siegfried @siegfried.bsky.social · 31/07/2026When you are sitting there thinking, “but is it really worse than @workday.com?” and the antecedent of “it” is Palantir, well, I guess it’s time to finally subscribe to @foiaball.com 🤷♂️ (come for the workday jokes, stay for the FERPA questions) 240
Reposted by siegfriedRaffi Melkonian @rmfifthcircuit.bsky.social · 06/07/2026Best Norway v England match since 1066 coming up 2130934
siegfried @siegfried.bsky.social · 28/06/2026Ah the worst player in the publishing space continues to be the worst player publishing spacestatic.klipy.comShocked Surprised Cat ReactionALT: Shocked Surprised Cat Reaction 030
siegfried @siegfried.bsky.social · 08/05/2026I walked into Petco as this was happening. I’ve been to a Super Bowl. I’ve been to the Eras Tour. I’ve never ever heard a stadium this loud. 000
Reposted by siegfriedURI Graduate School of Oceanography @urigso.bsky.social · 20/04/2026🌊 A team of researchers, including #URIGSO's @nickpizzooceans.bsky.social, has developed a new AI-powered way to study ocean currents. #GOFLOW uses thermal images from weather satellites already in orbit to map ocean surface currents in unprecedented detail, with no new hardware required. 🧪 263
Reposted by siegfriedSarah Spain ✨ @sarahspain.com · 15/04/2026Everything is the worst, so if you need pictures of the fox family living in Chicago’s downtown Millennium Park, photographer Derek Nielsen has got you. www.facebook.com/share/1CKbRA... 220722
Reposted by siegfriedLily Dove @solilyquy.bsky.social · 21/02/2026Fresh off the preprint server! @maratimes.bsky.social and I show how data from the overlapping SWOT and PACE satellite missions present a step forward in our ability to observe linked biogeochemical-physical processes in the ocean. We look forward to chatting about this with folks at #OSM2026! 🌊essopenarchive.orgBiophysical Dynamics of Mesoscale Eddies: Coincident Observations from SWOT and PACEA document by Lilian Dove. Click on the document to view its contents. 074
Reposted by siegfriedLily Dove @solilyquy.bsky.social · 07/02/2026Surface ocean processes impact structure deep into the ocean interior. In our perspective paper, @maratimes.bsky.social, grad student Katarina Merk, and I discuss using physical perspectives to interpret subsurface biogeochemical distributions and why we as a community should care! 🌊rdcu.bePhysical controls on heterogeneous mesopelagic biogeochemistryCommunications Earth & Environment - A patchy distribution of biogeochemical properties in the ocean interior arises from the combined influence of biological and physical processes. 0209
siegfried @siegfried.bsky.social · 07/02/2026Hey, how come @nbcolympics.bsky.social doesn’t have a glaciologist on their broadcast to talk about the different types of ices they have to use for different sports? Just seems like an obvious addition. I happen to know one who is available.media.tenor.coma woman says it 's me hi while standing in front of a windowALT: a woman says it 's me hi while standing in front of a window 010
siegfried @siegfried.bsky.social · 05/02/2026New NASA missions. If you thought ICESat-2’s six laser beams were great, wait until we have 40 at the end of the decade 🛰️🧊 www.nasa.gov/news-release...nasa.govNASA Selects Two Earth System Explorers Missions - NASAThese two missions were selected for continued development as part of NASA’s Earth System Explorers Program, which conducts principal investigator-led Earth 220
siegfried @siegfried.bsky.social · 05/02/2026media.tenor.coma cartoon character sitting in front of a coleco computer with the word refresh below himALT: a cartoon character sitting in front of a coleco computer with the word refresh below him 000
Reposted by siegfriedDavid Small @davidsmall.bsky.social · 05/02/2026🚨job opportunity🚨 Durham is advertising 3-year fellowships (any field). We are very keen to hear from Antarctic/Cryo people who might be interested in joining a great group. The positions come with some travel & research funds. See here for details or get in touch www.durham.ac.uk/research/ins...durham.ac.ukaddison-wheeler-fellowship - Durham University 048
Reposted by siegfriedWilson Sauthoff @wilsonsauthoff.bsky.social · 27/01/2026New GRL paper on the dynamic nature of Antarctic active subglacial lakes that have boundaries that change shape, grow, shrink, or even migrate. We show stationary lake outlines can underestimate cumulative water volume change by up to ~100% and overestimate lakebed area. 📄 doi.org/10.1029/2025... 352
siegfried @siegfried.bsky.social · 23/01/2026she didn’t even hashtag #antarctica 😭 anyway my student published a cool paper. read it. 120
siegfried @siegfried.bsky.social · 23/01/2026Today, while arguing with @lpadman.bsky.social in the comments of a Google document, I learned that the Oxford Style Guide says “do not use” for em-dashes and the AP Stylebook says “do not use” for en-dashes. British vs. US English strikes again! A good day. 000
Reposted by siegfriedlsuresearch.bsky.social @lsuresearch.bsky.social · 14/01/2026Our research impact reaches all the way to Antarctica! 🌎 LSU researcher @icedoctord.bsky.social and team at @lsugeology.bsky.social have documented, in rare detail, a large brine discharge event at Blood Falls. The salty, blood-colored water flows out when pressure under Taylor Glacier rises. 244
siegfried @siegfried.bsky.social · 15/01/2026👇👇👇a very fun new paper. I am finally coauthors with dugan 2! 020
Reposted by siegfriedSickos Committee @sickoscommittee.org · 14/01/2026Do you want to watch 8+ Minutes of the Longest Punts from the 2025 CFB Season? youtu.be/Je7WUk8bAx0youtu.beDo you want to watch 8+ Minutes of the Longest Punts from the 2025 CFB Season?YouTube video by Sickos Committee 94410
siegfried @siegfried.bsky.social · 11/01/2026I almost hit a zone 2 heart rate at the end of that game. Ffs, Caleb. 010
siegfried @siegfried.bsky.social · 07/01/2026I’m just spitballing here, but what if… we take how much this would cost and instead… create a big pot of money that scientists could propose to… to research Greenland. Think about how many scientists we station there! Maybe even buy some LC-130s to transport them. Maybe even launch some satellites. 010
siegfried @siegfried.bsky.social · 31/12/2025Last decade of annual running mileage: 2016 - 809 miles 2017 - 896 miles 2018 - 808 miles 2019 - 435 miles 2020 - 379 miles 2021 - 665 miles 2022 - 578 miles 2023 - 600 miles 2024 - 627 miles 2025 - 1651 miles Can you tell I started my faculty job in 2019 and received tenure in 2024? 🥶 130
siegfried @siegfried.bsky.social · 30/12/2025And today in the @nytimes.com: a fundamental misunderstanding of the marine ice sheet instability. (fun fact: the description in the paper of record is what ChatGPT often gives you when you ask what MISI is. I know this because it is exactly a question on a homework I assign in my glaciology class.) 120
siegfried @siegfried.bsky.social · 27/12/2025Also there are some nuggets in there that make it clear some folks might think the last 15 (maybe even 25!) years of science didn’t happen 🤡 010
siegfried @siegfried.bsky.social · 27/11/2025Love seeing @anamariecox.bsky.social promoting rezdawg. Support nuggets like ours going to good homes. 032
siegfried @siegfried.bsky.social · 21/11/2025Since @radatmines.bsky.social is currently in CHC deploying to #Antarctica, I thought I’d post some pictures from (I believe at the time—2019–new) pre-deployment sexual harassment training from the last time I deployed 🫠 010
siegfried @siegfried.bsky.social · 13/11/2025Full house for @ericsteig.bsky.social’s @coloradoscholes.bsky.social Climate Seminar today. 011
siegfried @siegfried.bsky.social · 03/11/2025I will be sad when it’s not 2025 anymore because we will no longer be exactly halfway between the start of the Industrial Revolution and 2300 😕I suppose I’ll need to start talking about how we are halfway between Benjamin Franklin’s kite experience and 2300 instead ⚡️ 000
siegfried @siegfried.bsky.social · 22/10/2025Congratulations to #MinesGlaciology’s (and @coschoolofmines.bsky.social’s) latest PhD, Dr. Samara Garvey, who just successfully defended her dissertation, “Applications of Active-Source Multi-Component Seismology to Subsurface Characterization”! 020
Reposted by siegfriedSickos Committee @sickoscommittee.org · 11/10/2025Colorado Mines leads South Dakota Mines at the half. 6361
siegfried @siegfried.bsky.social · 24/09/2025AGU awards announced. AGU website doesn’t work. Clockwork. 000
Reposted by siegfriedChris Vannini @chrisvannini.com · 09/09/2025Bears had a 94% win probability and are now losing by two scores 98722
Reposted by siegfriedKeir Nichols @cosmokeir.bsky.social · 22/08/2025New paper alert 🚨🏔️ We use 10Be exposure dating and ELA reconstructions to shed light on glacier advances in the tropical Andes during the Younger Dryas. You can find the paper led by Neil Glasser @aberuni.bsky.social in Scientific Reports tinyurl.com/uwmt8rcntinyurl.comYounger Dryas glacier advances in the tropical Andes driven by increased precipitation - Scientific ReportsScientific Reports - Younger Dryas glacier advances in the tropical Andes driven by increased precipitation 1153
Reposted by siegfriedthe Inner Ring blog @inrng.com · 20/07/2025Involved in the crash in Auterive soon after the start of the stage, Julian Alaphilippe dislocated his shoulder but popped it back in himself, via L'Equipe www.lequipe.fr/Cyclisme-sur... (🇫🇷) 3284
Reposted by siegfriedGeography at Durham @geogdurham.bsky.social · 11/07/2025Great work by our colleagues Stewart Jamieson and Guy Paxman: "We have been using satellite data to map an ancient river landscape beneath the East Antarctic Ice Sheet:. The landscape has been frozen in time for up to 34 million years." ⚒️🧪 www.nature.com/articles/s41...nature.comExtensive fluvial surfaces at the East Antarctic margin have modulated ice-sheet evolution - Nature GeoscienceExtensive flat surfaces observed beneath the East Antarctic Ice Sheet margin were formed by fluvial erosion and have modulated the ice-sheet response to climate change, according to an analysis of rad... 01912
siegfried @siegfried.bsky.social · 06/07/2025Just tell me about the tour, le monde — I don’t need to hear about my officesuitemate’s project 20 years in the making. I hear about it enough already. (jkjk read about @coschoolofmines.bsky.social’s bestest Geophysics faculty Brandon Dugan’s IODP cruise) 010
siegfried @siegfried.bsky.social · 26/06/2025Homer’s ice cream shout out 3 minutes into The Bear… amazing. 010
Reposted by siegfriedJerad Walker @jeradwalker.bsky.social · 22/06/2025From Hunter S. Thompson’s ESPN page 2 column one week after 9/11. 1101663356
Reposted by siegfriedSickos Committee @sickoscommittee.org · 18/06/2025A reminder that the last American team to win the CFL’s Grey Cup was more recent than the last Canadian NHL team to win the Stanley Cup. The 1995 Baltimore Stallions. 23578202
siegfried @siegfried.bsky.social · 17/06/2025As someone who has been punched in the face with a giant maglite by a (surprise! Chicago) cop for asking “…wait what?”, I will just point out here the entire interaction is recorded. So, as I’ve argued before, if there was an assault, just show the video. (They can’t because there was no assault.) 000
siegfried @siegfried.bsky.social · 16/06/2025as always, NPG has been a bad actor in our world for a long time. My colleagues can vouch that I’ve been doing my best to redirect papers away from NPG (mostly successfully) for about a decade now. Support your professional societies (which are problematic too, but still of course better). 010
siegfried @siegfried.bsky.social · 15/06/2025at this rate, @hels.bsky.social will win a James Beard Award… every year until the sun explodes 🤷♂️ (this is a great profile — everyone should read it; I’m also still annoyed she didn’t even get nominated for her “best things I ate this decade” in 2019 www.newyorker.com/culture/deca...)newyorker.comThe Best Things I’ve Eaten This DecadeSo much of the pleasure of eating is tied up in the specific, ephemeral gestalt of the moment, even if the food is identical down to the molecule. 100
siegfried @siegfried.bsky.social · 06/06/2025Last day of field camp. Run with the students, best parking spot at new office, new shower at new office after the Oregonian ran us through mud, and one hell of a new office conference room to make my last slide deck in. If you’ve emailed me in the last 4-6 weeks with no response, plz email again 000
Reposted by siegfriedDr. Andrea Dutton @drandreadutton.bsky.social · 04/06/2025How do cuts to the National Weather Service impact hurricane forecasts? Watch this riveting, straightforward explainer from the great @johnmoralestv.bsky.social 0113
