Back in June we were back on the Oxfordshire “dinosaur highway”, excavating more dinosaur tracks with our teams from the Universities of Birmingham, Oxford & Liverpool John Moores. The BBC have a story out today about our work at the site: www.bbc.co.uk/news/resourc...

Still time to apply:

Storm Amy getting the UK to only 9.3 % fossil fuel in our electricity right now! grid.iamkate.com

📢We're hiring!📢 We have a permanent Lecturer in Earth Sciences position available in @OU_EEE @OpenUniversity £47,389 to £56,535 Closing Date: 20 October 2025* We are a friendly, research intensive school with supportive colleagues and great labs. jobs.open.ac.uk/job/Lecturer...

Interested in joining a world-leading geological organisation? We have two vacancies available: 🌱 Organic geochemist 📋 Administrator / business assistant Keep updated on these and all of our latest vacancies over on our jobs page: www.bgs.ac.uk/about-bgs/wo...

NERC: We need to open up environmental science! Why is it not diverse? Also NERC: We're scrapping Independent Research Fellowships, New Investigator Grants, Small Grants, are limiting applications from institutions based on past success rates and will only allow you to submit your proposal once.

Geology Murder xkcd.com/3112/

❗Doctoral students: want to experience first-hand how research feeds into policy? The latest round of the UKRI Policy Internships scheme is open for applications. Apply by 8 September 2025➡️ www.ukri.org/apply-for-fu...

We are looking for a new researcher @UoBEarthSciences ! (36 months funded) if you like 🌋, are good at analysing. 🪨 and enjoy working in large collaborations. Then come and join us! This post is an important part of a new UK NERC funded Large Grant.. www.bristol.ac.uk/jobs/find/de...

They say it can’t be done, but here we are, California is generated 106% of California’s entire state electricity demand from renewables. California has a population bigger that 154 other countries around the world. It’s the 4th largest economy, in the world. Let that sink in. #energysky #greensky

Having spent some of last week in the sea I can confirm it is anomalously warm.

This is phenomenal. Sea surface temperatures are >5C above average to the west of the UK and around Iceland. It's the strongest area of anomalous warmth on the planet at the moment. It's the warmest in recorded history for northwest Europe.

🚨Internship opportunity 🚨 Do you have: 🌡️ an interest in climate change? ✍️ some experience of writing on a technical topic for a general audience? 🎙️ an interest in journalism and a commitment to the integrity of journalism? Apply for Carbon Brief’s internship here ⬇️

New Job! Please repost! We have a NERC funded PDRA position here @oxuniearthsci.bsky.social, 2 yrs, on modelling cryosphere change and hydrochemistry #models, #carbon, #permafrost, #deglaciation Come join our friendly team! Apply by 11/06, any Qs get in touch! my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecru...

Postdoc position available at University of Reading Interested in doing research to better understand the predictability of sub-polar North Atlantic tipping points? jobs.reading.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai...

NEW – Analysis: Clean energy just put China’s CO2 emissions into reverse for first time | @laurimyllyvirta.bsky.social Read here: buff.ly/6eAcjRU

The best co-author papers are surprise co-author papers.

📢 New publication: Our interim report from phase 1 of the Gender Pain Gap in Sexual & Reproductive Health project is now available here: doi.org/10.21954/ou.... In it we highlight 4 key findings...

3 years ago, when I wrote The Lost Rainforests of Britain, I talked about the importance of expanding fragments of temperate rainforest like Wistman's Wood Well now the Duchy of Cornwall is actually doing it. (And through natural regeneration, not just planting!) duchyofcornwall.org/article/firs...

According to the UN, eight days ago, the IDF executed paramedics and bulldozed them into a mass grave. The definition of a war crime. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m...

Government to extend ban on moorland burning - closing loopholes in existing rules Great news for nature, carbon, & people who’ll be spared from acrid smoke & flooding Bad news for dukes & billionaires who own grouse moors 🎻 Here's my quote running on PA newswire: 1/ www.gov.uk/government/n...

As a geologist I endorse this message.

Please pass on these details to anyone who might be interested in finding out whether the OU could work for them! Those who support Black and Asian students are very welcome too.

Without question this takes gold for ultra write-ups 🥇 The awesome Karel Sabbe in 2022 #BM100

While waiting for the next update and a few pics, a news report from the 2025 start. #BM100 www.youtube.com/watch?v=in-M...

The conch has been blown and the cigarette lit hours ago!

We're saddened by the death of our colleague Richard Fortey last week - an inspirational palaeontologist, expert on trilobites, famous fungal enthusiast, and a much-valued part of #NHMLondon life. A Guardian obituary... www.theguardian.com/science/2025...

The announcement you have all been waiting for... Save the date for BOGS 2025! The 35th meeting of the British Organic Geochemical Society will be held in Bristol on the 1st and 2nd of July 2025. www.bogs2025.com #BOGS2025

For the first time ever, recorded atmospheric CO₂ has exceeded 430ppm! The last time CO₂ consistently reached today’s human-driven levels was ∼14 Million years ago, with shorter periods of similar levels around 3-5 Million years ago. 1/3

Because the UK had a similarly dumb round of anti vax whilst I was at Uni I (a xennial) got 2x MMR to top up my childhood single M/R. But not everyone my age will have. Worth thinking about.

Most Gen X and many Millennials only got one shot as kids. www.npr.org/sections/hea...

Bought a book for World Book Day

So the sun is back ☀️

Distinct roles for precession, obliquity, and eccentricity in Pleistocene 100-kyr glacial cycles www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Many congratulations to this year's Geological Society medallists and award winners! www.geolsoc.org.uk/About/Press-...

RealClimate: How will media report on this new AMOC study? www.realclimate.org/index.php/ar...

Asteroid 2024 YR4 no longer poses a significant impact risk. ESA's latest analysis has reduced the probability of an Earth impact in 2032 to 0.001%. Planetary Defenders continue to keep watch for any other asteroids that may come too close for comfort 🛡️🔭 www.esa.int/Space_Safety...

📢 Job available here at University of Birmingham for a CT scanner experimental officer to run and manage our micro-CT facility! Scanning a range of paleontological, geological and biological samples edzz.fa.em3.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid...

There's an excellent explanation of why as uncertainty reduces the probability of impact will rise, until it may suddenly drop to 0 here: blogs.esa.int/rocketscienc...

Two Weeks In The Death Spiral Of Cardiff University, by an anonymous academic. This is truly shocking read. The Cardiff executive board should hang their heads in shame. voice.cymru/two-weeks-in...

Global sales of combustion engine cars have peaked

Really devastating news.

We are really pleased to announce a 3-year postdoc at Bristol to work on tuning a state-of-the-art CMIP7 model using paleoclimate data, and using the tuned model to make future climate predictions. More details available from me, or here: tinyurl.com/mvx5wmet . Closing date: 15th Feb

Be still my beating heart, there is a REF2029 Volume Measure Decision Tree. 2029.ref.ac.uk/guidance/vol...

Oh look at that wind is back. grid.iamkate.com

Hot off the press, in a study published today in Science, we show that Australopithecus did not consume substantial mammalian meat www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

📢Launched today: The Gender Pain Gap consultation on Pain in Sexual & Reproductive Health Procedures (UK). Aim: To understand experiences, priorities & views of people with experience of painful procedures. openeducation.eu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_... Open to 31 Jan. Please share widely!

Check out our new paper assessing the relative scientific & cultural value of outdoor UK dinosaur track sites with @richardjbutler.bsky.social @naturalengland.bsky.social www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

The world has passed ‘peak child’ which in turn means the world population is likely to start falling towards the end of the century ourworldindata.org/data-insight...