Congrats to @yasmeenorellana.bsky.social on her first lead-author paper, out now in Quaternary Science Reviews! Check it out to learn about Holocene alpine ice position at Villarrica Volcano, Chile! #Geochronology #CosmogenicNuclides #Climate #Glaciers #Holocene www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

A great intro to academic conferencing. Not sure how I missed this one. scienceforeveryone.science/getting-the-...

In somewhat terrifying but hopefully positive personal news, I've decided to purchase an extremely expensive 10x10 booth in the exhibit hall at the American Geophysical Union meeting in December. I'll be selling my gemstone and wire jewelry and art. I hope you'll come find me there.

RIP volcanologist Wes Hildreth, dead in a Nevada car crash south of Mina. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wes_Hil...

Last day at the GISS building (Wed. May 28th). 🥲

Some sad news this week for those in the isotope ion microprobe business ⚒️🧪. The Father of the SHRIMP (and my PhD Supervisor), Bill Compston passed away at 94 years. My scientific career would have been very different without him. Vale. earthsciences.anu.edu.au/news-events/...

It is very easy to publish in AGC. Watch this video and follow the submission preparation checklist at journals.uu.se/AGC/about/su... 🤫 looking forward to the first published manuscripts!

Palate cleanser post: Check out this preprint in review for Geochronology. It's the latest interlab comparison results from the zircon U-Pb ID-TIMS community, led by Dawid Szymanowski. doi.org/10.5194/egus...

Is it 100% agreed that lunar anorthosites are products of the early lunar magma ocean? An honest question coming from a bit of my own ignorance.

Geochron community, please check out,and engage with, this preprint on the interesting problem of zircon micro-inclusions in garnet, and the difficulty it creates for garnet U-Pb geochronology! egusphere.copernicus.org/preprints/20...

Here we are, AGC is open for submission! Find us here: agcj.org #DiamondOpenAccess #AGC

Bluetorial-A dream and a bit of a nightmare Serving as Editor-in-Chief at Science was fascinating. I greatly enjoyed working with talented and committed editorial, news, graphics, and production staff. But the inside look into scientific publishing and AAAS was also deeply disillusioning.

Zero. 💪

Looking for physical scientists 🧪⚒️ who do fieldwork, who've had bad experiences w/ "medical screening" or "physical qualifying (PQ)" exams & restrictions. Stereotypes used against you, disqualified w/o consultation, etc. We're putting together a book. A new vision how PQ should work. DMs open. 📖

I throw atoms at a magnet.

New paper on glacial erosion rates and the Sadler effect that came out of a @dartmouthears.bsky.social grad seminar class just out now in Sci Adv! doi.org/10.1126/scia...

Interviewer: Can you explain this gap in your resume? Me: the dates on the bounding events are indistinguishable within uncertainty, consistent with no gap.

Happy Isotope Day everyone! 🥳On this day in 1913 Nature published Federick Soddy's paper "Intra-atomic Charge" www.nature.com/articles/092... in which he introduced the term "isotope" (coined after a dinner conversation in Glasgow with Margaret Todd the classics scholar). how will you celebrate?🧪⚒️🌊

We are opening submissions on the 20th of January 🌋 Do you have research you would like to submit and be part of the very first issue of AGC? Help us gauge the volume of anticipated submissions filling in the form you find below. Publish diamond, publish in AGC!

New method for measuring nitrogen isotopes in tooth dentine at high temporal resolution. We demonstrate that developmentally informed SIMS measurements of N isotopes minimize time averaging and can be precisely related to an individual's early dietary history! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

Happy windows update day to all who celebrate.

Let’s wrap #EarthScienceWeek ⚒️🧪 with outcrop #7. ~200 km northeast of Toronto, Ontario, somewhere on Highway 118 north of Tory Hill is an outcrop that provided a granite sample that helped pioneer lab methods for determining the age of the Earth *and* led to kids today being a bit smarter. 1/4

Ok UK isotope folks: do you have a clean lab? Do you have polypropylene laminar flow exhausting fume cupboards? Where did you get them??

AGC is planning to open for submission in January 2025! In order to plan our initial workload, please register your interest in submitting your work to AGC using this form: forms.gle/GHHmHioBdRSi... note that registering interest is not a pre-requisite for submission.

The D-Day has arrived, the website agcj.org of Advances in Geochemistry and Cosmochemistry (AGC) journal is launched! What is AGC journal? A DOA journal dedicated for geo/cosmochemistry by and for researchers! More info will come soon!

Happy windows update day, too all who celebrate.

@justsomeisotope.bsky.social, are you on my flight???

Happy windows update day, to all those who celebrate.

Happy windows update day, to all those who celebrate.

Nobody likes April Fools jokes in their pre-dawn word puzzles, NYT.

I heard from Geosphere. They have no specific policy but don’t object to a manuscript being preprinted.

Anyone know what the preprint policy is for GSA journals? I can't find it on the website or instructions to authors.

I have no idea how either scenario explaining the presence of a Cretaceous age zircon coming out of the Hawaii Hotspot can be easily reconciled with what we think we know about the mantle.

Today in messages I send to the lab slack.

Geochronology post doc alert - Berkeley Geochronology Centre, details in the link. The BGC has a strong track record of great work, both applied and fundamental research, leading to many advancements in geochronology… a great opportunity for someone…. ⚒️🧪⏱️🔬 www.bgc.org/jobs

In New Zealand I collected ironsand from a west coast North Island beach to send back to Australia. Why? To be an option for each school visiting the ⚒️🧪 Education Centre at Geoscience Australia as their layer in a sedimentary column that has been going since 1999. www.ga.gov.au/about/visiti...

But…are biaxial potato clathrates minerals?

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Grumpus!

If you are a graduate student in the US and want up to $10,000 to collect geochronology data The AGeS-Grad program deadline is Feb 1st! It's an exceptional program, check out the website for details! www.colorado.edu/program/ages...

I have wondered about sound in the ocean ever since I first learned about the SOFAR channel - a weird layer that can transmit certain sound waves thousands of miles. Who uses this thing? Whales? People? Yes. Read more about our noisy oceans in my latest, for AGU's Eos. eos.org/features/oce...

Is this where cat pics go now?

For any geochronologists here, we're slowly starting a geochronology community Zulip instance (with a focus on inter-system and inter-lab intercalibration, and sharing tips and techniques ⚒️): geochronology.zulipchat.com/join/encby4n...