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Dr. Monika Doubrawa @mohnika.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

"a group of countries, led by Saudi Arabia and Russia and including India and China, "

Dr. Monika Doubrawa @mohnika.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

I was ver excited when I got the chance to spend some time at Zumaia 🦖 - might have taken quite some time to find the PETM layer which is not marked (with a very patient co-traveller trying his best to help).

photo of a coastal section with a beach, the rocks of the cliffs are thinnly layered

photo of a sign marking the Global Boundary Stratotype Section and Point of the Zumaia Section

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Dr. Monika Doubrawa @mohnika.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Riedglacier (Riedgletscher) in Switzerland: On the left a photo from July 2013 ( (c) Günter Seggebäing (de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bordier...), on the right my picture August 2026, view from the Klein Bigerhorn.

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Dr. Monika Doubrawa @mohnika.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

Lovely paragneiss / mica-shist fold in Ticino.

Photo of a thinly layered paragness sequence, layers leading from the front of the picture to the back, with a nice fold on the left side. This picture was taken high up in the mountains, with mostly rocky surroundings and a bit of greenery inbetween.

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Dr. Monika Doubrawa @mohnika.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

🧪 calling deep water drill core paleo people! I'm searching for a "nice", ca. 3m long section of a drill core - spanning at least 100k years - visibly layered - somewhat ok studied (hyperthermals? Eocene?) - preferable #IODP / #ODP / #DSDP for a "science dry run" for visitors at a museum.

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Dr. Monika Doubrawa @mohnika.bsky.social · 10/04/2026

The interior-design scenographers working of the new building asked for "photos of cool structures from your collections". Hard questions now need answers: Why are echinoids so cute? How many forams can I sneak in? Which is the cooler diatom? (Nobody warned me of those hard moments as a curator!)

SEM picture of an echinoid skin, with flower-like shapes where needles once were attached.

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Dr. Monika Doubrawa @mohnika.bsky.social · 05/02/2026

I recently gave a pop-science talk about the KPg boundary. I think by looking at my (excellent! ^^) drawings one can easily decipher which organisms I deal with on a more common basis ...

A screenshot of a presentation slide with black and white, scribble-like drawings, picturing selected organisms, which were highly impacted at the KPg boundary. This includes plants, a mososaur, a plesiosaur, a triceratops, an ammonite, a belemnite, corals and bivalves (rudists and inoceramus), as well as microorganisms (a planktic foraminifera, a coccosphere and an ostracod)

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Dr. Monika Doubrawa @mohnika.bsky.social · 08/01/2026

A brief stint of winter in Basel - entrance to the Natural History Museum #NMB

Picture of the entrance to the Natural History Museum Basel in winter. Snow is falling, covers the street and the two pine trees standing on both sides of the door. Behind the trees there are red flags hanging on the wall, advertising the special exhibition and framing the large, black and gold door, with "museum" carved in the stone above the frame.

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Dr. Monika Doubrawa @mohnika.bsky.social · 31/12/2025

My favourite review (of a fire blanket). "Survived house fire - our house burnt down and is totally destroyed. I found the fire blanket we bought a year ago in the rubbel. Ordered a new one :D. + fire proof + found in OG packaging on rubble - could not have saved the house (fire too big haha)"

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Dr. Monika Doubrawa @mohnika.bsky.social · 09/12/2025

Seeing that AI pictures are getting creepingly hard to tell from real ones, the idea of carrying a totem - which only you know in detail - becomes something to think about.

picture of the totem-gyroscope from the movie Inception

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Dr. Monika Doubrawa @mohnika.bsky.social · 16/09/2025

When you had "a week" (and are going into the second "a week"), but you also have lovely coworkers 🥰

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Dr. Monika Doubrawa @mohnika.bsky.social · 17/06/2025

The second Austrian Assessment Report on Climate Change is out... (aar2.ccca.ac.at) How do you know it is Austrian? ... ... ... 😶

Screenshot of the website to download the Secon Austrian Assessment Report on Climate Change saying: page not found

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Dr. Monika Doubrawa @mohnika.bsky.social · 23/01/2025

What is main current reserach mainly about? Here is a little word cloud made out of recent manuscript titles (using: shiny.rcg.sfu.ca/u/rdmorin/sc... )

Wordcloud of relevant reserach topics, made out of titles of recent publications, those include, among others: Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum, shelf, foraminiferal, coastal, atlantic, benthic, reconstruction, perturbation and coral

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Dr. Monika Doubrawa @mohnika.bsky.social · 07/01/2025

Back to work, back at my microscope and back at picking and sorting foraminifera. I did learn that I can now also take those cool through-light pictures of microfossils, very excited about that (pictured: Planulina wuellerstorfi Schwager, 1866 - the first foram I had to pick for my Master's) 😊🧪

A picture of a coiled, nicely chambered foraminifera taken under a microscope with through-light, so the light is shining through the slightly transparent body, ehancing pores and chamber walls.

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Dr. Monika Doubrawa @mohnika.bsky.social · 17/12/2024

Things are heating up in the Younger Dryas fandom OR when scientists fight. 🧪🦣

Screenshot of an scientific article with the title "Rebuttle of Sweatman, Powell, and West's "Rejection of Holliday et al.'s alleged refutation of the Younger Dryas Impact Hypothesis""

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Dr. Monika Doubrawa @mohnika.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

A bit curious to discover that Microsoft Word sees a single long sentence as a problem and suggests revision.

a screenshot from a word document, pointing out a "problem", saying: Long Sentence (consider revising)

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Dr. Monika Doubrawa @mohnika.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

How is a group of foraminifera called?

picture of larger benthic foraminifera, cut through diagonally and glued to a thin section, somewhat resembling a pod of whales breaching the ocean surface

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Dr. Monika Doubrawa @mohnika.bsky.social · 04/11/2024

If you see this, post a photo taken in the mountains. From yesterday, Switzerland's autumn colours are in full swing.

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Dr. Monika Doubrawa @mohnika.bsky.social · 31/10/2024

A great typo, and inspiring for a Halloween - signoff: With my warmest regards and best witches! (a letter of the correspondence archive of H. G. Kugler, stratigrapher and geologist)

a photo of a typewriter written letter, focussing onto the sign-off line saying: With my warmes regards and best whiches

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Dr. Monika Doubrawa @mohnika.bsky.social · 30/09/2024

Nearly 30% of Austrians look at the desctructions left behind by the floods and decided: well that´s not really a problem! And that is not even mentioning the xenophobia, misanthropic, mysogonistic, unethic and plainly uneducated views they are supporting.

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Dr. Monika Doubrawa @mohnika.bsky.social · 10/09/2024

The important notes on a manuscript 🧪

Photograph of an old, printed manuscript. The black and white figure depicts a man, noted as Gorge Higgins, on a road in Trinidad. A handwirtten comment is written beneath it sayzing: "G. Higgins wearing hat of H. G. Kugler!"

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Dr. Monika Doubrawa @mohnika.bsky.social · 24/06/2024

Dear Science bluesky 🧪- Help me find out what tried to eat me for breakfast! Locality: Mediterranean - Ionian Sea, shallow bay Critter: about 1 mm long. Red is my blood, not its own coloring. My best guess is a parasitic arthropoda (isopoda larvae?).

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Dr. Monika Doubrawa @mohnika.bsky.social · 15/03/2024

I see my fragile stickers are working well... Shipping scientific samples is always nerve wracking 🧪

Picture of a damaged package with a fragile sticker next to the damage. The sticker has a white dinosaur skeleton on red background and says: Fragile, please handle with care!

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Dr. Monika Doubrawa @mohnika.bsky.social · 07/03/2024

It should be illegal to have to go to work if the fluffy housemate does this.

photo of a fluffy black dog, with a few white-greyish hairs, cuddled up on a lap on a couch, looking very adorable and comfy

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Dr. Monika Doubrawa @mohnika.bsky.social · 18/12/2023

This is not the first time I heard from the "older" generation that the reason for PhDs taking longer than their contracted time is that we don't work at least 8-5 / 9-6, weekends, take too long breaks, and refuse to make the PhD the only thing our life revolves around.

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Dr. Monika Doubrawa @mohnika.bsky.social · 01/12/2023

The exciting post-doc life of a micropaleontologist (yes my glue turned out pink, and no I have no glue why).

Plummer slides, after application of water-solvent glue, drying on a keyboard.

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Dr. Monika Doubrawa @mohnika.bsky.social · 15/11/2023

Coating forams with chromium for the SEM does make them look super metal (sorry), but it is still a pita to use compared to gold.

a chromium coated trochospiral benthic foraminifera, shimmering silver

a chromium coated monoserial benthic foraminifera, shimmering silver

a chromium coated planispiral benthic foraminifera, shimmering silver

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Dr. Monika Doubrawa @mohnika.bsky.social · 26/10/2023

Preparing a project proposal, and found one of the first foraminifera I got to treat to our LA-ICP-MS. Some forams were harmed in this production...

picture of a foraminifera with wholes caused by Laser Ablation in some chambers

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Dr. Monika Doubrawa @mohnika.bsky.social · 23/10/2023

One test-foraminifera while I figure things out here (a polished section of a Cibicidoides alleni, ~56Ma old).

a picture through a microscope of a spiral benthic foraminifera, polished open so the inside structure is visible

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