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geosociety.bsky.social
Join us in celebrating the 2026 Outstanding Associate Editors! Their hard work and expertise strengthen the geoscience community every day.

🔗 geosociety.co/Editors
#GeoPeerReview #Geoscience #GSABulletin #Geosphere #GSAPubs
November 7, 2026 at 10:00 PM
daveyfwright.bsky.social
Me, teaching geoscience graduate students about the wonderful world of Bayesian statistics:

paleobiologists 🤝 geophysicists
November 4, 2026 at 4:36 PM
gsjphd.bsky.social
Hi!
I'm Gabriel Jacobs and I teach general science and geoscience.
November 7, 2026 at 3:02 PM
dingdingpeng.the100.ci
“While significant, the effect is small enough to conclude that fantastical worlds in video games can be used for tangential learning on geoscientific subjects.”

Don’t mind me, tangentially learning about geoscience all day long.
November 6, 2026 at 9:29 AM
phaneritic.bsky.social
Let’s make it a geoscience class and it’s a deal (that way easier to also cover weather/oceans/hydrology too).
November 4, 2026 at 9:38 PM
daverodland.bsky.social
We're doing this again? Awesome.

I turned graduate work in stratigraphy, paleoecology, paleoclimate and marine biology into a (tenuous, unstable) career in geoscience education, ranging from geohazards to mineralogy and petrology. I'm this close to being a one-person geology program! 🧪⚒️🌊🦪☠️
November 6, 2026 at 1:01 AM
ianhall.bsky.social
Elevated early Eocene atmospheric CO2 tied to reduced Southern Ocean biological pump efficiency

www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Elevated early Eocene atmospheric CO2 tied to reduced Southern Ocean biological pump efficiency - Nature Geoscience
Warming in the early Eocene reduced the efficiency of the Southern Ocean biological carbon pump, limiting carbon sequestration in the ocean interior and enhancing atmospheric CO2 levels, according to ...
www.nature.com
November 7, 2026 at 3:37 PM
seismatters.bsky.social
Very random question for the #geology #geoscience #EarthScience hivemind: does anyone know of any geology-themed songs that could be arranged for guitar...? ⚒️🧪🎶🎸
November 5, 2026 at 12:52 PM
philsci.bsky.social
Sign up for interest group lunches at PSA26!

We have philosophy of medicine & psychiatry, science & psychedelics, political philsci, open access publishing, geoscience, non-academic careers, AI safety, a postdoc working group, undergrad breakfast, and a Friday morning group run!

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November 5, 2026 at 8:50 PM
egu.eu
New EGU scientific division: Geoscience and Society🎉!

This division will bring together researchers focused on the connection between #geoscientific topics across the Earth, planetary and space sciences, and #social subjects.
🧵Read more: egu.eu/9YXAJV
📷: Ravi Satyappa Dabbanavar on imaggeo.egu.eu
Image description: A hill town surrounded by green hills, with fog covering the view. Text reads: ''New EGU scientific division: Geoscience and Society!'' Geoscience & Society logo.
November 3, 2026 at 10:07 AM
bedform.org
This is him marshallgeo.com/marshall-geo...
Marshall GeoScience Expert Geotechnical Engineers Los Angeles
Find out why Marshall GeoScience Expert Geotechnical Engineers in Los Angeles California are leading the charge on the wildfire properties.
marshallgeo.com
November 6, 2026 at 6:13 AM
ianhall.bsky.social
🌊 Ocean acidification reshapes phytoplankton phosphorus metabolism under phosphate-limited conditions

www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Ocean acidification reshapes phytoplankton phosphorus metabolism under phosphate-limited conditions - Nature Geoscience
Ocean acidification can reduce phytoplankton phosphorus content, especially under phosphate limitation, which could reshape marine nutrient balance and phosphorus cycling, according to long-term exper...
www.nature.com
November 6, 2026 at 6:27 AM
ianhall.bsky.social
🌊 Global cycles of carbon and phosphorus decouple under intensifying ocean acidification as marine diatoms restructure their lipid membranes and downregulate organic phosphorus scavenging to adapt to the decreasing pH.

www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Sparing use of phosphorus in an acidifying ocean - Nature Geoscience
Global cycles of carbon and phosphorus decouple under intensifying ocean acidification as marine diatoms restructure their lipid membranes and downregulate organic phosphorus scavenging to adapt to th...
www.nature.com
November 6, 2026 at 6:25 AM
egu.eu
The Geosciences Information For Teachers (GIFT) #workshop for #EGU27 is now open for registration!

📒 Topic: “Teaching Geoscience Today, for Tomorrow”.

📆 Application deadline: 27 November 2026.
👉 Find out more about the workshop: egu.eu/9GCSKA

📷: Muhammad Saad on imaggeo.egu.eu
Image description: A snow-laden water tower, with glacial meltwater feeding the Hunza River in Pakistan. Text reads: '' Geosciences Information for Teachers (GIFT) Workshop. The topic: Teaching Geoscience Today, for Tomorrow. Apply by 27 November 2026.''
November 5, 2026 at 12:32 PM
earthquakes.au
Preliminary magnitude 3.4 earthquake at Douglas Park NSW, about 60km southwest of Sydney. Use our Seismoscope app to report what you felt to Geoscience Australia
November 7, 2026 at 7:23 PM
brandontbishop.bsky.social
Hmm... listening to a thing about geoscience curriculum changes (as one does) that doesn't once bring up the licensing requirements that more or less structure the geo or earth science curriculum.
November 2, 2026 at 10:44 PM
stableisotopeecol.bsky.social
Microbial extracellular residues are a major source of mineral-associated soil carbon

Qian, Wu, Ren et al.

Nature Geoscience

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41561-026-02103-0

#stableisotopes
Microbial extracellular residues are a major source of mineral-associated soil carbon - Nature Geoscience
Microbes store carbon in soils not only through their dead cells but also through the mucus-like substances they release while alive, a previously underappreciated pathway emerging from soil surveys a...
www.nature.com
November 6, 2026 at 8:14 PM
gsjphd.bsky.social
for Geoscience (11/12) I open the year with an exercise where I ask students to find answers to three technical questions, questions they have no reason to know the answer to but should be able to find online.

little do they know I've selected questions that genAIs consistently answer wrong! (e.g.)
gsjphd.bsky.social Gabriel S. Jacobs @gsjphd.bsky.social · Dec 24
seriously they should be embarrassed
phone screenshot of a Google search result for "largest jawed fish" (no quotes) with an AI overview confidently asserting that Dunkleosteus, Megamastax, and Titanichthys (three fossil genera) are some of the largest jawed fish. The correct answer is the whale shark (or the blue whale if you want to get monophyletic about it) which is nowhere to be seen. Google search result for "tetrapod with the largest genome" (no quotes) with an AI overview giving the answer as the South American lungfish. Astute readers will note that lungfish are not tetrapods. A Google search result for "what animal has the longest cells" (no quotes) with an AI overview saying that any animal with neurons qualifies, since neurons are the longest cells in animals, and going on to incorrectly claim that all animals have neurons. (Plausibly correct answers to the question would include giraffes, whales, or sauropods. A human mind can find this answer in a minute or two of snooping through the search results.)
November 7, 2026 at 4:05 PM
ethanrockstory.bsky.social
⚒️🍎🧪
Why do we study geoscience? And WHO are geoscientists?Hear Victor's story from the ancient volcanoes of New Jersey!

👇🏽And watch the full episode with your kids!
youtu.be/eLKxmkpsjik
November 6, 2026 at 4:25 PM
tenuretracker.bsky.social
University of Toronto (@utoronto.ca) is hiring:
Assistant Professor in Geoscience

#assistantprofessor #geology #historyofthesolidearthand
November 6, 2026 at 6:41 AM
unidata.bsky.social
🎉 Congratulations to the 2026 NSF Unidata Community Equipment Award recipients! Sponsored by the National Science Foundation (NSF), the program has invested over $1.7 million in 120 projects at 70 colleges and universities since 2003, advancing geoscience education and research. buff.ly/I0hvU2W
November 5, 2026 at 5:45 PM
greenleejw.bsky.social
LANDLOCKED by @jeremyjschmidt.bsky.social, published by @uchicagopress.bsky.social, is an environmental history book focused on Alberta, Canada.
press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...
Landlocked
A study of oil-rich Alberta reveals the entwined relationships among geoscience, governance, and power.The Canadian province of Alberta holds the world’s fourth-largest reserve of fossil fuels, with o...
press.uchicago.edu
November 7, 2026 at 8:35 PM
geofeeds.bsky.social
Spatial Source - Geoscience Australia announces new AUSPOS version by jnally

https://www.spatialsource.com.au/geoscience-australia-announces-new-auspos-version/
November 3, 2026 at 6:35 AM
mlscientist.bsky.social
MSc internships leading to funded PhDs in AI physics and geoscience
mlscientist.com/msc-internsh... #AIphysics
November 4, 2026 at 11:07 PM
thomashegna.bsky.social
I had a new article come out in the National Association of Geoscience Teachers (NAGT) newsletter. Email me if you want a pdf.
nagt.org/nagt/publica...
Teaching Critical Thinking in a Large Lecture Class
Critical thinking is a daunting topic to teach, even more so within the confines of a large lecture class. This article describes an approach for teaching critical thinking that uses an examination of...
nagt.org
November 5, 2026 at 8:15 PM