A massive congratulations to all our new #TeamLivUni students who have received the news they’re joining us today! 🎉 Your next chapter starts now - and we can’t wait to welcome you! 💙 Find out more about your Liverpool Welcome here >>> www.liverpool.ac.uk/welcome/ #ResultsDay2025

We have a new #blog: @andrewhacket-pain.bsky.social wrote a blog on the handover of Lady Park Wood (Wales/ England) from George Peterken to a new academic team at @bangoruniversity.bsky.social & @liverpooluni.bsky.social. Read it here: bit.ly/4eoChUS #Woodland #LongTermExperiment #LTE 🌎

Great few days sampling 2 sites in the North Pennines for aquatic GHG emissions. Thanks to the @northpennines.bsky.social for arranging access. @livunigeog.bsky.social

So... here's why I havent posted much. Been writing a book! Thrilled to share The Feminist Art of Walking is out on Pluto October 20th www.plutobooks.com/978074535100... Thanks so much to everyone who has helped make this happen, I am excited and a bit scared for you to read it

Thanks to Peter Ghin for interviewing me for his podcast about working with Energy Limiting Conditions @isrfoundation.bsky.social & a paper co-authored with @alisonallam.bsky.social @thelrm.bsky.social @equihealthfutures.bsky.social @catherinehale.bsky.social & Ana Bê Pereira tinyurl.com/mrx876c8

The mapping tool to be used in Liverpool to tackle health inequality will draw on the work of health #geographer Prof Mark Green & colleagues @livunigeog.bsky.social #usegeography #choosegeography www.gov.uk/government/n...

The 3 week Swedish adventure has come to an end. In total 20 sites have been sampled for GHG emissions including radiocarbon analysis. Sites ranged from Uppsala all the way down to Kalmar, Southern Sweden @livunigeog.bsky.social

A really wonderful start to my day, thanks to two final-year @livunigeog.bsky.social students. Such kind words are really appreciated. Plus an excellent addition to my office plant collection!

No advert out yet, but I will recruiting a 2yr postdoc, start date autumn 2025, at @livunigeog.bsky.social soon. Lowland and upland peatlands, GHGs, DOM and water chemistry. Plenty of fieldwork. Feel free to drop me a DM or email if you might be interested, and please spread the word.

🚨New paper 🚨 I asked senior councillors with highways/transport responsibility across the UK how social media interactions affected their decision making on cycling. 🧵The core findings were: 1) That social media doesn't massively alter decision-making 1/ www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

New research by @alexnurse.bsky.social explores how social media shapes local government decision-making. The study reveals alarming levels of abuse—both online and in person—towards local councillors over cycling & transport policy. news.liverpool.ac.uk/2025/05/29/s...

The amazing team from @livunigeog.bsky.social & @buforestry.bsky.social who are helping with the 2025 resurvey of permanent plots at #LadyParkWood, originally established in 1945. Some plots has been untouched since ~1900. Thanks to @ect-uk.bsky.social for helping us, including with funding

GHG sampling earlier this week at Westhay Moore, Somerset at some of the newer restoration areas. We even found some Sundew on site @livunigeog.bsky.social

‪ New article by my colleague @livunigeog.bsky.social Kathy Burrell, Anna Key and Kate Botterill: Digital by default: the literacies, legibilities and legacies of the UK’s post-Brexit EU settled status regime doi.org/10.1080/1369...

Successful morning at Greylake Somerset, sampling GHG emissions from a range of water bodies. @livunigeog.bsky.social

Global RIver Topology (GRIT) is a new and improved global river network that represents bifurcations, multi-thread channels and canals. Great to see this important output from the NERC-funded EVOFLOOD project. See more here: doi.org/10.1029/2024...

Great day spent with my brilliant new(ish) colleague @belenfadrique.bsky.social installing a branch warming experiment at Ness Botantic Gardens, replicated across Europe. Testing how the solstice enables beech to synchronise fruit production (masting). Results next spring… doi.org/10.1038/s414...

Congratulations to Prof Mark Green (@livunigeog.bsky.social) who has been awarded the Royal Geographical Society (@rgsibg.bsky.social) 2025 Back Award for outstanding geographical research impacting public policy on a national and international scale👏👏👏 news.liverpool.ac.uk/2025/05/12/p...

Excited that my 3rd paper has been published 🥳 It focuses on space in young people's emotional experience of fitness tracking, engaging with digital geographies & feminist new materialism. Available Open Access in Emotion, Space and Society! lnkd.in/e-8cMqZT

Come and join me in Sept at the 5th conference on approaches to migration, language and identify I'll talk about the use of LLMs for migration research showcasing some of our recent work! Thanks @inesvano.bsky.social for spreading the word! Event details: store.hope.ac.uk/conferences-...

Looking forward to our next MENDLS talk on Wednesday 14th of May with Prof Andrea Manica of the University of Cambridge @eegcam.bsky.social Join us in Liverpool! Sign up via the QR code below

Had a great day today @egu.eu for ‘The future of Northern peatlands’ poster session were I presented the first of my PhD work. Thank you to everyone who came along to chat/see my poster (and for inspiring new ideas!) @peatymike.bsky.social @livunigeog.bsky.social @egubg.bsky.social

Higher incidence of strongly evaporative days drives severe water deficit for ombrotrophic peatlands - just published take a look if you're keen on peatland hydrology, drought impact/recovery and long-term monitoring... #maymoss doi.org/10.1002/hyp....

At the airport putting the final touches to my talk at @ucddublin.bsky.social School of Earth Sciences tomorrow — all about loess geochemistry, chronology, and chasing ancient dust across continents. Slide attached for a sneak peek. Looking forward to the discussion! #AcademicLife #LoessIsMore

I wrote up my 10min contribution to last week's OECD Working Party in Territorial Indicators on (geospatial) AI for land use: me.darribas.org/2025/04/27/g...

Exciting PhD opportunity alert!!!! 👇👇👇🌶️🌶️https://geods.ac.uk/2025/04/22/fully-funded-phd-opportunity-advancing-urban-analytics-through-ai-driven-geodemographic-classification/ 🌶️🌶️ #AI #GIS #DataScientist #GeoAI

All packed and heading to Vienna. Here's a reminder of where you can catch my group from @livunigeog.bsky.social presenting.

Had a great first day at EGU listening and talking peatland science from 8:30am to 6pm! Thanks to all those who stopped by my poster for lovely ditchey chat.

This #EarthDay, the University of Liverpool reaffirmed its commitment to sustainability with the theme ‘Our Power, Our Planet’. 🌍 👇 Read our recent news story to learn more: www.liverpool.ac.uk/sustainabili...

Great morning with the drone at Risley Moss. Hoping the images captured can be used to work out the total area of water across the sites and used to upscale GHG emissions. Thanks to @fdraper.bsky.social for bringing his drone out to capture this data! @peatymike.bsky.social @livunigeog.bsky.social

At Risley Moss today watching @fdraper.bsky.social do some drone flights for @laurabaugh94.bsky.social's PhD research. Hoping the images collected will allow us to calculate how much of the bog is comprised of pools and allow us to upscale GHG emissions. @livunigeog.bsky.social

A week until EGU25. My group from @livunigeog.bsky.social will be there presenting our peatland research. First up, @tksilver.bsky.social, Monday 15:00, Room 2.23, will be talking about UK lowland peatland management and ditch GHGs. meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/EGU25/EGU25-...

A new @livunigeog.bsky.social study published in Nature Communications uses big data to analyse how rivers change position over time, with significant implications for river management in tropical settings. Find out more: news.liverpool.ac.uk/2025/04/15/m...

‘The city is not for us’: Ethics, everyday sexism, and negotiating unwanted encounters during fieldwork... doi.org/10.1111/area...

Recently published.... showing trait composition and soil fertility exert a strong influence on forest functioning: biomass and relative biomass production doi.org/10.1038/s420...

NEW paper in @naturecomms.bsky.social: Satellite-derived locational probabilities offer insights into river mobility. Big data reveal the non-predictable patterns and rates of river adjustment. doi.org/10.1038/s414... 🛰️🌎 #Geomorphology #Rivers #RemoteSensing #BigData

V happy to see our project DEBIAS with @carmen-cabrera.bsky.social featured by @UKRI_News @SmartDataRes. Mobile phone data have transformed how we understand cities & populations. But they are biased. DEBIAS aims to correct biases in mobility patterns derived from these data. More on DEBIAS 👇

ERSA REGION has pioneered the publication of computational notebooks as a way to reproducible & portable research that can be reuse for research & teaching. In association with @rgsibg.bsky.social @rgsibg.bsky.social, we have revived & published the first digital version of CATMOG. What is CATMOG?👇

Great to share the latest output from the UK-Philippines project (funded by NERC/DOST-PCIEERD), with inputs from @uofgges.bsky.social, @livunigeog.bsky.social and many others.

Classic geographers… Give them a little free time, a cliff, some dirt, a bit of vegetation— and they’ll spontaneously prod, poke, and point. Because any time outside is basically fieldwork @livunigeog.bsky.social @livunisoes.bsky.social

📢 The call for papers for the BSPS Conference 2025 @bspsuk.bsky.social is now open! More info: shorturl.at/27trf I'm organising a session on "Innovative data and methods for population science" with colleagues @Fcorowe and @ruthneville20. To join, please send your abstract by 09/May/25!

Parts of UK set to be hotter than the Algarve www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Another day of sunshine in Langdale for day 4 of our @livunigeog.bsky.social first year Physical Geography field class. More water quality measurements for my groups.

The Lake District sun continues to shine on our @livunigeog.bsky.social first year field class. Today my groups were measuring water chemistry in ponds, ditches, streams, lakes, rivers and bogs.

I'm Dr Rachel Smedley, Reader in Physical Geography & Director of the LivLumLab for the last 7 years! I love to push the luminescence dating technique to its limits to answer innovative environmental research questions, including dating our hominin ancestors, underneath Antarctica and much more!

The Liverpool Luminescence Laboratory has joined Bluesky! We're a busy, friendly lab performing lots of innovative, exciting research using the luminescence dating technique across many different environments. Check out our webpages to find out more. www.liverpool.ac.uk/geography-an...

I'm Dr Kaja Fenn @drloessismore.bsky.social a Lecturer in Environmental Change. I love working with arid and aeolian sediments. Loess is my fav so I'm often found hanging off cliffs. But I've also worked on archaeological sites, caves, table mountains, and more. Plus I'm into sediment provenance!

Cloudy start to the day here in the Algarve—hoping the rain holds off as students kick off their first day of data collection on the residential trip. @livunisoes.bsky.social #fieldtrip #Algarve

Day 2 of our @livunigeog.bsky.social field class to the Lake District. Today our students meausured lichens at multiple locations to look at how aspect, position, and human activity (e.g. air pollution) affect lichen growth.

Away in Langdale in the Lake District with our @livunigeog.bsky.social first year students. We'll be thinking about landscapes, lichens, water, slopes, mapping and lots more.