Joe Mason @moreorloess.bsky.social · 4hI think more people will vote absentee-in person when that starts or on election day this year. 000
Joe Mason @moreorloess.bsky.social · 4hI've been the only one regularly running field trips in my department for some time, I think. 010
Joe Mason @moreorloess.bsky.social · 7hBitter because they went to "the University of Nebraska instead of Harvard" 041
Joe Mason @moreorloess.bsky.social · 7hStill intrigued by this possibility. As I imagine the people that advertise in LRB do, I would find ways to fit in some of my own biases and maybe stretch the truth here and there. Toward a good end, of course. 040
Joe Mason @moreorloess.bsky.social · 8hI personally think of Narnia every time I drive by Beaver Dam on US 151. 010
Joe Mason @moreorloess.bsky.social · 17hThere is (or was) a Wolf River Realty that handled rural land sales over a large area of northeastern Wisconsin. My father in law called it Wolf River Reality, maybe a sly joke on his part—it was always hard to tell with him—but regardless, I like the concept. 120
Reposted by Joe MasonEd Hawkins @edhawkins.org · 12/10/2026From paper to proof: revealing Congo Basin warming through rescued climate archives 1 million rescued weather observations from original paper sheets allow @derrickmuheki.bsky.social et al to clearly show warming in a region of very sparse historical observations esd.copernicus.org/articles/17/...esd.copernicus.orgFrom paper to proof: revealing Congo Basin warming through rescued climate archivesAbstract. The Congo Basin in Central Africa remains one of the few regions globally where the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change has neither assessed changes in hot extremes and extreme precipi... 27828
Joe Mason @moreorloess.bsky.social · 13/10/2026It was common to blow up big erratics in the US, probably Canada too. Probably took more skill in placing the charges and estimating how much to use than for a stump. 030
Joe Mason @moreorloess.bsky.social · 13/10/2026Yeah, and the dean (Russell) had invested in a company selling Cutover land, which eventually became known. 100
Joe Mason @moreorloess.bsky.social · 13/10/2026Photo ID W0136TA, Wisconsin Historical Society digital collections. Looking over a case study of the Cutover and 20th century land use and vegetation change in northern Wisconsin. 130
Joe Mason @moreorloess.bsky.social · 13/10/2026Settlers in the Cutover in northern Wisconsin blowing up a stump. Photo by Melvin E. Diemer, 1921. Surplus explosives from WWI, widely distributed to farmers, were used to blow up stumps and boulders. The stumps were from logging white pine and other trees in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. 5334
Joe Mason @moreorloess.bsky.social · 13/10/2026Wetting front from rain the day before in a weakly developed soil formed in loess deposited in the last few hundred years. Southwestern Nebraska, 2019. Part of a large diameter core; the black bars on either side are 10 cm long. 150
Joe Mason @moreorloess.bsky.social · 13/10/2026The Nebraska Sandhills is a little different because the sandy soils don't retain as much carbon but there are lots of other good reasons not to let trees take over that landscape. 010
Joe Mason @moreorloess.bsky.social · 13/10/2026The main point about more secure carbon storage is right, I think, but I wish these people would talk about soils and carbon storage in old growth grasslands. That's where most of the total ecosystem carbon is stored and soil carbon is lost with tree encroachment in at least some cases. 110
Reposted by Joe MasonDuane Froese @tephrafan.bsky.social · 12/10/2026Some coverage of Joe Young’s recent paper in GRL on Permafrost Detachment Slides in the Mackenzie Mountajns, NWT. #PACSLab #Sahtú #DehCho #permafrost #nwt #UAlberta www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...cbc.caStudy says 'bottom-up' permafrost thaw led to two major N.W.T. landslides | CBC NewsNew research investigates two massive landslides in the Sahtu and Dehcho regions of the N.W.T. that happened nearly a decade ago. Researchers found the landslides were caused by permafrost thaw deep i... 0205
Joe Mason @moreorloess.bsky.social · 12/10/2026I'm going to start calling the Nebraska Sandhills and the Flint Hills the charismatic megagrasslands of the Great Plains. (there is a serious point to this; I'll get to that later) 1213
Reposted by Joe MasonAdam Sawyer @adamjst.bsky.social · 12/10/2026Yeah, people invoke The Hague a lot, but referring members of the present admin to the ICC should be on the table in a very real way. 22810
Reposted by Joe MasonKevin Anchukaitis @thirstygecko.bsky.social · 12/10/2026Extensive glacier loss in the coterminous United States 'since the mid-twentieth century about one-quarter of the glaciers have disappeared and the overall area and volume are reduced by one-third.' www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...pnas.orgExtensive glacier loss in the coterminous United States | PNASGlaciers populate the mountain ranges of the western conterminous United States and despite their importance to alpine hydrology, their area and vo... 02418
Reposted by Joe MasonJohn Cody @jcody.ca · 12/10/2026Okotoks Erratic – ‘Big Rock’ located just outside the town of Okotoks Alberta. This is a massive block of quartzite transported a few hundred km’s from its source near Jasper. 1307
Reposted by Joe MasonAaron Becker @aaronjbecker.bsky.social · 12/10/2026On the night of 9 October, the water at Anchorage dropped 32 feet in seven hours. Here is all of Cook Inlet's tide pouring in and out past the Forelands, hour by hour, 3 to 10 October 2026. Data: NOAA CIOFS model #CookInlet #Anchorage #Alaska 0144
Reposted by Joe MasonSilvia Secchi @profsecchi.bsky.social · 12/10/2026For Indigenous peoples' day, Na’je Nine (No Heart of Fear)'s map of Báxoje (Ioway) land. “It is the lands that we have always claimed from old times. We have the history. We have always owned this land. It is what bears our name.” CC @littlevillage.bsky.social @notesoniowa.bsky.sociallittlevillagemag.comAn Ioway map drawn in 1837 offers a treasure trove of historical insight - Little VillageThe Báxoje (Ioway) leaders Na’je Nine (No Heart of Fear) and Ñiyu Mañi (Moving Rain) arrived in Washington D.C. at the end of September 1837 with two sheets of paper, stitched together by hand — caref... 2208
Reposted by Joe MasonKevin Anchukaitis @thirstygecko.bsky.social · 12/10/2026Beautiful piece of writing in the New Yorker - 'How tree rings challenged the myth of American wilderness' www.newyorker.com/science/elem...newyorker.comHow Tree Rings Challenged the Myth of American WildernessBy studying fire scars in ancient wood, many scientists have become convinced that Indigenous people transformed North America long before Christopher Columbus arrived. 04717
Reposted by Joe MasonMichigan Advance @michiganadvance.com · 12/10/2026Great Lakes lab hit by DOGE is hanging on — for now michiganadvance.com/2026/10/12/g...michiganadvance.comGreat Lakes lab hit by DOGE is hanging on — for now • Michigan AdvanceIf the Trump administration had its way, an Ann Arbor-based research lab that studies the Great Lakes and its coastal ecosystems would be gone. 02816
Reposted by Joe MasonDavid Ramos @imagineterrain.bsky.social · 12/10/2026I'd estimate that there are a total of 6,000 trees on Hains Point, on the golf course and along Ohio Drive combined, so the administration has cut over 8% of the park's trees in one day. 177
Reposted by Joe MasonTitus Seilheimer @drfishsg.bsky.social · 12/10/2026Lake Michigan sunrise. Wisconsin's East Coast. #GreatLakes 09210
Reposted by Joe MasonKatie O'Reilly @drkatfish.bsky.social · 12/10/2026Arctic grayling haven't been found in Michigan for nearly a century, and now tribes are raising the species for reintroduction. No released fish have been seen in the wild yet, but it may take several years to tell if reintroduction has been successful www.interlochenpublicradio.org/ipr-news/202...interlochenpublicradio.orgA year into reintroduction, no grayling seen in Michigan wild. Hope remainsNorthern Michigan tribes are releasing Arctic grayling for the second year in a row, in hopes of restoring the native freshwater species. Questions remain about how many have already survived and how ... 23210
Reposted by Joe MasonAnna Bagels @anna-bagels.bsky.social · 12/10/2026I feel for all the staff workers at GLERL below the PI level. the crews that go out and monitor the lakes are so dedicated. I do feel that leadership at the NOAA and UM level could have been stronger and pushed back more against the illegal cuts, but we were told to be quiet and hide instead 2145
Reposted by Joe MasonDoctor Apatite @doctorapatite.bsky.social · 12/10/2026Interviewer: Can you explain this gap in your resume? Planetary scientist: I was unobservable because I had moved behind the Sun. 06711
Reposted by Joe Masonsakura christmas @prof-christmas.bsky.social · 12/10/2026Included in this issue, “Burning the Black Dragon, Creating Dongbei: Fire Social Ecological History in Northeastern China, 1945–2005” by Jack Patrick Hayes (Kwantlen) on fire, firefighting, and fire policy in the transformation of Manchurian forests and wetlands into the Chinese breadbasket #envhist 094
Reposted by Joe Masonhelen @helensmith.bsky.social · 12/10/2026Interviewer: can you explain this gap in your resume? Early medievalist: there was supposed to be an illustration!!! OBVIOUSLY 031
Joe Mason @moreorloess.bsky.social · 12/10/2026The photos in this case really do tell the story of this town in the UP. 030
Reposted by Joe MasonRabih Alameddine @rabihalameddine.bsky.social · 24/05/2026Otter statue, Egypt, ca. 664–30 B.C.E. 219945
Reposted by Joe MasonJacquelyn Gill @jacquelyngill.bsky.social · 12/10/2026Interviewer: can you explain this gap in your resume? Paleoecologist: A gap in the fossil record could be caused by poor preservation (conditions aren’t good for fossils) or by the erosion of sediments if they are exposed to the elements. These gaps can range from centuries to millions of years. 28713
Joe Mason @moreorloess.bsky.social · 12/10/2026Taller version of the Streamline Moderne Quisling Clinic (now condos I believe) and the Quisling Apartments across the street in downtown Madison. (if you're wondering, not *that* Quisling but probably a relative, from the same area in Norway) 010
Reposted by Joe MasonLinnea Sterte @decassette.bsky.social · 12/10/2026Interviewer: can you explain this gap in your resume? comics artist: look at this larger-than-usual gutter space, which is used to imply the passage of time between scenes. you can do all sorts of things with the spaces between panels (actual answer: worked on an animated pilot, probably) 1978
Reposted by Joe MasonKen Wissoker @kwissoker.bsky.social · 10/10/2026Jen Rose Smith and her mom, responding to the Fleck prize panel at #4S2026 @dukepress.bsky.social 072
Reposted by Joe MasonKen Wissoker @kwissoker.bsky.social · 10/10/2026M. Murphy introduces the panel on Jen Rose Smith’s brilliant “Ice Geographies” winner of the #4S2026 Ludwick Fleck Prize, the first Indigenous science winner of this prize. @dukepress.bsky.social 0197
Reposted by Joe MasonPilgrim @mountains-rivers.bsky.social · 08/10/2026agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/... We need to measure rivers before we model rivers.agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.comSWOT, Empiricism, and River ModelingSWOT satellite observations can be used to assess the skill of global river models in absence of in situ gauge data We map the likely skill of global river models, deductively interrogating earli... 085
Reposted by Joe MasonDr. Kat Napaaqtuk❄️ @napaaqtuk.bsky.social · 12/10/2026Happy Indigenous People's Day! We are still here :) 51334376
Joe Mason @moreorloess.bsky.social · 12/10/2026Giant apples named for the Wolf River of Wisconsin. 060
Reposted by Joe MasonMadrona Murphy @arbutocrat.bsky.social · 12/10/2026This is one of the Wolf River trees (this particular orchard on Shaw Island has a whole grove of them!) 241
Reposted by Joe MasonSpace Coast Talon @brashtech.bsky.social · 12/10/2026Interviewer: Can you explain this gap in your resume? Planetary Rings Dynamicist: A small moon clears ring particles from its orbit by accretion—they accumulate at its equator, creating the moon's "flying-saucer-like" shape—and it also maintains the gap edges through gravitational "shepherding." 051
Joe Mason @moreorloess.bsky.social · 12/10/2026I might have been at that super 8, too. But I left well before sunrise the next morning. 110
Joe Mason @moreorloess.bsky.social · 12/10/2026It's been unusually beautiful in the morning and evening here lately, but a little too hot at mid-day for October. 120