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Ah, gotcha, sorry. That does sound good! I will investigate...

Agreed, I like this model in principle. The problem with EGU journals is that they outsource the editorial handling to academics who are too busy to turn papers around promptly. My experience has been that they are excruciatingly slow and inefficient, but maybe I was just unlucky?

And what were the APCs like? We still end up paying to publish, right? And they still abide by the traditional peer review process?

If we choose to jump off the publishing treadmill, how does that impact our chances of winning grants, getting promotions etc? I'm genuinely interested to hear from anyone who's been brave enough to do this!

Add to this the vast number of trash journals churning out scientific slop (looking at you, MDPI), and the overwhelming shift to AI-generated articles, is there even any value left in scientific publishing?

I think we all know the peer review system is broken, and academic journals are cash cows for big companies who see research as something to monetize, so how do we go forward? Anyone got experience ditching the commercial publishing treadmill and simply posting preprints? #academicsky

State dependent ice-sheet resonance under Cenozoic and future climates - Communications Earth & Environment Gradual cooling or warming of the atmosphere, combined with strong ocean-driven basal melt, could have led to major changes in the periodicity, phasing, and asymmetry of past ice sheet growth and deca...

Sorry, the link in the first post seems to resolve to the unedited version of the manuscript. This one should be the typeset version:
www.nature.com/articles/s43...

Intriguingly, during transitions from one state to another, ice sheets effectively 'resonate' with both forcings, thereby producing an oscillation in ice volume at half the forcing period.

These reveal that under warm and wet climate states, ice sheets grow during interglacials and retreat during glacials. Under cold and dry climate states, they do the opposite.

In it we use a large ensemble (n=198) of ice sheet model simulations, each forced by a range of atmospheric and oceanic temperature anomalies that oscillate at Milankovitch frequencies.

Image of the article page for a new paper

If you're interested in how ice sheets respond to climate, particularly over very long timescales, you might be interested in our new (open access) paper:
www.nature.com/articles/s43...

Spatially variable response of Antarctica’s ice sheets to orbital forcing during the Pliocene - Nature Geoscience The West Antarctic Ice Sheet responded to different natural forcing mechanisms than the East Antarctic Ice Sheet through the mid-Pliocene due to a greater sensitivity to oceanic feedbacks, according t...

Link to paper is here:
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Ancient Antarctica reveals a 'one–two punch' behind ice sheet collapse When we think of global warming, what first comes to mind is the air: crushing heat waves that are felt rather than seen, except through the haziness of humid air. But when it comes to melting ice she...

New paper out in @natgeosci.nature.com in which we combined marine sediment core analysis with models to show spatial differences in how #Antarctica responded to warmer #climate during the Pliocene:
phys.org/news/2026-01...

Thanks Gus, hope you enjoy it! 🙏

Welcome slide for the joint world climate research programme and intergovernmental panel on climate change workshop on typing points and high impact events. Image shows orbital view of Earth.

Day 2 of the joint WCRP/IPCC workshop on high impact events and tipping points, Sorbonne University, Paris. Yesterday we had a series of introductory plenaries, today the work starts 😉

Miocene and Pliocene ice and air from the Allan Hills blue ice area, East Antarctica | PNAS Antarctic ice cores provide a unique archive of Earth’s atmosphere and its largest extant ice sheet. The oldest continuous ice core extends back 80...

Amazing COLDEX.org results - 6Million year old ice, with bubbles of old atmosphere. Thank you ice, for the stories you share about our planet and its climate. Led by Sarah Shakleton #glaciology #womeninstem #cryosphere #Antarctica

www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

news.oregonstate.edu/news/six-mil...

Group photo of NZ Green Party MPs with scientists and staff at the Antarctic Research Centre.

In the current global and national political climate it feels like a rare privilege to host engaged and interested MPs who want to hear about #science. Today we had Scott Willis and Lan Pham from #NZ Greens with us for a stimulating and valuable conversation about #Antarctica & #climate change.

Job ad for postdoctoral research in ice sheet modeling | Andrea Dutton 🌊 🌊 JOB ALERT!! Looking for a postdoc that does not rely on federal funding?? Looking to live in a city that is routinely ranked as one of the best cities to live in across the entire U.S.? Come jo...

🌊🌊JOB ALERT!! Are you an ice sheet modeler looking for a postdoc that does not rely on federal funding? Come join our research team at University of Wisconsin-Madison to study the physical and human dynamics of sea-level rise. www.linkedin.com/posts/andrea...

That was a blast! Really engaged audience and lots of deep questions. Very grateful for the opportunity to talk to a group like this, and I came away with lots of new contacts 🙂

Title slide for a presentation titled, "On the up: Global sea level rise and its socio-economic impact on Aotearoa New Zealand" to be given at the NZ Parliament. Slide shows a main graphic in steelblue of a curled fern leaf that is also a breaking wave.

At Parliament later today to present to the ministers some of our work addressing sea level rise and its impacts in New Zealand. Looking forward to seeing what level of interest there is...

#climatechange #sealevelrise #NZ

Any philanthropists out there that would like to support some Antarctic-focused climate change & ecosystem science? I have some ideas, and a great team...

It is almost impossible in the current climate to get science funded, especially investigator-led basic research. There are zero options left now, except regular Marsden which is so broken it's not even worth bothering with.

So sick of this NZ govt. Last year I started writing a proposal for a $5M Endeavour grant. Then the govt cancelled them. This year I started putting together a $3M Marsden fund council award proposal and, guess what? Yes, govt cuts now mean these have just been canned too. FFS.

🏆 Octopus and Ice Sheet Team @marine-omics.bsky.social is awarded the Aspire Scholarship Eureka Prize for Excellence in Interdisciplinary Scientific Research.

Learn more: youtu.be/8H3bCE6wfjM

#EurekaPrizes
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@nick-golledge.bsky.social

Yeah, I think one first author per year would be reasonable. Either way, anything that can help reduce the overwhelm of trying to keep up with the insane number of new papers would be welcome...

Researchers suggest one-a-year publication limit - Research Professional News “Probably controversial” proposals intended to spark renewed efforts to tackle “publish or perish...mania”

One of the most sensible suggestions I've heard in a long time. Publish less, but better. #academicsky

www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-worl...

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Abstract deadline for Climate and Cryosphere 2026, in Wellington NZ, now extended till August 31st. Spread the word...

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#climate #academicsky #nz

🚨 New paper alert 🚨

We developed the new PanAntarctic model and assessed the sensitivity of Antarctic Bottom Water (AABW) formation and export to horizontal model resolutions of 1/10°, 1/20° and 1/40°.

Open access paper in JAMES:

doi.org/10.1029/2024...

Map of global max temperatures for Saturday June 28th, from climate reanalyzer website. Map shows very high values across USA and Europe, as well as equatorial regions.

Map of global temperature anomalies for Saturday June 28th, from climate reanalyzer website. Map shows high values across parts of USA and Europe, also Antarctica.

This weekend a lot of the world is experiencing very high maximum temperatures. But the anomaly from long term climatology is more alarming. What the hell is happening across #Antarctica at the moment? Data from climatereanalyzer.org

The 12th SCAR Open Science Conference is now accepting session proposals for the meeting in Oslo next August:
mailchi.mp/scar/osc2026...

#Antarctica #Arctic #glaciers @scar-antarctic.bsky.social