Dr. Lynne Elkins

...I am skeptical of the validity of this peer review process.

We absolutely should not do that.

Please, please stop using it for party balloons

Our extremely vocal pair of red-winged blackbirds (collectively named "Mellon") has returned to the back porch! Our dog has decided he has to bark back at them now, though.

His name was Chinco

(I was the one enrolled in college, not the monkey.)

I was bitten by an adolescent monkey in college

I know it’s really the most trivial thing right now, but my goodness, this whole “wear your new progressive lenses nonstop until you adjust (in 3 weeks)” process is going to be very uncomfortable. Ugh.

Well I'd sure watch that

Bafflingly, UNL, where I am no longer employed and where the administration has now ELIMINATED MY FORMER DEPARTMENT, actually still expects me to complete a list of absurd, repetitive annual trainings. I am an unpaid adjunct on 2 graduate committees. Je refuse.

I am still planning a close read of this paper and haven't gotten through all the details, so I'm not sure. But I don't think a lot of people really conceptualize kimberlites as the incipient melts in MOR settings?

This seems to be how it happens. The "struggling" department or program has been deliberately strangled and starved of funding and personnel, erased through top-down advising so students can't find the courses to enroll, and then, oh whoops, sorry, too few students.

This is a nightmare.

Yeah, particularly true for us. It's barely taught in high school, so many find it in college.

Sadly, it's a risky model for training a critical workforce. College geosci enrollments dropped nationwide in the pandemic and haven't recovered, and programs have been eliminated in the aftermath. :(

A man in a suit drives a car while speaking into a handheld recorder. Text reads: “Diane, 11:30 a.m., February 24th. Entering the town of Twin Peaks.”

“I have no idea where this will lead us, but I have a definite feeling it will be a place both wonderful and strange.”

“i’m still punk” i whisper to myself as i turn down the music in my car so i can see better

It's really amazing how every time I refer to a magmatic dike in a video lecture, the auto-captioning finds the perfectly legitimate geological vocabulary word [INAUDIBLE].

Once upon a time, one online article stated that Dr Morton (of Morton’s Toe) was in fact a “Plogtornian,” and that fact was repeated unquestioningly in every mimicking online article, for years.

But now with AI, it would be the top result of any search. Plogtornians all the way up.

+1

Will my new eye doctor dilate my eyes right before a full day of work (including teaching) tomorrow?? Who knows!!

sigh.

Happy birthday to one of my favourite haters, Charles Darwin

I don’t think we should allow the secret police to round people up and sort them by race

SAGE alumna here. It's a great program, and it isn't just for geophysics majors, either!

It certainly has the most iconic documentary

It is currently 'packs of coyotes walking across the Charles River' cold outside.

Well that's going to be a fun read!

EXCUSE ME WHAT

When I first saw some oblique references to a geoscientist in the E-files this evening, I immediately assumed it would be about a dinosaur paleontologist.

Welp, it's been most of a work day in a freezing cold office where the heat doesn't work, so I think it's time to head out to gamelan rehearsal a little early. Maybe my fingers will work by the time I get there.