252 million years ago, Earth faced its worst extinction.
Now scientists have found the same chemical signals in rocks from Iran and South China, nearly 5,000 km apart.
The message is clear: the end-Permian crisis wasn’t local chaos. It was one connected planetary event.
🧪 #SciComm
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One week left for your Life and Planet abstracts! (assuming we still have life and/or a planet by next week...)
Really interesting mechanism here I think: thousand-year orbital cycle modulation can drive million-year pulses in nutrients, oxygen and (we hypothesize) biodiversity during early animal evolution
OA paper out today:
agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/...
Final call for late abstracts for this year's Life and Planet meeting!
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How matching chemical signals in two distant ancient oceans show the end-Permian crisis was a single, connected planetary event. A team of scientists collects samples...
Abstract submission for Life and Planet 2026 is open! Come explore the co-evolution of life and the Earth with us:
Abstract submission for Life and Planet 2026 is open! Come explore the co-evolution of life and the Earth with us:
and yeah I'm looking beyond the nuance of this being nearly two billion years before fish existed...
Googled the title of our new paper out today and the FIRST HIT was an AI sludge article that was completely incorrect
A: no we didn't analyse phosphorus isotope ratios in rocks
B: NOBODY analyses these
C: because phosphorus only has ONE stable isotope
Dead internet here we go
Public talk this eve at the wonderful Seven Arts bar! I am reliably informed there will also be jazz!
www.sevenleeds.co.uk/events/
