#weekendreading — Public Fediverse posts

#WeekendReading: Forjanes et al. on how the Aragonite-to-Calcite transformation might actually start with overgrowth.

Link: https://pubs.acs.org/cgdefu/article/doi/10.1021/acs.cgd.6c00374/5247008

#Minerals #Science

The Taliban didn't come from nowhere. They grew from seeds planted by America, watered by Pakistan, in soil fertilized by Soviet bombs. We create tomorrow's enemies by not understanding today.
#books #bookreviews #MiddleEastHistory #TrueStory #WeekendReading
https://thisgrandpablogs.com/wars-of-afghanistan-review/

Storm smuggled European women to Yemen as jihadi brides. Later saved one from the same fate. The spy game has no clean hands. Only necessary evils in dark places.
#books #bookreviews #SpyReality #WarOnTerror #WeekendReading
https://thisgrandpablogs.com/agent-storm-book-review/

#WeekendReading: Liu et al. on the decoupling of biological pump strength and efficiency in the eastern equatorial Pacific during the mid-Miocene and how it relates to feedback with global warming.

link: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0012821X26004371

#Ocean #CarbonCycle #ClimateChange

#WeekendReading: Iotti et al., about magnesium at the dawn of life, and how do the geochemistry and cell biology both fold into that.

Link: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11084-026-09743-7

#Magnesium #Synthesis #EarlyEarth

#WeekendReading: Zhang and Huang on the role of weathering and reverse weathering on the Cenozoic cooling.

Link: https://doi.org/10.1130/G54403.1

#Weathering #Lithium #ClimateChange #EarthsHistory #Geology

#WeekendReading: Chen et al. on how marine anoxia develops under high atmospheric O2 and icehouse conditions (as you guessed, it has something to do with rapid rises in CO2).

Link: https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2420505122

#Anoxia #Ocean #Geology #IceHouse

#WeekendReading: Wang et al., on how manganese gradient shift an alter through changes in ice and oxygen through Earth's history.

Link: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-026-75597-2

#EarthHistory #Manganese #Ocean

#WeekendReading: van Dam et al. about the wonderful mess which is the Neogene carbon isotope record in the surface ocean and atmosphere.

Link: https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1029/2025PA005380

#Neogene #CarbonIsotopes

#WeekendReading: Remírez et al., about a boron-based salinity proxy for normal marine conditions! I'm going for cautiously optimistic.

Link: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0009254126003505

#Boron #Paleosalinity #Proxy #Geochemistry

#WeekendReading: Speare et al., on the role nitrogen excess plays in coral mortality during marine heatwaves (which is group-dependent; in some cases, it actually brings it down).

Link: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0025326X25012342

#coral #reef #heatwave

KDE's 2025 yearly report is out.

Discover what we do to keep the project running, the highlights of the year gone by, what goes on behind the scenes, who's who in the community, where we get the funding from (and how we spend it), and much more in the 2025 annual report:

https://ev.kde.org/reports/ev-2025/

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You can help keep KDE running too: Become a Supporting Member and contribute to KDE:

https://kde.org/anniversaries/30/

#WeekendReading #FreeSOftware #OpenSource #report

#WeekendReading: Liu et al. on redox control on protodolomite formation in post-extinction (after the Great Dying) microbialites. I like how they finding suggest cyclic redox, which is something I suggested several times.

Link: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0016703726002784

#Dolomite #Geochemistry #Redox

#WeekendReading: Adam Martiny on the long-term reorganization of the oceans' nutrient distribution with possible imbalance driven by biological nitrogen fixation and reduced vertical mixing.

Link: https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/2025AV002080

#Ocean

#WeekendReading: Burke et al., on oxygen deficiency in the Atlantic during the Miocene. We're slowly building a nice global picture of the oxygen minimum zones through that period, and their relations to planetary temperatures.

Link: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-026-73732-7

#Ocean #Miocene #Oxygen

#WeekendReading: Mateu-Vicens et al., on how geometries of ancients reefs on the margins of the Red Sea might inform of Oligo-Miocene coral reefs being actually deeper than was thought.

Link: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0031018226003378

#Reef #Miocene

📚 Looking for some #WeekendReading? Get a head start on the competition and read the draft topics for our next call for proposals at https://link.europa.eu/8mQr3V

And if you are even thinking of applying don't forget to sign up for the IHI Call Days - a series of webinars that will go through the topics and our rules and procedures in depth.
📅 24-30 June
👉 Registration: https://link.europa.eu/3ggrYc

#IHITransformingHealth #HorizonEU

#WeekendReading: Yang et al. on the strange decupling of Li isotopes (a weathering proxy overall) and uplift-driven weathering over the last few million years, despite the Himalaya keep doing its thing.

Link: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-026-71407-x

#Weathering #Himalaya #RockCycle #Geology

A very early #WeekendReading (for reasons): Côté et al. on how some marine climate change experiments might actually simulate extreme heatwaves much more than they do climate change.

Link: https://royalsocietypublishing.org/rspb/article/293/2069/20252573/481500/Do-climate-change-experiments-yield-relevant

#Marine #Heatwave #ClimateChange

#WeekendReading: Dodd et al. about recurring marine phosphorus spikes during major Paleozoic mass extinctions, and how they might be driving anoxia.

Link: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-026-70701-y

#MassExtinction #Ocean #Anoxia #Paleozoic

#WeekendReading: Tangunan et al.'s short but insightful piece on the uncertainties behind Earth’s timelines.

Link: https://pastglobalchanges.org/publications/pages-magazines/pages-magazine/138913

#EarthSci #Stratigraphy #Geochronology

📢 Read all about it! IHI's newsletter is now online!
👉 https://link.europa.eu/Y7tymh
Discover: draft topic texts for call 13, #3Rs, #PROMs & PREMs in heart patients, #LiverScreening, the @afbstep.bsky.social project, #EarlyCareerResearchers & much more!
👉 https://link.europa.eu/Y7tymh #Health #Research #EU #WeekendReading #IHITransformingHealth #HorizonEU

#WeekendReading: going back to Turchyn and DePaolo's review on seawater chemistry change through Phanerozoic Time. Got some ideas and want to cover my bases.
#Ocean #EarthHistory

Link: https://www.annualreviews.org/content/journals/10.1146/annurev-earth-082517-010305

#WeekendReading: Thomas and Garritano's review on symbionts and ammonia oxidation in the ocean. It's the first step in nitrification, so it has a big role in regulating nitrogen availability for biology.

Link: https://www.annualreviews.org/content/journals/10.1146/annurev-marine-040824-032008

#WeekendReading: Zhou et al., on adsorption of Cadmium to clay-microbe aggregates, and what it might mean for heavy metals cycling in the ocean.
#HeavyMetal #Ocean

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0016703720305536

#WeekendReading: Zhong et al. on Cadmium isotope systematics in seep carbonates. Looks like it tracks seawater in calcite and aragonite, but the pore fluids in dolomite. Not surprising, but potentially useful!

#Geochemistry #ColdSeeps

Link: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0009254126001658

📢 March's newsletter is online! Read about:
🏡 #DecentralisedTrials & #HealthcareAtHome
🦠 Innovations to help fight drug-resistant pneumonia #AMR
🧠Advancing diagnosis & care of #AlzheimersDisease
& more!
🗞️ Read it: https://link.europa.eu/DhRfFM
#HorizonEU #WeekendReading #EU #Science #Research #Health

#WeekendReading: Williams et al., on the role of orbital forcing versus #CO2 on ice feedbacks in the (geologic) near recent using some modeling work.

Link: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-026-70750-3

#WeekendReading: Platt et al., on automated mineralogical classification of hyperspectral images from #Mars to better map and understand the Red Planet.

Link: https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/2025JE009473

📗 Looking for some #WeekendReading? Head over to Nicolas Creff of EFPIA's blog post about the value of IHI. Read how new projects are targeting #HeartDisease in cities, how to implement regulatory sandboxes, how to integrate patient input into clinical decision-making, how to use big data to advance the care of people living with knee osteoarthritis, how to harness AI for health and how to develop new treatments targeting #AMR.
👉 https://lnkd.in/dUS3jfqU
#Health #Research #EU #Europe