Respectfully, fuck off. (Also Office sucks.) www.nytimes.com/2025/10/28/c...

Beate is the best! (And I hear Denmark is nice too)

Very grateful to the @snf-fns.ch for funding our continued work in DR Congo on tropical peatland greenhouse gas emissions! With @johansix.bsky.social and @draketw.bsky.social @eth-eaps.bsky.social @usyseth.bsky.social

Always happy to take the @eth-eaps.bsky.social (and a few @usyseth.bsky.social ) MSc students to Valais for some soil descriptions, pebble counts, and lake coring! Weather was rough yesterday but much perfect today!

Very cool write-up by @ethz.ch on our recent paper in @nature.com on reconstructing dissolved organic carbon in the ocean through geologic time! Led by Nir Galili @eth-eaps.bsky.social ethz.ch/en/news-and-...

I unapologetically and consistently use em dashes---with no spaces---in everything I write, from texts to scientific papers. Been doing it for years, and I won't stop because of ChatGPT www.nytimes.com/2025/09/18/m...

🗞️ New article in Biogeosciences #EGU by Carolina F. M. de Carvalho et al. ⬇️

While Genossenschaften ("co-ops" in the article) are great, they are a low proportion of total housing and have extremely long wait lists and low turnover. Given how high rent is for the rest of us---and the frequency of demonstrations about the cost of living---id say no, we haven't solved it

Nice excerpt from @peterbrannen.bsky.social's new book in @theguardian.com! (with a cameo by the person who taught me everything I know about math, Dan Rothman) www.theguardian.com/environment/...

This is my life in a nutshell. I apologize to everybody on behalf of America (or, "apologise" I should say) www.srf.ch/news/schweiz...

New @nature.com paper out "The geologic history of marine dissolved organic carbon from iron oxides" doi.org/10.1038/s415...

🚨 Paper alert! 🚨 After >1 year in review and six (6!) reviewers, I'm thrilled that this paper is finally out! Here, we provide the first data-based record of marine dissolved organic carbon in the geologic past. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Easy solution: freeze the billionaires' bank accounts. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/07/b...

🚨Job alert PhD 🚨 We are looking for 15 new doctoral researchers at @marumunibremen.bsky.social @unibremen.bsky.social. Don't miss this fantastic opportunity! The deadline is the 25th of July. More information about the projects and how to apply can be found here 👇 www.uni-bremen.de/en/universit...

"Want to solve climate change? Just bury your old wooden furniture in the backyard!" Sounds like snake oil. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

The changing landscape of academic publishing: "In many countries, APCs are covered using research grants funded by national research agencies. As the demand for OA grows, ensuring fair and sustainable publishing models remains a critical issue." (1/2) journals.uu.se/AGC/article/...

Part of our team (@jordonhemingway.bsky.social, C. Fernandes, T. Nagakura, Z. Wang) went sampling in the #Bedretto tunnel this week, looking for #darkoxygen ! Thank you @isme-microbes.bsky.social for funding my participation in this expedition! @ethzurich.bsky.social @mblscience.bsky.social

🚨Paper alert 🚨 For anybody interested in measuring #oxygen #isotopes of #iron #oxides, here we describe a new high-precision, fluorine-free method! pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/...

Rock Identification xkcd.com/3068

"President Trump believes that all hiring should be based solely on merit" 🤔 www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

I am giving a talk on 'Tectonically controlled deep meteoric water circulation and CO2 degassing in the Himalayas' at @gfz.bsky.social on Wednesday at 13:00 in F409! It will be great to see you there if you are around!

One of the people fired from NOAA today is the director of the Ocean Acidification Program. That program also leads the U.S. government's effort on marine carbon dioxide removal (mCDR). The destruction of American science is incomprehensible.

Very happy to have played a (small) part in this excellent paper in @pnas.org by @lipidorama.bsky.social! Here, Felix et al. show the existence of a new type of quinone in N-cycling bacteria, with some big implications for aerobic metabolism timing vis-à-vis the GOE 🎉 www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Banned in Trump's America:

Literally the one and only good thing he has done or ever will do www.nytimes.com/2025/02/09/u...

Let all the soils be replete with heavy metals and all the riverbanks be crusted in calcite!!* *...thus releasing half of all captured CO2 right back into the atmosphere

...and Ozempic

Two weeks to go until submission deadline to be a PhD student on this interdisciplinary project between several groups in @eth-eaps.bsky.social and @usyseth.bsky.social!

For those interested in publishing in a 💎*~diamond~*💎 open access geochemistry journal, consider submitting your manuscripts to @weareagc.bsky.social---opening for submissions next week! #isotopes #geochemistry #cosmochemistry #openaccess

Are you an analytical aqueous geochemist interested in a postdoc to study biogeochemical element cycles in terrestrial polar environments ? Come join us in Potsdam Team and research details @ www.gfz-potsdam.de/en/section/i... Application deadline Jan 5th 2025 www.gfz-potsdam.de/en/career/jo...

Very cool description of @emilruff.bsky.social's recent fieldwork for our #DarkOxygen #HFSP project! One small qualm: "He’s now analyzing chemical signatures of the oxygen within the samples for clues about its origin." No, they're sitting in a crate in my office :)

Is it controversial to say that professors should stop trying to fuck their students and postdocs? www.tagesanzeiger.ch/klimaforsche...

The new edition of the Treatise on Geochemistry is out! www.geotraces.org/the-third-ed... #geochemistry

Very cool study, but credit to Aroskay et al. who showed a very similar conclusion in 2021 (but also using triple oxygen isotopes!) www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Apply to join our project!

A fully funded PhD opportunity (via a NERC DTP scholarship) with me at Durham Uni, in collab with UK Centre of Ecology & Hydrology. Rivers, soils, groundwaters, isotopes, cleanlabs, mass specs, more isotopes! Deadline Jan 3rd but send me an email first! Details here: iapetus2.ac.uk/studentships...

New paper led by Emily Hollingsworth in Geochemical Perspective Letters. We use Raman spectroscopy to evaluate rock organic carbon oxidation during the Paleocene-Eocene thermal maximum and assess its role as a positive feedback mechanism! (1/3) www.geochemicalperspectivesletters.org/article2444/

5th Annual Congo Biogeochemical Observatory meeting, this time hosted in a fancy old Belgian castle, is in full swing!

And here's the link for a second Ph.D. position on the same project: jobs.ethz.ch/job/view/JOP...

🚨 New Ph.D. opening! 🚨 We seek a Ph.D. student in soil (bio)geochemistry as it relates to ERW, particularly in the tropics. Position is part of a very multi-disciplinary group split between @ethzurich.bsky.social EAPS and USYS depts @usyseth.bsky.social. Please share! jobs.ethz.ch/job/view/JOP...

Not 10th follower, but still waiting on that hot take Peter...

🚨 Preprint alert! 🚨 Still making my way over here from that other site, so haven't posted often. Nevertheless, take this one as an opportunity to check out our new preprint on #pyrite #burial led by @ethzurich.bsky.social D-EAPS Ph.D. student Conni Mertens! www.researchsquare.com/article/rs-4...

Hello 7 followers! Ever wonder why cells of the same type tend to have a pretty uniform size? Check out our new paper out in @MolecularCell today to find out why too big can be a bad thing in terms of genome homeostasis and proliferative potential. www.cell.com/molecular-ce...

Are you a doctoral student? Want to explore how Earth and life dance together? 🧪⚒️🌎🔬🧬💃 Join us next summer in Italy and at Penn State! Dates and info for the 2024 International Geobiology Course here: t.co/nv3Ooy88Vn

SEELab postdoc Nir and PhD student Conni teaching the future generation of geologists at @ethzurich.bsky.social as part of the Swiss national Zukunftstag ("Future Day")!

I refuse to believe this is not causation. Now do it by cheese intake!

🚨PhD Alert at Southampton🚨 Very cool looking projects---if I could do it all over again, I'd definitely do a PhD with Gordon!

They are hiring in the UW School of Oceanography. Check out their two tenure-track Assistant Professor positions in Biological Oceanography and Marine Geological Processes apply.interfolio.com/132128