Not about the archaeology or the former “green corridors”, but for anyone who is interested in the wonderful #NamibSandSea #desert #drylands heres a short 🎦 for you… youtu.be/AFSbln9uN-4?... @uomseed.bsky.social @uomhums.bsky.social

Using luminescence dating, @abistone.bsky.social and her colleagues aim to shine a light on a neglected part of Africa’s archaeological record, out in the remote, hyper-arid landscapes of the Namib Sand Sea. @pans-river-namib.bsky.social 👉 media.leverhulme.ac.uk/feature/astone

One to line up for the new intake of #WSPM (Water, Science Policy & Management) MSc students ready for the Climate and Catchment modeuke @oxfordgeography.bsky.social doi.org/10.1029/2025...

Dinosaurs as #ecosystemengineers ! #biogeomorphology www.newscientist.com/article/2496...

The day before the #UKLum25 conference @standrewssgsd.bsky.social we had a fabulous day working with a fleet of #portableluminescencereaders

I’m looking forward to the #luminescence community catch-up next week at the conference in St Andrews, and the opportunity talk about the work Shashank is leading on establishing the timing of dune accumulation in the western part of the Thar Desert. #UKLum2025 @uomseed.bsky.social

🌎 Tonight, we ushered in a new era of weather and climate monitoring. EUMETSAT's MetOp-SG-A1, weather satellite – which hosts the Copernicus Sentinel-5 mission – successfully launched aboard an Ariane 6 rocket from Europe’s Spaceport in French Guiana. 🔗 www.esa.int/Applications...

A cold dip and mini rainbows in the sky on holiday in Germany…

🚨New paper alert doi.org/10.1017/dry....

It's tempting to pick a spot on the beach near cliffs: they provide shade and wind protection. But take a look at this pic: can you see the potential risks? Click here to find the answers, and learn more about beach safety: www.resortdorset.com/features/227...

More #FieldworkFriday The site of Khommabes in the north of the #NamibSandSea, which contains a palimpsest of ESA, MSA & LSA #archaeology This view looks northeast from a patch of nebkah dunes. Off to the left of the photo is a calcrete-capped interdune pan that used to hold water

🚨 New paper landing soon. An invited review for Cambridge Prisms: Drylands (www.cambridge.org/core/journal...) about #Quaternary #dryland dynamics. Some areas of emerging consensus, plus remaining contradictions. A short review (<5,000 words): selective not exhaustive

And in the afternoon in session 28 #SAfA2025 from Selina Amaral, @matzearch.bsky.social, our work from @pans-river-namib.bsky.social & Heinrich Kurt #archaeology #openair #surfacesites #lithics #kalahari #namib #MSA #ESA

A fascinating morning so far in session 28 #SAfA2025 hearing about the Kgalagadi District: survey, luminescence dating, duricrust formation & lithics from @khoproject.bsky.social members @isotopesrule.bsky.social @taylorgrandfield.bsky.social Inez Faul & Rowena Winterhalder #lithics #archaeology

Really looking forward to heading to my first Society of African Archaeologists conference next week, talking about our group’s research out in the Namib Sand Seaz #SANDS #PANS #archaeology #safaconference2025 #lithics #NamibSandSea #EarlierStoneAge #MiddleStoneAge

To mark our 100th anniversary, the Trust Board is pleased to announce the Leverhulme Centenary Awards – a £100 million investment to support pioneering research centres, doctoral scholars and rising academic leaders. Read more here: www.leverhulme.ac.uk/news/100mill...

Some excellent news for Monday morning

#dust #Quaternary over the last 30,000 years with millennial pacing “variability in proportions of Nn vs. Sn hemisphere sourced dust in the Eastern Equatorial Pacific is indicative of large climate-related meridional shifts (>7°) in the average position of the Intertropical Convergence Zone”

The annual fieldclass begins… @uomseed.bsky.social

Abi Stone is a dryland Quaternary scientist & geochronologist interested in long-term landscape & environmental change, based at @uomseed.bsky.social @uniofmanchester.bsky.social She's worked in the Namib on & off since ~2005, & range of other deserts. research.manchester.ac.uk/en/persons/a...

Happy International Women's Day! Despite the efforts, while much more women enter scientific fields, due to numerous factors, few manage to remain in the field or secure senior positions. Support your coworkers, call out harmful systemic behaviour. 😘

A Bluesky account for updates in all things #NamibSandSeaArchaeology as our team project gets started If you like your African Stone Age archaeology in the landscape on desert pans, follow along! Will try to remember its there & add some #NamibPandRiver hashtags here too as I go #Archaeology

Time to learn some more about the West African MSA! They were not only in rainforests 150,000 years ago, they were also in mangrove forests! www.nature.com/articles/s41...

This year marks 100 years of the Leverhulme Trust. Enabling talented researchers across the arts, humanities, sciences and social sciences to undertake blue skies, interdisciplinary, ambitious and risky research. www.leverhulme.ac.uk/what-we-do

Please see this link, owing to a problem with copy & pasting the project-specific link (Thank you SEED for spotting this)

Please spread the word @quaternaryra.bsky.social @uomseed.bsky.social @inquaecr.bsky.social

Just <week left to apply for a @official-uom.bsky.social Bicentenary PhD studentship, hosted in Geography, within Faculty of Humanities: Down by the river: reconstructing environmental conditions at two stone age archaeological sites along the former Tsondab River in the Namib Sand Sea.

It was nice to reflect on work in sandy places for @kebleoxford.bsky.social thebrick.keble.net/issue-80-con...

I’ll be talking dynamic landscapes in this afternoon’s Research Storytelling event the School of Environment Education & Development… Or is that ‘dynamic research teams’?! With thanks to Team NS 90 degrees for the aerial photo & to Dom Stratford for demonstrating the power of the wind in photo 2

‪ Call for presentations for our session at the SAfA conference 2025! #Kalahari #Namib #Karoo #desert 🦣🏺 @khoproject.bsky.social

Looking forward to this afternoon’s #archaeological science talks at University of Manchester

Looking forward to taking part in some #research #storytelling in a couple of weeks 📚 🏜️ here at #SEED at #UniversityofManchester

Our new article led by @eslembenarous.bsky.social on the MSA site of Bargny, where new investigations headed by Dr Khady Niang have yielded samples that show its Middle Pleistocene age. The West African MSA keeps getting older (watch this space!). www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

🚨another #PhD opportunity 🚨 Involving working with a fabulous team of #Quaternary scientists & #archaeologists #NamibSandSea #MiddleStoneAge #luminescencedating This is a competition for funding with University of Manchester via the Bicentenary Scholarship www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

Looking for a #PhD in #Quaternary science, #loess & #luminescence Check out this opportunity with the wonderful Dr Kaja Fenn & colleagues www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

#Dryland environments BSc students here in the Geography Department at University of Manchester sampled some beach dunes (dryland analogue) earlier this semester, and today made these sands glow in the dark to start to explore how long the sand might have been buried in the dune… #luminescencedating

Looking forward to having a look at these… 📺

Postdoc opportunity at Aauhus U. with @loopdlupien.bsky.social. If you’re interested in isotopes, biomarkers, paleoclimate, and human evolution, check it out!

A frosty start, heading to talk about warmer places in Oxford Geography’s Landscape Dynamics Seminar Series We’re starting to explore hominin routes into vleis (or pans) in the Namib Sand Sea Looking forward to catch ups & some trips down DPhil memory lane… www.geog.ox.ac.uk/research/lan...

If you're not sure how to find #StarterPacks (I can't figure out how to search for them in the android app), I found this useful website blueskydirectory.com/starter-pack...

Happy Polar Pride! 🌈 Today we're celebrating the contribution of LGBTQ+ people in the international polar research and operations community 💙 ➡️ www.bas.ac.uk/media-post/p... #PolarPride2024 #LGBTSTEMDay #DiversityinPolarScience

My turn for a starter pack! Here is a collection of Quaternary Scientists (broadly defined) that you might find interesting to follow. Enjoy. And let me know your suggestions please! go.bsky.app/71XJ4jH

Thinking of heading to #Pages2025 7th Open Science Meeting, Shanghai? Have an interest in all things windy? 💨 Session 17 might be the one for you Abstract deadline is approaching Dec 1st, 2024 www.pages2025.org.cn/Data/List/Se... #aeolian #eolian #drylands #landscape #geomorphology #Quaternary

A reminder for this guest lecture. We are really excited to host Kirsty & Marc from NEaar (North East Amino Acid Racemization) laboratory at the University of York. Fri 18th Oct at 4.30 With thanks to @quaternaryra.bsky.social for sponsoring the event!

Looking forward to heading to the UK #luminescence & ESR conference to talk about the team’s work out in the Namib Sand Sea

I was invited to talk with John Maytham for the "Afternoon Drive" on CapeTalk Radio about the S.A.N.D.S. (Survey and Archaeology of the Namib Desert Surface) team's research at Narabeb (≠Aonin-derived name for "place of the Nara") omny.fm/shows/the-jo...

What was Narabeb like 230,000 years ago, when our #MiddleStoneAge ancestors were there? Our #luminescencedating shines light on this blind spot in #archaeology theconversation.com/african-arch... [theconversation.com] @us.theconversation.com @quaternaryra.bsky.social #LeakeyFoundation

I’m looking forward to the annual “Windy Day” conference/meeting tomorrow in Liverpool

[2/n] is combined with analysis of lithics by Ted, George, Rachel & Kaarina + sedimentology from Dom (& me) + valuable mathematical modelling insights from Andrew. a step closer to figuring out the complex story A huge thanks to Gobabeb & National Museum of Namibia for letting us work with you!

If you like a bit of Stone Age lithic archaeology sitting on the surface of your deserts, go & read of our current paper in Quaternary Science Advances! www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... The 2022 fieldwork coupled with revisiting a sample from 2007 PhD fieldwork for luminescence dating… [1/n]