Picture a Day: Oct 8

Very tight crop of the original because I really liked the lights at and around SFMOMA. Saw this from outside the gdgtSF event in 2011 at the Metreon. Ugh, I miss gdgt and that kind of nerdy, techie website from the olden times... :sigh:

CJ's Wunderkammer
The #GDGT #world also has a #frog, thanks to a #team with a majority of #FROGs* 🐸!
Véquaud et al. (2022) GCA
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gca.2021.12.007
*#French #Researchers in Organic #Geochemistry
#Science
#ScienceMastodon

Two #basic #things to #know for #GDGT #lovers like me:
- These #nerdy #membrane-spanning #lipids are #ubiquitous in the #environment
- #GDGTs may have #multiple and #mixed #sources

If like a younger me* you apply #TEX86 in (#paleo)prodelta #deposits, be prepared to obtain #spooky #results from this #GDGT-based #paleotemperature #ClimateProxy!
#Links to the related #research #publication and #source #data in my auto-reply 👇🏻

*Me when I was a #PhDStudent

#HappyHalloween2024

@gdgt

Are #nerdy #membrane-spanning #lipids produced by #bacteria and #archaea admitted on #Mastodon?

These lipids, named glycerol dialkyl glycerol tetraethers (#GDGTs), are my favorite #biomarkers for their usefulness as #climatic and #environmental #indicators and for having been the #protagonists of my #PhD #research.

Recently, I participated to an #international #workshop organized by #GDGT #nerds for GDGT nerds, sadly not active on this #platform as far as I know.

#Science #ScienceMastodon