Mathieu Daëron

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Writing by Hand is Good for your Brain - Here's how to do it (Neal Stephenson, Jul 21, 2026) buff.ly/8RaFc3E <- In which we learn that he's left-handed. I _told_ you lefties can use fountain pens fine. Stop whinging. P.S. my take: this is really about AI

Writing by Hand is Good for your Brain - Here's how to do it

Because I am known to write using a fountain pen on paper, a number of people have pointed me to this post and its underlying research. I won’t rehash what is said in those sources, but the gist of…

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Academic conferences should return to simple PDF and printed programs. The apps and conference management systems are very annoying and work very badly. Thank you for your attention to this matter.

⏰New paper⏰ Proud to be part of this work led by Alex Quizon & Sierra Petersen where we show that most snails (we tested) precipitate their shells in isotopic equilibrium with seawater, enabling climate reconstructions like the one published earlier this week. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Clumped isotope thermometry (Δ47) measurements in marine gastropods suggest equilibrium precipitation

The clumped isotope paleothermometer (Δ47) has been used to reconstruct temperatures from various biogenic carbonate archives. Calibration studies dem…

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🚨New paper! We compare foramniferal Mg/Ca and clumped isotope (D47) over the last 1.25Ma in South Indian Ocean and discuss the difference between the 2 thermometers: Mg/Ca baises correction, diagenesis, potential undetermined bias in D47...? Details here 👇🏻 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Understanding the relationship between foraminiferal Mg/Ca and clumped isotope thermometers

Reconstructions of past sea surface temperatures (SSTs) are essential for understanding long-term climate variability, yet different proxy methods can…

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New preprint by Kocken & Zeebe says that outdated astronomical solutions that are still widely used to simulate climates in the geological past are wrong, introducing errors of the same order of magnitude as the orbital forcing itself 👇⚒️🧪 essopenarchive.org/doi/full/10....

New Insolation Forcing for Paleoclimate Studies

Insolation forcing at the top of the atmosphere is widely-used in paleoceanographic and paleoclimatological studies. In paleoclimate simulations, it must reflect Earth’s orbital history. General Circu...

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Increasingly convinced the main damage cell phones have done to creativity isn't decreased attention spans or what not but the elimination of productive boredom. Inspiration comes from the mind filling the void inside. Hard to make art when you're constantly silencing the silence with "content."