Years ago, we built the Hades Underworld Explorer, where with a simple drag and drop, users can make their own cross sections of the Earth's mantle.
The Hades Underworld Explorer now has its own web address!
Have a peak of your own into the underworld!
www.hades-underworld-explorer.org
Yes, hello, is that God? Yeah, hi. I have a complaint. You gave me this brain that’s designed for finding berries and avoiding lions and now people are ‘just circling back’ to see if we can ‘move the needle’ on ‘key initiatives’? NONE of those things are berries.
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Well, in an absolute sense to compare to peers: no. Plenty of bias there. For my own comparison with my other work: yes. I like to see whether my communication strategy works and if I reach the audiences I target, and whether I manage to influence their thinking.
Ow yeah, it’s the new version of Paleolatitude.org, and we’re quite proud of it :) And we did get one useful review of a respected colleague, so all good. But it was the first time I saw reviews that were clearly AI generated and an editor who apparently didn’t care.
It’s the easiest review I’ve ever gotten. But it doesn’t bode well: all my papers that got minor revisions are poorly cited, all my highly cited papers were rejected at least once 😃
I wrote that to an editor yesterday about two reviews I received with zero scientific content and 15 points about editing my paper to fit the journal format…
Don’t forget Clipperton!
Yup, it’s what we called the Kalimantan slab that lies in the transition zone. Broke off north Borneo and Palawan, about 15 Myr ago!
I have now reached the scientific level that I hoped to reach when I was a young postdoc. I imagined it’d be glorious. But instead I’ve learned that all scientific achievement is accomplished amidst an endless stream of criticism and rejection, so that you’re always working far below capacity.
Ik ben genomineerd voor de vrouw in de media awards 2025. Tot 13 februari mag er gestemd worden: vidm.nl/degenomineer...
Van collegezalen tot festivaltenten, musea tot het 8-uur journaal, Zappelin tot RTL, van jong tot oud - het liefst maak ik iedereen enthousiast over wetenschap!
📸 Ilva Stoelwinder
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New paper alert!
For this interested in subduction initiation processes:
@alisstostrome.bsky.social shows that cooling of a young subduction interface may provide the mechanisms for the ill-understood catastrophic way in which subduction zones transition from induced to self-sustained.
#geology
Let me know if you need paleogeographic input for it!
Yeah, that’ll be a short curve 😃
Links to the GPlates files of the Utrecht Paleogeography Model are given in the Supplementary Information linked in the preprint!
eartharxiv.org/repository/v...
Check out the website. And if you're a paleoclimatologist or a paleobiologist: we have interfaced the tool with a batch option to compute the latitude of thousands of datapoints at a time, including uncertainty!
Check out the accompanying paper here: eartharxiv.org/repository/v...
Paleolatitude.org 3.0 is online!
At what latitude was your backyard in the time of the dinosaurs? The answer is a simple mouse click away, and now also if your backyard lies one of the world's big mountain ranges!
In the last decade, my team and I have been working on reconstructions of the orogenic belts of the Tethys. This is the final one, among many other things showing that the back-arc basins of Iran closed by extrusion of Afghanistan from western Tibet in the Cretaceous to Eocene!
@uugeo.bsky.social
Because of heavy snow, live lectures are cancelled today, and I am once again looking at a screen with 25 initials and a few faces to lecture. Back in Covid-mode, and it's truly horrible. I'm glad that next monday, I can lecture normally again.
Crap, you beat me by 400k! I’ll try to beat you in ‘26! Happy new year José! ❤️
2025 was a year of building up. Looking forward to harvesting in ‘26! Happy new year all!
Bike ride!
After a long process that took almost 13 years, I'm very happy that we submitted the first paper of Kalijn Peters' work on the Pinarbasi ophiolite of Turkey! There's more coming up, but this one's submitted, to Tektonika. Preprint below! @uugeo.bsky.social
essopenarchive.org/doi/full/10....
Why would that match with impact? It just says that they're hot and old. They could be piles of subducted crust, they could result from early segragation of the magma ocean, we don't really know what they are. Just that they're big, stable, and equatorial.
Doesn’t seem like it, but we don’t know what they are or how they formed.
Unlikely. They’re the size of Eurasia…
This is a spectacular finding in the recent paper of Wagenaar et al in JGR: in a minimum-continent-motion reference frame, the plumes of the Indo-Atlantic hotspots move parallel to the edges of the LLSVP, in a counterclockwise fashion. A signal of lowermost mantle flow?
Ja, je hebt natuurlijk gelijk. Alle beweging is relatief. ‘Absolute’ beweging gebruiken we voor beweging ten opzichte van de mantel.
