#WeekendReading: Wu et al., on why the Fe-oxide redox pump might not fully explain the #REE content of phosphorites and clays might hold the answer.

Link: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11430-025-1646-9

#WeekendReading: Wu et al., looking at degradation indices of organic matter in cold seep sediments to infer on fungal and bacterial activity.

(but couldn't put even one nice photo of the seeps, so I took from another study on the same site)

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0025326X25012391

#WeekendReading: Innangi et al. on coralligenous algal #mesophotic #reef establishment, growth, and emergent morphologies in the central #Mediterranean #Sea.

Link: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0025322725001690

#WeekendReading: Tachikawa et al. about neodymium isotopic composition in the modern Mediterranean Sea and what it might mean for paleocirculation proxies.

Link: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S001670372500479X

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Take the time to read this article. Even if you don’t care about anything but great writing ✍️
#weekendreading

When Democracy Dies

“What makes Yarvin dangerous isn't that he's entirely wrong—it's that his diagnosis of democratic dysfunction is accurate enough to make his monarchical prescription seem almost reasonable. Like a doctor who correctly identifies cancer but prescribes bloodletting, his clarity about the disease lends false credibility to his cure.”

https://omniharmonic.substack.com/p/when-democracy-dies