A parasite doesn't survive without its host. Ecologists have a word for relationships where one partner provides most of the resources while the other captures most of the benefit. Maybe it's time our publishing ecosystem evolved. scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2026/07/16/g...

Guest Post — From Parasitism to Symbiosis: Escaping Peer-Pressure and For-Profit Publishers Through Diamond Open Access - The Scholarly Kitchen

Two environmental researchers argue that open-access publishing has undergone major “environmental” shifts, triggering rapid and far-reaching evolutionary responses, not unlike natural ecocystems.

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💎New preprint: The Rise of Diamond OA Journals in Earth Sciences A decade ago a few scholar-led, no-fee journals started reimagining Earth science publishing. We map the wins & the fragilities that will decide whether this scales. #OpenAccess #DiamondOA doi.org/10.31223/X56...

Long vs. short read sequencing for microbial ecology of sedimentary environments: a case study from Lake Arnon, Switzerland academic.oup.com/femsle/artic...

Long vs. short read sequencing for microbial ecology of sedimentary environments: a case study from Lake Arnon, Switzerland

Long-read sequencing has the potential to improve taxonomic resolution and diversity analysis of subsurface microbial ecosystems.

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Following our latest publication with @romainvaucher.bsky.social in @sedimentologika.bsky.social , we wrote a piece arguing that scientists can, and should, reclaim control over scholarly publishing. A fairer publishing system is not a distant ideal. We scientist can already take action 💎

Reclaiming scientific publishing: Our duty to make science freely accessible to all

When we (Camille Thomas and Romain Vaucher speaking) entered academia as graduate students in France and Switzerland, we were enthusiastic about the vast amount of research available with a simple cli...

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Sedimentologika@sedimentologika.bsky.social · 2mo ago

✒️ Check out the latest GeoLog EGU blog post where @camthomas.bsky.social and @romainvaucher.bsky.social, co-funders of Sedimentologika, discuss the need to foster more accessible non-profit publishing initiatives and to promote Diamond Open Access journals. blogs.egu.eu/geolog/2026/...

Ending #EGU26 with a meeting with all @namcodigest.bsky.social and @icdpdrilling.bsky.social NamCore colleagues, to summarize all the new results and plan future collaborations. Great science, great people and great organization! See you next year!

It is #EGU26 kick off and we have a poster up today with @sedimentologika.bsky.social Come say hello and chat about what is best for scientific publishing in X1.149 🔓

📣 It’s a wrap! We are thrilled to announce the release of Sedimentologika Vol. 4 No. 1! Explore the latest Diamond Open Access articles in sedimentology and stratigraphy: 🔗 oap.unige.ch/journals/sdk... 📷 Cover image: Hattori et al., 2026 (oap.unige.ch/journals/sdk...) Stay tuned for more updates!

We joined @ucs.org to sue the Trump administration over a secretive effort to attack EPA’s bedrock determination that climate pollution harms public health. Now we’re releasing 100,000+ documents showing disregard for public health and science.👇🏽 https://www.edf.org/Z6CX

Very proud of this piece written with @romainvaucher.bsky.social Most research is funded with public money & written and reviewed for free by researchers : yet the results are controlled by corporations that set the rules and capture the profits. As an academic, you can help change the system!

Sedimentologika@sedimentologika.bsky.social · 5mo ago

🚨 New Opinion Piece 🚨 Vaucher & Thomas discuss the sustainability and equity of different Open Access publishing paths and promote a shift towards Diamond OA. Read the full publication here: oap.unige.ch/journals/sdk... @romainvaucher.bsky.social, @camthomas.bsky.social

🚨 New Opinion Piece 🚨 Vaucher & Thomas discuss the sustainability and equity of different Open Access publishing paths and promote a shift towards Diamond OA. Read the full publication here: oap.unige.ch/journals/sdk... @romainvaucher.bsky.social, @camthomas.bsky.social

another great and constructive piece by @wearetektonika.bsky.social Well done tektonika.online/index.php/ho...

Sooo @plosone.org lost my reviews. You guys are #clowns Not able to answer emails for 50 days, not respecting your editors, your authors nor your reviewers. Submission is retracted. Publish #Diamond #Openaccess 💎

just so you know, no sign of fossil fuel transition right now. This is not happening. All we do is talk, and continue as usual.

Dr Charlie Gardner@charliejgardner.bsky.social · 10mo ago

Atmospheric CO2 concentrations "surged" last year - a record yearly increase It's bad enough that we're continuing to burn fossil fuels, but now the world's natural carbon sinks (like the forests going up in flames) are failing too Fuck

Succesfull meeting in Aix les Bains @ialipa2025.bsky.social for the group! Lot of questions for A. Laakkonen's talk on pyrite mineral formation in the shallow sediments of #NamCo and M. Picard's talk on metagenomics pipeline, + constant discussions at the posters by M.-L. Adolph and G. Ceriotti.

we followed up with a DIGESTED-NamCore @icdpdrilling.bsky.social workshop with most of the colleagues of the #NamCo scientific drilling team. Lot of data and brainstorm! cheers to everyone! now back to the 🔬 🧪 !

pubs.geoscienceworld.org/gsa/geology/... by the great @mamarchegiano.bsky.social

We are at the #IPA-IAL meeting in Aix les Bains, to hear about the latest on lake research. The room is already crowded at the #sedaDNA session @ialipa2025.bsky.social

🚨 New Paper 🚨 Tournier et al. assess the potential seismicity hazard of the Poso depression, Sulawesi island, through a paleoseismological analysis of mass transport deposits preserved in lake sediments archive. Read the full publication here: oap.unige.ch/journals/sdk...

Poor integrity of carbon offsets : "all key market participants benefit from inflated claims about carbon credits" www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Auditors can’t save carbon offsets

The theory behind carbon offset projects is appealing: Instead of an organization cutting its own emissions, it can fund lower-cost carbon-reducing projects elsewhere to “offset” its emissions. The re...

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Congrats folks!! so happy that the geo💎 publishing options are growing 🎉 and looking forward to publishing with you!

MarcA Millet@marcamillet.bsky.social · last yr.

A new milestone for @weareagc.bsky.social. Our first ever research article is now published!! doi.org/10.33063/agc... Free to read, free to publish. And more coming next week! Thanks to the @eageo.bsky.social and @geochemsoc.bsky.social for their support along the way!

For those attending next @goldschmidt-confer.bsky.social @marcamillet.bsky.social will announce the launch of @weareagc.bsky.social conf.goldschmidt.info/goldschmidt/... #Geochemistry #Cosmochemistry #OpenAccess #OpenScience #DiamondOA

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... A novel biomarker for deep-time methanogenesis -perspectives from nickel isotope fractionation in modern microbialites

A novel biomarker for deep-time methanogenesis – perspectives from nickel isotope fractionation in modern microbialites

Activity of methanogenic archaea on early Earth is mainly deduced based on modern processes and supported by the carbon isotope record (δ13Ccarb). Rec…

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www.nature.com/articles/s41... nice initiative! #aeonophiles

Defining ultra-slow-growing extremophilic microorganisms as aeonophiles - Nature Microbiology

In environments like the deep subsurface, microorganisms with long doubling times can remain metabolically active for millions of years — we propose referring to this class of extremophile as aeonophi...

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www.openscholar.info/independent-... have you ever thought of not having scientific journals anymore? Do we actually need them?

Independent Peer Review Manifesto - Open Scholar

With the advancement of information and communication technologies, research has entered a new epoch. The proliferation of free, online, open access repositories of articles, data and code now enables...

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📣 Meet our new Associate Editors! Cecilia Lopez-Gamundi - JPL. Carbonates, forward modelling, remote sensing, sediment transport, coastal processes. Arnoud Slootman - Colorado School of Mines. Bedforms, sediment transport, carbonate slopes, turbidites, carbonate sediment.

📣 Meet our new Associate Editors! Nan Wu - Tongji University, China Submarine landslides, Mass-transport complexes, Turbidity currents, Submarine canyons, Sedimentary process Thomas Blaise - University Paris-Saclay, France Mineralogy, Calcite U-Pb geochronology, 3D Geological modelling

Also lake Bourget is truly beautiful !

Lotta Purkamo@microecolotta.bsky.social · last yr.

Consider yourself invited to 3rd Paleolimnology & Limnology International Symposium to be held in Aix-Les-Bains, France (6 - 10th October 2025). We are hosting the session IV-1, i.e. biogeochemical cycles in the sediment subsurface. ialipa-2025.sciencesconf.org/resource/pag... The abstract dl 8.4.

Awesome! go @wearetektonika.bsky.social <3

Institute of Geological Sciences, Uni Bern@geologyunibern.bsky.social · last yr.

Paper alert!📢Schmid et al. find new insights on lower crustal deformation during early rifting. Quantified XRCT-scanned model of block rotation during rift segment interaction reveals coupling processes between brittle and ductile deformation. More info:

Curious about the evolving landscape of Open Access in the geosciences? Join to the event hosted by the University Library Bern 📅 When: February 13, 13:00 - 18:15 📍 Where: UniS, Schanzeneckstrasse 1, 3012 Bern, Room A003 👉 Register here (free): www.ub.unibe.ch/service/open...

In June-July of 2024 @icdpdrilling.bsky.social NamCore drilling project was carried out at an impressive altitude of 4700 meters on Lake NamCo, Tibet. Check out this video showcasing the project: www.youtube.com/watch?v=ivaR... More information about the project: www.icdp-online.org/projects/by-...

NamCore Drilling Project 2024 (China)

YouTube video by ICDP

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