📢ARTIST REQUIRED📢Love working with young people & families? We're seeking an artist/facilitator to lead some workshops & create an art installation, film or animation, on the theme of climate change & the Ice Ages! ❄️ Apply by Mon 6 Oct 🙂@camunivmuseums.bsky.social ow.ly/llRt50X05P3

Joined the first #Cambridge @kidicalmass.bsky.social this morning and those still-a-little-wobbly yellow legs were grinning all the way around. Thanks to the organisers and the patient folks who let us take up the sunny streets for a bit. #kidsonbikes #kidicalmass @camcycle.bsky.social

Great to see this wonderful team making the news for their careful and caring work. 🌍🌱 www.theguardian.com/environment/...

I often feel lucky with a 12 min cycle through Cambridge to work @camunigeography.bsky.social 🚲 🌍🚲 But I’ve just been in Aber and realise this seafront walk is the only commute I’d trade in for 🌊🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 If you have an uplifting route to work, will you share it? #beachlife #beattheratrace #Aberystwyth

We’ve had two days of science in beautiful Cluj as the “Integrating ice core, marine & terrestrial environments” network met for an open meeting. Photos of past/present @camtephra.bsky.social members presenting their work and the birthday flowers they embarrassed me with. @jinheum.bsky.social

[1/5] PhD recruitment season @camunigeography.bsky.social soon kicks off! If you’re interested in applying for a PhD in #tephra for palaeoclimate / archaeology / volcanology, consider applying to study in the Cambridge Tephra Lab @camtephra.bsky.social 🌋🌍☀️ Here we were at Mt Etna one year ago!

If you are in the UK, BBC4 tonight at 8 pm "The Lost Neanderthals". A doco about the site of Mandrin (Fr) and the work there of Ludovic Slimak and team. You might spot a glimpse of me too - I have been lucky enough to work with them on the site chronology for several years. tinyurl.com/4uenwr7c

🌋📢 Calling all #tephra researchers! Join us in shaping this new JQS Special Issue. "Beyond the #Eruption – Advances and Applications in Distal Tephra Analysis Across the Geosciences" Deadline: 2 Jan 2026. Further details below: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/page/journal...

Visiting a friend from my @oxfordtephra.bsky.social days and here’s the cup my morning coffee came in! #tephratastic

Serious holiday club envy this week. I’d like a few days around Wandlebury’s hill fort making dens and climbing trees please. Still, the drop-off strolls have been a nice way to bracket the days.

📢PIK is hiring: Earth Resilience Analyst ⁉️postdoc to explore planetary resilience, tipping points & planetary boundaries 🧪 Earth system/climate science 💻 HPC & modeling 📍 Potsdam | Start: 01.09 | Deadline: 20.07 🔗 potsdam.pi-asp.de/bewerber-web...

This is wonderful news!! Congratulations @martamlahr.bsky.social 🎉🍾

Our catmint earning its keep. I’m enjoying visits from our neighbourhood cats #caturday

Thanks to Alex Mattin [ www.wgtn.ac.nz/antarctic/ab... ] for visiting yesterday and giving a fascinating talk about his search for tephra from the ~25 kyr Ōruanui eruption in Antarctic ice cores!

Last Tues we were celebrating @jinheum.bsky.social’s PhD viva 🥳 Many thanks to examiners @harrietallengeog.bsky.social @simon-blockley.bsky.social for your wisdom & support. Jinheum also had a paper out [https://doi.org/10.1002/jqs.3730] & starts a postdoc in 2 weeks. Congratulations Jinheum!

Q. Can I use my child as a scale in multiple lectures for the same module if they were taken 4 years apart?

CoT is seeking nominations for our executive and hosts for the next Tephra Conference (2028). Interested? Questions? Check out the flyer. Nominations are open until April 30. @iavcei.bsky.social @oxfordtephra.bsky.social @camtephra.bsky.social @tephrotastic.bsky.social @tephraportal.bsky.social 🧪🌋⚒️

Bad news for Heard Island as the US imposes a 10% tariff on its main export - windborne glaciovolcanic tephra. This is viewed as a boost for local Alaskan and Cascadia sources. Particularly serious implications for very fine grain sizes as the crypto(tephra) market is volatile at the best of times.

Welcome to the Blue @livlumlab.bsky.social 👋

When you’re just about to teach a topic (today!) and a new paper pops up. I’ve got some quick reading to do… www.science.org/doi/abs/10.1...

Ha! Those were the days! Tell me, how far have you run for a rock? ⚒️🪨🏃‍♀️

The amount of sea ice currently on our planet continues to set new record lows for this time of year... More visuals at zacklabe.com/global-sea-i.... Data from @nsidc.bsky.social for the satellite-era period.

Mer de Glace from Signal Forbes 😰 1st Sept. 1995 | 14th Oct. 2024 Not even 30 years... 😱 The 1970-80s were marked by few positive MB years 1995 was the peak of the subsequent re-advance at MdG 2024 is just another year on the path of anthropogenic glacier demise 🔥 1995 pic by @HayakawaYukio 🙏

I’ve been adding slowly to my #Quaternary science starter pack but aware lots have joined since I made it. It is (not accidentally) biased toward female scientists, so in case you need to diversify your follows, take a look! Keep sending suggestions - I’m happy to add you/them. go.bsky.app/71XJ4jH

If you are interested in #modelling in #ecology and #paleoecology, my MEE live! " #tidysdm: tidy Species Distribution Models in R" is now available online! ▶️ www.youtube.com/watch?v=4InG... Paper: doi.org/10.1111/2041... Thanks @methodsinecoevol.bsky.social, @britishecolsoc.bsky.social!

I have sad reasons to review some nice book passages this week. Here’s one that always reminds me of being ridiculed for shouting “look at that rock!” far too often on many road trips… John McPhee, Basin and Range (1980)

Hello and great to see so many people already here! For those I haven't met yet, I am Max Van Wyk de Vries, Assistant Prof in Natural Hazards in Cambridge - here for the discussion on hazard, risk management, remote sensing, and all things science. More about what we do here: www.comhaz.com/home

Excited to share our latest research published in @science.org #ScienceAdvances! 🎉 We've discovered the Laacher See eruption 🌋 in a speleothem from Germany, which allows to synchronize European and Greenland Late Glacial climate change. Read more: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... A Thread ⬇️⬇️ 1/n

Too many balls in the air & mostly admin coloured. So, a 5 min focus on what I look forward to this term: 1. Introducing 1st years to Quaternary 🦣 2. Sneaking onto Matt Osman’s fieldtrip to @bas.ac.uk 🧊 3. Long overdue Ar-results from @isotopesuk.bsky.social 🗓️ 🤞 4. Biking home in the light 🚲☀️

Just <week left to apply for a @official-uom.bsky.social Bicentenary PhD studentship, hosted in Geography, within Faculty of Humanities: Down by the river: reconstructing environmental conditions at two stone age archaeological sites along the former Tsondab River in the Namib Sand Sea.

Graduate students in paleoclimatology! Want to spend 2 weeks this summer in the gorgeous eastern Sierra of California at paleoCAMP (Paleoclimate Training in Climate Archives, Models, and Proxies) 2025? Apply before January 10th! paleoclimate.camp

You'd think that a volcanic eruption powerful enough to cool the climate would be easy to find. But for nearly 200 years scientists have searched for the "mystery volcano" that erupted in 1831. Recently, ash and debris in ice cores led researchers to a likely candidate in the Kuril Islands 🧪

Are you interested in understanding the links between climate change, vegetation, and wildfires? Would you enjoy working with computers? I am hiring paid interns and graduate students: jedokaplan.github.io/opportunities/ Look forward to hearing from you!

The Cambridge Tephra Lab wishes you all a Tephratastic new year!

The Cambridge Botanic Gardens Lights 2024 - last year we missed it because of high winds and it was definitely worth the wait.

Sediment sending me some love while sieving for #tephra 🤎🥺

This on-line lecture, reviewing our work on Late Glacial and Mesolithic landscapes of the Cairngorms, Scotland is TONIGHT (7.30pm, Irish Time) - see below for links and sign ups.

This is why I’m loving bluesky. I might never have know about this👇 and now I have a reason to visit Andover Museum.

The hours I’ve spent picking up pebbles on those Sussex beaches… Looking forward to visiting the (incredible) Worthing Museum for a peek at this find.

Getting soaked on the way into work was not the start I needed to motivate me for the final geography fieldtrip of term 🥾💦

Enjoyable afternoon at the Cambridge Centre for Climate Science Winter Symposium today. Especially nice to see recent MPhil graduates (now PhD students) Mengyao Du and Chung Yan Fu presenting their research.

Some Monday morning wonder at the simple things in life. Carbonate-rich clay under dilute HCl with sound effects by the Cambridge Quaternary Geographers. Sound on!

The cores we collected at Cranberry Rough a couple of weeks ago saw the light again today so that our Cambridge Geography students could discover what’s hidden inside the peat. Today they looked at macrofossils, pollen and tephra as well has having a go at Troels-Smith descriptions 🌍🔬

Respect. This may be the first time my interest has been piqued by a cricket fact! This is one #tephratastic trophy 🤩🌋🏏

Had to go a way back in my photos to contribute to #standingstonesunday but enjoying it, so wanted to join in. Finally I found one of @palaeostefan.bsky.social enjoying having fun at Avebury.

Hear that? 🔊 It's the sounds of the world's largest iceberg. This is from new album 'The Seventh Continent' - the latest from soundsofspacep.bsky.social From burping seals to crunching snow, it's an aural Antarctic journey, mixing field recordings from BAS' Kat Turner with new music by Kim Cunio.

If you’re in East Anglia (UK) and a bit of a Quaternary geek, check out “The Stone Index” by Mike Burgess, where he has compiled a incredible list of glacial erratics, standing stones and other “odd boulders” (1/1). www.hiddenea.com/stoneindex.htm

This is the Archaeology PDRA post associated with the RESPECT project working with me - closing date 21st November, looking for a good wetland archaeologist/palaeoecologist who can work with both datasets in an interdisciplinary environment 2/3 www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DKM419/i...

School teachers - if your school is a member of the Royal Geographical Society then you & your students can attend my lecture on glaciers and climate change next week for free! www.rgs.org/events/upcom... #geographyteacher #glaciers #climatechange

⚠️Our new #research about past fuels for #fires 🌳 🔥 in southeastern #Australia is out today ! Shrub cover declined as Indigenous populations expanded across southeast Australia: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...