Work Outlook just popped with a reminder "Strike All day Tomorrow". Guess it's time to sign off...

Why migrant members support our industrial dispute @ucunorthumbria.bsky.social

This really cool! Contemporaneous with the early editions of The Little Red Songbook.

I dreamt last night that the peninsula had fallen off Antarctica into the Southern Ocean and I jumped off the continent into the freezing water to unsuccessfully try and save it. And this is this first post I see on bluesky in the morning. How odd.

The Russians also refused to use the word "war" when invading Ukraine: www.nytimes.com/2026/03/05/u...

It was a very wet January here in the Northeast - persistent weather from the East rather than the West as usual:

Can somebody with expertise in ancient history do a take down of this utter nonsense from the @nytimes.com? Yes ancient Judaism does humanise the oppressed, but so did other ancient societies. @bretdevereaux.bsky.social @fakehistoryhunter.net www.nytimes.com/2026/02/11/o...

🚨job opportunity🚨 Durham is advertising 3-year fellowships (any field). We are very keen to hear from Antarctic/Cryo people who might be interested in joining a great group. The positions come with some travel & research funds. See here for details or get in touch www.durham.ac.uk/research/ins...

The non-academic clusters relatively close to "Earth and Climate Scientists" are "Board Game Community", "Travel Bloggers and Content Creators", and "Gothic Industrial Music Community". "British Craft Beer Community" isn't that far either. Somehow it jives.

Cold deserts are dominated by physical weathering, not chemical weathering, you say? Check out new work in @geosociety.bsky.social Bulletin showing evidence for aluminosilicate weathering in Antarctic #wetlands & #groundwater. doi.org/10.1130/B386... ⚒️🧪❄️🧪💧🧪 Starring @colgate.edu student scientists!

We're looking for a postdoctoral research associate to measure Greenland meltwater using Cryoeggs and seismometers. Join our dream team, apply here by 9 Feb: www.bristol.ac.uk/jobs/find/de... Job ID ACAD108442 #glaciologyjobs

איר קענט אונדז דערמאָרדן, טיראַנען, נײַע קעמפֿער װעט ברענגען די צײַט; און מיר קעמפֿן, מיר קעמפֿן ביז װאַנען די גאַנצע װעלט װעט וערן באַפֿרײַט.

What do you do if your employer says you will have to forgo any future pay rise unless you give you your pension? Strike, obviously.

This is what is happening in my country. The United States is not a free society while this continues: www.nytimes.com/2026/01/21/o...

Kalaallit Nunaat kalaallit pigaat!

This is utterly horrifying. Armed, masked agents breaking down the doors of an elderly man's home and dragging him out into the snow in his pajamas. America cannot be called the land of the free until this regime falls. (The person is a US citizen, incidentally.)

Today my 8-year-old asked me how big a mole of moles was. Assuming an average mole mass of 100 g, it would be about the weight of the moon, though around 3 times larger as moles have about the third of a the density of rock.

@ucunorthumbria.bsky.social members voting in local ballot to save pay and pensions...ends 23 Jan. Let's do this! @ucu.org.uk

I'm hiring! 3-year postdoc on an exciting new @royalsociety.org funded project on Martian glaciers @sheffielduni.bsky.social Advert: tinyurl.com/6rzzk5d4 Terrestrial folks encouraged to apply (e.g. GIS, glacier modelling, geomorphology, or deep learning) Closes 19th Jan. Queries via email.

Greenland is a peaceful democracy, and it belongs to Greenland's people!! "We have been America’s close and loyal friend for generations,” Greenland's democratically elected prime minister Jens-Frederik Nielsen stated today. "Enough is enough. ... Greenland is our home and our territory.”

#Whamaggedon @ucunorthumbria.bsky.social style.

I overlapped with all these things, except a typewriter. I didn't have an AOL address, because we had Juno instead. And I never had a walkman. Lots of kids did, but I never asked for / got one.

🚀Here is the current list of @northumbriauni.bsky.social, Lancaster University, @universityofleeds.bsky.social, Reading University and @bas.ac.uk Net Zero Polar Science DTP projects 👇 📅Deadline: 7 Jan 2026 nzps-dtp.ac.uk/nzps-project...

Yes, the computers are going to make us all redundant... (Narrator: The message was not in Welsh...)

This song rather captures how I feel about industrial action: www.youtube.com/watch?v=M32h...

If you could sign a petition supporting Northumbria University staff being forced out of their pensions by management, I'd really appreciate it.

This is what my employer is trying to do to us at Northumbria University.

I just discovered the whole "genre" of AI generated "vintage music". Apparently you can ask AI to make something that sounds like "1950s bad girl blues" or whatever and get something that could fool a lot of people, but really is nothing like the real thing.

2 Postdoc vacancies: Microbial dormancy in the cryosphere @erc.europa.eu #ERC_SIESTA 📢 PLEASE RT Experimental: 🧬 Single cell microbial activity measurements, flow cytometry, omics, biogeochem Modelling: 🖥️ Bioenergetics, thermodynamics, ecological, biogeochem ☀️ Marseille, France ‼️ Apply by 30 Sept

A recurring dream of mine is to be on a small beach by a coastal bluff as the waves get bigger and bigger, attempting to climb to safety but being ultimately swept away.

This and "oxidation" as a paragram solution to Tuesday's Spelling Bee makes me thing a geochemistry conference is just to place to be today.

This always drove me crazy when I attended protests in the USA. Why show up at a protest with a banner for the wrong cause? www.nytimes.com/2025/06/12/u...

Can anyone recommend a funding source for a small work package for AntarcticGlaciers focused on celebrating the role of women, indigenous peoples and minoritised people in arctic exploration? I am looking for £3-5k.

New job! Please repost - Post doc @oxuniearthsci.bsky.social on The Security of #CarbonDioxide Drawdown During #EnhancedRockWeathering Does downstream #carbonate formation happen? How? How much? How quick? Apply by 12 June my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecru...

I learned today that the some Greenlandic placenames combine both the -ssuaq affix for "large" and the -nngua affix for "small". Example: Kangerlussuannguaq, meaning Little Big Fjord. This name appears four times on the Oqaasileriffik maps, describing fjords that are short but wide. Cute!

For any early career scientists out there with interests in glaciology, oceanography and machine learning, Northumbria University's 'Future of Ice on Earth' research group is currently advertising a 3-year postdoc position you may want to look at! Please share with anyone who might be interested.

This song in my head for some reason: www.youtube.com/watch?v=xp1x...

Year-end scramble getting you down? ⏳ Applications for lots of our Antarctic #jobs are closing in the next week. They include vehicles manager at Halley, and Radio Operator and IT Engineer at Rothera Research Station. These are jobs unlike any other, in one of the most beautiful places on Earth ⬇️

This is utterly shocking

My former supervisor, Paul Bierman, on Greenland's natural resources: www.spiegel.de/internationa...

Anybody has access to recent very high resolution satellite imagery of Greenland. We want to know if a Ø22cm pipe is still sticking out of the ice at this location: 75.09714423N, 42.31992755W (5m uncertainty) Please help - it could save a lot of fuel (It is the NGRIP borehole casing)

Diversity is our Strength!

Anyone interested in a 2-year postdoc working on modelling ocean alkalinity enhancement and sediment feedbacks? It can be based in Paris or Aix-en-Provence. 🌊

14 days of strike action incoming at @newcastleucu.bsky.social 🚨 Newcastle vice-chancellor has put 300 jobs on the line. He now needs to stop going half way round the world during a staff travel ban & get back to the negotiating table.

Roses are red Violets are violet This use to rhyme Thanks reviewer two!

When I saw this, I assumed this was satire. Ladies and gentlemen, this is, in fact, not satire.

Essentially any street in Heaton, but with parked cars instead of zebra-striped metal bars.

Though the obvious one is Stalin, Joseph I (the 18th century emperor of Austria) ordered mass killings, torture, and mutilation of Romani people within Habsburg domains and certainly deserves to be erased.