Thomas Bauska

🇬🇧: The data begin to look a tad squiffy. 🇺🇸 (me): Yeah, they get super janky there. 🇩🇪: I am not following. Can you please state the accuracy and precision during the interval we are discussing?

“The next talk will be giving by Doctor…

Slowly but surely accumulating supervisor papers (and coffee mugs). Latest is here: cp.copernicus.org/articles/22/...

On the flip side, this was me opening up those old boxes today...

View from outside the Bern ice core gas lab. View from outside the BAS ice core gas lab.

Getting one child ready in the morning = deterministic chaos. Getting two children ready in the morning = purely stochastic.

Dang. Title for my autobiography has already been taken.

New Job! Please RP! 2 year Postdoctoral Research Associate in #Biogeochemistry in Oxford @oxfordgeography.bsky.social using novel methods to explore organic matter stability and new proxies of rock #weathering &wider team in Southampton. Any Qs let me know 🧪🥼⚒️ my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecru...

My personal take-home: always test the "null" hypothesis when it comes to palaeoclimate. Eric Mei, @bayesicallyalex.bsky.social, @cristiproist.bsky.social, et al., www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/... Fun times working with Eric on this as part of @fetch4.bsky.social

Just out in @natgeosci.nature.com we use ice sheet modeling to identify & characterize behavioral regimes, & the nature of ice sheet regime shifts. We do this using the Shannon entropy signature of mass loss, and find evidence of bistability under high, but not low, entropy regimes. rdcu.be/fmIe1

The combined pride and dread you get when someone says "oh, I was just reading your thesis" 😊😨😊😨😊😨😊😨😊😨😊😨

⚒️ Article: Dust records from an Allan Hills ice core indicate the Ross Sea was likely open through the peak of the Last Interglacial, coincident with a smaller West Antarctic Ice Sheet @lamont.columbia.edu www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Old ice cores never die, they just sublimate away. icecores.org/inventory/de...

Nice one! Almost like the authors made me a mixtape of my favourite topics. -CO2 across the MPT -Long-term changes in the Antarctic Ice Sheet -Grounding line controls BONUS: Transects of Filchner-Ronne in the SI that cross Berkner Island. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Ice core water-isotope records from eight locations in Antarctica spanning 400,000 years show that the warmest parts of the continent have had the most temperature variability. In PNAS: https://ow.ly/OmwB50YZOhp

So many gems. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... “The manner of geologist movie deaths: Category 2: Work related. Typical examples are being hit by a volcanic bomb, falling into a crater or an opening fault, drowning in quicksand or lahar, and incineration in an oil pit. Grim stuff.”

vibe coding meaning what is it

*checks supplementary information for age model uncertainty*

All the new ice core data at #EGU26 is pretty cool, I guess. But nothing can top seeing this alongside a poster in Interdisciplinary Tree-Ring Research

I swore to support & defend the Constitution of the United States. But I've spent the last two weeks in purgatory on "administrative leave for investigative purposes" while NASA pondered me speaking in my personal capacity. I'm back tomorrow. firstamendment.mtsu.edu/article/pick...

The MYIC @millionyearice.bsky.social project by the Australian Antarctic Program is drilling an ice core to 3,000 metres depth in three-metre segments, and returning the cores in pristine condition to Hobart, Tasmania. Why? And how? Find out at aapp.shorthandstories.com/the-memory-of-ice

The frequently used symbols of an isotope geochemist who can't decide what delta form to use.

Validated. www.science.org/content/arti...

My pet theory: Europe warmed up enough in the Bølling–Allerød that it was finally time to go for walkies.

Nature research paper: Broadly stable atmospheric CO2 and CH4 levels over the past 3 million years go.nature.com/4bl7uIZ

I have a joke about the Mid-Pleistocene Transition but the pacing is all wrong.

Legendary. Gwyneth W. Gordon, Carbon isotope evaluation of the claims in MillerCoors vs Anheuser-Busch doi.org/10.1016/j.fo....

The most popular core to study on paleoclimate Bluesky

👏 Heroic effort to extract a H₂ record from ice cores 👏 The samples had to measured in the field immediately after drilling (i.e. fresh out the oven 🥮) to prevent the tiny H₂ molecules from leaking out. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

I learned a lot from the UChicago Core Curriculum. The most important lesson was that I wanted to do Earth Sciences. -Readings in World Literature -Self, Culture and Society -Vienna in Western Civilisation -Music Materials and Design -Animal Sensory Ecology (wrote about Trilobite eyes 👁️💠!)

Sand dunes. But where?

One week until #EGU26 abstracts are due! CL1.2.8 - "Beyond EPICA: old ice and the MPT" looks like it may be the greatest session of the last 1.2 million years (or so). Will the big❓be filled in with new ice core data? www.egu26.eu/session/56601

(if the world still exists)

A study in Science reveals an extensive precolonial agricultural landscape in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula, suggesting Indigenous American communities cultivated maize intensively between 1000 and 1600 CE, despite a cold climate and marginal growing conditions. https://scim.ag/49voBGO

I've updated the opportunities part of my website with fresh openings for researchers interested in climate and vegetation science, archaeology, history, and geography at all levels from undergraduate intern to postdoc. Take a look! jedokaplan.github.io/opportunities/

The idea that the Plutonium 238 could have moled its way into a glacier is mind-boggling (and not in a good way). www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Excited to share our new PNAS paper! We find that recent methane growth was driven by agriculture/waste and wetland emissions, while fossil fuel emissions have remained stable despite growth in production, highlighting recent progress and further mitigation potential. www.pnas.org/doi/abs/10.1...

same vibes. The "BAS-signal"?

TIL: Someone found piece of the asteroid that killed the dinosaurs in a sediment core from the middle of the Pacific Ocean. Kyte, F. A meteorite from the Cretaceous/Tertiary boundary. Nature 396, 237–239 (1998). doi.org/10.1038/24322 🌠💥💣

Cambridge researchers have uncovered the earliest evidence of ‘animal GPS’ in tiny magnetic fossils from 97 million years ago. What left them behind? And what insights can they shed? Dig in: bit.ly/3LQxykH @cambridge-earthsci.bsky.social @stcatharines.bsky.social @gfz.bsky.social 🧪