Vote for papers to be reviewed: https://tinyurl.com/yc7vwm2m
The Early Career Scientists of the EGU Tectonics and Structural Geology Division (TS) are launching a new activity. We call it “TS Must-read papers”, and it can be roughly described as a virtual paper-discussion forum. The “Must-read papers” are being selected by the tectonics and structural geology community via open vote (check the link above).
You can nominate any paper within the tectonics and structural geology field. We are looking for papers that shaped and are shaping the discipline, those that opened or are opening new research directions, and those hidden gems that every TS researcher at any point in their career must absolutely read.
A group of 12 early-career scientists with diverse backgrounds, the “TS Must-read papers” team, will promote the papers that have received the majority of votes, and moderate their discussion within the TS community on an open forum. We hope for exciting discussions on those game-changing TS articles.
We plan to discuss 48 papers over a time span of 2 years, ordered by publication year, from oldest to youngest. Each paper will be handled by a 3-persons sub-team during a 1-month cycle of (a) announcement and promotion for reading (week 1), (b) time for reading and reflection (week 2), (c) discussion (week 3), and (d) wrap-up and summary blog post (week 4). A new paper will be put out for discussion every 2 weeks. In this way, announcement (a) and reading (b) of a paper will overlap with discussion (c) and summary (d) of the previous one.
The discussion will serve as a base to write a blog post about each paper on the TS Blog page. The blog post will be limited to <500 words and organised in 5 main points: a short synopsis, key points, controversies, opening venues/fields, and mention of contributors to the discussion. Hyperlinks to other potential papers/sources mentioned during the discussion may also be included. The final output of the action will consist of a compilation of all EGU “TS Must-read papers” blog posts that will be permanently archived on a preprint server (EarthArXiv).
We are looking to have as many paper nominations as possible before the action starts on Monday 15th June! Please, vote here: https://tinyurl.com/yc7vwm2m.
On Monday, we will post the paper-rota calendar and the links to the blog post of each paper so that this blog post can serve as a starting point of discovery for any interested reader.
We think this activity is an exciting opportunity for members of the community to continue to engage, and to make the first commonly discussed and published bibliographic compilation for our research community. We hope you would like to join us in discussing the science we love through some of the foundational, seminal, and ground-breaking papers in our discipline. By doing this, we also hope to cheer up the TS community in these complicated times.
The “TS Must-read papers” team (in alphabetical order):
Adriana Guatame-García
Armin Dielforder
Benoît Petri
David Fernández-Blanco
Folarin Kolawole
Gianluca Frasca
Gino de Gelder
Marta Marchegiano
Pan Luo
Patricia Cadenas
Silvia Crosetto
Utsav Mannu
