Sunday, August 26, 2018

Mansplainer

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So I bumped into Nelly Furtado the other day, and of course I immediately started to explain to her all about Atlantic hotspots and a co...
Saturday, August 11, 2018

Looking back at my ASI years

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It has been two and a half years since I stopped working at Australian Scientific Instruments. I haven’t written or said much about it s...
Sunday, July 15, 2018

Book Review: The Political Value of Time, by Elizabeth Cohen

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I study geologic time for a living. That’s my job, and my day to day work involves making sure that the scientific instruments we use to fig...
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Saturday, June 02, 2018

Where on Google Earth are the dearly departed?

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Callan Bentley of the Mountain Beltway has announced, via Twitter and Facebook, that Ron Schott has passed away. Ron was a long time of...
Saturday, February 10, 2018

Nomination language note

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This is a brief update to last week’s post on nominating for society prizes.   There has been some discussion on twitter about biased l...
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Saturday, February 03, 2018

Nominating for society prizes

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One of the great things about being a geochronologist is that you can delve back in time to when unfinished blog posts were abandoned, ...
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Tuesday, October 17, 2017

Be the comet

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It has been a bad month for flashbacks for victims of sexual harassment in Academia. First came the horrific stories of campus harassme...
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Saturday, October 07, 2017

A charitable request

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I have never been a good fund raiser or salesman.   My disjointed talents do not stretch to the power of persuasion. Nor have I ever ...