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Frank Deboosere @frankdeboosere.bsky.social · 12h

Op zaterdag 11 oktober 2025 kan je naar allerlei activiteiten in het kader van de nacht van de duisternis.
We moeten verlichten wat moet verlicht worden. De rest is energieverspilling en slecht voor mens, dier en natuur.
levendenacht.be/nachtvandedu...
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Nacht van de Duisternis

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Dr. Andrea Dutton @drandreadutton.bsky.social · 20h

🌊🌊JOB ALERT!! Are you an ice sheet modeler looking for a postdoc that does not rely on federal funding? Come join our research team at University of Wisconsin-Madison to study the physical and human dynamics of sea-level rise. www.linkedin.com/posts/andrea...

Job ad for postdoctoral research in ice sheet modeling | Andrea Dutton

🌊 🌊 JOB ALERT!! Looking for a postdoc that does not rely on federal funding?? Looking to live in a city that is routinely ranked as one of the best cities to live in across the entire U.S.? Come jo...

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Flanders Marine Institute - VLIZ @vliz.be · 4d

VLIZ is hiring: Team Lead and Project Manager to head the Geospatial and Data Products (GD&P) team of the VLIZ Marine Data Centre. 🗺️ Apply no later than Sunday, November 2nd. #JobsatVLIZ #VLIZrecruits www.vliz.be/en/jobs/vliz...

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PHD Comics @phdcomics.com · 4d

Academic apps

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Dr. Or M. Bialik |📚|🔬|🌊|⚒️ @obialik.bsky.social · 4d

Warm oceans are oceans that remove less carbon from the atmosphere. During marine heatwaves, more organic material might be produced, but it doesn't get to the seafloor; it sort of gets stuck in the water, and all that carbon gets respired. 🧪🌊

Link: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

$a Map of the Northeastern subarctic Pacific (NESAP) showing BGC-Argo float trajectories (colored dots; float IDs in legend), approximate float positions during the marine heatwave (MHW) peaks in 2015 and 2019 (black dots), and Line P stations sampled for pigments and genetics (magenta triangles, stations P20-P26). b, c Mean monthly chlorophyll-a to carbon ratio (Chl:C, dimensionless) integrated over 0-100 m. d, e Mean monthly particulate organic carbon (POC, mg m-2) for 0-100 m. f, g Mean monthly POC (mg m-2) for 100-300 m (upper mesopelagic). In each panel, lines are colored by year (see panel legends); MHW years (2014, 2015, 2019, 2020) are red. “Small particles” denotes the bbp-derived fraction <100 µm.$

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GBLsp @gblsp.bsky.social · 5d

📢 You are cordially invited to attend the André Dumont Medal 2025 event this Friday 10 October 2025 at 3 pm -> Auditorium at Institute of Natural Sciences (Vautierstraat 29, 1000 Brussels): 2025 laureate is Dr. John Jagt (Natuurhistorisch Museum Maastricht), for his significant Cretaceous research

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Pallavi Anand (she/her) @anandpallavijha.bsky.social · 5d

If you are interested to apply for #Lecturer position in #EarthSciences 👇🏼 then please put your application in as soon as possible. The advert states that the application window may close early (I am just told about this at #coffee) 🙂
Thank you all for promoting this position.

Pallavi Anand (she/her) @anandpallavijha.bsky.social · 12d

#Lecturer position in #EarthSciences 👇🏼@openuniversity.bsky.social

Please apply, if interested 🙏🏼

Closing Date: 20 October 2025
Contract Type: #Permanent
Fixed Term Contract/End Date: Not Applicable

jobs.open.ac.uk/job/Lecturer...

Lecturer in Earth Sciences

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Daniel Dockery @dandock.bsky.social · 9d

Get really into dinosaurs. That's my recommendation for a happier life. Each day, I get news like "Look at this big freak that used roam the Earth!" or "Ya know the big freak you already loved? Fossils show it was even more freakish!" and it's a blessing every time.

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Per Ahlberg @perahlberg.bsky.social · 11d

"President" Trump, speaking just now to the assembled generals of the US military, has just declared war on his own people (quotes from the Guardian's news feed):

Talking about Democrat-led cities like San Francisco, Chicago, New York and LA: “They’re very unsafe places and

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Brian Romans @clasticdetritus.bsky.social · 11d

This better be giant, all-caps type in headlines on every news outlet in the country for days. This is our government literally declaring war on it's own citizens. This isn't nuanced or ambiguous, he is saying it very clearly.

But I have zero confidence in our national media to meet this moment.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 11d

Trump: "The ones that are run by radical left Democrats -- what they've done to San Francisco, Chicago, New York, Los Angeles. They're very unsafe places & we're gonna straighten them out one by one. This is gonna be a major part for some people in this room. That's a war too. It's war from within"

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Tom Chalk @chalkyoceans.bsky.social · 12d

Come work in our lab! All the usual awesome things apply about doing exciting science, plus this one might save the world! @sulpis.bsky.social hiring a 2 year position to observe and model deep ocean processes using high-pressure reactors.

*Goes to gather a bunch of forams to be dissolved* 😅

Olivier Sulpis @sulpis.bsky.social · 12d

🌟 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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Pallavi Anand (she/her) @anandpallavijha.bsky.social · 12d

#Lecturer position in #EarthSciences 👇🏼@openuniversity.bsky.social

Please apply, if interested 🙏🏼

Closing Date: 20 October 2025
Contract Type: #Permanent
Fixed Term Contract/End Date: Not Applicable

jobs.open.ac.uk/job/Lecturer...

Lecturer in Earth Sciences

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European Environment Agency @eea.europa.eu · 12d

🌍🚨 Europe’s environment 2025 is out now, and the conclusions are sobering:

⚠️ Europe’s environment is in poor shape. Nature continues to degrade, biodiversity is declining, and Europe is warming faster than any other region.

www.eea.europa.eu/en/newsroom/...

#EuropesEnvironment2025

State of Europe’s environment not good: threats to nature and impacts of climate change top challenges

Significant progress has been made in reducing greenhouse gas emissions and air pollution, but the overall state of Europe’s environment is not good, especially its nature which continues to face degr...

www.eea.europa.eu

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Thomas Goorden @goorden.be · 12d

The Dark PFAS Hypothesis strikes again. (But, in all fairness, I never saw this massive pesticides aspect coming.)

Pesticide Action Network Europe (PAN Europe) @paneurope.bsky.social · 12d

1/5 🧵🚨
Our new report exposes how major chemical companies have downplayed the toxicity of #TFA to mislead regulators and delay urgently needed action. TFA is an ultra-short #PFAS and a breakdown product of other PFAS, including PFAS #pesticides.
www.pan-europe.info/press-releas...

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Kenneth De Baets @djbirddanerd.bsky.social · 15d

Just in time for #FossilFriday 🦖 What are the big questions in #paleontology today?

dx.doi.org/10.1017/pab.2025.10042

Nearly 200 scientists worldwide came together to map where our field is headed. Here’s the story 👇

Identifying the Big Questions in paleontology: a community-driven project | Paleobiology | Cambridge Core

Identifying the Big Questions in paleontology: a community-driven project

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Dr. Katy Croff Bell @katycroffbell.bsky.social · 16d

SPERM WHALE EATING A GIANT SQUID--filmed probably for the first time *ever*!!! 🌊🦑🐳

Rebecca R Helm @rebeccarhelm.bsky.social · 16d

I get that the news cycle is packed right now, but I just heard from a colleague at the Smithsonian that this is fully a GIANT SQUID BEING EATEN BY A SPERM WHALE and it’s possibly the first ever confirmed video according to a friend at NOAA

10 YEAR OLD ME IS LOSING HER MIND (a thread 🧵)

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Nature Portfolio @natureportfolio.nature.com · 17d

A paper in Nature Communications provides evidence that Silverpit Crater, on the UK continental shelf, has an extraterrestrial impact origin. go.nature.com/4nL7Zz5 ⚒️ 🧪

This is figure 1, which shows a location map showing the Silverpit Crater and its associated damage zone.

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Joy Buongiorno, PhD @joybuongiorno.bsky.social · 19d

My team is hiring again! 📣

springernature.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com/SpringerNatu...

Associate or Senior Editor, Nature Communications (Geosciences)

Job Title: Associate or Senior Editor, Nature Communications (Geosciences) Location(s): Shanghai, Beijing, Nanjing, New York, Washington, Jersey City, Madrid, Milan (hybrid) Closing date: 8th October,...

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Dr (of rocks) Marcus Badger @climatebadger.bsky.social · 19d

📢We're hiring!📢

We have a permanent Lecturer in Earth Sciences position available in @OU_EEE
@OpenUniversity

£47,389 to £56,535
Closing Date: 20 October 2025*

We are a friendly, research intensive school with supportive colleagues and great labs.

jobs.open.ac.uk/job/Lecturer...

Lecturer in Earth Sciences

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Wim Thiery @wimthiery.bsky.social · 24d

"Revolutionary AI tools rescue old weather data to improve climate models": News article @nature.com describing efforts of @hydr-vub.bsky.social Researcher @derrickmuheki.bsky.social to rescue weather records from DR Congo using the MeteoSaver software he developed:

www.nature.com/articles/d41...

‘Revolutionary’ AI tools rescue old weather data to improve climate models

Specialist machine-learning models are helping researchers to transcribe centuries-old handwritten records.

www.nature.com

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Prof. Valentin Fischer @val-fisch.bsky.social · 24d

Are you tired of people constantly overestimating body size of marine reptiles? No longer!

We provide equations to estimate body size in ichthyosaurians, mosasaurids, and thalattosuchians.

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Jeroen Bosman @jeroenbosman.bsky.social · 24d

Citing openness and validity issues, Sorbonne University in France decides to no longer supply data to the THE-ranking and thus get delisted. This is 4th major European university to take this step, after Utrecht, Zürich and Lorraine. #universityrankings www.sorbonne-universite.fr/en/news/sorb...

News | Sorbonne Université| Sorbonne université

www.sorbonne-universite.fr

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Simon D'haenens @simondhaenens.bsky.social · 24d

a man in a suit and tie is standing in front of a destroyed building and says please disperse

Alt: a man (Leslie Nielsen) in a suit and tie is standing in front of a destroyed building and says “nothing to see here, please disperse”

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Peter Brannen @peterbrannen.bsky.social · 26d

Whoa, kind of mind-blowing. The rocks above the end-Cretaceous mass extinction look different than the ones below it because of the ways that dinosaurs modified the environment. www.nature.com/articles/s43...

Dinosaur extinction can explain continental facies shifts at the Cretaceous-Paleogene boundary - Communications Earth & Environment

Dinosaurs promoted open habitats in the Late Cretaceous, and their extinction could have led to a radical reorganization of the landscape and ecosystem structure at the beginning of the Paleogene, acc...

www.nature.com

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