Michal Ben-Israel
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Michal Ben-Israel
@geombi.bsky.social
Geomorphologist, dog lover, big fan of coffee.
I study how microbes 🦠 and mountains 🏔️ shape each other.
Helmholtz Global Fellow @GFZ Potsdam (starting Dec 25).
If anyone is wondering where this is coming from, don’t look too far - here’s a (maddeningly spurious) Heritage Foundation opinion piece saying how the amazing progress in science in the US is since WW2 is actually a bad thing.

www.heritage.org/science-poli...
Science and the Decline of the American Academy
The American academy is in crisis, and the symptoms are clear to anyone with eyes to see: relentlessly rising costs, administrative bloat, and a declining 18- to 24-year-old cohort of potential tuitio...
www.heritage.org
February 7, 2025 at 3:04 PM
As well as our poster session today 8:30-12:20 1414-1446
December 13, 2024 at 11:20 AM
Perfect timing for an earthquake geomorph paper 😉
December 5, 2024 at 11:09 PM