Multidisciplinary Earth Scientist. Professor, University of Southampton. Opinions my own (he/him) @gernon@mastodon.world
Winchester, England
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It's not every day @haveigotnews tweets about your research 🌍☄️🌖
As scientists report number of asteroids striking Earth has increased, some suggest it makes a refreshing change to have a threat to existence which isn’t man-made.
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I no longer use this platform. For updates, please follow me at:
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Repeat after me: LAB WEBSITES MATTER!
While it may seem like a nice-to-have... in today's world, it's a need-to-have. For you, your trainees, and your prospective team members.
I couldn't have written this better myself: nature.com/articles/s42255-0…
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Huge congrats to ARIA advisor @demishassabis. Breaking through the barrier of winning a nobel outside academia is rare, but this may be the first case in history of the award going to an entrepreneur whose nobel work was done in the company they founded. Hopefully first of many!
BREAKING NEWS
The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the 2024 #NobelPrize in Chemistry with one half to David Baker “for computational protein design” and the other half jointly to Demis Hassabis and John M. Jumper “for protein structure prediction.”
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Excellent video summarising our colleague Professor Juerg Matter's remarkable @EarthshotPrize winning research on capturing carbon - come to @unisouthampton to learn about this planet saving science as part of an undergraduate degree!
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I often think about my work, what I'm feeling passionate about, & whether I'm spending my time in a way that feels meaningful and which I think is good for the world. I know many of you think about this stuff, too. Here are nine exercises that can help.
medium.com/@ltelkins/re-thin…
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Thought provoking & inspiring @WiredUK article on @ARIA_research:
"Every breakthrough eventually boils down to brilliant people working on fiendishly tricky problems."
wired.com/story/aria-moonsho…
This is such a great piece on @ARIA_research by @mattsreynolds1 in @WiredUK. Particularly love this ambition from @matthewclifford:
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NEW: Mount Everest isn't just the world's tallest mountain; it's freakishly tall, towering above its neighbouring peaks. But why?
It turns out that a river has washed away so much rock that the mountain is 'floating' higher on the mantle!
Me @NYTScience nytimes.com/2024/09/30/scien…
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Universities are not just businesses, but an investment in future generations go.nature.com/4gBwfRI
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75 million years ago the US featured swim-through states rather than fly-over states. Great map by @paleoedits and #badgeographyjoke by myself.
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Fully-funded 4 year PhD to study CO2 release from sedimentary rocks during past warm climates. Work with me, @RichardStockey, @TMGernon + @bjwmills. Due to funding restrictions, UK-based students only. Deadline 17.10.24. Start date flexible. Please RT. tinyurl.com/5xfbb9de
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Enhanced chemical weathering following continental breakup may have driven a succession of Mesozoic oceanic anoxic events, according to tectonic and biogeochemical modelling presented in @NatureGeosci. go.nature.com/4cVXQdf
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Enhanced chemical weathering following continental breakup may have driven a succession of Mesozoic oceanic anoxic events, according to tectonic and biogeochemical modelling presented in @NatureGeosci. go.nature.com/4cVXQdf
ALT This is figure 1, which shows the global distribution of OAE sedimentary deposits and plate boundary features.
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Great to see our Prof @TMGernon appear in @IFLScience this week.
It was for his latest study which showed how a “geological tag team” triggered one of the most tumultuous times in marine life history 🌊🌎🐟
Read it here👇
iflscience.com/catastrophic-…
@OceanEarthUoS @UoSoceans
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NEW: Gold is found as big nuggets in quartz veins—and we have never known why.
Now we have a shocking answer: electricity, made by earthquakes shaking quartz, is gathering particles of gold and growing them into shiny nuggets.
Earth is wild.
Me @NatGeo nationalgeographic.com/scien…
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