I have exciting news! This week I began a @royalsociety.org University Research Fellowship @sheffielduni.bsky.social sheffield.ac.uk/geography-pl... Watch this space - hiring a PDRA in Mars glaciology soon! (Image credit @uahirise.bsky.social @theseaning.bsky.social)

New paper out today led by Martin Siegert with about 40 others where we argue that some of the proposed Polar #Geoengineering schemes for ice sheets, sea ice and solar radiation are potentially dangerous and unethical. www.frontiersin.org/journals/sci...

The risk of an #AMOC shutdown - explained in 15 minutes at the Arctic Circle in Reykjavik on Saturday. I had the honor of presenting a letter by 44 experts warning of that underestimated risk to the Icelandic 🇮🇸 climate minister Guðlaugur Þór Þórðarson. youtu.be/k0FUZKQhU6U?...

That was a fab symposium on ice streams, thank you and very well done to the hosts. We also had dinner in a castle and got see Hadrian’s wall and drumlins and sheep and joke about Barnard Castle, oh and some very nice pubs

Aiguiile Verte and (former) Mer de Glace bed from La Flégère this morning! 😍 Here are the biggest glaciers of the rest of your life! 🙃 📷 @lomdumtblanc.bsky.social

In light of high temperatures and recent collapses in the Alps, we're resharing our 2022 piece from geomorphologist Ludovic Ravanel on mountain stability in the Mont Blanc Massif. Despite being 3 years old, it contains evergreen advice on warning signs of collapse and areas to avoid in the heat.

Simms et al present an investigation of a MIS 3 (~50 ka) raised shoreline deposit in northwestern Scotland. Since it is located above present day sea level, if the age is correct, it implies a significant MIS 4 glaciation of Scotland. ⚒️🧪🦣 doi.org/10.1002/jqs....

What ancient ice sheets can tell us about future sea level rise theconversation.com/what-ancient...

Scandinavian Ice Sheet chronology PhD opportunity - deadline to apply 21 July - with Karol Tylmann at University of Gdańsk

📣Friends of the Quaternary!!📣 🐦Early bird registration is open for the upcoming Nordic Geological Winter Meeting in Turku, Finland (13-15 Jan 2026) ngwm2026.fi Please consider submitting an abstract to our session on "Quaternary palaeoglaciology and palaeoclimate". 🦣❄️🐚 It will be awesome!

Upstream and downstream view of the deposit! 🧊🌊 Massive... 😱😱😱 www.letemps.ch/suisse/valai...

The river level has already started to rise behind the dam in Blatten! 🌊 A lake is underway... 😨 To 'mitigate' flooding hazard in the valley, the Ferden dam lake, located 6 km downstream has been emptied. 📷 SRF

SPEECHLESS BEFORE / AFTER #BLATTEN The magnitude of destruction after the 3:24 pm collapse of Birch Glacier is immense! 😱 All the forest has been razed and the ice/wood/debris dammed the Lonza river 🌊 Some buildings of Blatten are buried 🏠 📷 Pomona

Stark warning from Chris Stokes and others: www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... How rocks got to where they got to. @remyveness.bsky.social @chrisdclark.bsky.social

We are now accepting submissions for the Annals of Glaciology special issue on 'Ice Streams and Outlet Glaciers' and welcome contributions from both palaeo and contemporary perspectives. The submission deadline is 30th September 2025, and you can find out more here: www.igsoc.org/ice-streams-...

Not forgotten by me, was on the reading list for my third year remote sensing course for many years

Wow, thank you for everything you did for geomorphology division,what a whirlwind of activity you were. Have a great hol

I have often joked, usually in the pub, that we will end up posting our papers on eBay at 99 p and see if anyone bids! (I don’t think a good idea)

Geomorphology signature of ice shelf breakup during British ice sheet collapse in last glacial. What a great set of comb marks they are check out the pics

Complex past ice flow from Norway to the North Sea Plateau during the Quaternary revealed using 3D seismic data by Dag Ottesen et al. in Boreas today! We map a glacial trough that was eroded by westward ice flow from Norway during the Saalian Glaciation. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Now open for discussion, models of the evolution of Greenland over the past 24,000 years: egusphere.copernicus.org/preprints/20...

📣 REMINDER 📣 We're advertising for a PhD position "Constraining the Behaviour of the British-Irish Ice Sheet over Multiple Glacial Cycles" with myself and @remyveness.bsky.social. I'd strongly encourage potential applicants to contact me before applying. www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

Eastern Fellaria Glacier (Bernina, IT) 2019 | 2023 Spectacular glacier lying south of Piz Palü (3899 m). Its icefall is interrupted by a 100 m-high vertical cliff of which ice break-offs feed the regenerated tongue where a lake developed since 2007 🌊 🎥 Servizio Glaciologico Lombardo

❄️ ⛱️ 🌊 NEW ARTICLE out today in Nature Climate Change: ‘Glaciers give way to new coasts’ This ‘News & Views’ article coincides with the UN International Day of Glacier Preservation. Arctic glacier recession has revealed ~2500 km of new coastline since the year 2000. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

The 2025 NORDQUA excursion will visit Gdańsk, Poland, 17-19 Sept. Three full days will cover the origin and evolution of glacial landforms, sediments and lakes, as well as processes of past and present coastal hazards in the Baltic coast. Sign up by the end of April! forms.gle/vZ4ECaVMxpfy... ⚒️

Happy birthday and may your glaciers wishes come true , an optimistic thought perhaps

I wonder how many drumlins you caught , maybe too early to say

@hassfacultyncl.bsky.social @newcastleuni.bsky.social @UKRI

Nice phd research here for someone

YES and that is a brilliant way of expressing it, nice

Capitalism can't solve climate change because publicly traded companies must satisfy their shareholders — typically institutional investors — resulting in a focus on maximizing short-term gains at the expense of long-term planning for both the company and the environment. www.bp.com/en/global/co...

Mer de Glace 2003 | 2022 From one major heatwave to the other!🔥 Not even 20 years... Caption for history books: 'Rapid demise of the largest western Alps glacier during the early 21st century under the impact of increasing anthropogenic GHG from a greedy society' 🎥 @etienneberthier.bsky.social

Biocubes - extraordinary visualisations of human impact. We weigh more than all wild mammals on Earth. Our farm animals weigh much more. And then there's concrete... 🤯

Early warning system for climate tipping points given £81m kickstart - Ambitious project aims to forecast climate catastrophes using fleets of drones, cosmic ray detection, patterns of plankton blooms and more #climatecrisis Story by me www.theguardian.com/environment/...

I wonder: Are the people of the proud democracy and great science nation USA just going to sit back and watch as it is dismantled by a bunch of rampant billionaires? www.wired.com/story/noaa-e...

Not seeing a lot of discussion about this. Some researchers have estimated the Glen's flow law exponent n as ~ 1 rather than 3-4 for temperate ice. This could mean that the world's most critical glaciers are linear-viscous are their base. 🥼❄️ ⚒️ www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

✨COLLABORATION✨ is KEY Earlier this week we were delighted to welcome a delegation from Naalakkersuisut, the Greenland Government, led by Vivian Motzfeldt, Minister for Statehood and Foreign Affairs, to BAS HQ in Cambridge.

Fantastic write-up in National Geographic of an MEF-supported scientific expedition which is seeking to advance our understanding of climate history using mineral samples from previously unexplored cave systems.

Super well done Bethan so well deserved

Postdoc available: 𝗠𝗼𝗱𝗲𝗹𝗹𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗹𝗮𝘀𝘁 𝗱𝗲𝗴𝗹𝗮𝗰𝗶𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗼𝗳 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗖𝗼𝗿𝗱𝗶𝗹𝗹𝗲𝗿𝗮𝗻 𝗜𝗰𝗲 𝗦𝗵𝗲𝗲𝘁. Work on an NSF-NERC-funded project with brilliant UK, USA and Canada team. A great opportunity to combine modelling and field-based ice sheet reconstructions! Deadline: 𝟮𝟯 𝗝𝗮𝗻𝘂𝗮𝗿𝘆 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟱 jobs.leeds.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx...

Thrilled to get the analog, glossy, printed magazine edition of my AMOC review article! 🌊 You can of course read it open access here: tos.org/oceanography...

A new gigantic outburst flood from Catalina lake in East Greenland [Catalinadal, Renland, Scoresbysund]. total volume: 3.4 km3 peak discharge: ~7200 m3/s top-10 #GLOF in terms of both numbers. previous outburst 2013 I'm sending out a press release today about it. 🧪❄️ 🥼❄️ 1/x

Great icy job going at Durham University Geography department: durham.taleo.net/careersectio...

Cave speleothem growth has been plotted against our BRITICE CHRONO ice sheet reconstitution to assess degree of match. More of this please, huge potential Panitz et al in Climate of the Past.

Gauthier et al (@mtrommelen.bsky.social) present a detailed analysis of the glacial and environmental history of MIS 3 (29-57 thousand years ago) sediments in southern Manitoba, Canada. For much of MIS 3, this location was occupied by Proglacial Lake Vita. ⚒️🦣🧪 🧵 doi.org/10.1017/qua....

Welcome back @adamjhepburn.bsky.social very much looking forward to your talk and pub meal out afterwards

Ancient humans were so good at surviving the last ice age they didn’t have to migrate like other species – new study theconversation.com/ancient-huma... via @ConversationUK