Reposted by Joe MasonAdam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 16h“Between the Christianity of this land and the Christianity of Christ, I recognize the widest possible difference.” — Frederick Douglass bsky.app/profile/atru... 362151464
Joe Mason @moreorloess.bsky.social · 11hThe billionaires may be funding the campaign, but he has a lot of very enthusiastic supporters with giant Tiffany signs in every rural area I've been to lately. Did see some places where the giant Tiffany sign has a Crowley sign staring at it from an annoyed neighbor's property. 270
Joe Mason @moreorloess.bsky.social · 11hThis policy, cuts in NIH and NSF spending, restrictions on international student visas, etc., all have the effect of making universities into desperately underfunded, subservient institutions. I increasingly wonder if that isn't the most important goal. 2101
Joe Mason @moreorloess.bsky.social · 12hBackground: Cumulative rainfall in the upper Pecatonica River basin through mid to late September: 0103
Joe Mason @moreorloess.bsky.social · 13hThinking about stages of my education and career(s) as a series of Kwik Trips on the highway of life. 130
Reposted by Joe MasonJoe Mason @moreorloess.bsky.social · 01/08/2025A memory: Riding in a taxi at night across the city of Yaounde, Cameroon, with the windows wide open. And loud and clear from somewhere off in the darkness comes the music of...the Doobie Brothers. 4241
Joe Mason @moreorloess.bsky.social · 14hI think this is okay as long as Earth doesn't get carried away with it. 080
Joe Mason @moreorloess.bsky.social · 14hUpdate through yesterday. Could be a textbook example. Today, rising again at all three sites. See basin map, etc. in the quoted thread. 130
Reposted by Joe MasonJ. Raasch @jraasch.bsky.social · 15hProbably not as exciting as a large crystal clear #quartz crystal. But here’s a photo of sand eroded from the Eau Claire formation behind the Culver’s restaurant in Reedsburg, Wisconsin. Vote #Quartz! And now I want fried cheese curds! #MinCup26 2269
Reposted by Joe MasonEileen Clancy 🧿 @clancyny.bsky.social · 15hFatou Traore, a legal resident in the U.S. for 20 years, was grabbed by ICE on her way to work at the University of Iowa on Sept. 24. Traore was told she'll be sent to Sierra Leone, which she’s never even visited, leaving her husband & sons: Yousouf, 3; Boubacar, 8; Mamadou, 14; and Esoumaila, 19. 311453
Reposted by Joe MasonJohn Van Hoesen, Ph.D. @jvh-vt.bsky.social · 17hFantastic detail in this 1920 OS map: inclines, railways & mill buildings surrounding Blaenau #Ffestiniog, #Wales. #geology #thestoryofslate 082
Reposted by Joe MasonDavid @archaeomather.bsky.social · 18hI wrote about rats for @racketmn.com!racketmn.comHow I Accidentally Pinpointed the Arrival of Rats in MN Through Environmental Archaeology - RacketTurns out ‘Steamboat Willie’ was actually a documentary. 422055
Reposted by Joe MasonDr. Sam Anderson @sam-science.bsky.social · 21hHappy new water-year! Welcome to hydrological 2027! 04817
Joe Mason @moreorloess.bsky.social · 23hHappened to think about the La Porte rainfall anomaly this morning and started looking up publications on it while riding the bus. Had not seen or had forgotten this letter: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...science.orgLa Porte Precipitation Fallacy 150
Reposted by Joe MasonBethan Davies @iceybethan.bsky.social · 01/10/2026🚨New article🚨 on AntarcticGlaciers: the last British-Irish Ice Sheet in Northeast Ireland. By Alex Clark. www.antarcticglaciers.org/glacial-geol...antarcticglaciers.orgThe Last British-Irish Ice Sheet in Northeast Ireland - AntarcticGlaciers.orgBy Dr Alex Clark Why Ireland? Ice sheets provide valuable clues on how they behaved thousands of years in the past through the dramatic landscapes they create. And you may struggle to find a more elab... 195
Reposted by Joe MasonPlattenbau Berlin @plattenbauberlin.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Harmonised with the sky. 09912
Reposted by Joe MasonPlattenbau Berlin @plattenbauberlin.bsky.social · 27/09/2026Sunflower point block. 1586
Joe Mason @moreorloess.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Rain and red oak acorns are both pounding on our roof. 030
Reposted by Joe MasonGustav Klimt @klimtgustav.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Houses at Unterach on the Attersee botfrens.com/collections/109/conten… 03310
Reposted by Joe MasonChris Dunker @chrisdunker.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Crazy scenes in central #LNK tonight 2211
Joe Mason @moreorloess.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Burned and unburned areas in a small part of the area affected by the Morrill Fire this spring, in April soon after the fire (left) and on September 4. Some recovery of the grass cover but maybe less in the first year than I've seen for earlier fires. Sentinel 2 images. 160
Joe Mason @moreorloess.bsky.social · 01/10/2026I was trying to imagine what my uncle would think of Hegseth. My uncle who hated war, enlisted right out of high school, and was severely injured in the Huertgen Forest in the last winter of WWII. But he'd probably say don't bother with that kid from Forest Lake who went terribly wrong somehow. 290
Joe Mason @moreorloess.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Always worth listening to Ellen Wohl, especially about rivers. blog.oup.com/2018/10/50th...blog.oup.comOf gutters and ecosystems: the 50th anniversary of the Wild and Scenic Rivers Act“Rivers are the gutters down which flow the ruins of continents.” – Luna B. Leopold Luna Leopold understood that rivers are far more than gutters. In a 4236
Reposted by Joe MasonPilgrim @mountains-rivers.bsky.social · 01/10/2026blog.oup.com/2018/10/50th... This engineering provides an illusion of control.blog.oup.comOf gutters and ecosystems: the 50th anniversary of the Wild and Scenic Rivers Act“Rivers are the gutters down which flow the ruins of continents.” – Luna B. Leopold Luna Leopold understood that rivers are far more than gutters. In a 152
Reposted by Joe MasonDylan Schwilk @schwilk.org · 30/09/2026My car went rogue when i forgot to set the parking brake, left in drive, and exited it. 37412
Joe Mason @moreorloess.bsky.social · 30/09/2026While I may have made other mistakes in my career, at least I did not become an academic Stakhanovist. 130
Reposted by Joe Masonauthodizer @doktrock.bsky.social · 30/09/2026#Quartz var. Flint - school children promoted the idea Knife River Flint should be the state rock of North Dakota. It was approved! Historically widely used and traded by indigenous peoples. 1101
Joe Mason @moreorloess.bsky.social · 30/09/2026The Great Unconformity was a few meters below our basement floor in Stevens Point, Wisconsin, based on excavations there and down the street. 1143
Reposted by Joe MasonAndy Snyder @wxandbiscuits.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Amarillo as recently as last week (prior to all the rain the last 7 days) was still in the worst possible drought category. 041
Joe Mason @moreorloess.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Look at the gradient of seven day rainfall going east from Amarillo 020
Joe Mason @moreorloess.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Very obscure topic no one is interested in: Townships in the public land survey system are mostly square, 6 by 6 miles. Civil townships, units of local government, correspond to the PLSS townships in more populated agricultural areas (SW part of this map of NW Wisconsin) but pull together multiple 230
Joe Mason @moreorloess.bsky.social · 30/09/2026No, I guess I won't try to get a copy of the New Yorker article that seems to be about property, the Public Land Survey grid, and land distribution here in the US of A. Might be good! Might irritate me somehow. By the way I'm walking students through interpreting land survey notes today. 020
Joe Mason @moreorloess.bsky.social · 30/09/20261937 air photo showing mining waste deposited in a fan along Ellis Branch, Galena River, with a DEM close-up of the fan remnants today. Note the corn in shocks in a field just south of the fan in the air photo. 3112
Joe Mason @moreorloess.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Bordner Survey map of late 1930s to early 1940s land use near New Diggings, Wisconsin, showing old lead mines mixed with cropland (C) and permanent (PP), though many areas of mined land are apparently not marked. Close-up of one of the mined areas that are marked, as seen with 1-m lidar DEM. 2112
Joe Mason @moreorloess.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Something I wonder about: How many Americans don't personally know *anyone* affected by the new rules forcing millions of people off Medicaid? I am a well-paid professor in a relatively wealthy community, and I know people who are affected (and I'm worried about them). 170
Joe Mason @moreorloess.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Stream discharge, baseflow, overbank flow, using a drainage ditch in DeKalb County, Illinois. 170
Reposted by Joe MasonPaul Bachmann @bachmann-farm.bsky.social · 30/09/2026How would someone from Missouri know about the Hawkeyes? 051
Reposted by Joe MasonCheryl Lynn Eaton @cheryllynneaton.bsky.social · 29/09/2026GoFundMe was a lot more effective when it was called taxes. 025677
Joe Mason @moreorloess.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Adjusting for inflation, I think that's almost exactly what I was paid as a janitor for the state of Wisconsin in 1989. On the other hand, we had excellent health care with few if any out of pocket costs and lived in a house we bought for $29,000 in 1985. 1121
Reposted by Joe MasonLorena Fernández Álvarez @loretahur.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Estudio publicado en Nature analizó 1,4 millones de imágenes y vídeos (de Google, Wikipedia, IMDb, Flickr y YouTube) + 9 LLM y encontró que las mujeres se presentan sistemáticamente más jóvenes que los hombres en 3.495 categorías ocupacionales y sociales. Chorprecha 🤬 www.nature.com/articles/s41...nature.comAge and gender distortion in online media and large language models - NatureStereotypes of age-related gender bias are socially distorted, as evidenced by the age gap in the representations of women and men across various media and algorithms, despite no systematic age differ... 02519
Reposted by Joe MasonRural Indexing Project @ruralindexing.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Herky the Hawk Red Oak, IA 844169