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Climate group @CEREGE, France @climatecerege.bsky.social · 34m

🚨job alert🚨 1-year position in our team to work in our micropaleontology lab!

Alexis Licht @alexislicht.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

If you haven't seen it yet, here is a video about the work of our Kazakh colleague Saïda Nigmatova, paleobotanist and expert of Cenozoic pollen assemblages. A good introduction on our project and her work in Kazakhstan. @dispersal-erc.bsky.social

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Alexis Licht @alexislicht.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

For #fossilfriday, a picture from our current paleontological field trip in Kazakhstan: paleontologist Pauline Coster picking fossil rodent teeth in Eocene screen washed sediment. This year, we screen washed 1.5 tons of material, our personal record!

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Adam Forte @topoismyforte.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

The title doesn't really capture the angst most of us feel, but the first line of the article captures the current zeitgeist of the US scientific community pretty well, "For many U.S. scientists funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF), the agency they know and loved died on 10 September."

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NSF memo implementing Trump’s ‘golden age’ of science unsettles researchers

New document emphasizes support for White House priorities over curiosity-driven ideas

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Zeke Hausfather @zekehausfather.com · 14/09/2026

Here is the latest combined forecast across all 14 models, compared to past strong El Nino events. It shows just how extreme and unprecedented this event is forecast to be:

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Alexis Licht @alexislicht.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Just spent a few days along the former shores of the Aral Sea in central Kazakhstan. Barren landscape of dust, isolated shells on the ground, and endless roads with nothing at the horizon. Rare great outcrops of Paleogene marine strata of the Paratethys sea, but they are hard to reach.

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Alexis Licht @alexislicht.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Our first clumped isotopic data are out!

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Alexis Licht @alexislicht.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Back to Kazakhstan, looking for Paleogene climate records and paleontological sites! @dispersal-erc.bsky.social

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Alexis Licht @alexislicht.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

A new paper from the @dispersal-erc.bsky.social project! In this study, we investigated how embrithopods, these massive herbivorous mammals who once throve in Africa, succeeded to cross the Neotethys and diversified on Balkanatolia (1/n) doi.org/10.2110/palo...

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DISPERSAL project - understanding past mammalian dispersals @dispersal-erc.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

A new video of the project, featuring Saïda Nigmatova, paleobotanist and research director of the Satpayev Institute of geology of Almaty! Saïda studies Paleogene ecosystems of central Asia, which are keys to understand past dispersal events between Europe and Asia. youtu.be/n6lpQHo49p0?...

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The People Behind the ERC Dispersal Project | Scientist Interview #6

YouTube video by CEREGE

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Gavin Schmidt @climateofgavin.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

2027, on the other hand, is going to blow apart the record for the warmest year. 🤷

GISTEMP data from 1980, with predictions for 2026 and 2027 (phew wot a scorcher...)

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Alexis Licht @alexislicht.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

A must-read for the many of us using AI, casually or professionally

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Dr. Nina Davtian (she/her/hers) @ninadavtian.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

FR : Bonjour Nancy ! C’est là où nous, les chercheurs francophones en géochimie organique, allons « coasser » pendant quelques jours. 🐸 ENG: Hello Nancy! There, we, the French Researchers in Organic Geochemistry, will « croak » for a few days. 🐸 geochimie.fr/wp-content/u... 🧪 #ChemSky (1/3)

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Climate group @CEREGE, France @climatecerege.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

#Canada, you too? @jysuarezibarra.bsky.social, Marie Curie postdoctoral fellow in our lab, was particularly enthusiastic to attend the @goldschmidt-confer.bsky.social conference this Summer. But, because Jaime is Colombian, you rejected his visa application.

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Alexis Licht @alexislicht.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

A new video highlighting the work of my friend and colleague Guillaume Dupont-Nivet !

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Vikram Bath @vikrambath.bsky.social · 06/06/2026

The top 2026 X accounts gives insight into the lie that X is the town square. These people are niche celebrities and their influence on X does not represent influence elsewhere. Your participation is not going to change this graph www.natesilver.net/p/social-med...

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Alexis Licht @alexislicht.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

🚨new paper alert🚨 In this review paper including an international team mixing geologists, biologists, and paleontologists, we synthesize current approaches for integrating paleoclimate and paleogeographic data into macroevolutionary models. doi.org/10.1016/j.tr... (1/n)

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Climate group @CEREGE, France @climatecerege.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

Yesterday we were numerous to celebrate the exhibition of the artwork of Paul Botté, PhD student and photographer in our team, featured in Aix en Provence!

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Rachel Warnock @rachelwarnock.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

Happy to announce our new MSc in Earth System Dynamics and Evolution beginning this Oct 2026 at FAU Germany. We provide interdisciplinary training in Earth systems and science diplomacy 🌍🧪📈👩‍💻 📝 Funding provided by the Elite Network of Bavaria. Application deadline: July 15. More info below👇

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Dr. Genevieve Guenther (she/they) @doctorvive.bsky.social · 17/05/2026

Moving forward, PELASE remember that downplaying the danger of climate change only helps the climate deniers. That’s why they’ve all jumped on this. Please undo the damage done! Please trumpet that 3C by 2100 is catastrophic (and just a step to more heating w/out fossil phaseout and net zero).

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"GOOD RIDDANCE! After 15 years of Dumocrats promising that "Climate Change is going to destroy the Planet, the United Nations TOP Climate Committee just admitted that its own projections (RCP8.5) were WRONG!
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GOOD RIDDANCE! After 15 years of Dumocrats promising that "Climate Change" is going to destroy the Planet, the United Nations TOP Climate Committee just admitted that its own projections (RCP8.5) were WRONG! WRONG! WRONG! For far too long Climate Activism has been used by Dumocrats to scare Americans, push
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Alexis Licht @alexislicht.bsky.social · 10/05/2026

Microplastics have excellent taste

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Climate group @CEREGE, France @climatecerege.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

Welcome to @bramvaes.bsky.social, paleomagnetist, paleogeographer and climate modeler postdoc in our lab, working on the @dispersal-erc.bsky.social project !

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Alexis Licht @alexislicht.bsky.social · 27/04/2026

My PhD student Paul botté, is an amazing photographer. He will expose his fieldwork pictures in May in Aix en Provence. Join us for the official party on May 21!

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Alexis Licht @alexislicht.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

The fifth video of our project on primate dispersals is out! Featuring our amazing paleoanthropologist colleague K.C. Beard from Kansas University.

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DISPERSAL project - understanding past mammalian dispersals @dispersal-erc.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

Back in the field with the team in the Luberon under the Provençal sun ☀️ Careful digging, a bit of patience… and sometimes, a small discovery like this fossilized rodent jaw. A small find, but another big clue from the past!

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Alexis Licht @alexislicht.bsky.social · 25/03/2026

Check the interview of @carinahoorn.bsky.social, a great intro on how we work with pollen when reconstructing deep time paleoenvironments!

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Alexis Licht @alexislicht.bsky.social · 14/03/2026

A few pics of our fieldwork in the Luberon of this week. Training student to logging and pmag sampling while dating historical paleontological sites of the geopark

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DISPERSAL project - understanding past mammalian dispersals @dispersal-erc.bsky.social · 10/03/2026

Welcome aboard! 👋 We’re delighted to welcome Yohan Roussy, a Master 2 student joining us in the Luberon to work on clays and climate. A great opportunity to explore how sediments record past environmental and climatic changes.

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Climate group @CEREGE, France @climatecerege.bsky.social · 09/03/2026

🚨A newcomer in the team this Winter!🚨 After two years in the US, climate modeler @antacl.bsky.social is joining our team as a CNRS scientist, to work on the links between paleogeography and ancient climates. Welcome 🍾

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Alexis Licht @alexislicht.bsky.social · 24/02/2026

Check out the video of @mustafayk.bsky.social speaking about his work on past climate and dispersals !

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Dr. Hilary Rose Dawson @hilaryrosed.bsky.social · 18/02/2026

If you're an #EcoEvo #PhD candidate anywhere in the world looking for project funding, consider applying for the @asn-amnat.bsky.social Student Research Award. Ten proposals for $2k in research funds will be awarded. Due 13 March 2026. Please share widely! 🧪 #grants #ecology #evolution #behavior

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Student Research Award

<p>The ASN Student Research Awards support research by student members that advances the goals of the society: the conceptual unification of ecology, evolution, and behavior. Each award consists of a ...

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DISPERSAL project - understanding past mammalian dispersals @dispersal-erc.bsky.social · 12/02/2026

Pauline Coster and @alexislicht.bsky.social presenting their results on the Eocene paleontological record of Kazakhstan today at the Satpaev Institute of geology in Almaty.

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Alexis Licht @alexislicht.bsky.social · 11/02/2026

I'm becoming a fake expert in the taxonomy of fossil beavers. So many of them here

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Alexis Licht @alexislicht.bsky.social · 09/02/2026

Visiting the Satpaev Institute of geology in Almaty for a week, to work with our @dispersal-erc.bsky.social collaborators. And enjoying a tea with one of the last living vertebrate paleontologists in Kazakhstan, Bolat Baishashov!

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DISPERSAL project - understanding past mammalian dispersals @dispersal-erc.bsky.social · 06/02/2026

Big shout-out to Leny Montheil! His first ERC Dispersal interview is now live and comes with a brand-new paper on how Asian mammals crossed shifting continents during the Eocene (-80 to -40 Ma) doi.org/10.1016/j.ea... Watch continents move 🌍

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Alexis Licht @alexislicht.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

The first PhD paper of @benjaminraynaud.bsky.social, also featuring @carinahoorn.bsky.social, @mustafayk.bsky.social, and many others! A dive into the Eocene flora of Balkanatolia.

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Alexis Licht @alexislicht.bsky.social · 03/02/2026

A new video of the @dispersal-erc.bsky.social featuring the work of Leny Montheil, who has been working with us for 18 months !

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Alexis Licht @alexislicht.bsky.social · 01/02/2026

Today, I celebrate the end of an experiment. It has been five years, during COVID times, that I set up this climate station in Collias, in southern France. Every first day of the month, I came here to get my rainwater sample. And today was the final sampling day. (1/n)

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Henning @geohenning.bsky.social · 27/01/2026

Happy 6th "Large boulder the size of a small boulder" anniversary to those who celebrate! #Geology ⚒️

Twitter post screenshot of the San Miguel Sheriff account. 5 years ago they posted about a boulder on the road but referred to it as "Large boulder the size of a small boulder".

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Alexis Licht @alexislicht.bsky.social · 26/01/2026

The first clumped isotope results from our platform at @cerege.bsky.social. Two long years of hardwork in the lab.

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DISPERSAL project - understanding past mammalian dispersals @dispersal-erc.bsky.social · 26/01/2026

A new preprint from our research group is online! In this paper, Paul Botté, PhD student in the project at @climatecerege.bsky.social, studied the evolution of continental environmental through the late Eocene and earliest Oligocene in central Anatolia. egusphere.copernicus.org/preprints/20...

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Alexis Licht @alexislicht.bsky.social · 20/01/2026

A short video on our work about Eocene primate dispersal, part of the project @dispersal-erc.bsky.social. And a great opportunity to hear one of the best Frenglish accents around.

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Alexis Licht @alexislicht.bsky.social · 04/01/2026

Un grand botaniste et un grand penseur de notre rapport à la nature.

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Alexis Licht @alexislicht.bsky.social · 16/12/2025

🚨New paper alert🚨 40 million years ago, anthropoid primates and rodents dispersed from East Asia to Africa and South America, across two wide oceans (the Neotethys and the Southern Atlantic). So Which way did they pass? @dispersal-erc.bsky.social (1/n) doi.org/10.1016/j.ea...

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exoCean Laboratory @exoceanlab.bsky.social · 09/12/2025

#exoCeanadvent Day 9: Meet Maxime (again). At @exoceanlab.bsky.social and @climatecerege.bsky.social Maxime has been conducting several experiments focusing on the culture of marine organisms. One project involved culturing foraminifera in the presence of olivine (Mg,Fe)2SiO4, an igneous mineral.

Don't eat that! A large foraminifera trying to eat grains of olivine. It soon realised that they weren't food, but had no problems afterwards, so... not poison!

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