@doms-guballa
Postdoc | Toronto | Nannofossils | Biostratigraphy | Paleo | (Former) Teacher | SciComm Gamer | Karaoke lover | Sometimes a drinker | Good with kids Will post academic + non-acad stuff. May be an idiot at times 😅
🥳 It's out!
The latest PAGES Mag on "New Analytical Techniques in #Paleoscience" is online!
🌍 This issue highlights how novel imaging methods and machine-learning approaches are revolutionizing paleoscientific research and expanding our ability to decode past Earth’s history.
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Just in time for #FossilFriday! Our paper is out today in Palaeontology @thepalass.bsky.social
Ten simple rules to follow when cleaning occurrence data in palaeobiology 🧹🦕
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Another great @palaeoverse.bsky.social team effort to offer a community resource!
Cillian Murphy: I have ROMO: Relief Of Missing Out
Immediately adding this into my lexicon.
🌊 New study reveals that silica-rich diatoms, not coccolithophores, drive bright satellite signals south of the Great Calcite Belt in the Southern Ocean
Diatom frustules mimic calcite reflectance; reshaping how we interpret ocean colour, plankton biogeog and carbon export
phys.org/news/2025-08...
This surprisingly relaxing footage is from SIX MILES under the ocean – and it’s the deepest ecosystem yet discovered
a–e, Twenty-first century projections according to models with strong cooling over the tropical North Atlantic (a,b) compared with the models with cooling restricted to the high latitudes (c,d). e, Rainfall response averaged over key regions in which the tropical cooling pattern produces drying or a more muted rainfall increase. The high-emission projections used in the analysis were obtained from phases 3, 5 and 6 of the CMIP as described in the Methods. The strong and muted tropical cooling responses are based on the magnitude of sea-surface temperature change over the tropical North Atlantic (80° W–40° W 12° N–22° N) relative to the surface temperature change over the tropics (30° S–30° N). The strong and muted high-latitude cooling responses are isolated based on the magnitude of sea-surface temperature change over the North Atlantic (60° W–0° 50° N–65° N) relative to the surface temperature change over the Northern Hemisphere (0°–90° N). Surface temperature and rainfall changes are computed for each individual model as the linear trend from 2021 to 2100, normalized by the magnitude of tropical mean surface warming over the same interval, and then composited based on the North Atlantic cooling responses described above.
Another "it's all connected" when it comes to Earth systems: slow down circulation in one part of the ocean, reduce rainfall in other parts of the planet. 🧪🌊
Link: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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A M8.8 earthquake just ruptured the subduction zone offshore Russia’s Kamchatka peninsula. This is one of the world’s truly huge earthquakes, and a triggered tsunami is currently traveling across the Pacific ocean.
This same fault ruptured on July 20th in a M7.4, and last August in a M7.1.
2025 has seen the second warmest first half of the year on record after 2024 – and is on track to be the second or third warmest year since records began in 1850. My latest State of the Climate report over at Carbon Brief: www.carbonbrief.org/...
🌊 “We may be witnessing a fundamental reorganisation of life around Antarctica. Tiny algae at the base of the Antarctic food web are changing in ways that could ... alter how the ocean helps regulate our climate.” — Dr Alex Hayward
▶️ aappartnership.org.au/shifting-fou...
Giving bluesky a try! I'm Doms, a recent PhD graduate from the University of Toronto, and I'm currently a postdoc at the same uni; my dissertation focused on the response of coccolithophores to abrupt climate change in the past 😁
I also like potatoes
