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Geodynamics

Ada Lovelace’s spirit at Lake Seč

Ada Lovelace’s spirit at Lake Seč

From 21 to 26 June, the 2026 Ada Lovelace Workshop on Modelling of Mantle and Lithosphere Dynamics brought together the geodynamics community in Seč, Czech Republic. In this week’s blog post, Vojtěch Patočka, Assistant Professor in the Department of Geophysics at Charles University in Prague and a member of the organising committee, offers an offbeat take on the workshop. Every two years, a ...[Read More]

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How to get involved with EGU throughout the year

How to get involved with EGU throughout the year

If you recently attended the European Geosciences Union (EGU)’s General Assembly, you may have discovered that EGU is much more than an annual conference. Or perhaps, you recently joined EGU as a member, and are now wondering: How can I become more involved in the EGU community? My name is Josephine Cakuru, and I am the Community Development Assistant of the EGU Executive Office. Building upon my ...[Read More]

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Geodynamics

Introducing the new blog team!

Introducing the new blog team!

Hello blog readers! It’s Jean-Baptiste and Alexis. With EGU26 now behind us and summer approaching fast, we wanted to announce the start of the 9th blogging season for the Geodynamics division and introduce the team for the 2026–2027 year. We both have the privilege and the daunting challenge of succeeding Constanza and Michael as Editors-in-Chief of the Geodynamics Blog. Over the past three years ...[Read More]

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Pride month in the era of DEI rollbacks: Reflections on resilience, and why pride was a riot after all

Pride month in the era of DEI rollbacks: Reflections on resilience, and why pride was a riot after all

Pride month arrives this year against a backdrop of institutional irony. In the United States, federal research funding has been thoroughly weaponised and forced a massive scientific brain drain across the Atlantic. In Europe, a multi-million-euro effort to capture that exiled talent is underway, even as Europe’s own domestic politics fracture along the exact same ideological fault lines. Fo ...[Read More]

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Hydrological Sciences

HydroTalks podcast: Introducing Ilias Pechlivanidis, the HS Division President-elect

HydroTalks podcast: Introducing Ilias Pechlivanidis, the HS Division President-elect

For this  episode of HydroTalks, we’re thrilled to welcome Dr. Ilias Pechlivanidis, Senior Researcher and Associate Professor (Docent) in hydrology and water resources at the Swedish Meteorological and Hydrological Institute (SMHI), and Visiting Researcher at Uppsala University. He is currently the Vice President of the EGU Hydrological Sciences Division and will serve as Division President for th ...[Read More]

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Hydrological Sciences

Reclaiming scientific publishing: Our duty to make science freely accessible to all

Reclaiming scientific publishing: Our duty to make science freely accessible to all

Editor’s note: While this article explores the benefits of Diamond Open Access and critiques commercial, for-profit publishing structures, it is important to note that the European Geosciences Union (EGU) operates on a community-led, transparent, and not-for-profit Open Access model. EGU journals use Article Processing Charges (APCs) strictly to cover publishing costs and support the scientific co ...[Read More]

GeoLog

A mosaic beneath our feet? Connecting soil science and policy at EGU26

A mosaic beneath our feet? Connecting soil science and policy at EGU26

On Friday, May 8, 2026, the final day of the EGU26, I attended a Special Programme Group session of the Soil System Sciences (SSS) division on Facing the last policy challenges in the EU: How soil scientists can contribute to the demands for scientific evidence to support EU policies. The session brought together scientists, policymakers, and representatives from European institutions, including m ...[Read More]

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Geodynamics

“You belong here”: reflections on gender inequality in Academia

“You belong here”: reflections on gender inequality in Academia

Academia is often imagined as a space driven by merit, curiosity, and scientific collaboration. Still behind publications, conferences, and research achievements, many women in STEM continue to navigate environments shaped by subtle exclusion, normalized inequalities, and power imbalances that are not always openly discussed. In Earth Sciences, where collaboration and field-based research are fund ...[Read More]

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Hydrological Sciences

HydroTalks: Prof. Laura Richards and Ajmal Roshan on groundwater quality, arsenic, and citizen science

HydroTalks: Prof. Laura Richards and Ajmal Roshan on groundwater quality, arsenic, and citizen science

For this month’s episode of HydroTalks, we’re thrilled to welcome Prof. Laura Richards and Ajmal Roshan. Laura is a UKRI Future Leaders Fellow and Professor of Water Resources and Environmental Geochemistry at the University of Manchester. Laura is also the project lead of the AQUAROAD Programme on groundwater quality in the Global South. Ajmal is a Cookson Awardee PhD scholar, and he’s work ...[Read More]

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Publish or perish? Or is publishing perishing? Reflections from a Great Debate at EGU26

Publish or perish? Or is publishing perishing? Reflections from a Great Debate at EGU26

There’s a particular kind of energy you get in a conference room when something is about to matter. You can feel it before anything starts: chairs filling quickly, people sitting closer than usual, no polite gaps left between strangers. This was the case for the Great Debate on The future of scientific publishing: do we need scientific publishing? at the European Geosciences Union General Assembly ...[Read More]