cats say happy caturday

and you know what, my student also secured a job, and as a mentor and an advisor, that’s a great outcome!!

Applications are open for the 2025 Student Development Workshop (SDW) at Skukuza, Kruger National Park! 🌿🦓 A great opportunity for students in archaeology & heritage management. 📅 6–10 Dec 2025 See details on SAASS social media & website: www.saassarchaeology.com/upcoming-eve...

Our research on d18O calibration in Puerto Rico revealed a seasonality bias in isotopic fractionation and different seepage effects on isotopes and elements. It belongs to the cave monitoring special issue! Congrats Gabriel! @uh-earth-atm-sci.bsky.social digitalcommons.usf.edu/ijs/vol54/is...

Postdoc vacancy: Microbial dormancy in the cryosphere @erc.europa.eu #ERC_SIESTA 📢 PLEASE RT 🧬 Single cell microbial activity measurements, flow cytometry, cell sorting, omics, ecological interpretation ☀️ Marseille, France ‼️ Apply ASAP & before 7 Nov Link: emploi.cnrs.fr/Offres/CDD/U...

Come join us!

we have a paper accepted just today! We will share when it is out :)

If you’re going to GSA, my talk is this coming Monday @uh-earth-atm-sci.bsky.social

A sad piece of news: I am heartbroken to learn that Jay Quade passed away today—a profound loss for our geoscience community. Jay was an inspirational scientist, an exemplary colleague, and an extraordinary human being. I’ll miss you, Jay! 😞

Come join our Department, we have an open Assistant Professor position for mineral science. Apply here: careers.uh.edu/jobs/assista...

Our next Geochemistry Seminar Series for next Tuesday is with Dr. Voarintsoa. See details in the flyer.

Fullbright program for Pakistanians wishing to do postdoc in the USA (I can host if interested) usefp.org/scholarships...

Congratulations🥳 to Dr. Voarintsoa @voary.bsky.social (my PhD advisor) for her remarkable contributions in Applied Geochemistry. Valuable for understanding and reliably interpreting paleoclimate data. Source: www.linkedin.com/posts/uhnsm_... @uh.edu

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Nice job Nikita!

this is exciting!

AGU's volunteer #PeerReviewers help advance the Earth and space sciences and maintain the integrity and accountability of the scientific record. 🌎 If you are interested in joining the AGU pool of reviewers, please fill out our interest form: buff.ly/ZezWxq4 #PRW2025 #AGUPubs #PeerReviewWeek

organizing samples

I’ve dreamed to make my office greener that time has finally arrived

Happy caturday, says my two lovely cats

🚨August Days of Action is coming to an end! Call your reps and tell them: cuts to science hurt communities, climate leadership & research.
 @aguscipolicy.bsky.social makes it easy—click, connect, speak up. 🔗Take action now: buff.ly/dVHCj8h 
#FundScience #SpeakUpForScience #AGUSciPolicy

This was really a great kickoff for the new semester!

U of H first football game day of this semester, it’s right outside our building, quite nice to see the band and the music @uh-earth-atm-sci.bsky.social

Great couple days of back to school, with Cougar First Impression, my first time volunteering, and seeing students, faculty &staff all around campus is warming!

Time to highlight another couleage I found is now on this platform: @rilovlab.bsky.social who are working on topicalization, bioenergetic, invasive species, and other interesting things. 🌊 And, oh, look at that, they have an open position!

Back to school with the Shasta’s ❤️ @uh-earth-atm-sci.bsky.social

🚨 Another new paper! 🚨 My coauthors and I gathered data on four planktic foraminiferal species from 115 core tops in the Indian Ocean to test the question: does adding non thermal parameters to Mg/Ca calibrations make them "better" than temperature-only models? Check out our work below! 🌊🧪

📢📢📢 NREE IS HIRING 📢📢📢 We are looking for an Associate or Senior Editor to lead the weather and climate area of the journal. Based in New York or Shanghai Click the link for more info: bit.ly/40Tvux7

checking for leak is always fun 🥹😅, luckily this time was an easy fix

🚨 New Paper Alert! 🚨 We reconstructed past ocean salinity in one of the largest Subantarctic Mode Water production centers on the planet: the southeast Indian Ocean. We found a rapid increase in SAMW salinity during the Last Deglaciation. Where did this salt come from? We argue the deep ocean. 🧪🌊

My department @utoronto.ca (www.utm.utoronto.ca/biology/) is hiring a molecular biologist in any field (e.g., ecology, evolutionary biology, etc.). Please encourage any excellent finishing PhD students, postdocs or assistant professor to apply here: jobs.utoronto.ca/job/Mississa...

Come and join me at UNSW Sydney. New fellowships available for world-leading mid- to senior- academics. Escape the USA and enjoy life in Australia. www.unsw.edu.au/research/gre...

it is really wonderful to see when your collaborator send you a photo of your farmed watch glass, with precipitates on it 🥰🥰, can’t wait to have them here for analyses

🧪Have a terminated NSF grant? Or been impacted by such a termination? Call your Senators, esp if they're Repub!! An amendment to restore killed NSF grants will later be debated on the *full Senate* floor, after it narrowly failed in committee today. 🧵 Brief thread 1/4

More rainfall samples for a better understanding of climate tracers, but importantly how they transfer to climate archives!

Journal of #Pyrogeography has launched this week - we warmly welcome your submissions! We cover landscape #fire interactions with #climate, #ecosystems, and #society and welcome studies from diverse research fields spanning the natural and social sciences. www.sciencedirect.com/journal/jour...

Minimum river temperature. Data comes from Hydrosheds (GLORIC). I think this is the prettiest map that I have made to date.

My lab is going to be happy with this baby portable printer, will have fun labelling stuffs ❤️🥰

Our transdisciplinary research on Madagascar’s grassy biomes has just been published

The Paleo Society is looking for student ambassadors to attend the 2025 GSA conference! Apply by August 1st here: www.paleosoc.org/student_amba... #Paleontology #UndergraduateResearch #Geology #Science

New paper led by Emily Hollingsworth in Geochemical Perspective Letters. We use Raman spectroscopy to evaluate rock organic carbon oxidation during the Paleocene-Eocene thermal maximum and assess its role as a positive feedback mechanism! (1/3) www.geochemicalperspectivesletters.org/article2444/

This equipment is a roller-coaster to work with, the only equipment I know so far that requires a flip (upside-down) to troobleshoot for drivers etc…

📒 Applications are now open for AGU travel grants, travel fellowships and research grants! ➡️ Learn more about available grants and submit your application by 13 August: buff.ly/G2FWBxv

Let's say it all together again: "A warmer ocean is an oxygen-poor ocean". Yet more evidence of that, this time from the Arctic Ocean, which is getting way warmer faster than you'd like to imagine. 🧪🌊 Link: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Truly devastating. “if Congress approves the cuts to the agency proposed by the White House, the number of early-career researchers it 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...

Opinion: If scientific databases in the Earth and environmental sciences are not adequately supported, we risk losing and potentially needing to replace these resources, an extremely costly, yet preventable, outcome. buff.ly/WTgm4IC Read more: bit.ly/Eos-Jul2025

We just published a paper using stalagmite multiproxy from Madagascar. We were able to identify natural induced change as well as anthropogenic induced change. We also found that Sr is an excellent indicator for aragonite, not PCP as often expected www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Read the latest on how ancient cave deposits warn of future permafrost loss! Kudos to a fantastic international team🦣 💪 @olakwiecien3.bsky.social @thomasopel.bsky.social @mariabox.bsky.social @pucicu.de @katharinehayhoe.com @northumbriauni.bsky.social

A new study estimates that USAID saved 92 million lives from 2001 to 2021, and that its demolition could kill 14 million people in only five years through 2030. That would make the end of USAID by far the most impactful action Trump has taken this year. www.nbcnews.com/health/healt...

It's hard to adequately summarize how destructive NOAA's 2026 proposed budget released on Monday is for hurricane forecasting, but I crammed all I could into today's newsletter. I encourage everyone with interests along the coast to read it carefully. ⬇️