As an AI skeptic, I gave @anthropic.com's "Claude for Education" chatbot a try and was fairly impressed. It held its own on topics I'm deeply familiar with, made few errors (accepting correction when it did), and pointed me to new sources of information. It's probably better than a google search.

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.

We are running a session at Goldschmidt 2025 conference in Prague this July on biogeochemical processes in extreme environments. Abstract submissions are open until Feb 26th and we are particularly interested in seeing work re: #polarscience #polarchemistry and #polarmicrobiology

"For every family to earn a living wage, employers would need to pay at least $1.9 trillion more in wages and salaries. But in 2023, only $77 billion of all American charitable dollars went toward so-called human service organizations such as food banks and shelters." www.nytimes.com/2025/02/03/o...

My Youtube feed decided to add Woody Guthrie's "Tear The Fascists Down" to my playlist. Wonder why...

Does anybody know how many federal employees are being put on administrative leave today and what their roles actually entail? Or is it simply up to each agency to decide this based on the executive order? None of the reporting I've seen clarifies this.

Trump's sabre rattling over Greenland utterly disregards the United States' scientific mission there. Our work depends on the goodwill of the people of Greenland. The government of Greenland is highly supportive of science, happy to help around permits, etc. All of this could easily change.

Happy Chrismannukah-Tsangkhapa Day to those that celebrate.

Is there a geochemical test that could distinguish a 1,500 year old inscription form a <150 year old one? Cosmo perhaps, but it would be tricky... www.nytimes.com/2024/12/18/u...

In light of recent events, I thought I might do a thread on how the health insurance system works in the United States. Those without lived experience of this system, often fail to understand how uniquely awful it is and the visceral hatred it inspires. 1/18

In light of recent events, I thought I might do a thread on how the health insurance system works in the United States. Those without lived experience of this system, often fail to understand how uniquely awful it is and the visceral hatred it inspires. 1/18

DAERA Studentships: If you want to do a PhD on Net Zero type solutions in agriculture, forestry, or land management and are a citizen or "settled" resident of the UK or Ireland, please get in touch. www.nidirect.gov.uk/articles/dae...

Do you do "polar observation and modelling"? Do you want a permanent academic job helping lead the UK Centre for Polar Observation and Modelling? Do want to live in cheery Newcastle upon Tyne? Do want to work in our very collegial and collaborative department? Is so, this is the job for you!

There's something very heroic in the image of the Korean legislatures jumping fences and evading armed guards to break into their national assembly and vote down the autogolpe. Cheers to the people of Korea and their defense of democracy!

My pet peeve is the invention of bespoke abbreviations in the scientific literature. If you write something like "In conclusion, our PCoA shows NEP in the SO is limited by SO-CD.", you will face my wrath...

In Mongolian this site could be called Хөх, which means bluesky (or in certain contexts, sky-blue). This is the first component in the name Хөх хот (Bluesky Town), the capital of Inner Mongolia.

I wish I could write "abstruse essays that, like, occasionally reference 'the social' or 'performativity' or something". But I'm stuck here doing science. Too bad.

I hope they include duergar habitat in the restoration... www.theguardian.com/environment/...

My pet peeve is the invention of bespoke abbreviations in the scientific literature. If you write something like "In conclusion, our PCoA shows NEP in the SO is limited by SO-CD.", you will face my wrath...

Where does the CO2 actually go during enhanced rock weathering? Good question, right? If you want a post-doc studying this at Oxford with Bob Hilton, apply now!

A beautiful selection of soils from Doddington North Moor, where @northumbriauni.bsky.social students are studying the carbon cycle. Will soil carbon increase or decrease as the trees mature at this Northumberland afforestation site?