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Sajjad Akam
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Biogeochemist
Research Geologist | Our Unique Planet Fellow @NMNH
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Interested in life’s co-evolution with planetary environments?
🌎🦠🧪

I'm looking for a postdoc to join my group at #McGill and happy to sponsor applicants for the TSI fellowship.

Please reach out if interested!

academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/30777
McGill University, Trottier Space Institute
Job #AJO30777, Trottier Space Institute Postdoctoral Fellow, Trottier Space Institute, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, CA
academicjobsonline.org
October 7, 2025 at 12:19 PM
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🌊🔬 Looking for a postdoc to join our team!
Cocco-Channel project ➡️ studying coccolithophore phycospheres and their role in ocean carbon cycling.
✔️ Plus if you bring experience in microbial ecology, molecular/microscopy tools & fieldwork
👉 More info: euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/375178
#protistsonsky
October 2, 2025 at 6:30 PM
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Cool PhD opportunity at Uni Bern to work with Petra Zahajska on her Ambizione project Pixel2Paleo, creating high resolution pigment and lipid biomarker marker records from lake sediments 🧪. Apply by Dec. 2:

www.eag.org/wp-content/u...
www.eag.org
October 2, 2025 at 1:50 PM
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If you’re a climate/energy person, I will take your portrait pro bono.
After far too many years, I've got myself a new Guardian byline pic, very kindly taken pro bono by Nick Bowring. It was getting like The Picture of Dorian Gray in reverse.
Embrace the ravages of time!
May 23, 2025 at 6:13 PM
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Need geology photos for your fall classes? Please check out my site Geologypics.com, which has >5000 of my images --all searchable and all for free download. And please share!
Just added 15 more including this one of Mt. St. Helens crater. #geology #EarthScience #teaching #scienceteaching
August 11, 2025 at 3:00 AM
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Pre-print out today: The Freshwater Sounds Archive! The world's first species-specific sound library for underwater freshwater species' sounds.

- 61 entries
- 35 contributors
- 16 countries
- 19 orders

www.researchgate.net/publication/...
(PDF) The Freshwater Sounds Archive
PDF | Freshwater ecosystems are full of underwater sounds produced by amphibians, aquatic arthropods, reptiles, plants, fishes, and methane bubbles... | Find, read and cite all the research you need o...
www.researchgate.net
May 12, 2025 at 1:47 PM
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If we’re renaming bodies of water based on petty grievances, I propose that this be renamed the Kendrick Lamar passage.
February 12, 2025 at 10:06 AM
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If you have a professor/teacher who impacted you in a positive way, send them a short email and let them know and tell them what you’re doing these days.

Teaching can be a thankless and exhausting job but one note can energize an educator for a year.
January 25, 2025 at 6:55 PM
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So, is anyone interested in and wants to follow people doing marine biogeochemistry?
I might have a starter pack for you!
(also, I blame @malinodalen.bsky.social for this)
bsky.app/starter-pack...

Spot anyone not there (maybe you?), say something.
November 9, 2024 at 4:13 PM
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New air quality stripes!

Find your city and see how the air quality has changed over the past 170+ years.

www.airqualitystripes.info

Built by: Kirsty Pringle & @jimmcquaid.bsky.social
August 23, 2024 at 8:41 AM
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Time Traveler Causes of Death xkcd.com/2976
August 24, 2024 at 10:47 AM
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🧪⚒️ After the Great Oxygenation Event around 2.4 billion years ago, the newly appearing oxygen reacted with sulphide minerals in rocks, making river water extremely acidic - and apparently screwing up a proxy that has been used to argue that Proterozoic oxygen levels couldn't have been very high.
How Great was the “Great Oxidation Event”? - Eos
Geochemical sleuthing amid acid mine runoff suggests that scientists should rethink an isotope signal long taken to indicate low levels of atmospheric oxygen in Earth’s deep past.
eos.org
August 5, 2024 at 12:45 PM
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This would be humorous, except that I am sure that in many less specific searches, this AI will spit out BS that cannot be attributed to a site like The Onion.

AI can only be useful if the data is vetted before being ingested. Garbage in, garbage out.
oh my god
May 24, 2024 at 2:46 AM
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As director of CESAB, I'm incredibly proud to share the latest article of our postdocs today in Ecology Letters. 👏

They call for a more ethical academic publishing landscape but also ask to not let only the Early Career Researchers pay the price of this paradigm shift !

doi.org/10.1111/ele....

🧪🌍
March 12, 2024 at 10:11 AM
Hot off the press:
We report a detailed carbon budget of a stratified lake with Fe-rich, sulfate-poor anoxic bottom water and its implications to marine methane cycling in Earth's early oceans characterized by analogous geochemical setting. 
t.ly/xOoMl
January 8, 2024 at 4:19 AM
While I'm totally enjoying the science and networking at #AGU23 I've been not a fan of talks being reduced to 10 mins.

~80% of the talks I attended ended without time for questions! It was much nicer with the 'older' way of 15-min/talk and I hope they bring it back next time!
December 14, 2023 at 6:42 AM
It's always great to be back at AGU and excited for #AGU2023. Looking forward to lots of science, networking, and fun!

If you're at AGU, stop by MC 2003 west on Tue 4.50 pm for a talk on CH4 cycling in ferruginous settings.
agu.confex.com/agu/fm23/mee...
Methane-Carbon Cycling in Archean Ocean: Lessons from Ferruginous Lakes
Methane (CH4), with an atmospheric concentration of about 1.8 ppmv in recent ye...
agu.confex.com
December 11, 2023 at 12:52 AM