A new study by @vanhinsbergen.bsky.social and colleagues introduces Paleolatitude.org 3.0, an updated tool for reconstructing ancient latitudes and paleogeography to support paleoclimate and paleobiology research. plos.io/4tBnAnE

Spread the word: We have a vacancy for a PhD student at the interface of geology and ecology/biology! Do you want to study - also in the field - how volcanism of the Cape Verde islands, and probably more, influenced ecosystem resilience? Come work with us in Utrecht! www.uu.nl/en/organisat...

Here's a little experiment with Paleolatitude.org! The paleolatitude of a location on Earth changes for two reasons. One is the motion of plates over the mantle. For instance,India moved north in the last 100 million years or so, from ~60°S to the modern location. #SciComm

The new Paleolatitude.org web tool is getting media coverage, like in Vice magazine. It's appeared in dozens of countries on almost every continent, and the site had >300.000 visitors since last Thursday. If you haven't checked it out: have a look! @uugeo.bsky.social www.vice.com/en/article/s...

@berndandeweg.bsky.social in action at #ExpeditionNext in #Enkhuizen!

Paleolatitude.org 3.0 is out! But it’s been picked up by the media and the site is a bit slow due to high traffic…working on it! journals.plos.org/plosone/arti...

A short picture impression of our geological fieldwork on the Mascarene Islands 👇🏽 www.geologist.nl/mascarenes-2...

Hello crab specialists, I saw this crab on Rodrigues Island in the Indian Ocean. Who knows the species? #biology #crabs #science

For those of you watching cycling today! youtu.be/w4WDYuYwfgk?...

A few months ago, Goran Andjic and I figured out a way to reconstruct plates from the Cretaceous era in the ocean to the west of California. A week or so after we got that idea, I explained it to Nick Zentner on his great Youtube channel (www.youtube.com/watch?v=rFKN...).

Field impressions from Rodrigues. I love my job.

Just another day at the office 😎

Floor approved.

The first paper of our 2022 Revillagigedo expedition is out! With plume geochemistry, seismology and plate kinematic perspectives on the east Pacific mantle. www.geologist.nl/koornneef-j-...

First paper of Jadie, about our fantastic field expedition to the Grenadines. Tectonic rotations and intraplate deformation in the SE Caribbean region! www.geologist.nl/sauerbier-j-...

Netherlands Earth and Environmental Science conference this week! Looking forward to catch up with the community.

Voor de liefhebber van geschiedenis: deel 1 van het saga over Willem de Veroveraar, van Rix Legêne, is nu uit! www.bol.com/nl/nl/p/will...

From the beach at Noordwijk: happy Easter 😃

Years ago, we built the Hades Underworld Explorer, where with a simple drag and drop, users can make their own cross sections of the Earth's mantle. The Hades Underworld Explorer now has its own web address! Have a peak of your own into the underworld! www.hades-underworld-explorer.org

Yes, hello, is that God? Yeah, hi. I have a complaint. You gave me this brain that’s designed for finding berries and avoiding lions and now people are ‘just circling back’ to see if we can ‘move the needle’ on ‘key initiatives’? NONE of those things are berries.

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I have now reached the scientific level that I hoped to reach when I was a young postdoc. I imagined it’d be glorious. But instead I’ve learned that all scientific achievement is accomplished amidst an endless stream of criticism and rejection, so that you’re always working far below capacity.

Come join us at Utrecht Eartn Sciences! www.uu.nl/en/organisat...

Ik ben genomineerd voor de vrouw in de media awards 2025. Tot 13 februari mag er gestemd worden: vidm.nl/degenomineer... Van collegezalen tot festivaltenten, musea tot het 8-uur journaal, Zappelin tot RTL, van jong tot oud - het liefst maak ik iedereen enthousiast over wetenschap! 📸 Ilva Stoelwinder

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New paper alert! For this interested in subduction initiation processes: @alisstostrome.bsky.social shows that cooling of a young subduction interface may provide the mechanisms for the ill-understood catastrophic way in which subduction zones transition from induced to self-sustained. #geology

Paleolatitude.org 3.0 is online! At what latitude was your backyard in the time of the dinosaurs? The answer is a simple mouse click away, and now also if your backyard lies one of the world's big mountain ranges!

In the last decade, my team and I have been working on reconstructions of the orogenic belts of the Tethys. This is the final one, among many other things showing that the back-arc basins of Iran closed by extrusion of Afghanistan from western Tibet in the Cretaceous to Eocene! @uugeo.bsky.social

Because of heavy snow, live lectures are cancelled today, and I am once again looking at a screen with 25 initials and a few faces to lecture. Back in Covid-mode, and it's truly horrible. I'm glad that next monday, I can lecture normally again.

2025 was a year of building up. Looking forward to harvesting in ‘26! Happy new year all!

After a long process that took almost 13 years, I'm very happy that we submitted the first paper of Kalijn Peters' work on the Pinarbasi ophiolite of Turkey! There's more coming up, but this one's submitted, to Tektonika. Preprint below! @uugeo.bsky.social essopenarchive.org/doi/full/10....

This is a spectacular finding in the recent paper of Wagenaar et al in JGR: in a minimum-continent-motion reference frame, the plumes of the Indo-Atlantic hotspots move parallel to the edges of the LLSVP, in a counterclockwise fashion. A signal of lowermost mantle flow?

I am particularly proud of this paper by MSc student Steffi Wagenaar, in which we develop a scheme to make reconstructions of mantle convection. Hardcore geodynamics from the hand of a really impressive MSc student. agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10....

New preprint! We'll see what the Nature editor says, but we certainly enjoyed figuring this one out! @uugeo.bsky.social www.researchsquare.com/article/rs-8...

Major Earthquake on the Japan subduction zone, 7.6. Tsunami warning for 3m high wave. Fingers crossed that the damage is minimal.

I spent my day reviewing proposals. Out of the 12, only 2 proposed to collect new data. 10 integrated, AI'd, modeled, or did some other form of integration and data mining. That sells, it makes it possible to address big-picture issues.

Paleomagnetism.org 2.6 is out! 👇 New tools & tests & data formats are added! In a future upgrade, we will develop a data format converter that will convert all paleomagnetic data formats to the format of your liking. Time to make Paleomagnetism #FAIR! @uugeo.bsky.social

I had a great time talking to Nick Zentner about our latest ideas on plate tectonic reconstructions based on Caribbean and Californian geology. Check out our conversation on his Youtube channel! @uugeo.bsky.social #geology #geoscience #earthscience www.youtube.com/watch?v=rFKN...

Spectacular - and scary - eruption in Ethiopia. This is a volcano in the famous Afar Triangle, where the Red Sea, Gulf of Aden, and the African Rift meet in a triple point, where the Arabian, African, and Somalian plates are pulled apart. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...

Zie Nederland in paleogeografische context! In dit clipje uit het #UtrechtPaleogeographyModel heb ik Nederland gehighlight in groen. Je ziet hoe ons landje door de verschillende breedtegraden beweegt sinds we midden in Pangea rond de evenaar zaten, 320 miljoen jaar geleden. youtu.be/8prPVWdf_oY

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This is the reconstruction that comes with our new Nature Communications Earth & Environment paper on Caribbean biogeography. With Leny Montheil, Mélody Philippon, Franck Audemard, Lydian Boschman, Richard Wessels, Sylvie Leroy et al #UtrechtPaleogeographicModel www.nature.com/articles/s43...

Finally, it's out! For decades Caribbean geologists and biologists were puzzled how South American land plants and animals could have traveled to Cuba. Our new reconstruction of rising, moving, and breaking land bridges now shows how! www-nature-com.utrechtuniversity.idm.oclc.org/articles/s43...

Aardbeving in Groningen van 3.4, als gevolg van de gaswinning uit het verleden. Doordat de druk in het reservoir verlaagd is, klinkt het gesteente daaromheen in, en worden oude breuken gereactiveerd. De bevingen zijn op zich niet zo groot, maar onze infrastructuur daar is niet gebouwd op bevingen.

Utrecht Paleogeography model in prep! We're integrating our detailed reconstructions of orogenic belts and lost subducted plates into one plate tectonic and paleogeography model. We'll launch the updated Paleolatitude.org soon, and more tools for geodynamic, paleoclimate, and paleobiology studies!

Man, wat een opluchting. @d66.nl

Just to give you an idea how young our field is and now far we’ve come!

Read the story of everyone’s favorite rock type, Piloshite!

🆕 🔔 New paper: "Is there a Cretan Supradetachment Basin? Insights From Detailed Mapping on Northwestern Crete (Greece)" by W. Zachariasse and @vanhinsbergen.bsky.social ⚒️ tektonika.online/index.php/ho...

Made this figure for a book chapter on tectonic reconstructions that I'm writing with Jonny Wu, using a fantastic field photograph of Joao C. Duarte, of the Telheiro Beach section in SW Portugal. The formation, heydays, and breakup of the supercontinent Pangea caught in one photograph.