Robin Lacassin @RobinLacassin@qoto.org

Le Monde: Twitter suspend des comptes de journalistes : l’Union européenne menace le réseau social de « sanctions »

Twitter suspends journalist accounts: EU threatens social network with 'sanctions'

Just posted this 👇🏼 on the scary bird site.
Will see what happens.

Peer review, a huge waste of time, and therefore money ?

Figure 👇🏼 and excerpts taken from Aczel et al. 2021 https://doi.org/10.1186/s41073-021-00118-2

“…the total time reviewers globally worked on peer reviews was over 100 million hours in 2020, equivalent to over 15 thousand years. The estimated monetary value of the time US-based reviewers spent on reviews was over 1.5 billion USD in 2020 […] The numbers highlight the enormous amount of work and time that researchers provide to the publication system.”

(authors add: By design, our results are very likely to be under-estimates as they reflect only a portion of the total number of journals worldwide.)

#peerreview #openscience #publishANDnotperish

QT Hawaiian Volcano Observatory (HVO #USGS) about #MaunaLoa #volcano:

“Mauna Loa is no longer erupting. Lava supply to the fissure 3 vent on the Northeast Rift Zone ceased on December 10 and sulfur dioxide emissions have decreased to near pre-eruption background levels. Volcanic tremor and earthquakes associated with the eruption are greatly diminished […]

Spots of incandescence may remain near the vent, along channels, and at the flow front for days or weeks as the lava flows cool. However, eruptive activity is not expected to return based on past eruptive behavior.”

Their photo 👇🏼 shows channel below the volcanic vent drained of lava

https://www.usgs.gov/volcanoes/mauna-loa/volcano-updates

Huge cranes in #Paris. At work on #NotreDame restoration site.

Today at @wearetektonika #DOAJ we accepted our two first papers for publication 🎉 !

Proud to have been executive editor for the first one and thanks to Jack Williams who managed the review process as associate editor.

(reminder: we are open for submission since the end of May)

Conférences publiques organisées pas l'Observatoire Volcanologique et Sismologique de #Martinique (OVSM) de l'Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris (IPGP):

- Un observatoire sous-marin connecté pour déchiffrer l’activité sismique des Saintes.

- Deux ans après le passage en vigilance volcanique jaune, un point sur l’activité du #volcan la Montagne Pelée.

#volcano #Antilles #Caribbean #hazards

@Mathijs_ Meeting people is not only for the fun. It's a way to initiate new collaborations, to discuss science. This more particularly pour young researchers.

But yes, I fully agree about our CO2 footprint. Now I don't cross the Atlantic for only a meeting. However I like zoom to work with colleagues (ex. writing a collaborative paper), but not so much for multi-speakers conferences.

Terrible piece in Science, "Visa bureaucracy makes scientific conferences inaccessible for too many researchers"
Read:
https://www.science.org/content/article/visa-bureaucracy-makes-scientific-conferences-inaccessible-many-researchers

Two excerpts:

"I [a Norwegian researcher born in Iran] had been hoping to present my work at an upcoming international conference, in the country that hosts nearly all major global scientific meetings [ 🤔 ]. I had spent the past year working feverishly to obtain a visa. The process had been so drawn out that I had already missed two other conferences there."

"Many scholars born in ostracized countries face these drawn-out, oftentimes years-spanning processes when we need to travel. The obstacles take a toll on our professional development, our future opportunities, and our mental health. Conference organizers have a responsibility to address this. To truly foster inclusivity, meetings must be hosted in more open countries."

#openscience #bureaucracy #discrimination

@watershedlab I hope it's °F not °C 😰

@Ruth_Mottram @davewhipp @wearetektonika
Hi Ruth. Yes, Tektonika IS a DOA journal, free to publish free to read*. We started accepting submissions in June 2022.
We are here on Mastodon: https://fosstodon.org/@wearetektonika
On birdsite: https://twitter.com/WeAreTektonika
More infos here: https://tektonika.online

* This means that we need strong implication of the community: as author, as reviewer, and for other tasks. Feel free to contact us (DM, email: jtektonika@gmail.com) if you want to help. We'll need more people involved soon!

Our paper on the #tectonics of this very remote area 👇🏼 in the #Atacama #desert is finally accepted for publication in EGU Solid Earth (will be Habel et al. 2022).

I'll say more when the article is online 😉

#geologist at work, #landscape of the #Andes #mountains

On 4 December, at 15:19 UTC, a strong #pyroclastic flow along the Sciara del Fuoco on #Stromboli #volcano reached the sea and generated a moderate #tsunami, hopefully not causing damage (according to INGV). Tide gauge in Ginestra recorded it with a delay of only a few minutes, and crest to crest amplitude of ~60cm.

Stromboli is an Italian very active volcano from the Aeolian islands in the Tyrrhenian sea (Mediterranean). Its activity, and more particularly hazards due to the pyroclastic flows, are monitored by INGV.

INGV reported about the tsunami: https://ingvterremoti.com/2022/12/05/stromboli-4-dicembre-2022-tsunami-si-o-tsunami-no/
And about the volcanic event itself: https://ingvvulcani.com/2022/12/05/cosa-e-successo-a-stromboli-il-4-dicembre-2022/