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The geological period that no one talks about: menstruation in the field

The geological period that no one talks about: menstruation in the field

Try typing the phrase ‘period in geosciences’ into Google. You’ll get something like ‘divisions of geological time’, and how we divide ancient earth time into eras, periods and epochs. We learn about this in the first year and again in every subsequent year of geological training. We are both geochronologists, so this is a topic we are deeply familiar with. But we are also both women. To us, and e ...[Read More]

Honest observations about EGU23 poster designs: from geophysicist and graphic designer Fabio Crameri

Honest observations about EGU23 poster designs: from geophysicist and graphic designer Fabio Crameri

Science tells us: more is more, and less is less. As geoscientists, we therefore intuitively conceive paragraphs of text as a lot of information, and a generous selection of colours as strongly eye-catching. But text-filled, rainbow-coloured poster presentations communicate neither effectively nor in an accessible manner. After working for months or even years on a geoscience project, we have a lo ...[Read More]

Outstanding Student and PhD-candidate Presentation (OSPP) top tips from winners and judges!

Outstanding Student and PhD-candidate Presentation (OSPP) top tips from winners and judges!

Every year at the General Assembly hundreds of students present their research with a lot of time and effort going into preparing these presentations. With the aim to further improve the overall quality of poster presentations and more importantly, to encourage Early Career Scientists to present their work in the form of a poster, the OSP Awards (as they were formerly known), were born. Since the ...[Read More]