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Jordon Hemingway
@jordonhemingway.bsky.social
ETH Earth Science assistant prof. studying long-term C, O, and S cycle evolution using isotopes and biomarkers. Butcherer of the German language. 🇺🇲 in 🇨🇭 He/him.
Respectfully, fuck off. (Also Office sucks.)

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/28/c...
Bill Gates Says Climate Change ‘Will Not Lead to Humanity’s Demise’
www.nytimes.com
October 28, 2025 at 6:18 PM
Beate is the best! (And I hear Denmark is nice too)
📣Postdoc opportunity @nordcee.bsky.social , University of Southern Denmark! 📣

Join us and work with Bo Thamdrup and me on microbial dark oxygen production in marine oxygen minimum zones!

Please share widely!

Deadline: 17 November

More information can be found here:
tinyurl.com/2vuur3wh
Postdoc on microbial oxygen production in marine oxygen minimum zones
Application deadline: 17 November 2025 at 23:59 hours local Danish time
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October 22, 2025 at 11:10 AM
Very grateful to the @snf-fns.ch for funding our continued work in DR Congo on tropical peatland greenhouse gas emissions! With @johansix.bsky.social and @draketw.bsky.social @eth-eaps.bsky.social @usyseth.bsky.social
September 29, 2025 at 5:42 PM
Always happy to take the @eth-eaps.bsky.social (and a few @usyseth.bsky.social ) MSc students to Valais for some soil descriptions, pebble counts, and lake coring! Weather was rough yesterday but much perfect today!
September 27, 2025 at 2:36 PM
Very cool write-up by @ethz.ch on our recent paper in @nature.com on reconstructing dissolved organic carbon in the ocean through geologic time! Led by Nir Galili @eth-eaps.bsky.social

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Minute witnesses from the primordial sea
Researchers at ETH Zurich have been able to measure - for the first time - how the amount of dissolved organic carbon in the sea has changed over geological time. The results reveal that our explanati...
ethz.ch
September 25, 2025 at 9:13 AM
I unapologetically and consistently use em dashes---with no spaces---in everything I write, from texts to scientific papers. Been doing it for years, and I won't stop because of ChatGPT

www.nytimes.com/2025/09/18/m...
With the Em Dash, A.I. Embraces a Fading Tradition
www.nytimes.com
September 18, 2025 at 8:16 PM
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🗞️ New article in Biogeosciences #EGU by Carolina F. M. de Carvalho et al. ⬇️
Variability in oxygen isotopic fractionation of enzymatic O2 consumption
Abstract. Stable isotope analysis of O2 has emerged as a valuable tool to study O2 dynamics at various environmental scales, from molecular mechanisms to ecosystem processes. Despite its utility,…
bg.copernicus.org
September 18, 2025 at 7:50 AM
While Genossenschaften ("co-ops" in the article) are great, they are a low proportion of total housing and have extremely long wait lists and low turnover. Given how high rent is for the rest of us---and the frequency of demonstrations about the cost of living---id say no, we haven't solved it
The way that housing co-ops work in Switzerland may seem foreign to many. But the central idea is simple: What if homeownership had no profit motive and no capital gains? Advocates say their model could reshape how the world thinks about affordable housing. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/26/r...
August 31, 2025 at 6:23 AM
Nice excerpt from @peterbrannen.bsky.social's new book in @theguardian.com! (with a cameo by the person who taught me everything I know about math, Dan Rothman)

www.theguardian.com/environment/...
‘A climate of unparalleled malevolence’: are we on our way to the sixth major mass extinction?
The long read: Churning quantities of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere at the rate we are going could lead the planet to another Great Dying
www.theguardian.com
August 19, 2025 at 6:15 AM
This is my life in a nutshell. I apologize to everybody on behalf of America (or, "apologise" I should say)

www.srf.ch/news/schweiz...
Image-Verlust macht Amerikanerinnen in der Schweiz zu schaffen
Der Ärger über die US-Zölle beschäftigt auch in der Schweiz lebende US-Staatsbürger. Negative Reaktionen schmerzen.
www.srf.ch
August 18, 2025 at 11:23 AM
Reposted by Jordon Hemingway
New @nature.com paper out "The geologic history of marine dissolved organic carbon from iron oxides"

doi.org/10.1038/s415...
August 15, 2025 at 7:25 AM
🚨 Paper alert! 🚨 After >1 year in review and six (6!) reviewers, I'm thrilled that this paper is finally out! Here, we provide the first data-based record of marine dissolved organic carbon in the geologic past.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
The geologic history of marine dissolved organic carbon from iron oxides - Nature
A direct proxy for past dissolved organic carbon signatures using co-precipitated organic carbon in iron ooids enables reconstruction of marine dissolved organic carbon signals dating back to the Pala...
www.nature.com
August 13, 2025 at 4:11 PM
Easy solution: freeze the billionaires' bank accounts. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/07/b...
Swiss Businesses Fear Being ‘Annihilated’ by One of the World’s Highest Tariffs
www.nytimes.com
August 7, 2025 at 9:12 PM
Reposted by Jordon Hemingway
🚨Job alert PhD 🚨 We are looking for 15 new doctoral researchers at @marumunibremen.bsky.social @unibremen.bsky.social. Don't miss this fantastic opportunity! The deadline is the 25th of July. More information about the projects and how to apply can be found here 👇
www.uni-bremen.de/en/universit...
Job Vacancies - Universität Bremen
Offene Stellen
www.uni-bremen.de
June 28, 2025 at 6:29 PM
"Want to solve climate change? Just bury your old wooden furniture in the backyard!" Sounds like snake oil.

www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Large CO2 removal potential of woody debris preservation in managed forests - Nature Geoscience
Land surface modelling suggests that preserving woody debris in managed forests could remove 769–937 GtCO2 from the atmosphere between 2025 and 2100.
www.nature.com
June 29, 2025 at 11:25 AM
Reposted by Jordon Hemingway
The changing landscape of academic publishing: "In many countries, APCs are covered using research grants funded by national research agencies. As the demand for OA grows, ensuring fair and sustainable publishing models remains a critical issue." (1/2) journals.uu.se/AGC/article/...
Equitable Access, Open Science, and the Future of Publishing in Geochemistry and Cosmochemistry | Advances in Geochemistry and Cosmochemistry
Twitter/X: @WeAreAGCjournal
journals.uu.se
May 3, 2025 at 8:01 PM
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Part of our team (@jordonhemingway.bsky.social, C. Fernandes, T. Nagakura, Z. Wang) went sampling in the #Bedretto tunnel this week, looking for #darkoxygen !
Thank you @isme-microbes.bsky.social for funding my participation in this expedition!

@ethzurich.bsky.social @mblscience.bsky.social
March 28, 2025 at 4:07 PM
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Rock Identification xkcd.com/3068
March 26, 2025 at 7:55 PM
"President Trump believes that all hiring should be based solely on merit" 🤔

www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...
The Trump Administration Accidentally Texted Me Its War Plans
U.S. national-security leaders included me in a group chat about upcoming military strikes in Yemen. I didn’t think it could be real. Then the bombs started falling.
www.theatlantic.com
March 25, 2025 at 5:03 PM
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I am giving a talk on 'Tectonically controlled deep meteoric water circulation and CO2 degassing in the Himalayas' at @gfz.bsky.social on Wednesday at 13:00 in F409! It will be great to see you there if you are around!
March 18, 2025 at 10:07 AM
Reposted by Jordon Hemingway
One of the people fired from NOAA today is the director of the Ocean Acidification Program. That program also leads the U.S. government's effort on marine carbon dioxide removal (mCDR). The destruction of American science is incomprehensible.
Home - NOAA Ocean Acidification Program
NOAA's Ocean Acidification Program prepares us for the impacts of ocean acidification through research and interdisciplinary partnerships.
oceanacidification.noaa.gov
February 27, 2025 at 11:31 PM
Very happy to have played a (small) part in this excellent paper in @pnas.org by @lipidorama.bsky.social! Here, Felix et al. show the existence of a new type of quinone in N-cycling bacteria, with some big implications for aerobic metabolism timing vis-à-vis the GOE 🎉

www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
www.pnas.org
February 21, 2025 at 7:51 AM
Banned in Trump's America:
February 13, 2025 at 10:19 AM
Literally the one and only good thing he has done or ever will do

www.nytimes.com/2025/02/09/u...
Trump Orders Treasury to Halt Minting New Pennies to Cut Waste
Can he do that? It’s not clear. But President Trump is right when he says that pennies “literally cost us more than 2 cents.”
www.nytimes.com
February 10, 2025 at 6:33 PM