'Sup? I have almost finished writing the paper for the ostracod project I have been working on for quite some time now. I do not think I have ever had to rewrite anything from scratch so many times in my entire life. Of course, there is also a certain degree of inexperience involved, considering that this is my first paper. Incorporating all the different comments and suggestions coming from each co-author has turned out to be much harder than I had anticipated. Not because I

Hello everyone. Another day spent tired and far from productive, and since I cannot seem to fall asleep either, I thought I might as well write something random. There is something about myself that I have been thinking about a lot lately: my productivity has dropped quite seriously over the past one or two years. On top of that, I no longer feel particularly idealistic either. I think I used to be much more inclined to choose the difficult option — the difficult and, in my m

Picking up from where we left off. I have now completed my roughly one week-long Upper Rhine Graben field trip. So far, it has been the field trip I enjoyed the most. In general, I still find the geology of Turkey much more interesting. In terms of diversity and preservation, it is on a completely different level. Even just around Ankara, there are places where you can see practically everything you would cover in an entire year of an introductory geology textbook, and even m