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Carlos Rey Castro
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Professor @udl.cat. MSc.&PhD. @udc.gal. Environmental physical chemistry, reproducible science, #LaTex, #Rstats, #JuliaLang, #JupyterLab, #Quarto, #Obsidian, science dissemination, dataviz.
More information in https://CarlosReyCastro.github.io
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🚨 New preprint alert! 🚨

How does chemistry shape the ocean’s iron cycle?
In our new study, we show that the chemical diversity of organic matter controls how iron is stabilized or lost in the subsurface South Pacific Ocean.

chemrxiv.org/engage/chemr...
Chemical controls on iron distributions across the subsurface South Pacific Ocean
Iron and nitrogen are the primary nutrients that limit productivity in the ocean. While nitrogen cycling is largely controlled by biology, iron cycling is strongly determined by chemistry because iron...
chemrxiv.org
October 31, 2025 at 12:05 PM
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Breaking news: The Environmental Protection Agency has ordered scientists in at least one of its research offices to immediately pause almost all research and stop publishing their studies.
EPA tells scientists to stop publishing studies, employees say
Staff from the EPA’s Office of Water were summoned to a town hall meeting this week and told to pause the publication of most research, pending a review.
wapo.st
September 20, 2025 at 1:28 PM
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Academic authors, here's a peek into the black box of journal publishing from an journal editor if you can bear it:
September 6, 2025 at 11:09 PM
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September 6, 2025 at 4:46 PM
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I now also have a (work in progress) list of #DataViz specific resources as well!

Link: nrennie.rbind.io/data-viz-res...

You can find links to tools, papers, books, blogs, and websites that are related to data visualisation. I'll be adding more resources soon 📊

#RStats #Python
August 12, 2025 at 1:42 PM
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"Exclusive: Medical journal rejects Kennedy's call for retraction of vaccine study"
Exclusive: Medical journal rejects Kennedy's call for retraction of vaccine study
An influential U.S. medical journal is rejecting a call from Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to retract a large Danish study that found that aluminum ingredients in vaccines do not increase health risks for children, the journal's editor told Reuters.
www.reuters.com
August 12, 2025 at 11:33 AM
Beautiful blog post by @hectorsocas.bsky.social where he argues that the “alien ship” idea for 3I/ATLAS is an example of poor scientific reasoning: post-hoc coincidences, cherry-picked data, and unfalsifiable claims. On the contrary, useful science requires predictive, testable hypotheses.
August 10, 2025 at 6:04 PM
“Simple explanations are often compelling & convincing but not always accurate”

informationisbeautiful.net/visualizatio...
Information is Beautiful
Distilling the world's data, information & knowledge into beautiful infographics & visualizations
informationisbeautiful.net
August 6, 2025 at 8:25 AM
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I wrote about the Keeling Curve — our most iconic CO₂ time series — for @sfchronicle.com.

"The Keeling Curve is valuable to science, but it is also a treasure that belongs to humanity as the most poignant indication of our impact on the environment and as a testament to our ability to document it."
Trump’s budget takes aim at gold standard measurement of atmospheric carbon dioxide
OPINION: “President Trump, a renowned climate change denier, has shown repeatedly that he has no use for scientific data that disproves his preconceived assumptions,” David Ho writes.
www.sfchronicle.com
July 28, 2025 at 3:24 PM
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El Gobierno promete 400 millones de euros para traer a España el Telescopio de Treinta Metros que Trump quiere cancelar

elpais.com/ciencia/2025...
El Gobierno promete 400 millones de euros para traer a España el Telescopio de Treinta Metros que Trump quiere cancelar
El Ministerio de Ciencia impulsa la construcción del mayor observatorio del hemisferio norte en la isla de La Palma en lugar de Hawái
elpais.com
July 23, 2025 at 5:38 PM
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Nature research paper: Observation of charge–parity symmetry breaking in baryon decays

go.nature.com/3UjDe7K
Observation of charge–parity symmetry breaking in baryon decays - Nature
The LHCb experiment at CERN has observed significant asymmetries between the decay rates of the beauty baryon and its CP-conjugated antibaryon, thus demonstrating CP violation in baryon decays.
go.nature.com
July 18, 2025 at 5:47 PM
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If you want people in the Fediverse (e.g., Mastodon) to be able to see your posts, just follow @ap.brid.gy and your posts will appear there.

More info here: fed.brid.gy
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January 19, 2025 at 6:47 PM
🧪 How do biodegradable microplastics interact with toxic metals?
Our latest study explores the role of photooxidation and organic matter in chromium adsorption by PLA (polylactic acid) in water. A 🧵:
#Microplastics #EnvironmentalScience #Sustainability
January 19, 2025 at 5:44 PM
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If Bluesky seems dead or low activity on your end it might be that you haven't yet made the most of its design. It's different from Twitter in some key ways so you have to interact differently. I'm writing these tips below from my non-techy perspective, techies please weigh in if I get things wrong:
July 10, 2023 at 10:49 PM