New research has shown that the Euphrates River, one of the most historically significant river systems in Western Asia, originated as two distinct river systems that drained into the Mediterranean approximately 5.5 million years ago... @richardthomasw.bsky.social buff.ly/wnMkCth

🌋 New Paper 🌋 I’m thrilled to share our latest paper, out today in Nature Communications. All the manuscripts I write mean a lot to me, but this one feels particularly special. What a privilege to work with this team of co-authors on this topic. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

For the first time ever, @ox.ac.uk has its own venue at #LCAW2026 Hosted by #OxfordSmithSchool for two days, experts from the across the University will lead events at the forefront of #ClimateScience and impact. @climateoxford.bsky.social @oxfordgeography.bsky.social @biology.ox.ac.uk

Scientists have uncovered how tiny marine plankton regulate the production of calcite in the ocean – a process that plays a major role in Earth’s long-term carbon cycle and climate regulation 🌍️ Read the full story: buff.ly/keGrhDZ

A new @ox.ac.uk expert comment from @nvogtvincent.co.uk explores the future of our coral reefs - and argues that it may not be too late to save them Read the full article: www.ox.ac.uk/news/2026-05...

Global coral reef 🪸 collapse is not inevitable. We explain why in our new science & society piece for TREE! www.cell.com/trends/ecolo... Written with Lisa McManus and Rob Toonen! @soest.hawaii.edu @oxuniearthsci.bsky.social

Undergrad @oxuniearthsci.bsky.social field trip to Oxford's local coral reef (sadly 150 million years past its heyday)!

Job Opportunity! Please share with your networks Outreach and Communications Manager (deadline Wednesday 27 May 2026) Find out more and apply: www.earth.ox.ac.uk/vacancies

One week left to apply to these postdoc positions in global seismology!

New Earth Sciences in Conversation, featuring Kamini Manick! Read about the various roles which brought Kamini full circle back to Oxford, the ambitions of the Oxford EARTH programme, and her advice for those who hope to work at the interface of science, policy and industry. buff.ly/nRnJ2MQ

Upcoming event for families at Oxford University Museum of Natural History - The Power of Volcanoes – Saturday 6th June Join University of Oxford volcanologists Tamsin Mather and David Pyle and discover the secrets of volcanoes! www.oumnh.ox.ac.uk/event/the-po...

Some of our favourite snaps from the second year undergraduate fieldclass to Assynt, Scotland! ⚒️

The Department of Earth Sciences are seeking to appoint a Postdoctoral Research Assistant in Carbonate Mineralisation to join our thriving academic community 🌏 More details and apply now: www.earth.ox.ac.uk/vacancies

From urban vibrations to the core - a wide range of research I am involved based at @oxuniearthsci.bsky.social in will be presented at the British Seismology Meeting in Leeds this week.

Oxford Earth Sciences is recruiting for two Postdoctoral Research Associates in Global Seismology! The post holders will join @seismokoel.bsky.social and the DEEPSCAPE group in the Department of Earth Sciences to work on the PRISM-MTZ project More information and apply: buff.ly/PYzDpQh

Registration is open for #MPGRiP2026! All career stages welcome! A great opportunity for #PhDs + #postdocs to present work in progress, get feedback, and network. 🗺️ @oxuniearthsci.bsky.social 🗓️ 8th-9th July ⏱️ DEADLINE: 29th May. #MineralPhysics #Geoscience @minersoc.bsky.social

New research from @profbobhilton.bsky.social has shown that chemical weathering does not always stabilise rising temperatures in the geological past, and that weathering of carbon-rich sedimentary rocks reinforced warming during the Early Jurassic 🌍 Read more: www.earth.ox.ac.uk/article/not-...

We are hiring! Postdoctoral Research Assistant in lithium behaviour in volcano-sedimentary systems The deadline for applications is 18th May 2026 Apply now: www.earth.ox.ac.uk/vacancies

Mike Kendall has been awarded an Invitational Fellowship from JSPS to study variations in the state of stress at Sakurajima volcano using seismic methods. Sakurajima is one of the world’s most active volcanoes, and Mike received a nice welcome in the form of a small eruption on the 11 April!

Oxford Earth Sciences is seeking to appoint a Postdoctoral Research Assistant in Metamorphic Geochemistry to join an active and collaborative research group led by Associate Professor Richard Palin More information and apply: buff.ly/PYzDpQh @richardmpalin.bsky.social

Exciting news for @nikibrazzola.bsky.social, who has been appointed as a Lead Author for an upcoming methodology report on carbon dioxide removal and carbon capture, utilisation, and storage from the IPCC!

Understanding volcanoes has been woven together with our understanding of the structure of the Earth. In this @expeditions.bsky.social 🎬️, Tamsin Mather @oxuniearthsci.bsky.social talks about the power of volcanoes and how important they have been for the development and maintenance of our planet.

🌍 *Two* 30-month postdoc positions in global seismology at @oxuniearthsci.bsky.social 🌍! For the NERC-funded project “PRISM-MTZ”, I am advertising *Two* postdoc positions in the DEEPSCAPE group in Oxford, collaborating with project partners in Strasbourg (France) and Cambridge: tinyurl.com/mr78s9rc

The Department of Earth Sciences is recruiting for a Postdoctoral Research Assistant in Palaeobiology with a focus on Extinction Selectivity ! Further details and apply: www.earth.ox.ac.uk/vacancies

For our latest issue of Earth Sciences in Conversation, we sat down with Paula Koelemeijer (@seismokoel.bsky.social), Associate Professor of Geophysics, to hear about Earth’s music, skipping seismology lectures, and 3D-printing the world… Read the full interview www.earth.ox.ac.uk/article/eart...

We are delighted to announce that UKRI is funding "SEQUIN", an interdisciplinary project which will unite quantum sensing and seismic monitoring to improve the detection techniques of extremely faint signals from gravitational waves in space to deep vibrations within the Earth

The Department of Earth Sciences is recruiting for a Postdoctoral Research Assistant in Macroecology/Palaeobiology, with a focus on machine learning model development! Further details and apply: www.earth.ox.ac.uk/vacancies

A newly discovered fossil site in southwest China has transformed our understanding of how complex animal life emerged on Earth, revealing that many key animal groups had already evolved before the start of the Cambrian Period Read the full story: buff.ly/FDkYfxS @morethanadodo.bsky.social

Claire Nichols, Red Coleman and Donny Han are currently in Japan to investigate the Sanbagawa belt, an example of an ancient subduction zone from the Cretaceous (143 - 66 Ma ago).

The Department of Earth Sciences is recruiting for a Postdoctoral Research Assistant in Oceanography and Palaeoclimatology to join our thriving academic community! Further details and apply: www.earth.ox.ac.uk/vacancies

Looking for a post-doc in macroecology or paleobiology? Work with the fabulous Erin Saupe in @oxuniearthsci.bsky.social my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecru... PDRA in Extinction & Conservation / Paleobiology : my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecru...

Our third year undergraduates just returned from their Spain fieldclass, where they studied the Miocene sediments and volcanics in the Nijar, Caba de Gata, Tabernas, and Sorbas basins, visited a garnet volcano, and saw a preserved reef transect in situ!

So excited to have received an #HFSPResearchGrant to study trilobite eyes with Luke Parry @oxuniearthsci.bsky.social and Gil Ju Lee (Pusan National University)!🥳 I'll be recruiting a postdoc @bristolbiosci.bsky.social - if 3D data, optical modelling, and fossils tickle your interest, stay tuned!

Congratulations to Jon Wade and Hal Drakesmith, who have received a grant from UKRI to investigate how metals influence metabolism, disease, and ecosystem stability, marking a new interdisciplinary approach to advancing metal biology @imm.ox.ac.uk www.earth.ox.ac.uk/article/jon-...

Amazing trace fossil - Zoophycos - from the mid-Miocene sediments of the Tabernas basin, Almeria. First time to have seen this, in many years of field visits - spotted by eagle-eyed 3rd year @oxuniearthsci.bsky.social students. ⚒️

The Moon’s early magnetic history has been under debate for decades. A new study provides an explanation that accounts for all the evidence. eos.org/articles/apo...

Helen Johnson and Stuart Robinson @oxuniearthsci.bsky.social (+ team at Bristol, NOC and NCAR) are looking for a postdoc in (paleo)oceanography modelling as part of the MEZCAL and PalaeoGradPhan projects! Great supervisors and a lovely department. Further details: my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecru...

Congratulations to Luke Parry, winner of the 2025 Journal of Systematic Palaeontology Outstanding Paper Award! This prize is awarded by @journalsystpal.bsky.social to papers that have made an outstanding contribution to systematics in the field of palaeontology 👏

Many thanks to Professor Donald E. Canfield FRS from the University of Southern Denmark for delivering the 2026 Lobanov-Rostovsky Lecture in Planetary Geology last Friday. Professor Canfield's talk, entitled "It's All About Oxygen", explored the history of the oxygenation of Earth.

Delighted to see Amde Tadesse’s latest paper now out - on volatiles in silicic magmas from the #Ethiopian Rift. Work funded by the Fondation Wiener-Anspach at @oxuniearthsci.bsky.social and Addis Ababa University and completed at @lamont.columbia.edu ⚒️ www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Our latest In Conversation interview features Ross Anderson! Hear from Ross about his research on Proterozoic life, working as Head of Research at @morethanadodo.bsky.social, and moving from Gotham to Harvard… www.earth.ox.ac.uk/article/eart...

📽️ #Meteorites: the magnetic key to the early #SolarSystem  How can we begin to understand events that happened billions of years ago? Fortunately, there are clues, as planetary scientist @han-san-planets.bsky.social explains...🧲 👀 https://bit.ly/MagneticKey  @oxuniearthsci.bsky.social @ox.ac.uk

The Department of Earth Sciences is delighted to welcome Professor Donald E. Canfield FRS to deliver this year’s Lobanov-Rostovsky Lecture in Planetary Geology. All are invited to attend. Date: Friday 13th March 2026 Time: 12pm – 1pm Location: Seminar Rooms, Department of Earth Sciences

⚒️ Article: Strong magnetic fields on the Moon between 3.854 and 3.580 Ga correlate with the titanium content of lunar basalts, suggesting a link between dynamo generation and the eruption of high-Ti basalts @oxuniearthsci.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s41...

For decades, scientists have argued whether the Moon had a strong or weak magnetic field during its early history. Now a new analysis by Claire Nichols, Jon Wade and Simon Stephenson shows that both sides of the debate are effectively correct. buff.ly/XxlD1hM

It’s hard to believe it, but Oxford Net Zero is now 5 years old. Recently we hosted a showcase to celebrate our work & look to the future. 6 of our Fellows gave talks on their research & we got to hear from speakers from the worlds of business, academia & policy. netzeroclimate.org/oxford-net-z...

4️⃣ speakers, 4️⃣ perspectives on the future of marine research infrastructure. Prof Heather Bouman from @oxuniearthsci.bsky.social will look through the science lens, bringing insights from @biocarbon-nerc.bsky.social Join the FMRI LinkedIn group for deeper insights🔽 www.linkedin.com/groups/98434...

New paper alert! In work led by James Bryson @oxuniearthsci.bsky.social, we show that NC and CC planetesimals started forming at the same time suggesting a single feature/event was the trigger for planetesimal formation doi.org/10.1016/j.ep...

The Department of Earth Sciences and St Peter's College are recruiting an Associate Professor (or Professor) in Earth Surface Processes to join our thriving academic community! earth.web.ox.ac.uk/vacancies

New paper! Led by Jemma Wadham on “An #Ice Sheet-to-Ocean Analysis of #Carbon Stores and Fluxes in Earth's Polar Regions (#RECCAP2, Polar Ice Sheets)” ❄️🧪🥼 agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/...