Niels de Winter
nielsjdewinter.bsky.social
Niels de Winter
@nielsjdewinter.bsky.social
Assistant Professor @ VU Amsterdam & @ VUBrussel

#Paleoclimate, short-term #climate variability 🌦️, mollusks🐚, #running, popular #science, #gamer, plant-based #vegan 🌱

Sharing new #paleoclimate, #geology and #sclerochronology #science papers + own results
...flagging shortcomings we as authors did not have a chance to respond to. This led to rejection of the manuscript after two intense rounds of revisions. We are grateful for the transparent, open-access peer review process at Climate of the Past. Our study got a second chance and was well received.
November 24, 2025 at 6:34 AM
Unfortunately, while we are proud of how the paper turned out, the process of getting it here has not been very easy, mostly because of a very bad experience in review (with another journal) where a reviewer was able to influence the editor through private messages...
November 24, 2025 at 6:33 AM
This study was largely based on the excellent thesis work of Najat al Fudhaili, whom I had the pleasure to co-supervise at @utrechtuniversity.bsky.social, and who also worked for much of her research project at Geozentrum Nordbayern at FAU in Erlangen, Germany.
November 24, 2025 at 6:32 AM
Yes I think they might be! They are quite common in Late Paleozoic limestones which are often used as decorative slabs :)
November 13, 2025 at 8:56 AM
Thanks for the shoutout @obialik.bsky.social! Pretty proud of our student Nick and on this work in general 😀
October 30, 2025 at 7:10 AM
Big credits to Nick van Horebeek, who skillfully led this nice study that came out of his MSc thesis (!) at @kuleuvenuniversity.bsky.social
October 28, 2025 at 12:18 PM