Some good news at last! Sediments have been recovered by @swais2c.bsky.social team from UNDERNEATH the #Antarctic ice sheet. Fantastic achievement and more to come 👏❄️🇦🇶🧪 #geology #drilling

How have I only just discovered google maps for space? If you, like me, did not know about this little piece of internet treasure, you must check it out! You can fly over moons and planets - and it's all real data <little happy skips> 🤗 🔭🧪 👉: www.google.co.uk/maps/space/ 👇: Dwarf planet Pluto!

📢 New @bas.ac.uk podcast just out! Artist Rowan Huntley and I chat about our art-science exhibition in #Cambridge 👇 www.bas.ac.uk/blogpost/can... ❄️🇦🇶🧪🎨 #sciart #geology

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... I feel like art therapy could be useful in academia too, especially when things don't work out e.g. grant proposals fail, fieldwork challenges, general overwhelm. 🧪🎨

More on art-science collaborations! Here artist Rowan Huntley describes her recent workshops at @scottpolar.bsky.social . Our exhibition at the ❄️Polar Museum❄️ is open on Sat 20 Dec, then again from 6 Jan. 👇 www.spri.cam.ac.uk/museum/exhib... www.rowanhuntley.co.uk/blog/worksho... 🧪🎨 @bas.ac.uk

More art from #sciart workshops at @scottpolar.bsky.social yesterday! The exhibition, inspired by my @bas.ac.uk research, is open TODAY 12-4pm. Do visit 👇 www.spri.cam.ac.uk/museum/exhib... 🧪❄️🇦🇶🎨

Art and science mix! Lovely creations inspired by our #sciart exhibition at @scottpolar.bsky.social Made during today's workshop with artist Rowan Huntley. 🎨🧪❄️🇦🇶 #geology #antarctica More info 👇 www.spri.cam.ac.uk/museum/exhib...

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A fascinating insight into all the weird and wonderful ideas people used to have about health 👇🥼 But don't forget your reading 👓 - I found the light rather dim making it tricky to see the details. #history #health #cambridge 🧪📚🔎

👀A lovely new stamp design for British Antarctic Territory by my @bas.ac.uk colleague Claire Allen! Featuring diatoms - tiny algae 🦠 that have beautiful structures and are everywhere, including in toothpaste apparently 😂🪥 More info: www.iompost.com/our-news/ove... #geology #Antarctica 🧪❄️🌊

Your science is sound Your press release says “Reef recovery” The internet hears “Crisis over” A study shows how well-intended optimism can fuel climate misinformation. Context matters... www.nature.com/articles/s44...

Hosting MP Ian Sollom at @bas.ac.uk as part of @royalsociety.org Pairing Scheme! Chats with #geology colleagues and visit to our new Polar Sediment Core Facility. We all enjoyed that Ian was so interested and engaged with our work. Thankyou @iansollom.bsky.social and #pairingscheme2025 !🧪🔬❄️

Artist 🎨 Rowan Huntley and I share more about our recent Tea & Talk at @scottpolar.bsky.social 👇 www.spri.cam.ac.uk/museum/news/... 🧪❄️🇦🇶🔬 #geology @bas.ac.uk

Such fun working with @bas.ac.uk and @ucl.ac.uk colleagues on this paper! Started as coffee table discussion about where the #Antarctic boulders came from. Ended bringing together geology, geomorphology and geophysics 🪨🔬🛩️ Def more than the sum of their parts! 👇 www.bas.ac.uk/media-post/h... 🧪❄️🥼

Ever wondered what lies beneath the fastest melting glacier in #Antarctica? Read on…. 🔥New paper just out🔥led by my brilliant @bas.ac.uk colleague Tom Jordan: www.nature.com/articles/s43... Combining #geology & #geophysics, we discovered a huge granite beneath Pine Island Glacier! 🧵 below…. 1/n 🧪❄️🥼

We are pleased to announce that throughout Open Access Week, from 20 – 26 October, all Royal Society journal content is freely available. Explore our journals here: royalsociety.org/Journals/ #OAWeek #OAWeek25

Lots of talking today! This morning recorded a podcast at @bas.ac.uk about our new #sciart exhibition.🧪❄️🇦🇶 This afternoon spoke with the artist at Tea & Talk at @scottpolar.bsky.social ☕️🎨 Nice to get out of the office! #geology

I'm super proud of my @bas.ac.uk colleagues who have worked so hard on this! 👇 🧪🇦🇶❄️🥼

In three days, our iconic red planes will take off from Canada to make the epic journey across the world to Antarctica. These flights mark the start of a new polar science season. BUT ALSO that means there's three days left to send your name to Antarctica with us! tickettoantarctica.com

📢Our #sciart exhibition 'Through Ice & Fire' at @scottpolar.bsky.social is officially open! Last night, artist Rowan Huntley and I hosted friends and family for a preview. A lovely celebration of all the hard work 🎉 Do come!👇 www.spri.cam.ac.uk/museum/exhib... @bas.ac.uk #geology 🧪❄️🖌️

Excitement building at @scottpolar.bsky.social for the upcoming #sciart exhibition, opening Friday 12 Sept! 🧪❄️ Free to visit, all welcome 😆 Audio clips and grab sheets will be available if you need. Come and find out about my @bas.ac.uk science 🔬 More info: www.spri.cam.ac.uk/museum/exhib...

Live in #Cambridge (UK) and fancy meeting a real artist🎨? Come along to @scottpolar.bsky.social *this Friday 12-2pm* to chat with Rowan Huntley - about her exhibition inspired by my @bas.ac.uk science. www.spri.cam.ac.uk/museum/events/ About Rowan: www.rowanhuntley.co.uk/ice-and-fire #sciart

Sooo exciting! The new exhibition "Through Ice & Fire" at @scottpolar.bsky.social is taking shape.... Opening on Friday 12 Sept, free to all. Come and see how artist Rowan Huntley has interpreted my @bas.ac.uk research, & learn about #Antarctic #geology 🪨🔬 www.spri.cam.ac.uk/museum/exhib... 🧪❄️🔥🎨

A fun morning with artist Rowan Huntley recording🎙️for our upcoming #sciart exhibition at @scottpolar.bsky.social "Through Ice & Fire". 👇 www.spri.cam.ac.uk/museum/exhib... Opens 12 September in Cambridge, UK! @bas.ac.uk #Antarctica 🧪❄️🥼🎨

Our upcoming exhibition, 'Through Ice & Fire', opens on 12 September at the Polar Museum. A fusion of contemporary art and cutting-edge Antarctic research, the exhibition connects geology and our industrial past with the science of glaciers, ice sheets and the climate. @geologicaljo.bsky.social

📢Super-excited to announce the opening on 12 Sept of a new art-science 🎨🔬exhibition at @scottpolar.bsky.social in Cambridge, UK! My @bas.ac.uk work interpreted by artist Rowan Huntley. Free to visit, suitable for all ages, showing for 9 months 👍 More info: www.spri.cam.ac.uk/museum/exhib... 🧪❄️🥼🎨

Get your tickey here for a virtual journey ✈️ to #Antarctica with @bas.ac.uk ! Perfect for kids and adults alike ❄️🥼🧪🇦🇶 Sign up➡️ tickettoantarctica.com

We're hiring a GIS and Mapping Specialist to manage our Geospatial Helpdesk and to contribute to our Topographic Map Series. This is a really exciting opportunity at the British Antarctic Survey to support colleagues across the organisation. Details here: shorturl.at/bA4fd #GISjobs

Heat waves are becoming more dangerous as temperatures and humidity rise. For healthy adults, the critical threshold for safe activity is lower than previously thought—around 88°F with 60% humidity. Staying hydrated and finding cooling spaces are key as heat risks intensify.

Feeling warm today? (I am 🥵) Climate change is making 32C days like this 100x more likely 👇 www.worldweatherattribution.org/analysis/hea...

Is the UK hot right now? YES - it's hot! Live temperature updates hour by hour, every day. istheukhotrightnow.com

📣New job @sedgwickmuseum.bsky.social Interested in a career in archives? We're looking for an Archive Assistant to document and care for our archives, and enable researchers to access them Closing date 6 July www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/50926/?f... #archives #museumjobs

I was proud to be invited to give oral evidence that shaped this report on #science in #Antarctica 🧪❄️🥼🇦🇶👇 Let's hope the #UK Government acts on its recommendations 🤞

Some photos from today's POLENET GIA workshop fieldtrip in British Columbia 🇨🇦👇 We had a great day out, transported in 2 yellow school buses! 🚍 #geology #fieldwork #canada

Another glorious day in Canada 🇨🇦 at the POLENET GIA workshop! There are scientists 🥼🧪from 15 nations 🌎 here in person and another 15 attending online - amazing! We are united in our desire to understand and protect this beautiful planet 🇦🇶🌊🏔❄️ #science #geology #ice #modelling

I'm lucky to be in beautiful Sidney, British Columbia 🇨🇦 👇for the POLENET GIA workshop! Giving an invited talk about #Antarctic ice sheet ❄️🧊history (well, just the last 10k years!!) and my @bas.ac.uk work on Tues. #geology #science

Pollen isn’t just an allergen, it’s a natural time capsule preserving Earth’s environmental history for millions of years. Fossil pollen reveals ancient climates, ecosystems and human impact. Today’s pollen shifts also track #climatechange in real time

Our rising seas. This is only going to get harder to ignore. This NASA visualization was created by svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/5520/

Love this❤️👇 Can we do this next Mother's Day @bas.ac.uk?

👀This is so exciting: 1st, Moon dust wow! 🌚🚀🔬 2nd - Prof Anand did his PhD in the office next door and with my supervisor.😆🥼 So proud of you Mahesh!! 👏🧪🥼 www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... @cambridge-earthsci.bsky.social #geology

An insightful post by my @bas.ac.uk colleague @polarrobs.bsky.social esp relevant after reading this shocking and upsetting article👇 I had higher hopes of Labour 😫 #climatecrisis www.theguardian.com/environment/...

👀Fascinating patterns in the seabed around the UK coast tell us what it was like here 18,000 years ago ❄️🥼🧪 Read this 🧵 to find out more!👇

📢 We are looking for a Geomatics Surveyor to join our team at the British Antarctic Survey. 📢 Are you a surveyor with experience of collecting & managing geospatial survey data? Would you like to get the opportunity to work at Rothera Research Station? Apply today! Details here: shorturl.at/RwAZV

“Never have we so hurt and mistreated our common home as we have in the last two hundred years. Reducing greenhouse gases requires honesty, courage and responsibility. Those who will have to suffer the consequences will not forget this failure of conscience and responsibility.” — Pope Francis

A #GoodFriday message in the sky over #Cambridge today ✝️❤️👇 Jesus said "I have come that you may have life, and have it to the full" (John 10:10)

Check this out 👀👇 Birds are so ingenious! A brilliant science story that will make you smile 🧪🔬🐦‍⬛🐦🪺 #birds #biology

I love this photo from our recent #holiday on the UK's beautiful Suffolk coast. A former abbey converted to WW2 lookout, now art installation. A bit of calm in our turbulent world 🎨 🌊

Super PhD studentship opportunity rummaging in some fantastic collections @theul.bsky.social exploring the role of women in curating scientific heritage And we're very happy that the @sedgwickmuseum.bsky.social is a partner in this project #PhD #HistoryofScience #WomensHistory

In the revamped @bas.ac.uk rock store today looking at my volcanic rock samples from #Antarctica 🇦🇶🧪🥼❄️ Everything in here is all shiny and new (except me and the rocks😅)