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baronas.bsky.social
Assistant Prof. in Earth Sciences at Durham University. Earth surface geochemist; teaching Sustainability & Environmental Geochemistry.
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Welcome to the Bluesky account for Stand Up for Science 2025! Keep an eye on this space for updates, event information, and ways to get involved. We can't wait to see everyone #standupforscience2025 on March 7th, both in DC and locations nationwide! #scienceforall #sciencenotsilence

💥The Netherlands' largest pension fund, has sold its shares in Tesla, Meta, and Alphabet (Google). The fund with US $569 billion equivolent in assets is "directing more money to companies and projects that help to improve society and the environment." #Divest www.reuters.com/markets/euro...

Open letter from a group of sleuths re problems with editors/papers at Scientific Reports deevybee.blogspot.com/2024/10/an-o... They've published 23K papers in 2024 with APC of £2090, raising £48 million from this journal alone, so should be able to put resource into cleaning this up.

After discovering that well-regarded journals were being sold to little-known publishers, we decided to investigate. Sadly, it was exactly what it seemed. Our report is now live: Invasion of the journal snatchers: How indexed journals are falling into questionable hands doi.org/10.5281/zeno...

Don’t miss the #Goldschmidt2025 abstract submission deadline! View the full science program here: tinyurl.com/5hcxxadm Abstract submission link: tinyurl.com/5fk8tff9 @eageo.bsky.social @geochemsoc.bsky.social

Scrap austerity – tax the super-rich instead Britain can’t rebuild with more cuts – a wealth tax on the richest is the fair alternative to funding public services and growth yorkshirebylines.co.uk/business/eco...

We are absolutely in a time when the fossil fuel economy feels emboldened to go on the direct offensive against environment groups www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Steve Bannon, after calling for Trump to be President for life, did a Nazi salute on stage at CPAC. Nazism has officially taken over the GOP. The few remaining conservatives have a choice: either leave the party and obstruct it—or choose to be complicit.

From NSF EAR program director Raleigh Martin on LinkedIn #climatesky #greensky

If you are a scientist or policy expert working on something related to climate or the environment, and your work has been impacted by these cuts, either directly or indirectly, and you want to tell @thebulletin.org about it, you can email me [email protected] (or [email protected])

What about questioning the entire business model behind deliberately underfunding UK universities and making them depend financially on overseas tuition fees?

Today's university cutting and retreating is York, which I'm told is out with another severance scheme today. No doubt there'll be another clutch of these next week. Five alarm fire inside the British state and society: no-one cares. 🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨

I'm delighted to share our opinion on #papermills published in Nature. Science is flooded with papers from paper mills.Certain steps can be taken, but this is a challenge that neither universities nor journals are ready to face.Some use paper mills to their advantage. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

OK folks, I have now created a google form that allows people to sign to show their support for my open letter to the President of the Royal Society. Please sign and share widely: forms.gle/miDciq35oxyw...

Do you study the interactions between Earth surface processes, sedimentary & geochemical fluxes & biogeochemical cycles? Then submit an abstract to theme 8 at #Goldschmidt2025 ➡️ tinyurl.com/4z47svzf Abstract submission by 26 Feb: tinyurl.com/5fk8tff9 @eageo.bsky.social @geochemsoc.bsky.social

Whenever you hear someone sneer about scientific research that seems useless to them — “they’re studying the spit of lizards?!” — remind them that’s exactly how we got Ozempic. globalnews.ca/news/9793403...

🔥 AMAZING. Today, the Baltic states disconnected their power grids from that of Russia. It’s taken years of prep. What a moment.

"It is impossible to be a top-line manager and administrator and mentor and researcher and writer and outreach officer and IT expert and online instructor and pedagogical innovator and recruiter and teacher and marker and external examiner and press pundit and grant bidder and editor."

Is there an out-of-the-box tool for detecting citation cartels / paper mills in someone's publication record? Not one that journals use, but one that is publicly available? Tried searching and failed so far... @elisabethbik.bsky.social ? @forbetterscience.bsky.social ?

Well the award for most cowardly, boot-lickingest academic society has squarely gone to the American Society of Microbiology, who has taken down features of various non-white scientists. Absolutely pathetic behavior. Those articles are now coming up as “under review”. Truly sickening cowardice here.

NEW: @wired.com built a tool to monitor 1,300+ federal .gov websites, revealing that entire sites are going dark as we speak. @telliotter.bsky.social, @dmehro.bsky.social (who built the tool), and @dell.bsky.social report: www.wired.com/story/us-gov...

If UK news shows are going to give Nigel Farage a platform to spout this absolute boll**** about Brexit & the vaccine rollout (unchallenged) I’ll happily come back every week to correct it We cannot allow them to rewrite history. If you agree share this FACT CHECK widely youtu.be/MUrf7addcTA?...

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Happy anniversary!!

#Goldschmidt2025 Grant Application Deadline: 12 February. Explore the different grant options to see if you are eligible to apply: conf.goldschmidt.info/goldschmidt/...

If 1000 job losses were announced in one day for another industry, it would make the top headlines. This one is going to take people by surprise with huge impacts on other sectors, cities, regions, life plans...

Eighty years ago today, over 7,000 prisoners of the German Nazi camp #Auschwitz, including some 700 children, were liberated by the soldiers of the Soviet Army. 1,689 days of murder, pain, suffering, and humiliation were over. Today, we all remember. We must keep remembering.

Imagine what could have been accomplished with $8Bn, if publishing was free. "...a total of $8.349 billion were spent on APCs between 2019 and 2023. We estimate that in 2023 MDPI ($681.6 million), Elsevier ($582.8 million) and Springer Nature ($546.6) generated the most revenue with APCs." 🧪

🇬🇪The UK has a unique opportunity to support Georgia’s democracy by imposing sanctions on Bidzina Ivanishvili and his network, including Irakli Rukhadze, Ucha Mamatsashvili, Hunnewell Partners, and Imedi TV. 🧵Let’s unpack why UK action is critical. 1/15

#NIH accounts for 47 billion = 25% of US federal research funding, essential for their world-leading position in bio-medical research. Trump just shut it down. No foreign adversary in their wildest wet dream could achieve such a devastating act of traitorous sabotage with a stroke of a pen.

@universityofleeds.bsky.social are the latest university to cease posting on X. They are the first one I have seen to have made a formal statement about it.

To all American friends -- this post is still open! And we still have a non-fascist government for a few more years at least in the UK...