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.

📢 10 days to go until the launch of our exhibition, Lightbulb Moments. Here’s a behind-the-scenes peek at one of our installation days! 📅 Opening on 11 September 🎟️ Free exhibition #BehindTheScenes #LightbulbMoments #RedbrickReborn #LiverpoolsGreatIdeas #FreeExhibition

Was really nervous about my first conference talk, but everyone had such positive feedback and asked great questions. The word "autoethnography" kept coming up and it's going into my regular vocab circulation. 😋 Thanks to @hywelgriffiths.bsky.social and @carolineclason.bsky.social for organising

Some lovely street art 😄

Some good advice for #RGSIBG25 here, e.g. this tip from Nancy on networking: “Networking can feel intimidating. I’ve found that the most valuable connections often come from casual, authentic conversations, whether during coffee breaks, poster sessions, or smaller group meetups." Well said. 👏

Another super #RGSIBG25 session: 'Art-science collaborations in the geosciences' organised by @hywelgriffiths.bsky.social & Caroline Clason. Lots of ideas to take away, things to think about for both research & teaching. And @dominoajones.bsky.social 's comics are fabulous!

There’s just two weeks to go until the British Science Festival 2025 arrives in Liverpool! 🎉 From 10 - 14 September, the city will come alive with inspiring talks, activities, performances and cutting-edge research.🔬 Book your place now: britishsciencefestival.org #BritishScienceFestival #BSF2025

If you're in Birmingham for @rgsibg.bsky.social, come say hello! 😄 I'm giving a talk titled "Illustrating Wonder: Communicating Glaciology Through Comics and Visual Storytelling" featuring work from my recent trip to @tarfalaresstation.bsky.social. ⭐️ @geolassoc.bsky.social

Tarfala's 80 Year Anniversary Conference @stockholm-uni.bsky.social @bolincentre.bsky.social has just started! Thank your our international speakers from Switzerland, Norway, Germany and UK making the first sessions really exciting! Artwork in the conference logo by @dominoajones.bsky.social

On 2 September we're launching our This is Geoscience campaign to reframe public understanding of #geoscience and inspire the next generation of geoscientists ⚒️ 🧪 Join us to be amongst the first to see the report and campaign, and help share them far & wide. Free & open to all tinyurl.com/3r99dzw5

Also, what happened to Antarctica?

A six-week period of extraordinary heat in 2024 melted 62 gigatonnes of ice on the Arctic archipelago of Svalbard, obliterating all previous melt records… #Svalbard #Glaciology #GlacierMassBalance

Last year, I connected to a supercomputer for the first time. Had my dad take a picture. It's really moments like this that make you appreciate a whole new level of nerdiness. 😄

Big shout-outs also to three brilliant female scientists who were presented with IGS awards during the symposium... Dorthe Dahl-Jensen who received the Seligman Crystal, @icymatters.bsky.social who received the Firn Award, and @iceybethan.bsky.social who received the Richardson Medal. 🥂

Back in the office means it's time to work on the ol' manuscript

We have observed glacier thinning leading to bedrock exposure in icefalls, oversteepening and serac failure here on Rainbow Glacier I observed on 8/3/25, footage from Margaret Kingston #glaciology

Ongoing heatwave and heavy rain caused deadly flash floods and glacial lake outburst in Pakistan 2025 so far—destroying parts of Karakoram Highway, farmland, homes, and killing ~15 people. Glacier melt and high river discharge threaten more erosion in Gilgit-Baltistan. #pakistan #glacier #climate

Accelerated glacier melt💧 in the Himalayan region amplifies vulnerability- +risks of high discharge peaks, floods&erosion, damage🌧️ High temp at extreme elevations are intensifying these hazards, threatening the livelihoods of millions. ⚡️We need urgent action against accelerating CO₂ NOW ⚡️

We’ve collected the oldest ice core, now it’s time to analyse it! 🔍 💻 The @newscientist.com have a new icy-cool video, speaking to BAS scientists about the Beyond EPICA project, highlighting why this work is so important in the face of climate change. www.newscientist.com/video/249042...

From 10–14 Sept, the British Science Festival transforms Liverpool into a playground for ideas. Join our researchers for hands-on science, from roller skating with viruses to robots making art. 🤖🧪 👉 All events are FREE – find out more: news.liverpool.ac.uk/2025/08/08/b... @britsciassoc.bsky.social

In the span of 5 hours: - flew in a helicopter for the first time 🕺 - encounter with 2 moose (and one of them charged at me 😅) Definitely eventful

Capping off my trip with another hike, the views were terrific but the soaking wet boots were not

Did you know that the GA have boxes of fossils, rocks and minerals we hire out to UK schools and home educators for the study of the Key Stage 2 earth-science curriculum? We have reached over 10,000 children across 113 schools and 7 home-educator groups as far afield as Elgin, Pembroke and Somerset

Celebrating the important and impactful work done at @tarfalaresstation.bsky.social with this mural

After hot and dry came wet .. And Lillsjön, the little lake, became Storsjön, the large lake...Now we are back to "normal" (that is, Lillsjön is small again), but what is "normal"? In any case, today, we welcome course GE5003 @stockholm-uni.bsky.social @bolincentre.bsky.social, for a 10-days stay!

Last big hike in tarfala, helping the technician with a quick fix up on the ridge Helping = providing chocolate and moral support

Part 2/2. Also, check out goodbye-glaciers.info/glaciers/#Sc... where Swedish glaciers are first out among Scandinavian #glaciers. There, the "mostly gone" years for the Swedish reference glaciers are presented, and they are not in a far future @stockholm-uni.bsky.social @bolincentre.bsky.social

#Ice-off at #LakeTarfala @stockholm-uni.bsky.social @bolincentre.bsky.social was attained on July 31 this year, a month later than in 2024 bolin.su.se/data/tarfala.... As of yesterday, the first starry saxifrage are flowering around the station 😀

It's a process 😊 Clean slate, sketched out concept, reference pictures, solid layout, dirty hands, and final result

❄️ A landmark new study has revealed that glaciers on Australia’s remote sub-Antarctic Heard Island are shrinking at an accelerating rate due to rising temperatures and climate change. tc.copernicus.org/articles/19/... @andrewmackintosh.bsky.social @heardislandgov.bsky.social @arcsaef.bsky.social

The @tarfalaresstation.bsky.social library is basically a rare books collection 😍😍 Every edition of Physics of Glaciers🕺from the size of each book, you can see how much this field of research has expanded in Paterson's lifetime

Field sketching kit in action

Got the chance to work with a fab group of people! Thanks for all you taught me about the flowers and mosses on Storglacier forefield 😍🏔🌼

You have to do the important “writing shit down” bit to make the circles overlap, though.