Mike MacFerrin, GlaciologistVerified account

@IceSheetMike

Research scientist of ice-sheet meltwater feedbacks. In a fight for disability rights. . . He/him. δt is all we really get here 🌎.

Cheyenne, Arapaho & Ute lands
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    6 Nov 2017

    I'll get there. Dunno how yet, or where, but I'll find the way there. Just putting this out to the universe.

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  2. 9 hours ago

    This wasn’t written specifically for academia, but it could be.

    What we need to do is hear a lot less from the 1% who made it & hear instead from all the equally talented who never get there because they've got no support at all. Think about what we all lose. Those aren't personal failures, they're solvable systemic failures.
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  3. Dec 7

    Had a good chat w a colleague today. We voiced some frustrations. We’re getting toward solutions that hopefully work for both of us. We see each other a bit clearer now. I wish more interactions in academia were like this. So many are… not. I’m thankful when it happens.

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  4. Dec 6

    Our school's parents all got email about "DECLINING PERFORMANCE" blaming kids for "impulsive, short-term behaviors," hoping to "not bemoan the continuing slide and lack of engagement I am currently observing." It's a pandemic. They hate all-online school. Read the room, a-hole.

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    Dec 4

    I am begging everyone to read the plain language summary. You will not be disappointed.

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    Dec 3

    34 years Greenland Ice Sheet mass balance. Blue: Surface mass balance (snowfall-runoff), green: discharge due to iceberg calving, red: total mass balance, the sum of the two. Estimate from observations and model data.

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  7. Dec 2

    I’m in Scientific Program on my desktop, I add things I want to see to “My Schedule”, but then I don’t see anywhere I can click to view “My Schedule”? It says to click the little ✅-icon “in the menu” but where is this menu? I feel like I’m missing something obvious.

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    Dec 1

    It's the first day of December and Colorado's second largest wildfire on record is now 100% contained:

    100% containment posted to
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  9. Dec 1

    Glaciology sometimes feels like writing ever-more-detailed future obituaries for the ice sheets, depending on how fast we slay them.

    New research article: Large and irreversible future decline of the Greenland ice sheet
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    Nov 27

    413.30 parts per million (ppm) CO2 in air 26-Nov-2020

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    Nov 24

    2020-has been quite the year.

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    Nov 25

    Given 's running costs of <€500 per annum, the price of a *single* OA Nature paper could fund this diamond OA journal for 20 years. That's two decades of open access provision at a grand total of €0 for authors and readers 💎🔓📚🌋

    The journals will charge authors up to €9,500 to make research papers free to read, in a long-awaited alternative to subscription-only publishing.
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    Nov 26

    These also form on where they are known as glacier tables - the mechanism is the same.

    This rare phenomenon is called "Baikal Zen", where rocks lying on the surface of frozen lakes are heated by sunlight that emits infrared rays, melting the ice below. When the sun sets, the ice freezes again, creating these incredible frozen near-impossible structures.
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    Nov 25

    Job: Chief Science and Innovation Officer at ⁦⁩

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    Nov 24

    Mysteries of Greenland's Ancient Lake: November news from the Earth Institute -

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  16. Nov 24

    But wait, there’s more! Even if you get rejected, you pay over €2K for the privilege of getting your rejection letter with the reviews attached, lol. And the reviewers still do this for free. 🤣

    Replying to @jmgarciafnandez @NatureNews
    Furthermore, they request a "non refundable fee of € 2,190" to "cover an editorial assessment and the peer-review process. In return, they get a review document". Translation: you pay € 2,190 for a rejection, with possibilities of publication elsewhere. I repeat: no shame.
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  17. Nov 24

    Do you still ask your academic expert reviewers to work for free? Oh, you do??

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  18. Nov 23

    Prince Charming.

    Name a Disney character that DEFINITELY voted for Trump.
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  19. Nov 22

    Anyone else use to track runs? I kinda like the Friends feature. I’m not tryna win races or awards when I run, but I like the kudos & community. Lemme know if you want, we’ll find each other.

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  20. Nov 22

    Half-marathon... done. Whew. These still wear me the hell out, but huzzah.

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  21. Nov 18

    These planes have come down in price in recent years. But even now… For the cost of *each one* of these jets (~$80M) you could build 5 brand new elementary schools (~$7M apiece) and pay a dozen teachers solid pay & full benefits ($100k/yr) at each of them for nearly a decade.

    Great shots of our exercise today! Story: 📷: photos by R. Nial Bradshaw
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