Monika Doubrawa

There is an irony to generate some AI slob to promote a Critical Minerals Workshop...

🛰 Meteosat captured today a lot of

#Dust from Sahara over the Atlantic.
This Timelapse started at 07:10UTC ended 18:20UTC with 📸 every 10Min.
Footage: @eumetsat.int

Record-breaking Antarctic drill reveals 23 million years of climate history swais2c.aq/media/record...

A screenshot of a presentation slide with black and white, scribble-like drawings, picturing selected organisms, which were highly impacted at the KPg boundary. This includes plants, a mososaur, a plesiosaur, a triceratops, an ammonite, a belemnite, corals and bivalves (rudists and inoceramus), as well as microorganisms (a planktic foraminifera, a coccosphere and an ostracod)

I recently gave a pop-science talk about the KPg boundary. I think by looking at my (excellent! ^^) drawings one can easily decipher which organisms I deal with on a more common basis ...

The first attempt to reconstruct Tyrannosaurus rex, in the 1905 paper in which Osborn named it and a panel mount of the skeleton (middle), from the 1916 paper in which Osborn described and named it.

Founders of modern paleontology, and their contributions to systemic racism, classism and sexism (🧵)

Henry Osborn (1857–1935), responsible for naming of Tyrannosaurus & Velociraptor; president of ANHM.
Co-founder of the American Eugenics Society. Contributing to books later praised by Hitler.

Next Monday, join IPCC Chair @jimskeaclimate.bsky.social at the @uniofreading.bsky.social for a free public lecture on how the IPCC works & how global science supports our future climate.

🗓️ 9 February, 18:30-20:00
📍 University of Reading, online

Register here 👉 bit.ly/4rvEK5r

A schematic image showing Recent changes in reef zonation of western Atlantic coral reefs, brought about by lack of recruitment of elkhorn, staghorn, and massive boulder corals. Without these key reef builders, the reefs have already measurably eroded. Image credit: Rashpal Dhilon. Adapted from ref. 6, which is licensed under CC BY 4.0. The panel on the left labeled Late Pleistocene to ~1978 shows a vibrant ecosystem, the middle panel (the 1980s) is depleted but still many corals remain (though some key species are lost). The panel on the right (2020s) is like a moonscape with a few hardy species left.

Very effective illustration of what has happened to Florida's coral reefs in response to anthropogenic climate and environment change. The loss of this important ecosystem is all but complete - attempts to rescue it discussed here: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/... 🪸🧪🌊

Headline: "Scientists discover emperor penguin colony in Antarctica using satellite images"

Yesterday it was cows using tools, today its penguins using satellite imagery.

🚨 New vacancy🚨

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Picture of the entrance to the Natural History Museum Basel in winter. Snow is falling, covers the street and the two pine trees standing on both sides of the door. Behind the trees there are red flags hanging on the wall, advertising the special exhibition and framing the large, black and gold door, with "museum" carved in the stone above the frame.

A brief stint of winter in Basel - entrance to the Natural History Museum #NMB

What a nice anniversary!

@mohnika.bsky.social @cr2p.bsky.social

Don't do this to me!

I'm currently working on a presentation for a very public event, trying to (among others) getting the people to not only associate dinosaurs with the KPg extinction 😅

My favourite review (of a fire blanket).

"Survived house fire - our house burnt down and is totally destroyed. I found the fire blanket we bought a year ago in the rubbel. Ordered a new one :D.
+ fire proof
+ found in OG packaging on rubble
- could not have saved the house (fire too big haha)"

That Tom Gauld meme of the two opposing nations perfectly mirrored, but edited to be between archives and museums.

slow day in the office so figured we'd start some beef with museums

picture of the totem-gyroscope from the movie Inception

Seeing that AI pictures are getting creepingly hard to tell from real ones, the idea of carrying a totem - which only you know in detail - becomes something to think about.

Bronze plaque saying "A Letter to the Future. Ok is the first Icelandic glacier to lose its status as a glacier. In the next 200 years all our glaciers are expected to follow the same path. This monument is to acknowledge that we know what is happening and what needs to be done. Only you know if we did it. August 2019. 415ppm CO2"

TIL about a memorial ceremony in Iceland in 2019 to mark the end of a glacier, changing the place name from Okjökull to Ok (jökull = glacier). Uncompromising wording on the bronze plaque:
"This is to acknowledge that we know what is happening and what needs to be done. Only you know if we did it".

This really is a must read for anyone in academia.

Scientific first-world problems: its winter and the foot of my microscope is so cold, I could build little snow man with foraminifera as eyes and noses on it⛄

Just missing the snow...

Printing out reviews from a rejected paper - maybe it "hurts" less to read them from paper 😅...

Landscape reconstructions for Europe during the late Last Glacial (60–20 ka BP): a pollen-based REVEALS approach Abstract. Vegetation change during the Last Glacial period in Europe plays a crucial role in better understanding the ecosystem dynamics response to abrupt climate change. Yet, most quantitative recon...

🔔🔔New Paper 🔔🔔
Pollen-based REVEALS land-cover reconstructions for Europe during the latter half of the Last Glacial Period

essd.copernicus.org/articles/17/...

We show that glacial refugia and frequent openings of migration corridors may have played a substantial role human dispersal

Who else cringes everytime somebody pulls out an AI-generated image in their presentation, which in an uncanny-valley way relates to the topic they want to discuss, but delivers no added value?

If you can't be with the forams you love, love the forams you're with #Ammonia

"Don’t let perfect be the enemy of good. Good already has enough enemies."

Ep. 274, The HOA - Welcome to Nightvale
@nightvaleradio.bsky.social

Human artists!?

Use one piece to convince people to follow you !

When you had "a week" (and are going into the second "a week"), but you also have lovely coworkers 🥰

🐝🐚🐙 Job Opening! 🐙🐚🐝

We are looking for a new collection manager for the macro-invertebarte collection at the Natural History Museum in Basel (CH).

I can only recommend the museum and the curator!

🧪

I love this with my whole soul

Unexpected decline in the ocean carbon sink under record-high sea surface temperatures in 2023 - Nature Climate Change The ocean carbon sink strengthened in previous warm El Niño years due to reduced CO2 outgassing in the tropics. Here the authors show that the ocean carbon sink declined in 2023 despite record-high se...

🌊 In 2023, oceans should’ve absorbed more CO2 due to El Niño, but they didn’t

Despite cooler tropical Pacific waters, record-high SSTs led to ~10% less ocean CO2 uptake than expected, especially in the Northern Hemisphere

Warming waters = weaker carbon sink

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

Two photographs from the same building, Akademia Górniczo–Hutnicza, the mining academy in Krakow. From 1940s till 2010s.

One might think that Nazi crimes and palaeontology never overlapped, and yet... Have you ever wondered what happened to tens of palaeontologists & geologists in the Nazi-occupied Poland? How academics helped to bring down the fascist regime. And a curious story of Schindler-equivalent in geology. 🧵