We are looking for a four-year funded PhD student position in extreme-weather prediction using AI/ML at the University of Manchester (@officialuom.bsky.social). I am pleased to be part of the supervisory team with Prof Richard Allmendinger and Dr Michele Caprio. www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

Hey meteorologists! University of Wyoming upgraded their upper-air sounding web site for more stability. www.weather.uwyo.edu/upperair/sou... Big thanks!

Today in our Scotland fieldwork - we looked at pyroclastics in the Glencoe Caldera, and the lovely instrusions cutting across these. Look at how this dyke changes direction halfway through! We also had some pretty good views.. 🧪⚒️

Today's fieldwork was mostly setting up things for tomorrow... But check out this folded quartzite bed in a schist. If you look closely, you can see original cross bedding within the fold! 🤩 ⚒️🧪

Today in the @uom-ees.bsky.social field course, our students started mapping. They met these lovely structures - boudins -in which a quartz bed was stretched and split into segments that look like a string of sausages. ⚒️🧪

Yesterday and today have been an absolute treat in terms of both rocks and views for the @uom-ees.bsky.social geologists. The former has focussed on trying to understand large scale refolded folds, helped by obersvations small scale strucctures - such as those shown below ⚒️🧪

Today we switched our @uom-ees.bsky.social fieldtrip to older rocks - we are now in the highlands! The students got aquainted with the Moine today, and identified at least two episodes of folding, in what were sediments deposited over 800 million years ago! 🤩 🧪⚒️

Day four of the @uom-ees.bsky.social field trip to Scotland saw the students doing compass and pace maps of sediments and volcanoclasic rocks at St Monans. And it saw me finding some gorgeous cross bedding. There were dovecots, castles, and churches too. 🧪⚒️

Day three of the @uom-ees.bsky.social field course, and today we had imprints of big bits of ~320 million year old tree! Roots! Corals! Amazing burrows! ~320 million years ago, this part of Scotland was cycling between marine and terrestrial environments, creating packets of repeating s ⚒️🧪

And a second glorious day in the @uom-ees.bsky.social field trip to Scotland. Today, Carboniferous sediments in Pittenweem! Is that a lateral channel migration cutting into floodplain deposits? Some cheeky roots too. ⚒️🧪

We had gorgeous weather yesterday for the first day of the @uom-ees.bsky.social Scotland field course. We saw igenous rocks - here is the the Rock and Spindle, St Andrews - a >300 million year old volcanic vent. ⚒️🧪

Really excited to promote our former PhD student Shengnan Fu's work on building a county-level urban flood database by text-mining news media reports (2000–2022). @zhonghuazheng.bsky.social, Heng Lyu, Chi Zhang, @uom-ees.bsky.social hess.copernicus.org/articles/29/...

Do giraffes struggle with food shortages in the dry season or do their long necks give them an advantage? @uom-ees.bsky.social PhD student @jgranweiler.bsky.social @susanneshultz.bsky.social joins #NEOF to sequence #giraffe faecal samples & uncover how seasonality impacts diet🦒🌿

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Congratulations to Eve Gruntfest for her Mentorship Award from @ametsoc.bsky.social. Eve was an important influence early in my career, encouraging me and supporting me in the growing realization that meteorologists needed social scientists to help improve forecasts. A well deserved award! #AMS2025

The SSI have announced 4 talks and a two-day workshop for social science researchers in Feb & Mar! Topics include software & practices for researchers, with a focus on early-career scientists. @uomsoss.bsky.social

For #FossilFriday meet something of a rarity - a fossil centipede. Like last week's fossil, this is a macerate - the remains of an animal dissolved out of a rock using strong acid. The fossil, called Devonobius, is from NY state, and is around 385 million years old. Isn't it cool? 🤩 ⚒️🧪🦀🦑 #evosky

ANNOUNCED: The University of Manchester and Bupa have launched an innovative new collaboration to drastically reduce the healthcare sector’s environmental impact on our planet 🌍 www.manchester.ac.uk/about/news/u...

Congratulations to Professor Gary Younge, who has been named as the recipient of a prestigious Robert B. Silvers Award, in recognition of his exceptional contribution to the field of journalism 📰🎉 Read more about Professor Younge and the award below 👇 www.manchester.ac.uk/about/news/m...

This has been most useful in learning to read Skew-T plots 😂

❄️ Let it snow, let it snow, let it snow ❄️ The @newscientist.bsky.social recently visited the University's Ice Cloud Chamber, in a quest to create the world's largest snowflake. Watch the video below to see Professor Paul Connolly form snow crystals from scratch 🌨️ www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ycal...

As 2024 draws to a close, it’s time to reflect on the incredible accomplishments we’ve achieved over the past year at UoM 🐝💜 Join us in revisiting some of the standout news headlines from our unforgettable year in The Review of Year 2024! www.manchester.ac.uk/about/news/t...

Hello Bluesky, from this corner of the world. From this account we'll be posting about the Earth and Environmental Sciences happening at @official-uom.bsky.social