If this is your scene*, maybe this job is for you? Three-year PDRA in ice core gases at @cambridge-earthsci.bsky.social www.cam.ac.uk/jobs/researc... *Scenes from the Beyond EPICA gas analysis in Copenhagen.

Every time I read West Antarctic Peninsula abbreviated to WAP my brain goes "bring a bucket and a mop for this melting ice sheet"

Readinge complex textes not for ynformacioun but for understandinge, writinge nuanced argumentes, reasoninge criticallye and also beinge critical of reasoninge when needid -- these are the vital technologyes taught by humanityes disciplines lyke literarye studyes, historye, and philosophye.

Getting direct measurements of CO2 from Pliocene-aged ice has been a Holy Grail of climate science! A new paper by @jmarkspeterson.bsky.social provides a record of CO2 going back 3million years(!), with (let's say) intriguing implications for anthropogenic climate change doi.org/10.1038/s415... 1/

This research is a part of the Center for Oldest Ice Exploration. Two sister papers also released today. "Climate snapshots trapped in ancient ice tell a surprising story" www.nature.com/articles/d41... "Global ocean heat content over the past 3 million years" www.nature.com/articles/s41...

It's been such a pleasure to watch the development of this paper, and now to finally see it out. I can't wait to see where @jmarkspeterson.bsky.social takes this project next!

A cartoon by Paul Noth. See all the cartoons in this week’s issue: newyorkermag.visitlink.me/Uh2urE

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GO TERRIERS!!!!!!!!!!!!!! #beanpot

At a certain point in a letter of recommendation I run out of synonyms for "good" and start getting the urge to write things like "[student] has firecracker research skills"

I have the old design of this crystal skirt and I love it! More great designs for science lovers in this drop.

I'm about 3/4 of the way done reading Colonialism and Antarctica and wanted to remind everyone that it's completely free online! Open access! library.oapen.org/bitstream/ha...

Fellow scientists & other people who enjoy going full Ms. Frizzle at the function: keep an eye on Maya Kern's hand-illustrated skirt drops. I got so many compliments on my winter aurora skirt at my last conference, and I have one with a crystal print as well!

Fave books read in 2025! Nonfiction (pop history) - "The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder" by David Grann* Poetry (compilation) - "The Universe in Verse: 15 Portals to Wonder through Science & Poetry" ed. Maria Popova Fiction - "North Woods" by Daniel Mason *wish it had footnotes 😭

I recently did a major revamp of my website, which includes information about my research and outreach activities, as well as samples of my creative writing. Check it out! www.oliviawilliamsgeo.com

I had a great time presenting my ice core research at the American Geophysical Union fall meeting last month in NOLA! #AGU25

A team of #NSF Center for Oldest Ice Exploration #COLDEX scientists recently found 6 million year old ice in Antarctica. That's old ice! Air bubbles trapped inside this #ice provide an unprecedented view of Earth's past #climate. Read the paper in PNAS: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

📣 TERROR CAMP V PROGRAM ANNOUNCED! Register now: www.eventbrite.com/e/terror-cam... We’re thrilled to bring you a fantastic line-up of presentations for Terror Camp V, from deep dives into Inuit texts and polar history to queer naval fiction & scurvy. Find out what we've got in store! 🤩

Omg... who could that be opening the last day of The Terror fan conference with an ice core talk...? ;)

AGU’s Voices for Science advocates are in Washington D.C. for Congressional Visits Day! 🌎 Yesterday, 20 scientists from 16 states participated in a science policy workshop to prepare for 32 meetings with lawmakers. buff.ly/0bSb5lF

Sea Level xkcd.com/3135/

I just went to update my ORCID page and typing "Oregon State" into the education field auto filled as "Oregon State Insane Asylum"

Surely Xfinity should want to stunt on me with a fast functional website to inspire me to give them more money, not throttle their own loading speeds to make it impossible to do anything

Geology Murder xkcd.com/3112/

It's hard to believe that nearly a decade has passed since @geojane.bsky.social went to B.U.'s administration and detailed her shocking experiences as a grad student under my then-adviser, Dave Marchant. In the years since, we have learned of so, so, so many others who likewise abused their (1/7)

I'm way behind on my 2025 reading goals, but everything I've read this year so far has been really really good!

Me talking about the Heat Death

All right, I admit it, I missed having a professional social media account to post about science things. I'm here.

See interviews from lab alum Ben Riddell-Young and PI Ed Brook in this Mother Jones article on the future of ice core research.

Lab member Olivia Williams explains how we measure the gases inside ice cores in this video for the National Science Foundation Ice Drilling Program. www.youtube.com/watch?v=i9PQ...