Yeah...I don't normally do fossil prep so when they gave me a shot while visiting Fossil Butte I chose to only use the gentler sandblaster thing. Ain't no way I'm going to be responsible for fucking up a vertebrate fossil.
I don't word good and ChatGPT bro helps me use my nouns.
That's only kind of a joke, I have anomic aphasia and use ChatGPT to help me find the words when I lose them. I used to use Google but it doesn't really work anymore.
K I read most of the opinion piece. The school claims, and the author does not believe their claim, that it is for the student's safety as the student was directly threatened with violence from anti-palestine students.
Which makes some amount of sense but why not just allow them to record it and make it available? Obviously playing at graduation would be unsafe but not giving them their chance they earned is terrible.
I have no idea who that woman is or anything about her blog. But if I read that comment alone I would asume it's facetious. It sounds like a joke and not serious. If they were serious then... wow that's fucked up.
Except citations where it's an obscure style that no widget knows by default.
Nerd geologist discussion about GSA style below. Scroll if you don't care. Or just scroll and let me yammer into the void.
Did anybody else notice they changed the GSA citation style guidelines recently? I checked the link today and it was blue and I was like, what? I go to this website 500 times a year. They changed a bunch of stuff, what I noticed was they require co-lead scientists to be listed in the citation even when there are 15 coauthors and it should get an et al. They also say absolutely NO personal communications and NO unpublished works (not even in progress/ in publication/ etc.).
I get where they're coming from but this is problematic in a community where a lot of knowledge is bound up in unpublished projects by the Old Guard who never quite seem to get around to it. I mean, sure, they'll go out in the field with you and tell you everything they saw before and discuss things with you but the best you have is "personal communication with this expert who has been working in this area or formation for 52 years".
Sounds nice! I'm envious 😄.