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Surviving the Ranking Madness: A Geoscientist’s Guide to Keeping Your Academic Soul Intact

July 15, 2025
Surviving the Ranking Madness: A Geoscientist’s Guide to Keeping Your Academic Soul Intact
Figure 4: The ProAc Revolution. Empowering personal (dark blue) and academic (light pink) feedback loops maintained by continuous ProAc adjustments. Graphic from Crameri (2023).

The Academic Identity Crisis Ever googled yourself to check if your h-index went up? Compared your publication statistics to a peer? Published in a paywall journal while cursing the system? – Same. Welcome to the slightly neurotic world of academic evaluation—where current incentives often pull us away from the values we hold as scientists: curiosity, creativity, responsibility, and even actual sc ...[Read More]

Opinion: self-supervised Machine Learning in seismology

December 12, 2022
Opinion: self-supervised Machine Learning in seismology

Martijn van den Ende, a Postdoctoral research fellow at Université Côte d’Azur, writes about his thoughts on the state of Machine Learning in seismology… At this moment of writing, it is unlikely that any experienced seismologist is unaware of the recent advancements of Machine Learning (ML) methods in Earth Sciences. Some pioneering studies started paving the way for ML in the early 1 ...[Read More]