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Recognizing deserving scientists is at the core of EAG's mission 🏆 2 weeks until the Awards Nomination deadline, for: - Senior scientists: Geochemistry Fellows, the H.C. Urey or Science Innovation award - ECRs: the Houtermans award 📅 Nominate your colleagues by 30 Oct More info: buff.ly/OLy4Plm

Really? 🤔 Six months gone and we are asking again for VERAcore Seed Grant proposals for free #AMS @univie.ac.at ? Here, we go: Happy to announce the 4th call‼️ It's just the same as before, but we'll set up a new email for you. Please send applications now to [email protected]. 🫵

Please sse doi.org/10.1038/s415... for repost...

Amazing: Our Nature Astronomy paper has an Altmetric Score of 499. Mentioned by 65 news outlets, 6 blogs, 32 X users, 1 Wikipedia page & 🥳 24 Bluesky users. Can anybody help to get it to 500? 😇 It's a nice paper "Catastrophic disruption of asteroid 2023 CX1 and implications for planetary defence"🤩

🤩These are my favourite mails: "Your article is now published online!" Another great study led by Addi Bischoff from @uni-muenster.de including cosmogenic radionuclide data from our VERA AMS facility @univie.ac.at. It is still raining stones in Lower Austria. This time we investigated "Haag". 🌠

On my way to the ReMade@ARI Meeting in Leuven. I love the trains in Belgium: On-time and friendly screens. This is what I need after a long but ecofriendly nighttrain ride from Vienna.

Third and final stop "Tag des Denkmals": WUK (former locomotive production, today culture centre). Inside and outside true contrast!

Second Stop "Tag des Denkmals": Palais Niederösterreich" (Palace Lower Austria). More than 500 years ago bought from the Liechtenstein Brothers.

First stop "Tag des Denkmals" (heritage day) in Vienna: #Oktoneum. Pretty young building (<40 years, Postmoderne) for Vienna, but I like it.

The good things when working in Vienna: In autumn the theaters open again. Tonight #Volksoper Wien plays "Lass uns die Welt vergessen"...2nd-row seats...😀

happy, too 🤩...there are already some nice German articles about it...https://nature.altmetric.com/details/181458008/news

PhD Studentship alert! I'm looking for a motivated student to work here in Vienna @vdsee-univie.bsky.social on my ERC grant "DISPERSE". It's a fulltime scholarship (working in 14C and #archsci in Palaeolithic archaeology in Eurasia. Details in the link below! jobs.univie.ac.at/job/Universi...

back to meteorite🌠chemistry after precipitation of Al & Be as hydroxides (by NH3aq), we see the wonderful nickel ammine complex [Ni(NH3)6]2+ (blank without Ni easy to spot😊) most iron meteorites have ~7% Ni, but one of this has ~35% Ni (which one😇?) different Ni concentr.👉different shades of blue🥰

Today, no meteorite🌠chemistry in the VERA lab, but destroying organics and fluorides with HClO4 (after having dissolved >50 g quartz in >200 ml HF). This is my favourite step in terrestrial cosmogenic nuclide chemistry👩‍🔬, as it means we survived again the nasty HF. 🤩 Do you see the white smoke?

Reminder: We don't need any chemistry for stony meteorites to measure Al-26 & Ca-41 @univie.ac.at - or to not measure them 😜 to identify meteor wrongs (=terrestrial rocks). Our 1st study led by Lidia Pittarello from @nhmwien.bsky.social just went online as a report in MAPS. doi.org/10.1111/maps... 🥳

Two cation exchanges (much small(er) columns 🤩) and some precipitations later, we have oxides of Al, Be, Mn, and Ni for #AMS at VERA, @univie.ac.at. And we also measure fluorides of Ca (for Ca-41) and AgCl (for Cl-36) here. I love (iron) meteorites ! 🥰

I really love meteorites 🤩. For stony meteorites, we analyse cosmogenic radionuclides by #AMS without any chemical preparation. But for iron meteorites, we need to dissolve them 🧪 & separate Be-10, Al-26, Cl-36, Ca-41, Mn-53, Ni-59,... from the matrix & from each other (by colourful🌈ion exchange).🥰

Last day of a great #Goldschmidt2025 conference. Last very tasty Coffee "Break" dessert. 😋 Last oral presentations of colleagues until late afternoon. Please, join these interesting talks if you are still in Prague! CU there or next year at #Goldschmidt2026 at Montreal. 🇨🇦

20 things that women should stop wearing after the age of 30. 1-20: The weight of other people's expectations and judgments.

Prague seems to be ready for #Goldschmidt2025 participants.

😭 Not the best start for my travel to #Goldschmidt2025 ...the coffee Maschine in the #Regiojet Lounge at the Vienna train station is out of service. This is maybe harder for me than the 18 min delay already seen at the info screen. 😇 CU at Prague for a great conference!

Just in case, you are passing this summer Hof in Bavaria, Germany...have a look at the meteorite exhibition ...you might learn why we have chemically treated and analyzed the cosmogenic radionuclides Cl-36 and Ca-41 in "Reitzenstein" by #AMS at VERA @univie.ac.at www.lfu.bayern.de/veranstaltun...

Good Science xkcd.com/3101/

Btw...meteorite Haag arrived yesterday in Vienna @nhmwien.bsky.social. Nice (German) video on.orf.at/video/142795...

This time I made it to Linz in Upper Austria. No city limit signs, but one of the two meteorites of Upper Austria on display. Do you know which one? 😇

Besuch uns und unsere Isotope am Donnerstag, 5. Juni, im Hauptgebäude der @univie.ac.at zum Circle U. Climate Day 2025 urbanlab.univie.ac.at/circle-u-cli.... Unser Thema beim Marktplatz der Initiativen: "Kleine Teilchen, große Fragen: Den Klimawandel mit dem Wiener Teilchenbeschleuniger verstehen."💡

Final version online...Link works for 50 days only?...https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0169555X25002466?dgcid=coauthor Elsevier Geomorphology not on Bluesky. 🤔

Rubber duck and me forgot to bring sampling equipment to amphitheatre in Greece. 🙈 Maybe a good idea? 😇

Sampling done...finishing with touristic view from highest mountain in area...where are we (in Greece)? 🤔

📣 Closing soon! The next EAG Early Career Science Ambassador funding deadline: 1 June. Funding for young scientists based in Europe to attend a conference outside Europe up to 50% of expenses covered up to a maximum of €1500. More info & to apply: buff.ly/4kaRVWC

📣 Call for nominations for the H.C. Urey Award - bestowed by the EAG for outstanding contributions advancing geochemistry over a career. There is a new nomination form for 2026 &/ a self-nomination process. More info: buff.ly/whIHCeD Self-nomination deadline: 30 June Nomination deadline: 30 Oct

Yippieh! 2nd try for field-work in Greece starts today🥳 (1st was cancelled due to general strike). With @romangarba.bsky.social and Stephanie Neuhuber. Let's see if we can find some nice samples for cosmogenic nuclide analysis by #AMS for VERA @univie.ac.at

But I agree...same findings at ASTER (even in 2008 😇)

At Vienna..."VERA inside outside"

Last action as part of our ReMade@ARI Workshop: Visiting the MILEA #AMS system at Rez. Excellent!

Happy to present our #AMS research at the ReMade@ARI Workshop in Prague today.

📣Calling all early career #geochemists: join the #Goldschmidt2025 early career program. Sign up with your registration to join a Sunday afternoon workshop, meet the plenary lunch or young scientist social event. Deadline tomorrow! 👇

Attending the "Neues Europäisches Bauhaus weiterdenken" (Thinking ahead for a new European Bauhaus) event in Berlin organised by @umweltbundesamt.bsky.social ...green dot/sticker for networking activity in the afternoon...let's see if there is any potential overlap with our ReMade@ARI activity😇

Having great fun in Berlin with Horst Evers and the Glorious Four from the DSO (Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester) Berlin in the Schlosspark Theater. From time to time I am really missing not working anymore in Berlin. 🤔 But tonight's evening was for sure worth to travel from Vienna!

This is how international cooperations works. Nice summary of stuff yet reached and also some outlook about Hf-182 #AMS @univie.ac.at 😇.

Some "old" Be-10 #AMS data from a joined project of researchers from Argentina, Germany & Switzerland finally published in Geomorphology: "Pleistocene glacial geomorphology and chronology of the Nahuel Huapi-Limay and Traful catchments, northern Patagonia". Worth to look at?😇 doi.org/10.1016/j.ge...

Great cosmogenic nuclide #AMS application! Highly recommended. TODAY! CU there or online.

Well-said! Congrats to Andreas Wiederin from @univie.ac.at (2nd person from left) for also receiving the award. He presented his actinide research by #AMS.

When getting older my holiday goals seem to change...😇...just coming back from Lower Austria where I took pictures in front of city limit signs of the two (out of) three meteorite fall/find cities...Ybbsitz found in 1977...Haag fell in 2024...

Abstract submissions for the ANU Heavy Ion Accelerator Symposium close on May 2! We invite all members of the international scientific community working with accelerated ion beams and related instrumentation to submit an abstract or their intention to participate via hias.anu.edu.au/2025/

Happy to announce here that we have started a VERAcore Seed Grant initiative. We support pilot accelerator mass spectrometry (#AMS) projects at @univie.ac.at: C-14 & non-C-14.👩‍🔬Open to researchers worldwide🌍. Apply now for the 3rd call (next deadline: 1st May)‼️All good things come in threes.🤩

For those who like even bigger machines than our "little" tandem accelerator, go "bigger"‼️Visit Marta @martamirolo.bsky.social and Benoit @esrf.fr for cool geochemistry research at Grenoble, France.

Funding proposal rejections should not be sent on Fridays! 😵‍💫 Congratulations to all who have received emails with more positive content today. Happy week-end to everybody! 🌞