Figure from the second article by Armel Ménant and collaborators. It shows lithospheric-scale cross-sections that illustrate the temporal evolution of the Hellenic subduction zone since the late Eocene. Four stages are shown, at 35-40 Ma, 25 Ma, 15 Ma, present. They illustrate the successive burial, basal-accretion and exhumation stages of the high pressure low temperature units that constitute the paleo accretionary complex of western Crete

This 👇 is the concluding figure of the two companion papers by Ménant et al. on the #tectonic slicing events at the #subduction interface. Just published in Tektonika #DOAJ.

It shows the temporal evolution of the Hellenic subduction zone since the late Eocene. ⚒️

tektonika.online/index.php/ho...

🌋Éruption au Piton de la Fournaise.
Prise de vue ce matin, 10 avril.
Les coulées de lave restent actuellement localisées en amont des Grandes Pentes. Et l'activité de fontaines de lave est visible depuis le Piton de Bert.
©Clément, Helilagon

Photo of a sweet potatoe resembling a roll cake

Not a cinnamon roll, not a pain aux raisins, but a sweet potato.

It’s Saturday, posts are lighter despite news still being heavy…

Interesting story 👇

www.nature.com/articles/d41...

A researcher posted two preprints about a fabricated disease, containing numerous red flags indicating it was fake. #LLMs #AI swallowed this and then regurgitated it in their responses.

Sorry, but here the problem is not one that could be fixed by correcting the cited references. It's entirely fabricated references that resemble true ones.

After 2 pauses of a few days (25-28 March - 2-8 April) the eruption at Piton de la Fournaise #volcano resumed on 8 April. Today a new eruptive site opened higher above the main cone in an already fissured zone. ⚒️
Follow @ovpf.bsky.social for updated news

We'll publish soon our first Field Guide paper, now accepted for publication. Stay tuned. ⚒️

Send yours if it's in our scope, i.e. #tectonics. It will be carefully peer reviewed, and, if accepted, published without cost and #open-access.

Support free to publish / free to read #DOAJ !

A diagram illustrating how the publishing ecosystem may capture your manuscript to be sure you will pay a lot

Yep. This sketch 👇 I've made 1.5 yrs ago about the Nature publishing ecosystem. A perfect system to capture your manuscript and get exorbitant OA APC. ⚒️ 🧪

* APC are those in Dec 2024. Likely need updating.

Communiqué OVPF-IPGP - 08/4/2026 - 14h25
🌋 Suite à une augmentation rapide du trémor depuis ce matin, 8 avril, l'éruption au Piton de la Fournaise a repris vers 13h15 heure locale. Il s'agit de la 3ième phase de l'éruption.
Toutes les infos ici: www.ipgp.fr/volcanoweb/r...
©️Photos: SAG-PGHM

Screenshot of the decision screen saying: I do not accept to review for Frontiers because of the exorbitant publishing costs you are charging.

Well, that’s taken care of 👇

ALT: I do not accept to review for F* because of the exorbitant publishing costs you are charging.

🤡 Avec le prix Nobel qu'il aura donc en 2026, et celui de 2027 (pour avoir cédé Taiwan), il rejoindra le club des 5*

* Marie Skłodowska-Curie, Linus Pauling, Fred Sanger, John Bardeen, Barry Sharpless, ont reçu un Nobel deux fois.

Springer Nature Discovers MDPI – The Strain on Scientific Publishing Home page for the paper ‘The Strain on Scientific Publishing’ by Mark A Hanson, Dan Brockington, Paolo Crosetto and Pablo Gomez Barreiro

These "discover something" journals from Springer Nature are here to steal your research money, as those from MDPI and Frontiers (and many others). ⚒️ 🧪

Learn more here: the-strain-on-scientific-publishing.github.io/website/post...

2/2

Received a review request for a journal I wasn't aware of. Manuscript title and abstract were fanciful.

An opportunity to "discover" 😆 that Springer Nature copied MDPI with a bunch of (semi)predatory journals named "discover something".

Be sure not to review or publish in these journals. ⚒️ 🧪

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Les Français Cécile Kohler et Jacques Paris, retenus en Iran depuis plusieurs années, « sont libres et en chemin vers le territoire français », annonce Emmanuel Macron Après plus de trois ans de détention, ils avaient été condamnés en octobre dernier respectivement à vingt et dix-sept ans de prison pour espionnage au profit notamment d’Israël, puis libérés début novembre mais avec l’interdiction de quitter le territoire iranien.

Les Français Cécile Kohler et Jacques Paris, retenus en Iran depuis plusieurs années, « sont libres et en chemin vers le territoire français », annonce Emmanuel Macron

Lunar Flyby - NASA

Oh this is great: there’s now an #Artemis II Lunar Flyby Gallery on the NASA images site: www.nasa.gov/gallery/luna... (thx @dpmanchee.bsky.social for pointing it out)

Another recent piece about #AI fabricated scientific references 👇 - ⚒️ 🧪

Cite unseen: when AI hallucinates scientific articles | Science | AAAS www.science.org/content/arti...

Fully agree. "Hallucination" is used by AI people as an excuse to minimise the issue which goes far beyond the academic context.
Any AI output should be considered as potentially fake / fabricated. This is inherent to their statistical nature. Not doing the work to check is indeed a sort of fraud.

Fully agree. "Hallucination" is used by AI people as an excuse to minimise the issue which goes far beyond the academic context.
Any AI output should be considered as potentially fake / fabricated. This is inherent to their statistical nature. Not doing the work to check is indeed a sort of fraud.

Thank you all for your many responses. Result is 100% reject*. Plus some recommendation to alert the "PI" or "supervisor" etc…
But what if the first author IS the senior scientist** ?

*in fact my question was mostly rhetorical, as I knew the answer 😉
**who is a good scientist btw 😕
⚒️ 🧪

Photo d'un brin de muguet fleuri le 6 Avril

Hier, 6 Avril 👇 WE de Pâques... quelque chose qui cloche 🔔

Dans notre jardin, près de Fontainebleau

Interesting reading in @nature.com: Hallucinated citations are polluting the scientific literature. What can be done?

www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Particularly relevant to me right now 👇 as I received a request to review a #manuscript that contains fake citations, likely #AI hallucinated. ⚒️ 🧪

I've been asked to review a manuscript in which there are several fake references, most likely hallucinated by AI.

This means that the authors haven't read, even browsed, the papers they cite.

What should I do ? Reject ?

⚒️ 🧪

The Blue Planet by Artemis astronauts today. 🤩

South is at the top. Africa (Sahara), Gibraltar and Spain lower left.

🌋 Éruption au Piton de la Fournaise
Prise de vue du site éruptif ce matin à 9h10, heure locale. On y observe un lac de lave toujours actif, au sein d’un cône désormais bien refermé (© OSUL – Lyon 1 Université)

After a three-day pause, the eruption at Piton de la Fournaise #volcano, La Réunion island, has resumed. There are indications of deep magma feeding (seismicity, tremor, inflation).

Follow @ovpf.bsky.social for regularly updated infos. 🌋 ⚒️

▶️ Communiqué OVPF-IPGP 24/03/2026
🌋 Éruption en cours
✅ Activité en baisse, peu de projections mais dégazage actif
✅ Bras de coulée sud toujours actif
✅ Sismicité en diminution
✅ Baisse du trémor
✅ Déflation en ralentissement
▶ Niveau d’alerte : 2.2
▶ Communiqué : www.ipgp.fr/volcanoweb/r...

The last 11 years have been the hottest years ever recorded. Earth’s energy imbalance has reached its highest than at any time in observed history, with heat reaching deeper into the ocean. This is the Global #StateOfClimate 2025.

📰 Press release: https://bit.ly/4ds4r2V

#WorldMetDay

🗳️ Municipales à Paris: Emmanuel Grégoire s'est rendu à l'Hôtel de ville en Vélib après sa victoire face à Rachida Dati.

screenshot of TV screen

The newly elected left-wing mayor of Paris cycles across the city to reach the Hôtel de Ville 🇫🇷 👏 🚲

▶️ Communiqué OVPF-IPGP 20/03/2026
🌋 L'éruption se poursuit.
✅ Activité en fontaine de lave
✅ Lave à l’océan : plateforme instable + panache
✅ Hausse des débits (22 m³/s)
✅ Forte sismicité + trémor intermittent
✅ Déflation
▶ Niveau d’alerte : 2.2
Détails : www.ipgp.fr/volcanoweb/r...