We are looking to appoint an Assistant Professor in Physical Geography who who has expertise in the field of Earth Observation. Application deadline 10th May, with a possible start date of 1st October. Further details can be found here: durham.taleo.net/careersectio...

Durham Geography has reached its highest-ever position in the QS World University Rankings 2026—rising to 6th globally (from 11th in 2025). Thank you to our staff, students, alumni, and partners worldwide who have helped make this possible.

The exciting news of the day is Australia is likely to join the EU Horizon program, providing a major boost to our research and internationally connectivity in it. European colleagues - think of us for the 2027 rounds! www.minister.industry.gov.au/ministers/ti...

Hi all, the ❄️ Antarctic Science International Bursary ❄️ is open until 20 March! £6000 bursaries available to ECRs anywhere in the world for #Antarctic science projects that extend the scope of current work www.antarcticsciencebursary.org.uk/apply-for-an... Apply here! 👇👇 please share/repost

My mind has been returning to this video all weekend

Yikes 🤦‍♂️

Armand van Helden brightening up half time at West Ham v Man Utd m.youtube.com/watch?v=4V5x...

Antarctic ice sheet folk, I'm looking for a Postdoctoral Fellow in Antarctic Ice Sheet Reconstruction [readvertised] for a 3.5yr appointment in Tasmania. Very flexible start date! Join our new team, figuring out what is happening and what may happen in East Antarctica. 1/4 ❄️

🚨job opportunity🚨 Durham is advertising 3-year fellowships (any field). We are very keen to hear from Antarctic/Cryo people who might be interested in joining a great group. The positions come with some travel & research funds. See here for details or get in touch www.durham.ac.uk/research/ins...

Following coverage over the weekend of Sir Paul Nurse's comments that suggested that the only reason that a Fellow should be expelled from @royalsociety.org is scientific misconduct, I have written to him to explain the risks such an attitude poses of increasing sexual harassment in STEM.

I'm hiring! 3-year postdoc on an exciting new @royalsociety.org funded project on Martian glaciers @sheffielduni.bsky.social Advert: tinyurl.com/6rzzk5d4 Terrestrial folks encouraged to apply (e.g. GIS, glacier modelling, geomorphology, or deep learning) Closes 19th Jan. Queries via email.

CONGRATULATIONS to @geogdurham.bsky.social's own Dave Roberts and Colm O'Cofaigh who have both been awarded the prestigious Polar Medal by the King in the 2026 New Year's Honours List. Such a well-deserved achievement for two excellent colleagues! ❄️🍾🥂 durhamglaciology.wordpress.com/2025/12/30/p...

22-month postdoctoral position in the Durham Geography department working on Alaska paleogeodesy as part of NERC/NSF funded grant. More details here, application deadline is January 8th: durham.taleo.net/careersectio...

Our new glacier biogeochemistry review paper is officially live! Check it out here 👇🏻👇🏻👇🏻

🚨 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/...

I am hiring 4 postdoctoral researchers for up to 4 years each. Topics include ice sheet reconstruction, GIA, spatial stats, and satellite geodesy. Based in Tasmania. All details are here: careers.utas.edu.au/en/listing/ with titles below I am also recruiting multiple PhD students (see below) 1/n

Hey ice sheet types! 👋 The memes about the insane number of starter packs on this thing motivated me to create one more. Please let me know who I am missing from the ice sheet world. 👇 go.bsky.app/4SxszWw

You say ice shelf, I say ice plain…

Applications are now open for a Glasgow-based Iapetus DTP project centred on using in situ 14C to study glacier histories in East Antarctica! tinyurl.com/3ddvynn2 @stever60.bsky.social @uofglasgow.bsky.social @iapetusdtp.bsky.social @bas.ac.uk

🚨FOUR tenure track positions in my dept @ucalgary.bsky.social @ucalgaryscience.bsky.social in applied & computational geophysics, subsurface geochemistry, sedimentary geology, and sustainable soil science. careers.ucalgary.ca/search/jobs?... (please reskeet widely!) #academicsky 🧪⚒️🇨🇦

Awful news. Had so many amazing Optimo nights in Glasgow (and Edinburgh) mixmag.net/read/optimo-...

What happens when 80 Antarctic scientists from Australia and Japan get together to discuss future research? This 👉 aappartnership.org.au/australia-an... @anthonypress.bsky.social @utas.edu.au @imas-utas.bsky.social

Chuffed to be included in this review paper on the Foundation-Patuxent-Academy ice stream system, Antarctica led by Neil Ross - you can see the preprint in open review here: doi.org/10.5194/egus... - featuring the busiest figure I've ever made 🇦🇶🧊

Fire-induced rock spalling! This area burnt about 1-2 months ago. All of the little rock shards on the ground are spalled pieces of the granite boulder, overlying burnt soil and moss. Before seeing this in person, I didn't really consider the mechanical weathering effects of fire!

📢Big news: PGC has secured 5 more years of funding from NSF-OPP! Remote sensing, mapping, and geospatial support continues for the polar research community. Some services remain paused as we rebuild capacity. 🎉Cheers to keeping the poles on the map and in focus! www.pgc.umn.edu/news/pgc-sec...

🌊❄️🧪 🇦🇶 Please share: We have learned that the National Science Foundation is moving ahead with plans to decommission the U.S. Research Vessel/Ice Breaker Nathaniel B. Palmer this October. If you care about Antarctic research, please read on (1/n)

Another great day of the IGS symposium, with a field trip visiting evidence of glaciation in upper Teesdale, Eden Valley drumlins at Brough Castle, the fluvioglacial landscape of the Brampton Kame Belt, and streamlined bedforms from Tyne Gap ice streaming (plus Roman archaeology) at Hadrian's Wall!

Yesterday I gave a talk to ECRs at the @igsoc.bsky.social @igs-egg.bsky.social conference @geogdurham.bsky.social @durhamglaciology.bsky.social on academic networking. My tips and tricks for academic networking for career success are here: www.antarcticglaciers.org/2025/07/stra... Anything to add?

Really disappointing new policy from NERC banning resubmissions of grant applications Many of us, including me, have won grants on resubmission, using the reviews to improve the application This is is neither fair nor productive www.ukri.org/councils/ner...

Our University Research Fellowships are now open for applications. These fellowships are for outstanding early career scientists to pursue cutting-edge scientific research and build an independent research career. Find out more: #RSGrants royalsociety.org/grants/unive...

Bedmap3 map PDFs are now available to freely download from BAS data.bas.ac.uk/items/757872...

Great work by our colleagues Stewart Jamieson and Guy Paxman: "We have been using satellite data to map an ancient river landscape beneath the East Antarctic Ice Sheet:. The landscape has been frozen in time for up to 34 million years." ⚒️🧪 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Congratulations to @cristinabalaban.bsky.social who was back visiting Durham today for graduation! 🎓 Cristina's PhD research reconstructed the past glaciation of the Southern Carpathians, Romania, and she is now continuing her palaeoglaciological work as a postdoc in Prague. Well done Cristina! 👏❄️🍾

Do you want to play with your toys? 8 month old:

Electronic duo combine Arctic soundscapes and indigenous music to spotlight climate crisis

The changing shape of the solid earth is usually considered to be purely responding immediately to changes in surface load, like a spring. Grace Nield now shows that in the Antarctic Peninsula there's a whole lot more going on. ⚒️🧪❄️ #geodesy agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/...

Getting asked to prove your right to work by the institution where have been working for the last 8 YEARS.

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...

📢 The final ArcticDEM & REMA release is here - and it might be the last. Funding cuts put vital polar data at risk. Help us rally support: take the survey! 🔗https://z.umn.edu/pgc-dem-survey #PolarScience #SavePolarData

Our new paper as part of Anya Towers' PhD research is out in ESPL! We used in situ 14C to trace sediment storage dynamics in the River Feshie, Cairngorms - finding paraglacial terraces are an important sediment source: doi.org/10.1002/esp.... @simonmariusmudd.bsky.social

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/...

🚨 HUGE news from Canada's tricouncils who are harmonizing their scholarship & fellowship programs, upping the total number (huzzah!), and critically, allowing foreigners to apply for doctoral and postdoc fellowships. Want to work with me? Get in touch! 🇨🇦🧪⚒️ www.nserc-crsng.gc.ca/NewsDetail-D...

Delighted to say that our NERC science project "Deplete and Retreat" team will be contributing to a side event at the UNESCO World Day of the Glacier celebration in Paris next week. Our side event, "A vanishing mountain cryosphere and its importance to the water cycle under climate change"

Bedmap3 is now out rdcu.be/ecTmO

I’ve updated this Starter Pack for ice-sheet researchers with a bunch more profiles. go.bsky.app/4SxszWw Please point out the inevitable oversights! 🥶

Heartening to see so many people organise for facts. Solidarity to all colleagues in the US #standupforscience2025

28 people have added their names already. If you'd like to join us in solidarity and to emphasise the importance of EDI in polar science, then let me know. www.antarcticglaciers.org/2025/02/pola...

cursed thought: I Can Has Cheezburger? was created in January 2007, meaning that there are some legal adults younger than the happycat meme