Wit & Wisdom

How to fall in love?

Iris van Zelst August 26, 2020

Subduction makes me swoon
Image by Lucia Perez-Diaz

Ah, love – that elusive feeling most people search for. It can be hard to find and hard to hold on to. Let me help you out. This week, I will give you 10 definitive tips to find your perfect match and fall and stay in love with your research. 1. Size doesn’t matter Some people like big, broad research topics, while others like smaller, niche research topics for which you really need to dive ...[Read More]

Baking geological cakes!

Ruth Amey - edited by Iris van Zelst August 19, 2020

I really fancy some cake now!
Image credit: Piqsels.

Who doesn’t love baking? Seriously, baked goods are the best: with or without gluten, with or without chocolate. But you know what makes every bake out there even better? A geological theme. You heard it here first! This week, Ruth Amey, postdoctoral researcher and programme manager of the Earth Observation Center for Doctoral Training at the University of Leeds, United Kingdom, discusses th ...[Read More]

Watch and learn!

Editorial team 1 August 5, 2020

Too envious to watch Netflix’s Selling Sunset? Gone through the top 5 geodynamic movies? Lock-down vacation too boring for words? In need of useful procrastination? Search no longer! We have compiled an extensive list of online webinars and speaker series that were already active pre-Corona or saw the daylight during the pandemic to stay in touch with our colleagues both abroad and next door ...[Read More]

Journey to the centre of the manuscript

Anna Gülcher / Lucía Pérez Díaz July 1, 2020

Storytelling_Geoscience by L. Perez Diaz is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.

During the working day, Matthew Kemp is a seismology PhD student at the University of Oxford. In his spare time, however, he writes and performs musicals about science as part of the duo Geologise Theatre, using stories to explain complex scientific concepts to a variety of audiences – from dinosaur extinction to climate change. In this week’s post, he discusses how classical story-tel ...[Read More]