This is U N B E L I E V A B L E. #Kilauea

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My favorite intro class question is “if you dug into the Earth continuously, will the organic carbon you’re made of devolatize first or would lithostatic pressure crush you into goo before that could happen?”

JGS (who I’m guest editing for) has a code of conduct and competing interest statement as well, but, with one exception, these instances haven’t been in direct conflict with them. But more so, I’m just interested in people’s opinions!

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I wonder if there is a relationship between the prevalence of “Reviewer #2 energy” & not being willing to review an article for someone you know. We should self-police tone/language in reviews to ensure that our responses are neutral and professional.
I’m happy to be wrong and hear others opinions!

objectivity. A big part of science relies on us being able to give and receive fair and honest criticism. We should be able to give the same feedback to (most) of our close associates, past advisors, etc. as we do strangers or people we don’t agree with.

Here’s my opinion:
I’ve had reviewers decline a few times recently due to having a prior working relationship with an author. I can understand it if you have a close personal relationship and don’t believe you can be objective, but most of the time that relationship shouldn’t interfere with

I suppose that’s fair… (🥲) some journals have tried to shift the burden to researchers, but it’s mostly just associated with geochemical and geochronological data. The broader wealth of data (measurements, maps, experimental data, etc) is largely ignored. Strabospot is trying, but few self report.

(From my observations) a lot of it is that there isn’t any standard for environmental science degrees across academia. Employers have no idea whether someone has a degree that’s mostly based on policy or one that’s geo/bio or geo/engineering.

Yep. My dad was a petrology professor who passed away fairly suddenly after a remission of brain cancer in 1993. In the early 2010s, my mom gave me the maps he had been working on when he passed that no one had ever seen and were desirable to the community in 2014.

For real. I usually end up telling my classes that while there are geologists in O&G, it’s a dying option. I’ve interestingly had that conversation in response to a “what do you think geo is” intro feeler assignment where MANY students have a negative view of the field because of O&G.

I think that geology is also a field where academia has not done a great job (generalizing) identifying and keeping up with industry needs. We poise undergrads to go to grad school or the O&G industry while allowing other opportunities to slip into technical training or other disciplines. (3/3)

Colorado College alums found that are based in mapping or investing for mineral resources, meanwhile the envi sci majors (it was a different dept) weren’t having the same success because the environmental industry wanted entry level workers who understood bedrock and geochemistry.
(2/3)

I think MS is the sweet spot, but even then, you have to be willing to travel for field work up to 40% for a good chunk of your career.

I’m curious to see where this goes with energy transition jobs and the rise of umbrella environmental science. There are a lot of ancillary positions (1/3)

I was told (warned) that there were very few jobs at the PhD level by a mentor when I told them I was going to leave my fire dept job with a secure pension for grad school. I’ve thought a lot about that conversation across application season the past few years…

Maybe that’s why they’re on sale?

My favorite global conspiracies are the ones with a strong web presence and online gift shop.