Ross Mitchell

Chinese Academy of Sciences 🇨🇳 🌏 🔬 bold move to stop paying to publish in expensive OA Western journals. I was interviewed about this in the South China Morning Post scmp.com/news/china/sci…

New in The Innovation Geoscience! Microclimatic impacts of wind farm Reduced diurnal temperature range. This study demonstrates that large wind farms can significantly influence local land surface temperature, producing opposite effects during the day and night, and ultimately reducing the diurnal temperature range. @Innov_Geosci doi.org/10.59717/j.xin… #windfarm #CleanEnergy #microclimate

Amazing visit in Beijing with Chris Spencer and his dear family too this year! 🌍 💯 Building ties between China 🇨🇳 Canada🇨🇦 research institutions by two Americans 🇺🇸 😊 @travelinggeolog @queensu

Nature runs on laws—motion, energy, heat. But what about complexity? Carnegie's Robert Hazen and Michael L. Wong (@miquai) think it needs a law of its own. Read more: bit.ly/3Oe9U2M #TimesSecondArrow

Found a clever (we think) way to take the ocean temperature during #SnowballEarth … coldest measured ocean temperatures on record! -15 degrees below.. Brrrr! 🧊 🌍 ❄️ 💯 @NatureComms @maxlechte Thanks @elisecutts for your smart, engaging voice eos.org/articles/snowb…

National Geographic featured our new paper reporting Earth’s coldest ocean temps on record—only 700 million years ago at a time when nearly every continent preserves evidence of ice!🌍 ❄️ #SnowballEarth @NatureComms @NatGeo nationalgeographic.com/environment/ar…

我中国朋友们在美国：在美国你可以不可以买中药 ?🇺🇸 🇨🇳

@Geology_Tim Amazing fine laminations between organic carbon and carbonate AND still also the cross bedding..!!

Beautiful ❤️😍

#NBAPlayoffs @NBA @ESPNNBA 🏀 double-standard alert 🚨 All the hand-wringing over the “European” players who (Luka @luka7doncic ) is said to “indulge” in beer 🍺 too much and (now Jokic @JokicWIN_fan ) who mentioned drinking some beer 🍻 after a tough end to the season… and no *players* are allowed to endorse any beer 🍺 brands (LeBron can only mention wine 🍷—praise him—for reminding us that these are still *humans* we’re dealing with) and **YET** two MAJOR SPONSORS with their logos *enshrined on the courts* during the **playoffs** are @MichelobULTRA and @harbinbeer_jp 啤酒 （popular Chinese beer brand) … So, cheers to the NBA for profiting on not from what you preach 🙂‍↕️

Science must go on! Given today's research climate, the Chinese Academy of Sciences is hoping to poach Chinese PhDs that might be keen in coming back to China for a relatively lucrative postdoc! Please comment, message, or email me (ross.mitchell@mail.iggcas.ac.cn) if it's you or you know of someone good! 🌍🌖💥Many exciting opportunities in many fields of earth and planetary sciences going on in China (and at IGGCAS with me in particular ;) Some pics evidencing the fun we have discovering Nature's secrets below 加油！

Great obit @niles_eldredge for an amazing woman Elizabeth Vrba whose Macroevolution class—sat around her desk in her office—often spilled over into one-on-one conversations about speciation dynamics.. so blessed to have met her!

四十不惑 🤠 In China, they say “at forty, no doubt” 😮 Now I’m not sure I’m quite there yet 🧐 but with my career established and marriage, I may know what they mean..Either way, at least it’s something to try to live up to ✊

Olympic 2022 mountains 🏔️ just outside Beijing 🎿 Wanlong ski resort ❄️ ⛷️ 🇨🇳 When your skis weigh 20 lbs (and you can somehow control them) .. You. Go. FAST!

@UChicagoPress Looking forward to the eye-catching Korean translation 🇰🇷 🇰🇵 of my book The Next Supercontinent.. thank you New Wave Media for your hard work 🌍 🤓 💯

@UChicagoPress Looking forward to the Korean translation 🇰🇷 of my book The Next Supercontinent 🌍 coming soon!

#HappyNewYear2025 #Geology 😂😂

🥳#2024recap 🥳was a good year—27 publications, half of which were Nature-index…not a record year, but maintaining balance of quantity and quality 🤓😎 What made it a record year was the highlight of a lifetime, marrying my lovely wife 徐曼妮 Manni Xu 🌹 Thanks for giving me a whole new reason to love life on this amazing Earth 🌎 🌏