Warmest march month @bolincentre.bsky.social @stockholm-uni.bsky.social #SMHI: www.svt.se/nyheter/loka... We read out data from #TarfalaResearchStation s Automated Weather Station and confirm: It was the warmest march month here since 1965, with a monthly average of only -3.6 C this year

Finally, a painted sample of the comic!! Fun facts about gneiss 🤘🏔 Trying out this font (based on my handwriting) - not sold on it yet

📅 Save the date! Join us on Saturday 21 March 2026 for a free, family-friendly open day as part of the Cambridge Festival lineup. 🎟️ Free tickets dropping soon - watch this space! 📍 British Antarctic Survey, High Cross, Madingley Road, Cambridge, CB3 0ET 🕙 21st March 10am - 4pm

Micro palaeontology Friday labs

My first attempt at painting the comic went south... probably because I chose to start with a challenging nighttime scene. Reworked my color mixing, ready to try again. It's process 😅

We had a great turnout of roughly 20 students! Great to see so many of our students keen on Glaciology 💪❄️

Calling BSc and MSc students interested in glaciological research!! ❄️❄️ @livunigeog.bsky.social

I don't see how this is anything less than a gross attempt to breach freedom of speech and right to privacy in the US. As an American citizen, I feel fear - not freedom. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

🐧‘To make the #WeddellSea a protected marine area, we need to demonstrate that what the area has to offer is of great value to humans.’ Jacqueline Stefels (@rug.nl) boarded the #Polarstern of @awi.de for an expedition to Antarctica.❄️ Curious? Read more 👇 🔗 www.rug.nl/fse/news/cli... 🧪 #SciComm

Wrote a little story about our paper: doi.org/10.1002/ecog...

Today is Holocaust Memorial Day, a day to remember all those who were murdered during the Holocaust, under wider Nazi persecution and through all other genocides. Our thoughts are with the members of these communities.

Even when stuck in a lift, PhD students have lunch together ❤️ We're in the lift, they're sat in the hallway. Solidarity all the way.

“That leaves Republicans in Congress as the last barrier. They owe it to the American people, and to the world, to stop Trump from acting out his fantasy in Greenland and doing permanent damage to American interests.” @anneapplebaum.bsky.social lays it out.

Dear America, we'd like to speak to the manager... www.nytimes.com/video/opinio...

Wisconsin's beautiful sandstone 🚀

Deep-sea earthquakes fuel huge plankton blooms in Antarctica | Science | AAAS www.science.org/content/arti...

Leaf of snowbed willow, under a microscope

Physicist Marguerite Perey discovered Francium #OTD in 1939. It was the last element to be found in a naturally occurring state, rather than synthesized by humans. 🧪 ⚛️ 👩‍🔬 Image: Musée Curie/ACJC Collection

The IPCC will, of course, hum along without U.S. participation, but folks will be hoping for their swift return. Until then, give hugs to your climate-conscious U.S. friends, and encourage them to keep fighting for a livable future. It’s always darkest before dawn. 🌍👊 eos.org/research-and...

Visited the conservatory with my sister on NYE - I've definitely grown in appreciation for plants this year

Lovely Chicago fresh air

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... I feel like art therapy could be useful in academia too, especially when things don't work out e.g. grant proposals fail, fieldwork challenges, general overwhelm. 🧪🎨

Making linoprints with my sister!! Inspired by my trip to Tarfala 🏔⭐️

Greenland's fjords are pathways for exchange of heat and freshwater between the continental shelf and outlet glaciers of the Greenland Ice Sheet. Vries et al., present year-round water column velocity observations for Nuup Kangerlua in SW Greenland 🌊 agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/...

Finally, here it is. Also this year, I have together with @ruthmottram.bsky.social commented on the fate of the Greenland Ice Sheet. Thanks for your patience, @carbonbrief.org. One of the highlights: 2024/25 was the 29th year in a row with net mass loss. See www.carbonbrief.org/guest-post-h...

A mix of lichens including a Xanthoria (I think) a couple of Physcia spp, and others. All hanging out on a tree branch. Northwest Territories, Canada. #lichen #fungi #fungifriends while #hiking

Weather geekery

More art from #sciart workshops at @scottpolar.bsky.social yesterday! The exhibition, inspired by my @bas.ac.uk research, is open TODAY 12-4pm. Do visit 👇 www.spri.cam.ac.uk/museum/exhib... 🧪❄️🇦🇶🎨

🚨 Interested in the form and variability of the supraglacial hydrological system? @hollywytia.bsky.social et al. explore the controls on channel distribution and characteristics on Swiss Alpine glaciers in a new paper hot off the press at The Cryosphere! ❄️ tc.copernicus.org/articles/19/...

Finally making some progress

About a week of writer's block but this page is slowly coming together

Inspired by many, many viewings with my kids, I wrote something for @uk.theconversation.com that imagines how the Arendelle glacier in Disney's Frozen might look after 200 years of climate change: theconversation.com/frozen-thawe...

Happy Polar Pride!!!

Mark your diaries - It's Polar Pride on November 18th! Celebrate the achievements of LGQBTIA+ people in STEM and in polar science, and work to make work places more inclusive and supportive, and to challenge barriers and discrimination #polarpride #LGBTQinSTEM

Arctic cotton 🐻‍❄💚 Aka Eriophorum callitrix

Orange chocolate chip lichen (aka Solorina crocea) 🧡🍪

Fall highlight is Liverpool's River Of Lights 🌃❤️

It was great to welcome @dominoajones.bsky.social (PhD student in glaciology) to our Tate Hall! Domino shared their comic sketches and field notes, and explained how they look at data from the Vikings and ice cores for their studies!

Loved presenting my work on science storytelling and arctic comics! 🏔🌼❄️ Thanks for hosting me @victoriagallery.bsky.social 🏛 Thanks for supporting this work @geolassoc.bsky.social 🪨

Featuring work from my recent trip to @tarfalaresstation.bsky.social 🏔🌼

"Was I meant to know this?" Many students say this to me when we're working on a practical. It's a sign that students feel an expectation to excel from the get-go. In reality, they aren't expected to be perfect or know how to do everything. After all, this is a school and they're here to learn.

⛅️ Tuesday, 11am - 1pm 🏛 Victorial Museum and Gallery Peek inside the backpack of a field artist - from trekking essentials to the tools of storytelling. I'll show original comic pages and field sketches, revealing how art can bridge the gap between data and emotion. @victoriagallery.bsky.social

It would be super fantastic to see more nations join the ‘Ambition on Melting Ice’ at #COP30 next month! You can learn more about the AMI focus on sea-level rise within the #UNFCCC process at: ambitionmeltingice.org Sweden is in. About time Denmark?

Why are there so many acorns in the UK this year? Oaks everywhere seem to have been laden with acorns. Nice to quoted when the BBC investigated! There are lots of chestnuts too, and beech seeds in some places but not others. Happy squirrels and jays this year! 🐿🌰🌳 www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Excited to advertise a new interdisciplinary PhD opportunity at @geogdurham.bsky.social - "From ice to ecosystem: assessing the risk of glacier melt and legacy contamination for reindeer in Sápmi (Lapland)" ❄️ 🦌 To learn more about the project and how to apply visit: iapetus.ac.uk/studentships...

New paper in @natgeosci.nature.com The Greenlandification of Antarctica showing how the #Antarctic climate is mirroring climate in #Greenland. That's what I would call a hot topic for a cold place. The study was lead by @ruthmottram.bsky.social @precise-project.bsky.social doi.org/10.1038/s415...

Want to explain #polarClimate and why #Geoengineering doesn't belong there to kids? Try this excellent Frontiers for Young Minds piece by @helenmillman.bsky.social et al: kids.frontiersin.org/articles/10....

First day back in labs and our undergrads never disappoint 😄

Live in #Cambridge (UK) and fancy meeting a real artist🎨? Come along to @scottpolar.bsky.social *this Friday 12-2pm* to chat with Rowan Huntley - about her exhibition inspired by my @bas.ac.uk science. www.spri.cam.ac.uk/museum/events/ About Rowan: www.rowanhuntley.co.uk/ice-and-fire #sciart

I've tried many times to capture the atmosphere of a Hebridean shore under a grey sky, before the morning mist has cleared. Somehow the beach and the machair still glow and the sea somehow still looks tropical. Yesterday I think I just about cracked it.