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NE-aar is obsessed with amino acid racemization analysis for Quaternary geochronology, earth science, archaeology & to understand protein breakdown. Based at Uni of York; posts are own views.
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toriherridge.bsky.social
Hope to see lots of you there!
November 15, 2025 at 7:50 AM
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volcanologist.bsky.social
I'm giving a talk about Women in Volcanology. And I'm so excited!

It's not the talk I thought I would be giving originally. Some really cool historical research I've done has turned up some amazing stories.
November 15, 2025 at 8:02 AM
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tdegaridel.bsky.social
If you are looking for a postdoc, here is a chance to join for one year the @cnrs-insu.bsky.social in France (and more locally @cerege.bsky.social / @climatecerege.bsky.social group) www.campusfrance.org/en/mopga-2026
MOPGA 2026: Visiting Fellowship Program for Early Career Researchers | Campus France
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November 14, 2025 at 3:21 PM
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lovedalen.bsky.social
✅ RNA?

✅ Ancient RNA?

✅ Ancient RNA from woolly mammoth!

#FossilFriday 🦣 🧪

www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...
November 14, 2025 at 4:06 PM
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egu.eu
💰 Do you need #financial #support to attend #EGU26?

#EGU is here to ease your participation!

Submit your abstract by 1 December 2025 and get support through one of our three participation support schemes for #EGU26!

👉 Learn more here: egu.eu/5AKEKI
📸: Jerome Mayaud on imaggeo.egu.eu
Image description: A road leading towards mountains. Text reads: 'travel support, fee waivers, and EDI participation support. Deadline to submit your abstract by 1 December 2025 for financial support."
November 14, 2025 at 12:30 PM
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egu.eu
#JobAlert 🚨: Press Assistant

Are you a science communicator with experience in science writing? We are looking for your support during the press conference at #EGU26.
📨 Send your application by 26 November to vacancy@egu.eu.
👉 More information: egu.eu/1H0J7I
Image description: LEGO figures in a mock press conference setting with 'EGU General Assembly' logos.Text reads: 'WE ARE HIRING! EGU26 Press Assistant. Apply by 26 November 2025. More details.'
November 14, 2025 at 1:47 PM
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chslane.bsky.social
Two weeks until our 2/12 PhD funding deadline! If you’re interested in a cryptotephra research project and joining @camtephra.bsky.social there’s still time drop me an email to discuss your ideas.
Dept funding info: www.geog.cam.ac.uk/postgraduate...
NERC DLA: nercdtp.esc.cam.ac.uk/StaffDirecto...
A grey, unoccupied lab with sink, centrifuge and shelves A hand holding a tally counter with 294 showing, next to the stage of a microscope. There is a slide on the microscope A row of labelled centrifuge tubes, with white caps, in a test tube rack. A few platy fragments of glass viewed under high powered optical microscopy.
November 14, 2025 at 1:10 PM
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sarahoconnorft.ft.com
Is AI making job recruitment less meritocratic? We're getting some v interesting research studies on this question now, and the news is... not good. @jburnmurdoch.ft.com & I dive in, in the latest edition of our newsletter The AI Shift www.ft.com/content/e5b7...
November 14, 2025 at 10:13 AM
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eicathomefinn.bsky.social
Putting the impoverished methodology of the study aside, here's an alternative reading of the data.

UKRI & its component Councils have very poor records re EDI. Evidence of that has mounted over the time in question. Addressing this is A VERY GOOD THING FOR SCIENCE & SCIENTISTS.

Say it out loud.
November 14, 2025 at 10:19 AM
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ogu-bristol.bsky.social
🚨New paper! 🚨Thermal Desorption Gas Chromatography–Mass Spectrometry Methods for Minimally Invasive Organic Residue Analysis of Archeological Potsherds:
pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/...
Thermal Desorption Gas Chromatography–Mass Spectrometry Methods for Minimally Invasive Organic Residue Analysis of Archeological Potsherds
Organic residue analysis (ORA) is widely used to investigate lipids preserved in archeological pottery. However, the amount of sample typically involved (2 g) precludes its application to particularly...
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November 14, 2025 at 8:52 AM
neaarlab.bsky.social
If you're in York this Saturday, there's a "Women in #Geology" day of lectures at Tempest Anderson Hall, Yorkshire Museum @yorkshire-geol-soc.bsky.social @ypsyork.bsky.social. Will be fascinating - starts 10.45, keynote by @toriherridge.bsky.social, free tickets www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/women-in-g...
Women in Geology
The stereotypical geologist is a man with beard - this indoor meeting seeks to change this image by celebrating the many women in geoscience
www.eventbrite.co.uk
November 14, 2025 at 10:08 AM
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edhawkins.org
Looking for a PhD in climate science?

Great opportunity to help modernise one of the iconic climate time series - Central England Temperature.

Led by @timosbornclim.bsky.social, with myself and Met Office collaborators: www.uea.ac.uk/course/phd-d...
PhD Redeveloping Central England Temperature: Modernising a Historic Climate Series, CASE project with Met Office (OSBORNT_U26SCI) 2026/27 | UEA
PhD Redeveloping Central England Temperature: Modernising a Historic Climate Series, CASE project with Met Office (OSBORNT_U26SCI) 2026/27 | UEA
www.uea.ac.uk
November 12, 2025 at 5:38 PM
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egu.eu
#EGU26 is already on its way 🎉!
Abstract submissions are officially open until 15 January 2026, 13:00 CET.

Let the journey begin and submit your abstract NOW!

👉 Visit https://www.egu26.eu/ for more information!
November 13, 2025 at 11:30 AM
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andydoggerbank.bsky.social
Abstract deadline extended to Monday 17th! Get them in!
November 13, 2025 at 12:20 PM
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glenpeters.bsky.social
Good news: 35 countries have decreased their fossil CO2 emissions significantly (p<0.05) while growing their economies in the decade 2015-20244, twice as many as during the previous decade (2005-2014; 18 countries.

These 35 countries account for 27% of global fossil CO2 emissions.

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November 13, 2025 at 7:07 AM
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glenpeters.bsky.social
📢Global Carbon Budget 2025📢

Fossil CO2 emissions continue to rise in 2025 while the terrestrial carbon sink recovers to pre-El Niño strength.

The key findings are covered in two reports this year:
* ESSDD (preprint): essd.copernicus.org/preprints/es...
* Nature: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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November 13, 2025 at 7:07 AM
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mudwaterclimate.bsky.social
🚨Out today, acidification of the California Current🚨
Using corals and models we show regionally amplified acidification, due to the combo of CO2 uptake and remineralisation. This highlights potential risks to productive upwelling zones in an acidifying ocean 🌊🧪⚒️📈
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Fossil coral boron isotope data used to reconstruct California Current pCO2. In a non-acidifying ocean, the data should fall on the grey 1:1 line. Instead they fall below, indicating an acidifying ocean, and show greater acidification at greater depths (symbol colour), consistent with model simulations (dashed lines) - a phenomenon explained on the next figure! Upwelling zones, like the California Current System, experience amplified ocean acidification, as the anthropogenic CO2 taken up in the offshore waters - which then get subducted and go on to feed the upwelling zone - is added to by carbon from remineralisation. This means that the upwelling waters end up in a much more carbon-rich part of total alkalinity (TA) versus dissolved inorganic carbon (DIC) space, where CO2 (and pH) contours are much closer together. The result is that 100 ppm carbon uptake offshore results in a nearshore pCO2 change of 300 ppm.
November 13, 2025 at 10:16 AM
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isotopesrule.bsky.social
A new job for #StableIsotope & #massspectrometer enthusiasts for 6 years in the @clusterroots.bsky.social at @uni-kiel.de: Responsibility for running the machines & for measurements. Science people, do not be put off by the word "Engineer". Deadline 31.12.25. Link: www.uni-kiel.de/personal/de/...
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November 13, 2025 at 11:52 AM
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hansonmark.bsky.social
Funders can drive change. Authors can't. Authors are producers, not consumers. Producers don't decide demand, consumers do. Funders and research institutes must demand change of their authors, or withhold their funds. It's that simple. Funders have all the cards.

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November 11, 2025 at 11:52 AM
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hansonmark.bsky.social
More fundamentally, every active scientist has been brought up in a system where The Drain was already normalized.

This system hasn't always existed. For-profit publishers are a recent invention. Their value proposition has always been awful, and now they are actively eroding trust in science.

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2. Stopping the drain Back in the 1950s, when for-profit journal publishing was just getting going, British scientific leaders predicted that ‘the moment commercial gain began to dominate this field, the welfare of the scientific community would suffer’ (1). They were right – and it is past time that we acted. The first step we must take is to recognize the seriousness of the problems that scientific publishing’s engagement with for-profit publishing have become.
November 11, 2025 at 11:52 AM
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hansonmark.bsky.social
We wrote the Strain on scientific publishing to highlight the problems of time & trust. With a fantastic group of co-authors, we present The Drain of Scientific Publishing:

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Drain: arxiv.org/abs/2511.04820
Strain: direct.mit.edu/qss/article/...
Oligopoly: direct.mit.edu/qss/article/...
A table showing profit margins of major publishers. A snippet of text related to this table is below. 1. The four-fold drain 1.1 Money Currently, academic publishing is dominated by profit-oriented, multinational companies for whom scientific knowledge is a commodity to be sold back to the academic community who created it. The dominant four are Elsevier, Springer Nature, Wiley and Taylor & Francis, which collectively generated over US$7.1 billion in revenue from journal publishing in 2024 alone, and over US$12 billion in profits between 2019 and 2024 (Table 1A). Their profit margins have always been over 30% in the last five years, and for the largest publisher (Elsevier) always over 37%. Against many comparators, across many sectors, scientific publishing is one of the most consistently profitable industries (Table S1). These financial arrangements make a substantial difference to science budgets. In 2024, 46% of Elsevier revenues and 53% of Taylor & Francis revenues were generated in North America, meaning that North American researchers were charged over US$2.27 billion by just two for-profit publishers. The Canadian research councils and the US National Science Foundation were allocated US$9.3 billion in that year. A figure detailing the drain on researcher time. 1. The four-fold drain 1.2 Time The number of papers published each year is growing faster than the scientific workforce, with the number of papers per researcher almost doubling between 1996 and 2022 (Figure 1A). This reflects the fact that publishers’ commercial desire to publish (sell) more material has aligned well with the competitive prestige culture in which publications help secure jobs, grants, promotions, and awards. To the extent that this growth is driven by a pressure for profit, rather than scholarly imperatives, it distorts the way researchers spend their time. The publishing system depends on unpaid reviewer labour, estimated to be over 130 million unpaid hours annually in 2020 alone (9). Researchers have complained about the demands of peer-review for decades, but the scale of the problem is now worse, with editors reporting widespread difficulties recruiting reviewers. The growth in publications involves not only the authors’ time, but that of academic editors and reviewers who are dealing with so many review demands. Even more seriously, the imperative to produce ever more articles reshapes the nature of scientific inquiry. Evidence across multiple fields shows that more papers result in ‘ossification’, not new ideas (10). It may seem paradoxical that more papers can slow progress until one considers how it affects researchers’ time. While rewards remain tied to volume, prestige, and impact of publications, researchers will be nudged away from riskier, local, interdisciplinary, and long-term work. The result is a treadmill of constant activity with limited progress whereas core scholarly practices – such as reading, reflecting and engaging with others’ contributions – is de-prioritized. What looks like productivity often masks intellectual exhaustion built on a demoralizing, narrowing scientific vision. A table of profit margins across industries. The section of text related to this table is below: 1. The four-fold drain 1.1 Money Currently, academic publishing is dominated by profit-oriented, multinational companies for whom scientific knowledge is a commodity to be sold back to the academic community who created it. The dominant four are Elsevier, Springer Nature, Wiley and Taylor & Francis, which collectively generated over US$7.1 billion in revenue from journal publishing in 2024 alone, and over US$12 billion in profits between 2019 and 2024 (Table 1A). Their profit margins have always been over 30% in the last five years, and for the largest publisher (Elsevier) always over 37%. Against many comparators, across many sectors, scientific publishing is one of the most consistently profitable industries (Table S1). These financial arrangements make a substantial difference to science budgets. In 2024, 46% of Elsevier revenues and 53% of Taylor & Francis revenues were generated in North America, meaning that North American researchers were charged over US$2.27 billion by just two for-profit publishers. The Canadian research councils and the US National Science Foundation were allocated US$9.3 billion in that year. The costs of inaction are plain: wasted public funds, lost researcher time, compromised scientific integrity and eroded public trust. Today, the system rewards commercial publishers first, and science second. Without bold action from the funders we risk continuing to pour resources into a system that prioritizes profit over the advancement of scientific knowledge.
November 11, 2025 at 11:52 AM
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oceanhelen.bsky.social
New marine pollen records by my student Laura McDonald (who just handed in her PHD), from offshore NZ that test the potential bias in the pollen assemblage due to distance and sediment transport mechanisms from the land to the ocean. 🌊 🌲 🌸 the results are surprising - there is not much difference.
Pollen transport to deep-marine environments: Considerations for reconstructing past vegetation from marine sediment cores
Deep-marine sedimentary records provide a unique opportunity to investigate long-term vegetation changes in response to climate through pollen analysi…
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November 12, 2025 at 11:11 AM
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mattpope.bsky.social
Quaternary people, I need to source a high-resolution graphics file of an up-to-date Marine Isotope curve? One I can use at two different resolution, one 1,000,000 to present, the other 100,000 to present. Any idea where to look? Has anything definitively replaced Railsback? 🦣
November 12, 2025 at 11:22 AM
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auerg.bsky.social
Abstract submission is open for #EGU26 (3 - 8 May 2026) 🚨

Are you working with #microfossils and have a story to tell about the #paleoenvironment and/or #paleoclimate? Then join our session to put a focus lens on these amazing micropaleontological proxies!
November 11, 2025 at 9:36 PM
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femalesinms.bsky.social
Registration for the Round 6 of Mentorship Pods is now OPEN!

More info👉 femalesinms.com/mentorship-p...
Registration 👉 femalesinms.com/mentorship-p...
November 11, 2025 at 10:48 PM