Robin Lacassin @RobinLacassin@qoto.org
- My IPGP page
- http://www.ipgp.fr/~lacassin
- Tectoldies blog
- https://tectoldies.mystrikingly.com/
Geology, tectonics, earthquakes, seismotectonics, hazard epistemology & sci com.
Senior researcher at Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris (IPGP - CNRS - Univ. Paris Cité). Tektonika DOAJ executive editor.
Joined Nov 2022
More, dramatic, informations on the #wildfires in South-central #Chile
South-central #Chile is burning. Reminds the January 2017 catastrophic #wildfires that killed at least 11. Very high temperature and drought conditions (T°max 33-35°C in Santiago past days). Imagery Aqua/MODIS.
“Según el reporte de Conaf, hay 191 incendios forestales activos a nivel nacional: 45 en combate y 146 controlados, situación que va variando permanentemente por las condiciones climáticas”
Read more here (in spanish):
https://www.elmostrador.cl/noticias/multimedia/2023/02/03/presidente-boric-confirma-45-incendios-forestales-en-combate-y-aclara-nadie-tiene-que-tratar-de-ser-un-superheroe/
And:
https://www.elmostrador.cl/revista-jengibre/2023/02/03/incendios-forestales-y-fauna-silvestre-en-riesgo/
“A study, conducted in 2020 by the American Physical Society (APS) and published in Physics Today, reveals alarming rates of unethical research practices and harassment in the physics community, including data manipulation and physical abuse.” 👇🏼
In The Guardian: Science journals ban listing of #ChatGPT as co-author on papers. Some publishers also banning use of bot in preparation of submissions but others see its adoption as inevitable…
In Le Monde French newspaper, in FR and EN:
Désobéissance civile : « Les climatologues sont aussi des citoyens et des êtres humains » https://www.lemonde.fr/idees/article/2023/01/26/desobeissance-civile-les-climatologues-sont-aussi-des-citoyens-et-des-etres-humains_6159384_3232.html
Civil disobedience: 'Climate scientists are citizens and humans too'
https://www.lemonde.fr/en/opinion/article/2023/01/26/civil-disobedience-climate-scientists-are-citizens-and-humans-too_6013152_23.html
DM if you want PDF
Open letter to the #AGU
to support Rose Abramoff @ultracricket
and Peter Kalmus @ClimateHuman
"We as scientists cannot and must not tolerate this censorship and chilling lack of support from our scientific society and therefore urge AGU to, etc…"
Read and sign here https://www.aguopenletter.com/
The prompt and the text written by #openai #GPT-3:
Prompt: Write a text explaining: why the discovery of the West Andean Thrust is important; why the fact that the Andes primarily formed by west directed faulting changes our understanding of orogeny linked to subduction; what is the role of the San Ramon Fault in these processes and the implications on earthquake hazard.
Answer:
The discovery of the West Andean Thrust is important because it provides evidence that the Andes primarily formed by west directed faulting. This changes our understanding of orogeny linked to subduction, as it shows that the Andes were not created solely through east-directed thrusting from subduction zones. Instead, this west-directed faulting has been found to be a major contributor to the formation and uplift of the Andes.
The San Ramon Fault plays an important role in these processes, as it is one of the main faults responsible for west-directed faulting in the region. It is believed that this fault was active during periods of mountain building, which allowed for increased uplift and deformation in the region. Furthermore, its activity has implications on earthquake hazard in the area, as earthquakes originating from this fault can cause significant damage due to its proximity to populated areas.
Overall, the discovery of the West Andean Thrust and its associated west-directed faulting contributes greatly to our understanding of orogeny linked to subduction and provides insight into how mountains form. The San Ramon Fault also plays an important role in these processes and has implications on earthquake hazard in nearby areas.
I asked #openai #GPT-3 #AI #LLM to write something about the #orogeny in the #Andes.
Well written, but verbose and without much meaning. It basically repeats the prompt's ideas introducing some new details. However it's not enough to say that something is important, you have to explain why. A student giving such an answer will get a bad mark.
I'm not surprised as there is no intention, no understanding by the AI. But such a text can impress / convince a naive person on the subject, and even perhaps even some decision-makers and managers of science.
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Shortly:
1/ DOA journals like Tektonika, Seismica, Volcanica, are hosted by Universities -> server infrastructure, DOI, etc…
2/ all tasks are voluntary: maintaining the system, editors, reviewers, copy-editing and production, communication. Meaning that we need strong implication of the community (and will need more !)
3/ About the peer review process at Tektonika, read: https://tektonika.online/index.php/home/review_mode
4/ Also useful readings: https://tektonika.online/index.php/home/ethos_statement and https://tektonika.online/index.php/home/code_of_conduct
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Today, #TEKTONIKA #DOAJ has published its first paper ! 🎉
20th to 21st Century Relative Sea and Land Level Changes in Northern #California - by J. Patton @earthjay et al.
https://tektonika.online/index.php/home/article/view/6
Toot it, share it, read it FREE !
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... the AFP also shows an early global temperature reconstruction for the Holocene from 2013, which has since been shown to have a spatial bias. The state-of-the-art annual global mean reconstruction is Osman et al. 2021 and looks like this. https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-021-03984-4
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Imagine it is 2023 and one still needs to fact-check absurd old climate denial memes because they are spreading again with many millions of social media views, even though they have been refuted many times before. Thanks AFP. However... 1/2 https://factcheck.afp.com/doc.afp.com.337E92M
New #tectoldies post with three amazing maps of the Mont-Blanc and Geneva lake region dating back to the end of the 18th century.
https://tectoldies.mystrikingly.com/blog/old-maps-of-the-mont-blanc-region
Speaking in Davos, the UN secretary general, António Guterres, accused big oil companies of peddling 'the big lie', calling for them to be held accountable.
“Today fossil fuel producers and their enablers are still racing to expand production knowing full well that this business model is inconsistent with human survival”
Magnitude Mw~7 #earthquake north of #Halmahera (#Maluku island, Indonesia) in a complex tectonic setting where several micro-plates interact. Quite large discrepancy btw depth estimates (16-46km), complicated source time function. Mechanism is mainly strike-slip.
Source of maps and MT solutions:
https://emsc-csem.org/Earthquake/earthquake.php?id=1211853#
and
http://geoscope.ipgp.fr/index.php/fr/catalogue/description-d-un-seisme?seis=us7000j553
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When #ClimateScientists say they are concerned about the severity of #ClimateEmergency, this should be treated as scientific evidence and not as opinion.
#ExxonKnew in French mainstream media. Extremely clear message (in FR) citing @GeoffreySupran and @NaomiOreskes studies. Thanks France2 TV.
RT @infofrance2 https://twitter.com/infofrance2/status/1614563043286843398?s=20
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The cartoon version of our #ExxonKnew paper just out in @ScienceMagazine, by Patrick Hamilton. @patbhamilton @GeoffreySupran @NaomiOreskes
This #map of the Mont Blanc region dates back to June 1794. The rivers and lakes are almost exact and accurate. On the other hand the mountains are quite fanciful. They are represented like linear ridges placed there to separate the valleys. And even these simplified orographic plots are quite wrong.This reveals that mountains were much less explored and mapped at that time.
#geography #oldmap #MontBlanc #Savoie #Alps #mountain #Chamonix #mastoart
Source:https://bibliotheque-numerique.chambery.fr/collection/item/23441-departement-du-mont-blanc
- My IPGP page
- http://www.ipgp.fr/~lacassin
- Tectoldies blog
- https://tectoldies.mystrikingly.com/
Geology, tectonics, earthquakes, seismotectonics, hazard epistemology & sci com.
Senior researcher at Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris (IPGP - CNRS - Univ. Paris Cité). Tektonika DOAJ executive editor.
Joined Nov 2022
