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Social media for Early Career Scientists: is it really useful?

Social media for Early Career Scientists: is it really useful?

  In this period of confinement, most of the virtual interactions and news about the world come from the web and mainly social media. Today, we suggest looking at social media from the point of view of an early career scientist (ECS) and why we should (or should not) use them in our career path. In the next weeks, most of the international conferences will move on online virtual meetings and ...[Read More]

Representing the Possible: Alka Tripathy-Lang

Representing the Possible: Alka Tripathy-Lang

  Alka Tripathy-Lang is a freelance science writer based in Chandler, Arizona. She writes mostly about geohazards and creative ways to apply seismology to the world around us. What is your story, Alka? Why geology? When I was a little girl, I was fascinated by rocks and fossils. I told anyone who asked that I wanted to be a geologist when I grew up. However, in the throes of my teenage years, ...[Read More]

Seismology Job Portal

Seismology Job Portal

On this page, we regularly update open positions in Seismology for early career scientists. Do you have a job on offer? Contact us at ecs-sm@egu.eu Please, note that other available research positions are displayed on the EGU Jobs Portal.  

The sound of Covid-silence

The sound of Covid-silence

  As lockdowns have come in place all over the globe, workplaces have closed, people are sticking to their homes, and perpetual traffic jams have reduced to a trickle [1]. This results in eerie sights, where the lone bypasser walking through deserted streets cannot but wonder whether they’ve accidentally missed the memo on the apocalypse. The world is coming to a halt and this results in… sil ...[Read More]