Education

AI in science: the ethical experiment we didn’t design

Lucia Perez-Diaz May 8, 2026

Credit: Drew Hemment (distributed via imaggeo.egu.eu)

Artificial Intelligence, and its rapid incursion into the (geo)sciences, was already impossible to ignore at last year’s EGU General Assembly. (you can read my reflections then in this blog post) This year, unsurprisingly, it felt equally present. On Thursday, I attended the Great Debate on “The ethics of using AI in Geosciences: opportunities and risks”, a discussion spanning everything from scie ...[Read More]

What’s on at EGU26: highlights from the Outreach and Education Committees

Hazel Gibson April 22, 2026

Nina and Berry sculptures by Heike Jane Zimmermann

There are so many great events to participate in at EGU26 this year, in both on-site and virtual formats, that it can be very easy to feel overwhelmed. Whilst we encourage you to make good use of your Personal Programme to help organise your activities, we also reached out to several of EGU’s Committees that are responsible for specific other aspects of EGU’s activities, including the ...[Read More]

Congratulations to the 2025 winner of the first ever Geolog post of the year!

Asmae Ourkiya March 13, 2026

At EGU, we’re always looking for new ways to celebrate and amplify the voices of our community. For our second edition of the top Geolog post of the year in 2025, we selected the top five performing blog posts and held an internal vote within the EGU Executive Office to select the winner. We are now excited to announce that the award for the best blog of 2025 goes to (drumroll …) CJ Rajendra ...[Read More]

Congratulations to the winners of the best EGU division blogs of 2025!

Asmae Ourkiya March 10, 2026

If you’re a regular reader of the EGU blogs, you may notice a certain annual tradition of ours: we like to celebrate the contribution of our science writers and bloggers over the year gone by. And 2025 was no exception of course; we had a number of inspiring and thought-provoking blog posts published across the EGU’s official blog GeoLog and division blogs. Thank you to each one of you for your ti ...[Read More]