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.

Multiple positions (PhD and postdoc) available at Durham university, (co)advised by me. If interested in any of these, feel free to DM or email me for more info. Otherwise please share with any motivated ECRs in your network!

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.

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