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Joe Allen

@cu-in-the-field.bsky.social
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Geologist | earthquakes, faults, fractures, rocks | professor | fan of NSF STEM Edu |

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Joe Allen @cu-in-the-field.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Overdue.
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Lex McMenamin (they/them) @lexmcmenamin.com · 01/09/2026
rest in peace to Wendell Berry
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McSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · 21/08/2026
"Professor Sisyphus graded the papers his students had submitted. The day he handed back the graded papers, the next paper was due." www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/pro...
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Professor Sisyphus Begins a New Semester
“Professor Sisyphus learned a slang word. He was excited to impress his students. Then he discovered that as soon as he uttered slang in class—poof! It would...
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Joe Allen @cu-in-the-field.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
Multiple lab priorities today. #REU ⚒️⚽️
Students looking at data on instrument monitors and USA soccer on a bigger screen.
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Joe Allen @cu-in-the-field.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
Dark plagioclase megacrysts in anorthosite at Cascade Mountain, Adirondacks. The flies were tiny but felt that big.
View of high peaks in distance from bare rock summit tin foreground Dark rectangular plagioclse crystal the length of sunglasses in light gray rock
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Joe Allen @cu-in-the-field.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
Whoa - a marker celebrating 1819-1850 NY geologists placed in 1935 by the DAR. Thacher St Park on the Helderberg escarpment, NY. ⚒️
Marker listing 16 early NY geologists including Lyell, Silliman, Agassiz
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Joe Allen @cu-in-the-field.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
#undergraduateresearch
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Elizabeth V @geolizzy.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
The USGS has released a report on lithium for the northern Appalachians. You can find the press release here: www.usgs.gov/news/nationa...
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Lithium in Eastern States Could Replace Imports for a Century or More
RESTON, Va. — The Appalachian region of the eastern United States contains an estimated 2.3 million metric tons of undiscovered, economically recoverable lithium, enough to replace 328 years of U.S. i...
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Joe Allen @cu-in-the-field.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
Some scenes from our geoscience and physics student presentations at #NCUR26 last week. Somehow I had never been to one of these. Recommended.
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Joe Allen @cu-in-the-field.bsky.social · 19/01/2026
My annual listen on this day. "New Morning for the World" May need 2x this year. www.youtube.com/watch?v=R26x...
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Joseph Schwantner: New Morning for the World, featuring Anita Hill (Boston Conservatory Orchestra)
YouTube video by Berklee College of Music
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Tyler Grambling @crustalrheology.bsky.social · 02/01/2026
Just in the nick of time for 2025/kicking the new year off in style! I had the joy of working with Jeremy to effectively fully re-tool his MS thesis on the geochronology of the Slide Lake Shear Zone near Leadville, CO, and managed to drag a Colorado College Geology 1/5
Screenshot of a journal article titled “Shear zone reactivation during multiple phases of Proterozoic orogeny: Evidence from in-situ monazite dating of the Slide Lake shear zone, Colorado” by Leierzapf et al. in the Journal of the Geological Society of London.
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Joe Allen @cu-in-the-field.bsky.social · 05/08/2025
Sublime weather for an outdoor poster session! Enjoying the #NNCI REU Convocation at UC San Diego for undergrads finishing their summer research. 🧪
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Joe Allen @cu-in-the-field.bsky.social · 20/07/2025
Wet moose disguised as an outcrop.
Moose in a pond
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Daniel Swain @weatherwest.bsky.social · 16/07/2025
The discourse surrounding precipitation changes in a warming climate (both public discussion and even scientific one at times) is complicated by widespread conflation of changes in averages vs extremes (and also actual vs *potential* evaporation/evaporative demand). [Thread]
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Joe Allen @cu-in-the-field.bsky.social · 10/07/2025
Some #Colorado wildflowers, Mosquito Range.
Red Paintbrush and purple columbine Purple columbines at timberline.
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Joe Allen @cu-in-the-field.bsky.social · 28/05/2025
Scenes fromTEM lab work at Virginia Tech #NanoEarth with a #ConcordU undergrad student last week. 🧪
Student pouring liquid nitrogen into TEM dewar Diffraction pattern showing crystal lattice in a nanoscale mineralTEM sample after Ga ion milling.
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Dr. Judith Hubbard @judithgeology.bsky.social · 28/05/2025
⚒️ 🧪 Two weeks ago, a video appeared showing slip in the Myanmar earthquake - the first time this has ever been recorded on video. What can we learn from it? We deep-dive the science. earthquakeinsights.substack.com/p/remarkable...
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Remarkable video captures fault slip in the Myanmar earthquake
We deep dive the possibilities presented by a witnessed rupture
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Dr. Wendy Bohon @drwendyrocks.bsky.social · 09/05/2025
Fanquakes at the Metallica concert at Va Tech last night! 🤘 🎸 www.si.com/fannation/co...
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Metallica causes seismograph spike at Virginia Tech football stadium concert
Seismographs are usually used to measure when pieces of the earth slam into each other, but they’re pretty good at measuring whenever Metallica is on the stage.
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Joe Allen @cu-in-the-field.bsky.social · 26/04/2025
Well so much for that outcrop. Get thee gone geologists. ⚒️
Outcrop covered by stone
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Joe Allen @cu-in-the-field.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
Some microprobe time for mineralogy class. First use of newly upgraded Concord U probe with all digital SEM controls.
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Science Magazine @science.org · 18/04/2025
NSF has spent decades—and billions of dollars—trying to attract more women and members of underrepresented groups into STEM. Not anymore. scim.ag/3RUtgZg
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NSF starts to kill grants that violate Trump’s war on diversity efforts
Attracting women and minorities into science and studying misinformation are no longer priorities, agency says
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Eric Kelderman @erickelderman.bsky.social · 06/04/2025
Nearly 3,800 attendees, including many from colleges in NC and FL, which will be moving from the Southern Association to comply with state laws
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Joe Allen @cu-in-the-field.bsky.social · 06/04/2025
Chicago today. #HandsOff
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Joe Allen @cu-in-the-field.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
🧩
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Joe Allen @cu-in-the-field.bsky.social · 08/03/2025
LOL overheard mineralogy students today: amphiboles suck.
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Joe Allen @cu-in-the-field.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
Tenure-track position in Geospatial Science / Phys #Geography / Surficial Geosystems at Concord Univ. Environmental Geosciences program! Seeking interdisciplinary environmental #geoscientist. ⚒️ #GISchat #geosky #aag jobs.concord.edu/postings/3243
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Assistant Professor of Physical Geography (Tenure Track)
The Department of Physical and Environmental Sciences at Concord University invites applications for a tenure-track Assistant Professor position in Physical Geography and Geospatial Sciences. We seek ...
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Dr. Alice-Agnes Gabriel @inseismoland.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
What does an earthquake look like beneath your feet? This visualization shows seismic waves in action. We’re studying how such visuals improve public communication after major earthquakes. We'd love your input! Please take our short survey & share: ww3.unipark.de/uc/SIOseismi...
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Joe Allen @cu-in-the-field.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
Looks like all staff at NSF HEGS Human Environment and Geographic Sciences were terminated. www.aag.org/wp-content/u...
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Alexandra Witze @alexwitze.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
“No one has ever seen a [presidential] transition in which one of the most valuable parts of our government enterprise is being taken apart," says Harold Varmus, former NIH director. Our latest, from the @nature.com reporters covering Trump 2.0: www.nature.com/articles/d41... 🧪
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Trump’s siege of science: how the first 30 days unfolded and what’s next
The breakneck pace and devastating impact of the administration’s policy changes has shocked researchers.
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Joe Allen @cu-in-the-field.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
Ironically, this old kids homework emerged at the top of the scrap paper stack today.
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Joe Allen @cu-in-the-field.bsky.social · 17/02/2025
Lots of bad news out there, but we have open positions in #chemistry (TT analytical/inorganic, open rank) jobs.concord.edu/postings/3235, #geosciences (postdoc tephra data mgmt) jobs.concord.edu/postings/3211, and #computerscience (TT cybersec/data analytics/etc) jobs.concord.edu/postings/3229 🧪⚒️
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Chemjobber @chemjobber.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
The 2025 Chemistry Faculty Jobs List has 481 tenure-track positions and 81 teaching positions: bit.ly/facultychemj... #facultychemjobs #chemjobs #chemsky 🧪⚗️ Faculty, if you know of tenure-track positions that I should be listing, or see an error, please e-mail me at chemjobber@gmail.com
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The 2025 Chemistry Faculty Jobs List
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Joe Allen @cu-in-the-field.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
The first sentence used to extend beyond the word STEM to say: "The U.S. National Science Foundation is committed to expanding the opportunities in STEM to people of all racial, ethnic, geographic and socioeconomic backgrounds, sexual orientations, gender identities and to persons with disabilities"
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Joe Allen @cu-in-the-field.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
Wondering what P-2025 holds in store for climate and the environment? Here's a concise and disturbing summary. www.law.berkeley.edu/wp-content/u...
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Laura Helmuth @laurahelmuth.bsky.social · 20/12/2024
More twists in black plastic utensils story: The study overstated the potential exposure to flame retardants by an order of magnitude because of a math error, and now the whole journal has been de-listed from a science index for not meeting "quality criteria." arstechnica.com/health/2024/...
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Journal that published faulty black plastic study removed from science index
Chemosphere cut from Web of Science, which calculates impact factors.
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Joe Allen @cu-in-the-field.bsky.social · 11/07/2024
Evening view. #Sisimiut .
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Joe Allen @cu-in-the-field.bsky.social · 11/07/2024
Dog town. Sisimiut Greenland.
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Joe Allen @cu-in-the-field.bsky.social · 01/07/2024
Hyperspectral imaging and other field work at the edge of the 🇬🇱ice sheet today with Arctic REU ⚒️🧪
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Joe Allen @cu-in-the-field.bsky.social · 29/06/2024
Time to make the most of a 2 day weather delay…. Stuffed Musk ox for scale.
Pile of duffel bags.
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Joe Allen @cu-in-the-field.bsky.social · 28/06/2024
Arctic REU faculty recon trip to the GL ice sheet to plan student projects.
Faculty pontificating on margin of Greenland ice sheetIce ridgeMeandering stream on ice.
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Joe Allen @cu-in-the-field.bsky.social · 27/06/2024
Arctic REU on the way to our field sites for 2024. Mud, lakes, ice, rocks on the agenda. 🪨⚒️🇬🇱🧪
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Joe Allen @cu-in-the-field.bsky.social · 26/06/2024
Arctic REU underway with 8 students with a campus intro in WV and some swimming under our local waterfall.
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Joe Allen @cu-in-the-field.bsky.social · 25/05/2024
Perfect view.
Tree at sunset
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William Colgan @glacierbytes.bsky.social · 18/04/2024
🚨 It's not everyday that Greenland's subglacial geology is updated. Check out this very fat brick in the road towards resolving Greenland's under-ice geology! 👇 news: eng.geus.dk/about/news/n... article: doi.org/10.1029/2023... data: doi.org/10.22008/FK2... led by @joemacgregor.bsky.social
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Joe Allen @cu-in-the-field.bsky.social · 05/04/2024
Here's the NJ earthquake I believe on our Raspberry Shake in southern WV.
Raspberry shake seismogram at Concord U.
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Joe Allen @cu-in-the-field.bsky.social · 29/03/2024
Class GPR session. The rubberized running track on left side of Radargram set up a long reverberation - maybe contact between new rubber surface and old tarmac? Ringing on right is metal support structure below artificial turf I believe.
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Polar Geospatial Center @polargeospatial.bsky.social · 19/12/2023
Summer 2024 Arctic REU Greenland applications are now open thru 2/12. Student projects include Ice-margin glaciology, sediment lake coring, climate change, geomicrobiology, structural geology, etc. Majors in geoscience and related fields graduating after Dec '24. Visit www.arcticreu.earth
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Joe Allen @cu-in-the-field.bsky.social · 18/12/2023
US undergrad geology students: Summer 2024 Arctic REU Greenland applications open through 2/12/2024. Projects: Ice-margin glaciology, lake coring, climate change, geomicrobiology of glacial lakes, structural geology, Precambrian bedrock mapping. #NSFfunded #undergradresearch arcticreu.earth 🧪⚒️🌍
Photo of Greenland scenery with www.arcticreu.earth web address and NSF logo.
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Graham Andrews @geologygraham.bsky.social · 15/11/2023
Do you teach geological and geo-engineering concepts like stratigraphy, structural geology, stereonets, dip & strike? If so, check-out the new 'Visible Geology App' from Seequent, that I am fortunate enough to help develop: lnkd.in/gYgn5qt8 for 1st access. #geology
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Joe Allen @cu-in-the-field.bsky.social · 19/11/2023
Back from a great #GSW2023 conference. Lots of new friends and colleagues. Finally caught up on sleep...
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