📢New Editorial in Area📢 Our new editorial team, @jeremyjschmidt.bsky.social, @jonnydarling.bsky.social, @envidynxlab.bsky.social & Mary Lawhon, have written their first editorial outlining their ambitions for the journal - have a read here⬇️ doi.org/10.1111/area... #geosky

Second job alert! We just opened a tenure-track junior professor position at @cerege.bsky.social focusing on Pleistocene and Holocene paleoenvironments and population dynamics. emploi.cnrs.fr/Offres/CPJ/C... Contact me if you are interested!

@massobsarchive.bsky.social @massobscritical.bsky.social @bloomsburyhist.bsky.social

🛰️ Summer School in Geospatial & AI 📍 hosted by Southampton Geospatial @unisouthampton.bsky.social 📅 14–18 July 2025 🔗 go.soton.ac.uk/h4y ⏳ Deadline: 30 June 2025 Course explores AI & deep learning methods and real-world geospatial data challenges

Applications are now open for the EGU Science Journalism Fellowship 2025! Up to €5000 awarded to #journalists reporting on ongoing #research in Earth, planetary, or space sciences. Apply Now! 📆 Deadline: 17 June 2025. 👉 Learn more: egu.eu/783DX3

My colleagues at The Anthropocene Laboratory at Swedish Royal Academy in Stockholm are hiring: 3 postdocs www.anthropocenelab.se/news/the-ant... and 2 researchers www.anthropocenelab.se/news/the-ant...

Thinking of @drkingothebeach.bsky.social today: teaching Toomey et al. (2013: doi.org/10.1130/G341...) [one of my all-time favourite papers] and Ortiz & Ashton (2019: doi.org/10.1016/j.ma...) as we near the end of this year's @sotongeogenviron.bsky.social Y2 coastal module.

New Special Section in Area! 'Rivers as Borders', edited by Rebekka Kanesu, @drvanessalamb.bsky.social & Eva McGrath, features 6 #OpenAccess papers on river-borders from the Yarmouk and Salween to the Moselle and Torridge. Read all papers here ⬇️ rgs-ibg.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/toc/10.1... #geo

My latest @newscientist.com cartoon

Tenure Track Assistant or Associate Professor in Environmental Hydraulics and/or Ecohydrological modelling at the University of Oulu, Finland. Apply by 19 May. See also: csdms.colorado.edu/wiki/Jobs

Conner Lester and his colleagues offer a clear, thorough rendering of the statistical physics of impact ripples. Conner recently completed his PhD at Duke. His thesis should be available online soon. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Dark, ashy wildfire sediment still sits on L.A beaches. But there's no health risk, officials say

SFI’s Complexity podcast is up for a Webby Award! Nominated in the Science & Education category, Episode 2 of the most recent season explores the relationship between language and thought with guests Evelina Federenko, Steve Piantadosi, and Gary Lupyan. vote.webbyawards.com/PublicVoting...

3-year postdoc here in Geography at Durham working on sand extraction with Dr. Laura Schoenberger: durham.taleo.net/careersectio...

A few weeks ago, I shared with the students of my “International Tourism” course this interesting, but worrisome, article. Key West in Florida has been studying how cruise ships docking affect the quality of water: it stirs up as much as sediment as a hurricane. www.npr.org/transcripts/...

OK folks - will you please help me spread this far and wide. A really exciting opportunity to be the new Director of Comms at @britishacademy.bsky.social - the national academy for humanities and social sciences. £100k. Lovely team. Reports directly to me micro.green-park.co.uk/thebritishac...

Work led by Alice Puppin shows that tidal-channel abandonment (due to stream captures or meander cutoff) leads to rapid C accumulation. "Rapid Infill of Abandoned Tidal Channels Creates Hotspots for Blue-Carbon Accumulation in Coastal Wetlands" agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/...

And we played home-built, retro-aesthetic arcade video games too👀🚜🌊🏝️

Was an absolute pleasure to be @unipd.bsky.social Dipt di Geoscienze last week with @alvitello.bsky.social & others. A hat-trick of seminars (with special thanks to the admin team for advert), lots of time set aside for head-scratching at the board, and delicious food at every turn. The 🤌 best 🤌.

Africa is seeing "carbon grabs" by foreign firms, warns the head of the African Development Bank. Read more: bit.ly/4cmmgxX

There's a lot going on, God knows, but don't miss that the President of the United States is using the full force of the Federal government, as well as tax dollars, to punish a state because its Governor... refused to do as he instructed. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/02/u...

Want to do a PhD with @nisreenalwan.bsky.social and me on food aid and working to make this system better for those who need to use it? Fully funded, make it your own, more details here: www.findaphd.com/phds/project... #PhDfunding #foodaid #foodinsecurity #healthgeography #food

“Discoveries,” Ogbunu says, “are made when you borrow ideas from certain disciplines and carefully and responsibly combine them.” www.santafe.edu/news-center/...

❄️🌊Nice write-up of a Nature Climate Change paper by Jan Kavan et al. on coast development as Arctic glaciers recede. Includes some commentary from me. Enjoyed peer-reviewing the NCC article, writing a 'news and views' piece, and speaking to @ayeshatandon.carbonbrief.org about it all to top it off.

Where do the sand grains from a beach nourishment go? Check out Bart van Westen's latest paper on the application of our SedTRAILS model to the Sand Engine: www.nature.com/articles/s41... @deltares.bsky.social @tudelftceg.bsky.social

Paperback copies of my book have arrived in the office! They'll be available in UK stores/online from April 24. #MakingSenseOfChaos

Interested in waterfalls? My former PhD student, Sophie Rothman, (with support from NSF) made a fun outreach video about how waterfalls erode, check it out and please share widely: www.youtube.com/watch?v=sVgr...

Postdoc Carlos Alvarez shows that Mars’s large #aeolian #ripples are not impact ripples through low-pressure #wind tunnel experiments at #NASA Ames. Very excited about this one! @stanforddoerr.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Five years ago today, most historical UK monthly rainfall observations were not available to scientists. But the 66,000 pieces of paper containing the data had been scanned. With covid lockdown approaching we saw an opportunity to transcribe the data. #RainfallRescue began... 🧵

The EGU Geomorphology Division is looking for a new Science Officer! general area of landscape evolution, tectonic geomorphology, or topographic analysis, very broadly defined. To apply, all we need is a CV and a short (<250 words) statement, by 18 April. Happy to answer any questions about it!

Moosehead Breweries, Canada’s oldest independent beermaker, is selling a pack of 1,461 beer cans, one for each day of Trump’s presidency. More than 400 people are now on a wait list for the product 🍻

Lead story in the NYT today is about how more kids than ever are going to college. Much farther down, how they won't have any jobs: www.nytimes.com/2025/03/25/b...

Absolutely magnificent companion papers in @jgrearthsurface.bsky.social by Ajay Limaye – a two-part manifesto that guides the reader through an elegant geometric approach to automatically identify and analyse channel meanders in remotely sensed imagery. (1/3) ⚒️🧪

This is, by a large margin, the most astonishing sample I have seen in my 'career' (15 yr sampling glacier subfossil wood)! 🥰 Wanted to share it on this first World Glacier Day! 🧊❄️ This trunk has spent almost 10,000 years below a glacier and I have never seen bark better preserved! 💪

“.. Canadian tourists make up about 30-40% of the revenue for many businesses in Old Orchard Beach, Maine. .. The owner of the Point of View Inn tells CNN .. he’s had so many cancellations that his business may not survive.” 🇨🇦 @cnn.com www.cnn.com/2025/03/20/t...

Wild-eyed rush to prep materials ahead of class tomorrow for UG Y2 @sotongeogenviron.bsky.social coastal students, but relieved that the DEMs of our overwash-morphology-in-a-tank trials are looking pretty good. (I like the aesthetics of these "ghost scans.") Morphometric analysis next.

COWORKER: I’m already off to a bad start. How's your bracket doing? YOU: Pretty good. I mostly went with whatever team was ranked higher and that was usually the team that won. [Your COWORKER stares at YOU with a mixture of revulsion and scorn.]

Interested in what controls patterns of bedrock exposure and alluvial cover? Check out Mel Guirro's first PhD paper where we use NST in Landlab to model alluvial cover for the River Carron in the Scottish Highlands. Now out in JGR-ES: agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/...

Want to know what a typical day looks like for a geomorphologist? Then check out this blog by the Geomorphology division to learn more! 👉 Give it a read here: egu.eu/03GD7S

The old “teach a man to fish” proverb, but for AI chatbots.

Small Axe focuses on publishing critical work that examines the ideas that guided the formation of Caribbean modernities. Number 75 is available, view the full TOC: buff.ly/qzPAgyS

An amazing European Space Agency image from the Mars Express mission shows giant landslides in the Hebes Chasma of Mars. For scale, the largest failure (centre right) has a surface area about 25% greater than that of New York City. eos.org/thelandslide...

NEW: Since rebuffing Trump's order barring transgender girls from girls’ sports, Maine has been investigated or pressured by 6 federal agencies: • Education • Justice • Agriculture • HHS • NOAA • Social Security With @bangordailynews.bsky.social

Stefano walked me through a draft of this work about a year ago in a wonderfully unexpected office session – now in print in @agu.org WRR: A Curvature-Based Framework for Automated Classification of Meander Bends (Dubon, Sgarabotto & Lanzoni, 2025) doi.org/10.1029/2024...

This book will always be worth flacking, in all media forms. One of my favourites, ever. 🐊

Momentarily pausing my flacking of my new book to flack my old book: 50% discount for The Swamp audiobook! www.audiobooks.com/promotions/p...

Y2 @sotongeogenviron.bsky.social coastal students running barrier washover experiments (last week, this week & next). Today’s condition was a built floodplain. This base plate lifted out of tank tidily & intact 👌🏼

How sand mining is eroding rivers, livelihoods and cultures theconversation.com/how-sand-min...

PhD student Sophie Silver's first paper shows that crack geometry betrays presence of water on other planets! www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/... There's a nice write up in Penn Today here: penntoday.upenn.edu/news/penn-ca...