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Niels de Winter

@nielsjdewinter.bsky.social

Assistant Professor @ VU Amsterdam & @ VUBrussel #Paleoclimate, short-term #climate variability 🌦️, mollusks🐚, #running, popular #science, #gamer, plant-based #vegan 🌱 Sharing new #paleoclimate, #geology and #sclerochronology #science papers + own results

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Niels de Winter@nielsjdewinter.bsky.social · last mo.

It's a rare pleasure if your bachelor students produce a dataset of publication quality AND also take the lead in writing the manuscript. Makes me a proud supervisor! Please read how our snail growth experiment shows that food matters for shell isotopes! 🐌🥬 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1...

Food availability impacts oxygen isotope composition in freshwater snail shells

Freshwater mollusk shells serve as valuable archives for the reconstruction of past environmental conditions as they record water temperatures in their stable isotopic compositions during biominerali...

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Niels de Winter@nielsjdewinter.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Mediterranean rodolith (algae) reefs can act as long-term carbon storage. Read about it in @egubg.bsky.social Carbon accumulation in Mediterranean rhodolith beds during the Holocene bg.copernicus.org/articles/23/...

Carbon accumulation in Mediterranean rhodolith beds during the Holocene

Abstract. Rhodolith and maërl beds are globally relevant biogenic ecosystems whose long-term carbon storage capacity remains poorly quantified, particularly in the Mediterranean. To fill this gap, we ...

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Niels de Winter@nielsjdewinter.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Very excited to be involved in this study by Han Tao presenting a new method to use pseudo-isotope timeseries to quantify and contextualize differences in ENSO from (sub)fossil giant clam shells. doi.org/10.1029/2026...

Quantifying Past ENSO Variability From Tridacna δ18O Using a Pseudo‐Proxy Baseline Approach

We develop a new method to assess past climate variability by simulating modern Tridacna δ18O records for comparison with fossil data Applying this method to a fossil record from the South China ...

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Niels de Winter@nielsjdewinter.bsky.social · 6mo ago

This kind of sad and disgusting shitposting sometimes makes me ashamed to be a man. Big cudos to her for being such a strong women and turning this into something positive! 💪 How I turned online misogyny about my PhD into momentum for my career www.nature.com/articles/d41...

How I turned online misogyny about my PhD into momentum for my career

A simple celebratory post about completing my PhD went viral for all the wrong reasons. Here’s how I managed the backlash and used the attention to promote my research.

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Niels de Winter@nielsjdewinter.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Happy with the publication of this paper in which we demonstrate dietary responses to dry climate in extinct Gomphotherium based on the chemistry of their teeth. A very nice collaboration with Spanish and Portuguese colleagues, with more opportunities in the future! bg.copernicus.org/articles/23/...

Detection of dietary stress and geophagic behaviour forced by dry seasons in Miocene Gomphotherium

Abstract. To access the impact of anthropogenic emissions and land use change on Earth's climate and biodiversity, studies into the environment and ecology of natural ecosystems during past warm perio...

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Niels de Winter@nielsjdewinter.bsky.social · 8mo ago

This takes me back to my MSc years in college @utrechtuniversity.bsky.social, specifically the fieldwork in Bighorn Basin hunting for early mammals. Wild to learn that Hyracotherium is not an actual horse. Found dozens of its teeth back then with that in mind! 🤯🐎 www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Earliest perissodactyls reveal large-scale dispersals during the PETM | PNAS

Perissodactyls were a diverse order of mammals in the Northern Hemisphere during the Paleogene, but very few species remain today. They first appea...

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Niels de Winter@nielsjdewinter.bsky.social · 8mo ago

⏰New paper⏰ Happy to play a part in this nice study led by Xiulan and Jingjing using over 1100 (!) clumped isotope analysis for seasonal-scale temperature and precipitation reconstructions on the Chinese Loess Plateau during the last Ice Age. 🐚🌦️ www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Unlocking sub-annual hydroclimate and temperature variability through land snail shell records

Currently available reconstructions of past East Asian monsoon (EAM) variability achieve annual resolution at best, which limits their ability to reso…

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Niels de Winter@nielsjdewinter.bsky.social · 8mo ago

I was fortunate to serve as @egubg.bsky.social editor for this fascinating study by Iris Arndt and colleagues in which giants clams (Tridacna maxima/squamosa) were cultured and spiked with barium to deconvolve their daily growth. Worth a read! 🐚🔬⚛️ bg.copernicus.org/articles/23/...

Culturing experiments reveal mechanisms of daily trace element incorporation into Tridacna shells

Abstract. Giant clams such as Tridacna are exceptionally well suited for studying past environmental changes on daily to multidecadal timescales. The visible growth bands in their shells, which can be...

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Niels de Winter@nielsjdewinter.bsky.social · 8mo ago

🚨 New vacancy🚨 Interested in climate modelling, or know someone who might be? Apply for our exciting new, fully funded PhD position where you will develop high-resolution, weather-scale climate model simulations of the warm Last Interglacial period! 🌬️🌀☔💻 werkenbij.vu.nl/vacatures/ph...

Vacature — PhD high-resolution modelling of past warmer climates

Are you enthusiastic about climate research and keen to discover how warmer climate changes the frequency of storms in the past and future? Then apply for this PhD project!

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Niels de Winter@nielsjdewinter.bsky.social · 8mo ago

🚨 New vacancy🚨 Interested in high-resolution climate reconstructions, or know someone who might be? Apply for our exciting new, fully funded PhD position where you will develop reconstructions of extreme weather events in the geological past from fossil shells! 🌩️🌀🌊🐚 werkenbij.vu.nl/vacatures/ph...

Vacature — PhD developing reconstructions for storms in a warmer climate

Are you enthusiastic about climate research and keen to discover how warmer climate changes the frequency of storms in the past and future? Then apply for this PhD project!

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Niels de Winter@nielsjdewinter.bsky.social · 8mo ago

Starting my academic reading this year with a fascinating study documenting the frequency of tropical cyclones in the South China Sea over the past ~650 years. We need more of this type of data to understand extreme weather patterns and their relationship with climate. www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

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Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), a peer reviewed journal of the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) - an authoritative source of high-impact, original research that broadly spans...

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Niels de Winter@nielsjdewinter.bsky.social · 9mo ago

Guess what: Finally at least something half-sensible coming from RFK: While the claim that these money research centers are profit-driven is preposterous, testing on sentient animals is cruel and unnecessary and should be phased out in a sensible way. www.science.org/content/arti...

Kennedy ‘deeply committed to ending animal experimentation’

HHS secretary vows to end U.S. monkey imports, push for retirement of research primates

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Niels de Winter@nielsjdewinter.bsky.social · 9mo ago

Fascinated to learn that we are still discovering new species at the highest rate ever. Mapping Earth's biodiversity is far from over, and while we learn more and more about it, let's protect what we do know as well as we can! www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

The past and future of known biodiversity: Rates, patterns, and projections of new species over time

The number of known species on Earth is increasing rapidly, suggesting unexpectedly large numbers of many groups.

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Niels de Winter@nielsjdewinter.bsky.social · 10mo ago

Temperature extremes are amongst the most dangerous consequences of climate change. This study shows the (modelled) impact of warming on day-to-day temperature swings. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Global warming intensifies extreme day-to-day temperature changes in mid–low latitudes - Nature Climate Change

Climate change is expected to lead to higher day-to-day temperature variability in mid- to low latitudes. Here the authors show that extreme day-to-day temperature changes have distinct impacts on hum...

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Prof Ian Hall@ianhall.bsky.social · 10mo ago

Extreme day-to-day temperature swings are becoming more frequent and intense due to Global warming, impacting human health, ecosystems, and resilience. By 2100, these changes could increase by 17%, affecting 80% of the global population. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Global warming intensifies extreme day-to-day temperature changes in mid–low latitudes - Nature Climate Change

Climate change is expected to lead to higher day-to-day temperature variability in mid- to low latitudes. Here the authors show that extreme day-to-day temperature changes have distinct impacts on hum...

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Niels de Winter@nielsjdewinter.bsky.social · 10mo ago

Starting the week well with a new paper! 🧑‍🔬 Here we show remarkable evidence of rudist bivalves in the hot, Late Cretaceous (75 Ma) tropics mineralizing their shells at temperatures of over 40 degrees C, hotter than any mollusc living today. cp.copernicus.org/articles/21/...

Living on the edge: Response of Late Cretaceous rudist bivalves (Hippuritida) to hot and highly seasonal climate in the low-latitude Saiwan site, Oman

Abstract. Earth's climate history serves as a natural laboratory for testing the effect of warm climates on the biosphere. The Cretaceous period featured a prolonged greenhouse climate characterized b...

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