slow day in the office so figured we'd start some beef with museums

Seeing that AI pictures are getting creepingly hard to tell from real ones, the idea of carrying a totem - which only you know in detail - becomes something to think about.

TIL about a memorial ceremony in Iceland in 2019 to mark the end of a glacier, changing the place name from Okjökull to Ok (jökull = glacier). Uncompromising wording on the bronze plaque: "This is to acknowledge that we know what is happening and what needs to be done. Only you know if we did it".

This really is a must read for anyone in academia.

Scientific first-world problems: its winter and the foot of my microscope is so cold, I could build little snow man with foraminifera as eyes and noses on it⛄ Just missing the snow...

Printing out reviews from a rejected paper - maybe it "hurts" less to read them from paper 😅...

🔔🔔New Paper 🔔🔔 Pollen-based REVEALS land-cover reconstructions for Europe during the latter half of the Last Glacial Period essd.copernicus.org/articles/17/... We show that glacial refugia and frequent openings of migration corridors may have played a substantial role human dispersal

Who else cringes everytime somebody pulls out an AI-generated image in their presentation, which in an uncanny-valley way relates to the topic they want to discuss, but delivers no added value?

If you can't be with the forams you love, love the forams you're with #Ammonia

"Don’t let perfect be the enemy of good. Good already has enough enemies." Ep. 274, The HOA - Welcome to Nightvale @nightvaleradio.bsky.social

Human artists!? Use one piece to convince people to follow you !

When you had "a week" (and are going into the second "a week"), but you also have lovely coworkers 🥰

🐝🐚🐙 Job Opening! 🐙🐚🐝 We are looking for a new collection manager for the macro-invertebarte collection at the Natural History Museum in Basel (CH). I can only recommend the museum and the curator!

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I love this with my whole soul

🌊 In 2023, oceans should’ve absorbed more CO2 due to El Niño, but they didn’t Despite cooler tropical Pacific waters, record-high SSTs led to ~10% less ocean CO2 uptake than expected, especially in the Northern Hemisphere Warming waters = weaker carbon sink www.nature.com/articles/s41...

One might think that Nazi crimes and palaeontology never overlapped, and yet... Have you ever wondered what happened to tens of palaeontologists & geologists in the Nazi-occupied Poland? How academics helped to bring down the fascist regime. And a curious story of Schindler-equivalent in geology. 🧵

Ich bin gerade über diesen Text gestolpert, den ich vor ziemlich genau 10 Jahren auf Facebook veröffentlicht habe. Er hat damals 3,5 Mio Menschen erreicht - dabei war das alles noch ein paar Wochen vor der großen Migration, vor Corona, neuem Ukraine-Krieg und Donald Trump…

🧪 The University of Basel is setting up a new endowed professorship in #ClimateBiophysics at the @biozentrum.unibas.ch, funded by the Georg H. Endress Foundation. This new professorship strengthens climate research @unibas.ch. www.biozentrum.unibas.ch/news/detail/...

🌲 #JobAlert! MSc in #Environmental Sciences or a related field? Experience in preparing wood samples for #StableIsotope and #radiocarbon analysis? Our #Dendrosciences group offers a position for a #technician: apply.refline.ch/273855/1763/... #ScienceJobs #dendrochronology

you think you're safe from clams on land? behold, TREE CLAMS #InverteFest

Recent @glamos.bsky.social fieldwork on the #PlaineMorte glacier by @matthias-huss.bsky.social confirms what our models had already indicated: massive ice loss caused by the August heatwave in Switzerland. Even when expected, it is still striking, and sobering, to witness a glacier in its final days

"Weil so ist der Mensch, ein großes Unglück wie die Zerstörung der Erde verkraftet er viel leichter als ein kleines Unglück wie die Zerstörung der neuen Schi." Wolf Haas in "Auferstehung der Toten"

Schrödinger's mammal

🎉Are you a mineralogist who also loves museums? 🎉 Come join the Natural History Museum Denmark! We are looking for an assistant professor and curator of mineralogy. Advert can be found below, but apply soon! Deadline is 11th August😱 candidate.hr-manager.net/ApplicationI...

shame on me for missing the 10yr anniversary of the best climate social posts ever By @scottwesterfeld.bsky.social -->

A Trilobite Fossil Used as an Amulet in Roman Hispania: The First of Its Kind in the Classical World www.labrujulaverde.com/en/2025/07/a...

FPÖ Pressekonferenzen geleakt 👀

I wet my brush a bit more while picking in a heatwave, so my forams get to have a cool-down bath 😉

The second Austrian Assessment Report on Climate Change is out... (aar2.ccca.ac.at) How do you know it is Austrian? ... ... ... 😶

Very interesting open access article about the "Long-term impact and biological recovery in a deep-sea mining track" by D.O.B. Jones and colleagues. Their photos of the ocean floor after mining, before and after, are simply shocking. #geoscience www.nature.com/articles/s41...

First drone flight today at Blatten! 🌊🎥 Water has made its path through the deposit! A spillover is currently not expected Slight lowering of upstream lake, which is currently not high enough to spill over the debris cone Several new lakes created on the deposit Source SRF 1/

This is SO COOL! Very rarely do I get to see a foraminifera actually using its pseudopodia, let alone one from the order Miliolida! I’ve seen lots of shells from this order, but none ALIVE and doing things! I’m very pleased to have witnessed such a wonderful process. 🦑 #plankton

UNBELIEVABLE ! The Alps are collapsing in real time! The whole sequence of the Lauchernalp webcam from 5:45 to 9:45 pm ⌚️ This shows the summit of the Klein Nesthorn (upper tip of the triangular face in the middle) LITERALLY SLIDING to the north (left)! 😱 Montage: Alexandre Modesto

Look at this beauty! freshly fished out of the Sargasso Sea and imaged at the Bermuda Institute of Ocean Sciences with @chalkyoceans.bsky.social @juliemeilland.bsky.social and others 🧪🌊⚒️

Am deutlichsten wird Scheinklimaschutz derzeit im Widerspruch zwischen nationaler & EU-Politik sichtbar. Dieses Beispiel bringt das So-tun-als-Ob der Bundesregierung auf den Punkt. SPÖ und NEOS würden eh gern anders aber sie lassen die ÖVP angesichts des Zeitgeist machen. 3/ bsky.app/profile/steu...

OK, this is wild. In September 2023, geophysicists across the world started monitoring a very odd signal coming from the ground under them. It was picked up in the Arctic. And Antarctica. It was detected everywhere, every 90 seconds, as regular as a metronome, for *nine days*. What the HELL? 1/

Quite brilliantly witty 🧪 www.threads.com/@dinabelenko...

This image cannot be shared enough. This is what our country would look like if we stop pumping water out of our polders. And in the meantime, we have closed all but one earth science departments, because it’s a little but more expensive than the average study. What could possibly go wrong.

NEW – Two-thirds of global warming since 1990 caused by world’s ‘wealthiest 10%’ ✍️ by @ayeshatandon.carbonbrief.org 💬 with comment from Sarah Schöngart @carlschleussner.bsky.social @zscheischlerjak.bsky.social @wimthiery.bsky.social Read here ➡️ buff.ly/0Se78bM

In addition to EVERY-FUCKING-THING ELSE The most vital of tools, the Biodiversity Heritage Library, is apparently homed at the Smithsonian. For obv reasons, the Smithsonian cannot retain it For free, you can access biodiversity-related texts going back to the 1400s! www.biodiversitylibrary.org

Happy Earth Day!

Flying over the debris-covered tongue of the Oberaletsch Glacier (former Aletsch Gl. tributary) today! 🤩 You can even see the footbridge in the gorge! And finally the view of Gibidum dam lake, where Aletsch glacier front was in 1860, 4 km from current front! 🧊📈 🎥 @johannsalpenweer.bsky.social

I’m looking to hire a postdoc (100%, 22 months, salary significantly above the standard postdoc in Austria or Germany). The position is set to begin on 1 June 2025. The project explores how biases in the fossil record affect our ability to use past biodiversity data for modern conservation. 1/3

🚨 The 2024 European State of the Climate (ESOTC) was released today. There are absolutely beautiful data visualizations throughout this report, but they also reveal some very alarming statistics of climate trends and extremes. Check it out: doi.org/10.24381/14j... #ESOTC2024 🧪⚒️🌊

Actually, it's only a dire wolf if it comes from the Late Pleistocene epoch, otherwise it's just sparkling dog.

One day, governments will realise that they let universities close the only departments that had the skills and knowledge to understand the subsurface, hazards, climate change, and where to find Earth's resources. And they no longer have the workforce for the sustainable future they promised.

This robin has excellent taste in real estate. (That’s 'Monty,' the bronze cast of an Edmontosaurus on UTK's campus.) 📸 McClung Museum