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The 7590 most puissant researchers of the year Our biannual list recognises the most influential researchers, the true pioneers of science, the giants on whose shoulders the rest of us stand like so many flakes of dandruff, the ones who made th…

It’s that time of year when we celebrate the celebrated, reward the rewarded, and cite the cited in a game everyone knows is meaningless and rigged.

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🔊 We have contact! Communication has been established with Copernicus Sentinel-6B. 👋

The satellite launched successfully at 06:21 CET, and is ready to continue the world’s most accurate sea-level record - a crucial tool for understanding our changing planet: bit.ly/43rJxvg

📸 SpaceX / NASA

What makes PhD students happy? Good supervision Supervisors who invest in positive mentoring relationships with their PhD candidates also reap the benefits for their own research.

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

Expanding the picture: Franck Ghomsi What does a geodesist look like? And what happens if you don’t “look the part”? Today, Franck Ghomsi, a Black African scientist, takes us along on his journey between South Africa, Canada and…

What does a geodesist look like, and what happens if you don’t “look the part”? @franckghomsi.bsky.social, a Black African scientist, takes us on his journey across South Africa, Canada & Cameroon, researching coastal climate change while battling racism and visa struggles. #Geodesy

Climbing Through a PhD – Mental Health on the Way to the Summit Imagine you are going on a long mountain tour. Your backpack is heavy, the path is steep, and although you have been walking for hours, all you can see ahead of you is the next climb. Doing a PhD is l...

🧠 How are you, really?

Today is World Mental Health Day - a reminder that caring for your mind is important.

Kristin Vielberg and Hanna Sänger from PhDpositive reflect on the mental health challenges of doing a PhD and share ways to make the journey more sustainable, fulfilling, and balanced. 🌱

How the world’s taste for soya is eating Brazil’s Amazon Cultivation of the crop has made a few wealthy but at a huge cost to untouched forest as it spreads across vast areas of former wilderness

Terrible headline on a good article. It’s the world’s taste for MEAT that’s fuelling Amazon destruction. The soya is cattle feed.

Autistic voices in higher education: lessons from U.K. geoscience students to inform inclusive practices for neurodiverse learners - Discover Education Autism is a complex neurodevelopmental condition which can affect communication, attention, perception, and cognitive processing, and thus has an impact on learning in higher education. This study inv...

Ace paper here on #autism, the impact it can have on #academic attainment, and ways in which #geoscience educators can be more inclusive. #EDI

link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Group photo of postdocs conducting research at a Max Planck Institute

The #MaxPlanckPostdocProgram offers a guaranteed contract of at least 3 years, targeted mentoring, and career workshops. The call for applications is open now! 🚀 Take advantage of this opportunity and browse the job vacancies. www.mpg.de/en/max-planc...

Motherfucking wind farms…

Opinion | We Study Fascism. And We’re Leaving the U.S.

“The lesson of 1933 is you get out sooner rather than later.”

A line graph shows the time series of global mean surface temperature anomalies for each April from 1850 through 2025. There is a long-term increasing trend and large year-to-year variability. The mean surface temperature anomaly in April 2025 was 1.22°C globally. Anomalies are computed relative to a 1901-2000 climate baseline. All data is from NOAA/NESDIS/NCEI NOAAGlobalTemp v6.0.0 on this graphic.

Last month was the 2nd hottest April on record globally...

It was also separately the *warmest* April for global land areas and the 2nd warmest for global ocean areas.

Data provided by @noaa.gov NOAAGlobalTemp v6.0.0 (www.ncei.noaa.gov/products/lan...).

How little we’ve seen: A visual coverage estimate of the deep seafloor In decades of deep-sea exploration, humans have observed only 0.001% of the deep seafloor, leaving 66% of planet Earth unseen.

🌊 Just how much of the deep seafloor have we seen?

A new study estimates that only 0.001% of Earth's deep ocean floor has been visually explored – an area smaller than Rhode Island.

🔗 doi.org/10.1126/scia...

🧪 #DeepSea #SciComm 🐙

Aa the ice sheets melt, it slightly impacts the Earth's rotation:

More ice at the poles? The Earth spins faster

More water near the equator? The Earth spins slower

blogs.egu.eu/divisions/g/...

Gym mirror selfie. A tall, white masculine person with curly dark hair and stubble takes the photo, the phone obscuring most of their face. They are topless, their body facing right. Around their neck hangs chest-length leather necklace with a metal arrowhead pendant.

Ice sheets are so large their gravity raises nearby sea levels, causing a slight bulge as water is drawn to the sheet

YouTube video by Landscapes Live Jaap Nienhuis: LL 08.05.2025

Jaap Nienhuis' talk is now online, learn all about delta morphodynamics!

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youtu.be/qpmlqcnkMrs

Highly recommended read (and watch)! "True inclusivity requires vulnerability. It means being open to correction. It means welcoming the possibility of being wrong, with grace."

Final review paper of the GROCE team on the atmosphere-land-ice-ocean system around the 79°N glacier by Torsten Kanzow et al. in tc.copernicus.org/articles/19/...

“We’re all a bit autistic” says woman who doesn’t realise she’s a lot autistic A woman who thinks “everyone’s a little bit autistic” has no idea she’s the most autistic woman to ever autism, it has been rumoured.  Beth Hapworth, 45, made the claim after suggesting her autistic f...

A woman who thinks “everyone’s a little bit autistic” has no idea she’s the most autistic woman to ever autism, it has been rumoured.

Sign the Petition Red Aardwetenschappen aan de VU!

For the VU, not all is lost yet, staff and students are still fighting (article in Dutch): nos.nl/artikel/2566...

There is also a petition that people can sign: www.change.org/p/red-aardwe...

Although generally speaking, yes, NL is becoming an increasingly uninviting place for scientists.

About 1 in 100 people are transgender. While some complain about the "surge" of people "suddenly" identifying as trans, statistically there should be so much more of us out there...

For me personally it's an amazing feeling to be able to be this person for someone else. For a long time I did not believe I would make it here.

On the other hand, it says a lot about queer visibility and representation that they have to employ their second degree network to find someone trans.

The kid of a friend of a friend just came out as trans. So friend 2 is asking friend 1 if friend 1 could ask me if the kid and I could have a call because they don't know any trans people yet 🥹

Hi #SciComm community - I've have week of leave to work on my FloodSkinner work. I want to learn Canva to improve my design work - any tips on where to start or good tutorials? Is it worth subscribing to the paid tier?

A new David Attenborough documentary is always an event, but I think that Ocean really is something innovative and different. I've seen some clips, and it tells a critical & unseen story (plus spectacular photography, of course). It'll be in cinemas from May 8th. Do go!

www.oceanfilm.net/

Yes, I'm scared as hell and no, I haven't slept, thanks for asking. So if you like to play a round of public speaking fear bingo (shaking, sweating, "eeeehhhm", ...) come along!

#EGU25 Today it's finally time for the scientific presentation! How can we use satellites to measure beach elevation changes over time? It's at 10:55 in room -2.92. I'm trying my best not to talk of "flying space boxes", promised.

Already the preparation was a lot of fun. Try it out yourself! splasho.com/upgoer5/

#EGU25 Looking forward to the up-goer 5 session (10:45 Pico spot 3) where we explain science using the 1000 most common English words! My story is about how we can see how high the ground is near the edge between huge water bodies and dry land :D

Interested in signatures of floods and droughts in #GRACE data and derived fluxes? Come check out our @g.egu.eu poster(and its alignment) at 10:45 at X1.78. or check out the work at the git repository: github.com/SedighehKari...

🌍 #Geodesy meets #Cartoons 🎨
Join me this morning at #EGU25 at poster 📍 X1.90

📌 EGU25-1164: Geodesy Cartoons – Engaging the Public through Visual Storytelling

📄 Abstract: lnkd.in/dsHzkic2
🗣️ Give feedback: ggos.org/cartoon/

#EGU25_G @g.egu.eu @iag-ggos.bsky.social @lsanchez.bsky.social