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Queer Quarterly: Allyship in the LGBTQIA+ community – what it is, how you can help

and December 11, 2024
Queer Quarterly: Allyship in the LGBTQIA+ community – what it is, how you can help
Queer Quarterly logo, designed by Lea Pennac

Queer Quarterly is the blog series of the EGU pride group, a LGBTQIA+ team of geoscientists engaged to uphold and improve the rights of the community in the EGU organization. This week’s post is dedicated to allyship: how people outside of the community can support our efforts. The term LGBTQIA+ is the abbreviation for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer, Intersex, and Asexual. The addition ...[Read More]

FEMR: An emerging “game changer” in predicting earthquakes and impending geohazards.

and June 12, 2024
FEMR: An emerging “game changer” in predicting earthquakes and impending geohazards.
The map of the region of Syrian-African transform with superimposed locations of significant earthquake epicenters related to the Gaziantep Earthquake of 6th Feb 2023 and its subsequent aftershocks. (image from Das et al. ,2024)

In this week’s blog, Shreeja Das,  a Post Doctoral researcher at the Sami Shamoon College of Engineering, Ashdod, Israel working with Dr. Vladimir Frid, discusses her research involving the use of FEMR waves and its use as a tool in predicting impending geohazards , some of her results obtained using said technique to study transform fault activity along the Dead Sea Transform fault. Earthqu ...[Read More]

A summer science YouTube playlist

August 2, 2023
A summer science YouTube playlist

Summer is not over yet, so today I prepared a list of science YouTube channels to check out during the lazy summer afternoons. Scientists and teachers love to share their research, experiments and insights with anyone who is willing to listen, so there are many fantastic science channels to watch. These people work hard to make science accessible for everyone, so when we’re all done watching bad s ...[Read More]

Continental drift in academia

and January 19, 2022
Continental drift in academia
Credit: Trud Antzée | STUDIO ANTZÉE | studioantzee.com | twitter.com/Antzee_ | instagram.com/studioantzee/

After spending about three decades in the hustle-bustle of Asian megacities, I landed up in a quiet European town to continue my research work as a postdoc. When you know you will not meet your family soon in person, you know that you will not get the food you love and, the climate that has guided you in the sun and shadow will be very different; you may expect a life struggle. Yet, people have di ...[Read More]