Hey #EAS2026 community! If you are in Lausanne this week, stop by the ISSI booth and say 'Hi'! Whether you are curious about the research opportunities, looking for collaborations, or just goodies, come find us on the blue carpet! 🟦 @raducan.bsky.social @fabiocrameri.ch

👋 Meet Eduardo Queiroz Alves, EGU Editorial Manager, originally from Brazil and now based in Germany! Find out what an editorial manager actually does (spoiler: he's not an editor and makes no editorial decisions!). 👉 Watch the full video here: egu.eu/6O1TA9 #WeAreEGU

Meet Núria Altimir, artist in residence at #EGU26! She is a data scientist, data portrait artist and biogeoscientist 👉 Watch the full video on YouTube: egu.eu/1CM4R9

I‘ve started interviewing cool people for @egu.eu again! This is Kaja! 👇

European Geosciences Union (EGU)@egu.eu · 3mo ago

👋 Meet Kaja Šeruga, science journalist covering climate, and #EGU26 attendee, joining in person with her three-month-old baby in tow👶! In this video, she shares how she hunts for stories at conferences and what she is most looking forward to at #EGU26! 👉 Watch the full video here on : egu.eu/2CG79U

🌌 What a night at Astronomy on Tap Bern! Corinne Charbonnel and Mark Gieles, researchers of the ISSI International Team 636, had us listen to the universe's most dramatic events (literally!). Thank you all 💙, and see you at the next one! 🔭 #AstronomyOnTap#Bern#Astrophysics

👀 Looking for useful, especially FREE resources, to make your #poster presentation stand out at #EGU26? Here is a list of five useful and free-to-use resources: '' Betterposter templates'' for effective poster creation and design. 🔗 Download here: egu.eu/2L9PTJ 📸 Rui Fagundes Silva on #imaggeo

Mendeleev dreamt up a table. 150 years later, we are still filling in the gaps – and finally colouring it properly. [No rainbow gradients were harmed.] 🧪⚛️ s-ink.org/discovery-of... #sciart 🐡 📊

Discovery of the Periodic Table of Elements

Periodic Table of Elements showing the years of discovery of each element.

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🌌 How fast is the Universe expanding? A new international study, born from an ISSI Breakthrough Workshop, offers the sharpest answer yet: PRESS RELEASE: www.issibern.ch/hubble-const... 🔭 @eso.org @nasaupdates.bsky.social @stsci.edu @noirlabastro.bsky.social @mpi-astro.bsky.social and others!

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A community-built distance network sharpens the Hubble constant and broadens the evidence behind the “Hubble tension”.

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There are many colorblind-friendly, perceptually uniform colormaps (e.g., cmocean, @fabiocrameri.ch), yet many papers at @agu.org still use rainbow variants. Not just aesthetics — they can create artificial structures (see plot). Better options exist.

🎬 Meet Dr Sara Gasparini, space physicist and aurora researcher, and former ISSI Visiting Scientist ahead of leading her own ISSI International Team. youtu.be/NgQUyzfJlw4 #ISSIcast #auroras ✨🔭

ISSIcast #11 – All Eyes on Auroras

YouTube video by International Space Science Institute

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Your favourite graphic just got updated: Here’s the colour-vision deficiency friendly periodic table of elements: s-ink.org/periodic-tab... Now including electron configurations and featuring a refined design. ✨

Periodic Table of Elements

Colour-vision deficiency friendly Periodic Table of Elements including atomic numbers, element symbols and names, atomic mass, electron configuration, and period and group.

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I had the pleasure to (finally) meet @franckghomsi.bsky.social in person and talk to him about his work, Global South perspective, and academia. 😇

International Space Science Institute (ISSI)@issibern.ch · 4mo ago

🌍 #Africa is already experiencing sea level rise above the global mean. Understanding the contribution of Antarctic meltwater to coastal dynamics is critical for low-GDP communities at the shoreline. Meet Dr Franck Ghomsi & learn how to open up Earth Observation for all! 💫🔭 youtu.be/faxKo7yiADI

QGIS users: ATTENTION! We now have a convenient #QGIS plugin to integrate the latest version of the Scientific colour maps directly into the style manager: plugins.qgis.org/plugins/scie... Shout-out and big thanks to Silvain Théry. ⭐️ Happy mapping, everyone! #UseBatlow 🐡

Scientific Color Maps V8 - Integrates "Scientific color maps V8" into the style manager

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In what format do you do the best science? - Rhetorical question, because I see the answer day in, day out 👇

International Space Science Institute (ISSI)@issibern.ch · 5mo ago

🔔 Only two weeks left to apply to ISSI International Teams! Bring together leading experts and early-career researchers from around the world to meet in Bern (Switzerland) and/or Beijing (China) with ISSI’s financial support. ⏳ Submission deadline: March 13 www.issibern.ch/call-for-pro...

I had a school class over at the International Space Science Institute. 👫👭👬👫👭 Here‘s what I learned from their feedback about Science Communication. 👇

International Space Science Institute (ISSI)@issibern.ch · 6mo ago

What a school visit to ISSI revealed about science communication: www.issibern.ch/school-visit... #SciComm #SciArt 🔭🐡

I had the pleasure to talk to these two inspiring and kind (truly the best combination!) space scientists and witness first hand how science bridges the generational gap.

International Space Science Institute (ISSI)@issibern.ch · 7mo ago

Science Across Generations at ISSI 🧑‍🔬✨ An inspiring story of Prof. Eberhard Möbius — who participated in ISSI’s first-ever workshop — and Dr Emma Davies (@spacedavies.bsky.social), attending her first ISSI workshop – three decades later: www.issibern.ch/science-acro... 🔭

For the latest ISSIcast, I talked to Ben Poulter, former Deputy Director for Greenhouse Gas Measurements and Monitoring at the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy. 👇

International Space Science Institute (ISSI)@issibern.ch · 7mo ago

🎥 Meet Dr Ben Poulter (Spark Climate Solutions, USA), ISSI Johannes Geiss Fellow 2025. From botany to space science, Ben explains how satellite observations and open data help us understand Earth’s changing climate — and reflects on his time at ISSI. 🔭 ▶️ youtu.be/SvzBNx1wwQ0

Assemble your dream team and come collaborate at ISSI! Free coffee, meals, and hotel room included. 💥

International Space Science Institute (ISSI)@issibern.ch · 7mo ago

Open Call for Proposals for International Teams in Space and Earth Sciences The International Space Science Institute (ISSI) and ISSI-BJ invite proposals for establishing International Teams to conduct collaborative research in the Space and Earth Sciences at their respective meeting facilities.

Persistent river heatwaves are emerging worldwide under climate change By the 2090s, nearly half of the world’s rivers could be in a year-round heatwave state, threatening ecosystems and communities, disproportionately in low-income regions, such as the Congo basin www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Persistent river heatwaves are emerging worldwide under climate change - Nature Communications

River heatwaves are becoming stronger and longer-lasting globally. Nearly half of the world’s rivers will reach a ‘permanent’ (year-round) heatwave state by the 2090 s under high greenhouse gas emissi...

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From Earth’s warm heart to its surface glow, Heat flows like time, constant in its flow, ~46 TW from below. New year, new graphics to make hidden mysteries known, Open, clear, and accessible to now call our own! ❤️‍🔥 s-ink.org/earth-intern...

What happens when world-class solar scientists meet a cozy bar in Bern? ISSI teamed up with Astronomy on Tap Bern for an unforgettable evening with 3 amazing talks, a full house, and even a debate on whether the heliosphere is shaped like a croissant 🥐, or not. www.issibern.ch/astronomy-on... ☀️🔭

Astronomy on Tap x ISSI: A Full House, Three Brilliant Suns, and One Croissant-Shaped Mystery | International Space Science Institute

Explore ISSI's Astronomy on Tap Bern, where experts share fascinating insights about solar physics and total solar eclipses.

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The latest version of the Scientific colour maps is now available for ArcGIS Pro, thanks to Craig Williams. 🫶 Download them here: www.arcgis.com/home/item.ht... @arcgispro.bsky.social #UseBatlow

In this new study, @geoniette.bsky.social has done a fabulous job with this work on the dynamics of deep, sinking plate tectonic slabs. 🌍💡 Have a read here: agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/...

✨ Meet @issibern.ch at the exhibition of #EPSCDPS2025, discover their amazing science and space projects!

Come say hi, if you are at #EPSCDPS2025! 👋

International Space Science Institute (ISSI)@issibern.ch · 11mo ago

We are so happy to be at #EPSCDPS2025. 🌟 Already day 2! Let’s keep the energy high and the science flowing. But do not to forget to hydrate and take a chocolate from time to time! ☝️ Come say hi, if you have not done so! 🔭

It is the word of the town. ISSI is on tour again. If you are too, come say hi during this week’s #EPSC2025 here in Helsinki! – You know where to go, just follow the blue. @europlanetmedia.bsky.social @spacemarschall.net @kokotanekova.bsky.social @fabiocrameri.ch #EPSCDPS #EPSC-DPS2025

I wrote a piece for @egu.eu about academic evaluation and how the resulting incentives for academics are destructive. I think it can be done better. 🕸️ But only if you want it, too. 🫶 blogs.egu.eu/divisions/sm... #Academia #AcademicEvaluation #ScienceMetrics #ProAc

Surviving the Ranking Madness: A Geoscientist’s Guide to Keeping Your Academic Soul Intact

The Academic Identity Crisis Ever googled yourself to check if your h-index went up? Compared your publication statistics to a peer? Published in a paywall journal while cursing the system? – Same. We...

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During the last 30 years, our telescopes improved and became more. We discover more of what lies beyond our sky. Exoplanets, planets outside our solar system, might host life or tell us more about our own planet. Here are 4999 of them perfectly to scale. 😮‍💨

s-ink Science Graphics@s-ink.org · last yr.

Over 5,000 worlds we’ve seen beyond our sky, Some could host life, some just float by! 🌍🪐 Gas giants, lava lands, icy charms, The universe is full of alien farms! 👽✨ #Exoplanets! s-ink.org/known-exopla... 🔭

Lovely paper out by Benjamin Hatchett about colour consistency in pyrocartography 🔥🗺️: doi.org/10.5194/gc-8... #UseBatlow

GC Insights: Consistency in pyrocartography starts with color

Abstract. Fire progression maps provide operational and public information regarding wildland fire spread, size, and proximity to critical assets through time. Cartographic guidance regarding the use ...

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Such a great short course on different aspects of #DataViz at #EGU today! The room was absolutely packed — people were sitting on the floor (hey, @egu.eu maybe consider a bigger room next time?😉) And it's always a pleasure attending @fabiocrameri.ch's presentations! #endrainbow, yep.