Julia @juliamorphology.bsky.social · 28/05/2026Theres something especially sinister in watching the programs that allowed me to be where I’m at today (2nd year GRFP app and NSF Postdoc) disappear. It’s almost like they don’t want more of us in these roles. hm. 2124
Julia @juliamorphology.bsky.social · 22/05/2026You know it’s a good day when you pull this big boy out 150
Julia @juliamorphology.bsky.social · 12/01/2026in case anyone wanted an update, the streak of someone thinking I am a student when I am not at #AGU25 is still alive! This time they thought I was a specific colleagues student. This colleague teaches in Texas and has several Latina students with black hair 😂🤷♀️ 010
Julia @juliamorphology.bsky.social · 15/12/2025Please join us on Thursday and Friday for our session at #AGU25 EP42: Morphodynamic Processes in Human-Impacted Fluviolacustrine Environments! See you there! Organized by Jiyong Lee, Hongbo Ma, Stephen Darby, Leo Guerrero, Claudia Vega, Kory Konsoer, Julian Leyland and myself. 030
Reposted by JuliaGeorge H. Allen @geoallen.bsky.social · 05/12/2025New paper is featured on the cover of GSA Today 🥳 We show that the #SWOT satellites's radar observations are a valuable new source of data for studying river processes/ fluvial geomorphology. Led by Molly Stroud @mollystroud.bsky.social @vt-science.bsky.social Paper: doi.org/10.1130/GSAT... 1156
Julia @juliamorphology.bsky.social · 10/12/2025woohoo! I am honored and grateful to receive the 2025 IGER award from IAGD. Thank you to @accessiblegeo.bsky.social for this recognition! Thank you to my letter writers and champions for your support and nomination! This is my first award as a professor!! 1130
Julia @juliamorphology.bsky.social · 05/11/2025lol its my fault but looks like there's a glitch on AGU website that makes it impossible to renew membership... so that's fun. just brings you back to the become a member page. I need to renew, then register for AGU 🤦♀️ 000
Reposted by JuliaJason “Obstacle to Progress” Williams @jasonwilliamsny.bsky.social · 25/09/2025Please share with anyone who cares about NSF support for graduate students and take 30 seconds to sign and leave a comment. The deadline for the 2025 Graduate Research Fellowship Program is about one month away and literally no one can apply. #NSFGRFP jasonjwilliamsny.github.io/grfp2025/jasonjwilliamsny.github.ioAn Open Letter to U.S. STEM Leadership on the NSF Graduate Research Fellowship ProgramAn Open Letter to U.S. STEM Leadership on the NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program 12225273
Julia @juliamorphology.bsky.social · 26/09/2025I’m devastated for my student and others like them who have been put in this horrible position. To be thrown away by the NSF with no warning is so harmful. We are actively watching the creation of exclusive practices to the most vulnerable. We have to protect our students. 062
Julia @juliamorphology.bsky.social · 26/09/2025I applied the 1st year the apply once rule was implemented. I chose to wait to ensure my one chance was my best. Not providing or communicating that choice is an abhorrent restriction of access. I am here because of that award and I am so disappointed that others like me won’t get that opportunity. 000
Julia @juliamorphology.bsky.social · 26/09/2025Waiting a year is an intentional and strategic choice. This offers more time to prepare and develop the best proposal possible. Taking this opportunity away in the final hour is a gut punch. They worked so hard and don’t even get to throw their hat in the ring. This is harm and generational impact. 060
Reposted by Juliaitati santamaria de Collins @itativcs.latinsky.app · 26/09/2025🧪The NSF has made changes to the GRFP solicitation and eligibility TODAY that may change your eligibility! PLEASE read through the solicitation if you were planning to apply and speak to your mentors about the merits of applying: www.nsf.gov/funding/oppo...nsf.govNSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program (GRFP) 01819
Reposted by JuliaTerry McGlynn @hormiga.bsky.social · 26/09/2025I can understand why NSF is limiting GRFP apps to undergrads and 1st year grad students . What I can't why they didn't wait one cycle to implement after making the announcement. But I do trust that the program officers are doing their best to keep science afloat under extraordinary conditions. 45112
Reposted by JuliaErica D. Pratt @pratted.bsky.social · 26/09/2025Announcing such a major change to NSF GRFP this late in the cycle is incredibly cruel. 2nd yr students (mine included) have been working so hard on their proposals despite ongoing uncertainty. They are driven and passionate about being outstanding scientists and helping those coming up behind them. 716377
Julia @juliamorphology.bsky.social · 23/09/2025Life has been really busy and fun recently! Primarily due to this little guy joining our family! A GSP puppy and older brother who now acts like a puppy again is so fun but also 🫠. On the positive side, I’ve been getting a lot of writing done during wfh and between potty training 😂 040
Julia @juliamorphology.bsky.social · 15/09/2025today was a lot of student centered work. it was necessary and yet super draining. Its hard to do this knowing: 1. a lot of this work is invisible 2. my time should be going to writing 3. these efforts are difficult to quantify as metrics yet they impact my evaluations but this is my reality. 140
Julia @juliamorphology.bsky.social · 09/09/2025came back from a conference two days ago just to write and submit another abstract for a conference today 😂 some years theres just too many opportunities and too much I have to say! ⚒️🧪 don't forget to submit to Marine and River Dune Dynamics VIII! see you there! www.utwente.nl/en/et/marid26/utwente.nlMARID 2026 020
Julia @juliamorphology.bsky.social · 08/09/2025Great time for the Bedform Dynamics Research Group at RCEM in Barcelona last week. Students presented (posters) and received great feedback and our UG Cora Jones won 3rd in best poster! Overall a great moment and confidence builder for everyone. 🧪⚒️ 040
Julia @juliamorphology.bsky.social · 28/08/2025I’ve spent the past ~3 days diving really deep into a topic that I’ve been engaging with for a while on a surface level. I forget how uncomfortable and yet empowering it is to engulf yourself in new-to-you literature and theory. To jump in knowing very little and come up from air knowing more. 🥰⚒️🧪 1131
Julia @juliamorphology.bsky.social · 06/08/2025very happy to share this video highlighting the Geosciences Camp @ VT and one of our awesome activities. Grateful to my team of graduate students, UG and grad volunteers, department and the College of Science for supporting this vision and seeing it come to life. ⚒️🧪 news.vt.edu/content/news...news.vt.eduGeoscience campers roleplay a volcano disaster responsePh.D. student Elizabeth Curtiss led a tabletop role-playing game where campers stepped into geoscience roles to work together on a simulated volcanic disaster. The activity gave students a hands-on lo... 0113
Julia @juliamorphology.bsky.social · 24/07/2025I promised you! Here’s a few from day 1 during our hurricane hazard mapping activity on the Drill Field at VT. Elpidio (pictured last) made this activity. Campers mapped clues placed around the field representing different levels of destruction to unravel the hazard path. Mapping skills ✅ 131
Julia @juliamorphology.bsky.social · 23/07/2025Day 2 done! First Geosciences Camp at Virginia Tech is in the books. We learned a lot and already have ideas to make it better! (Professional pics coming soon!) 1172
Julia @juliamorphology.bsky.social · 19/07/2025The biggest difference for this camp is that I hired 4 graduate students to develop it alongside me. There are pros and cons to my new role as admin/mentor/supervisor for the camp, but watching these students learn and gain confidence as they have navigated this experience has been so fulfilling(1/) 381
Reposted by JuliaTerry McGlynn @hormiga.bsky.social · 17/07/2025While everything in science is up in the air, we can (re)build a better community by changing tenure criteria. scienceforeveryone.science/p/tenure-cri... 🧪scienceforeveryone.scienceTenure criteria are the levers to change cultureYou want people to behave differently? Let's change the rewards and the costs. 97028
Julia @juliamorphology.bsky.social · 15/07/2025Submitted a big grant in Monday and today I’m finally gonna stop and celebrate it. I can’t believe I did it. 🤯🥰 0130
Julia @juliamorphology.bsky.social · 15/07/2025We are one week out from the Geosciences Camp at VT and it’s gonna be awesome. But whew doing this plus all the other TT things 🫠😳. Pro tip: don’t be a program administrator while in your TT. 1131
Julia @juliamorphology.bsky.social · 12/07/2025Submit your abstract to EP026 - Morphodynamic processes in human-impacted fluvio-lacustrine environments! #AGU2025 🧪⚒️ 055
Julia @juliamorphology.bsky.social · 30/06/2025The only thing stopping me from going back to a 2000s era flip phone 000
Reposted by JuliaNate Foster @natefoster.bsky.social · 05/06/2025Writing my CAREER proposal in the 2010s (after several years of anemic hiring and with an NSF pumped full of Obama stimulus funds) vs. junior faculty writing CAREER proposals today 2151
Reposted by JuliaGeorge H. Allen @geoallen.bsky.social · 19/06/2025🚨New paper🚨 shows a remarkably clean relationship between river width and stream order across the US 𝑇ℎ𝑒 𝑊𝑖𝑑𝑡ℎ𝑠 𝑜𝑓 𝑅𝑖𝑣𝑒𝑟𝑠 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑆𝑡𝑟𝑒𝑎𝑚𝑠 𝐴𝑐𝑟𝑜𝑠𝑠 𝑆𝑝𝑎𝑡𝑖𝑎𝑙 𝑆𝑐𝑎𝑙𝑒𝑠... 🔗 doi.org/10.1029/2025... #hydrology #geomorphology #rivers #RemoteSensing 1216
Reposted by JuliaChris Hackney @drchrishackney.bsky.social · 03/06/2025🚨New paper alert 🚨 Ever wondered how sand extraction may be altering the bed of sandy rivers? How these changes influence flow and sediment transport? Well wonder no more! agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/... 34519
Reposted by JuliaProf Dan Parsons @bedforms.bsky.social · 04/06/2025New paper out! Sand mining isn’t just removing riverbed material, it’s engineering entirely new bed morphologies. agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/... 🎯 Led by @drchrishackney.bsky.social Findings - mining: ➡️ Steeper, taller dunes ➡️ More flow resistance ➡️ Implications for flood riskagupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.comIncreased Hydraulic Roughness in Alluvial Rivers Created by Sand‐Mining Sculpted Bed FeaturesForm roughness of sand mining sculpted bed features is greater than natural dunes Strong recirculating flow is observed in the leeside of sand mining sculpted bed features Suspended sediment tra... 0161
Julia @juliamorphology.bsky.social · 04/06/2025 cores and grab samples! ⚒️🧪 the Bedform Dynamics Research Group is hard at work! 091
Julia @juliamorphology.bsky.social · 28/05/2025Packing for the field and I am reminded again that I will never escape the sand. The sand dunes will never allow me to let go and I am kinda okay with that. ⚒️🧪 0110
Julia @juliamorphology.bsky.social · 23/05/2025Hi! Look at some of my newer creations! A matching cup and bowl with some fun underglaze flowers/sgraffito and three “matching” incense burners for citronella cones in the summer! Some brightness from me to you 🥰 090
Reposted by Juliaemsaurios @emsaurios.bsky.social · 21/05/2025TRIO Alumni Protect TRIO Sign-On Letter fs3.formsite.com/coecoecoecoe...fs3.formsite.comTRIO Alumni Protect TRIO Sign-On LetterPresident Trump’s FY2026 budget proposes eliminating the Federal TRIO Programs, wrongly claiming they’re no longer necessary. TRIO alumni are urgently needed to help #ProtectTRIO by signing a letter t... 002
Julia @juliamorphology.bsky.social · 20/05/2025My fav student review this semester: “She's extremely knowledgeable about the subjects she taught. She would always make lectures very memorable with the way she taught, and, for lack of a better word, was just extremely chill and a cool person.” I’m cool?!!!!! 🧪⚒️media.tenor.coma man wearing a music band shirt is holding a skateboard over his shoulderAlt: Steve Buscemi dressed up as skater kid, saying "How do you do, fellow kids?" meme 1371
Julia @juliamorphology.bsky.social · 10/04/2025Thanks so much for having me @landscapeslive.bsky.social !! 020
Reposted by JuliaLandscapes Live Seminar series @landscapeslive.bsky.social · 10/04/2025The LL talk by @juliamorphology.bsky.social is now on Youtube! Catch up with all things bedforms, and why they're not as steep and straight as you'd think. 🌊🌊⛴️🌊 🛏️🛌🛏️🛌 youtu.be/6uOiu98vCjMyoutu.beJulia Cisneros: LL 10.04.25YouTube video by Landscapes Live 011
Reposted by JuliaLandscapes Live Seminar series @landscapeslive.bsky.social · 09/04/2025Tomorrow Thu. April 10 at 16:00 CEST, 10:00 EST, 07:00 PST, we host @juliamorphology.bsky.social for her seminar "Shaped by Nature: Bedforms as Windows into Environmental Systems" 🌊🌊🌊 🛏🛏🛏 More details on www.landscapeslive.orglandscapeslive.orgLandscapes LiveLandscapes Live is a weekly online seminar series freely accessible to the international scientific community interested in various aspects of geomorphology. Our talks take place on Zoom every Thursda... 132
Julia @juliamorphology.bsky.social · 05/04/2025The Bedform Dynamics Research Group had a great two days presenting our work at the GSRS @ VT! Three oral presentations and one poster with topics ranging from aeolian, coastal and fluvial dunes and impacts of river urbanization. Woohoo team! 🧪⚒️ 091
Julia @juliamorphology.bsky.social · 30/03/2025I had a great time at GMU COS AOES this week. Thanks to Dr. Hupp for inviting me! Loved talking to so many Sed people and connecting with other VA faculty. Also always great to see @caballerogill.bsky.social 🥰🥰 thanks for the mugs!! 050
Reposted by JuliaDr. Rocío Paola Caballero-Gill (she/her/ella) @caballerogill.bsky.social · 27/03/2025Thrilled to hear from Dr. Cisneros @juliamorphology.bsky.social about bedforms and all things sand at GMU COS @georgemasonu.bsky.social Yes, GeoLatinas, presente! 💪🏽💜 @geolatinas.bsky.social 🤗 0193
Julia @juliamorphology.bsky.social · 23/03/2025I’m on 9 grad student committees (3 as advisor) and I am the only woman on each committee. 🧪⚒️ I’m also the least senior. 5/9 are for woman students. 4/5 of those woman are woc. This is the leaky pipeline at play yall. (1/) 5402
