Niels de Winter
nielsjdewinter.bsky.social
Niels de Winter
@nielsjdewinter.bsky.social
Assistant Professor @ VU Amsterdam & @ VUBrussel

#Paleoclimate, short-term #climate variability 🌦️, mollusks🐚, #running, popular #science, #gamer, plant-based #vegan 🌱

Sharing new #paleoclimate, #geology and #sclerochronology #science papers + own results
Do you have exciting research to share on the interface between #climate reconstructions and #paleontology? Please consider submitting an abstract for upcoming year's #EGU2026. We have a very nice session lined up:
October 24, 2025 at 3:14 PM
Probably some of the coolest objects we've ever scanned in our #microXRF @amgc-vub.bsky.social were these Indonesian #Kris daggers. Turns out some of them were likely forged with #meteorite metal! Read all about it in our manuscript in MAPS:
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
March 31, 2025 at 5:53 AM
March 14, 2025 at 8:55 AM
Traveling back from a couple of surprisingly mild-weather days @niozsearesearch.bsky.social collecting, labeling and measuring #cockles for this year's growth experiments.

Time to investigate fluid incisions in shells and their use and impact on #climate reconstructions thanks to #NWO 🦪🌡️🧪📈
January 29, 2025 at 2:38 PM
Interesting and through-provoking: Seeing #life as a cascade of machines, based on the ideas of #Leibniz and #VonNeumann @pnas.org
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
January 29, 2025 at 6:33 AM
Visiting lovely Split (HR) this week for the kickoff of the #BivalveSPEECH project at the Oceanography and Fisheries Institute (IZOR) with Liz Harper, Melita Peharda and others. January is not the season, but we are treated very well by Melita and by the weather! galijula.izor.hr/en/projekti/...
January 15, 2025 at 5:11 PM
Thinking about attending #EGU25 this year? Consider submitting your abstract to our session on biomineralized tissues as archives for past change. We will organize a diverse session focusing on different archives!
Check out the session abstract here: meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/EGU25/sessio...
January 7, 2025 at 11:37 AM