Rodrigues Island

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I did!

Field impressions from
Rodrigues. I love my job.

Just another day at the office 😎

Mauritius airport

Floor approved.

The first paper of our 2022 Revillagigedo expedition is out! With plume geochemistry, seismology and plate kinematic perspectives on the east Pacific mantle.

www.geologist.nl/koornneef-j-...

First paper of Jadie, about our fantastic field expedition to the Grenadines. Tectonic rotations and intraplate deformation in the SE Caribbean region!

www.geologist.nl/sauerbier-j-...

Netherlands Earth and Environmental Science conference this week! Looking forward to catch up with the community.

Voor de liefhebber van geschiedenis: deel 1 van het saga over Willem de Veroveraar, van Rix Legêne, is nu uit!

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From the beach at Noordwijk: happy Easter 😃

Enjoy the race! Someone will win on a landslide probably 🤓

Years ago, we built the Hades Underworld Explorer, where with a simple drag and drop, users can make their own cross sections of the Earth's mantle.
The Hades Underworld Explorer now has its own web address!

Have a peak of your own into the underworld!

www.hades-underworld-explorer.org

Yes, hello, is that God? Yeah, hi. I have a complaint. You gave me this brain that’s designed for finding berries and avoiding lions and now people are ‘just circling back’ to see if we can ‘move the needle’ on ‘key initiatives’? NONE of those things are berries.

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Well, in an absolute sense to compare to peers: no. Plenty of bias there. For my own comparison with my other work: yes. I like to see whether my communication strategy works and if I reach the audiences I target, and whether I manage to influence their thinking.

Ow yeah, it’s the new version of Paleolatitude.org, and we’re quite proud of it :) And we did get one useful review of a respected colleague, so all good. But it was the first time I saw reviews that were clearly AI generated and an editor who apparently didn’t care.

It’s the easiest review I’ve ever gotten. But it doesn’t bode well: all my papers that got minor revisions are poorly cited, all my highly cited papers were rejected at least once 😃

I wrote that to an editor yesterday about two reviews I received with zero scientific content and 15 points about editing my paper to fit the journal format…

Don’t forget Clipperton!

Yup, it’s what we called the Kalimantan slab that lies in the transition zone. Broke off north Borneo and Palawan, about 15 Myr ago!

I have now reached the scientific level that I hoped to reach when I was a young postdoc. I imagined it’d be glorious. But instead I’ve learned that all scientific achievement is accomplished amidst an endless stream of criticism and rejection, so that you’re always working far below capacity.

Assistant Professor in Earth materials & mineral science Are you the team player and initiative taking entrepreneur to complement our Earth Sciences faculty in earth materials research and/or mineral sciences?

Come join us at Utrecht Eartn Sciences!

www.uu.nl/en/organisat...

Ik ben genomineerd voor de vrouw in de media awards 2025. Tot 13 februari mag er gestemd worden: vidm.nl/degenomineer...
Van collegezalen tot festivaltenten, musea tot het 8-uur journaal, Zappelin tot RTL, van jong tot oud - het liefst maak ik iedereen enthousiast over wetenschap!
📸 Ilva Stoelwinder

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New paper alert!

For this interested in subduction initiation processes:
@alisstostrome.bsky.social shows that cooling of a young subduction interface may provide the mechanisms for the ill-understood catastrophic way in which subduction zones transition from induced to self-sustained.

#geology

Let me know if you need paleogeographic input for it!

Yeah, that’ll be a short curve 😃

Links to the GPlates files of the Utrecht Paleogeography Model are given in the Supplementary Information linked in the preprint!

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