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Andy Baker @andy-baker.bsky.social · 12h

I presented our latest research on groundwater recharge yesterday to the NSW government water planners for groundwater and coastal syatems. And then led tours to show the team our recharge monitoring sites at Harrie Wood Cave, Yarrangobilly.

Cavers with headlamps standing on steps in a cave with stalagmites and stalactites

Andy Baker @andy-baker.bsky.social · 3d

It's starting to feel a lot like even more fieldwork (Yarrangobilly Caves groundwater recharge edition)

A duffel bag with hat, cavers tackle bag, field laptop, boots, emergency beacon

Eos @eos.org · 3d

New study tracking 6.5M people finds heart attacks and strokes peak 2 months after hurricanes pass, not during the storm.

eos.org/articles/cyc...

Read more in our year-end issue: bit.ly/Eos-Nov-Dec2025

Cyclones Affect Heart Health for Months After They Subside - Eos

In a multicountry study, researchers found that cyclones increase the risk of heart disease–related hospitalizations for up to 6 months.

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Allison Pfeiffer @ampfeiff.bsky.social · 4d

📣 WWU Geology is searching for an Assistant Prof in *Hydrogeology*! Application deadline Dec 15.

Please help us spread the word! It's a lovely nook of the world to call home, and a genuinely great department community.
App @ hr.wwu.edu/careers-facu...

Pic from my local field trip last week.

Students walking along a coarse grained beach. Sky is yellow and orange, reflected on the calm water.

Andy Baker @andy-baker.bsky.social · 4d

Thanks to all our collaborators who made this groundwater hydrology research fieldtrip to the Limestone Coast of South Australia such a success.

Cave chamber with stalactites and stalagmites, caver with headtorch in background

Andy Baker @andy-baker.bsky.social · 8d

It's starting to feel a lot like fieldwork (Limestone Coast of South Australia edition)

Field equipment being packed, including pluvimate rain gauges, caving helmet and tackle bag, ruggedised laptop, red rucksack, hat

Australian Centre for Excellence in Antarctic Science (ACEAS) @antarcticsciaus.bsky.social · 8d

Antarctic science at COP30 🌍❄️

A panel of Australian scientists, including ACEAS Deputy Director @profmattengland.bsky.social (UNSW), today shared insights about abrupt changes unfolding across the #Antarctic environment at the #COP30 Cryosphere Pavilion.

Watch now: www.youtube.com/live/YjYkKvw...

Policy Briefing: Emerging Evidence of Abrupt Changes in the Antarctic Environment

YouTube video by International Cryosphere Climate Initiative

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Elisabeth Bik - Perpetrator 5, a fraudulent microbiologist @elisabethbik.bsky.social · 9d

Good morning from Sydney, where I will be live-posting from the International Research Integrity Conference, organized by @simongandevia.bsky.social , @jabyrnesci.bsky.social, and David Vaux.
#IRICSydney
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Andy Baker @andy-baker.bsky.social · 11d

I've just given my first online lecture as part of the @agu.org Distinguished Lecturer Series.

My lecture on caves, climate and groundwater: connect.agu.org/collegeoffel...

Book me to speak to your department, school or college here:
connect.agu.org/collegeoffel...

AGU College of Fellows Distinguished Lecture Series FAQs - College of Fellows

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Eos @eos.org · 12d

AGU is calling on Congress to finish full-year appropriations for science agencies—and we need your voice.

📢 Read more from our president, Brandon Jones, who reminds us that together, we can keep science standing strong: buff.ly/prxry8C

#ScienceIsEssential #AGUAdvocacy #SupportScience

Don’t Just Reopen Government. Recommit to Science.

The United States has just come through the longest government shutdown in its history—a period of deep uncertainty that exacerbated hardships for the nation. Some scientists still reported for duty…

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Andy Baker @andy-baker.bsky.social · 13d

It's a wrap on our Wellington Caves fieldwork and filming about groundwater recharge. I have some superstar UNSW colleagues, happy to film and be filmed. Looking forward to see how all this looks. Thanks to @marilumelozurita.bsky.social and the
@unswbees.bsky.social team

Andy Baker @andy-baker.bsky.social · 16d

It's starting to look a lot like fieldwork (Wellington Caves and UNSW Research Station edition).

#fieldwork #academia #caves #groundwater #research

Field gear in a box, duffle bag with hat, pluvimate, provisions in a bag

Dr. Nina Davtian (she/her/hers) @ninadavtian.bsky.social · 19d

My co-authored marine GDGT « cookbook » review paper led by Peter Bijl 👨‍🔬 and @kasiasliwinska.bsky.social 👩‍🔬 is now published in @egubg.bsky.social!
doi.org/10.5194/bg-2...
Again, I am so happy to be the @cerege.bsky.social @climatecerege.bsky.social expert on #GDGTs!
@egu.eu
🧪 ⚒️ 🌊
#PaleoSky
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Nina Davtian (that's me!) at her work office, with the laptop screen showing the header of her co-authored review article by Bijl and Śliwińska et al. (2025) Biogeosciences (https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-22-6465-2025), with her name highlighted in the author list. Nina is holding a mug on which the text reads « 2nd international GDGT workshop September 2023, Zürich ».

Andy Baker @andy-baker.bsky.social · Oct 24

Thanks to the Capricorn Caves team for another amazing research visit.
We downloaded cave hydrology loggers and a groundwater level logger, and ACKMA cave climate loggers. Visited the groundwater recharge zone above the cave. Saw lots of bats, and tree roots deep into the cave system.

Researchers working under metal sheeting, extracting a groundwater bore logger from the borehole

White limestone hillside with solution features. Trees on the right, person for scale.

A cave chamber, tree roots in background. The roots are far longer than the height of the trees on the surface.

Capricorn Caves sign for www.capricorncaves.com.au

Andy Baker @andy-baker.bsky.social · Oct 19

It's starting to feel a lot like fieldwork...

(Capricorn Caves edition)
#caves #fieldwork #academia #science

A black duffle bag, red and blue cavers bag, ruggedised laptop and walking boots

Andy Baker @andy-baker.bsky.social · Oct 14

Thanks to the @agu.org

Andy Baker @andy-baker.bsky.social · Oct 14

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Andy Baker @andy-baker.bsky.social · Oct 14

It was 'student night' at IAH NSW in Sydney ( and online everywhere).

Thanks to Akhi Kumar, Danyang Sun, Nane Weber and Yaggesh Sharma for presenting their groundwater research.

I might have photobombed the official photo!

Six people standing in a room, Sydney cityscape behind them

Andy Baker @andy-baker.bsky.social · Oct 14

I am delighted to have been chosen as a lecturer in the American Geophysical Union Distinguished Lecture Series for 2025-2026.

Would you like to hear about all things climate, groundwater and caves...?

andy-baker.org/2025/10/14/a...

AGU Distinguished Lecture Series: Caves and their stalagmites: linking climate to groundwater recharge

I am delighted to have been chosen as a lecturer in the American Geophysical Union Distinguished Lecture Series for 2025-2026. Would you like to hear about “Caves and their stalagmites: linki…

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Chris Lowery @chrislowery.bsky.social · Oct 10

Happy #FossilFriday, the University of Texas is hiring two curators/non-TT professors for our Vertebrate and Non-vertebrate Paleontology Labs: apply.interfolio.com/175702

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Andy Baker @andy-baker.bsky.social · Oct 8

MOFs are in the news, thanks to a Nobel Prize for #Chemistry.

MOFs = metal organic frameworks, complex molecules. They can help break down environmental contaminants such as #PFAS, or PAHs such as naphthalene, as published by Ze Li this year:
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Andy Baker @andy-baker.bsky.social · Oct 8

MOFs are in the news, thanks to a Nobel Prize for #Chemistry.

MOFs = metal organic frameworks, complex molecules. They can help break down environmental contaminants such as #PFAS, or PAHs such as naphthalene, as published by Ze Li this year:
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Andy Baker @andy-baker.bsky.social · Oct 8

It is IAH 'student night' next Tuesday in Sydney CBD, and there are #groundwater presentations from some of my #UNSW group. Open to all! Details are here:
www.linkedin.com/posts/iah-ns...

Hi All, We are under a week away from out October tech talk! This month we will be hosting our annual student night so don't miss out. Four presenters will be giving talks on their research topics… | IAH NSW Committee

Hi All, We are under a week away from out October tech talk! This month we will be hosting our annual student night so don't miss out. Four presenters will be giving talks on their research topics. Please see below for event details. As usual, this talk will be held in person, and online, with details to follow. Topic: Student Night Where: WSP Office Sydney - Level 27 When: Tuesday 14 October 2025 Time: 17:30 for an 18:00 start Event Info: TBC Teams Link: To be provided closer to the event Presenter: Yaggesh Sharma Title: Evaluating pond recharge potential in the Ramganga Basin with data-driven modelling approaches. Presenter: Danyang Sun Title: Classifying drip water responses in karst vadose zone: Insights from Yarrangobilly, Australia. Presenter: Nane Weber Title: Integrating karstification in large-scale hydrological simulations Presenter: Akhilesh Kumar Title: Soil Moisture and Vegetation Are Key Predictors of Precipitation-driven Groundwater Recharge at Australia’s National Groundwater Recharge Observing System (NGROS) Sites

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Andy Baker @andy-baker.bsky.social · Oct 7

If you sneak out a corrected government report before the long weekend, IMO it deserves sharing the week after. #ChatGPT #AI assisted report has fake references and quote.

arstechnica.com/ai/2025/10/d...

Deloitte will refund Australian government for AI hallucination-filled report - Ars Technica

Consulting firm quietly admitted to GPT-4o use after fake citations were found in August.

arstechnica.com

Dr Dan Shugar 🇨🇦 @watershedlab.bsky.social · Oct 3

🚨FOUR tenure track positions in my dept @ucalgary.bsky.social @ucalgaryscience.bsky.social in applied & computational geophysics, subsurface geochemistry, sedimentary geology, and sustainable soil science. careers.ucalgary.ca/search/jobs?...

(please reskeet widely!) #academicsky 🧪⚒️🇨🇦

Opportunities matching 'earth'

Search 4 Careers available at University of Calgary.

careers.ucalgary.ca

Prof Chris Jackson @seismatters.bsky.social · Oct 1

"80% of staff backed strike action in a ballot with a turnout of 62%..." 😮

I'd missed this article via @ucu.org.uk: www.ucu.org.uk/article/1417.... Another #EarthScience / #Geology department under threat, along with several other academic areas.

University of Leicester staff announce strike action over job cut plans

Members of the University and College Union (UCU) at the University of Leicester have today announced that they will take 15 days of industrial action in response to the university's plans to slash jo...

www.ucu.org.uk

Retraction Watch @retractionwatch.com · Sep 30

Made-up citations can indicate the use of generative AI in crafting the paper – but another detail caught his attention as particularly odd: The researchers on the paper, a study on the transformation of the Brazilian coastline, all listed affiliations in India.

Sleuth unearths citation, authorship issues at earth sciences journal

Carlos Conforti Ferreira Guedes, a geology professor at the Federal University of Paraná in Brazil, came across a paper in the Journal of South American Earth Sciences earlier this year with irrele…

retractionwatch.com

Eos @eos.org · Sep 25

An incredibly high resolution paleoclimate record has revealed several major, extended droughts that coincide with the period of Classic Maya collapse.

Major Droughts Coincided with Classic Maya Collapse - Eos

Understanding how individual cities responded to climate stress will help create holistic pictures of how these societies functioned.

eos.org

Andy Baker @andy-baker.bsky.social · Sep 20

Three weeks on, and IOP have emailed me. They have confirmed inappropriate AI use in parts of two reviews, and have acted appropriately against the two reviewers. Good to see such fast action.

Andy Baker @andy-baker.bsky.social · Sep 18

Impacted by poor AI use in the peer revie process? This is informative:
scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2025/09/18/p...

Peer Review in Transition: Helen King and Christopher Leonard on AI and the Future of Peer Review - The Scholarly Kitchen

Today, we talk to thought leaders Helen King and Chris Leonard, who offer a nuanced look at how peer review might adapt, fracture, or reinvent itself in the AI era.

scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org

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