Save the date mineralogists, it’s gonna be a good one!

Surprisingly good view of the partial eclipse in cloudy Cumbria 🌥️

Sharing this photo of my (badass) Great Aunty Mary on International Women’s Day (taken in 1952 at the “Labour and Education Officer’s conference”, Bridge of Allan).

Sharing this photo of my (badass) Great Aunty Mary on International Women’s Day (taken in 1952 at the “Labour and Education Officer’s conference”, Bridge of Allan).

⚠️ALERT⚠️Deadlines are for our awards and bursaries are now less than a week away (15th January)! Apply now! Postdoctoral Medal: geochemistry.group/awards-and-m... ECR Prominent Lecture Series: geochemistry.group/awards-and-m... Meeting attendance Bursaries: geochemistry.group/funding-oppo...

🚨We are filling a 5-year postdoc/junior lecturer position in Soil Biogeochemistry at the University of Lausanne. Fully-funded, independent, cutting-edge research on microbe-mineral-organic matter interactions, #climate, and #soils. Deadline: Jan 30. Start: Sept 2025. Info👇

Come do a PhD with us at Bristol! Looking for a student to look at B incorporation into silica - both experimentally-precipitated and biogenic.. With @krhendry.bsky.social @sophwestacott.bsky.social and Franziska Stamm. Deadline Monday 13th of January! DM or email me for more details. bit.ly/3W8WshH

Still a week left to apply for this PhD opportunity @bas.ac.uk, working on palaeoecology of #Antarctic marine ecosystems in the #Eocene (deadline 13/1/25). Please get in touch if you're interested and want to know more about the project or the application process!

New year and some big personal news! 🥳 In March I will be joining the University of Stirling as a lecturer in Earth and Environmental Chemistry. I can’t believe how lucky I am to get to set up a research group in such a beautiful place, finally returning (almost) to where I grew up after 20 years!

Working my way through my South West bucket list this morning watching the starling murmurations on the levels and then a walk up Glastonbury Tor

I like this one: www.nercgw4plus.ac.uk/projects-202... There's a brilliant biogeochemist on it too :D

I'd particularly like to highlight this project: www.bristol.ac.uk/media-librar... I would do it myself if I could ;) it will combine heritage science, biogeochemistry, engineering, and the SS Great Britain are a great project partner!

Deadline for GW4+ PhDs with us at @bristolvolcanology.bsky.social is less than a month away. If you're interested in applying please reach out to the project supervisors ASAP. www.bristol.ac.uk/earthscience...

It’s been a while since I was active here, but I’m back yay with a plug for a new paper: pubs.rsc.org/en/content/a... When I first worked on this I didn’t understand why my very air sensitive siderite wasn’t oxidising in some tests, we show that it was being stabilised by organic acids.

Enjoying my first day back after Christmas - in the lab looking at cool metal samples under the microscope

Finally jumped ship from the bad place 👋👋