Dinosaurs And Non-Dinosaurs xkcd.com/3204/

The world has entered “an era of global water bankruptcy” with irreversible consequences, according to a new United Nations report. https://cnn.it/4qxGTNX

Climat: les Etats-Unis se retirent du GIEC. www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...

A back-to-work cartoon for @newscientist.com

Gouverner, c'est prévoir ... www.lemonde.fr/campus/artic...

Aux Etats-Unis, l’administration Trump veut imposer l’examen de l’historique des réseaux sociaux aux touristes étrangers

L'eau disponible pour la vie devient rare. Aura-t-on encore de l’eau douce demain ? Contenu scientifique : Sandrine Anquetin, chercheuse @cnrs.fr à @igegrenoble.bsky.social Synthèse graphique : Claire Marc #vulgarisation #SVT #Thread à dérouler ci-dessous 1/8

🚨📢"30 ans de recherche sur le climat à l’IPSL" 2005 – La cellule internationale de l’IPSL Tout savoir sur les 30 ans de l'IPSL https://tinyurl.com/58sxbnh7

[REPLAY] Parfois fragilisés par l’érosion ou grouillants de vie, les sols nous nourrissent et pourraient aider à lutter contre le changement climatique. 🌱 Un monde caché, juste sous nos pieds à découvrir avec les #ÉchappéesInattendues.

Geologic Core Sample xkcd.com/3171/

Je pense que vous allez le voir beaucoup passer aujourd'hui. Le dernier @xkcd.com est incroyable 😭 xkcd.com/3172/

Tom Toro et cette case devenue un classique.

La voilà enfin, après pas mal de mois de travail : Fallait-il débunker la géobiologie ? Je précise qu'il ne s'agit PAS d'un débunk de la vidéo de @gmilgram.bsky.social, mais plutôt d'une réflexion plus générale sur la manière de traiter les "pseudosciences"... bon visionnage !

Lourdes / Palourdes (crédit Floc)

Look for these at the 3rd OZCAR TERENO International Conference happening next week. The Critical Zone Network of Networks is interested in your responses! Conference details: bit.ly/4krLLlc

Suite à la migration de scientifiques et d'universitaires de X, Bluesky est devenue une l'une des alternatives. Afin d'évaluer sa viabilité/pertinence pour la communication scientifique, cette étude présente une analyse à grande échelle de la diffusion d'articles scientifiques sur Bluesky. 1/5

From soil moisture to contaminants, this review maps key challenges and advances in vadose zone science—crucial for managing water, food, and climate in a changing world. 🌐🧪

The registration window closes a little bit more each day. Join your fellow Critical Zone scientists in Paris next month at the 3rd OZCAR-TERENO conference. “Advancing Critical Zone science” will take place from September 29 to October 2, 2025: bit.ly/Paris_Register 🌐🧪

Geology Murder xkcd.com/3112/

🚨 Nature’s rights & international law: The Inter-American Court of Human Rights recognizes rights for nature. In a historic opinion, the Court cited @ipbes.net Global and Americas Assessments as key evidence 🌿📚🧪 Biodiversity conservation ensures human well-being. 🌏 📰http://bit.ly/4omU9V4

#RésultatScientifique 🔎 Une étude publiée dans Hydrology and Earth System Sciences présente une méthode innovante pour mesurer la transpiration des arbres grâce à des mesures électriques passives du flux de sève 🌲 ▶️ www.inee.cnrs.fr/fr/cnrsinfo/...

As a philosophy major who adored symbolic logic courses, this may be my favorite cartoon ever.

Congratulations to Ivan Osorio-Leon et al. for their work on the Bedrock Vadose Zone at the Eels River #CZO and to @cznews.bsky.social who made a beautiful piece about it: criticalzonenews.substack.com/p/the-silent... #CriticalZone #DeepRoot #Respiration

Connect. Collaborate. Find out more about how the Critical Zone Network of Networks supports the development of a global approach to CZ science: bit.ly/CZ_NoN_main 🌐🧪

Paris. You. Science. September. Register: bit.ly/4krLLlc 🌐🧪

From the electrical double layer to the tree #Transpiration! 🌳💧 We just published a paper investigating what tree electrical field can bring to the field of #Ecohydrology. Hu et al. (2025) is available in open access in #HESS (@hs.egu.eu): hess.copernicus.org/articles/29/... #TreeSP #SelfPotential

Poor integrity of carbon offsets : "all key market participants benefit from inflated claims about carbon credits" www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Destroying US science (...) The number of early-career researchers NSF supports could fall by 78%—from 95,700 undergraduates, graduate students, and postdocs during this fiscal year to 21,400 in 2026. www.science.org/content/arti...

🚨 📢 #LesActusIPSL 🔥 "Les feux d’Amérique du Nord affectent-ils la qualité de l'air à Paris ?" Une étude menée au #LATMOS_IPSL Julie Leonetti, Camille Viatte, Sarah Safieddine & Julien Jumelet Laboratoire Atmosphères, Observations Spatiales #pollution #CompositionAir tinyurl.com/y6pv2jv3

Big thanks to the #Groundwater #Hydrology Section of @agu.org for the highlight... ...but if you really want to read something interesting, look at the paper of Dumont and Singha (2024) : wires.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.... 🌍🪨💧🌳🦠 #CriticalZone #Geophysics

Filling worldwide clouds and servers with AI slop... www.youtube.com/watch?v=TWpg...

“A community of scientists coming from different backgrounds, all interested to understand the living path of our planet and prepare a better future for the next generations. I’m happy to welcome you at the first eLTER Science Conference!” - prof. Jerome Gaillardet #eLTER2025SC #eLTERcommunity

“Towards a whole-system approach for ecosystem science” - the motto of eLTER Science Conference 2025, taking place from 23-27 June in Tampere, Finland #eLTERcommunity 🩷

When @elter-ri.eu becomes critical! We are starting the #CriticalZone session at the eLTER science conference 2025 with a great keynote speaker : Nolwenn Lesparre #eLTERcommunity

Big day in @elter-ri.eu Science Conference 2025 today! We start from social metabolism modeling and we will end by a poster session... a lot to learn 🥰 #eLTERcommunity

The bell has rung 🔔! @elter-ri.eu Science Conference 2025 has officially started 🌍🌲💧🪨🌿 #eLTERcommunity

eLTER Science Conference brings together 350 researchers, practitioners, and stakeholders for an interdisciplinary exchange. Recognition that environmental challenges must be tackled across disciplines, in close dialogue with society unites us. ▶️ www.elter-ri.eu/news/first-e... 🌍 #eLTERcommunity

Amazing @elter-ri.eu excursion for the scientific conference! #CriticalZone #eLTERcommunity

Version vidéo enrichie de notre dernier podcast Complorama sur le complotisme contre la science. www.youtube.com/watch?v=BXVF...

Getting ready for @elter-ri.eu next month and wondering what the weather is like in Tampere in June? Find out here on the conference FAQ along with tons of other information for attendees: bit.ly/3H2TAOM 🌐🧪

Connect. Collaborate. Contribute to the advancement of global #CriticalZone science. Learn more about how there's a place for you and all researchers studying the complex systems that help sustain surface life on Earth as a part of the Critical Zone Network of Networks: bit.ly/CZ_NoN_main 🌐🧪

Apply today for travel funding to upcoming conferences in 2025 and 2026. 🌐🧪

Two mornings, two moods.

It was only last week that we were in the middle of the amazing #EGU25 conference. These were some of the people who attended a Splinter Meeting exploring ways to advance the work of Critical Zone scientists all around the world. More about this session: bit.ly/EGU25_SPM88 🌐🧪

Don't miss out on all the exciting science and community next year - mark your calendar today for #EGU26! To be held in Vienna and online between 3-8 May 2026! More information available soon: www.egu26.eu

Macron vient d'annoncer que supprimer des programmes de recherches aux Etats-Unis était une erreur et ouvre le programme "Choose Europe for Science" en investissant 100 millions Il y a une semaine, le gouvernement annonçait couper 493 millions de crédits pour la recherche et l'enseignement supérieur

May the 4th Be With You

Disastrous www.nature.com/articles/d41...