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Douwe van Hinsbergen @vanhinsbergen.bsky.social · 10d

We just published a paper about NW Crete, where my career started with my MSc fieldwork in 1998, and where Jan Willem Zachariasse spent the last decade making a new geological map. Published in the Diamond Open Access journal Tektonika!

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Is there a Cretan Supradetachment Basin? Insights From Detailed Mapping on Northwestern Crete (Greece) | τeκτoniκa

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Douwe van Hinsbergen @vanhinsbergen.bsky.social · 18d

📆 MASTER'S OPEN DAY | 8 October 2025

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Join our upcoming Online Master's Open Day on the 8th of October to learn more about your options at Utrecht University. Sign up here ➡️

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Douwe van Hinsbergen @vanhinsbergen.bsky.social · Sep 8

In Brussels, getting ready for our ERC Synergy grant interview! Bring it on!

With Arwen Deuss, Janne Koornneef and Yamirka Rojas-Agramonte

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Douwe van Hinsbergen @vanhinsbergen.bsky.social · Sep 2

And the prize for best title of the year goes to Fabrice Cordey 😂😂

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Douwe van Hinsbergen @vanhinsbergen.bsky.social · Sep 1

Ik heb Maarten Keulemans vanmorgen van wat uitleg voorzien voor zijn artikel over de Afghanistanbevingen van vanmorgen:

www.volkskrant.nl/wetenschap/w...

Waarom zijn er zo vaak aardbevingen in Afghanistan? ‘Het is een soort glasbak, er rammelt van alles’

Alweer is Afghanistan getroffen door een dodelijke aardbeving (situatie maandagochtend: 800 doden). Wat de beving zo verraderlijk maakt: hij kwam schijnbaar vanuit het niets.

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Douwe van Hinsbergen @vanhinsbergen.bsky.social · Sep 1

The quake took place just east of the Kabul Block, which is a part of the Indian Plate that got squeezed northward into Asia. The quake seems to occur around the Shyok Suture, between the Kohistan and Nurestan blocks. Tens of million years old faults that became reactivated?

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Douwe van Hinsbergen @vanhinsbergen.bsky.social · Sep 1

The 6.0 quake in Afghanistan of this morning occurred on a shallow thrust fault, within the pile of tectonic fragments that is the Pamir-Hindu Kush mountain belt. Basically, the western part of the Tibetan Plateau 1/n

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Geology of the Tour de France @geotdf.bsky.social · Aug 23

So, some background for the start of @lavuelta.bsky.social…and oddly, the best way to do that is by telling you about the geology of Milano-San Remo 😃. The first days will be about the Po Plain and the Ligurian Alps! Enjoy!

www.geo-sports.org/2024/geology...

Geology of Milan-Sanremo | Geo-Sports

We explore the geology of Milan-Sanremo with lost oceans, colliding continents plus a bit of risotto and wine.

www.geo-sports.org

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Douwe van Hinsbergen @vanhinsbergen.bsky.social · Aug 17

Used AI again to develop a piece I wrote on piano into a song. Quite like it.

suno.com/song/4d39640...

The Quiet and the Storm

Listen and make your own on Suno.

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Douwe van Hinsbergen @vanhinsbergen.bsky.social · Aug 14

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Douwe van Hinsbergen @vanhinsbergen.bsky.social · Aug 14

Ben het met Bernd eens, die oranje zijkant is een secundaire opvulling met calciet en ijzermineralen denk ik. Het lichte gesteente lijkt me sedimentair, kalk of zandsteen. Waar in Noorwegen, weet je dat?

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Douwe van Hinsbergen @vanhinsbergen.bsky.social · Aug 11

I’ve now used the Suno AI tool to develop a melody I came up with last week and some quick lyrics I wrote yesterday, into a song. It’s great to be able to play around with these tools and make something that doesn’t sound like me but is mine 🙂. I suppose House musicians’ve done this for 30 years 😂.

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Douwe van Hinsbergen @vanhinsbergen.bsky.social · Aug 11

Ok, so I wasn’t a fan of AI, in many cases, it kills creativity and originality. But I’ll admit I like the applications to music.

Since my teenage years, I’ve written songs, and recorded them with some band (e.g. Sans Gene). But I’m not a great singer, and play mediocre guitar and piano.

Sans Gêne

Artist · 0 monthly listeners.

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Douwe van Hinsbergen @vanhinsbergen.bsky.social · Aug 8

www.uu.nl/en/news/eart...

Earth’s natural CO2 vacuum cleaners

The so-called weathering continuum provides a much more complete picture on what controls and regulates the natural removal of CO2.

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Douwe van Hinsbergen @vanhinsbergen.bsky.social · Aug 8

Two years ago, brilliant Utrecht University PhD student Gerrit Müller organized a workshop about the role of weathering in the CO2 cycle. He invited scientists from all over to debate the different parts of the cycle, and merged it jnto this review paper, published today in Nature Geoscience!

Earth’s silicate weathering continuum - Nature Geoscience

Chemical weathering of silicate rocks occurs along a continuum from terrestrial to marine environments.

www.nature.com

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Geology of the Tour de France @geotdf.bsky.social · Aug 2

The Classica San Sebastian will race along the Basque North Coast! @vanhinsbergen.bsky.social made some clips about the beautiful geological goodies of the Basque Country!

The trace fossils in the Black Flysch for instance!

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Trace fossils in the rocks along Stage 3 of the 2023 Tour de France!

YouTube video by Geo-Sports - The Geology of Sports Events

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Geology of the Tour de France @geotdf.bsky.social · Aug 2

The Tour de France Femmes is climbing the Alps! Did you know the Alps are made of cheese?

@vanhinsbergen.bsky.social explains in this clip!

youtu.be/7wkFVQaMdo8?...

GeoTdF 2023 - Stage 14: The Alps are made of Cheese

YouTube video by Geo-Sports - The Geology of Sports Events

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Geology of the Tour de France @geotdf.bsky.social · Jul 31

The TdFF races through the Devonian of the northern Massif Central today. Marj and @vanhinsbergen.bsky.social imagined racing a Tour stage back then, 400 million years ago, in this ‘23 clip! 🐟

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GeoTdF 2023 - Stage 12. Fishing in the Devonian

YouTube video by Geo-Sports - The Geology of Sports Events

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Douwe van Hinsbergen @vanhinsbergen.bsky.social · Jul 30

Judith, is the high density of mega-earthquakes here thought to be linked to the subduction of the Hawaii-Emperor seamount chain?

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Harold Tobin @haroldtobin.bsky.social · Jul 30

Today's M8.8 (orange circle) and the 1952 M9.0 epicentral locations, separated by only 73 years. I wouldn't have thought that possible! Average recurrence intervals don't tell the full story. ⚒️

map of southern Kamchatka peninsula, with earthquake epicenters plotted offshore Petropavlovsk. Russia.

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Douwe van Hinsbergen @vanhinsbergen.bsky.social · Jul 30

8.8 earthquake at the Kamchatka subduction zone caused a tsunami in Russia that is about to hit Hawai’i too.

This is a quake that is close to the magnitude of the devastating Japan quake of 15 years ago. And the same tectonic cause. Doesn’t look good…

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Douwe van Hinsbergen @vanhinsbergen.bsky.social · Jul 27

In times of mounting pressure on scientific institutions by populist governments, Science gives here the worst possible example. And no doubt, there will be hawks who will take advantage.

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Douwe van Hinsbergen @vanhinsbergen.bsky.social · Jul 27

And if an incorrect interpretation is a reason to retract papers - if it’d be, 75% of papers would have to be retracted.

What this shows, however, is that the editor of one of the most prominent scientific institutions in the world can be manipulated to retract science over interpretation of data.

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Douwe van Hinsbergen @vanhinsbergen.bsky.social · Jul 27

Felisa’s paper argued that there are bacteria that use Arsenic instead of Phosphorous in their DNA. This papar became quickly controversial - although nobody has redone the experiment in exactly the same way.
But there is no foul play. The dispute is in interpretation of the data.

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Douwe van Hinsbergen @vanhinsbergen.bsky.social · Jul 27

Science Magazine has retracted this paper of Felisa Wolfe-Simon, and that is beyond rediculous, and a very dangerous move in this time of political interference in science.

arstechnica.com/science/2025...

Widely panned arsenic life paper gets retracted—15 years after brouhaha

Opinions are mixed on the retraction, and the authors continue to defend their work.

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