Cindy De Jonge

Submission deadline extended until December 1st!

Opinion | We Are Watching a Scientific Superpower Destroy Itself

How the great American promise dies on university campuses. (Gift article) #mint #fedilz #bluelz #education

www.nytimes.com/2025/09/08/o...

Tree with blossoms in the foreground, a field with yellow flowers (rapeseed?) in the background.

Beautiful spring day in Central Switzerland. ☀️

The cake won't be a lie tomorrow morning at the poster session BG2.4 Lipid biomarkers #EGU25. Join us for cool biomarker stories and, indeed, some cake!
Also join us for the oral session in the afternoon.

Working on the interface of organic geochemistry and archeology? Have an exciting dataset that is ready to write up? Or one of those papers that has been a draft since the Stone Age? Consider this special issue to publish your research, submission by 01/09. shorturl.at/O3gzV

Are you attending #EGU25 with kids? Join us for this exciting event for kids at the EGU networking zone-terrace G!
Discover the wonders of our planet with Dr Lucia Perez-Diaz, author of "How the Earth Works", through fun & educational games.
📆 Thursday 1 May: webforms.copernicus.org/EGU25/pop-up...

Investigating paleotemperature proxies based on archaeal hydroxylated tetraether lipids Understanding past sea surface temperatures (SSTs) is crucial for reconstructing Earth's climate history. Devika Varma has focused her PhD research pr…

Second, Devika Varma, who recently defended her PhD thesis. Her PhD work at @niozsearesearch.bsky.social aimed to investigate paleotemperature indicators based on archaeal hydroxylated tetraether lipids (OH-isoGDGTs):
www.nioz.nl/en/news/inve...
#GDGTs #isoGDGTs #TeamArchaea
🧪 ⚒️ 🌊
#PaleoSky
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How to figure out which European language you are reading.

Are you an ECR researcher interested in being part of the fantastic ICDP world?

Please, send your application to participate to the next ICDP ECR workshop in Vienna 25-27 of April 2025

More info
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Organic geochemists: call the cup a vial.

#PhD #studentship investigating the occurrence and degradation of GDGTs in extreme environments for paleoclimate insights and deep biosphere understanding. https://buff.ly/3UzCZpP

The scientific committee is looking forward to reading all abstracts, also those that don't describe a fully analysed dataset and/or completed analysis. No need to wait for the late breaker abstract deadline!

Call to all organic geochemists and molecular friends that want to join IMOG in Porto this September (imogconference.org): abstracts can currently be submitted. Submission before the deadline on February 15th to be considered for a poster or talk. #IMOG25 🧪⚒️

Global stocks and capacity of mineral-associated soil organic carbon - Nature Communications Mineral-organic associations play a key role in soil carbon preservation. Here, Georgiou et al. produce global estimates of mineral-associated soil carbon, providing insight into the world’s soils and...

There’s a popular myth that managed grazing can help fight climate change. Soil science reveals the opposite.

Of all land uses, grazed lands have the largest soil carbon deficit relative to their capacity.

On a global scale, ranching has decimated soil carbon. 🌏 🧪 🧵

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

An infrared photo of a rainbow: a strange, ghostly-looking rainbow in a mostly black and white photo, with a faintly red outer edge and a cyan inner edge, and what look like a few even fainter ‘echo’ bows inside

A regular visible-light pic of a rainbow

An ultraviolet picture of a rainbow: a dark, foreboding landscape with a deep purple stripe emanating from it, and a grey stripe inside

A composite of the three preceding photos, showing that the infrared bow is ‘outside’ the visible light rainbow, and the ultraviolet bow ‘inside’

There’s more to rainbows than the human eye can see: here’s how a rainbow extends into the infrared and ultraviolet.

Photos:
1. Infrared
2. Visible (obviously)
3. Ultraviolet, and
4. A composite showing how UV is beyond the violet in a rainbow, and IR beyond the red end.

🧪 #photography

PhD Position in Soil Biogeochemistry of Enhanced Rock Weathering

🚨 New Ph.D. opening! 🚨 We seek a Ph.D. student in soil (bio)geochemistry as it relates to ERW, particularly in the tropics. Position is part of a very multi-disciplinary group split between @ethzurich.bsky.social EAPS and USYS depts @usyseth.bsky.social. Please share!

jobs.ethz.ch/job/view/JOP...

Have you seen the hydrology climate stripes?

If not you might have missed the yearly WMO report on the state of water resources. Take a look: wmo.int/publication-...

For those who already know the report, there now also is a higher resolution version available!

New PAGES magazine cover with an orange backdrop and title text "Achievements of Scientific Drilling in Paleosciences", with several photos of variously colored sediment cores and drilling ship/rig images.

🔨🌊🧪

New Past Global Changes #PAGES magazine out dedicated to achievements of scientific drilling—timely given the retirement of the #JOIDES resolution #IODP drilling vessel. I was glad to have the opportunity to contribute and help edit this Special Issue!

pastglobalchanges.org/publications...

#FossilFriday Esther Richards was born November 24, 1895. In 1921, she suggested that microfossils could be used in stratigraphy. Her study was ridiculed by Professor J.J. Galloway: “Gentlemen, you know that it can’t be done.” wp.me/p3ihHu-4DF #WomenInSTEM #histsci 🧪⚒️

If anyone needs tips on how to run a round robin, let me know! 😅

Long COVID puzzle pieces are falling into place – the picture is unsettling A new study finds the risks of developing long COVID declined over the first two years of the pandemic. But unvaccinated adults were more than twice as likely to get long COVID compared with those who...

An unpopular insight from science (as is climate change), which should not be dismissed just because it’s unpleasant: Long COVID puzzle pieces are falling into place – the picture is unsettling theconversation.com/long-covid-p...

Reconstruction of Pakicetus walking

One of the earliest whales, yes you read that right. Pakicetus

🐡 🎨 🧪 #paleontology #whales

The compartment full of ritual bronze vessels in Chu tomb no. 1 at Jiuliandun, Zaoyang, under excavation in 2002.

The Bronze Age kingdoms of China have long been overshadowed by the Qin, who replaced them with a unified empire.

Two of them, the Zeng and Chu, rise from obscurity.

Bronze Age China: Phoenix Kingdoms 🏺🧪
the-past.com/feature/phoe...

An architectural gem and cutting-edge research facility in Basel

ETH Zurich’s new teaching and research building in Basel officially open its doors today. It will host ETH researchers from the fields of experimental biology, bioinformatics, and bioengineering as they work together with outside partners on innovative medical solutions.

P.S. - The deadline to submit an abstract in consideration for an oral presentation during the GRS is April 21st, 2024!

Are you an early career organic geochemist with exciting new science to share? If so, apply to the 2024 GRS & GRC in #OrganicGeochemistry! We hope to offset conf. fees for EC researchers pending available funding. Links: bit.ly/oggrs24 & bit.ly/oggrc24.

Anybody want to play a silly niche paleoclimate game? connectionsplus.io/game/hBVJBu

Animal-associated marine Acidobacteria with a rich natural-product repertoire Sponges are well known as rich sources of bioactive natural products. Various studies suggest that many of these compounds are produced by symbiotic b…

Missed this from Dec 2023: first natural products from Acidobacteria, strains with a whopping 39-42 BGCs!

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

arxiv link: arxiv.org/pdf/2401.077...

We always wondered if our soil Acidos with many BGCs are animal associated too - maybe with a soil invertebrate?

Just a reminder that Goldschmidt is for organic geochemists too! If you are thinking of coming, check out the session Hilairy Hartnett and I are convening. Great Lakes, great food and great science, what more could you ask for? Hope to see you in August. conf.goldschmidt.info/goldschmidt/...