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Marco A. Lopez-Sanchez
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Earth scientist interested in rock/mineral properties working at the IACT-CSIC (Spain). I like coding, open source and open science. Spanglish. Personal website https://marcoalopez.github.io/ I post mainly at https://fediscience.org/@marcoalopez
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iactcsic.bsky.social
🧵 Hoy el Calendario Científico Escolar del @csic.es conmemora a Georgius Agricola (1494–1555), considerado el padre de la mineralogía.

Su legado sigue influyendo en la ciencia y la técnica, casi cinco siglos después de su muerte.

👇
November 20, 2025 at 9:58 AM
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iactcsic.bsky.social
📸 ¡Día 5 de la #SemanaDeLaCiencia en el @iactcsic.bsky.social!

🎒Los alumnos del IES Alba Longa se han convertido en pequeños mineralogistas aprendiendo mucho sobre minerales y cristalografía.💎✨

🕵️‍♂️🔍¡Además han aprendido a buscar minerales en una roca!
November 13, 2025 at 1:01 PM
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iactcsic.bsky.social
El pasado viernes se celebró en el @iactcsic.bsky.social la charla:

🌍“Tierras raras y otros metales estratégicos: las vitaminas que mueven el mundo”

🗣️ Jose María González Jiménez

Una reflexión sobre el papel esencial de estos elementos en la tecnología y la energía sostenible. ⚙️🔋
November 3, 2025 at 9:28 AM
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erc.europa.eu
New video 📹 ! Changes to #eligibility #rules for ERC Starting & Consolidator Grant applicants, as explained by ERC President Maria Leptin.

Watch the full 🆕 interview bit.ly/4otIva9 👀

Read the explanatory text (from 15/9/25) 📑 link.europa.eu/hP3WWF

#Research #Grant #Funding #AcademicSky 🧪
October 16, 2025 at 2:35 PM
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iactcsic.bsky.social
🔬🌍¿Sabías que puedes visitar el @iactcsic.bsky.social ?

🔍Descubre: fósiles, minerales y cómo investigamos el pasado de la Tierra.

📚Visitas guiadas para centros educativos.

📆Más info y reservas: www.iact.csic.es/divulgacion/...
July 30, 2025 at 8:03 AM
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csic.es
🎓 Descubre el ecosistema digital de aprendizaje del #CSIC

✍️ La institución ha lanzado un portal para impulsar el desarrollo académico, profesional y personal

🖥️ Descubre #CSICAprende: másteres, certificaciones, #MicrocredencialesCSIC y muchos más itinerarios

🎥 @dpe-csic.bsky.social  👇
September 21, 2025 at 12:17 PM
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mineralcup.bsky.social
#MinCup25 Round 1 Match 1: Hazardous (but useful!) #Chrysotile faces off against stunning gem #Pectolite. Do you pick the forbidden cotton candy, or the anti-pulverization beauty?

VOTE: www.mineralcup.org/2025/vote/r1...

Check RESULTS: www.mineralcup.org/2025/results...
Vote in Round 1 Match 1 — Mineral Cup
Click here to vote in Chrysotile vs Pectolite
www.mineralcup.org
September 1, 2025 at 12:04 AM
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subfossilguy.bsky.social
BEFORE/AFTER the Dharali village debris flow today! 😱

Source: Manas Kabadwal
August 5, 2025 at 7:59 PM
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csic.es
☀️💧"Durante el aislamiento del Mediterráneo su nivel habría caído hasta dos kilómetros por debajo del actual, y entonces habría comenzado a oscilar a causa de los cambios orbitales en la insolación de la Tierra”, explica @danigeos.bsky.social, investigador de @geo3bcn-csic.bsky.social 👇
July 15, 2025 at 9:14 AM
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mikeliturriaga.bsky.social
En su etapa como director adjunto de El País, este señor me censuró una columna y me presionó repetidas veces para que dejáramos de hacer artículos críticos con las grandes empresas de alimentación en El Comidista. Que le echaran fue una auténtica liberación (en el diario le llamaban "King Joffrey")
June 18, 2025 at 6:31 AM
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enochmm.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy
¿Dónde están hoy los que dijeron que el #apagon fue por falta de inercia?
¿Dónde están los de que había demasiadas renovables?
Y tantas otras tonterías proclamadas a los cuatro vientos por bocachanclas.

Así que propongo un ejercicio de auto revisión: Ir en nuestro perfil a las publicaciones de […]
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mastodon.social
June 17, 2025 at 7:52 PM
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eliascueto.bsky.social
En fin, estas convocatorias no hacen sino eternizar las relaciones de vasallaje en la ciencia española.

Tenemos el modelo francés al lado, que podríamos implantar mañana mismo. No hay ni siquiera que inventar. Copiemos!
June 8, 2025 at 9:49 AM
marcoalopez.bsky.social
New paper out! sciencedirect.com/science/arti It will be available for free download at the following link for the next 50 days: authors.elsevier.com/a/1l1gR98 More info about the paper below #geosciences
#science
May 4, 2025 at 4:18 PM
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eliascueto.bsky.social
Daba un riñón por conocer las interioridades del mandato de Castells.

Qué pasó? Por qué una persona con las ideas tan claras no fue capaz de llevarlas adelante? Por qué se fue?

www.eldiario.es/sociedad/bur...
La 'burbuja' de universidades privadas de dudosa calidad obliga al Gobierno a volver a endurecer los requisitos
El decreto de 2021 que imponía más requisitos no ha frenado la aprobación de campus que no alcanzan los mínimos de la norma por, entre otras cosas, la moratoria de cinco años para cumplir tras empezar...
www.eldiario.es
March 29, 2025 at 10:11 AM
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moisescanle.bsky.social
Volver a las cavernas: 👇🏼👇🏼

"officials have urged scientists to remove all references to mRNA vaccine technology from their grant applications"

kffhealthnews.org/news/article...
Scientists Say NIH Officials Told Them To Scrub mRNA References on Grants - KFF Health News
Two senior scientists say National Institutes of Health officials advised them to remove references to mRNA vaccines in grant applications, and they fear the Trump administration will abandon a promis...
kffhealthnews.org
March 19, 2025 at 6:50 AM
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joho.bsky.social
According to a former editor of JAMA, we need more studies on whether or not vaccines cause autism.

What mistakes does he make?

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Interesting that some Senators criticized @DrJBhattacharya for saying he would fund research at the @NIH to show that vaccines do not cause autism. The critics argued that this was 'settled science.' Yes, there is compelling evidence against the vaccine-autism relationship. However, a large swath of the public do not believe it. Because of public skepticism, it is not settled science. There is a need for further research intentending to convince the public regarding vaccine safety. It is not good enough to say "I am a scientist at a prestigious university, and you should believe what I say because of who I am." That does not work anymore, especially after the pandemic when science's reputation took a big hit...
March 7, 2025 at 4:18 PM
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adrianaguatame.bsky.social
A friend included this anti-acknowledgement section on her PhD thesis. She also added the proposition: “Systematic bullying and undermining of girls and women in STEM starts early on and is the reason why they do not stay in science and related fields.”
Absurd we still need to go through this
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There have been people less than helpful in my journey here. I wanted to acknowledge those too, bc I know I am not unique in this experience. No thank you to the physics study assoc that made me sing songs about how women couldn't study physics without sleeping with the professor, the day I stepped into university life. No thank you to the 5th year physics student that decided to assign me a stripper name within the first minute of meeting me in the physics coffee corner in my first year. No thank you to the technician that was responsible for onboarding me on the use of the cluster in my third year who raised his eyebrows and asked me if that meant I was some sort of computer girl. No thank you to the senior researcher that sent me utterly inappropriate texts after a conference, then proceeded to apologise months later by telling me they had not been meant for me anyway so no hard feelings remain hopefully And no thank you to him for attending every conference I've been to since. No thank you to the people who told me that it was surprising that I was doing a PhD since I was a girl. No thank you to the man who mistook me for a coffee lady at a conference, and after having to correct him two times that I did not work there, responded with you should consider it. No thank you to the researcher that asked me what I was wearing underneath my outfit during a conference. No thank you to the physicist who declared to a room full of other physicists that biologists don't know how to design an experiment. No thank you to the people who have called me scary instead of strong and intimidating instead of intelligent. And finally, no thank you to the exec board of the TU Delft, whose knee-jerk reaction to being held up a mirror about the social safety at the university, was to sue the party holding up the mirror instead of looking at the problems they highlighted. ... You have made me feel like I do not belong in science & I cannot forgive you for that.
March 6, 2025 at 4:40 PM
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geologiaoviedo.bsky.social
La 10ª edición de la Olimpiada Asturiana de Geología se celebrará el viernes 7 de marzo en la Facultad de Geología de la Universidad de Oviedo.

El plazo para inscribirse finaliza el 24 de febrero de 2025.

TODA LA INFORMACIÓN E INSCRIPCIONES AQUÍ: geologia.uniovi.es/facultad/dif...
February 20, 2025 at 12:53 PM
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amdelvaz.bsky.social
En #España la suscripción para leer las revistas de #Elsevier (ni solo para publicar en ellas en #AccesoAbierto) está atascada, y veremos a ver si no hay corte. Pensando en activar alternativas de acceso al contenido… 🐦‍⬛
lseimpactblog.bsky.social LSE Impact Blog @lseimpactblog.bsky.social · Feb 14
👀ICYMI: "If multiple libraries are unable, or unwilling, to sign up to a deal then either the remaining subscribers will have to pay more to maintain the revenue, or the publisher will have to accept they will make less."

#OpenAccess #ScholComm
Why are universities ending their Elsevier open access agreements?
After recent reporting that three UK universities had ended their transitional open access agreements with the publisher Elsevier, Peter Barr explains why academic libraries are making these decisi…
blogs.lse.ac.uk
February 15, 2025 at 12:18 AM
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eliascueto.bsky.social
La carrera académica se ha vuelto una picadora de carne en los últimos años. El famoso "two-body problem" (traslados, estancias de investigador + pareja) es difícil para todos, pero la sociedad no es igualitaria y se ceba con las mujeres especialmente.

www.publico.es/mujer/iguald...
La difícil conciliación en la universidad de las mujeres, obligadas a elegir entre la carrera y los cuidados
Avanzar en la carrera universitaria es complicado y las demandas que exigen en los puestos más elevados obligan a muchas mujeres a tener que discriminar entre la carrera y los cuidados.
www.publico.es
January 21, 2025 at 3:40 PM
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eliascueto.bsky.social
Un análisis muy acertado, aunque no lo comparta al 100%.

Es necesario restablecer una política científica y de personal dignas de tal nombre. Y eso pasa por arrebatárselas a los departamentos, que las ejercen de facto.

El modelo para hacerlo lo tenemos bien cerca: las unidades mixtas francesas.
ftmaestre.bsky.social Fernando T. Maestre @ftmaestre.bsky.social · Dec 1
No estoy solo cuando digo que la desmotivación del profesorado universitario causada por el exceso de burocracia, la falta de apoyo y la carga adicional de trabajo que conlleva investigar es uno de los mayores lastres en la universidad española maestrelab.blogspot.com/2024/09/se-p...
December 1, 2024 at 4:36 PM
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Tectonic plates by Atlasova
October 7, 2024 at 11:41 AM
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lithospheric.jorgegines.com
Hello, new #Geology pals! I've been in this boat for 14 months now. It sails nicely. Make it your home, please.

A follow-up picture: Another chevron fold, same beach in Asturias (Spain). Same scale (Tina🥰).

Gobsmacking chunk of rock: A "floating" fold, a recumbent chevron synform.

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A large geological feature, and a woman for scale. It is a fold, a recumbent synform
August 15, 2024 at 7:52 PM
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lherzolite2024.mas.to.ap.brid.gy
🚨🚨🚨 Only 26 hours left to register for the 7th Orogenic Lherzolite Meeting in Oviedo (Spain) and visit the rocks of Cabo Ortegal🏔️! Are you going to miss it? Register now before the deadline! #lherzolite2024 #caboortegalcomplex #geoscience
July 30, 2024 at 7:19 PM