Geology - Plate tectonics - Mountain building - Paleogeography - Mantle motions - Paleomagnetism - Science communication - @GeoTdF.bsky.social - Professor at Utrecht Universityhttps://bsky.app/profile/vanhinsbergen.bsky.socialhttps://bsky.app/profile/vanhinsbergen.bsky.social/post/3mkxho5w5ok2sThe new Paleolatitude.org web tool is getting media coverage, like in Vice magazine. It's appeared in dozens of countries on almost every continent, and the site had >300.000 visitors since last Thursday. If you haven't checked it out: have a look! @uugeo.bsky.social https://www.vice.com/en/article/scientists-built-a-tool-that-lets-you-look-millions-of-years-into-your-homes-past/03 May 2026 15:24 +0000at://did:plc:fdpahyaqeflpuorygxsb2p6m/app.bsky.feed.post/3mkxho5w5ok2shttps://bsky.app/profile/vanhinsbergen.bsky.social/post/3mkrxae57uk2m@berndandeweg.bsky.social in action at #ExpeditionNext in #Enkhuizen!01 May 2026 10:46 +0000at://did:plc:fdpahyaqeflpuorygxsb2p6m/app.bsky.feed.post/3mkrxae57uk2mhttps://bsky.app/profile/vanhinsbergen.bsky.social/post/3mknshd3dhk2dPaleolatitude.org 3.0 is out! But it’s been picked up by the media and the site is a bit slow due to high traffic…working on it! https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.034681729 Apr 2026 19:10 +0000at://did:plc:fdpahyaqeflpuorygxsb2p6m/app.bsky.feed.post/3mknshd3dhk2dhttps://bsky.app/profile/vanhinsbergen.bsky.social/post/3mkhr2eruac2nA short picture impression of our geological fieldwork on the Mascarene Islands 👇🏽 https://www.geologist.nl/mascarenes-2026/27 Apr 2026 09:29 +0000at://did:plc:fdpahyaqeflpuorygxsb2p6m/app.bsky.feed.post/3mkhr2eruac2nhttps://bsky.app/profile/vanhinsbergen.bsky.social/post/3mkflo56ys22aHello crab specialists, I saw this crab on Rodrigues Island in the Indian Ocean. Who knows the species? #biology #crabs #science26 Apr 2026 12:47 +0000at://did:plc:fdpahyaqeflpuorygxsb2p6m/app.bsky.feed.post/3mkflo56ys22ahttps://bsky.app/profile/vanhinsbergen.bsky.social/post/3mkfhdiyqq22mFor those of you watching cycling today! https://youtu.be/w4WDYuYwfgk?is=7wQ4mqFLBZmlvuH326 Apr 2026 11:30 +0000at://did:plc:fdpahyaqeflpuorygxsb2p6m/app.bsky.feed.post/3mkfhdiyqq22mhttps://bsky.app/profile/vanhinsbergen.bsky.social/post/3mk4d25ws2s2pA few months ago, Goran Andjic and I figured out a way to reconstruct plates from the Cretaceous era in the ocean to the west of California. A week or so after we got that idea, I explained it to Nick Zentner on his great Youtube channel (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rFKNXHbnf5I&t=155s).22 Apr 2026 20:19 +0000at://did:plc:fdpahyaqeflpuorygxsb2p6m/app.bsky.feed.post/3mk4d25ws2s2phttps://bsky.app/profile/vanhinsbergen.bsky.social/post/3mjjkgucz2c2nField impressions from Rodrigues. I love my job.15 Apr 2026 09:11 +0000at://did:plc:fdpahyaqeflpuorygxsb2p6m/app.bsky.feed.post/3mjjkgucz2c2nhttps://bsky.app/profile/vanhinsbergen.bsky.social/post/3mjjbavn6o22wJust another day at the office 😎15 Apr 2026 06:27 +0000at://did:plc:fdpahyaqeflpuorygxsb2p6m/app.bsky.feed.post/3mjjbavn6o22whttps://bsky.app/profile/vanhinsbergen.bsky.social/post/3mjixmiicx22kFloor approved.15 Apr 2026 03:34 +0000at://did:plc:fdpahyaqeflpuorygxsb2p6m/app.bsky.feed.post/3mjixmiicx22khttps://bsky.app/profile/vanhinsbergen.bsky.social/post/3mjad26riu22vThe first paper of our 2022 Revillagigedo expedition is out! With plume geochemistry, seismology and plate kinematic perspectives on the east Pacific mantle. https://www.geologist.nl/koornneef-j-m-tromp-l-j-j-nikogosian-i-k-barning-e-deuss-a-f-rojas-agramonte-y-davila-harris-p-van-hinsbergen-d-j-j-submitted-active-plume-abandoned-ridge-or-ancient-mantle/11 Apr 2026 17:05 +0000at://did:plc:fdpahyaqeflpuorygxsb2p6m/app.bsky.feed.post/3mjad26riu22vhttps://bsky.app/profile/vanhinsbergen.bsky.social/post/3mjacxhjbc22vFirst paper of Jadie, about our fantastic field expedition to the Grenadines. Tectonic rotations and intraplate deformation in the SE Caribbean region! https://www.geologist.nl/sauerbier-j-d-c-philippon-m-dekkers-m-j-cornee-j-j-boudagher-fadel-m-and-van-hinsbergen-d-j-j-submitted-rotation-in-a-southeastern-caribbean-arc-grenadines-accommodated-by-back/11 Apr 2026 17:03 +0000at://did:plc:fdpahyaqeflpuorygxsb2p6m/app.bsky.feed.post/3mjacxhjbc22vhttps://bsky.app/profile/vanhinsbergen.bsky.social/post/3miypoytwgk2iNetherlands Earth and Environmental Science conference this week! Looking forward to catch up with the community.08 Apr 2026 16:30 +0000at://did:plc:fdpahyaqeflpuorygxsb2p6m/app.bsky.feed.post/3miypoytwgk2ihttps://bsky.app/profile/vanhinsbergen.bsky.social/post/3miv4isd73k2sVoor de liefhebber van geschiedenis: deel 1 van het saga over Willem de Veroveraar, van Rix Legêne, is nu uit! https://www.bol.com/nl/nl/p/willem-de-veroveraar-deel-1-rix-legene/9300000271677916/?referrer=socialshare_pdp_www07 Apr 2026 06:08 +0000at://did:plc:fdpahyaqeflpuorygxsb2p6m/app.bsky.feed.post/3miv4isd73k2shttps://bsky.app/profile/vanhinsbergen.bsky.social/post/3miqlv2gbg22cFrom the beach at Noordwijk: happy Easter 😃05 Apr 2026 11:00 +0000at://did:plc:fdpahyaqeflpuorygxsb2p6m/app.bsky.feed.post/3miqlv2gbg22chttps://bsky.app/profile/vanhinsbergen.bsky.social/post/3mgs7qmlgws24Years ago, we built the Hades Underworld Explorer, where with a simple drag and drop, users can make their own cross sections of the Earth's mantle. The Hades Underworld Explorer now has its own web address! Have a peak of your own into the underworld! www.hades-underworld-explorer.org https://www.hades-underworld-explorer.org/11 Mar 2026 15:38 +0000at://did:plc:fdpahyaqeflpuorygxsb2p6m/app.bsky.feed.post/3mgs7qmlgws24https://bsky.app/profile/vanhinsbergen.bsky.social/post/3mgg6kycnmc2s😂😂😂😂 [contains quote post or other embedded content]06 Mar 2026 20:45 +0000at://did:plc:fdpahyaqeflpuorygxsb2p6m/app.bsky.feed.post/3mgg6kycnmc2shttps://bsky.app/profile/vanhinsbergen.bsky.social/post/3mfgwv6nij22qI have now reached the scientific level that I hoped to reach when I was a young postdoc. I imagined it’d be glorious. But instead I’ve learned that all scientific achievement is accomplished amidst an endless stream of criticism and rejection, so that you’re always working far below capacity.22 Feb 2026 10:35 +0000at://did:plc:fdpahyaqeflpuorygxsb2p6m/app.bsky.feed.post/3mfgwv6nij22qhttps://bsky.app/profile/vanhinsbergen.bsky.social/post/3mf6xatxvmc2jCome join us at Utrecht Eartn Sciences! https://www.uu.nl/en/organisation/working-at-utrecht-university/jobs/assistant-professor-in-earth-materials-mineral-science19 Feb 2026 06:20 +0000at://did:plc:fdpahyaqeflpuorygxsb2p6m/app.bsky.feed.post/3mf6xatxvmc2jhttps://bsky.app/profile/vanhinsbergen.bsky.social/post/3mdazvrlx222t❤️❤️❤️25 Jan 2026 15:23 +0000at://did:plc:fdpahyaqeflpuorygxsb2p6m/app.bsky.feed.post/3mdazvrlx222thttps://bsky.app/profile/vanhinsbergen.bsky.social/post/3mcwszt37hk2sNew paper alert! For this interested in subduction initiation processes: @alisstostrome.bsky.social shows that cooling of a young subduction interface may provide the mechanisms for the ill-understood catastrophic way in which subduction zones transition from induced to self-sustained. #geology https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/2025JB03221221 Jan 2026 13:53 +0000at://did:plc:fdpahyaqeflpuorygxsb2p6m/app.bsky.feed.post/3mcwszt37hk2shttps://bsky.app/profile/vanhinsbergen.bsky.social/post/3mcano772yc25Paleolatitude.org 3.0 is online! At what latitude was your backyard in the time of the dinosaurs? The answer is a simple mouse click away, and now also if your backyard lies one of the world's big mountain ranges! https://Paleolatitude.org12 Jan 2026 18:18 +0000at://did:plc:fdpahyaqeflpuorygxsb2p6m/app.bsky.feed.post/3mcano772yc25https://bsky.app/profile/vanhinsbergen.bsky.social/post/3mbvhlr3zas2gIn the last decade, my team and I have been working on reconstructions of the orogenic belts of the Tethys. This is the final one, among many other things showing that the back-arc basins of Iran closed by extrusion of Afghanistan from western Tibet in the Cretaceous to Eocene! @uugeo.bsky.social https://doi.org/10.31223/X5N76008 Jan 2026 07:30 +0000at://did:plc:fdpahyaqeflpuorygxsb2p6m/app.bsky.feed.post/3mbvhlr3zas2ghttps://bsky.app/profile/vanhinsbergen.bsky.social/post/3mbt2vrhx7k2aBecause of heavy snow, live lectures are cancelled today, and I am once again looking at a screen with 25 initials and a few faces to lecture. Back in Covid-mode, and it's truly horrible. I'm glad that next monday, I can lecture normally again.07 Jan 2026 08:38 +0000at://did:plc:fdpahyaqeflpuorygxsb2p6m/app.bsky.feed.post/3mbt2vrhx7k2ahttps://bsky.app/profile/vanhinsbergen.bsky.social/post/3mbcwgtjw7k2t2025 was a year of building up. Looking forward to harvesting in ‘26! Happy new year all!31 Dec 2025 22:35 +0000at://did:plc:fdpahyaqeflpuorygxsb2p6m/app.bsky.feed.post/3mbcwgtjw7k2thttps://bsky.app/profile/vanhinsbergen.bsky.social/post/3m7y54bypls2cAfter a long process that took almost 13 years, I'm very happy that we submitted the first paper of Kalijn Peters' work on the Pinarbasi ophiolite of Turkey! There's more coming up, but this one's submitted, to Tektonika. Preprint below! @uugeo.bsky.social https://essopenarchive.org/doi/full/10.22541/essoar.176555988.82475845/v114 Dec 2025 22:10 +0000at://did:plc:fdpahyaqeflpuorygxsb2p6m/app.bsky.feed.post/3m7y54bypls2chttps://bsky.app/profile/vanhinsbergen.bsky.social/post/3m7xb7y2p6c23This is a spectacular finding in the recent paper of Wagenaar et al in JGR: in a minimum-continent-motion reference frame, the plumes of the Indo-Atlantic hotspots move parallel to the edges of the LLSVP, in a counterclockwise fashion. A signal of lowermost mantle flow?14 Dec 2025 13:51 +0000at://did:plc:fdpahyaqeflpuorygxsb2p6m/app.bsky.feed.post/3m7xb7y2p6c23https://bsky.app/profile/vanhinsbergen.bsky.social/post/3m7rttwlrws2fI am particularly proud of this paper by MSc student Steffi Wagenaar, in which we develop a scheme to make reconstructions of mantle convection. Hardcore geodynamics from the hand of a really impressive MSc student. https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1029/2024JB03043012 Dec 2025 10:09 +0000at://did:plc:fdpahyaqeflpuorygxsb2p6m/app.bsky.feed.post/3m7rttwlrws2f