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How Open Science may help us during and after the pandemic

, and November 25, 2020
How Open Science may help us during and after the pandemic
Photograph of Formula Baby championship taken by Olivier Pourret.

As Hedding et al. (2020) indicate, it is “not business as usual” for higher education across the globe. There are many testimonies by scientists who are struggling to work while their children are stuck at home during the coronavirus pandemic (Langin, 2020). Indeed, it is very complex to stay at home to raise and home-school kids and remain productive as an academic while living through a pandemic ...[Read More]

GeoTalk: #BlackInTheMud panellists reflect on Black in Geoscience Week 2020

October 16, 2020
GeoTalk: #BlackInTheMud panellists reflect on Black in Geoscience Week 2020
Image credit: @BlkinGeoscience, Tiara Moore and Timnit Kefela.

After telling a personal and traumatizing field experience to my fellow colleagues of color, I found that we all had shared similar events! Shocked and outraged, I wanted to find a place to expose and highlight these events thus the #BlackInTheMud panel was created. Display content from YouTube Click here to display content from YouTube. Learn more in YouTube’s privacy policy. Always display conte ...[Read More]

Colour deficient vision and the geosciences; just another way of looking at things

September 18, 2020
Colour deficient vision and the geosciences; just another way of looking at things
Mineralogically complex drillcore from Australia (Photo by Simon Jowitt)

Like a reasonably large proportion of the population, I have colour vision deficiency (also known as colour deficient vision or colourblindness). I’m not going to get into the technical aspects of what this is like as they are covered well here and here, and you can do an Ishihara test, and other tests here, to check your own vision. The other reason I’m not going to discuss the technicalities of ...[Read More]