Emily Mixon, PhD

Hehe yes that was a fantastically lucky teef pic. 😻

omgg we both have orange nose kitties! Louise + sister Lillian agree that cats are a good horror antidote.

So exciting!! Tanya is an amazing person (I was SO fortunate to have her for plate tectonics during my time at UCSB). Her stories about going to sea before women were accepted on ships are 🤯 and she's an inspiration for seagoing women scientists.

This 'living document' online course looks fantastic and so needed. Highly recommend to any of my prof/instructor friends in any/all fields!

"This is not a how-to course for using generative AI. It's a when-to course, a why-to course, and perhaps most importantly a why-not-to course"

Cruelty is a Choice - The Bugeater Apparently some people and some interactions don’t matter. If you’re reading The Bugeater, you likely already know that on December 5 the NU Board of Regents voted to eliminate four academic departmen...

75 faculty from cut departments (like Earth & Atmospheric Sciences) received notice that their jobs will end in Jan 2027.

A year seems like a lot of notice, but it's basically too late for this year's job cycle and too early for next year's.

From Nebraska's AAUP:
thebugeater.com/uncategorize...

Is your geoscience department running a search this year? UNL administration made a terrible decision to cut this amazing department, and all of these awesome faculty deserve better than Nebraska could offer them:

eas.unl.edu/about/direct...

NSF softens grant-review rules to cope with backlog Agency staff members say that the changes are reasonable, but they are worried about the potential effects on review.

Amid a whole host of other upheaval—their last day in the building is this Friday—NSF is making some changes to its grant review process. I spoke to staff about the potential benefits and drawbacks:

Key misunderstanding I want to get ahead of: NCAR isn't really a government agency like NIH or NSF. It's one of the largest NSF grants in history, and is given to a non-profit org called UCAR, whose job is to make NCAR exist (www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/...). That means the buck stops with NSF right now

It's the most wonderful time of the year!!!

Thread on how destroying NCAR would undermine things weather, wildfire and disaster research. A tremendous own goal.

Made a little animated GIF showing the demise of the V3 camera at the summit of Kīlauea during today's eruption. #hawaii #volcano

Stunning footage from earlier today, when the new Kilauea eruption covered the USGS Webcam 3, which is situated in the Halemaʻumaʻu crater near the southern rim of the much larger Kilauea caldera.

This *isn't* what the people of Pompeii saw.

But it's not very far off.

Very large glowing lava fountain at Kilauea volcano, 11 am hst, 7 Dec 2025, episodes 38, as grabbed live from the #USGS live K2 webcam.

🧪🌋⚒️ Beautiful Kilauea volcano in #eruption again, with an unusual very high mass flux, near-lateral #lava fountain, next to a vertical fountain in episode 38, now, 6 Dec 2025, as seen live on the K2 usgs webcam. See video clip of usgs livestream at ~10 am hst youtube.com/clip/Ugkx-lk... #hawaii

Yeah totally! I think part of it is nuance to career stage? My gut instinct is that I would feel a bigger conflict reviewing something by my advisor rn (1 yr post-PhD) as opposed to 5, 10. Or I'd feel a bigger conflict reviewing her 1st author pub vs from one of her current students. Interesting!

Conflicts of Interest Find information on the NSF's conflict-of-interest policies and guidelines for NSF staff, panelists, and proposers and awardees.

Interesting thoughts! Maybe the NSF COI guidelines for review
apply? www.nsf.gov/policies/con...

A 3He-based Holocene glacial chronology from Villarrica volcano, Chile Understanding alpine glacier extent during past climate variability is instructive for determining the glacier response to future climate change. Vill…

Congrats to @yasmeenorellana.bsky.social on her first lead-author paper, out now in Quaternary Science Reviews! Check it out to learn about Holocene alpine ice position at Villarrica Volcano, Chile! #Geochronology #CosmogenicNuclides #Climate #Glaciers #Holocene www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Results for Semifinals Match 1 — Mineral Cup & Ore Cup Live results for Copper vs Ilmenite

Only a few hours left to pick if #Copper our #Ilmenite is going to the #OreCup finals!

vote: www.mineralcup.org/vote-results...
results:

Congratulations to @drandreadutton.bsky.social on this well-deserved award! I feel very fortunate to work with someone who truly 'walks the walk' when it comes to engaging the public with climate research.

a textile tapestry depicting scales from the map scale to the zircon grain and back out to plate tectonic process

Holding a piece of the Acasta Gneiss that has been directly dated at 4.0 billion years (a banded dark and light grey metamorphic rock)

L to R: Emily Mixon, Tyler Blum, Annie Bauer, Leah Evans, Brooke Norsted and Leah's textile piece about the Acasta Gneiss and Deep Time

Our #NSFFunded team worked w/ Leah + Brooke for the past 3yr to build a #SciArt dialogue and I'm so thrilled with the outcome. Leah's piece will be featured one more time this Sat 10/25 at the UW-Madison Geology Museum open house (9am-1pm!) and will be permanently housed there later this year!

Crossroads of Ideas: Threading the Story of Earth's Oldest Rocks YouTube video by Wisconsin Institute for Discovery

Thanks to Brooke Norsted + #WISciFest for hosting a beautiful event this week featuring my PhD work on the Acasta Gneiss! It was a joy to join my mentors Annie Bauer + Tyler Blum in convo w/ textile artist Leah Evans to chat about #DeepTime #PlateTectonics & #SciArt. www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZGz7...

I'm excited that CAMECA is featuring some of my #PhD work (PNAS 2024). Analyzing #zircons from the oldest crust using the SIMS @uwmadscience.bsky.social was a once in a lifetime experience. I'm grateful to mentors + co-authors who made it all possible! #Geochemistry www.cameca.com/learning-zon...

Madison pals! Join us on WEDNESDAY! I'll be joining my #PhD mentors, Annie Bauer + Tyler Blum, in conversation with Leah Evans, a local textile artist who has been producing a piece about scales of space and time for the #UWGeologyMuseum! #WIScienceFestival #ScienceArt wid.wisc.edu/event/crossr...

Assistant Professor of Geoscience (RISE-EARTH) - Madison, Wisconsin, United States Current Employees: If you are currently employed at any of the Universities of Wisconsin, log in to Workday to apply through the internal application process.Job Category:FacultyEmployment Type:Regula...

#Geoscience #JobAlert #PhD Join UW-Madison Geoscience! Our department is recruiting at the Assistant Professor level for someone who addresses problems related to the Energy Transition (expertise in critical minerals, economic geology, and/or decarbonization). jobs.wisc.edu/jobs/assista...

YES. And the increasing (even if unwritten) expectation that competitive apps come with publications or other demonstrated research products further pressures undergrads/further disadvantages more undergrads who don't have those opportunities. Insane.

‘Completely shattered.’ Changes to NSF’s graduate student fellowship spur outcry The announcement comes months later than usual, leaving many would-be applicants stranded

www.science.org/content/arti...

we must work even harder to support #undergrad apps. A heavy lift + loss for the science community if we don't do it. I was lucky to be scaffolded as an undergrad and it is not exaggerating to say: #GRFP changed the trajectory of my grad school choice + therefore my ENTIRE career. this is not small!

NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program (GRFP)

#NSF #GRFP is now excluding 2nd yr #gradstudents. This is a bad move! 2nd yr apps meant students could use the financial freedom to pivot research or advisors. I fear this will reinforce the pattern where a small n of institutions reap the largest % of awards each yr. www.nsf.gov/funding/oppo...

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