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Monika Doubrawa
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Curator Micropalaentology @NMB (Natural History Museum Basel🇨🇭) & keeper of small old things


micropaleontology / geochemistry / oceanography / paleoclimatology / environmental reconstruction / foraminifera /

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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... )
Wordcloud of relevant reserach topics, made out of titles of recent publications, those include, among others: Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum, shelf, foraminiferal, coastal, atlantic, benthic, reconstruction, perturbation and coral
mohnika.bsky.social
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
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amoeba-lab.bsky.social
If you can't be with the forams you love, love the forams you're with #Ammonia
May 3, 2025 at 9:08 PM
mohnika.bsky.social
"Don’t let perfect be the enemy of good. Good already has enough enemies."

Ep. 274, The HOA - Welcome to Nightvale
@nightvaleradio.bsky.social
October 20, 2025 at 3:15 PM
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gordywright.bsky.social
Human artists!?

Use one piece to convince people to follow you !
Illustration of a hare jumping between lots of gharial crocodiles. Based on the Japanese folktale The White Hare of Inaba
October 20, 2025 at 9:51 AM
mohnika.bsky.social
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
mohnika.bsky.social
🐝🐚🐙 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!
paleodanae.bsky.social Danae Thivaiou @paleodanae.bsky.social · Sep 15
📯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...
September 15, 2025 at 12:06 PM
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chrisjparker.bsky.social Chris Parker @chrisjparker.bsky.social · Sep 15
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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laura-babcock.bsky.social
I love this with my whole soul
June 25, 2025 at 3:34 PM
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ianhall.bsky.social
🌊 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...
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
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nataliajagielska.bsky.social
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. 🧵
Two photographs from the same building, Akademia Górniczo–Hutnicza, the mining academy in Krakow. From 1940s till 2010s.
December 5, 2024 at 9:40 PM
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arminwolf.at
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…
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
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biozentrum.unibas.ch
🧪 The University of Basel is setting up a new endowed professorship in #ClimateBiophysics at the @biozentrum.unibas.ch, funded by the Georg H. Endress Foundation. This new professorship strengthens climate research @unibas.ch. www.biozentrum.unibas.ch/news/detail/...
New endowed professorship strengthens climate research at the University of Basel
The University of Basel is setting up a new endowed professorship at the Biozentrum to make fundamental discoveries at the interface between biophysics and climate-relevant environmental biology. This...
www.biozentrum.unibas.ch
August 26, 2025 at 7:10 AM
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wslresearch.bsky.social
🌲 #JobAlert! MSc in #Environmental Sciences or a related field? Experience in preparing wood samples for #StableIsotope and #radiocarbon analysis? Our #Dendrosciences group offers a position for a #technician: apply.refline.ch/273855/1763/... #ScienceJobs #dendrochronology
Job offer: Technician in Palaeoclimatology/-ecology 80% (f/m/d) As part of the SNSF-project Signatures of Global Late Glacial Climate Change in Tree­Ring Records (SiGnaL), co-led by the Dendrosciences Group at WSL and the Laboratory of Ion Beam Physics (LIP) at ETH Zurich, you will support research on the nature and drivers of abrupt climate changes during the Late Glacial period (approximately 11’000-15’000 years ago). You will assist three PhD researchers in dating, measuring, and synchronizing tree-ring samples from preserved subfossil wood across several regions. This will help refine our understanding of Late Glacial climate dynamics and contribute to improvements of the global radiocarbon calibration curve.Your main tasks will involve surface preparation and high-resolution scanning of subfossil tree-ring material, sample preparation for stable isotope analysis (δ¹³C / δ¹⁸O / δ²H) including image-based tree-ring width measurements, cutting of individual tree rings, cellulose extraction and homogenization, and packing of samples for isotope ratio mass spectrometry (IRMS). In addition, you will contribute to the production of quantitative wood anatomical (QWA) data by preparing wood microsections and image-based measurements of cell structures using the software ROXAS. You preferably hold a Master's degree in Environmental Sciences, Earth Sciences, or a related field and have demonstrated experience in preparing wood samples for stable isotope, QWA, and/or radiocarbon analysis. ldeally, you are familiar with dendrochronology and laboratory work, enjoy contributing to methodological advancements, and have interest in interdisciplinary and international research. You work independently, structured and accurate, are communicative and team-oriented, and have very good spoken and written English language skills.
August 26, 2025 at 6:28 AM
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franzanth.bsky.social
you think you're safe from clams on land?

behold, TREE CLAMS #InverteFest
dantheclamman.blog Dan Killam @dantheclamman.blog · Aug 26
The mangrove jingle shell lives attached to the lower leaves of mangroves! It is not actually air living, and still needs to be immersed by the tides occasionally to survive. Still, I consider it a sign of hope that the clams are working on invading our lands and it is only a matter of time. (209)
A flat golden shell is attached to a mangrove leaf. Photo by the legendary Ria Tan for Wild Singapore
August 26, 2025 at 7:03 AM
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vaw-glaciology.bsky.social
Recent @glamos.bsky.social fieldwork on the #PlaineMorte glacier by @matthias-huss.bsky.social confirms what our models had already indicated: massive ice loss caused by the August heatwave in Switzerland. Even when expected, it is still striking, and sobering, to witness a glacier in its final days
August 18, 2025 at 6:41 AM
mohnika.bsky.social
"Weil so ist der Mensch, ein großes Unglück wie die Zerstörung der Erde verkraftet er viel leichter als ein kleines Unglück wie die Zerstörung der neuen Schi."

Wolf Haas in "Auferstehung der Toten"
August 14, 2025 at 7:40 AM
mohnika.bsky.social
Schrödinger's mammal
August 6, 2025 at 9:57 AM
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lauraminifera.bsky.social
🎉Are you a mineralogist who also loves museums? 🎉
Come join the Natural History Museum Denmark! We are looking for an assistant professor and curator of mineralogy. Advert can be found below, but apply soon! Deadline is 11th August😱

candidate.hr-manager.net/ApplicationI...
211-0241/25-2N Tenure-track Assistant Professor and Curator in Mineralogy at Natural History Museum Denmark
candidate.hr-manager.net
July 29, 2025 at 3:57 PM
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ketanjoshi.co
shame on me for missing the 10yr anniversary of the best climate social posts ever

By @scottwesterfeld.bsky.social -->
Scott Westerfeld @ScottWesterfeld Plot idea: 97% of the world's scientists contrive an environmental crisis, but are exposed by a plucky band of billionaires & oil companies. 11:27 AM · Mar 21, 2014
July 22, 2025 at 11:05 AM
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labrujulaverde.bsky.social
A Trilobite Fossil Used as an Amulet in Roman Hispania: The First of Its Kind in the Classical World www.labrujulaverde.com/en/2025/07/a...
A Trilobite Fossil Used as an Amulet in Roman Hispania: The First of Its Kind in the Classical World
A team of Spanish researchers has made an extraordinary discovery at the Roman site of A Cibdá de Armea, near Ourense (Galicia, Spain): a trilobite fossil, a marine animal extinct for millions of year...
www.labrujulaverde.com
July 21, 2025 at 9:34 AM
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gruene.at
FPÖ Pressekonferenzen geleakt 👀
FPÖ Pressekonferenzen 2025: „Zukunft STOPPEN - Gegenwart reicht völlig“ „Plastikmüll BEHALTEN - gehört zur Kultur“ „Wissenschaft STOPPEN - mein Onkel hat mir letztens erzählt…“ „Natur STOPPEN - die große Baumverschwörung“ „Mülltrennung STOPPEN - wir trennen uns nur von Fakten“ We’re not even joking. FPÖ-AVISO: Morgen Pressekonferenz mit Thomas Spalt und Michael Fürtbauer Präsentation der FPÖ-Petition „Flaschenpfand STOPPEN“
July 16, 2025 at 8:55 AM
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simonhammann.bsky.social
Simpsons ken Brockmann meme. Wels peitscht menschen Text: I for one welcome our new Wels Overlords.
July 3, 2025 at 1:02 PM
mohnika.bsky.social
I wet my brush a bit more while picking in a heatwave, so my forams get to have a cool-down bath 😉
July 3, 2025 at 9:10 AM
mohnika.bsky.social
The second Austrian Assessment Report on Climate Change is out... (aar2.ccca.ac.at)

How do you know it is Austrian? ... ... ... 😶
Screenshot of the website to download the Secon Austrian Assessment Report on Climate Change saying: page not found
June 17, 2025 at 9:18 AM
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martinhtrauth.bsky.social
Very interesting open access article about the "Long-term impact and biological recovery in a deep-sea mining track" by D.O.B. Jones and colleagues. Their photos of the ocean floor after mining, before and after, are simply shocking. #geoscience

www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Typical photograph of undisturbed seabed at the control site with polymetallic nodules, from Jones et al., Nature, 642,112-118, 2025. Area of track with complete removal of nodules by deep-sea mining in the centre and deeper propulsion tracks either side, from Jones et al., Nature, 642,112-118, 2025.
June 16, 2025 at 8:32 AM