Our own work
Quarterly issues
Every term the club finishes a few pieces of work and collects them into an issue. Each one opens with a short note on what the studies had in common. We do not have a laboratory, so this is analysis and modelling work, and the code that produced every number is linked from the article that used it.
Fall 2026
1articleVolume 2, Issue 4June 2026Summer 2026
A meta-analysis of the long-term field trials behind farmland carbon claims, and why the depth you dig to changes the answer enough to matter for anybody selling an offset.
5articlesVolume 2, Issue 3March 2026Spring 2026
Two reviews asking what the evidence actually supports rather than what the headline said. Which marine organisms ocean acidification genuinely harms, and whether a cup of pond water can really tell you what lives in it.
5articlesVolume 2, Issue 2December 2025Winter 2026
Old evidence, read carefully. Greenland ice used as an epidemiological instrument for children who died two thousand years ago, and a volcano that last erupted 250,000 years ago and is still visibly breathing.
6articlesVolume 2, Issue 1September 2025Fall 2025
Two changes at planetary scale that almost nobody noticed. Snowball Earth turning out to have flickered rather than frozen once and waited, and a fifth of the ocean growing measurably darker across twenty years of satellite data.
5articlesVolume 1, Issue 4June 2025Summer 2025
Organisms doing things they are not supposed to be able to do. A tree that profits from being struck by lightning, a fish that gets physically shorter to survive a heatwave, and a desert lizard that crossed eight thousand kilometres of open Pacific on a raft of weeds.
6articlesVolume 1, Issue 3March 2025Spring 2025
Three pieces of earth science that each break a rule somebody teaches. Gold leaking out of a core that was supposed to be sealed, younger rock sitting underneath older rock across half a basin, and the first video anybody has taken of a fault tearing the ground apart.
9articlesVolume 1, Issue 2December 2024Winter 2025
Things spreading through a lattice, a network, a coastline and a forest. A universal constant measured overnight on a laptop, the decade-long hunt for whatever killed five billion sea stars, and an honest look at whether early warning signals give any warning worth having.
6articlesVolume 1, Issue 1September 2024Fall 2024
Chance is the subject. What randomness does to a beneficial mutation, to a small population's odds of lasting the century, and to a survey that comes back empty. It closes on a meta-analysis of the insect decline literature, which turns out to disagree with itself more than either side admits.
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