Dr. Monika Doubrawa

What is main current reserach mainly about? Here is a little word cloud made out of recent manuscript titles (using: shiny.rcg.sfu.ca/u/rdmorin/sc... )

On the left: a "C) Schematic illustration of foraminifera in various sizes" of a 2024 Science Advances paper. On the right: the logo of the Cushman foundation (foramniferal society in the US). Is it an homage? Maybe... Is there any attribution? Absolutely not!

Leider keine Überraschung wenn man einen Jus / Geschichte Studenten aus der Wirtschaft zum Kommissar zum Klimaschutz macht... Lebenslauf: Finanzminister, Aussenminister mit schwindlingen Steuergeschichten, involviert Investment Banken, Burschenschaftler...

How much of the world’s proven coal, oil and gas (i.e. already found, pays to extract at today’s prices) can still be burned for a 66% chance of holding 2 °C? About 30%. The other 70%, 2,040 billion tonnes of CO₂, are stranded assets. Burn it all and CO₂ alone means roughly 2.7 °C Purple = added

Sedimentary, my dear Watson ⚒️

Here is a slice from a larch tree that died beneath an advancing glacier 4,213 years b2k! 🧊🌲💍 You can buy a copy (accompanied by a dendrochronological dating certificate) here: wemakeit.com/projects/gla... and, in doing so, help me to continue this research! 🙏

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Scientists discovered a forgotten Mediterranean Sea creature hidden in centuries-old Italian paintings, revealing its surprising ecological history.

Three years ago, my dad said that all fish are the same shape. Out of spite, I decided to draw all 478 families of bony fish listed in Nelson 2016. There's still some stuff I need to edit and some fish I want to redraw but, after 985 days, I finished my big dumb fish project last night.

Die Dürreschäden in diesem Sommer seien kein Ausreißer gewesen, sondern fügten sich in den Trend ein, erklärt die neue "COIN 2.0"-Studie. https://www.derstandard.at/story/3000000345022/klimawandel-kostete-oesterreich-bereits-2024-rund-sechs-milliarden-euro-weiterer-anstieg-zu-erwarten

🌊 How the ‘Super El Niño’ is changing the colour of the ocean ...it's turning bluer El Niño weakens the winds that bring nutrients to the surface. Fewer nutrients → fewer phytoplankton. www.independent.co.uk/climate-chan...

For decades, oil and gas companies have polluted the public conversation about climate action with toxic misinformation. But an equally sinister barrier to action is the unwillingness for any nation to leave their natural resources unextracted and unexploited. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Crime against Nature! 🤬 2 days ago Pitztaler Gletscher ski resort literally destroyed the front of the Mittelbergferner (2nd largest in Tirol) to build emergency exit slope for winter How much longer will (very) short-term economic interests continue to lead to such crimes? Boycott. 📷 Glacionaut

60% INCREASE ARE YOU FUCKING KIDDING ME

How to horrify a Brit…

"State of the climate 2026" was published yesterday. A sobering but important read Link: academic.oup.com/bioscience/a...

📣Voting open for our photo contest! The public is going to discern a prize to the participant of our 1st photo contest 🏆Will you help us find the winner? 🙂🎈 Follow the link below⬇️ 🐚 🐙 🐌 🦪 forms.gle/24MhpstCdFy6... @wwfgr.bsky.social #MolluscMonday #snailsky #cephalopod #Greece #Cyprus

Schon Schade, dass der Gedankenschritt eines Wirtschafts-Menschen ist: mehr Parkplätze & mehr Verkehr, als: es wird Zeit eine Gesellschaft zu kreieren, die auch ohne Fokus auf Konsum funktioniert.

Interviewer: can you explain this gap in your CV? Paleontologist: You mean the ghost lineage? Look fossilization is rare and we don’t have strata preserving the relevant time period. We can infer it was very impressive and doing lots of things that would make one hirable though…

Walter Alvarez, born on this day in 1940, sitting on the Cretaceous-Paleocene boundary in the gorge of Gubbio (Italy) ...

Quick (rethorical) question: where do we currently stand on banning private jets in the EU? ✈️ How is this still a thing? Nobody needs* a private air plane... (*I guess excluding transport for medical and other emergencies)

Rock hyraxes have miniature tusk-like incisors (they are related to elephants), which come in handy for scratching those itches. #MammalWatching #SouthAfrica

Exclusive: A new analysis refutes James Watson’s claim that he was the first to recognize the significance of the famed photograph 51. https://scim.ag/4rTKck8

🌊🐊 Were some of the earliest crocodylians venturing into the sea? 🦴 For our new paper in Palaeontology, we CT-scanned three skulls of “thoracosaurs” and found clues for a shallow-marine lifestyle in these enigmatic critters. ➡ doi.org/10.1111/pala... ️📖

Last chance to apply for the postdoc in paleontology. www.smnk.de/museum/aussc... 2 years, funded through DFG project #paleontology #jobs #fossilfriday #palaeontology #museum #fossils

Maybe Reddit isn’t quite a dumpster fire

The Facial Expressions of Tethys by artist Julius von Bismarck. A suspended high-sea buoy that moves in real time. Sensors on a twin buoy out in the Atlantic Ocean send live satellite data to motors inside the museum. This makes the indoor buoy copy the exact, real-time movements of the ocean waves.

when i mention "claude" you can assume i'm talking about the albino alligator not the llm

The water will come…

Glaciologist @matthias-huss.bsky.social shows that the centre of the Great Aletsch glacier in Switzerland (the biggest in the Alps) lost 6 meters(!) of thickness just this summer. "No words...", he adds on LinkedIn.

I love DSDP / ODP / IODP but finding and correlating data and especially core depths & pictures across years, authors and publications is a bit of a nightmare. 🧪🚢

What a beautiful foraminifera! #marineplankton 🦑

A Year in the Ice: The Tara Polar Station has begun its drift through the central Arctic!🧊🐻‍❄️On 9 September, the Tara Polar Station, reached its ice floe. From there, it will drift with the sea ice across the Arctic Ocean for a year. AWI scientist Julia Regnery is on board. www.awi.de/en/about-us/...

In 2011, one chick held the record for most plastic ever found in the species: 276 pieces, 64g. We thought that was as bad as it could get. We were wrong. The record fell in 2023. Fell again in 2024. Then in 2025: 894 pieces in a single chick. (Photo: worst chicks in 2010, 2015, 2021, 2025)

Imagine if the media took the words of climate scientists as seriously as it does that rando from Anthropic… Air pollution and climate change from fossil fuel use are literally killing millions of people every year, but sure, let’s focus on the idiocy that “AI is going to kill everyone in 10”.

I don't think I've ever posted these posters together as a set, so here's a first. Wonders of the Deep series, commissioned by the International Seabed Authority between 2020-2022 to celebrate the fragile biodiversity of deep sea. Not for sale. #Art #SciArt

I was ver excited when I got the chance to spend some time at Zumaia 🦖 - might have taken quite some time to find the PETM layer which is not marked (with a very patient co-traveller trying his best to help).

www.carlsonlab.bio/thoughts/the... 🧪

Riedglacier (Riedgletscher) in Switzerland: On the left a photo from July 2013 ( (c) Günter Seggebäing (de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bordier...), on the right my picture August 2026, view from the Klein Bigerhorn.

Dear students, I want to read you - your struggling sentences, and your brilliant ones, your weird grammer, you rhtoughts and your (few) typos. I don't want to read the polished, blown-up over-complicated thing AI made out of you. Take the time to craft your work, and I take the time to read it.

I‘m far from an AI doomer, but it is amazing how many serious voices — on LinkedIn, no less! — are sharing stories about how AI slop is quickly becoming one of the top problems they see in academic writing and research “AI will 10x our research!” doesn’t seem to be surviving encounters with reality

Welcome to the CAMBRIAN FECAL REVOLUTION. We didn't name it the Cambrian fecal explosion for obvious reasons. I'm happy to share this paper on fecal matter and its role in Cambrian ecosystems. So if you want to read a really shitty paper (50 days free access): authors.elsevier.com/a/1nYg8cZ3X7...

Die #Klimakrise setzt Europas Stromversorgung unter Druck. Wegen Kühlwassermangels müssen fossile und #Kernkraftwerke gedrosselt werden. #Windkraft und #Photovoltaik brauchen dagegen kein Kühlwasser. Gut, dass Deutschland auf erneuerbare Energien setzt.

New Yorker cartoon feels about right

Cool place with cool photos (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bulverket) - and a cool project (memeland.no).

Halite shows up without requiring life in the evolution of minerals. Meanwhile, halite is a highly effective trap that may capture evidence of early life: pubs.geoscienceworld.org/sepm/jsedres... So… yeah, plausible.

Actual climate change impacts don't do anything, but at least the money does... Short flights like that should not be a thing anymore in 2026 (theres a <3h train connecting the cities) - together with private jets.

Five days ago, the Rhine - at the point where it enters the Netherlands - reached its lowest level ever recorded: 6.47 meter above sea level. Now it's at 6.35 m.