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Zeke Hausfather@zekehausfather.com · 4h agoCheck out the full analysis over at The Climate Brink:
Alexis Licht
@alexislicht.bsky.social
Geologist, paleobiologist, @CNRS.fr research scientist, co-director of the Climate team at CEREGE @climatecerege.bsky.social, PI of ERC-funded @dispersal-erc.bsky.social project
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FR : Bonjour Nancy ! C’est là où nous, les chercheurs francophones en géochimie organique, allons « coasser » pendant quelques jours. 🐸 ENG: Hello Nancy! There, we, the French Researchers in Organic Geochemistry, will « croak » for a few days. 🐸 geochimie.fr/wp-content/u... 🧪 #ChemSky (1/3)
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#Canada, you too? @jysuarezibarra.bsky.social, Marie Curie postdoctoral fellow in our lab, was particularly enthusiastic to attend the @goldschmidt-confer.bsky.social conference this Summer. But, because Jaime is Colombian, you rejected his visa application.
A new video highlighting the work of my friend and colleague Guillaume Dupont-Nivet !
DISPERSAL project - understanding past mammalian dispersals@dispersal-erc.bsky.social · 2mo agoNew interview of Guillaume Dupont-Nivet, CNRS researcher in paleoclimate and paleogeography, is out! Discover his contribution to ERC Dispersal, his scientific motivations, and his views on today’s research challenges. youtu.be/vf5MqQ1mACE
The top 2026 X accounts gives insight into the lie that X is the town square. These people are niche celebrities and their influence on X does not represent influence elsewhere. Your participation is not going to change this graph www.natesilver.net/p/social-med...
🚨new paper alert🚨 In this review paper including an international team mixing geologists, biologists, and paleontologists, we synthesize current approaches for integrating paleoclimate and paleogeographic data into macroevolutionary models. doi.org/10.1016/j.tr... (1/n)
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Yesterday we were numerous to celebrate the exhibition of the artwork of Paul Botté, PhD student and photographer in our team, featured in Aix en Provence!
Happy to announce our new MSc in Earth System Dynamics and Evolution beginning this Oct 2026 at FAU Germany. We provide interdisciplinary training in Earth systems and science diplomacy 🌍🧪📈👩💻 📝 Funding provided by the Elite Network of Bavaria. Application deadline: July 15. More info below👇
Moving forward, PELASE remember that downplaying the danger of climate change only helps the climate deniers. That’s why they’ve all jumped on this. Please undo the damage done! Please trumpet that 3C by 2100 is catastrophic (and just a step to more heating w/out fossil phaseout and net zero).
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Inspiring Travel Ideas for 2026
Chosen By Our Readers Who Are Microplastics
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Stuck for somewhere to go on holiday this year? Microplastic Guardian readers offer their travel tips
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A Pristine highland river
This glorious unspoilt Scottish river feels a million miles from a sausage roll packet, but it’s actually just a short picnic away!
Paul and David, sausage roll packet bits
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Breathtaking Mountaintop
True travellers know it’s not about the destination, but the journey. We simply left our plastic bag with no plan, hopping a serendipitously from gust to gust all the way to the Haute-Pyrénées
Sue and Tom, bits of plastic bag
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Polar Bear’s balls
Since we left our Space Invaders packet in 1983, we've developed a taste for adventure. Most tourists are happy with package holidays in European genitals, but the Arctic Circle has some wonderful undiscovered testes.
Janet and Ian, crisp packet particles
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Human foetus
Human placentas are such tourist traps, with every single one on Earth now occupied by microplastic holidaymakers. We've gone ‘off the beaten track’ and entered the a delightful foetus’s lungs.
The Wilsons, ground Ford Ka indicator wand.
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Liz Truss
We’ve spent four glorious summers in the frontal cortex of former UK Government star, Elizabeth Truss. A truly vibrant spot to just sit back, relax, and watch the colourful thoughts roll by!
Diogo and Shawna, spork dust
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Your Child’s Eyeball
The wonder of travel is seeing the world with fresh eyes, and you can't get fresher than the eyes of your kid. Easily accessible via the bloodstream.
Dennis, polyurethane spray foam
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The Mariana Trench
Ever since we were dropped into the sea in 2022, we’ve strayed ever further from the ’tourist trail’. Last year we found this blissfully peaceful Pacific trench.
Louise and Di- fragment of Rebekah Vardy’s agent’s phone case
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Welcome to @bramvaes.bsky.social, paleomagnetist, paleogeographer and climate modeler postdoc in our lab, working on the @dispersal-erc.bsky.social project !
My PhD student Paul botté, is an amazing photographer. He will expose his fieldwork pictures in May in Aix en Provence. Join us for the official party on May 21!
Climate group @CEREGE, France@climatecerege.bsky.social · 3mo agoPaul Botté, doctorant dans notre équipe, expose ses clichés de terrain au mois de mai au 3C à Aix en Provence ( cafeculturelcitoyen.org/evenements/e...) . L'occasion de venir découvrir notre travail et l'art de l'un des nôtres !
The fifth video of our project on primate dispersals is out! Featuring our amazing paleoanthropologist colleague K.C. Beard from Kansas University.
DISPERSAL project - understanding past mammalian dispersals@dispersal-erc.bsky.social · 4mo agoWhat if a lost continent could reveal hidden chapters of evolution? New interview out 🎥 Meet Chris Beard and explore Balkanatolia, an echo of African faunas, where fossils and new techniques uncover mammal dispersal 🦴 youtu.be/8vUZkenrvzo
Back in the field with the team in the Luberon under the Provençal sun ☀️ Careful digging, a bit of patience… and sometimes, a small discovery like this fossilized rodent jaw. A small find, but another big clue from the past!
Check the interview of @carinahoorn.bsky.social, a great intro on how we work with pollen when reconstructing deep time paleoenvironments!
DISPERSAL project - understanding past mammalian dispersals@dispersal-erc.bsky.social · 4mo agoOur third interview is out! Meet Carina HOORN and dive into the fascinating world of pollen and spores, tiny but powerful storytellers that take us far back in deep time 🌿 youtu.be/HkPBP88OgSE
A few pics of our fieldwork in the Luberon of this week. Training student to logging and pmag sampling while dating historical paleontological sites of the geopark
Welcome aboard! 👋 We’re delighted to welcome Yohan Roussy, a Master 2 student joining us in the Luberon to work on clays and climate. A great opportunity to explore how sediments record past environmental and climatic changes.
🚨A newcomer in the team this Winter!🚨 After two years in the US, climate modeler @antacl.bsky.social is joining our team as a CNRS scientist, to work on the links between paleogeography and ancient climates. Welcome 🍾
Check out the video of @mustafayk.bsky.social speaking about his work on past climate and dispersals !
DISPERSAL project - understanding past mammalian dispersals@dispersal-erc.bsky.social · 5mo agoNew interview out! 🌍 youtu.be/QKRqI_fL_YY?... @mustafayk.bsky.social shares his journey as a sedimentologist and geochemist in the ERC Dispersal project — from analyzing paleomagnetic sample collections in Kazakhstan to what excites him most about his research and the challenges of postdoc life.
If you're an #EcoEvo #PhD candidate anywhere in the world looking for project funding, consider applying for the @asn-amnat.bsky.social Student Research Award. Ten proposals for $2k in research funds will be awarded. Due 13 March 2026. Please share widely! 🧪 #grants #ecology #evolution #behavior
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Pauline Coster and @alexislicht.bsky.social presenting their results on the Eocene paleontological record of Kazakhstan today at the Satpaev Institute of geology in Almaty.
I'm becoming a fake expert in the taxonomy of fossil beavers. So many of them here
DISPERSAL project - understanding past mammalian dispersals@dispersal-erc.bsky.social · 6mo agoHard working day at the Satpaev institute of Geology in Almaty, sorting through the Paleogene paleontological collections with Pauline Coster and Saida Nigmatova!
Visiting the Satpaev Institute of geology in Almaty for a week, to work with our @dispersal-erc.bsky.social collaborators. And enjoying a tea with one of the last living vertebrate paleontologists in Kazakhstan, Bolat Baishashov!
Big shout-out to Leny Montheil! His first ERC Dispersal interview is now live and comes with a brand-new paper on how Asian mammals crossed shifting continents during the Eocene (-80 to -40 Ma) doi.org/10.1016/j.ea... Watch continents move 🌍
The first PhD paper of @benjaminraynaud.bsky.social, also featuring @carinahoorn.bsky.social, @mustafayk.bsky.social, and many others! A dive into the Eocene flora of Balkanatolia.
Benjamin Raynaud@benjaminraynaud.bsky.social · 6mo agoThe first article from my PhD has just been published in JAES: "Lutetian swamp-freshwater palynoflora from Bultu-Zile (central Anatolia, Türkiye): implications for Eocene ecosystems of Balkanatolia". doi.org/10.1016/j.js... This work has been conducted as part of @dispersal-erc.bsky.social 1/4
A new video of the @dispersal-erc.bsky.social featuring the work of Leny Montheil, who has been working with us for 18 months !
DISPERSAL project - understanding past mammalian dispersals@dispersal-erc.bsky.social · 6mo ago🎙️ Our first interview is out! Meet Leny Montheil, geodynamicist and paleogeography specialist, as he takes us back to the Eocene to explore how primates dispersed across a changing world. ▶️ Watch it now on YouTube youtu.be/bjzU_UIXseU