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Wit & Wisdom

Poster presentation tips

October 11, 2017
Poster presentation tips
(Part of) Charitra Jain’s poster at NetherMod 2017 on the generation of primordial continental crust

Being a scientist is more than just doing research and science. You also need to be able to communicate your findings to your peers and/or the general public (outreach). At conferences, you usually have two options for presenting your work: a talk or a poster (although at EGU, you also have the PICO sessions). A poster is often preferred if you would like to start a discussion and get lots of feed ...[Read More]

Why there should (not) be more women in geodynamics

September 20, 2017
Why there should (not) be more women in geodynamics
More women in geodynamics? I don't think so.
Credit: Pixabay

Nowadays, equality is cool. Everyone is always going on about how women and men should get the same opportunities. In science, and hence, geodynamics, women are still a bit behind men for both historical (women only recently started graduating more in exact sciences) and unconscious-bias reasons. Therefore, there are lots of programs in order to stimulate women to go into science and, more importa ...[Read More]

The Rainbow Colour Map (repeatedly) considered harmful

August 23, 2017
The Rainbow Colour Map (repeatedly) considered harmful
A rough guide to the use of colours - rainbows best left to unicorns with their sparkly data. By Matthew Partridge of ErrantScience.com

This week’s “Wit and Wisdom” post is a guest entry by researcher Fabio Crameri from the Centre for Earth Evolution of Dynamics (CEED), University of Oslo. Many of us are guilty of creating figures using the colours of the rainbow in their full glory – it’s bold, exciting, and justifies the golden data contained within, right? Wrong! As Fabio explains, the rainbow scheme is misleading and should be ...[Read More]

Karaoke, geodynamics, and a bit of history

July 26, 2017
Karaoke, geodynamics, and a bit of history
Anybody up for singing the Fossil Rock Anthem? Credit: Nikolay Frolochkin (source)

Let me just talk to you about what I have been doing with my free time recently: I discovered a feature from Google Books named Ngram viewer which allows you to make graphs that show how words or phrases have occurred in a selection of books (e.g., English) over the selected years. I have of course been playing with this thing! You can imagine how exciting my weekends are. In all seriousness, thou ...[Read More]