Science Communication

Mind Your Head: How to have a mindful December and holiday season

ECS group: Work-Life Balance December 1, 2023

The EGU Life-Work-Balance group takes you on the road to a healthy life-work-balance. Behind every curve on this road, new aspects of mindfulness at work await you. (Image Credit: Ökyü Koç)

It’s December and the Life-Work-Balance group is recalling the “Mind Your Head” blog posts, a blogpost series which started in May 2018. We invite you to join our journey through 11 inspiring blog posts and five simple activities to foster our life-work-balance, revive knowledge and find new inspiration during this holiday season. A word at the beginning: perhaps your current life and daily routin ...[Read More]

Top 5 Gifts for Geoscientists (2023 edition!)

Hazel Gibson November 29, 2023

The nights are growing darker and there is snow on the ground here in Munich as winter draws close in the Northern Hemisphere, and at this time of year you are probably thinking about what gifts to get that special geoscientist in your life! We know sourcing appropriately nerdy and/or geology related gifts can sometimes be a challenge, so we in the EGU office are back again to help you out with ou ...[Read More]

Learning from EGU’s first Peer Review Training: In conversation with Kifle Aregahegn

Eduardo Queiroz Alves and Gillian D'Souza November 15, 2023

Daniel Wasner (distributed via imaggeo.egu.eu)

For the first time, EGU organized a Peer Review Training in September and October this year. It was attended by 50 participants, most of whom were early career scientists with little to no background in the peer review process. The training comprised three online sessions and an at-home exercise of reviewing real manuscripts. And of course, with feedback being key in such trainings, all participan ...[Read More]

Dive into the depths: 90 Years of Loch Ness monster lore

Devayani Khare November 10, 2023

An oil painting of the Loch Ness monster by Austrian artist Hugo Heikenwaelder. Image credits: Hugo Heikenwaelder, CC BY-SA 2.5 via Wikimedia Commons

Folk tales and myths, they’ve lasted for a reason. We tell them over and over because we keep finding truths in them, and we keep finding life in them. ~ Patrick Ness, American-British author (*nae, this Ness isn’t related to Nessie) Is it an eel? Is it a snake? Is it a diplodocus with fins? No, it’s Nessie! If there’s one myth that has weathered the passage of time and stands in defi ...[Read More]