Dr Ben-Mansour

📢🌊 Funded PhD position in Marine Seismology at Syracuse University 🌊📢

I'm seeking an enthusiastic student to join our Seismology group at SU! You'll be part of a collaborative NSF-funded team to collect new marine seismic data to work out the tectonics of early seafloor spreading in the Atlantic.

This is figure 4, which shows the UHT differentiation of continental crust.

The findings of a study in Nature Geoscience show that temperatures of over 900 °C are needed to form stable continents. go.nature.com/47iIVJg ⚒️ 🧪

Ongoing #AQG #quantum #gravimeter measurement campaign by @gfz.bsky.social and @bkgbund.bsky.social at #GOW Wettzell for investigating instrument repeatabilities and testing field techniques. A great opportunity to gain new insides and exchange with and strengthen the community!

68 years ago, the launch of Sputnik 1 paved the way for human #SpaceExploration.

Our recent decadal survey builds on Sputnik's legacy by offering recommendations to support the future of space research and exploration.

Learn more for #WorldSpaceWeek: https://ow.ly/cMtQ50X6ujS

A close-up of a nonvolatile photonic switch cell

New research demonstrates a nonvolatile silicon photonic microelectromechanical system switch, which has potential applications in optical networks-on-chip, optical interconnects, and quantum information processors.

Learn more in this week’s issue of #ScienceAdvances: https://scim.ag/4nxqGXA

Science teachers scramble as U.S. climate resources vanish As government websites go dark, some nonprofits are trying to fill the void

As government websites go dark, educators across the country have been reworking lesson plans and searching for reliable sources of up-to-date scientific information. https://scim.ag/46Vlwxu

People arm in arm while drinking coffee and holding papers, with text: Why scientists should take more coffee breaks.

Here's a reminder on #InternationalCoffeeDay: It's OK to take a (coffee) break. ☕

"It’s ... helpful to have a venue to share the day-to-day ups and downs of life as a grad student," a #PhD student wrote in this 2019 #ScienceWorkingLife. https://scim.ag/4nvLTBb

New pre-print alert:
Ben-Mansour and Maupin
➡️ eartharxiv.org/repository/v...

The July 29 tsunami from the Mw 8.8 Kamchatka earthquake was recorded by the differential pressure guages on our ocean bottom seismographs near Samoa. Here are the records from the first 4 OBSs we recovered.

The Patagonian slab window is a portal where, without a slab in the way, material is flowing between the Pacific and Atlantic upper mantles. Read now: seismica.library.mcgill.ca/article/view...
@tellurianite.bsky.social&@dougwiens.bsky.social&@walid06seismo.bsky.social&@lamont.columbia.edu&@whoi.edu

Here's NASA astrophysics, if I read the president's proposed budget correctly. 🔭

Trump administration revokes Harvard's ability to enroll international students International students make up more than a quarter of Harvard University's student body. Harvard says the government's actions, which could cut off a major revenue stream, are "unlawful."

JUST IN: International students make up more than a quarter of Harvard University's student body. Harvard says the government's actions, which could cut off a major revenue stream, are "unlawful."

Exploring the solid Earth beneath the oceans holds transformative potential for #geophysics applications such as #tectonic research and deep Earth imaging.

Learn about new opportunities for ocean-based geophysical sensing on May 28: buff.ly/d6Uhndz

Exclusive: NSF director to resign amid grant terminations, job cuts, and controversy “I have done all I can,” says Sethuraman Panchanathan, a Trump appointee who has led agency since 2020

Exclusive: NSF director to resign amid grant terminations, job cuts, and controversy | Science | AAAS www.science.org/content/arti...

Join us this summer from August 4-7, 2025, in Breckenridge, Colorado, to explore the science and computational challenges that underpin our understanding of Earth’s dynamical systems. For more information about CIG The Next Generation from, see our website: geodynamics.org/events/detai...

Does US science have a future in Antarctica? Trump cuts threaten to cancel fieldwork and more Funding for the National Science Foundation, which finances research at US bases on the icy continent, has already been reduced, and the agency faces steeper cuts soon.

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

Pre-print alert: Ben-Mansour et al (2025) ➡️ eartharxiv.org/repository/o...

This is figure 4, which shows the time series (2015–2300) of grounding line flux (Gt yr−1) across various basins under different experiments.

A study in Nature Communications shows that hidden water beneath Antarctica’s ice can accelerate ice loss, potentially raising sea levels by over two meters by 2300. https://go.nature.com/4jsKIQj 🧪

Higher education cuts to hit VU University's earth sciences department; 37 jobs at risk The VU University Amsterdam is translating the government’s budget cuts and its other financial challenges into a reorganization of its Earth Sciences Department. That puts 37 employees at risk of dis...

VU University Amsterdam is going to be closing their Earth Sciences bachelor's program and some of the relevant research (some will go to Utrecht University or other departments) as the university shifts more towards "climate and earth". ⚒️

nltimes.nl/2025/04/04/h...

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‘I really wanted something to happen.’ The students behind the Stand Up for Science protests New group hopes to turn out researchers for 7 March demonstrations against Trump administration policies

Scientists are now organizing events, called Stand Up for Science, on 7 March in Washington, D.C., and state capitals.

So far, they have attracted more than 100 volunteers from some 30 states who are hoping to rally support for research as a public good. scim.ag/4328LAD

Are the Trump team’s actions affecting your research? How to contact Nature Use this form to share information with Nature’s news team, or to make suggestions for future coverage.

Are you a scientist whose work is being affected by changes in the Trump administration? Get in touch with @nature.com reporters @maxkozlov.bsky.social @dangaristo.bsky.social @heidiledford.bsky.social Jeff Tollefson & yours truly.

Let us know what's on your mind & what we should be writing about.

Are the Internet and AI affecting our memory? What the science says Search engines, GPS maps and other tech can alter our ability to learn and remember. Now scientists are working out what AI might do.

There is evidence that technologies like search engines and GPS maps can alter our ability to learn and remember. Nature reports how scientists are now working out what AI might do to our memories. 🧪

Climate change in the polar regions of our warming world is threatening to transform many of its features, such as this icy tableau in the Fish Islands off the coast of the Antarctic Peninsula. There is still much to learn about these places before we know better what those changes may be.

A new special issue of Science highlights research on Earth’s frozen places—from the Arctic to the Antarctic—and how it’s changing due to climate change and the geopolitical challenges this important work faces.

Learn more: https://scim.ag/4jPYRID

@theplanetaryguy.bsky.social president

Academics in the Wild Exploring careers beyond academia

Academics in the Wild has a new website. Would love to know if we should add anything else to the FAQ. 🧪

academicsinthewild.com

Illustration of one person holding papers observing students aiming for a target, with multiple arrows missing the bullseye. The text reads: Working Life, Why I teach my students about scientific failure.

"Research is messy. … Trying to protect students from that reality does them a disservice."

On #InternationalDayOfEducation, take a look back at this #ScienceWorkingLife on teaching students about scientific failure. https://scim.ag/3PLg8ER

WORKING LIFE Four lessons for being a great mentor to undergrads. Illustration shows two individuals walking through darkness, one using a flashlight that shines a light on various symbols

"... I ended up being reluctant to work with undergraduate researchers at all—until a new student helped me realize what is required to mentor undergraduates, and the rewards it can bring." #NationalMentoringMonth https://scim.ag/3E1bAYj

Quantum calculations are helping climate scientists understand the greenhouse effect in a new way. Tune in to this week’s episode of “Quanta Science Podcast”:
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/p...

Or read the transcript: www.quantamagazine.org/physicists-p...

The major features of Earth evolution

Big article reviewing Earth-Life co-evolution in the Precambrian.
"The interaction of life and Earth was and is reciprocal, hence the term biogeodynamics...." True.
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
🧪 ⚒️ #Geology #Paleobio