Our EGU blogging team has had a fantastic 2025 posting across our official blog, GeoLog and the division blogs.
Most of our readers appreciate EGU’s blogs for their informative yet accessible style, and for our bloggers’ ability to take complex geoscience content and make it fun and relevant to the reader. If this sounds like something you’d like to get involved in, we encourage you to get in touch with your Division blog editors, or email media@egu.eu.
To celebrate the excellent display of science writing across the network and division blogs, we are back again with this year’s EGU blogs competition!
We’ve asked our blog editors to put forth their favourite post of the year in the running to be crowned the best of the EGU blogs. From now until March 6, 2026, we invite you, the EGU Blogs readers, to vote for your favourite post of 2025.
How to vote for your favourite blog:
Browse the poll below to see the shortlisted posts. Click on a title to read the full post, then cast your vote for the one you believe deserves the title of Best Post of 2025.
The post with the most public votes will be crowned the winner. Additionally, EGU blog editors and staff will select their favourite; the post receiving the most votes from this group will win the panel vote.
Please cast your vote here.
List of shortlisted blog posts:
- Where earthquake faults reach the ground surface: insight from 2016 Kumamoto event (TS)
- When August Brought Snow: Unseasonal Snowfall Disrupts Life in Ladakh’s High Valley Village (CR)
- One Ring to Rule Them All: The Geology of Middle-earth (GD)
- Climbing Through a PhD – Mental Health on the Way to the Summit (G)
- The Blatten landslide in Switzerland (HS) (NH) and (GM)
- Surviving the Ranking Madness: A Geoscientist’s Guide to Keeping Your Academic Soul Intact (SM)
- If a Resilient City Had a Face: It Might Look Like Kagoshima (NH)
- Meet Richard Horne, 2025 Julius Bartels medalist, honoured for his fundamental contributions to understanding the formation of the radiation belts and their effects on space weather (ST)
- Monitoring the Ocean’s Green Pulse: A New Global Dataset for Phytoplankton Phenology (OS)
- Where is climate science heading? Views from the community (NP)
- Google Earth Engine, a pionner tool for enviromental solutions (GI)
Join our blogging community
Are you a science writer or communications expert, or perhaps want to try your hand at science communication? All the EGU blogs, GeoLog (the official EGU blog), and all the division blogs, welcome guest contributions from scientists, students and professionals in the Earth, planetary and space sciences.
It couldn’t be easier to get involved. Decide what you’d like to write about, find the blog that is the best fit for your post and contact the blog editor. You can find all editor details on the individual blog pages. If in doubt, you can submit your idea for a post via the Submit a Post page on GeoLog, or email the EGU Media and Engagement Manager to help you with initial enquiries and introduce you to individual blog editors.
Don’t forget to look at the blog pages for a flavour of the content you can expect from the new and existing blogs in 2025. The blogs are also a great place to learn about new opportunities, exciting fields of research and keep up to date with news relating to the upcoming 2026 General Assembly, taking place from 03-08 May 2026 in Vienna, Austria and online.
So go on then, get voting and keep an eye out for our post in February for the winners!
