A rediscovered tracksite in northern Mongolia shows large dinosaurs ranged there 120 million years ago, extending their known geographic reach.
Image credit: Okayama University of Science
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#fossils #paleontology
New laboratory experiments from the University of Leeds shows that thawing permafrost can become 25 to 100 times more permeable, allowing greenhouse gases to escape into the atmosphere much more easily than when frozen.
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NASA astronaut and Artemis II Commander Reid Wiseman took this picture of Earth from the Orion spacecraft’s window after completing the translunar injection burn. There are two auroras (top right and bottom left) and zodiacal light (bottom right) is visible as the Earth eclipses the Sun.
New 🌎 just dropped!
Just look how thin and fragile our atmosphere is! And also the aurora! Amazing.
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Branden-boar-g? 🐖
This month, be patient with your colleages who don't always get what you mean when you first say it, ask odd questions, or express themselves badly. Be patient with the awkward people. Some people's brains just work differently. It ultimately makes the world a rich and interesting place
Oh it's Autism Acceptance Month? Hi, I'm a PhD student with ASD. From dyspraxia (clinical clumsiness) making certain lab tasks tricky, to always interpreting instructions too literally, it's not always easy. But my love of small repetitive tasks certainly helps with weighing out for the irms 😂
Took a day trip to see the pictish carvings in Wemyss Caves, Scotland. Such a special, spectacular site, sadly under threat from vandalism and coastal erosion; if you're in the area, I highly recommend a visit!
This is genuinely surprising. If the UK had a system like the Deutschland Ticket I would be taking train journeys every evening for fun
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mines a kangaroo. my first easter in Australia was spent trying to remove a kangaroo from our house. it's doable but takes some teamwork 😅
emus on the other hand are impossible to remove from anywhere. you cant chase them out, they're too dumb to understand what a door is.
Global map showing surface air temperature trends for each March from 1976 to 2025. Only land areas are shown. Red shading is shown for warmer temperature trends, and blue shading is shown for colder temperature trends. Data is from NOAA/NESDIS/NCEI NOAAGlobalTempv6.0.0. The temperature trend scale is from -0.5°C/decade to +0.5°C/decade. Most all areas are warming, except for parts of Antarctic and north America.
Trends in March temperatures over land areas for the last 50 years...
Data from NOAAGlobalTemp v6.0.0 (www.ncei.noaa.gov/products/lan...)
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Paper alert ‼️ 🧪Our very own Dr Jade Margerum just published her 2nd PhD paper on International Women’s Day! 💐🌻🌹🌷
15 years of monitoring of #Botovskaya Cave in #Siberia!
Kudos to our women & an amazing team!
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I guess what ultimately confuses me is that the parts AI promises to automate away-- reading, writing, formulating theories, coming up with new ideas-- are the parts of research I most enjoy. Yes, they frustrate me to the point of tears sometimes, but overcoming it and producing science is... fun!
"To exercise one’s capacities to their fullest extent is to take pleasure in one’s own existence[...] Life is an end in itself. And if what being alive actually consists of is having powers [...] then surely the exercise of such powers as an end in itself does not have to be explained either."
Lately, in the face of the AI debate and struggling to wrestle my own data into manuscript format, my thoughts keep coming back to this essay on play, thought and existence by David Graeber.
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okay, Ill bite.
What do you think the point of reading for and writing a literature review is? The process of reading and writing is crucial for THINKING. Your ideas are shaped by all of this, offloading it to gAI, no matter how "good" you think gAI is at it defeats the purpose entirely.
"Holocene Hydroclimatic Variations Over Western and Central Asia as Inferred From Speleothem Isotope Evidence" | Pleased to be among the authors of this new article in @agu.org #JGRatmos led by my former student Liang Ning: agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/...
my folks in Alice Springs are already dealing with flooding and supermarket shortages as major highways are cut off 😬 shame that the most remote, understudied regions are left the most vulnerable as global heating continues
From the depths of the Ice Age, there's nothing quite as romantic as mammoth.
Cueva El Pindal, Asturias. 🦣♥️
Our recent publication featured in @awi.de news! 🔥 Full paper currently available as in press here: www.nature.com/articles/s43...
Will share more on it once the final version is online 🧪⚒️🌏
🌡️ A sediment record millions of years old revealed that the tropical Andes heated up dramatically when atmospheric CO2 levels were similar to today’s www.colorado.edu/today/2026/0...
Lina Pérez-Angel (now at Brown U) & Julio Sepúlveda led the team.
A new web interface for Berger et al's insolation calculator has been released. Check it out! django.elic.ucl.ac.be/berger/insol...
If anyone needs a BOOP, Pebble is right here for you! He is a professional BOOPer
#TerrierTuesday
a dehumidifier box that has partially frozen. water is accumulating on the hydrophilic beads in the top of the box rather than dripping through
we can use speleothem growth intervals to reconstruct the timing of continuous permafrost cover, because spelothems can't form under continuous permafrost. this is because the frozen ground stops water infiltration, as demonstrated by a dehumidifier left by the window of my badly insulated UK flat
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oh definitely! you can find speleothems growing on brick windows, concrete bridges and roman aqueducts. let water drip with enough co2 and calcium in the right conditions and it'll start precipitating calcite. it just might take a long, long time...
and then you can harvest the calcite as a building material... guess I know what I'm doing if this whole academia thing doesn't work out 😂
good point! I bet they love the minerals in that water. though we best not advertise this to the people breathing in the vapor for their health... 😂
you should see the photos of me crawling around underneath these things pointing out stalactites 😂 I'm sure everyone thought I was up to something
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