Daniel Woodworth @dwoodworth@qoto.org

The JOIDES Resolution and the researchers aboard it continue to do excellent work.

I sure hope nothing happens to it...

https://www.science.org/content/article/long-last-ocean-drillers-exhume-bounty-rocks-earth-s-mantle?fbclid=IwAR2_g0xticaeZqoGRsVqsh_C2TaMxNd46-fgvD2rO3cnxOWK_zyMItjGBGs

If you happen to see that one of your articles was featured on a climate-denialist blog...do not, under any circumstances, scroll down to the comments.

My heart goes out to the scientists who work in fields that are even more frequently topics of controversy than my own!

"If you can bear to hear the truth you've spoken,
Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools..."

I find this both incredibly cool and a little infuriating - the later in a tongue-in-cheek way, because no one thought of this when I was an undergraduate:
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/10899995.2021.1908810

I've been working my way through a more thorough read of this JGR: Solid Earth paper - it's an excellent read, both for the science and the approachable writing.

Rose, Zhang, and Swanson-Hysell develop an approach to estimating plate motion relative to the spin axis (not quite absolute plate motion, but close if you neglect TPW). The most important part, in my opinion, is that their method produces uncertainties organically (as an advisor used to say, if your result doesn't have uncertainties, you're doing math or philosophy, not science).

https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1029/2021JB023890

My dad sent me this today - I've just finished a months-long process of getting insurance approval for Humira again (again because I'd been on it until switching insurance providers).

There isn't an option for me; Humira is the only thing that keeps me from having lesions across 70+% of my body and severe joint pain, but if there were, if there were any way to avoid sending money (not mine, but still) to that absolute cesspit of a company, I would.

This article doesn't even scratch the surface of what AbbVie does with Humira pricing, but it's a start. Something needs to change.

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/01/28/business/humira-abbvie-monopoly.html?fbclid=IwAR0sHWOoQ9TOWRIs2qiKvpyUUCpV7BcSM1g01bn7YmPOanTHQD7x0Sj4NdU&register=email&auth=register-email

I see an ECR; I follow an ECR - I may not understand your toots very well (or at all), but I will darn sure boost them!

I've been moving my online presence off Twitter. I doubt my handful of tweets will make a difference, but I think, in light of the new owner's capricious and potentially dangerous behavior, it's best if those with something to offer (however modest) do so without enabling him.

To be a good scientist and human, it's first necessary to love truth and goodness, and I don't see engagement there allowing that.

By way of introduction:

I'm a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Houston. My research focuses largely on linking tectonic and mantle processes, predictions, and observations. I also have interests in expanding access to science, science communication, and communicating technical topics to a general audience more broadly.

Outside those, I enjoy history, politics, football, and "football" when my wife makes me watch it.