide collaboration has unveiled the longest continuous record of Earth’s climate and atmospheric conditions, stretching back 1.2 million years go.nature.com/4dCVK5s

"We discuss why their thinking matters, that their struggle to translate thoughts into word isn’t evidence of failure, but a sign of growth."

🚨New paper about the second largest tsunami ever recorded, just published in @science.org A short 🧪⚒️🌊 thread #EGU26 @ucalgary.bsky.social @ucalgaryscience.bsky.social doi.org/10.1126/scie...

What's the deal with the sharp contrast between the Amundsen and Bellingshausen Seas? #Antarctica @polarrobs.bsky.social do you know?

Happy (belated) #dandelianday www.njconservation.org/the-lowly-da...

My PhD student is researching the experiences of neurodivergent geoscience faculty and understanding how their neurodivergence shaped their academic experiences. Please see the following and consider taking her survey (full consent/description in the link).

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This is also relevant in #highereducation theconversation.com/nurses-with-...

Exciting news that the US has a research icebreaker on the way. Notes from today's PRB meeting include that the goal is to have it out in ~5 years (!!!) but that the scope will have to be reduced to fit the budget somehow (???). @policyhound.bsky.social www.science.org/content/arti...

A new study published in #Geology reports the first-ever tektite strewn field discovered in Brazil—revealing evidence of a previously unknown meteorite impact ~6.3 million years ago. Read the study: geosociety.co/Crosta_et_al #MeteoriteImpact #Tektites

My LGBTQ+ community will never be rendered invisible. We will always stand up and fight for our rightful place.

I would add that as an advisors I also still need the "grunt work". Aren't we training grad students to be life-long learners?

Beautiful day to do some Stratigraphy class field trip prep. Jurassic fault block basin fill in the Delaware River valley near Milford.

Cumulative change in the mass of glaciers from all around the world - preliminary data just updated through 2025 ☹️ Information on methods: wgms.ch/products_ref...

Audio on to hear the full range of humanity - people excited, mystified, disinterested, and then the payoff of the pilot at the end.

at #negsa2026

Attending @geosociety.bsky.social GSA Northeastern in Hartford CT? Check out session "T31. High latitude paleoceanographic discoveries from Scientific Ocean Drilling (IODP, ODP, DSDP)" 8am on Sunday with poster session on Monday. Photo Eric Bravo, Exp 400.

An instructor's job performance is for a large part evaluated based on student feedback and complaints, and with the demographic cliff approaching, how will this end? #education Easy A’s, Less Pay: The Long-Term Effects of Grade Inflation www.nber.org/papers/w34952

Key climate shifts in the past 3 million years may have been more heavily influenced by changing ocean temperatures than greenhouse gases, according to analyses of ancient Antarctic ice cores published in two Nature papers. go.nature.com/41cCdBT go.nature.com/3Pkaa0M 🧪 🌊