GeoLog

GeoTalk: meet Silke Asche, researcher of the origin of life on other planets!

Simon Clark January 16, 2026

Silke Asche

Hello Silke and welcome to GeoTalk! Before we dig into your topic of expertise, could you introduce yourself to our readers? Hello, Simon. My name is Silke Asche, and I am a chemist in astrobiology and part of the Agnostic Biosignature Collective led by Dr Heather Graham at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight enter. My Ph.D. focused on Origins of Life (OoL) research and the automation of such experiments. ...[Read More]

25 years of Wikipedia: The only thing more layered than the Grand Canyon!

Asmae Ourkiya January 15, 2026

Photo by Oberon Copeland. Source: Unsplash

The year was 2001. A time before smartphones, before social media took over, and back when scrolling usually involved a physical microfilm reader at the library. On January 15 of that year, something revolutionary erupted onto the scene: Wikipedia was launched. As we celebrate its 25th anniversary, it’s time we come clean. While we might tell our professors we spent all night elbow-deep in the pri ...[Read More]

Communicating uncertainty to non-experts: A good problem to tackle

Iris Schneider Pérez and Solmaz Mohadjer January 12, 2026

Word cloud depicting main topics covered in EGU25 abstracts submitted to EOS4.1: How to communicate uncertainty to non-experts.

Uncertainty in geosciences is an inherent part of scientific processes and assessments, propagating throughout the entire workflow (Pérez-Díaz et al., 2020). As scientists, we are used to seeing error bars, confidence intervals, or statistical indicators that tell us how robust our models or measurements are (Padilla et al., 2021). The challenge arises when we need to communicate these scientific ...[Read More]

More than just a cat: How Schrödinger invented modern Earth science

Asmae Ourkiya January 5, 2026

Image by Luku Muffin. Source: Unsplash

Did you know that yesterday, Sunday, January 4, 2026, marked 65 years since Erwin Schrödinger passed away? While the internet loves him for his cat in a box thought experiment, Geoscientists love him for something much more practical: the equation. Many of us have spent decades debating the health of a hypothetical feline in a box (I remember watching this episode of the Bing Bang Theory and think ...[Read More]