📢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...

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As both a lifelong birder and a paleo person, I really enjoyed this paper on bird feeding traces. www.cambridge.org/core/journal... I had thought about bird footprints in the rock record before, but confess I hadn’t really considered beak and dabbling marks etc. I’ll look harder next time!

The concept of trying to implement geoengineering solutions to #climate change is like trying to design a complicated, expensive, unreliable helmet while you're still hitting yourself in the head with a 2x4.

After all the autumnal rain lately, it was nice to get out and enjoy some late afternoon sunshine by the reservoir. Mushrooms, acorns, swallows, great crested grebes, and a big colony of mining bees. 🍂 🌳 🐝 🍄‍🟫

🎉 Big River Watch starts today! After a summer of challenging weather, it's time to check in on our rivers. 📱Download the Big River Watch app ⏱️Spend just 15 minutes by the river 👀Share what you see in a survey You've got until 25th of September to take part💙 theriverstrust.org/big-river-watch

The Northern Pacific Ocean is currently smashing temperature records. And it is reaching these levels far earlier than the current generation of climate models had expected. A short thread 🧵

You can take the girl outta London, but you can’t take London outta the girl. Even if I’m a proper west-country bumpkin now, London will always have a big place in my ❤️

Geologists of bluesky, great opportunity at Otago Uni, NZ for a Lecturer in Earth Science! Special shout out to my #biomarker colleagues, the dept has a well set up, near new Org Geochem lab without a PI, with GCMS/FID and HPLC, if anyone wants a change of scene! ⚒🧪🥼🌊 otago.taleo.net/careersectio...

Great to see the continued commitment, but difficult to see how universities can combined their net zero commitment with their eager embrace of generative AI for all students' degree work.

The National Climate Risk Report - my life for two years - has just been released. www.acs.gov.au/pages/nation... Minister Bowen press conference at: www.youtube.com/live/GLvd_fu... My specific report on the weather and climate hazards: climateservice.maps.arcgis.com/sharing/rest...

Here, have a timeline cleanse of some wonky veg I harvested from the allotment this week. Growing ‘supermarket-beautiful’ veg is hard - I take my hat off to professional farmers.

Psychologically, we're living in very hard times for all who care deeply about science, empathy, equity, nature, and rights for all citizens of the planet, human or otherwise. Find strength, solace, and community in like-minded others, positive action, and in Mother Earth 🌎

My colleague @thejohnsimpson.bsky.social has done a terrific deep dive into the financial links between US tech billionaires and Tommy Robinson Well worth a read observer.co.uk/news/nationa...

This shit is the natural outcome of mainstream UK media constantly platforming hard-right nonsense uncritically, and obsessively and breathlessly covering the USA news cycle like it’s directly relevant (had you heard of Kirk before last week?). We gotta wake up. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Finally! 🤩 Our position piece: Against the Uncritical Adoption of 'AI' Technologies in Academia: doi.org/10.5281/zeno... We unpick the tech industry’s marketing, hype, & harm; and we argue for safeguarding higher education, critical thinking, expertise, academic freedom, & scientific integrity. 1/n

Disappointing.

So very, very tired of catching a cold every time the USA sneezes.

A post I’ve been putting together for 2 years - the Etymology of Earth Sci Words. So far about 500 terms - the initial goal before clicking the ‘Publish’ tab www.geological-digressions.com/etymology-of... There are >1,000,000 words in the English language So my 500 words is a paltry sample. ⚒️🧪🌊

Great piece today by Simon Barnes, one of last to see a Slender-billed Curlew observer.co.uk/news/science... following research confirming extinction @rspb.bsky.social @rspbscience.bsky.social @birdlifeglobal.bsky.social @naturalis.bsky.social @nhm-london.bsky.social @ucllifesciences.bsky.social

Lots of cloud here in Cornwall and moonrise was relatively late, but the partial eclipse was beautiful. Looked like a segment of orange hanging over the ocean, and then just a nibble out of the full moon. My photo through binoculars sort of looks like the cover of a sci-fi novel though…

Spectacular ripple clouds over the Lizard today. 😍☁️ Don’t think I’ve ever seen anything quite like it.

As a kid, I loved scampering along the strand-line at the beach looking for shells and treasures. Now it’s always a dispiriting parade of plastic crap - discarded fishing rope, bottles, shoes, and a million smaller fragments. I’m only 40 - how did we let it get so bad so fast?!

Need to calibrate your δ18Osw-based proxies, but can't find the right data? We've got you, FAIR! Check out our new @pages-ipo.bsky.social seawater δ18O database preprint at ESSD! (With Alyssa Atwood, @thomasfelis.bsky.social, @kimcobb.bsky.social, and more!) 🌊🧪 essd.copernicus.org/preprints/es...

Enjoyed checking out a late Jurassic sauropod trackway in Asturias last week. The footprints were huge! Little slivers of Jurassic and Cretaceous rocks crop out on the northern Spain coast, which is otherwise mostly Carboniferous limestone or older Ordovician quartzite. #fossilfriday

📢 New Paper: Unexpected decline in the ocean carbon sink under record-high sea surface temperatures in 2023. Read it here 👉 www.nature.com/articles/s41... #SciencePaper #OceanCarbon #HorizonEU #EUGreenDeal #ClimateChange

Have reached the point in the kid’s summer holidays where the Lava Chicken song has been banned in the house and car, and I cannot possibly absorb another Pokémon fact.

Am going to have serious FOMO all week with ICP15 kicking off. Hope it’s a great success!

Incredible growth in the scale of devastating Iberian Peninsula #wildfires through mid-August reflected in #CopernicusAtmosphere GFAS estimated fire emissions with Spain reaching it's highest annual total of past 23 years (& Portugal's since 2017) @copernicusecmwf.bsky.social @ecmwf.int #IIFF

Feeling very much on the front line of climate change this week, as wildfires rage all around us in the mountains. It’s relentlessly hot and dry 🥵 A little clearer this morning but the sky has been dark with smoke and the sun blood red. Smell of burning everywhere. 😣

Just a reminder that I have an open position on benthic fluxes and biodiversity hotspots that is waiting for someone. Come dive into this one with me (possibly, also literally). 🌊⚒️

🌊 I’m hiring! Research Scientist in Marine Ecology & Machine Learning at the National Oceanography Centre, Southampton (UK). Got experience with machine learning techniques applied to marine ecology, biogeochemistry or climate change? Apply by 5 September! careers.noc.ac.uk/vacancy/rese...

“It's a paradox. The deep sea is highly connected, but also incredibly fragile... Understanding how life is distributed and moves through this vast environment is essential if we want to protect it, especially as threats from deep-sea mining and climate change increase."

Enjoying the heavenly scent of fresh sweet peas from the allotment over lunch today 😊 💐

🌊There is an available position as a postdoc at NORCE in ocean biochemical modelling fixed for a period of 2 years in Bergen. The position will be affiliated with the Bjerknes Centre and is a part of OceanICU project. 🧪Read more and apply here: www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...

Geologic Periods xkcd.com/3120/

The slow-motion death of the UK Higher Education sector. After another round of voluntary redundancies we’re loosing more valuable colleagues (who won’t be replaced) 😞 (And Exeter is doing better than most!) Feels like USA HE is dying with a bang and UK HE is dying with a whimper.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... I have nothing pithy to add. I just feel sad 😔

Simultaneously hilarious and heartbreaking. (Pssst - federally funded science saves lives) 🧪

Great piece on the Welsh government’s 20mph policy by @willhaycardiff.bsky.social “What is great about evidence based policy is that it has a wonderful habit of working” Inspiration for England as DfT work on the promised road safety strategy.

About 18 to 14 million years ago, global temperatures spiked in an event called the Miocene Climatic Optimum. Despite these conditions, we still had coral reefs. But those corals were pushed to their very limit to survive, at a physiological cost. 🧪🌊 Link: www.nature.com/articles/s43...

Thought it would be fun to get my kids to make a vegetable animal. Didn’t realise they were going to summon Cthulhu.

The deep ocean is our largest and least explored biome. Every time we venture down there we discover new wonders 🤩

Hao Yichun was a pioneer in the fields of stratigraphy, micropaleontology and paleoceanography. She co-authored Paleontology, China’s first textbook on the subject, and deepened understanding of foraminifera, single-celled organisms found in seawater. adalovelaceday.subst...

First little frog spotted at the allotment today 🥰

My latest: Polar scientists warn that the White House and NSF are planning to terminate the Nathaniel Palmer, the only US research icebreaker capable of handling Antarctic extremes, this October. So far the plan has seen minimal pushback from Congress.

The conundrum of taxonomic uniformitarianism in planktic foraminifera onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

🚨New paper alert🚨 We present the first record of Indian Monsoon variability and marine productivity spanning the late Pliocene–early Pleistocene (3.5 - 2.3 Ma). Multi-proxy data from the core zone of ISM rainfall - the NW Bay of Bengal. ⚒️🌊🌏 agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/...

Had some lovely butterfly encounters this weekend while doing surveys for the UK big butterfly count. bigbutterflycount.butterfly-conservation If you get a spare 15 mins in your lunch break or after work this week, why not join in? I bet you know more species than you realise. 🦋 🌺 ☀️