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Wednesday, 19 May 2021

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When peer-review goes bad … really bad. 

Sauropod Vertebra Picture of the Week [22:20:12]  recommend  recommend this post  (422 visits) info
Neil Brocklehurst, Elsa Panciroli, Gemma Louise Benevento and Roger Benson have a new paper out (Brocklehurst et al. 2021, natch), showing that the post-Cretaceous radiation of modern mammals was not primarily due to the removal of dinosaurs, as everyone assumed, but of more primitive mammal-relatives. Interesting stuff, and it’s open access. Congratulations to everyone involved!

PTERASPIDID WITH TAIL 

ARCHEA [22:17:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (63 visits) info
This lovely specimen, showing the articulated tail section of the fish is an armoured agnatha jawless bony fish, Victoraspis longicornualis, from Lower Devonian deposits of Podolia, Ukraine. Fully articulated specimens are rare. This is the first one to be unearthed in more than five years by those who dig them regularly.Podolia is a historic region in Eastern Europe in the west-central

Wissenschaftliche*r Mitarbeiter*in Im Institut für Ur- und Frühgeschichte der Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel 

Deutsche Quartärvereinigung [18:20:58]  recommend  recommend this post  (397 visits) info
Im Institut für Ur- und Frühgeschichte der Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel ist im Rahmen der von der DFG geförderten Emmy Noether Gruppe ‘Kgalagadi Human Origins’ ab dem 01.07.2021 [...]

Vulkan-Update 19.05.21: Stromboli mit Pyroklastischen Strom 

Florian Beckers Vulkan-Blog [16:44:09]  recommend  recommend this post  (484 visits) info
Staat: Italien | Koordinaten: 38.79, 15.21 | Eruption: Pyroklastischer Strom | Link Am Stromboli gab es heute Mittag ein Kollaps-Ereignis, dass zu einem pyroklastischen Strom führte. Er floss über die [...]

Melting Glaciers Have Shifted the Earth’s Axis 

State of the Planet [14:00:36]  recommend  recommend this post  (409 visits) info
New research from the Chinese Academy of Sciences shows that polar drift experienced in the 1990s was caused by a redistribution of water from glaciers to oceans. The post Melting Glaciers Have Shifted the [...]

Continued drop in sea level 

Ontario-geofish [12:56:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (76 visits) info
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 Yeah, finally poor noaa got their computer problem fixed.This is my favourite site, the only stable tide gauge in the whole world.  It shows the warming cycle and now, our ice age cycle.  The warmies pick [...]

The Latest Ice Age 

Geology in the West Country [10:25:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (78 visits) info
The Latest Ice Age  I joined the Geol Soc Western Zoom lecture yesterday evening and it was fascinating. The amount of knowledge of the latest ice age is fantastic. THIS WEB PAGE is a good starting point. [...]

Cronología, medio ambiente y actividad humana durante el Calcolítico en El Portalón de Cueva Mayor (Atapuerca, Burgos) 

WeBlog Aragosaurus [08:57:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (64 visits) info
¿Qué pueden decirnos los restos de pequeños mamíferos sobre la cronología, el medio ambiente y las actividades de los habitantes de El Portalón de Cueva Mayor durante el Calcolítico? En este nuevo [...]

41st Anniversary of the Eruption of Mt. St. Helens: It Still Matters and So Does Science 

Geotripper [00:01:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (434 visits) info
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It is the 41st anniversary of the eruption of the St. Helens volcano and as I think of those days, I realize that even though a majority of the population wasn't even alive at the time, the volcano still [...]

Un resumen del Encuentro de Jóvenes Investigadores en Paleontología de Coimbra (XIX EJIP) 

Dinosaurios (el cuaderno de Godzillín) [17:41:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (437 visits) info
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Durante la semana pasada, del 12 al 15 de mayo, se celebró la decimonovena edición del Encuentro de Jóvenes Investigadores en Paleontología (EJIP). El Comité Organizador, formado por jóvenes [...]

Erdbeben-Nachrichten 19.05.21: Pazifik, Himalaya 

Florian Beckers Vulkan-Blog [14:53:29]  recommend  recommend this post  (336 visits) info
In den Erdbeben-News vom 19. Mai geht es um ein Erdbeben der Magnitude 6,6 im Pazifik. Außerdem bebte es in Nepal, Indonesien und Spanien. The post Erdbeben-Nachrichten 19.05.21: Pazifik, Himalaya first [...]

Kitten Instinct (2016) 

Koprolitos [13:34:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (102 visits) info
"Kitten Instinct" es un cortometraje dirigido por Liesbeth Eeckman que combina stop-motion y animación dibujada. Cuenta la historia de un feroz tiranosaurio que, en algún momento del Cretácico Superior, [...]

Unidentified Flying Earthquake in China 

Ontario-geofish [12:25:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (86 visits) info
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 ReferenceUFO's are all the rage this year, and now we have a UFE!  This is the best earthquake story I've seen in 10 years.  They didn't have any monitoring in the building, and are now scratching their [...]

Vulkannachrichten 19.05.21: Ätna, Stromboli, Taal 

Florian Beckers Vulkan-Blog [09:30:07]  recommend  recommend this post  (73 visits) info
Die Vulkan-News vom 19. Mai drehen sich um einen spontanen Paroxysmus am Ätna und der Aktivitätssteigerung auf Stromboli.  The post Vulkannachrichten 19.05.21: Ätna, Stromboli, Taal first appeared on [...]

Was geschah am Oroville Damm? 

Mente et Malleo [00:40:03]  recommend  recommend this post  (90 visits) info
Dämme und die hinter ihnen liegenden Seen dienen meist nicht nur als Wasserreserven für trockenere Zeiten oder der Energiegewinnung. Sie sollen auch Hochwasserereignisse mildern, indem sie starke Zuflüsse [...]
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