Blake Dyer
blakedyer.bsky.social
Blake Dyer
@blakedyer.bsky.social
Earth scientist and educator at the University of Victoria interested in unraveling the history of climate and life.
1/4 Excited to share a new paper led by my student Connor S. van Wieren in Earth and Planetary Science Letters: "Correlative isotope excursions driven by transport, not global environmental change."

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
November 20, 2025 at 11:58 PM
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I really wonder what the GOP's vision of America in 30 years is. Do they want a country that doesn't do fundamental research, without the world's best research universities, with the citizens working in factories assembling iPhone cases?
May 2, 2025 at 8:08 PM
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I honestly believe our most powerful position in a toxic time that feeds on cynicism, apathy,& despair is to genuinely care and act for a better world.

Cynicism is our enemy. We should check it, incl. on the left. It’s not intellectually superior. It’s the virus they’re trying to infect us with. NO
January 31, 2025 at 7:04 PM
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🚨 BREAKING: OMB has just issued a memo *rescinding* the previous memo freezing all federal financial assistance programs.

Full text, per government source:
January 29, 2025 at 5:48 PM
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I think some people hear “grants” and think that without them, scientists and government workers just have less stuff to play with at work. But grants fund salaries for students, academics, researchers, and people who work in all areas of public service.

“Pausing” grants means people don’t eat.
White House pauses all federal grants, sparking confusion
The Trump administration has put a hold on all federal financial grants and loans, affecting tens of billions of dollars in payments.
www.washingtonpost.com
January 28, 2025 at 3:03 AM
Each agency must "assign responsibility and oversight to a senior political appointee" and "cancel awards already awarded that are in conflict with Administration priorities". Where does science fall on that priority list...? 🧐
NEW — OMB temporarily pauses all agency grants and loans programs.

Per copy of memo: "The use of Federal resources to advance Marxist equity, transgenderism, and green new deal social engineering policies is a waste of taxpayer dollars that does not improve the day-to-day lives of those we serve."
January 28, 2025 at 12:32 AM
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Passionate about Earth history? Dr. Blake Dyer's @blakedyer.bsky.social inclusive research team uses cutting-edge models & fieldwork to unravel sedimentary records, from life’s evolution to glacial cycles. Explore Masters & PhD opportunities www.blakedyer.com/index.html www.blakedyer.com/me.jpg
November 25, 2024 at 4:50 AM
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1/n The installation of the Multi-Collector Inductively Coupled Mass Spectrometer (MC-ICP-MS) continues @seos-uvic.bsky.social This instrument uses an Argon plasma torch to ionize elements and molecules that are then accelerated along a flight path toward a big (450 kg) magnet shown here
November 19, 2024 at 3:49 PM
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The unboxing of the Nu Sapphire continues. The laboratory space in the Bob Wright Centre at #UVic was designed with this instrument in mind. The company manufactured the instrument to be able to be separated near the flight tube to fit in our elevator. Dr. Anne-Sofie Ahm looking on
November 13, 2024 at 6:26 PM
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It’s not every day you unbox a Nu Sapphire Multi-Collector ICP-MS. Congratulations to Drs. Anne-Sofie Ahm and Blake Dyer on their NSERC CFI-JELF success 🌊
November 13, 2024 at 4:28 AM