Learning how to sample peat - I think I may stick to river water 😅

After a couple of days of pretty bad weather we’ve been treated to some perfect field conditions today - can’t believe this is northern Scotland! #peat #methane

Back in the bogs for some RIV-ESCAPE fieldwork! Happy place. @profbobhilton.bsky.social

❄️ Want to do a PhD in the Arctic? ‼️ The University Centre in Svalbard (UNIS) is hiring 5 PhD candidates across Arctic science fields! 🧊 Work at the frontlines of climate & cryosphere research 📍 Svalbard, Norway 🔗 www.unis.no/about/positi...

New job! Please RP! 🥼🧪 ⚒️ Laboratory Manager (gr8, permanent) @oxfordgeography.bsky.social Leading the Geolabs, with cutting edge facilities in water #geochemistry, #ecosystem science, #eDNA, luminescence Apply by 13 March or please get in touch with any Qs my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecru...

“Shoogly” ground in the peat bogs up on the Moelwynion yesterday. In my happy place 🐸

This International Day of Women and Girls in Science, we celebrate the talented, trailblazing women who we have the honour of working with every day here at Oxford Earth Sciences 🌏 #IDWGS #WomenInScience @ox.ac.uk @mplsoxford.bsky.social

Today is World Wetlands Day! This year’s focus is on the cultural heritage and traditional knowledge these landscapes provide: www.worldwetlandsday.org Sundew pic from Hebrides fieldwork last year 🌸 #worldwetlandsday #peatlands

There's a current lack of good documentaries & series in Cymru/Wales which celebrate & investigate Welsh prehistory & early history - to match the excellent English- or dual-language wildlife, landscape and modern history documentaries. More work needed I think...🤔 www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

💦World Wetlands Day 2026 #WWD2026 is celebrated on 2nd February. This year it focuses on the cultural heritage of wetlands, so we'll be looking at how our #peatlands are linked to our cultural identity and their importance to past and present ways of life 😊

In a similar vein as the “don’t cite a paper you didn’t read” article earlier, I quite like Stephen’s take here on AI for writing. I *could* ask AI to read papers for me, I *could* ask it to draft my text, but I choose not to, because the process IS the point. Even - especially! - when it’s hard.

One of my favourite recent finds and a very cool crossover between science and folklore: www.pnas.org/doi/full/10.... 🧚‍♀️🫧 #methane #wetlands

New funded PhD opportunity on large-scale export of aquatic carbon from peatlands: yes-dtn.ac.uk/research/lar... Join an amazing group of peatland researchers at the University of Leeds. Project supervised by me, Paul Morris, Jiren Xu (Glasgow), Taylor Maavara (Cary). Deadline 7 January 2026

🌎 Funded PhD Opportunity | @acce-dla.bsky.social **The carbon drain: quantifying carbon removal from peatlands and forests by rivers in the Peruvian Amazon**

We are extending the deadline until November 09 for submissions to the #2026PeatECRcalendar. Send us your best #wildlife photos in #peatlands and other #wetlands. Include the coordinates, peatland and animal name, some information about your project. Email to [email protected]

Last one from Arctic fieldwork on Svalbard, promise… @profbobhilton.bsky.social

A few more from our recent Svalbard fieldwork 🫧 what an incredible place.

Bringing you today’s #bogbrunch from Svalbard - maybe permafrost picnic is more suitable? 🏔️🫧 @oxuniearthsci.bsky.social #ch4 #co2

Really fantastic @goldschmidt-confer.bsky.social #Goldschmidt2025 conference in Prague! Thanks @eageo.bsky.social Some 🧪🥼⚒️ highlights #greenhouse gases in rivers & lakes; timescales of #water and element #storage in catchments; #enhancedweathering state of play; closing the geological #C budget.

Today is #WorldPeatlandsDay! 🌎 These amazingly boggy ecosystems are threatened by human pressures/climate change, but international/interdisciplinary awareness and collaboration is helping to mitigate this. Pics from Riv-Escape fieldwork on Isle of Lewis, April 2025

bsssjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.... not sure if I should use the #PeatTwitter tag on here but there we go

A positive step for #peatland #conservation in England - you can’t protect something you can’t measure 🗺️ naturalengland.blog.gov.uk/2025/05/12/a...

Back on the Isle of Lewis searching for #methane with @RivEscape! 🫧

Back in the Highlands for the annual #Assynt pilgrimage with @oxuniearthsci.bsky.social 😁