"The project isn't the deliverable. The project is the vehicle. The deliverable is the scientist that comes out the other end."
I encourage grad student advisors (and grad students) to read this. All the pithy hot takes miss the point, this is a breath of fresh air.
ergosphere.blog/posts/the-ma...
To spice it up, would you consider doing something on painting minis? I’d watch that! Just a thought.
Nice! Congrats.
Excited to share some new #clumped #isotope bond reordering results just published in EPSL and led by Nico Kueter & Nathan Looser @eth-eaps.bsky.social. Come for the high-precisino reordering kinetics, stay for the beautiful FTIR maps!
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Photo showing a tall, jagged ice front of the Ronne Ice Shelf in West Antarctica rising above the calm surface of the Weddell Sea. Credit: Torsten Albrecht / PIK.
🔔🚨 New Publication Alert!
Research has shown that the Antarctic Ice Sheet is a climate tipping element.
We found: it’s not one — it’s many.
📄 Paper (open access): www.nature.com/articles/s41...
📢 Press release: www.pik-potsdam.de/en/news/late...
Tread below 🧵👇
This may be relevant: link.springer.com/book/10.1007...
I know this is the nerdiest answer ever, but in your situation I’d look into caesium (strong compression maintaining high-quality pictures) + plakar ptar (large tamper-proof archives with rapid access to individual files and web-based preview gui). Good luck!
saerasoft.com/caesium
www.plakar.io
Finally, show rules rule! I can use them to easily format complicated geochemical notations, or to highlight former students/postdocs/mentors in bibliographies, for example.
I also love integrating Typst documents with the output of Python code, which is super easy using TOML import/export.
E.g., list dozens of taxons in a floating table, then collect all listed taxons in the caption, sort them alphabetically, replace the taxons in the table by numbers and list the numbers and corresponding taxons in the caption. That took 15 mn to get right, with zero prior Typst background.
I was like you a happy LaTeX user. I tried Typst for a proposal and found that I could do fairly complicated things in functions with very little effort, even as a newcomer, that would have been impossible (to me) using TeX macros.
Github + Zenodo, linked together so that every Github release is archived/notarized in Zenodo, with a release-specific DOI. (Zenodo also provides an “umbrella” DOI always pointing to the latest release.)
Starting the week well with a new paper! 🧑🔬 Here we show remarkable evidence of rudist bivalves in the hot, Late Cretaceous (75 Ma) tropics mineralizing their shells at temperatures of over 40 degrees C, hotter than any mollusc living today.
cp.copernicus.org/articles/21/...
If you want to read about paleoseismology between rice paddies and water buffalos, check out our last paper about paleoseismology along the Aceh fault, in Indonesia:
authors.elsevier.com/c/1m7C~98we9...
⏰New paper⏰
Proud to be part of this work led by Alex Quizon & Sierra Petersen where we show that most snails (we tested) precipitate their shells in isotopic equilibrium with seawater, enabling climate reconstructions like the one published earlier this week.
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Long but very good:
"An essay on wank"
It names and identifies one of my least favorite genre of posts – finally I have a proper term for it!
I'm sure I've been guilty of it too in the past, so it's useful for self-regulation, too.
deadsimpletech.com/blog/essay...
La stratégie délibérée — et très élaborée — de Cap Gemini qui consiste à faire passer des consultants pour des scientifiques afin de gonfler la somme des dépenses éligibles au CIR.
www.telerama.fr/television/c...
Transferring seismo-tectonic studies into hazard studies is very important, although often neglected by us, researcher in university lab.
Here is our the new paper by S. El-Kadri, our former PhD student, about seismic hazard in Lebanon and surrounding areas:
nhess.copernicus.org/articles/25/...
🚀 Exciting news!
Our next release of #Plakar is scheduled for Monday, September 15th.
Stay tuned for the official release announcement — we can’t wait to share what’s new!
In the meantime, come hang out with us and the community on Discord 👉 discord.com/invite/uqdP9...
You may find it interesting to test the same query on elicit.com. I’ve found it useful, and it doesn’t make up sources as far as I can tell.
En partenariat avec le LUMEN @univparissaclay.bsky.social et les Archives Nationales nous avons créé une exposition sur l'histoire des expéditions polaires françaises en Antarctique.
Jusqu'au 3 nov au LUMEN
Plusieurs ateliers et visites guidées sont planifiées :
www.lsce.ipsl.fr/la-france-en...
First, that is crazy, thanks for the heads-up. Second, this paper might be relevant: arxiv.org/abs/2507.10734
🚨New paper! We compare foramniferal Mg/Ca and clumped isotope (D47) over the last 1.25Ma in South Indian Ocean and discuss the difference between the 2 thermometers: Mg/Ca baises correction, diagenesis, potential undetermined bias in D47...? Details here 👇🏻
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
New preprint by Kocken & Zeebe says that outdated astronomical solutions that are still widely used to simulate climates in the geological past are wrong, introducing errors of the same order of magnitude as the orbital forcing itself 👇⚒️🧪
essopenarchive.org/doi/full/10....
In May, historian of science Naomi Oreskes lectured at the @rigb.org on the history of plate tectonic theory, and the video was recently uploaded: www.youtube.com/watch?v=tTAW...
#histsci #HPS
Proud to be on this publication in GCA by Barbora Krizova et al. We show #clumped #isotope reordering in #Cretaceous rudist bivalves is location-specific. Understanding burial history is essential for selecting shell material for #paleoclimate #reconstructions. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
🚨New paper🚨 When studying paleoenvironments and paleogeography in Asia, at some point in your career, you have to take a stab at the India-Asia collision. Well, I just did—in a freshly published paper:
doi.org/10.1016/j.gr... (1/n)
Increasingly convinced the main damage cell phones have done to creativity isn't decreased attention spans or what not but the elimination of productive boredom. Inspiration comes from the mind filling the void inside. Hard to make art when you're constantly silencing the silence with "content."
Voss Postdoctoral Research Associate call is now open at Brown University in the Institute at Brown for Environment and Society (@brown-ibes.bsky.social) - apply.interfolio.com/170172
My group has hosted two amazing postdocs via this program over the past several years, feel free to get in touch!
