The JMS scholarships fund Black UK domiciled students to undertake PhD research at the @uofglasgow.bsky.social in any research area. Anyone interested in projects involving stable isotopes - particularly ecological applications, please get in touch with me.

Thank you to everyone who has supported the Deep Time Trail so far, thanks to your help we've secured 40% of our target! Help to get us all the way and make the Deep Time Trail a reality. Donate today: www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/siccar-point

What to know more about radiocarbon or chronological modelling? Our 2026 short course is now open for registration. 17th - 19th March in Oxford/online. @isotopesuk.bsky.social @philascough.bsky.social @unioxarchaeology.bsky.social lifelong-learning.ox.ac.uk/courses/shor...

Our new paper led by Rafael Lima used carbon, nitrogen and sulphur isotope analyses to interrogate the origin of some biogeographically controversial Brazilian bird specimens - an #ornithology 🧵 1/10 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

EARLY VIEW in IBIS Stable isotope data indicate origins of mislabelled historical bird specimens | onlinelibrary.wiley.... Rafael Dantas Lima, Ana Beatriz Navarro, Jason Newton, Alexander Charles Lees, Luís Fábio Silveira | #ornithology 🪶

This is a really fantastic paper that benefits conservation, research and collections. With a super cool result too!

Feathered Witnesses: Unravelling the Impact of Habitat Loss on Neotropical Avifauna with Stable Isotope Analysis - an @iapetusdtp.bsky.social PhD Opportunity: with me, @dmevans.bsky.social, Elisa Fuentes-Montemayor and Luis Fabio Silveiro. iapetus.ac.uk/studentships...

Angle Shades from last night's moth trap

We're excited to announce the launch of the Stable Isotope Ecology course on the GAEA platform. Learn more and register for this and other courses at www.gaea.ac.uk @isotopesuk.bsky.social vimeo.com/757190807?fl...

How does urbanisation affect isotopic niche in blue tit adults and nestlings? See the latest work by Ana Navarro, Davide Dominoni @sbohvm.gla.ac.uk and colleagues - doi.org/10.1080/1025... #stableisotopeecology

Ana Navarro’s latest paper: Stable isotope ecology, shifting bird niches in the Atlantic Forest, and the indispensable role of museum collections. doi.org/10.1093/biol...

Do you do moth trapping in the UK? We'd love your help! 💡 At @ukceh.bsky.social we're training & testing AI to detect multiple moths in a single image. Send us top-down photos of multiple moths on egg trays to support this work. More info & form: forms.gle/e3HzBPEd7RVV... #mothsmatter #TeamMoth

For UK-based ecologists submitting a #stableisotopeecology application to the National Environmental Isotope Facility, please get in touch with your ideas - www.stableisotopelab.com/people The next deadline will be 8th October 2025. More details see www.isotopesuk.org/apply.html

Least pygmy owl predating a spot-breasted antvireo. Legado das Águas

Thoroughly enjoyed talking to the students and staff at the Museu de Zoologia at the University of Sao Paulo, about our @isotopesuk.bsky.social Stable Isotope Ecology Lab at @suerc.bsky.social , but also the many ways in which stable isotopes can be used in ecological applications.

In her new paper, Ana Navarro shows how the birds of Brazil's Atlantic Forest have changed their diet and habitat use over time, using the stable isotope analysis of museum feathers. doi.org/10.1002/oik....

NEIF 14C groups from Oxford & SUERC, together in Kraków! Great to see everyone at the 25th Radiocarbon Conference last week—enjoying 14C science, collaboration, and a bit of Kraków sunshine. #Radiocarbon2025 #NEIF #14C #Krakow

Delighted that pangolin research by @ruthlewissmith.bsky.social is featured by Birmingham Museums. Huge thanks from SUERC @isotopesuk.bsky.social for the generous donation of sample material from their natural science collection!

Was a little late into work this morning getting a few snaps of the woodpeckers in the garden

Tracing the geographic origin of Atlantic cod products using stable isotope analysis - Wilson - 2025 - Rapid Communications in Mass Spectrometry #stableisotopes analyticalsciencejournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

2025. #DEI. You’re only human: a six-step strategy to surviving your PhD. Graduate students are not machines. Behaving like one during your programme will leave you frustrated and unfulfilled, says Gauthier Weissbart. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Applications for our travel and training grant are now open for two weeks!

Today, GAEA launches their Cosmogenic Nuclide Geochronology. This course has been developed by Dr Derek Fabel of the @isotopesuk.bsky.social NEIF Cosmogenic Nuclide Facility at SUERC. The course is free to any academic email address, any problems use the contact form. www.gaea.ac.uk/about-the-co...

Interested in #parasites and #isotopes? New database and paper lead by Amandine Sabadel just out! All data based on the same standardised protocol and collected in a large global collaborative effort: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

I'm thrilled to have started a new role as an "In situ Radiocarbon Scientist" at @uofglasgow.bsky.social/ SUERC/ @isotopesuk.bsky.social! I'll be setting up a new NEIF in situ 14C lab over the next year 🧪🏔️

Are you working on conservation, wildlife trade or policy in West Africa? This free Oxford masterclass with Dr Dan Challender & Dr Amy Hinsley offers practical insights to tackle illegal wildlife trade using evidence-led strategies. 🧵👇

See the thread below for a list of resources to find academic jobs outside the United States. (Thank you academicsky!)

📣 Did you know that EAG offers grants to early career scientists to attend international conferences in #geochemistry? #ECRs can seek support through our student sponsorship or the early career ambassadors program. Next application deadline: 1 May More info: www.eag.org/early-career/

Possibly the first paper I've been involved with that has no stable isotope data! doi.org/10.1002/ajp....

Congratulations @daniel-a-villar.bsky.social !!!

NEIF has launched an online course developed by our stable isotope teams at BGS and SUERC covering the fundamentals of stable isotopes. Through these 5 videos, covering basic terminology, notations, essential equations, and potential applications of stable isotopes. vimeo.com/1067017318?s... 1/3

Out now in the Waterbirds journal: In Memoriam for Dr. Keith A. Hobson (July 10,1954 to October 2, 2024 ), a much-missed member of the ornithological community and former editor of this journal bioone.org/journals/wat...

Stable isotopes: how anthropogenic is urban fox diet? phys.org/news/2025-03...

A reminder that the deadline for the next application round to access NEIF facilities is the 26th March 2025. Applicants must discuss projects with the relevant NEIF laboratory prior to submission. Applications are submitted online via the NEIF Application Portal - www.isotopesuk.org/apply.html

So long SIRA II !

Utilisation of Anthropogenic Food by Red Foxes (Vulpes vulpes) in Britain as Determined by Stable Isotope Analysis - Fletcher - 2025 #stableisotopes onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

For UK-based ecologists submitting a #stableisotopeecology application to the National Environmental Isotope Facility, please get in touch with your ideas - stableisotopelab.com/people The next deadline will be 26th March 2025. More details see www.isotopesuk.org/apply.html

Excited to share that SUERC has successfully renewed its Athena SWAN Bronze Award from @advancehe.bsky.social This achievement reflects our ongoing commitment to advancing gender equality and fostering an inclusive environment for all at the Centre.

Stoked this is published! Collect feathers > chop into tiny pieces > set them on fire > measure the gasses. Now just need to learn multi-isotope isoscapes. Thank you Tilly for the cute summary swift! Follow @tillysscott.bsky.social if you haven’t already for cool science & more super SciComm & art!

Check out Alex's @alexbrighten1.bsky.social first PhD paper! Looking at age and migratory patterns in alpine swifts, using stable isotope analysis: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

EARLY VIEW in IBIS Stable isotope evidence for suspended moult and age-related differences in moult location in the trans-Saharan migratory Alpine Swift | onlinelibrary.wiley.... Alexandra L. Brighten et al | #ornithology 🪶

New Lanark this afternoon

Don't miss out! 📣 The 4th round of applications for the @uofgjmsphd.bsky.social Scholarships are open until 31 Jan 2025. 12 Scholarships are available in any research area where the University can supervise. Plus mentorship, placements, networking and much more! ➡️ www.gla.ac.uk/scholarships...

New project to start soon... le.ac.uk/news/2024/de...

Wow - I won the SUERC bake-off. Here's the recipe: www.theguardian.com/food/2024/oc...

Deadline for applicants is 3rd January 2025 at noon (iapetus2.ac.uk/how-to-apply/). Any questions about the project, applying or the DTP just drop me an email.

Lovely stable isotope lab lunch at Eda's restaurant in Glasgow yesterday! And today, the SUERC Xmas raffle and bake-off!!