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Mae Saslaw

@oneorseveral.bsky.social

normal guy has normal year

screenshot of my apple music top artists of 2025
1 kronos quartet
2 roxy music
3 belinfante quartet
4 john cale
5 tv on the radio
6 brian eno
7 ryuichi sakamoto
8 terry riley

December 4, 2025 at 2:27 AM

Mae Saslaw

@oneorseveral.bsky.social

You’ve been kidnapped. The characters from the last TV show you watched are trying to rescue you. Who’s coming to save you?

I think we’re good

promotional portrait of the four golden girls

November 26, 2025 at 2:14 AM

Mae Saslaw

@oneorseveral.bsky.social

#30DayMapChallenge Day 2: Lines
Faults are a gimme, so I went down a rabbit hole masking a raster with the state polygon and learned about non-exportable objects in R. Code included! ⚒️ saslaw.github.io/posts/MapCha...

a map of the state of new york on a lat-long grid. it has shading showing elevation, ground cover, and waterways. mapped faults are shown in white. the northeastern part of the state is covered in faults, as is the region north of westchester. there are no faults on long island and few near the northwestern border on the lakes.

November 2, 2025 at 4:03 PM

Mae Saslaw

@oneorseveral.bsky.social

I'm tagging myself in to #30DayMapChallenge with a map of all active @iaeaorg.bsky.social Global Network of Isotopes in Precipitation stations (Day 1: Points). I'll be posting these in blog form on my web site here: saslaw.github.io/posts.html
Let's see how many of these I make 🗺️⚒️

Map of the globe with GNIP sites shown and colored by altitude. Canada and Central and South America have the most coverage. There is sparse coverage in Europe, and few active stations elsewhere in the world. Most stations are below 1000 meters above sea level.

November 1, 2025 at 7:42 PM

Mae Saslaw

@oneorseveral.bsky.social

Please join us this weekend on Zoom for the First International Symposium of Nonbinary Scientists! I'm excited to host a session for Earth, Environmental, and Atmospheric Sciences ⚒️🧪Zoom link in alt text!

Flyer for The First International Symposium of Nonbinary Scientists
PUBLIC SESSIONS
Hear nonbinary scientists from around the world explain their research to the general public!
November 1
16:00-17:00*
Math, Modeling, and Networks of All Kinds
November 1.
17:00-18:30*
Biology, Microbiology, and Bioinformatics
November 2
18:30-20:00*
Earth, Environmental, and Atmospheric Sciences
*All times in GMT. Use worldtimebuddy.com to find your time zone.
Each speaker will explain their topic for five minutes, followed by a Q&A session
ZOOM LINK FOR ALL 3 EVENTS: https://virginiatech.zoom.us/j/88191862443?pwd=A2GEC8q8uLvupLxy5xotE1K4aMcmJs.1
Meeting ID: 881 9186 2443
Passcode: ISNBS2

November 1, 2025 at 12:06 AM

Mae Saslaw

@oneorseveral.bsky.social

feels like as good a day as any to share an excerpt from my dissertation acknowledgements 🧪⚒️

I am compelled also to acknowledge the circumstances of my graduate years, and the
years ahead. When the pandemic began, I was lucky to have the job security of a funded PhD. I
have had the privilege to criticize my university and be heard, and I felt the momentum of the
campus labor movement as my comrades and I organized for better conditions for graduate
workers. The geoscience community has been actively addressing systemic inequities in our
field, and over the past six years, I have seen meaningful positive change. I have, at times, felt
optimism for the future of the planet and academia and my own life. I fear I am among the last
people who will have these experiences in the United States. I can no longer earnestly discuss
possibilities for work that might build upon what I have accomplished as a graduate student
because I do not expect anyone to have the opportunity to continue these lines of research,
although the following chapters briefly describe what could be. I acknowledge the collective
grief of the scientific community as our progress is derailed and our lives are worsened. I
acknowledge the target on my back that I earn by being a climate scientist and a labor organizer
and a leftist. This future scares me, but it is too late to retreat or to try to appear compliant. As
scientists we must continue to do the real work of seeking truth and knowledge despite our fears
of the threats against us. What faith I have is in the Earth, in the awareness of time that we share
as geologists. Whatever becomes of us and our institutions, we can dig in the dirt, we can read
history in landscapes, we can hold onto rocks that knew a distant past and will know a future we
will not see.

October 21, 2025 at 7:18 PM

Mae Saslaw

@oneorseveral.bsky.social

this came to me mid lit review 🧪

two frames from Seinfeld, when Seinfeld and Elaine arrive at an airport to find their rental car reservation is not available. the original captions are "See, you know how to take the reservation" and "You just don't know how to hold the reservation." my edit reads "See, you know how to download the papers, you just don't know how to read the papers"

October 16, 2025 at 8:17 PM

Mae Saslaw

@oneorseveral.bsky.social

Check out this flume! what a beautiful flume

an experimental debris flume (I tried to look up how tall and long it is but that information is not forthcoming and I don't think I would guess accurately, sorry!) surrounded by tall green conifers. to the left of the flume, an excavator in an equipment shed, and a second smaller shed with a chair and whiteboard.
an experimental debris flume (I tried to look up how tall and long it is but that information is not forthcoming and I don't think I would guess accurately, sorry!) surrounded by tall conifers. it looks like a very big playground slide on the side of a steep hill, or like a flume ride at an amusement park, with a staircase on one side. to the left of the flume, an excavator in an equipment shed, and a second smaller shed with a chair and whiteboard.

October 3, 2025 at 1:54 PM

Mae Saslaw

@oneorseveral.bsky.social

HJ Andrews Experimental Forest was where I had one of my first field trips as an undergrad at Portland State! One of my classmates found chantrelles and we ate them! Here's a 35mm pic of a stream there taken on my Olympus XA

a pacific northwest stream lined with tall conifers and short shrubs. the sky is gray and mist is visible in front of the most distant trees

October 3, 2025 at 1:31 PM

Mae Saslaw

@oneorseveral.bsky.social

YES keep the form alive!! here's my contribution, a zine edition of my dissertation that was so much fun to make and give away

photo of zine on yellow paper, the title is written in words cut from the titles of scientific articles and taped over a low quality two-tone image of camels crossing a gravely terrain. it says "Turkana Miozine Project Volume 1, Three Records of the Cenozoic Turkana Basin from Stable Isotopes of Soil Carbonates and Waters, Mae Saslaw, Stony Brook University"

August 26, 2025 at 9:25 PM

Mae Saslaw

@oneorseveral.bsky.social

change log

screenshot from GitHub GUI changes on a file called cv.qmd
removing "Expected 2025: Doctor of Philosophy, Geosciences"
adding "Doctor of Philosophy, Geosciences 2025"

July 26, 2025 at 8:19 PM

Mae Saslaw

@oneorseveral.bsky.social

It's my last week in NYC and I got to see two dinosaur themed public artworks 🦖
Rex's Dino Store rexs.nyc and
Dinosaur www.thehighline.org/art/projects...

Rex's Dino Store installation imagines what if a dinosaur had a news stand in the grand army plaza subway station. there is a paper mache t rex wearing a blue apron over a white tee behind the counter. they are not to scale. they are about 6 feet and they have human looking shoulders above their skinny, clawed arms. the front of the display contains newspapers: the ravine roar, the pangaea times, and pangaea post, the headline of which reads SMALL ARMS DEALER. above that, candy bars: clawmond joy, butter talon, and great valley granola. next level, magazines: sports zilla strated, life: mammals, dino politan, fauna and flora the fern issue, dinotopia, and eater's digest. lotto tickets: meteor millions, nest egg. there is a lot more in the installation that is not visible or legible in the pic. there is also a new york mets hat hanging on the wall, large enough to sit on top of the t rex's head. it's not a dinosaur joke, he's met's fan

May 20, 2025 at 5:20 PM

Mae Saslaw

@oneorseveral.bsky.social

zoned calcite looking straight out of a 90s windbreaker catalog #ThinSectionThursday ⚒️

cross polarized light @ 50x magnification, frame is approx 5x4mm

angular calcite crystals in shades of blue, gray, and purple with zigzag zonation lines surrounding fine grained brownish material that is probably organic material and clays

May 15, 2025 at 2:43 PM

Mae Saslaw

@oneorseveral.bsky.social

I loved him in Halt and Catch Fire

lee pace as joe macmillan from halt and catch fire season 4, wearing glasses with a full beard and brooding

May 12, 2025 at 7:54 PM

Mae Saslaw

@oneorseveral.bsky.social

Do I have time to georeference this 1933 map of the Catskills and load it into Avenza for the field trip? Of course not. However

highly detailed, hand-drawn physiological map of the Catskill Front and Hudson Valley in New York from Berkey 1933. Northwest corner near Canajoharie, northeast corner is northeast of Troy, southeast near Millbrook and the Connecticut border, southwest near Centerville.

April 30, 2025 at 2:23 PM

Mae Saslaw

@oneorseveral.bsky.social

Zotero @zotero.org has this feature! The cursor disappears in the screenshot but it's right on top of the blue "2b" at the corner of the figure popover window

screenshot of pdf (Havranek et al 2025), a popover window showing figure 2 is available when hovering over the link for Figure 2b

April 23, 2025 at 7:42 PM

Mae Saslaw

@oneorseveral.bsky.social

Congrats @forthecratergood.bsky.social and all the authors on this extremely cool paper! I'm often the guy who says "we have carbonates at home" but looking at this figure and knowing what can be done on MARS is something else

Figure 1 from the quote posted paper, Carbonates identified by the Curiosity rover... Figure caption: Geological context of the drill samples.
(A) Stratigraphic column indicating elevations and sedimentological interpretations of the 89-m vertical section traversed by the rover. Group, formation, and member designate the sedimentary units. Hatching styles indicate the lithology, as indicated in the legend. Black circles indicate drill sample locations: CA, Canaima; TC, Tapo Caparo; UB, Ubajara; and SQ, Sequoia. Vertical thick lines extend between sample elevations where Mg-sulfate minerals (solid line) and siderite (dashed line) have been detected. (B) Orbital optical image mosaic of Gale crater, overlain with Curiosity’s traverse (white line) up Mt. Sharp. Member (mbr) boundaries correspond to the section in (A). The difference between ChemCam observation points and the median Chenapau bedrock composition (19) is plotted as colored circles (as indicated in the color bar) at locations where ChemCam analyses were performed. Chenapau member chemistry is homogeneous and closely resembles the chemistry of the upper section of the Amapari member, near the Canaima drill site.

April 17, 2025 at 9:28 PM

Mae Saslaw

@oneorseveral.bsky.social

plover, you should have come over

a wilson's plover with a long black beak on a beach in the surf, walking away from the camera

April 5, 2025 at 10:09 PM

Mae Saslaw

@oneorseveral.bsky.social

lest any doubt my elder millennial credentials

screenshot of an email from Livejournal congratulating me on my blog's 20th birthday

March 27, 2025 at 9:26 PM

Mae Saslaw

@oneorseveral.bsky.social

five years since our first valentines together 😻

February 14, 2025 at 5:26 PM

Mae Saslaw

@oneorseveral.bsky.social

have you ever seen a more enthusiastic textbook than Prothero & Schwab ⚒️🧪

$How can chemical differentiation via weathering and selective fractionation of components during transport and deposition be effective in light of the almost trivial volume of the sedimentary rock shell compared to that of the overall crust and mantle? As Table 1.4 shows, a global sedimentary rock shell 1000 to 2000 m thick (a volume of 500 to 1000 million km3) (Pettijohn, 1975) is only about 1/90 of the total crustal volume (90,000 km3) and as little as 1/1000 of the volume of the mantle! Surprisingly, the total volume (or mass) of sediment generated over time might greatly exceed the volume or mass of Earth's existing sedimentary rock shell!$

January 10, 2025 at 10:11 PM