Jordon Hemingway

Beate is the best! (And I hear Denmark is nice too)

I have a boilerplate, 2 sentence email that basically says "apply online via this link" that I copy-paste each time

Very grateful to the @snf-fns.ch for funding our continued work in DR Congo on tropical peatland greenhouse gas emissions! With @johansix.bsky.social and @draketw.bsky.social @eth-eaps.bsky.social @usyseth.bsky.social

Always happy to take the @eth-eaps.bsky.social (and a few @usyseth.bsky.social ) MSc students to Valais for some soil descriptions, pebble counts, and lake coring! Weather was rough yesterday but much perfect today!

Eierförmige Steinchen werfen neues Licht auf Erdgeschichte Forschende der ETH Zürich konnten erstmals messen, wie sich die Menge an gelöstem organischem Kohlenstoff im Meer über die Jahrmillionen verändert hat. Die Resultate zeigen, dass unsere Erklärungen, w...

And the German version: ethz.ch/de/news-und-...

Minute witnesses from the primordial sea Researchers at ETH Zurich have been able to measure - for the first time - how the amount of dissolved organic carbon in the sea has changed over geological time. The results reveal that our explanati...

Very cool write-up by @ethz.ch on our recent paper in @nature.com on reconstructing dissolved organic carbon in the ocean through geologic time! Led by Nir Galili @eth-eaps.bsky.social

ethz.ch/en/news-and-...

With the Em Dash, A.I. Embraces a Fading Tradition

I unapologetically and consistently use em dashes---with no spaces---in everything I write, from texts to scientific papers. Been doing it for years, and I won't stop because of ChatGPT

www.nytimes.com/2025/09/18/m...

Variability in oxygen isotopic fractionation of enzymatic O2 consumption Abstract. Stable isotope analysis of O2 has emerged as a valuable tool to study O2 dynamics at various environmental scales, from molecular mechanisms to ecosystem processes. Despite its utility,…

🗞️ New article in Biogeosciences #EGU by Carolina F. M. de Carvalho et al. ⬇️

While Genossenschaften ("co-ops" in the article) are great, they are a low proportion of total housing and have extremely long wait lists and low turnover. Given how high rent is for the rest of us---and the frequency of demonstrations about the cost of living---id say no, we haven't solved it

Still not available in Europe??

‘A climate of unparalleled malevolence’: are we on our way to the sixth major mass extinction? The long read: Churning quantities of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere at the rate we are going could lead the planet to another Great Dying

Nice excerpt from @peterbrannen.bsky.social's new book in @theguardian.com! (with a cameo by the person who taught me everything I know about math, Dan Rothman)

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Image-Verlust macht Amerikanerinnen in der Schweiz zu schaffen Der Ärger über die US-Zölle beschäftigt auch in der Schweiz lebende US-Staatsbürger. Negative Reaktionen schmerzen.

This is my life in a nutshell. I apologize to everybody on behalf of America (or, "apologise" I should say)

www.srf.ch/news/schweiz...

New @nature.com paper out "The geologic history of marine dissolved organic carbon from iron oxides"

doi.org/10.1038/s415...

It's all bio/chemo stratigraphy and geochron. But we didn't do any of the dating; all of these formations have been dated previously in the literature (and summarized in our supplement)

That tells you how long it was in review 😬😅

This provides new insights into the fundamental connections between (marine) biogeochemistry, planetary evolution, and life @eth-eaps.bsky.social @ethz.ch (and too many co-authors to list here)

There's been a lot of (model-based) hype over the years about a "large Neoproterozoic DOC reservoir" that could have triggered the end of snowball earth and the proliferation of multi-cellular life. BUT here we show this was not the case. Instead, DOC levels were about 90% lower than today

The geologic history of marine dissolved organic carbon from iron oxides - Nature A direct proxy for past dissolved organic carbon signatures using co-precipitated organic carbon in iron ooids enables reconstruction of marine dissolved organic carbon signals dating back to the Pala...

🚨 Paper alert! 🚨 After >1 year in review and six (6!) reviewers, I'm thrilled that this paper is finally out! Here, we provide the first data-based record of marine dissolved organic carbon in the geologic past.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Swiss Businesses Fear Being ‘Annihilated’ by One of the World’s Highest Tariffs

Easy solution: freeze the billionaires' bank accounts. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/07/b...

Job Vacancies - Universität Bremen Offene Stellen

🚨Job alert PhD 🚨 We are looking for 15 new doctoral researchers at @marumunibremen.bsky.social @unibremen.bsky.social. Don't miss this fantastic opportunity! The deadline is the 25th of July. More information about the projects and how to apply can be found here 👇
www.uni-bremen.de/en/universit...

To defend the authors a bit, they do suggest doing this at an industrial rather than individual scale, but I still agree with your point

Large CO2 removal potential of woody debris preservation in managed forests - Nature Geoscience Land surface modelling suggests that preserving woody debris in managed forests could remove 769–937 GtCO2 from the atmosphere between 2025 and 2100.

"Want to solve climate change? Just bury your old wooden furniture in the backyard!" Sounds like snake oil.

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

Oh, totally agree---absolutely irrelevant for the modern!

Gah, *Paleozoic, sorry 🤦

@paleoclimate friends: petrography may not be sexy but it's absolutely crucial!

Obviously Rogan and others are all dum-dums, but I do think Judd et al. did some fancy math to band-aid over the fact that much of the carbonate 18O data that went into this record is probably diagenetically overprinted. Reconstructed temps are most likely too hot, especially in the Mesozoic!

One important distinction between Blatten and the story posted here though is that the Federal Government will pay to rebuild the village. I dread seeing what will happen in, e.g., the US where the government doesn't care (especially now with a gutted FEMA)

Hey Peter, looks awesome! But only available to pre-order in Anglophone countries---any info on when/if it will be available on the Continent?

I was on board until I read "...independently reviewed by an unlimited number of *voluntary* peers." It's already hard enough to get people to review, even with a daily barrage of reminder emails from the journals!

The changing landscape of academic publishing: "In many countries, APCs are covered using research grants funded by national research agencies. As the demand for OA grows, ensuring fair and sustainable publishing models remains a critical issue." (1/2) journals.uu.se/AGC/article/...