Monika Doubrawa
@mohnika.bsky.social
Curator Micropalaentology @NMB (Natural History Museum Basel🇨🇭) & keeper of small old things
micropaleontology / geochemistry / oceanography / paleoclimatology / environmental reconstruction / foraminifera /
(she/her) 🇦🇹 🇬🇧 🇳🇱
micropaleontology / geochemistry / oceanography / paleoclimatology / environmental reconstruction / foraminifera /
(she/her) 🇦🇹 🇬🇧 🇳🇱
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Monika Doubrawa
@mohnika.bsky.social
· Jan 23
What is main current reserach mainly about? Here is a little word cloud made out of recent manuscript titles (using: shiny.rcg.sfu.ca/u/rdmorin/sc... )
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Very effective illustration of what has happened to Florida's coral reefs in response to anthropogenic climate and environment change. The loss of this important ecosystem is all but complete - attempts to rescue it discussed here: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/... 🪸🧪🌊
January 28, 2026 at 10:23 AM
Very effective illustration of what has happened to Florida's coral reefs in response to anthropogenic climate and environment change. The loss of this important ecosystem is all but complete - attempts to rescue it discussed here: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/... 🪸🧪🌊
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Yesterday it was cows using tools, today its penguins using satellite imagery.
January 20, 2026 at 6:44 PM
Yesterday it was cows using tools, today its penguins using satellite imagery.
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🚨 New vacancy🚨
Interested in high-resolution climate reconstructions, or know someone who might be? Apply for our exciting new, fully funded PhD position where you will develop reconstructions of extreme weather events in the geological past from fossil shells! 🌩️🌀🌊🐚
werkenbij.vu.nl/vacatures/ph...
Interested in high-resolution climate reconstructions, or know someone who might be? Apply for our exciting new, fully funded PhD position where you will develop reconstructions of extreme weather events in the geological past from fossil shells! 🌩️🌀🌊🐚
werkenbij.vu.nl/vacatures/ph...
Vacature — PhD developing reconstructions for storms in a warmer climate
Are you enthusiastic about climate research and keen to discover how warmer climate changes the frequency of storms in the past and future? Then apply for this PhD project!
werkenbij.vu.nl
January 12, 2026 at 9:16 AM
🚨 New vacancy🚨
Interested in high-resolution climate reconstructions, or know someone who might be? Apply for our exciting new, fully funded PhD position where you will develop reconstructions of extreme weather events in the geological past from fossil shells! 🌩️🌀🌊🐚
werkenbij.vu.nl/vacatures/ph...
Interested in high-resolution climate reconstructions, or know someone who might be? Apply for our exciting new, fully funded PhD position where you will develop reconstructions of extreme weather events in the geological past from fossil shells! 🌩️🌀🌊🐚
werkenbij.vu.nl/vacatures/ph...
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Happy New Year folks 🎆🎈🎊 2026 will see us celebrating the 200 year anniversary of the first ever publication on Foraminifera from the French naturalist Alcide d’Orbigny. Happy birthday Forams!!!!
January 5, 2026 at 9:42 AM
Don't do this to me!
I'm currently working on a presentation for a very public event, trying to (among others) getting the people to not only associate dinosaurs with the KPg extinction 😅
I'm currently working on a presentation for a very public event, trying to (among others) getting the people to not only associate dinosaurs with the KPg extinction 😅
The last bombshell paleontology discovery of a year of bombshell discoveries: Ammonites survived the K-PG extinction! www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Ammonite survival across the Cretaceous–Paleogene boundary confirmed by new data from Denmark - Scientific Reports
We provide a reassessment of the hypothesis of ammonite survival across the Cretaceous–Paleogene (Maastrichtian–Danian) boundary, based on new data from the lower Danian Cerithium Limestone Member at ...
www.nature.com
January 2, 2026 at 9:48 AM
Don't do this to me!
I'm currently working on a presentation for a very public event, trying to (among others) getting the people to not only associate dinosaurs with the KPg extinction 😅
I'm currently working on a presentation for a very public event, trying to (among others) getting the people to not only associate dinosaurs with the KPg extinction 😅
My favourite review (of a fire blanket).
"Survived house fire - our house burnt down and is totally destroyed. I found the fire blanket we bought a year ago in the rubbel. Ordered a new one :D.
+ fire proof
+ found in OG packaging on rubble
- could not have saved the house (fire too big haha)"
"Survived house fire - our house burnt down and is totally destroyed. I found the fire blanket we bought a year ago in the rubbel. Ordered a new one :D.
+ fire proof
+ found in OG packaging on rubble
- could not have saved the house (fire too big haha)"
December 31, 2025 at 8:53 AM
My favourite review (of a fire blanket).
"Survived house fire - our house burnt down and is totally destroyed. I found the fire blanket we bought a year ago in the rubbel. Ordered a new one :D.
+ fire proof
+ found in OG packaging on rubble
- could not have saved the house (fire too big haha)"
"Survived house fire - our house burnt down and is totally destroyed. I found the fire blanket we bought a year ago in the rubbel. Ordered a new one :D.
+ fire proof
+ found in OG packaging on rubble
- could not have saved the house (fire too big haha)"
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slow day in the office so figured we'd start some beef with museums
December 19, 2025 at 11:30 AM
slow day in the office so figured we'd start some beef with museums
Seeing that AI pictures are getting creepingly hard to tell from real ones, the idea of carrying a totem - which only you know in detail - becomes something to think about.
December 9, 2025 at 1:18 PM
Seeing that AI pictures are getting creepingly hard to tell from real ones, the idea of carrying a totem - which only you know in detail - becomes something to think about.
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TIL about a memorial ceremony in Iceland in 2019 to mark the end of a glacier, changing the place name from Okjökull to Ok (jökull = glacier). Uncompromising wording on the bronze plaque:
"This is to acknowledge that we know what is happening and what needs to be done. Only you know if we did it".
"This is to acknowledge that we know what is happening and what needs to be done. Only you know if we did it".
December 7, 2025 at 5:17 PM
TIL about a memorial ceremony in Iceland in 2019 to mark the end of a glacier, changing the place name from Okjökull to Ok (jökull = glacier). Uncompromising wording on the bronze plaque:
"This is to acknowledge that we know what is happening and what needs to be done. Only you know if we did it".
"This is to acknowledge that we know what is happening and what needs to be done. Only you know if we did it".
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This really is a must read for anyone in academia.
December 7, 2025 at 5:12 PM
This really is a must read for anyone in academia.
Scientific first-world problems: its winter and the foot of my microscope is so cold, I could build little snow man with foraminifera as eyes and noses on it⛄
Just missing the snow...
Just missing the snow...
November 24, 2025 at 10:37 AM
Scientific first-world problems: its winter and the foot of my microscope is so cold, I could build little snow man with foraminifera as eyes and noses on it⛄
Just missing the snow...
Just missing the snow...
Printing out reviews from a rejected paper - maybe it "hurts" less to read them from paper 😅...
November 21, 2025 at 9:32 AM
Printing out reviews from a rejected paper - maybe it "hurts" less to read them from paper 😅...
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🔔🔔New Paper 🔔🔔
Pollen-based REVEALS land-cover reconstructions for Europe during the latter half of the Last Glacial Period
essd.copernicus.org/articles/17/...
We show that glacial refugia and frequent openings of migration corridors may have played a substantial role human dispersal
Pollen-based REVEALS land-cover reconstructions for Europe during the latter half of the Last Glacial Period
essd.copernicus.org/articles/17/...
We show that glacial refugia and frequent openings of migration corridors may have played a substantial role human dispersal
Landscape reconstructions for Europe during the late Last Glacial (60–20 ka BP): a pollen-based REVEALS approach
Abstract. Vegetation change during the Last Glacial period in Europe plays a crucial role in better understanding the ecosystem dynamics response to abrupt climate change. Yet, most quantitative recon...
essd.copernicus.org
November 11, 2025 at 2:30 PM
🔔🔔New Paper 🔔🔔
Pollen-based REVEALS land-cover reconstructions for Europe during the latter half of the Last Glacial Period
essd.copernicus.org/articles/17/...
We show that glacial refugia and frequent openings of migration corridors may have played a substantial role human dispersal
Pollen-based REVEALS land-cover reconstructions for Europe during the latter half of the Last Glacial Period
essd.copernicus.org/articles/17/...
We show that glacial refugia and frequent openings of migration corridors may have played a substantial role human dispersal
Who else cringes everytime somebody pulls out an AI-generated image in their presentation, which in an uncanny-valley way relates to the topic they want to discuss, but delivers no added value?
November 10, 2025 at 10:58 AM
Who else cringes everytime somebody pulls out an AI-generated image in their presentation, which in an uncanny-valley way relates to the topic they want to discuss, but delivers no added value?
"Don’t let perfect be the enemy of good. Good already has enough enemies."
Ep. 274, The HOA - Welcome to Nightvale
@nightvaleradio.bsky.social
Ep. 274, The HOA - Welcome to Nightvale
@nightvaleradio.bsky.social
October 20, 2025 at 3:15 PM
"Don’t let perfect be the enemy of good. Good already has enough enemies."
Ep. 274, The HOA - Welcome to Nightvale
@nightvaleradio.bsky.social
Ep. 274, The HOA - Welcome to Nightvale
@nightvaleradio.bsky.social
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Human artists!?
Use one piece to convince people to follow you !
Use one piece to convince people to follow you !
October 20, 2025 at 9:51 AM
Human artists!?
Use one piece to convince people to follow you !
Use one piece to convince people to follow you !
When you had "a week" (and are going into the second "a week"), but you also have lovely coworkers 🥰
September 16, 2025 at 8:37 AM
When you had "a week" (and are going into the second "a week"), but you also have lovely coworkers 🥰
🐝🐚🐙 Job Opening! 🐙🐚🐝
We are looking for a new collection manager for the macro-invertebarte collection at the Natural History Museum in Basel (CH).
I can only recommend the museum and the curator!
We are looking for a new collection manager for the macro-invertebarte collection at the Natural History Museum in Basel (CH).
I can only recommend the museum and the curator!
📯Collection manager position in the Natural History Museum of Basel 🇨🇭
Collection: "invertebrate" fossils
Location: maps.app.goo.gl/Svd1o2M333av...
Workload: 70% of full-time
Description and application page: stellenmarkt.bs.ch/kbs/job/deta...
Collection: "invertebrate" fossils
Location: maps.app.goo.gl/Svd1o2M333av...
Workload: 70% of full-time
Description and application page: stellenmarkt.bs.ch/kbs/job/deta...
September 15, 2025 at 12:06 PM
🐝🐚🐙 Job Opening! 🐙🐚🐝
We are looking for a new collection manager for the macro-invertebarte collection at the Natural History Museum in Basel (CH).
I can only recommend the museum and the curator!
We are looking for a new collection manager for the macro-invertebarte collection at the Natural History Museum in Basel (CH).
I can only recommend the museum and the curator!
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Hey Bluesky hivemind, climate modelling data question. Does anyone know where I could find CESM2 and MPI large ensemble annual global mean surface temperature timeseries?
September 15, 2025 at 9:21 AM
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I love this with my whole soul
June 25, 2025 at 3:34 PM
I love this with my whole soul
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🌊 In 2023, oceans should’ve absorbed more CO2 due to El Niño, but they didn’t
Despite cooler tropical Pacific waters, record-high SSTs led to ~10% less ocean CO2 uptake than expected, especially in the Northern Hemisphere
Warming waters = weaker carbon sink
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Despite cooler tropical Pacific waters, record-high SSTs led to ~10% less ocean CO2 uptake than expected, especially in the Northern Hemisphere
Warming waters = weaker carbon sink
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Unexpected decline in the ocean carbon sink under record-high sea surface temperatures in 2023 - Nature Climate Change
The ocean carbon sink strengthened in previous warm El Niño years due to reduced CO2 outgassing in the tropics. Here the authors show that the ocean carbon sink declined in 2023 despite record-high se...
www.nature.com
September 2, 2025 at 11:56 PM
🌊 In 2023, oceans should’ve absorbed more CO2 due to El Niño, but they didn’t
Despite cooler tropical Pacific waters, record-high SSTs led to ~10% less ocean CO2 uptake than expected, especially in the Northern Hemisphere
Warming waters = weaker carbon sink
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Despite cooler tropical Pacific waters, record-high SSTs led to ~10% less ocean CO2 uptake than expected, especially in the Northern Hemisphere
Warming waters = weaker carbon sink
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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One might think that Nazi crimes and palaeontology never overlapped, and yet... Have you ever wondered what happened to tens of palaeontologists & geologists in the Nazi-occupied Poland? How academics helped to bring down the fascist regime. And a curious story of Schindler-equivalent in geology. 🧵
December 5, 2024 at 9:40 PM
One might think that Nazi crimes and palaeontology never overlapped, and yet... Have you ever wondered what happened to tens of palaeontologists & geologists in the Nazi-occupied Poland? How academics helped to bring down the fascist regime. And a curious story of Schindler-equivalent in geology. 🧵
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Ich bin gerade über diesen Text gestolpert, den ich vor ziemlich genau 10 Jahren auf Facebook veröffentlicht habe.
Er hat damals 3,5 Mio Menschen erreicht - dabei war das alles noch ein paar Wochen vor der großen Migration, vor Corona, neuem Ukraine-Krieg und Donald Trump…
Er hat damals 3,5 Mio Menschen erreicht - dabei war das alles noch ein paar Wochen vor der großen Migration, vor Corona, neuem Ukraine-Krieg und Donald Trump…
Warum die Sicherheit nicht wiederkommt › Blog von Armin Wolf
Ich bin Jahrgang 1966, also vor allem in den 1970er Jahren aufgewachsen, als im Fernsehen diese Sparbuch-Werbung lief. Das war im Großen ...
www.arminwolf.at
September 1, 2025 at 7:38 AM
Ich bin gerade über diesen Text gestolpert, den ich vor ziemlich genau 10 Jahren auf Facebook veröffentlicht habe.
Er hat damals 3,5 Mio Menschen erreicht - dabei war das alles noch ein paar Wochen vor der großen Migration, vor Corona, neuem Ukraine-Krieg und Donald Trump…
Er hat damals 3,5 Mio Menschen erreicht - dabei war das alles noch ein paar Wochen vor der großen Migration, vor Corona, neuem Ukraine-Krieg und Donald Trump…