In a new #BSSA paper, scientists explore the Zougahana fault, which ruptured during the 2016 Kumamoto earthquake sequence on Japan’s Kyushu Island. ⚒️ buff.ly/mjBAZjW

Two new faculty openings at U. Minnesota 🧪 Assist. Prof. in Climate Science hr.myu.umn.edu/jobs/ext/372... Questions: Tim Griffis, [email protected] Assist. Prof. in Soil Physics / Ecohydrology / Hydropedology hr.myu.umn.edu/jobs/ext/372... Questions: David Mulla, [email protected] Due March 13

We are seeking a 3+ year postdoc in ocean modelling, to work on an exciting project investigating underwater tsunamis in Antarctica. More about the project here: www.polomints.ac.uk Read more about the post here: lnkd.in/eBjndZPv Please share and help connect us with the best candidates!

The most recent PMIP WINGS is up with a couple of interesting talks. Takashi Obase compared a number of simulations of the last deglaciation to investigate the Southern Ocean climate, and Zhengyao Lu presented on the changing duration of ENSO cyles in the Holocene. www.youtube.com/watch?v=pdw_...

Check out our new paper that establishes the timing of the enormous Aso-3 caldera forming eruption and dispersal across Japan 🇯🇵🌋🔎

As we settle into 2026, we're taking a look back at all the papers published in 2025. Let's have a look at the stats!

Working on a story for Science about cuts to Canada's government researchers and labs. If you are affected by this please reach out (either on here or via my website). Anonymity is an option. 🧪

Become our colleague! The University of Lethbridge is hiring a Canada Impact+ Research Chair (Professor/Associate Professor) in Remote Sensing! Only candidates who are both working and residing outside of Canada, incl. Canadian expats, are eligible to apply. uleth.peopleadmin.ca/postings/8951

We are proud to unveil the world’s longest underwater timelapse, starting May 1st 2023 and running 1,000 days through January 28, 2026. This 10fps period covers summer 2023’s coral bleaching mortality event, but then recovering and growing through ‘24 & ‘25 into ‘26 #coralcitycamera

👏 Heroic effort to extract a H₂ record from ice cores 👏 The samples had to measured in the field immediately after drilling (i.e. fresh out the oven 🥮) to prevent the tiny H₂ molecules from leaking out. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Their refusal to share data and code notwithstanding, we roughly reproduce Voortman & de Vos. They underpower their analysis and misread a statistical procedure. Correcting that, we find that sea level rise DID accelerate. essopenarchive.org/doi/full/10....

Read Section 5.2. You will not be disappointed. I swear it. pubs.rsc.org/en/content/a...

While I tend to identify more with paleontology, I was always the faculty member assigned to teach sed/strat. So, let's take a look at some sedimentary structures associated with the Sturtian glaciation! ⚒️🧪🧊 This just dropped, and I have a bunch of relevant pics. 🧵

This is a great video on speciation after the Chicxulub impact, well worth watching. Video here: www.linkedin.com/posts/geolog... Credit @geosociety.bsky.social youtube.com/@geogirl Paper: pubs.geoscienceworld.org/gsa/geology/... 🧪⚒️🦴🧬

A suite of benthic δ18O stacks intended as updates to the LR04 has been published. We compiled new data, updated the chronology, and provided regional stacks. gchron.copernicus.org/articles/8/8...

🕑 Geochronology (GChron) Pleistocene benthic δ18O stacks & age models doi.org/10.5194/gchr... ⛅ Weather and Climate Dynamics (WCD) Tropospheric response to asymmetric momentum torques doi.org/10.5194/wcd-...

I managed to get the right deal and now have a new laptop. I have more or less been exclusively using Ubuntu for the past 12 years, but the whole Snap updating system really annoys me. I am considering a change. Years ago, I used Linux Mint (I still use Cinnamon), but I was wondering how it is now?

📢 Postdoctoral Opportunity – Late Quaternary Paleoceanography 🌊 🐚 ⚒️ Patrick Grunert’s working group is inviting applications for a full-time, fixed-term postdoctoral position (20 months). 🗓️ Application deadline: 15 February 2026 More info here - jobportal.uni-koeln.de/bewerben/247...

Selby et al present some new Holocene sea level indicators from the Isle of Mull in western Scotland. Relative sea level was a few meters above present for most of the Holocene. doi.org/10.1002/jqs....

We're hiring a full-time technician to support radiocarbon analyses. If you have some experience with analytical instruments and background in chemistry, earth sciences, archaeology, and/or ecology, this could be the job for you! arizona.csod.com/ux/ats/caree...

Antarctic ice sheet folk, I'm looking for a Postdoctoral Fellow in Antarctic Ice Sheet Reconstruction [readvertised] for a 3.5yr appointment in Tasmania. Very flexible start date! Join our new team, figuring out what is happening and what may happen in East Antarctica. 1/4 ❄️

🚨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...

New study: Volcanism-induced collapse and recovery of the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation under glacial conditions - meaning a very big volcanic eruption could push the already-unstable #AMOC past its tipping point #climatecrisis www.science.org/doi/full/10....

Li et al investigate a pollen record from a sediment core from the southeastern East China Sea shelf. The results imply that the shelf was largely exposed during MIS 4 and 2, but resubmerged to an extent in MIS 3. doi.org/10.1016/j.qu...

White and Johnson collect a number of isolation basin cores from Hinchinbrook Island in Prince William Sound, Alaska, to investigate a potential late glacial sea level highstand. They find evidence of highstand of at least 125 m, though this was dated to the middle Holocene. doi.org/10.1016/j.qu...

Extremely excited to share that my first paper “Evaluating CMIP6 models for near-surface air temperature over Antarctic Ice Shelves” is published in the Journal of Glaciology! The first paper is always the hardest. Excited to continue investigating Antarctic ice shelf vulnerability!

I do appreciate what the Carney government is doing in terms of transitioning Canada away from relying on American trade, but you see things like these cuts to federal science, and you can't help but think that Carney is better aligned as a short-sighted Conservative. www.cbc.ca/radio/whaton...

I strongly suspected that a student is using AI to create some tectonic diagrams of the 2011 Tohoku Earthquake, so I used Copilot to make one. This is the first time I have used one of these AI things, is it always this laughably bad?

here is the link www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

2 new papers by Cooper, Armour & co use past climates, from the Last Glacial Maximum 21,000 yrs ago & the Pliocene 2.6-5.3 million yrs ago, to infer that the planet will warm about 3 degrees C for a doubling of CO2 as a best estimate for present day. doi.org/10.1126/scia... doi.org/10.1073/pnas...

It is exams week in Japan (at least at the university I am at). One down, three to go.

If you're interested in how ice sheets respond to climate, particularly over very long timescales, you might be interested in our new (open access) paper: www.nature.com/articles/s43...

A shout out for Quaternary researchers - registration and abstracts are open for the 2026 Australasian Quaternary Association conference. Come to UNSW Sydney in July. Details are here: aqua.org.au/conference/a... Abstract deadline: 28 Feb.

Ok, positive scientific thing (for a change): We're going to talk about the work of Yale seismologist Maureen Long, because her work is focused on the most direct evidence of mantle flow and convection we can get. Her career essentially defines our direct knowledge of mantle flow.

⚒️ Article: South Pacific carbon uptake controlled by West Antarctic Ice Sheet dynamics @icbm-uol.bsky.social @awi.de @climate.columbia.edu @lamont.columbia.edu @gisela-winckler.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s41...

⚒️ Article: Proxy records from Lake Baikal show that rapid cooling coincided with northern hemisphere ice sheet expansion 2.7 million years ago, a change accompanied by a transition to open steppe ecosystems www.nature.com/articles/s41...

One of the most surprising things I've learned from my research is that "how hot it's gotten so far" doesn't tell us much about "how hot it's going to get eventually". Long-ago, really weird climates can tell us a lot more about where we're headed.

Recent assessments have found the last glacial maximum implies a climate sensitivity of 2.4C (1.4C to 5.0C): www.science.org/doi/... And the Pliocene implies a sensitivity of 3.1C (2.3C to 4.7C): www.pnas.org/doi/10.... Paleoclimate evidence generally provides the strongest constraint on high ECS.

New paper out, possibly one of the most tedious projects of my life... it's working name was Project ARDUOUS and boy howdy did it live up to its name 🧪🏺 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

geoign/Geoscience_Figures: My original scientific figures for Geosciences github.com/geoign/Geosc... Adobe Illustrator .ai file is also available for editing. CC BY-NC 4.0 License.

I just received this email that notified me that a paper I am coauthor on was just published. It is, I checked! However, this email is 100% a fishing email, which luckily Thunderbird notified me when I clicked on the DOI it provided. Has anyone else had something like this happen?

The whole "sandgate" thing that happened yesterday on Bluesky was pretty fun. I wrote a blog post with some deeper thoughts on this, and why it is important for scientists to have humility. raisedbeaches.net/2026/01/29/s...

The whole "sandgate" thing that happened yesterday on Bluesky was pretty fun. I wrote a blog post with some deeper thoughts on this, and why it is important for scientists to have humility. raisedbeaches.net/2026/01/29/s...

Wrote a thing for RTE Brainstorm! When Does Spring Begin? February or March? In the article I touch on how Ireland's unique geography and climate result in a battle of light versus warmth in shaping our perceptions and definitions of the beginning of Spring.

I also spoke to RTE News at One yesterday on what an Early Warning Flood System for Ireland would look like. This morning, they've also turned that into a Brainstorm article!

Here is a picture of me in front of a bunch of sand from a beach ridge in Caleta Olivia, Argentina. It formed during a period of higher-than-present sea level, possibly in MIS 7. We published a paper on this sand last year if you want to know more. #sand www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

We talkin’ bout sand!!! Have to love the versatility of sand. Here is some interglacial sand overlain by till deposited during the Wisconsinan advance, Churchill River, HBL.

Just to add to the sand discourse, this is a beach composed of black slag sand. This is located on Inujima (Dog Island) in Japan, near an abandoned smelter.

The "sand-gate" thing is probably the best and most amusing thing to happen on Bluesky in some time. It really brings out the joys of science. This place has generally been pretty bleak recently. I can understand that, but as a non-American I question whether I will continue to log in.

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