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Lucy Webb

@lucywebb.bsky.social
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PhD Candidate in Earth & Planetary Sciences at Stanford. I study sedimentary rocks and geochemistry to understand the evolution of life & environments on Earth.

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Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences @pnas.org · 03/08/2026
Why did some marine animals survive the Great Dying while others vanished? A new PNAS study suggests warming oceans and declining oxygen levels shaped survival after Earth’s largest mass extinction. In The Debrief: ow.ly/UupS50ZvQ2Q In PNAS: ow.ly/qeAK50ZvPRE
Seven different fossils and seashells arranged side by side for inspection.
Image credit: Sarah Leibovitz
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Barack Obama @barackobama.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
Today, the Trump administration repealed the endangerment finding: the ruling that served as the basis for limits on tailpipe emissions and power plant rules. Without it, we’ll be less safe, less healthy and less able to fight climate change—all so the fossil fuel industry can make even more money.
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WATCH: Trump, EPA's Zeldin announce end of scientific basis for U.S. action on climate change
The Trump administration on Thursday revoked a scientific finding that long has been the central basis for U.S. action to regulate greenhouse gas emissions and fight climate change, the most aggressiv...
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The Geological Society of America (GSA) @geosociety.bsky.social · 17/01/2026
Bivalves usurped brachiopods as the dominant benthic filter-feeders—the reasons why have been debated. new #Geology paper by Kemi Ashing-Giwa and colleagues support the hypothesis that sulfide played a significant role in the extinction’s selectivity. Read article: geosociety.co/Ashing-Giwa_et_al
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Lucy Webb @lucywebb.bsky.social · 05/01/2026
Were Earth's deep oceans better oxygenated during the Tonian than later in the Neoproterozoic? New thallium isotope data suggest they were. Check out our new paper in Geology: doi.org/10.1130/G536...
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Thallium isotopic evidence for the Tonian rise and Cryogenian fall of Neoproterozoic oxygen levels | Geology | GeoScienceWorld
Estimating dissolved oxygen (O2) concentrations in seawater during the Neoproterozoic is central to testing hypotheses about the role of O2 in animal
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