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Jordon Hemingway @jordonhemingway.bsky.social · 9d

Very grateful to the @snf-fns.ch for funding our continued work in DR Congo on tropical peatland greenhouse gas emissions! With @johansix.bsky.social and @draketw.bsky.social @eth-eaps.bsky.social @usyseth.bsky.social

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Jordon Hemingway @jordonhemingway.bsky.social · 11d

Always happy to take the @eth-eaps.bsky.social (and a few @usyseth.bsky.social ) MSc students to Valais for some soil descriptions, pebble counts, and lake coring! Weather was rough yesterday but much perfect today!

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Jordon Hemingway @jordonhemingway.bsky.social · 14d

And the German version: ethz.ch/de/news-und-...

Eierförmige Steinchen werfen neues Licht auf Erdgeschichte

Forschende der ETH Zürich konnten erstmals messen, wie sich die Menge an gelöstem organischem Kohlenstoff im Meer über die Jahrmillionen verändert hat. Die Resultate zeigen, dass unsere Erklärungen, w...

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Jordon Hemingway @jordonhemingway.bsky.social · 14d

Very cool write-up by @ethz.ch on our recent paper in @nature.com on reconstructing dissolved organic carbon in the ocean through geologic time! Led by Nir Galili @eth-eaps.bsky.social

ethz.ch/en/news-and-...

Minute witnesses from the primordial sea

Researchers at ETH Zurich have been able to measure - for the first time - how the amount of dissolved organic carbon in the sea has changed over geological time. The results reveal that our explanati...

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Jordon Hemingway @jordonhemingway.bsky.social · 20d

I unapologetically and consistently use em dashes---with no spaces---in everything I write, from texts to scientific papers. Been doing it for years, and I won't stop because of ChatGPT

www.nytimes.com/2025/09/18/m...

With the Em Dash, A.I. Embraces a Fading Tradition

www.nytimes.com

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EGU Biogeosciences Division (BG) @egubg.bsky.social · 21d

🗞️ New article in Biogeosciences #EGU by Carolina F. M. de Carvalho et al. ⬇️

Variability in oxygen isotopic fractionation of enzymatic O2 consumption

Abstract. Stable isotope analysis of O2 has emerged as a valuable tool to study O2 dynamics at various environmental scales, from molecular mechanisms to ecosystem processes. Despite its utility,…

bg.copernicus.org

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Jordon Hemingway @jordonhemingway.bsky.social · Aug 31

While Genossenschaften ("co-ops" in the article) are great, they are a low proportion of total housing and have extremely long wait lists and low turnover. Given how high rent is for the rest of us---and the frequency of demonstrations about the cost of living---id say no, we haven't solved it

The New York Times @nytimes.com · Aug 30

The way that housing co-ops work in Switzerland may seem foreign to many. But the central idea is simple: What if homeownership had no profit motive and no capital gains? Advocates say their model could reshape how the world thinks about affordable housing. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/26/r...

An apartment complex. A headline reads: "Did Switzerland Solve The Housing Crisis?"

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Jordon Hemingway @jordonhemingway.bsky.social · Aug 19

Still not available in Europe??

Jordon Hemingway @jordonhemingway.bsky.social · Aug 19

Nice excerpt from @peterbrannen.bsky.social's new book in @theguardian.com! (with a cameo by the person who taught me everything I know about math, Dan Rothman)

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

‘A climate of unparalleled malevolence’: are we on our way to the sixth major mass extinction?

The long read: Churning quantities of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere at the rate we are going could lead the planet to another Great Dying

www.theguardian.com

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Jordon Hemingway @jordonhemingway.bsky.social · Aug 18

This is my life in a nutshell. I apologize to everybody on behalf of America (or, "apologise" I should say)

www.srf.ch/news/schweiz...

Image-Verlust macht Amerikanerinnen in der Schweiz zu schaffen

Der Ärger über die US-Zölle beschäftigt auch in der Schweiz lebende US-Staatsbürger. Negative Reaktionen schmerzen.

www.srf.ch

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Earth and Planetary Sciences at ETH Zurich @eth-eaps.bsky.social · Aug 15

New @nature.com paper out "The geologic history of marine dissolved organic carbon from iron oxides"

doi.org/10.1038/s415...

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Jordon Hemingway @jordonhemingway.bsky.social · Aug 14

It's all bio/chemo stratigraphy and geochron. But we didn't do any of the dating; all of these formations have been dated previously in the literature (and summarized in our supplement)

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Jordon Hemingway @jordonhemingway.bsky.social · Aug 14

That tells you how long it was in review 😬😅

Jordon Hemingway @jordonhemingway.bsky.social · Aug 13

This provides new insights into the fundamental connections between (marine) biogeochemistry, planetary evolution, and life @eth-eaps.bsky.social @ethz.ch (and too many co-authors to list here)

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Jordon Hemingway @jordonhemingway.bsky.social · Aug 13

There's been a lot of (model-based) hype over the years about a "large Neoproterozoic DOC reservoir" that could have triggered the end of snowball earth and the proliferation of multi-cellular life. BUT here we show this was not the case. Instead, DOC levels were about 90% lower than today

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Jordon Hemingway @jordonhemingway.bsky.social · Aug 13

🚨 Paper alert! 🚨 After >1 year in review and six (6!) reviewers, I'm thrilled that this paper is finally out! Here, we provide the first data-based record of marine dissolved organic carbon in the geologic past.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

The geologic history of marine dissolved organic carbon from iron oxides - Nature

A direct proxy for past dissolved organic carbon signatures using co-precipitated organic carbon in iron ooids enables reconstruction of marine dissolved organic carbon signals dating back to the Pala...

www.nature.com

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Jordon Hemingway @jordonhemingway.bsky.social · Aug 7

Easy solution: freeze the billionaires' bank accounts. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/07/b...

Swiss Businesses Fear Being ‘Annihilated’ by One of the World’s Highest Tariffs

www.nytimes.com

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Elda Miramontes @elda-miramontes.bsky.social · Jun 28

🚨Job alert PhD 🚨 We are looking for 15 new doctoral researchers at @marumunibremen.bsky.social @unibremen.bsky.social. Don't miss this fantastic opportunity! The deadline is the 25th of July. More information about the projects and how to apply can be found here 👇
www.uni-bremen.de/en/universit...

Job Vacancies - Universität Bremen

Offene Stellen

www.uni-bremen.de

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Jordon Hemingway @jordonhemingway.bsky.social · Jun 29

To defend the authors a bit, they do suggest doing this at an industrial rather than individual scale, but I still agree with your point

Jordon Hemingway @jordonhemingway.bsky.social · Jun 29

"Want to solve climate change? Just bury your old wooden furniture in the backyard!" Sounds like snake oil.

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Large CO2 removal potential of woody debris preservation in managed forests - Nature Geoscience

Land surface modelling suggests that preserving woody debris in managed forests could remove 769–937 GtCO2 from the atmosphere between 2025 and 2100.

www.nature.com

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Jordon Hemingway @jordonhemingway.bsky.social · Jun 27

Oh, totally agree---absolutely irrelevant for the modern!

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Jordon Hemingway @jordonhemingway.bsky.social · Jun 26

Gah, *Paleozoic, sorry 🤦

Jordon Hemingway @jordonhemingway.bsky.social · Jun 26

@paleoclimate friends: petrography may not be sexy but it's absolutely crucial!

Jordon Hemingway @jordonhemingway.bsky.social · Jun 26

Obviously Rogan and others are all dum-dums, but I do think Judd et al. did some fancy math to band-aid over the fact that much of the carbonate 18O data that went into this record is probably diagenetically overprinted. Reconstructed temps are most likely too hot, especially in the Mesozoic!

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Jordon Hemingway @jordonhemingway.bsky.social · Jun 8

One important distinction between Blatten and the story posted here though is that the Federal Government will pay to rebuild the village. I dread seeing what will happen in, e.g., the US where the government doesn't care (especially now with a gutted FEMA)

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