Lots of offshore Quaternary talks today, and an inspiring keynote from Professor Becky Briant on the benefits that Quaternary scientists can deliver during ground engineering design: if any of this floats your boat (sic), we're hiring at Wessex Archaeology share.google/MbXadGnfgrLB... #QRA2026ADM

Couldn’t be happier to see Phil Barker win the QRA Croll Medal today. He ended his thanks with some wise words: “Collaboration is better than competition to advance Quaternary Science”. Thanks Phil for all the wisdom and guidance you’ve shared with so many 👏👏 #QRA2026ADM

👀 A postdoc position working with the incredible @fegbutcher.bsky.social on Martian glaciology! (prepping my CV right away 🤩🤩)

Enjoyed every word of Dr @abistone.bsky.social ‘s Wiley Lecture today at Day 1 of #QRA2026ADM in Brighton. On a cold winter’s day she took us to the warmth of the Namib to search for ancient hominin landscapes.

#QRA2026ADM is go!

Jennifer Ward Oppenheimer Professorship of the Deep History & Archaeology of Africa- University of Cambridge - Department of Archaeology #skystorians 🗃️www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DPP065/j...

My end of year brain cannot find a caption for this image that I took when I’d borrowed these awesome 3D printed pollen grains from Matthew @conservepalaeolab.bsky.social, but it’s begging for a joke about modeling and scale in Quaternary Science. Your suggestions?

👀 Postdoctoral position in radiocarbon dating and Bayesian modelling at the Department of Archaeology and Heritage Studies @auarcher.bsky.social international.au.dk/about/profil...

Given what we all work in, it has to be “a core of geographers”!

Seeking a strong applicant for Aberystwyth University PhD Funding scheme 'AberDoc', on the topic: 'Novel biogenic carbonates for luminescence dating of the entire Quaternary period'. Our lab also welcomes PhD applications for other luminescence dating projects for the same AberDoc funding round.

Suffolk ploughsoil is rich in far-travelled wonders. One could teach a geology course using just one field in Gislingham! Thanks @megwildflowers.bsky.social for specimen cutting & pictures. Perhaps some from Charnwood @charnwoodforest.bsky.social, others from Scotland.

A wooded multi-channel #chalkstream in a Norfolk (eastern England) military training area that has avoided tidying & dredging. Lots of fallen wood & bankside trees. Sparkling gravel patches, sands & leaf packs. Crystal clear waters fed by healthy local springs. Everything we have lost & want back

Does anyone else feel they are just too disorganised for their jobs? Why does sorting field kit and printing handouts fill so much time? 🤯 Maybe it’s just that point in term 🤷‍♀️

Hope no one is hurt. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...

@geographicalassoc.bsky.social @rgsibg.bsky.social @rgs-ibghe.bsky.social @camunigeography.bsky.social

This year we’ve added #Geography to the @corpuscambridge.bsky.social Pelican Programme. Part of our widening participation package, the 6-month intensive PP is a great way to expand geographical skills and knowledge ahead of a university application. Find out more: www.corpus.cam.ac.uk/pelican

Celebrations in the PhD office as another fantastic @camunigeography.bsky.social student comes out of their viva smiling. Congratulations Ciara Greaves!! (and 10/10 for the tree ring cake🤩)

📢 Workshop CALL: Deep CHB (Addis Ababa, Ethiopia) Deep Chew Bahir Drilling Project WHEN 📆 June 30th – July 3rd, 2026 CALL ▶️ www.icdp-online.org/fileadmin/Ne... MORE INFO ℹ️ www.icdp-online.org/all-events/d...

Two weeks until our 2/12 PhD funding deadline! If you’re interested in a cryptotephra research project and joining @camtephra.bsky.social there’s still time drop me an email to discuss your ideas. Dept funding info: www.geog.cam.ac.uk/postgraduate... NERC DLA: nercdtp.esc.cam.ac.uk/StaffDirecto...

Exciting news! Student applications for paleoCAMP 2026 are open! Are you a graduate student working on any aspect of past climates or environments? Apply to be part of our 2-week summer school in the eastern Sierra Nevada! More details here: paleoclimate.camp/apply

Proud supervisor moment 🫶 Brilliant to see your paper published online @elowilkinsonrowe.bsky.social

Fun finds in our sediment labs today. @camunigeography.bsky.social

Signs of a good day in the field with the Quaternary students from @camunigeography.bsky.social 🌍

This week with our 2nd year @camunigeography.bsky.social students we’ve been learning about varve lake sediments and what they’ve revealed about abrupt climate change. It’s been fun! Here is a peek at some diatomaceous varves in the Lake Chala cores from Kenya/Tanzania. Enjoy…

Abstract submission is open for #EGU2026! Join our session ESSI3.6 "From Principles to Practice: Multidisciplinary Approaches to Data-Driven Tephra Research." Share your multidisciplinary research, workflows, best practices, and cyberinfrastructure. meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/EGU26/sessio...

Anyone else have happy feet today? 🍂

Thank goodness for the @camunigeography.bsky.social first-year trip to Breckland. The best place to escape my avalanching inbox at this point in the term. Heading back happily tomorrow for round three… 🌍

Welcome to all our Geography students — undergraduate and postgraduate, new and returning! As we begin the academic year, we look forward to the department once again buzzing with energy, ideas, and curiosity.

Show students where geography can take them! I’m a Geographer, supported by @rgsibg.bsky.social, highlights how geography is used in real jobs. If you use geography in your work and have a post-16 geography qualification, apply here 👉 imageographer.uk/signup/c/

Last week PhD student @yqnatdeng.bsky.social and @chslane.bsky.social were sampling cores from an Ethiopian lake…in Aberystwyth! Here’s hoping there’s lots of ancient cryptotephra to be found! #tephratastic

Hey ice-sheet modellers! 👋 The next Ice Sheet Model Intercomparison Project (ISMIP) workshop will be hosted in Copenhagen (at GEUS) 23-25 March 2026. Details to follow! Learn more about ISMIP at: www.ismip.org

This from last year’s Quaternary Climates and Environments sediments practical class still makes my day 🥼⚒️🌍

Spent #fieldworkfriday in sunny Dartmoor extracting an exquisite peat sequence 😻

📢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 🧪🌋⚒️