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Melaine Le Roy @subfossilguy.bsky.social · 15h

📣 Today is the last day to order your piece of glacier subfossil wood! 🧊

A smelly and friendly companion that will take you on a journey through time and the history of climate and mankind! 🌲💍

It's here:
wemakeit.com/projects/gla...

🙏🙏 Please share widely! 🙏🙏

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Alexis Licht @alexislicht.bsky.social · 9d

Don't miss the Final!

Mineral Cup #MinCup25 @mineralcup.bsky.social · 9d

#MinCup25 Final: After a month of learning and laughter, we’re at the final match to determine the 2025 Mineral Cup Champion! We have blue blades of #kyanite up against optical magician #tugtupite.

Vote: www.mineralcup.org/2025/vote/r5...
Results: www.mineralcup.org/2025/results...

Vote in 2025 Final Match — Mineral Cup

Click here to vote in Kyanite vs Tugtupite Photo credits: John Sobolewski and Parent Géry

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Nature Climate Change @natclimate.nature.com · 10d

🚨 We are hiring - Nature Climate Change is recruiting for a full time editor to join our team. This is a great opportunity for a PhD trained researcher to move into editorial. Applications close 23 October
www.nature.com/naturecareer...

Associate or Senior Editor, Nature Climate Change - Shanghai (CN) /Beijing/New York job with Springer Nature Ltd | 12845336

Job Title: Associate or Senior Editor (Nature Climate Change) Organisation: Nature Portfolio Location: Shanghai, Beijing, New York, New Jersey - hy...

www.nature.com

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Alexis Licht @alexislicht.bsky.social · 11d

🚨postdoc opportunity🚨 come and join our team at @climatecerege.bsky.social to work with @sulpis.bsky.social and his @exoceanlab.bsky.social lab!

exoCean Laboratory @exoceanlab.bsky.social · 11d

Sediments dissolving on the seafloor can act as a long term sink for carbon dioxide emissions. We're bringing it to the lab, deep sea research from the comfort of Southern France!

Postdoctoral position for 2 years available working with @sulpis.bsky.social in the @exoceanlab.bsky.social.

Olivier Sulpis @sulpis.bsky.social · 11d

🌟 Postdoc Opportunity in Marine Biogeochemistry at CNRS-CEREGE!

🚢 Are you a passionate researcher ready to tackle climate change? Dive into the ERC-funded Deep-C project in Aix-en-Provence, France!

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Alexis Licht @alexislicht.bsky.social · 11d

Last days of fieldwork in Anatolia, with Serkan Akkiraz, Paul Botté and @benjaminraynaud.bsky.social! Exploring the Sivas Basin to date the onset of the modern steppe landscape with various stratigraphic and paleobotanical tools. Part of the @dispersal-erc.bsky.social project!

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Lizzy Trower @lizzyt.bsky.social · 14d

This change without warning is devastating to a bunch of students who had the rug pulled out from under them! A 1-cycle warning, or even a warning a few months ago would have been game changing for a lot of junior scientists.

Terry McGlynn @hormiga.bsky.social · 14d

I can understand why NSF is limiting GRFP apps to undergrads and 1st year grad students .

What I can't why they didn't wait one cycle to implement after making the announcement.

But I do trust that the program officers are doing their best to keep science afloat under extraordinary conditions.

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Annals of Botany @annbot.bsky.social · 15d

🎉 Good news! The paper ‘Persistence of Gondwanan woods in Myanmar through the Paleogene’ in @annbot.bsky.social by Nicolas Gentis and co-authors is now #free for 2 weeks 🧵(1/6)

👉 doi.org/p6mt

@nicolasgentis.bsky.social @alexislicht.bsky.social
@cr2p.bsky.social @mnhn.fr @cerege.bsky.social

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Alexis Licht @alexislicht.bsky.social · 16d

Looking for pollen, vertebrate fossils and pedogenic carbonates in Anatolia! With @benjaminraynaud.bsky.social, Paul Botté, @dispersal-erc.bsky.social

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Climate group @CEREGE, France @climatecerege.bsky.social · 25d

For the 30th anniversary of @cerege.bsky.social, our own Edouard Bard gave a plenary talk synthesizing the history of our lab. It's right here:

CEREGE @cerege.bsky.social · 25d

Relive 30 years of CEREGE’s history!

We are excited to share a historical retrospective highlighting the milestones, achievements, and moments that have shaped CEREGE over the past three decades.

Watch the retrospective here by Edouard Bard: www.youtube.com/watch?v=W-n8...

Historical Perspective on 30 Years of Interdisciplinary Geoscience

YouTube video by CEREGE

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Alexis Licht @alexislicht.bsky.social · Sep 3

Nice day of fieldwork in the Luberon Geopark, trying to date some of their iconic fossil sites. With Pauline Coster, @benjaminraynaud.bsky.social, and many others from @dispersal-erc.bsky.social

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Climate group @CEREGE, France @climatecerege.bsky.social · Sep 3

Have you heard of @dispersal-erc.bsky.social? It's one of our ERC-funded research projects focusing on understanding the role of climate and paleogeography on some iconic dispersals of the paleontological record. Follow their bluesky for more info!

DISPERSAL project - understanding past mammalian dispersals @dispersal-erc.bsky.social · Sep 3

Élodie Gazquez interviewing our colleague Saïda Nigmatova in the field today in the Luberon. We're planning to release soon a bunch of videos explaining everything about our research project!

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Climate group @CEREGE, France @climatecerege.bsky.social · Sep 2

@guillaume-leduc.bsky.social, isotope geochemist and paleoclimatologist in our team, just joined us on #bluesky! Welcome!

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Alexis Licht @alexislicht.bsky.social · Sep 1

It's Mineral Cup time again!
Team #Chrysotile

Mineral Cup #MinCup25 @mineralcup.bsky.social · Sep 1

#MinCup25 Round 1 Match 1: Hazardous (but useful!) #Chrysotile faces off against stunning gem #Pectolite. Do you pick the forbidden cotton candy, or the anti-pulverization beauty?

VOTE: www.mineralcup.org/2025/vote/r1...

Check RESULTS: www.mineralcup.org/2025/results...

Vote in Round 1 Match 1 — Mineral Cup

Click here to vote in Chrysotile vs Pectolite

www.mineralcup.org

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Alexis Licht @alexislicht.bsky.social · Aug 25

Quick update: after we protested the decision this morning, the editor rescinded the rejection and reassigned our manuscript to a new editor for consideration. It’s still unclear whether the manuscript will actually be sent back out for review...

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Alexis Licht @alexislicht.bsky.social · Aug 25

Where is the science in that? It's particularly frustrating, sincetThe first and only review we got was positive and suggested a few moderate comments before publication.

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Alexis Licht @alexislicht.bsky.social · Aug 25

Unbelievable experience with the journal Palaeo3. Our manuscript was rejected because… they couldn’t find a second reviewer, and it had been in their system “too long” (7 weeks), according to the editor. In other words, just to preserve their review-speed metrics, they rejected our submission.

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Climate group @CEREGE, France @climatecerege.bsky.social · Aug 22

Only two more weeks to register for the RST in Montpellier this October (the Geosciences meeting of the French Geological Society, occurring every two years)!
rst-montpellier.sciencesconf.org
Probably the most interesting Earth Science meeting in France, we highly recommend it!

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David Shiffman, Ph.D. 🦈 @whysharksmatter.bsky.social · Aug 19

Hey everybody! @drjuliawester.bsky.social and I have a new paper!

We surveyed over 800 scientists, science communicators, and science educators who use social media.

Conclusion: Scientists no longer find Twitter useful or pleasant, and many have switched to Bluesky! 🧪🌎🦑

doi.org/10.1093/icb/...

Scientists no Longer Find Twitter Professionally Useful, and have Switched to Bluesky

Synopsis. Social media has become widely used by the scientific community for a variety of professional uses, including networking and public outreach. For

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Alexis Licht @alexislicht.bsky.social · Aug 19

The paper also precisely refines the Paleogene stratigraphy of the Paratethys. U-Pb dating made at @climatecerege.bsky.social. Mustafa is one of our former postdocs, and now active collaborator of the @dispersal-erc.bsky.social project! (n/n)

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Alexis Licht @alexislicht.bsky.social · Aug 19

His work shows that the fall of sea level during the earliest Oligocene glaciation significantly impacted the oceanic circulation in the Paratethys. A lot of new, cold and freshwater, likely coming from the boreal seas (2/n).

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Alexis Licht @alexislicht.bsky.social · Aug 19

🚨New paper Alert! 🚨 An impressive field and lab study led by @mustafayk.bsky.social, who dated and studied a high-resolution Eocene-Oligocene Transition section in northwest Turkey. (1/n)
doi.org/10.5194/cp-2...

The Eocene–Oligocene Transition in the Paratethys: boreal water ingression and its paleoceanographic implications

Abstract. The Eocene–Oligocene Transition (EOT) represents a pivotal period in Earth's climatic history, marked by the onset of Antarctic glaciation and global cooling. While deep-sea records have ext...

doi.org

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Climate group @CEREGE, France @climatecerege.bsky.social · Jul 30

🚨Job offer 🚨 Postdoctoral position in micropaleontology opened in our team!

Thibault de Garidel @tdegaridel.bsky.social · Jul 28

Postdoc (6 mois)ouvert au CEREGE en micropaleontology and ML / short term postdoctoral contract (6 months) in micropaleontology and ML @climatecerege.bsky.social ANR project #BioIndicIA emploi.cnrs.fr/Offres/CDD/U...

Portail Emploi CNRS - Offre d'emploi - H/F CDD Chercheur en Micropaléontologie quantitative

emploi.cnrs.fr

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DISPERSAL project - understanding past mammalian dispersals @dispersal-erc.bsky.social · Jul 24

A short highlight on some of our paleontologist & field collaborators in Turkey!
From right to left: K.Chris Beard, Faruk Oçakoglu, Grégoire Métais, and @mustafayk.bsky.social
Shot in an Eocene coal mine full of endemic fossils from #Balkanatolia. Many discoveries to come soon from this site.

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Climate group @CEREGE, France @climatecerege.bsky.social · Jul 24

Have you heard of our @exoceanlab.bsky.social lab? It's a new facility for experimental oceanography -- We culture, measure, and dissolve carbonates there. Register to the account to get fresh updates from what we are doing there!

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Alexis Licht @alexislicht.bsky.social · Jul 22

This is part of our broader @dispersal-erc.bsky.social project, and includes many members of our research group at @climatecerege.bsky.social, as well as our invaluable field collaborators in Myanmar, Prof. Zaw Win and Prof. Day Wa Aung. (n/n)

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