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Bioswiss @bioswiss.bsky.social · 28d

How the great American promise dies on university campuses. (Gift article) #mint #fedilz #bluelz #education

www.nytimes.com/2025/09/08/o...

Opinion | We Are Watching a Scientific Superpower Destroy Itself

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Cindy De Jonge @cindydejonge.bsky.social · May 3

Beautiful spring day in Central Switzerland. ☀️

Tree with blossoms in the foreground, a field with yellow flowers (rapeseed?) in the background.

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Pablo Martínez Sosa (he/él) @terriblelagarto.pmartoza.com · Apr 30

The cake won't be a lie tomorrow morning at the poster session BG2.4 Lipid biomarkers #EGU25. Join us for cool biomarker stories and, indeed, some cake!
Also join us for the oral session in the afternoon.

Image from the videogame Portal of a chocolate cake with cherries on top and a single candle.

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Cindy De Jonge @cindydejonge.bsky.social · Apr 30

Working on the interface of organic geochemistry and archeology? Have an exciting dataset that is ready to write up? Or one of those papers that has been a draft since the Stone Age? Consider this special issue to publish your research, submission by 01/09. shorturl.at/O3gzV

Organic Geochemistry | ScienceDirect.com by Elsevier - Organic Geochemistry | ScienceDirect.com by ElsevierScienceDirect

Read the latest articles of Organic Geochemistry at ScienceDirect.com, Elsevier’s leading platform of peer-reviewed scholarly literature

www.sciencedirect.com

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European Geosciences Union (EGU) @egu.eu · Apr 30

Are you attending #EGU25 with kids? Join us for this exciting event for kids at the EGU networking zone-terrace G!
Discover the wonders of our planet with Dr Lucia Perez-Diaz, author of "How the Earth Works", through fun & educational games.
📆 Thursday 1 May: webforms.copernicus.org/EGU25/pop-up...

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Dr. Nina Davtian (she/her/hers) @ninadavtian.bsky.social · Mar 8

Second, Devika Varma, who recently defended her PhD thesis. Her PhD work at @niozsearesearch.bsky.social aimed to investigate paleotemperature indicators based on archaeal hydroxylated tetraether lipids (OH-isoGDGTs):
www.nioz.nl/en/news/inve...
#GDGTs #isoGDGTs #TeamArchaea
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#PaleoSky
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Investigating paleotemperature proxies based on archaeal hydroxylated tetraether lipids

Understanding past sea surface temperatures (SSTs) is crucial for reconstructing Earth's climate history. Devika Varma has focused her PhD research pr…

www.nioz.nl

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Civixplorer @civixplorer.bsky.social · Feb 22

How to figure out which European language you are reading.

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Marta Marchegiano @mamarchegiano.bsky.social · Jan 15

Are you an ECR researcher interested in being part of the fantastic ICDP world?

Please, send your application to participate to the next ICDP ECR workshop in Vienna 25-27 of April 2025

More info
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International Continental Scientific Drilling Program ICDP @icdpdrilling.bsky.social · Jan 8

❗Workshop Call for Early Career Researchers: “The Next Generation” 👉Vienna, 25-27 April,before #EGU25
ℹ️ www.icdp-online.org/all-events/d...

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Cindy De Jonge @cindydejonge.bsky.social · Jan 9

Organic geochemists: call the cup a vial.

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ARIES DTP @aries-dtp.bsky.social · Dec 13

#PhD #studentship investigating the occurrence and degradation of GDGTs in extreme environments for paleoclimate insights and deep biosphere understanding. https://buff.ly/3UzCZpP

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Cindy De Jonge @cindydejonge.bsky.social · Jan 7

The scientific committee is looking forward to reading all abstracts, also those that don't describe a fully analysed dataset and/or completed analysis. No need to wait for the late breaker abstract deadline!

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Cindy De Jonge @cindydejonge.bsky.social · Jan 7

Call to all organic geochemists and molecular friends that want to join IMOG in Porto this September (imogconference.org): abstracts can currently be submitted. Submission before the deadline on February 15th to be considered for a poster or talk. #IMOG25 🧪⚒️

IMOG - International Meeting on Organic Geochemistry

Join us for the International Meeting on Organic Geochemistry (IMOG) which brings together the best minds in the fields of organic geochemistry with topics ranging from biogeochemistry to petroleum ge...

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spencer roberts 🦈 @unpopularscience.bsky.social · Dec 2

There’s a popular myth that managed grazing can help fight climate change. Soil science reveals the opposite.

Of all land uses, grazed lands have the largest soil carbon deficit relative to their capacity.

On a global scale, ranching has decimated soil carbon. 🌏 🧪 🧵

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Global stocks and capacity of mineral-associated soil organic carbon - Nature Communications

Mineral-organic associations play a key role in soil carbon preservation. Here, Georgiou et al. produce global estimates of mineral-associated soil carbon, providing insight into the world’s soils and...

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Andrew Steele @statto.bsky.social · Nov 21

There’s more to rainbows than the human eye can see: here’s how a rainbow extends into the infrared and ultraviolet.

Photos:
1. Infrared
2. Visible (obviously)
3. Ultraviolet, and
4. A composite showing how UV is beyond the violet in a rainbow, and IR beyond the red end.

🧪 #photography

An infrared photo of a rainbow: a strange, ghostly-looking rainbow in a mostly black and white photo, with a faintly red outer edge and a cyan inner edge, and what look like a few even fainter ‘echo’ bows inside

A regular visible-light pic of a rainbow

An ultraviolet picture of a rainbow: a dark, foreboding landscape with a deep purple stripe emanating from it, and a grey stripe inside

A composite of the three preceding photos, showing that the infrared bow is ‘outside’ the visible light rainbow, and the ultraviolet bow ‘inside’

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Jordon Hemingway @jordonhemingway.bsky.social · Nov 18

🚨 New Ph.D. opening! 🚨 We seek a Ph.D. student in soil (bio)geochemistry as it relates to ERW, particularly in the tropics. Position is part of a very multi-disciplinary group split between @ethzurich.bsky.social EAPS and USYS depts @usyseth.bsky.social. Please share!

jobs.ethz.ch/job/view/JOP...

PhD Position in Soil Biogeochemistry of Enhanced Rock Weathering

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Robert Reinecke @reinecke.bsky.social · Nov 18

Have you seen the hydrology climate stripes?

If not you might have missed the yearly WMO report on the state of water resources. Take a look: wmo.int/publication-...

For those who already know the report, there now also is a higher resolution version available!

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Kau))) @carbon8.bsky.social · Oct 30

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New Past Global Changes #PAGES magazine out dedicated to achievements of scientific drilling—timely given the retirement of the #JOIDES resolution #IODP drilling vessel. I was glad to have the opportunity to contribute and help edit this Special Issue!

pastglobalchanges.org/publications...

New PAGES magazine cover with an orange backdrop and title text "Achievements of Scientific Drilling in Paleosciences", with several photos of variously colored sediment cores and drilling ship/rig images.

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Ferwen @ferwen.bsky.social · Oct 25

#FossilFriday Esther Richards was born November 24, 1895. In 1921, she suggested that microfossils could be used in stratigraphy. Her study was ridiculed by Professor J.J. Galloway: “Gentlemen, you know that it can’t be done.” wp.me/p3ihHu-4DF #WomenInSTEM #histsci 🧪⚒️

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Cindy De Jonge @cindydejonge.bsky.social · Oct 24

If anyone needs tips on how to run a round robin, let me know! 😅

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Prof. Stefan Rahmstorf @rahmstorf.bsky.social · Jul 19

An unpopular insight from science (as is climate change), which should not be dismissed just because it’s unpleasant: Long COVID puzzle pieces are falling into place – the picture is unsettling theconversation.com/long-covid-p...

Long COVID puzzle pieces are falling into place – the picture is unsettling

A new study finds the risks of developing long COVID declined over the first two years of the pandemic. But unvaccinated adults were more than twice as likely to get long COVID compared with those who...

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Gabriel Ugueto @serpenillus.bsky.social · May 20

One of the earliest whales, yes you read that right. Pakicetus

🐡 🎨 🧪 #paleontology #whales

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MU-Peter Shimon 🀄️ @mu-peter.bsky.social · May 20

The Bronze Age kingdoms of China have long been overshadowed by the Qin, who replaced them with a unified empire.

Two of them, the Zeng and Chu, rise from obscurity.

Bronze Age China: Phoenix Kingdoms 🏺🧪
the-past.com/feature/phoe...

The compartment full of ritual bronze vessels in Chu tomb no. 1 at Jiuliandun, Zaoyang, under excavation in 2002.

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ETH Zurich @ethz.ch · May 16

ETH Zurich’s new teaching and research building in Basel officially open its doors today. It will host ETH researchers from the fields of experimental biology, bioinformatics, and bioengineering as they work together with outside partners on innovative medical solutions.

An architectural gem and cutting-edge research facility in Basel

ethz.ch

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Fatimagül Husain @fatimagulhusain.bsky.social · Mar 25

P.S. - The deadline to submit an abstract in consideration for an oral presentation during the GRS is April 21st, 2024!

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Fatimagül Husain @fatimagulhusain.bsky.social · Mar 25

Are you an early career organic geochemist with exciting new science to share? If so, apply to the 2024 GRS & GRC in #OrganicGeochemistry! We hope to offset conf. fees for EC researchers pending available funding. Links: bit.ly/oggrs24 & bit.ly/oggrc24.

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