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Camille Thomas

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He/him, Geomicrobiologist @ Uni. Bern, wannabe psycho-historian of rocks and life. Team player, father, ally. Co-founder of @sedimentologika.bsky.social

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Very proud of this piece written with @romainvaucher.bsky.social

Most research is funded with public money & written and reviewed for free by researchers : yet the results are controlled by corporations that set the rules and capture the profits.

As an academic, you can help change the system!

04.03.2026 17:00 πŸ‘ 5 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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🚨 New Opinion Piece 🚨

Vaucher & Thomas discuss the sustainability and equity of different Open Access publishing paths and promote a shift towards Diamond OA.

Read the full publication here: oap.unige.ch/journals/sdk...

@romainvaucher.bsky.social, @camthomas.bsky.social

04.03.2026 06:36 πŸ‘ 7 πŸ” 5 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 1
Use of Artificial Intelligence in Academic Research: What Is Acceptable and What is Not | Ο„eΞΊΟ„oniΞΊa

another great and constructive piece by @wearetektonika.bsky.social Well done
tektonika.online/index.php/ho...

04.02.2026 07:45 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 4 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Sooo @plosone.org lost my reviews. You guys are #clowns
Not able to answer emails for 50 days, not respecting your editors, your authors nor your reviewers. Submission is retracted.
Publish #Diamond #Openaccess πŸ’Ž

22.10.2025 14:30 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

just so you know, no sign of fossil fuel transition right now. This is not happening. All we do is talk, and continue as usual.

16.10.2025 09:21 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Succesfull meeting in Aix les Bains @ialipa2025.bsky.social for the group! Lot of questions for A. Laakkonen's talk on pyrite mineral formation in the shallow sediments of #NamCo and M. Picard's talk on metagenomics pipeline, + constant discussions at the posters by M.-L. Adolph and G. Ceriotti.

15.10.2025 07:50 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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we followed up with a DIGESTED-NamCore @icdpdrilling.bsky.social workshop with most of the colleagues of the #NamCo scientific drilling team. Lot of data and brainstorm! cheers to everyone! now back to the πŸ”¬ πŸ§ͺ !

15.10.2025 07:53 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
Limited warming of middle Miocene arid low-latitude climates: Application of clumped isotopes in sabkha environments | Geology | GeoScienceWorld

pubs.geoscienceworld.org/gsa/geology/... by the great @mamarchegiano.bsky.social

15.10.2025 07:34 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
View from back of a congress room with all seats taken by people listening to science presentation

View from back of a congress room with all seats taken by people listening to science presentation

We are at the #IPA-IAL meeting in Aix les Bains, to hear about the latest on lake research. The room is already crowded at the #sedaDNA session @ialipa2025.bsky.social

06.10.2025 09:32 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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🚨 New Paper 🚨

Tournier et al. assess the potential seismicity hazard of the Poso depression, Sulawesi island, through a paleoseismological analysis of mass transport deposits preserved in lake sediments archive.

Read the full publication here: oap.unige.ch/journals/sdk...

03.09.2025 07:52 πŸ‘ 5 πŸ” 3 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Auditors can’t save carbon offsets The theory behind carbon offset projects is appealing: Instead of an organization cutting its own emissions, it can fund lower-cost carbon-reducing projects elsewhere to β€œoffset” its emissions. The re...

Poor integrity of carbon offsets :

"all key market participants benefit from inflated claims about carbon credits"

www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

11.07.2025 06:11 πŸ‘ 53 πŸ” 25 πŸ’¬ 3 πŸ“Œ 6

Congrats folks!! so happy that the geoπŸ’Ž publishing options are growing πŸŽ‰ and looking forward to publishing with you!

08.07.2025 09:18 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
Advances in Geochemistry and Cosmochemistry: Free to read, free to publish and community-led. The landscape of academic publishing is evolving towards greater openness and a...

For those attending next @goldschmidt-confer.bsky.social @marcamillet.bsky.social will announce the launch of @weareagc.bsky.social conf.goldschmidt.info/goldschmidt/... #Geochemistry #Cosmochemistry #OpenAccess #OpenScience #DiamondOA

07.05.2025 08:33 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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A novel biomarker for deep-time methanogenesis – perspectives from nickel isotope fractionation in modern microbialites Activity of methanogenic archaea on early Earth is mainly deduced based on modern processes and supported by the carbon isotope record (Ξ΄13Ccarb). Rec…

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
A novel biomarker for deep-time methanogenesis -perspectives from nickel isotope fractionation in modern microbialites

26.06.2025 11:59 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Defining ultra-slow-growing extremophilic microorganisms as aeonophiles - Nature Microbiology In environments like the deep subsurface, microorganisms with long doubling times can remain metabolically active for millions of years β€” we propose referring to this class of extremophile as aeonophi...

www.nature.com/articles/s41...
nice initiative!
#aeonophiles

24.06.2025 08:37 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

this is exactly the limit of this model and i'm interested to see how this can be solved. Should we hunt for reviewer in similar fashion? Should we, as reviewers decide to spend x hours a week/month on such a platform ? should there be levels of reviewing? reviewer vs commentors vs moderators ?

04.06.2025 18:58 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Independent Peer Review Manifesto - Open Scholar With the advancement of information and communication technologies, research has entered a new epoch. The proliferation of free, online, open access repositories of articles, data and code now enables...

www.openscholar.info/independent-...
have you ever thought of not having scientific journals anymore? Do we actually need them?

27.05.2025 08:32 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

thanks Chris!

22.05.2025 12:36 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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πŸ“£ Meet our new Associate Editors!

Cecilia Lopez-Gamundi - JPL.
Carbonates, forward modelling, remote sensing, sediment transport, coastal processes.

Arnoud Slootman - Colorado School of Mines.
Bedforms, sediment transport, carbonate slopes, turbidites, carbonate sediment.

12.05.2025 07:22 πŸ‘ 5 πŸ” 3 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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πŸ“£ Meet our new Associate Editors!

Nan Wu - Tongji University, China
Submarine landslides, Mass-transport complexes, Turbidity currents, Submarine canyons, Sedimentary process

Thomas Blaise - University Paris-Saclay, France
Mineralogy, Calcite U-Pb geochronology, 3D Geological modelling

15.05.2025 15:47 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Also lake Bourget is truly beautiful !

27.02.2025 08:46 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 3 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Awesome! go @wearetektonika.bsky.social <3

14.02.2025 02:27 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Curious about the evolving landscape of Open Access in the geosciences? Join to the event hosted by the University Library Bern
πŸ“… When:
February 13, 13:00 - 18:15
πŸ“ Where:
UniS, Schanzeneckstrasse 1, 3012 Bern, Room A003
πŸ‘‰ Register here (free): www.ub.unibe.ch/service/open...

05.02.2025 13:27 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
NamCore Drilling Project 2024 (China)
NamCore Drilling Project 2024 (China) YouTube video by ICDP

In June-July of 2024 @icdpdrilling.bsky.social NamCore drilling project was carried out at an impressive altitude of 4700 meters on Lake NamCo, Tibet.
Check out this video showcasing the project:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ivaR...
More information about the project:
www.icdp-online.org/projects/by-...

06.02.2025 13:03 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 3 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Go support your Free-for-all community-based scientific journals !
www.sedimentologika.org

28.01.2025 08:46 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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🚨 New Paper 🚨

Okwara et al. discuss the downstream grain-size evolution and spatial facies partitioning of the Middle Jurassic wave-influenced Brent Group deltaic succession through subsurface data analysis.

Read the full publication here: oap.unige.ch/journals/sdk...

22.01.2025 09:55 πŸ‘ 5 πŸ” 4 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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We are advertising volunteering positions for three Associate Editors specialised in 1) Carbonate sedimentology & stratigraphy; 2) Slope to basin-floor processes; 3) Sediment outcrop imaging.
Check out the full position details on our website: oap.unige.ch/journals/sdk...

22.01.2025 10:01 πŸ‘ 6 πŸ” 6 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

If you are a #500queerscientists contributor and here on BlueSky, drop us a note! πŸ‘‹ β¬‡οΈπŸ³οΈβ€πŸŒˆπŸ³οΈβ€βš§οΈ

22.01.2025 14:41 πŸ‘ 61 πŸ” 16 πŸ’¬ 23 πŸ“Œ 0
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🌟 Exciting Volunteer Opportunity! 🌟
Curious about joining our Production Team? Check out the full position details on our website:Β bit.ly/SedkVProdTeam
If you're interested, send your application to: contact@sedimentologika.orgΒ 
We’d love to hear from you! βœ‰οΈ

09.01.2025 05:09 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 6 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 1

Come and join our @sedimentologika.bsky.social team!🏜️🏞️🏝️

09.01.2025 05:20 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0