First post! And it's a new paper from my lab, casting light on some controversial research emanating from the end-Cretaceous Tanis locality. Read all about it!
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For new geology folks, note, there is a Geosciences feed! ⚒️🧪
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More evidence that Europe's ancient landscapes were open woodlands: Study finds oak, hazel and yew were abundant In 2023 a research group from Aarhus University in Denmark found that light woodland and open vegetation dominated Europe's temperate forests before Homo sapiens. In a new study, recently published in...

Europe's ancient landscapes were open #woodlands w/ abundant #oak, #hazel & #yew phys.org/news/2024-11... - @aarhusuni.bsky.social comm on our new study on these #plants in the Last #Interglacial & the #Mesolithic🍃🌳🔆#palynology #forest #restoration #paleoecology #reforestation

Thank you for following me, Maryann! 😊🌿 Great to see you here!
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Job news! I have accepted a position as senior geologist (state geologist) at the Geological Survey of Sweden - SGU. So looking forward to starting my new job. 🤩🌿

We had a visitor today. An 8 cm long Agrius convolvuli
(Linnaeus, 1758). 🦋🌿

A true master! 🎸

Very good boys 💕🌿

We've been to the British Geological Survey and sampled a Silurian core for Julie's PhD project. And of course, when in Nottingham, you just have to visit this particular pub...😊

The best dogos 🌿🥰

Emily Dix was born #OTD, 1904. She studied all aspects of the Late Carboniferous biotas in South Wales & realized that plant fossils also had considerable biostratigraphical potential #womeninstem 🧪⚒️ paleonerdish.wordpress.com/2017/01/20/forgotten-wom...

SWAIS2C core workshop offers first glimpse of sediment from below Ross Ice Shelf | Imperial News | Imperial College London Sediment cores retrieved from Antarctica’s Siple Coast by an international team co-led by Imperial College London were opened at a recent workshop.

SWAIS2C core workshop offers first glimpse of sediment from below Ross Ice Shelf

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Prime example of how domestic cats have been leaving their marks in our daily lives for a long time. 🐈‍⬛🐾

Stephen Jay Gould, paleontologist, evolutionary biologist and historian of science, died #OTD, 2002.

I'm on both Bluesky and Twitter but over the last couple of months I've just been using both less and less. Not sure why. Social media fatigue? Maybe it is a plague? But I've found that if I don't post all the time, almost no one notices my posts.

A photo from the early 1880s of a woman sitting on a rocking chair on a porch, looking at the baby in her lap.

Excerpt from a love letter to my great great grandmother from my great great grandfather. Sent in 1879

“My own darling Fannie, hundred thousand diamonds. Every few minutes I lean my head on the pillow and imagine that it is your cheek, and every time I do, oh! How homesick I feel.”

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Climate-forced Hg-remobilization associated with fern mutagenesis in the aftermath of the end-Triassic extinction - Nature Communications This study provides evidence for long-term effects of volcanic emissions of large quantities of gaseous mercury (Hg) and plant mutagenesis by recording high abundances of malformed fern spores across ...

We have a new paper out: "Climate-forced Hg-remobilization associated with fern mutagenesis in the aftermath of the end-Triassic extinction" by Remco Bos et al.
Very happy and proud to be a co-author! 🌿⚒️

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Very cool 😊 Thanks. Pollen are amazing

Wait, I know what this is!

Homo floor-esiensis

Super stoked to see this paper out today! We've made a model for global C, O and P cycles over Earth history and it does a fair job of matching combined proxies. The key driver for oxygen rise is the build up of crustal carbon.

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Controlled experiment finds no detectable citation bump from Twitter promotion Multiple studies across a variety of scientific disciplines have shown that the number of times that a paper is shared on Twitter (now called X) is correlated with the number of citations that paper r...

New paper! Multi-year controlled #SciComm experiment finds that tweeting about published papers does NOT lead to an increase in citations of those papers. Led by
@trevorabranch.bsky.social , featuring me @melissacmarquez.bsky.social @solomonrdavid.bsky.social @danirabaiotti.bsky.social & others

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I'm thinking this has to change. Rejection, a word so loaded with negativity. I often see comments like: If you want to do research, you have to learn to handle rejection. As if we are ok with it. BUT if rejections were aimed at helping us improve instead of breaking us, we'd move forward immensely.

Mostly tips on how to have impact, a whole section dedicated to effective altruism on choosing what to research. Absolutely nothing on the awe of knowledge, the satisfaction of understanding, the duty of being an expert in a democracy, the joy of supporting the new generation of scientists. #scipol

I'm really glad you took the time to try to put some emphasis on other aspects than merits. However, in reality, things like being inclusive , helpful and encouraging to colleagues are not valued at all.

Unfortunately, it doesn't seem like it was. And now I am really struggling to find a way to stay in research, simply because academia do not appreciate you if you've had a career outside of it. You can never go back.

This resonates a lot with me atm. I have always been dedicated to science, worked at and with universities, geological surveys, and industry. Made a point of combining academic research with applied. But has my scientific career been meaningful?

Inge Lehmann: Discoverer of the Earth's Inner Core | AMNH Lehmann used seismic signals to expand our knowledge of the Earth's core.

Happy #InternationalWomensDay! We want to give a shoutout to Inge Lehmann, a Danish seismologist who discovered seismic evidence of the earth's inner, solid core in 1928. Read more about her and her work: www.amnh.org/learn-teach/...

Attended the #FORCE_Biostratigraphy meeting in Stavanger. Such a good meeting with great talks. And I was so happy to hang out with old and new colleagues and old friends. Palynology and micropalaeontology are not dead - they are evolving! 🌿

Embracing uncertainty: The way forward in plant fossil phylogenetics Although molecular phylogenetics remains the most widely used method of inferring the evolutionary history of living groups, the last decade has seen a renewed interest in morphological phylogenetics....

my first paper of the year (and my first ever single author paper) has been finally published!

Do you work on fossil plants? Do you feel that your phylogenies are too uncertain? Don't fear uncertainty, EMBRACE IT! 🧪🌾🌱

My eyes froze in the icy Copenhagen winds...