Elsevier has pulled a dozen papers by a finance professor in Ireland who oversaw the review of the articles and made “the final decision” to publish them in three journals he edited, according to the retraction notices.

AGU Honor Nominations Now Open for 2026 It is that time of year again, when you can nominate a colleague for an AGU Honour. The AGU is a global community supporting more than half a million advocates and professionals in the Earth and space sciences. Both nominator and nominee need to be AGU…

Imagine being a Doctor of Rockology! This certificate was presented to former University of Birmingham Head of Department Fred Shotton (1906–1990), clearly a #geologist with a good sense of humour! #LapworthRocks #ThrowbackThursday #geologyrocks #geology #palaeontology #history #museum #archive

Updates on Cave Climate Data Collection in Australia Back in 2020, in the depths of COVID lockdowns here in Australia, the Australasian Cave and Karst Management Association organised a cave climate ‘baseline monitoring’ project. The cave climate monitoring of Australasian caves continues. I last…

AGU Honor Nominations Now Open for 2026 It is that time of year again, when you can nominate a colleague for an AGU Honour. The AGU is a global community supporting more than half a million advocates and professionals in the Earth and space sciences. Both nominator and nominee need to be AGU…

Some New Year's data wrangling with a messy time series with skewed properties, missing and poor quality data at times, different recording techniques, human error, etc. x-axis is time in years, y axis is kilometers. The hashing is #running

A sad and lovely piece co-authored by my UNSW colleague Rob Brooks on the recent passing of marine scientist and research leader Prof Emma Johnston AO. theconversation.com/emma-johnsto...

Hydrology Paper of the Day @andy-baker.bsky.social on quantifying the drip of water underground as part of rainfall recharge: groundwater monitoring near the water table in Australia; why mines, tunnels and caves are essential monitoring locations; and relating rock aquifer response to rainfall.

Exploring Drip Water Dynamics for Groundwater Recharge The end of the year is approaching, and the papers and pre-prints are still coming from the groundwater and climate research team here and our collaborators. Here is a summary of our outputs the last three months of the year. All are…

Soil Moisture and Vegetation are Key Predictors of Precipitation-driven Groundwater Recharge Occurrences in Southeastern Australia Akhilesh Kumar has the first output from his PhD research available as a preprint here: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.... Preprint servers don't stop for the holidays!

Exploring Drip Water Dynamics for Groundwater Recharge The end of the year is approaching, and the papers and pre-prints are still coming from the groundwater and climate research team here and our collaborators. Here is a summary of our outputs the last three months of the year. All are…

We have a PhD opportunity for someone interested in 3D mapping of Australian Caves to map water flow pathways from the surface to the groundwater. The PhD is based at UNSW in Sydney. Details are below, please share! andy-baker.org/2025/12/17/p...

Wildfire smoke, already a health hazard, may come with a dangerous hitchhiker: fungal spores. Research presented at #AGU25 by @kobziar.bsky.social, @phin-lampman.bsky.social, & colleagues. eos.org/articles/fun...

Attendance at US-based science conferences is bouncing around this year but generally down. #AGU25 has ~10k fewer this year! I explored these trends for @nature.com — including solutions to keep conferences local & productive: www.nature.com/articles/d41... 🧪

Eurokarst 2026 This is an international meeting on the hydrogeology of karstified Rocks - think caves, limestone and chalk and their water resources. Which is held in Europe. Hence the title. The abstract deadline is now open, and closes 15th January. Pass the word! www.eurokarst.org

First update from STOTEN in a while. Yet none of these ongoing issues are obvious from STOTEN's homepage. I'd be annoyed if I had been unaware and published with them in the past year.

No OSPA at this year's #AGU25, which is disappointing, because it made sure that students had at least 3 scientists come to their poster, ask questions, and provide anonymous (hopefully productive) feedback afterwards. Does anyone know why it was dropped? @hydrology-agu.bsky.social or @agu.org

We have a new position paper, where we advocate for the wider use of underground observatories to understand how groundwater is replenished. By directly observing these recharge events, we can make a direct link between groundwater replenishment, weather and climate. eos.org/science-upda...

And if you adviser isn't the type to do this - find another champion for your career. Endlessly thankful for people like @microgem.bsky.social who reached out to support my career in many ways!

It's over. Despite the fact that the academic council recommended against it, despite the fact that the program brought in more tuition than it cost, and despite the fact that Nebraskans need & deserve this expertise, Earth & Atmospheric Sciences will be cut. www.dailynebraskan.com/news/adminis...

Collapse of key Atlantic current could bring extreme drought to Europe for centuries, study finds. @swinda.bsky.social That's an under-appreciated impact of #AMOC shutdown, of particular concern given the recent results showing much higher likelihood of this. 1/2 www.livescience.com/planet-earth...

Important updates from @agu.org for those attending #AGU25 in New Orleans as the city is invaded by federal paramilitaries in operation “Catahoula Crunch”

We have a new position paper, where we advocate for the wider use of underground observatories to understand how groundwater is replenished. By directly observing these recharge events, we can make a direct link between groundwater replenishment, weather and climate. eos.org/science-upda...

Measuring rainfall recharge thresholds allows researchers to assess how much rainfall is needed to recharge groundwater and when this recharge occurs, write @andy-baker.bsky.social + colleagues at CSIRO, UNSW, @flindersuniversity.bsky.social, & @deakinuniversity.bsky.social eos.org/science-upda...

🚨CCRC researchers @drjucker.bsky.social, Laurie Menviel and Valentina Guzmán joined other leading and emerging climate scientists across Australia to produce a new review of the Southern Annular Mode and its impacts. The study just published in @natrevearthenviron.nature.com. doi.org/10.1038/s430...

New review led by @ariaan.bsky.social on climate effects of the Southern Annular Mode, the most important mode of climate variability in the Southern Hemisphere. Read it in @natrevearthenviron.nature.com at doi.org/10.1038/s430... 🧪 #academicsky #climate #climatechange

On unethical editorial practice at STOTEN - Science of the Total Environmental- and how this has ultimately led to delisting at Clarivate. english.elpais.com/science-tech... #academia #academicchatter

The A294 cave contains the world’s known oldest firn cave deposit, 6100 year old! 🧊🦇 Ice stratigraphy suggests unprecedented melting conditions since ice began to form! 🔥 'We encourage the scientific community to study these archives before they are lost forever' tc.copernicus.org/articles/19/...

Unprecedent cave ice melt in the last 6100 years in the Central Pyrenees tc.copernicus.org/articles/19/...

It's starting to feel a lot like even more fieldwork (Yarrangobilly Caves groundwater recharge edition)

New study tracking 6.5M people finds heart attacks and strokes peak 2 months after hurricanes pass, not during the storm. eos.org/articles/cyc... Read more in our year-end issue: bit.ly/Eos-Nov-Dec2025

📣 WWU Geology is searching for an Assistant Prof in *Hydrogeology*! Application deadline Dec 15. Please help us spread the word! It's a lovely nook of the world to call home, and a genuinely great department community. App @ hr.wwu.edu/careers-facu... Pic from my local field trip last week.

It's starting to feel a lot like fieldwork (Limestone Coast of South Australia edition)

Antarctic science at COP30 🌍❄️ A panel of Australian scientists, including ACEAS Deputy Director @profmattengland.bsky.social (UNSW), today shared insights about abrupt changes unfolding across the #Antarctic environment at the #COP30 Cryosphere Pavilion. Watch now: www.youtube.com/live/YjYkKvw...

Good morning from Sydney, where I will be live-posting from the International Research Integrity Conference, organized by @simongandevia.bsky.social , @jabyrnesci.bsky.social, and David Vaux. #IRICSydney researchintegrityconf.com/internationa...

AGU is calling on Congress to finish full-year appropriations for science agencies—and we need your voice. 📢 Read more from our president, Brandon Jones, who reminds us that together, we can keep science standing strong: buff.ly/prxry8C #ScienceIsEssential #AGUAdvocacy #SupportScience

It's starting to look a lot like fieldwork (Wellington Caves and UNSW Research Station edition). #fieldwork #academia #caves #groundwater #research

My co-authored marine GDGT « cookbook » review paper led by Peter Bijl 👨‍🔬 and @kasiasliwinska.bsky.social 👩‍🔬 is now published in @egubg.bsky.social! doi.org/10.5194/bg-2... Again, I am so happy to be the @cerege.bsky.social @climatecerege.bsky.social expert on #GDGTs! @egu.eu 🧪 ⚒️ 🌊 #PaleoSky (1/3)

Thanks to the Capricorn Caves team for another amazing research visit. We downloaded cave hydrology loggers and a groundwater level logger, and ACKMA cave climate loggers. Visited the groundwater recharge zone above the cave. Saw lots of bats, and tree roots deep into the cave system.

It's starting to feel a lot like fieldwork... (Capricorn Caves edition) #caves #fieldwork #academia #science

It was 'student night' at IAH NSW in Sydney ( and online everywhere). Thanks to Akhi Kumar, Danyang Sun, Nane Weber and Yaggesh Sharma for presenting their groundwater research. I might have photobombed the official photo!

I am delighted to have been chosen as a lecturer in the American Geophysical Union Distinguished Lecture Series for 2025-2026. Would you like to hear about all things climate, groundwater and caves...? andy-baker.org/2025/10/14/a...

Happy #FossilFriday, the University of Texas is hiring two curators/non-TT professors for our Vertebrate and Non-vertebrate Paleontology Labs: apply.interfolio.com/175702

MOFs are in the news, thanks to a Nobel Prize for #Chemistry. MOFs = metal organic frameworks, complex molecules. They can help break down environmental contaminants such as #PFAS, or PAHs such as naphthalene, as published by Ze Li this year: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

MOFs are in the news, thanks to a Nobel Prize for #Chemistry. MOFs = metal organic frameworks, complex molecules. They can help break down environmental contaminants such as #PFAS, or PAHs such as naphthalene, as published by Ze Li this year: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

It is IAH 'student night' next Tuesday in Sydney CBD, and there are #groundwater presentations from some of my #UNSW group. Open to all! Details are here: www.linkedin.com/posts/iah-ns...

If you sneak out a corrected government report before the long weekend, IMO it deserves sharing the week after. #ChatGPT #AI assisted report has fake references and quote. arstechnica.com/ai/2025/10/d...

🚨FOUR tenure track positions in my dept @ucalgary.bsky.social @ucalgaryscience.bsky.social in applied & computational geophysics, subsurface geochemistry, sedimentary geology, and sustainable soil science. careers.ucalgary.ca/search/jobs?... (please reskeet widely!) #academicsky 🧪⚒️🇨🇦

"80% of staff backed strike action in a ballot with a turnout of 62%..." 😮 I'd missed this article via @ucu.org.uk: www.ucu.org.uk/article/1417.... Another #EarthScience / #Geology department under threat, along with several other academic areas.

Made-up citations can indicate the use of generative AI in crafting the paper – but another detail caught his attention as particularly odd: The researchers on the paper, a study on the transformation of the Brazilian coastline, all listed affiliations in India.