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As we approach the end of 2025, we would like to invite you to read the first AGC volume, with the very first papers published by AGC here: journals.uu.se/AGC/issue/vi... We count on you to support our initiative. Publish with AGC, publish #doa 💎
Vol. 1 No. 2 (2025) | Advances in Geochemistry and Cosmochemistry
Twitter/X: @WeAreAGCjournal
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December 27, 2025 at 12:34 PM
As we approach the end of 2025, we would like to invite you to read the first AGC volume, with the very first papers published by AGC here: journals.uu.se/AGC/issue/vi... We count on you to support our initiative. Publish with AGC, publish #doa 💎
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📦 AGC RedBubble store is now live!
➡️ with the profits we will be able to expand our branding and advertise AGC at scientific meetings and other forums.
➡️ by showcasing our merch you are raising awareness about DOAJ and AGC
Go to our store and have fun!🎁
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➡️ with the profits we will be able to expand our branding and advertise AGC at scientific meetings and other forums.
➡️ by showcasing our merch you are raising awareness about DOAJ and AGC
Go to our store and have fun!🎁
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weareagc Shop | Redbubble
weareagc is an independent artist creating amazing designs for great products such as t-shirts, stickers, posters, and phone cases.
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December 20, 2025 at 10:36 AM
📦 AGC RedBubble store is now live!
➡️ with the profits we will be able to expand our branding and advertise AGC at scientific meetings and other forums.
➡️ by showcasing our merch you are raising awareness about DOAJ and AGC
Go to our store and have fun!🎁
www.redbubble.com/people/weare...
➡️ with the profits we will be able to expand our branding and advertise AGC at scientific meetings and other forums.
➡️ by showcasing our merch you are raising awareness about DOAJ and AGC
Go to our store and have fun!🎁
www.redbubble.com/people/weare...
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📯 Paper alert
Hallis et al. just published "The D/H ratio of the Martian Mantle: Evidence from the Lafayette Meteorite".
With this, we close our Vol1. Issue 2 🎉 Congrats to all the featured authors for their work.
Thank you for supporting 💠🔓access AGC journal.
⬇️ What is this about?!
Hallis et al. just published "The D/H ratio of the Martian Mantle: Evidence from the Lafayette Meteorite".
With this, we close our Vol1. Issue 2 🎉 Congrats to all the featured authors for their work.
Thank you for supporting 💠🔓access AGC journal.
⬇️ What is this about?!
December 19, 2025 at 3:07 PM
📯 Paper alert
Hallis et al. just published "The D/H ratio of the Martian Mantle: Evidence from the Lafayette Meteorite".
With this, we close our Vol1. Issue 2 🎉 Congrats to all the featured authors for their work.
Thank you for supporting 💠🔓access AGC journal.
⬇️ What is this about?!
Hallis et al. just published "The D/H ratio of the Martian Mantle: Evidence from the Lafayette Meteorite".
With this, we close our Vol1. Issue 2 🎉 Congrats to all the featured authors for their work.
Thank you for supporting 💠🔓access AGC journal.
⬇️ What is this about?!
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Paper alert 📯 McCoy West et al. just published "Geochemical and isotopic (O-Fe-Sr-Nd) characterization of reference materials relevant to environmental impact assessments". What is it about & what did the authors found? ➡️
December 15, 2025 at 10:33 AM
Paper alert 📯 McCoy West et al. just published "Geochemical and isotopic (O-Fe-Sr-Nd) characterization of reference materials relevant to environmental impact assessments". What is it about & what did the authors found? ➡️
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Congrats to @yasmeenorellana.bsky.social on her first lead-author paper, out now in Quaternary Science Reviews! Check it out to learn about Holocene alpine ice position at Villarrica Volcano, Chile! #Geochronology #CosmogenicNuclides #Climate #Glaciers #Holocene www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
A 3He-based Holocene glacial chronology from Villarrica volcano, Chile
Understanding alpine glacier extent during past climate variability is instructive for determining the glacier response to future climate change. Vill…
www.sciencedirect.com
December 1, 2025 at 3:06 PM
Congrats to @yasmeenorellana.bsky.social on her first lead-author paper, out now in Quaternary Science Reviews! Check it out to learn about Holocene alpine ice position at Villarrica Volcano, Chile! #Geochronology #CosmogenicNuclides #Climate #Glaciers #Holocene www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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A great intro to academic conferencing.
Not sure how I missed this one.
scienceforeveryone.science/getting-the-...
Not sure how I missed this one.
scienceforeveryone.science/getting-the-...
Getting the most of out a scientific conference
A slightly unconventional guide to your first time
scienceforeveryone.science
November 26, 2025 at 4:47 AM
A great intro to academic conferencing.
Not sure how I missed this one.
scienceforeveryone.science/getting-the-...
Not sure how I missed this one.
scienceforeveryone.science/getting-the-...
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In somewhat terrifying but hopefully positive personal news, I've decided to purchase an extremely expensive 10x10 booth in the exhibit hall at the American Geophysical Union meeting in December. I'll be selling my gemstone and wire jewelry and art. I hope you'll come find me there.
October 23, 2025 at 5:41 PM
In somewhat terrifying but hopefully positive personal news, I've decided to purchase an extremely expensive 10x10 booth in the exhibit hall at the American Geophysical Union meeting in December. I'll be selling my gemstone and wire jewelry and art. I hope you'll come find me there.
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RIP volcanologist Wes Hildreth, dead in a Nevada car crash south of Mina. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wes_Hil...
June 25, 2025 at 6:20 PM
RIP volcanologist Wes Hildreth, dead in a Nevada car crash south of Mina. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wes_Hil...
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Last day at the GISS building (Wed. May 28th). 🥲
May 31, 2025 at 1:51 PM
Last day at the GISS building (Wed. May 28th). 🥲
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Some sad news this week for those in the isotope ion microprobe business ⚒️🧪. The Father of the SHRIMP (and my PhD Supervisor), Bill Compston passed away at 94 years.
My scientific career would have been very different without him. Vale.
earthsciences.anu.edu.au/news-events/...
My scientific career would have been very different without him. Vale.
earthsciences.anu.edu.au/news-events/...
Vale Bill Compston
William Compston FAA FTSE FRS, was born in Western Australia in 1931. As a child he lived with his parents at his father’s butcher’s shop in Perth. After his father died in 1943 the shop was sold and ...
earthsciences.anu.edu.au
May 23, 2025 at 9:18 AM
Some sad news this week for those in the isotope ion microprobe business ⚒️🧪. The Father of the SHRIMP (and my PhD Supervisor), Bill Compston passed away at 94 years.
My scientific career would have been very different without him. Vale.
earthsciences.anu.edu.au/news-events/...
My scientific career would have been very different without him. Vale.
earthsciences.anu.edu.au/news-events/...
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It is very easy to publish in AGC. Watch this video and follow the submission preparation checklist at journals.uu.se/AGC/about/su... 🤫 looking forward to the first published manuscripts!
April 4, 2025 at 6:30 AM
It is very easy to publish in AGC. Watch this video and follow the submission preparation checklist at journals.uu.se/AGC/about/su... 🤫 looking forward to the first published manuscripts!
Palate cleanser post: Check out this preprint in review for Geochronology. It's the latest interlab comparison results from the zircon U-Pb ID-TIMS community, led by Dawid Szymanowski. doi.org/10.5194/egus...
Interlaboratory reproducibility of ID-TIMS U–Pb geochronology evaluated with a pre-spiked natural zircon solution
Abstract. The highest precision and accuracy in U–Pb geochronology is achieved using isotope dilution thermal ionisation mass spectrometry (ID-TIMS), a technique which owes its reliability to precise ...
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March 18, 2025 at 8:31 PM
Palate cleanser post: Check out this preprint in review for Geochronology. It's the latest interlab comparison results from the zircon U-Pb ID-TIMS community, led by Dawid Szymanowski. doi.org/10.5194/egus...
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Is it 100% agreed that lunar anorthosites are products of the early lunar magma ocean? An honest question coming from a bit of my own ignorance.
February 11, 2025 at 2:30 AM
Is it 100% agreed that lunar anorthosites are products of the early lunar magma ocean? An honest question coming from a bit of my own ignorance.
Geochron community, please check out,and engage with, this preprint on the interesting problem of zircon micro-inclusions in garnet, and the difficulty it creates for garnet U-Pb geochronology! egusphere.copernicus.org/preprints/20...
Zircon micro-inclusions as an obstacle for in situ garnet U-Pb geochronology: An example from the As Sifah eclogite locality, Oman
Abstract. Garnet is commonly used to calculate pressure (P)-temperature (T) histories of metamorphic rocks, as well as to monitor changes in bulk-rock composition (X) and deformation (d). In situ U-Pb...
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February 7, 2025 at 2:10 PM
Geochron community, please check out,and engage with, this preprint on the interesting problem of zircon micro-inclusions in garnet, and the difficulty it creates for garnet U-Pb geochronology! egusphere.copernicus.org/preprints/20...
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January 20, 2025 at 9:04 AM
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Bluetorial-A dream and a bit of a nightmare
Serving as Editor-in-Chief at Science was fascinating. I greatly enjoyed working with talented and committed editorial, news, graphics, and production staff. But the inside look into scientific publishing and AAAS was also deeply disillusioning.
Serving as Editor-in-Chief at Science was fascinating. I greatly enjoyed working with talented and committed editorial, news, graphics, and production staff. But the inside look into scientific publishing and AAAS was also deeply disillusioning.
a cartoon says hey everybody an old man 's talking while bart simpson looks on
ALT: a cartoon says hey everybody an old man 's talking while bart simpson looks on
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January 21, 2025 at 5:56 PM
Bluetorial-A dream and a bit of a nightmare
Serving as Editor-in-Chief at Science was fascinating. I greatly enjoyed working with talented and committed editorial, news, graphics, and production staff. But the inside look into scientific publishing and AAAS was also deeply disillusioning.
Serving as Editor-in-Chief at Science was fascinating. I greatly enjoyed working with talented and committed editorial, news, graphics, and production staff. But the inside look into scientific publishing and AAAS was also deeply disillusioning.
Zero. 💪
January 19, 2025 at 9:27 AM
Zero. 💪
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Looking for physical scientists 🧪⚒️ who do fieldwork, who've had bad experiences w/ "medical screening" or "physical qualifying (PQ)" exams & restrictions.
Stereotypes used against you, disqualified w/o consultation, etc.
We're putting together a book. A new vision how PQ should work. DMs open. 📖
Stereotypes used against you, disqualified w/o consultation, etc.
We're putting together a book. A new vision how PQ should work. DMs open. 📖
January 7, 2025 at 5:24 PM
Looking for physical scientists 🧪⚒️ who do fieldwork, who've had bad experiences w/ "medical screening" or "physical qualifying (PQ)" exams & restrictions.
Stereotypes used against you, disqualified w/o consultation, etc.
We're putting together a book. A new vision how PQ should work. DMs open. 📖
Stereotypes used against you, disqualified w/o consultation, etc.
We're putting together a book. A new vision how PQ should work. DMs open. 📖
I throw atoms at a magnet.
January 1, 2025 at 11:01 AM
I throw atoms at a magnet.
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New paper on glacial erosion rates and the Sadler effect that came out of a @dartmouthears.bsky.social grad seminar class just out now in Sci Adv! doi.org/10.1126/scia...
Limits to timescale dependence in erosion rates: Quantifying glacial and fluvial erosion across timescales
Globally, glacial erosion rates outpace fluvial, with limits to the biases introduced by measuring across different timescales.
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December 22, 2024 at 6:56 PM
New paper on glacial erosion rates and the Sadler effect that came out of a @dartmouthears.bsky.social grad seminar class just out now in Sci Adv! doi.org/10.1126/scia...
Interviewer: Can you explain this gap in your resume?
Me: the dates on the bounding events are indistinguishable within uncertainty, consistent with no gap.
Me: the dates on the bounding events are indistinguishable within uncertainty, consistent with no gap.
Interviewer: Can you explain this gap in your resume?
Me: no record is 100% stratigraphically complete.
Me: no record is 100% stratigraphically complete.
Interviewer: Can you explain this gap in your resume?
Me: The HPLC hates me, sir.
Me: The HPLC hates me, sir.
December 21, 2024 at 1:37 AM
Interviewer: Can you explain this gap in your resume?
Me: the dates on the bounding events are indistinguishable within uncertainty, consistent with no gap.
Me: the dates on the bounding events are indistinguishable within uncertainty, consistent with no gap.
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Happy Isotope Day everyone! 🥳On this day in 1913 Nature published Federick Soddy's paper "Intra-atomic Charge" www.nature.com/articles/092... in which he introduced the term "isotope" (coined after a dinner conversation in Glasgow with Margaret Todd the classics scholar). how will you celebrate?🧪⚒️🌊
December 4, 2024 at 11:29 AM
Happy Isotope Day everyone! 🥳On this day in 1913 Nature published Federick Soddy's paper "Intra-atomic Charge" www.nature.com/articles/092... in which he introduced the term "isotope" (coined after a dinner conversation in Glasgow with Margaret Todd the classics scholar). how will you celebrate?🧪⚒️🌊
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We are opening submissions on the 20th of January 🌋 Do you have research you would like to submit and be part of the very first issue of AGC? Help us gauge the volume of anticipated submissions filling in the form you find below. Publish diamond, publish in AGC!
December 2, 2024 at 11:14 AM
We are opening submissions on the 20th of January 🌋 Do you have research you would like to submit and be part of the very first issue of AGC? Help us gauge the volume of anticipated submissions filling in the form you find below. Publish diamond, publish in AGC!
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New method for measuring nitrogen isotopes in tooth dentine at high temporal resolution. We demonstrate that developmentally informed SIMS measurements of N isotopes minimize time averaging and can be precisely related to an individual's early dietary history!
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Brief communication: New method for measuring nitrogen isotopes in tooth dentine at high temporal resolution
Nitrogen isotope curve demonstrating the initiation and completion of nursing in a human child.
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November 21, 2024 at 8:20 AM
New method for measuring nitrogen isotopes in tooth dentine at high temporal resolution. We demonstrate that developmentally informed SIMS measurements of N isotopes minimize time averaging and can be precisely related to an individual's early dietary history!
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....