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Jim Metcalf

@thermochronic.bsky.social
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Geologist and Thermochronology Lab Manager at CU-Boulder who would love to talk about the 2016 World Series or the corner taken quickly absolutely anytime.

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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
I don’t think everyone realizes how bad things are for US science: For the fiscal year that just ended, the Trump regime withheld $1.4 billion from the National Science Foundation’s research budget, which is about 1/5 of its primary research budget.
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National Science Foundation Diverted $1.4 Billion in Science Funds Mandated by Congress (Gift Article)
The move, affecting about one-fifth of the National Science Foundation’s primary research budget, is the latest sign of how the White House is asserting more control over grants.
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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Oh retractionwatch.com/2026/10/02/p...
David Ho, a climate scientist at the University of Hawaii, responded to our request for comment on the paper by saying he was not interested in reading it. “I’m sorry, but I’d rather keep my brain cells,” he said.
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Jim Metcalf @thermochronic.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
"They're not regrets. It's part of my career. I'm not proud of what happened, but you can't always do just good things," he said. "We're all on a journey in life, where [sometimes] you do things that aren't the best. But now it's about what comes next." www.espn.com/soccer/story...
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Zidane set for Italy reunion with no 'regrets' about WC final headbutt
Twenty years after being sent off in the 2006 World Cup final, Zinedine Zidane faces Italy again on Friday, this time in a suit as France's coach.
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Jim Metcalf @thermochronic.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
A new paper from our group/my boss is out in Science today! It looks at the effects of massive, snowball-earth type glaciers on subsurface geotherms and thermochronology. If you are going to GSA Becky is giving a talk on this work as well. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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Snowball refrigeration of Earth’s crust mimics glacial erosion
Glaciation cools the crust by setting its surface temperature to 0°C or well below. During the Cryogenian Snowball Earth glaciations, these conditions were in place long enough to cool the entire crus...
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Louis @louisevans.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Skipped the Nazis, huh.
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Elle @elleisanisland.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
tracking the Ring
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Adrienne Massanari @adriennemassanari.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
The invisible labor (often performed by women and marginalized folks) that keeps organizations afloat remains hidden and uncompensated. But those musing about AI's "transformation" of work have probably always benefited from this kind of labor in all parts of their life and don't see it as work.
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Jim Metcalf @thermochronic.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
This really summarizes the “I did my own research” dudes
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James Hell Brooks @kleinman.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
SEN. ERIC SCHMITT: Do these texts not prove that a shrimp fried this rice?
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Jim Metcalf @thermochronic.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
I’m going to do this but it’s just going to be a picture of me photoshopped with a huge brain.
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Jim Metcalf @thermochronic.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
My AI safety system is simple, shoot it all into the fucking sun. Problem solved.
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Jim Metcalf @thermochronic.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
This inspired my scam where I’ve paid homeowners insurance for over a decade and never used it. Can’t believe I am getting away with it!!!!
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Jim Metcalf @thermochronic.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
This is just the dumbest shit imaginable
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Bob ArdKor @bob.ardkor.com · 26/09/2026
a character is shown telling his computer to say "I am alive," the computer says the line, and he responds, "Oh my god," as if shocked that the computer just admitted to being sentient
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Balderdash @balderdash.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Controversial but understandable as it must be nigh on impossible to watch Everton sober.
Andy Burnham and Mark Carney in Everton scarves at the Hill Dickinson stadium
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Jim Metcalf @thermochronic.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
What if we name the basement of the Alamo after him?
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Jim Metcalf @thermochronic.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Still seems high
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Jim Metcalf @thermochronic.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Increasingly the best only to guarantee your position at a university is to promise to help give kids brain damage to entertain people on TV.
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
The men are not alright.
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Anyway, panic is a psy-op. Stay furious. Stay serious. Organize.
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Starfire’s Deranged Neocon Foreign Policy Podcast @irhottakes.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
It’s very simple. A reality TV host became dictator because he turned down a role for Sharknado 4 and that’s why the king of outer space, who cheats at Diablo, got to kill Africa. Now the economy is controlled by a sex cult that has something to do with Harry Potter fanfic because of robots.
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Jim Metcalf @thermochronic.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
I mean it’s hilarious but it also sounds like Fox News
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Kyle Clark @kylec.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Squirrels on suicide missions have knocked out power to Castle Rock, Colorado twice this week. Our investigation has revealed a century of squirrel attacks covered up by the pro-squirrel media.
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Michelle says: Be kind. Always. ❤️ @snarkysillysad.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Real Betis players walked out with the 11 oldest club *socios* (members, all over 80) as matchday mascots before their La Liga game against Getafe on September 17, 2026. Part of Real Betis' "Elderly Week" (*Semana de los Mayores*) initiatives. #AGoodPlace
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
These centers are the guy who thinks hot young women aren’t showing up to the bar he stocked with weird dude things because pink-haired woke commie broads won’t let them.
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Boring texts full of dead, debunked ideas, taught by bad teachers using poor pedagogical tools for credentials with no market value or social cache just aren’t popping.
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Jim Metcalf @thermochronic.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
OOOOOOOOOYYYYYAAAAAAAABBEEAAUUTTYYY!!!
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Nathan Brown @oslrocks.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Good news is, despite revoking the NSF EAR postdoc fellowship, they are thinking of postdocs. So I'll tell my students that 👍
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Jim Metcalf @thermochronic.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Yes please ask me to review AI related GEO proposals so I can shoot them into the fucking sun.
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Jim Metcalf @thermochronic.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Definitely how we discuss crimes, I remember that one time I was engaged in having my bike stolen.
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Emily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
As @alexhanna.bsky.social and I write in The AI Con (see Ch 6): even though the Boosters and the Doomers like to portray themselves as holding down opposite extremes of opinions on "AI", they are two sides of the same coin. thecon.ai >>
thecon.ai
THE AI CON
How to Fight Big Tech's Hype and Create the Future We Want
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Jim Metcalf @thermochronic.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
I've still got my 1998 Rand McNally US atlas ready to go
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Covie @covie93.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
john fetterman is the first rat in history to climb onto a sinking ship.
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Emily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
But using systems that are built on data theft, labor exploitation, and environmental degradation and sold in ways that devalue the expertise and labor of actual people is ... bad actually! Refusing to use them and urging others to do the same is the pro-social move here. >>
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Emily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
3. The commercial labs producing these products are claiminng to be at the bleeding edge of scientific discovery while not actually participating in the conversation of science. They drop press releases shaped (more or less) like papers, and the media plays along. >>
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Emily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
This is a case study in pro-AI propaganda, and annoying enough to inspire a Saturday thread: bsky.app/profile/bren... 🧵>>
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tomwellborn3rd @wellborn.net · 10/09/2026
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Chance Ronemus @chance-ronemus.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
I'm recruiting M.Sc. and Ph.D. students for funded positions starting winter 2027 for projects in Alberta, BC, Chile, and Argentina. Canadian applicants especially welcome. Details and how to apply: chanceronemus.com/join
Tilted Mesozoic strata behind a modern alluvial fan and braided river system in one of my field areas of Argentina, near Cerro Aconcagua.
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Liz Hearn @liz-hearn.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
If you care about Earth science in the US, please sign up for the NSF GEO virtual office hour Sept 15 with GEO directorate head Joydip Kundu! NSF leadership needs to hear directly that people care and are concerned about GEO. Maxxing out their Zoom tier sends a message. www.nsf.gov/events/nsf-g...
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NSF GEO Virtual Office Hour: Updates from the NSF Directorate for Geosciences
Join directorate leadership for updates and information.
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The Denver Post @denverpost.com · 03/09/2026
There is an unreasonable, borderline offensive concentration of outrageously good pizzerias crammed into a city of barely 100,000 people. And now it's home to Colorado's first pizza festival, too.
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Why does this Colorado city have such an absurdly good pizza scene?
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Jim Metcalf @thermochronic.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
I hate this answer. IT IS YOUR JOB, IT IS WHAT YOU SPECIALIZE IN. Imagine a surgeon or airline pilot saying this. Take some responsibility.
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Jim Metcalf @thermochronic.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Aside from reading a book the thing that kills libertarianism the most is implementing libertarianism.
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Jon Stahl @aardvarkzebra.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
A giant. 💔 www.nytimes.com/2026/08/31/u...
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Wendell Berry, Writer Who Extolled America’s Agrarian Past, Dies at 92
A Kentucky farmer, he railed against agribusiness and championed small family farms and the environment, winning widespread acclaim.
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University of Colorado Boulder (CU Boulder) @colorado.edu · 31/08/2026
In our latest episode of CUriosity, geologist Lon Abbott, who studies how mountains form, explains how Boulder’s iconic Flatirons got their shape and why they’re so special even though they’re not one of a kind. bit.ly/3SkUkoG
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CUriosity: How special are the Boulder Flatirons, really?
Lon Abbott, who studies how mountains form, explains how Boulder's iconic Flatirons got their shape and why they’re so special even though they're not one of a
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Jim Metcalf @thermochronic.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
"It's important they hear about how the hero, Smaug, is attacked for being successful"
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Scary Gorgon @scarygorgon.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
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A meme that has been sitting on my phone since 2022 apparently. Das Kapital and 9 to 5 represented by torches. 9 to 5 glowing significantly brighter and with far less pointless heft than DK.
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Thank you for this ambitious thread. I lack all ambition. It’s very generous.
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Jim Metcalf @thermochronic.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
This whole thread is exceptional.
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Kyle Clark @kylec.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
COMMENTARY: A whole lot of celebrities are loved. Dolly Parton loved you back.
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Zac Writes Sometimes 💭 @zac13.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
The academic freedom purists never address that allowing racists (and other bigots) free reign on academia actively stifles academic freedom for minority academics
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