This is great!

Calling sedimentary-types! All applications welcome

Great new visual about Geodiversity published recently!

Welcome to all our postgraduate researchers! You are what makes us a University.

Embarking on your fieldwork soon? We've added a checklist and timeline to our fieldwork and gathering data page: www5.open.ac.uk/students/res...

We have a Research Experience Placement with Dr Phil Wheeler advertised for this summer via @centa.bsky.social: centa.ac.uk/centa-resear... Project title: Using 3D models from smartphone video to assess urban tree crown volume

Booking now: this online discussion session on June 12th (free for members) will examine the experiences of doctoral candidates during the viva. ukcge.ac.uk/events/t...

Thanks to the @floodplainmead.bsky.social team for hosting a group from @ougradsch.bsky.social last week! We learned loads of botanical facts and it's always lovely to put some of our students' rather abstract PhD titles into context 🤩

@geologyjohnson.bsky.social Finally... These crinoid photos took a bit of digging to find! Field photo (crinoidal dolomite sits between eclogite and cacl schist), close up in field, and SEM images. Eclogite-facies crinoids!

I chair Panel C- please get in touch if you want to know more or have any questions about what serving on a panel involves 🙂

BGS is looking for new members to join our NERC Facilities Steering Committees over the next 4 years. We are looking for people from a wide range of scientific disciplines, at different career stages. Deadline for submissions is 5pm on March 14th 2025. www.bgs.ac.uk/news/call-fo...

Lots in here that I am sure will resonate with many PhD students.

Authored by our very own @zjayres.bsky.social! A very useful read due everyone involved in supporting post-grad research, not just the students!

Without technicians, I wouldn't ever have been able to collect any research data. They perform an absolutely critical function in research and need valuing and appreciating more

My piece for @productivity.bsky.social about the importance of technicians. We won't deliver growth and opporotunity without enough of them in our labs and across universities and schools. It's an urgent conversation to have www.productivity.ac.uk/news/the-rol...

Congratulations to Sam Gould, a PhD student with Open Thanatology, for winning the Faculty Postgraduate Award recently. Sam works at Sobell House Hospice as part of Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, and they've written a news item about Sam's work! www.ouh.nhs.uk/research/new...

Welcome to @openuniversity.bsky.social new PhD students! We have loved hearing about your varied and fascinating research projects and look forward to supporting you. @oulibrary.bsky.social @oustudents.bsky.social @geologyclare.bsky.social

The Metamorphic Studies Group Research in Progress (RiP) meeting and related events will be held in Liverpool, UK, on April 8-11th, 2025. Registration deadline is February 20th, 2025.; see the MSG website for more. metamorphicstudiesgroup.wordpress.com/msg-rip-2024/ Regards John

Well done Elisa!!

Congratulations on your viva, Elisa Oliveira da Costa! #ProudSupervisor @geologyclare.bsky.social

Pleased to see many units at the OU are also on BlueSky. @ougradsch.bsky.social @oulibrary.bsky.social @ou-ld-social.bsky.social @oustudents.bsky.social @pacespaceou.bsky.social @kmiou.bsky.social I have created a starter pack: go.bsky.app/8tZrvn4

HIRING: Project Archivist for our Phillips Archive The Archive consists of correspondence, geological papers, lecture notes, notebooks, watercolours, prints, sections, and more. This is a full-time, fixed-term post for 20 months. oumnh.web.ox.ac.uk/project-arch...

A fascinating piece of research this #ThesisThursday that is highly relevant worldwide. Read Jeremy James Cunningham's 'Schooling for conflict transformation: a case study from Northern Uganda' on ORO here: oro.open.ac.uk/54692/

Colleagues and I were one of 10 winners in a Landmark Trust competition for an academic writing retreat. I think it runs annually. If you have an idea for 2026… www.landmarktrust.org.uk/get-involved.. @geologyclare.bsky.social @nationaltrust.bsky.social @naturalengland.bsky.social

#proudsupervisor! A very successful end to a great #Fluidnet collaboration!

OU PG research students & staff are warmly invited to the Roc Soc/Grad School Ceilidh & Burns Night Celebration on 31 Jan 2025 in the Hub Theatre, 17:00. Tickets are £10 (PGR) & £15 (Staff). forms.office.com/e/cMwkyM5px4 @riobanerjee.bsky.social @geologyclare.bsky.social @oulibrary.bsky.social

Your cake was awesome Jude! And tasted great too 😁

Are you an Open University PGR with an idea for a meme on your research, the doctoral journey or Milton Keynes life? Enter #MemeYourResearch by 10 December for kudos and prizes. Full instructions in the PGR Community Team: teams.microsoft.com/l/message/19... @riobanerjee.bsky.social

Funded PhDs at the Open University on topics as diverse as veganism, dementia, energy, sustainability, policing, space and beyond. Please browse through the options ⬇️⬇️⬇️ and spread the word!

So nice to get away from the madness once in a while- escaped the crowds up Cader Idris in the mist today. My legs hurt now though!

The Bake your Research cakes were soooo good 😋😋😋. Better double my exercise plans this weekend to make up for it!!

Another year, another thrilling #BakeYourResearch competition in @oulibrary.bsky.social! Ismay was a worth winner with her Gingerbread Men-ders cake, and Liz shone with her Embedding Impact cake, winning Tastiest Bake. Thanks @riobanerjee.bsky.social for organising!

Day 2 of welcoming our wonderful Affiliated Research Centre colleagues to Open University campus @oulibrary.bsky.social

Thinking about starting a PhD in 2025? Current funded PhD studentships now live on our Employment pages with closing dates in January: www5.open.ac.uk/employment/a... Please share! @oulibrary.bsky.social @ou-ld-social.bsky.social @oustudents.bsky.social

I'm so very excited to be able to connect with so many Geo Twitter friends from the good old days on this platform. I've missed the rock and mineral chat! Here's an beautiful chunk of Norwegian eclogite that my wonderful friend Anjana sent me 😍

Calling all PhD and Professional Doctorate research students (present and alumni) at the Open University - let the wonderful @ougradsch.bsky.social know if you'd like to be added to their Starter Pack... 👇 #OUfamily

A snowy morning on the open University campus today! #OUlife