Wit & Wisdom

Changing mid-degree: How did this Travelin’ Geo get here?

Leiaka Welcome and edited by Kiran Chotalia January 12, 2022

Figure 1: Being used for scale by a colleague to detail extensive cross bedding in southern Utah (Triassic outcrop).

It can be tough realising you’re not on the path you want to be on. This week, we have Leiaka Welcome from the Colorado School of Mines showing us how a change of heart led her to start her PhD journey. Currently on social media (Instagram Reel, TikTok), there is a video trend where users are editing a video of themselves in a scenario with an audio sound where you can hear a classic record scratc ...[Read More]

Additional teaching tips

Menno Fraters December 22, 2021

In June 2020 I made (my first!) blog post for the EGU blog on the topic of teaching, describing what I learned by for the first time teaching a full class on my own. It was at the time when teaching suddenly had to shift from in person to online teaching. Last quarter I was teaching again, but now the situation was the reverse. We had to move from online teaching back to in person teaching. In thi ...[Read More]

Glitter and Geodes: Combining Social Media and Earth Sciences

Phylindia Gant and edited by Kiran Chotalia October 20, 2021

Social media has become an important tool in science, for everything from getting your results out into the ether, recruiting students and faculty and to educating the masses. Content creators invite us into their world and this week we’re given behind-the-scenes access. PhD student Phylindia Gant from the University of Florida shares some pearls of wisdom to help us get started. Hi, I’m Philly! I ...[Read More]

Getting to the core of The Core

Jon Mound and Iris van Zelst September 15, 2021

Let's dive into the core!
No, wait. That's probably not a good idea. I've heard it's very hot there.

Imagine my surprise when I found out that one of the regular attendees of our virtual institute coffee in Leeds actually worked on the movie ‘The Core’. Yes, you read that correctly: The Core, maybe the best bad science movie out there! (Although Menno had some great other suggestions last week!) So, in between many cups of coffee (well, mugs of tea actually, we are in the UK after all ...[Read More]