Submission deadline extended until December 1st!

How the great American promise dies on university campuses. (Gift article) #mint #fedilz #bluelz #education www.nytimes.com/2025/09/08/o...

Beautiful spring day in Central Switzerland. ☀️

The cake won't be a lie tomorrow morning at the poster session BG2.4 Lipid biomarkers #EGU25. Join us for cool biomarker stories and, indeed, some cake! Also join us for the oral session in the afternoon.

Working on the interface of organic geochemistry and archeology? Have an exciting dataset that is ready to write up? Or one of those papers that has been a draft since the Stone Age? Consider this special issue to publish your research, submission by 01/09. shorturl.at/O3gzV

Are you attending #EGU25 with kids? Join us for this exciting event for kids at the EGU networking zone-terrace G! Discover the wonders of our planet with Dr Lucia Perez-Diaz, author of "How the Earth Works", through fun & educational games. 📆 Thursday 1 May: webforms.copernicus.org/EGU25/pop-up...

Second, Devika Varma, who recently defended her PhD thesis. Her PhD work at @niozsearesearch.bsky.social aimed to investigate paleotemperature indicators based on archaeal hydroxylated tetraether lipids (OH-isoGDGTs): www.nioz.nl/en/news/inve... #GDGTs #isoGDGTs #TeamArchaea 🧪 ⚒️ 🌊 #PaleoSky (2/4)

How to figure out which European language you are reading.

Are you an ECR researcher interested in being part of the fantastic ICDP world? Please, send your application to participate to the next ICDP ECR workshop in Vienna 25-27 of April 2025 More info 👇👇👇

#PhD #studentship investigating the occurrence and degradation of GDGTs in extreme environments for paleoclimate insights and deep biosphere understanding. https://buff.ly/3UzCZpP

Call to all organic geochemists and molecular friends that want to join IMOG in Porto this September (imogconference.org): abstracts can currently be submitted. Submission before the deadline on February 15th to be considered for a poster or talk. #IMOG25 🧪⚒️

There’s a popular myth that managed grazing can help fight climate change. Soil science reveals the opposite. Of all land uses, grazed lands have the largest soil carbon deficit relative to their capacity. On a global scale, ranching has decimated soil carbon. 🌏 🧪 🧵 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

There’s more to rainbows than the human eye can see: here’s how a rainbow extends into the infrared and ultraviolet. Photos: 1. Infrared 2. Visible (obviously) 3. Ultraviolet, and 4. A composite showing how UV is beyond the violet in a rainbow, and IR beyond the red end. 🧪 #photography

🚨 New Ph.D. opening! 🚨 We seek a Ph.D. student in soil (bio)geochemistry as it relates to ERW, particularly in the tropics. Position is part of a very multi-disciplinary group split between @ethzurich.bsky.social EAPS and USYS depts @usyseth.bsky.social. Please share! jobs.ethz.ch/job/view/JOP...

Have you seen the hydrology climate stripes? If not you might have missed the yearly WMO report on the state of water resources. Take a look: wmo.int/publication-... For those who already know the report, there now also is a higher resolution version available!

🔨🌊🧪 New Past Global Changes #PAGES magazine out dedicated to achievements of scientific drilling—timely given the retirement of the #JOIDES resolution #IODP drilling vessel. I was glad to have the opportunity to contribute and help edit this Special Issue! pastglobalchanges.org/publications...

#FossilFriday Esther Richards was born November 24, 1895. In 1921, she suggested that microfossils could be used in stratigraphy. Her study was ridiculed by Professor J.J. Galloway: “Gentlemen, you know that it can’t be done.” wp.me/p3ihHu-4DF #WomenInSTEM #histsci 🧪⚒️

An unpopular insight from science (as is climate change), which should not be dismissed just because it’s unpleasant: Long COVID puzzle pieces are falling into place – the picture is unsettling theconversation.com/long-covid-p...

One of the earliest whales, yes you read that right. Pakicetus 🐡 🎨 🧪 #paleontology #whales

The Bronze Age kingdoms of China have long been overshadowed by the Qin, who replaced them with a unified empire. Two of them, the Zeng and Chu, rise from obscurity. Bronze Age China: Phoenix Kingdoms 🏺🧪 the-past.com/feature/phoe...

ETH Zurich’s new teaching and research building in Basel officially open its doors today. It will host ETH researchers from the fields of experimental biology, bioinformatics, and bioengineering as they work together with outside partners on innovative medical solutions.

P.S. - The deadline to submit an abstract in consideration for an oral presentation during the GRS is April 21st, 2024!

Are you an early career organic geochemist with exciting new science to share? If so, apply to the 2024 GRS & GRC in #OrganicGeochemistry! We hope to offset conf. fees for EC researchers pending available funding. Links: bit.ly/oggrs24 & bit.ly/oggrc24.

Anybody want to play a silly niche paleoclimate game? connectionsplus.io/game/hBVJBu

Missed this from Dec 2023: first natural products from Acidobacteria, strains with a whopping 39-42 BGCs! www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... arxiv link: arxiv.org/pdf/2401.077... We always wondered if our soil Acidos with many BGCs are animal associated too - maybe with a soil invertebrate?

Just a reminder that Goldschmidt is for organic geochemists too! If you are thinking of coming, check out the session Hilairy Hartnett and I are convening. Great Lakes, great food and great science, what more could you ask for? Hope to see you in August. conf.goldschmidt.info/goldschmidt/...

We have an exciting PhD position available to develop novel methods for monitoring fisheries bycatch using #eDNA (with a focus on 🦈). Part of a large EU-funded project on eliminating bycatch and open to students of any nationality. Deadline for applying is March 8th www.gmit.ie/research/pos...

Watching this El Niño year continue to develop with sinking feeling in my stomach 🫣 Record heat in the oceans, so reports of coral bleaching from the GBR not surprising. 😔 www.theguardian.com/environment/...

'Reflecting Audrey Hensall’s wishes, and her research interests, the Society is pleased to offer a significant opportunity to fund one or more major project/s (up to a total of £50,000) to develop and undertake impactful research on pre-Roman archaeology in Scotland.' #archaeology #Scotland

Guess which page I will be refreshing on March 8th like it’s a summer festival ticket site… #egu24 #childcare #betterbequick www.egu24.eu/attend/child...

I have travel, room, and board for an art student interested in spending 10 weeks at Friday Harbor Labs this spring. Our awardee could not make it. Apply here, decision Monday: fridayharborlabs.wufoo.com/forms/x1c6oi... 🐡

I mean, at least it's useful to know it's not just a sneaky little feature I just hadn't been able to find. But yeah, would be great to know if someone has made like a macro or something

Reminder that the EAA deadline for papers is Feb. 8th. I hope you can join our session focusing on interdisciplinary approaches to human environmental interactions across the steppes regions of Eurasia. We welcome papers from environmental archaeologists, paleoecologist/climatologists, and more!

One of the most spectacular things happening on earth right now, widely unnoticed by the broad public, is the ocean temperatures going wild since 2023. This has massive effects on the global hydrological cycle due to the excess evaporation. // hydrology ⚒️ //

Immensely proud of my PhD student Fatemeh Ajallooeian who successfully defended her PhD yesterday! Keep an eye out for exciting work on the temperature dependency of lacustrine GDGTs within a single lake system!

Here's your paleo diet: 70-95% starchy tubers. Enjoy your potatoes.

Working working with @francien.bsky.social on the brGDGT round robin paper, where we compare brGDGT ratio results from 39! labs. If you participated, expect an email from us soo-oon!

Before we all log off for holidays I would like to advertise a PhD position that is currently open in our group: jobs.ethz.ch/job/view/JOP.... I‘m looking to find a good candidate who wants to start next semester or in the summer of 2024. Interest in orbitrap mass spec is an asset!

Before we all log off for holidays I would like to advertise a PhD position that is currently open in our group: jobs.ethz.ch/job/view/JOP.... I‘m looking to find a good candidate who wants to start next semester or in the summer of 2024. Interest in orbitrap mass spec is an asset!

Looking forward to catching some of the #AGU23 buzz over bsky! I‘m not joining this year but have a blast for me! Haven‘t seen a hashtag yet, if everyone would use #AGU23 it might be easier to follow the updates? 🧪

On #worldsoilday I was visiting Vienna University to talk about GDGT lipids in soils #ter_vienna. We discussed their potential to reconstruct chemistry changes through time and I left with a bunch of great research insights. #grateful

If you are working to develop quantitative proxies for continental climate development, please consider presenting your work at #EGU24. We might have the session for you: meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/EGU24/sessio.... Applications for travel support are due on Dec 1st!

Hear me talk about the Fucino paleolake sediments that we would love to study in more detail for paleoclimate and environmental reconstructions over the last 1.5 Ma!

IPCC scenarios are projections, not predictions. "The future has not been written. There is no fate but what we make for ourselves." We get to decide what the world will look like in 2100. gmd.copernicus.org/articles/13/...