Bronze and Iron Age farmers in the Middle East prioritised wine production over olive growing in times of climatic change. Researchers in our Department of Archaeology and @durhamearthsci.bsky.social analysed charred seeds and wood samples 👉 www.durham.ac.uk/news-events/...

Our sunflower experiment is coming along nicely. No clear relationship between soil amendment and growth yet. But I’m hypothesising we will see a difference in the actual flower and seeds. Time will tell…

Working on a Sunday to collect some heritage long-straw rye plants as part of a bread study - lovely field setting

Today we are coring soil again in Cumbria but today we have supervisors making sure we do it properly 😂

As an Aussie who has visited and marvelled at its beauty over 30 years ago it is disheartening to read of its decline and pressure to survive. Great Barrier Reef suffers worst coral decline on record www.bbc.com/news/article...

A scientist’s wine decanter 😂🍷🤪 Thank you Fisher Scientific UK

Our grass experiment is coming along very nicely in Cumbria. Rain and warm weather has helped. Now we leave it for a month and see what impact the soil amendments have had. @durhamearthsci.bsky.social

In Cumbria again today measuring our Miyawaki trees and seeds no if our grass experiments have started to sprout. 😁😁 Westmorland Furness Council Lynster Farmers Group Durham University Fieldwork@durham

Back in Cumbria - glorious weather for fieldwork - been worried about our Miyawaki trees but they are sprouting - and tonight we came across a herd of deers including an albino deer 😁 wow

North East universities get £8.9m to commercialise research www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

This morning I am analysing some alcohol / spirit dated back to 1760… oh it smells heavenly. I wonder what carbon sources were used in its creation ???

1200 trees planted in a day - just another 800 to go. An amazing job by Ellie Ward and Myself although we are suffering from abundant nettle stings 😬

1600 kg of biochar and 2000 native trees - let the games begin Durham University Brodie Biomass Trees Please Lynster Farmers Group

Ok. It looks like a more daunting task in the field compared to drawing up the designs on Google Earth - I barely see the car!!! Thank heavens for the LFG farmers who have come to the rescue - more photos tomorrow

Off to Cumbria and the farms again this week… soil coring, water monitoring and planting over 2000 trees in a woodland experiment Hugh Ward, Emma Donnelly, Tamara Finkelstein Agriculture and Horticulture Development Board Woodland Trust @naturalengland.bsky.social @durhamearthsci.bsky.social

Shout out 📣 For those of you who follow us, you'll have had the pleasure of being whisked away to the silky, caramel fronds of a Sussex kelp bed thanks to the beautiful images and footage taken by Paul Boniface, from the amazing Sussex Underwater team. 📸 Guess who? Paul Boniface/Sussex Underwater

Farmers and I have been battling for over 12 months to get a permit / license to repair non-functioning tidal gates, but it’s too late… the River Winster is now showing signs of decay and death - bureaucracy and stone walling has stopped us from stopping environmental damage

It was an honour and privilege to present and take part in the First UK kelp conference. May they continue around the country. UK's first kelp conference held in Brighton

It was great talking to the Sussex Kelp Restoration Project today. For someone who has not analysed any Sussex kelp they were so welcoming and inquisitive it was amazing.

On the train to Brighten today to attend and present at the Kelp Summit 2025.

On the Scarborough coast again collecting seaweed to trace the nitrogen pollution in the region. Is it sewage or chemical or manure??? North Yorkshire Council Yorkshire Water Durham University

Holocene hydroclimate and landscape changes as drivers of organic carbon cycling in a small northern Fennoscandian lake #stableisotopes #chironomids #climatechange

Durham University Archaeologists find 'unprecedented' Iron Age hoard www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Out yesterday practicing our skills with the @bluerobotics.bsky.social BlueRov 2 underwater drone. Not as easy as it looks, especially when you didn’t grow up with PlayStations 🙈 @durhamearthsci.bsky.social

And here's our article with @tksilver.bsky.social about our new paper.

It's find-a-PhD season and here is a very topical one with @grockesibl.bsky.social at Durham. www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DMH221/p...

Out in Cumbria again coring farm soils. 😁

A clear sign that oil is the name of the game. Renewable energy is now getting less investment - a massive u-turn in the fight against human-induced climate change 😡 www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

The Lynster Farmers Group and I were visited by the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs on Friday in Cumbria, specifically Dame Tamara Finkelstein, Emma Donnelly and Jonathan Marsden

Both UK and international scientists can sign a letter to the royal society saying that he shouldn't be a member here (It's a bit of a futile gesture I'm afraid, but I did sign): docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Would you consider this an environmentally friendly way to treat water from an old municipal tip??? Where is the continued maintenance of said system???

Added proof that the water industry in the UK has deflected blame when they are the cause of our water environmental crisis Time for the UK Government and Environment Agency to take action #sewagepollution www.nature.com/articles/s44...

The start of so many similar stories that will come out on the university sector - the system is broken like so many other aspects in the UK like the NHS, water companies, railway sector etc. 😔 My thoughts are with colleagues I know at Cardiff University www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Happy #MarineBiologistDay compadres! 🦈🪸🦑🦐🦞🦀🐙🐳🐋🐬🦭🐟🐠🐡🪼

Out at Cullercoats Newcastle yesterday playing with our Blue Robotics BlueRov2 underwater drone Dove Marine Lab @durhamearthsci.bsky.social

Have arrived in Hull for the British Phycological Society winter meeting at the University of Hull @rodneyforster.bsky.social Looking forward to meeting people and presenting our herbaria study on the Mersey Estuary

Just in time for the year's end: an updated geochronology chart from the ICS: stratigraphy.org/ICSchart/Chr...

More beautiful large kelp collected from Antarctica with a local wildlife watching - happy new year 🥳

Virtual Issue: Marine macrophytes in a changing world Key papers that have shed light on the responses of #seagrasses and habitat-forming #macroalgae to environmental change. https://nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/toc/10.1111/(ISSN)1469-8137.marine-macrophytes

Merry Kelpmas to everyone. Wishing everyone a wonderful day

I discovered that some of the students in my geochemistry class for their take home final decided to use Google's AI summary to look for equations to use for some of the problems. That's instead to referring lecture slides, textbooks, or class notes all which were available to them.

Look at this beast. It too Freya Alldred 2 hours to sample it for analysis 🤪 Antarctic science #marinescience #womeninstem

My PhD student Freya Alldred is collecting kelp in Antarctica - look at these 3.5m and 4.7m long beauties of Himantothallus grandifolius #marinescience #seaweed #polarscience #womeninstem

You want to know about this site that lets you explore data collected by the HMS Challenger from 1872–1876, an expedition that laid the foundation of oceanography. 🌊 challenger-expeditio...

Please donate to this vital charity and hospice - it is crucial to people with cancer, dementia, but most importantly palliative and end of life care - click on link & donate. #PalliativeCare www.stcuthbertshospice.com/news/general...

why am I not surprised… great investigative journalism Joe Crowley at BBC Panorama www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

#PhD opportunities are like buses - you wait for ages and then two come along at once! Check out this chance to work with @benciotti.bsky.social, Michael Collins & me on 'Environmental drivers of variation in populations of sandy beach #fishes' www.plymouth.ac.uk/schools/scho... Please share 🏖 🐟

Sampling seaweed in Scarborough again - nitrogen pollution assessment North Yorkshire Council SeaGrown

Once again the oil industry has been influential to stop plastic production and pollution - all plastic MUST be recyclable now and everywhere should try to reduce the amount of plastic they use. Global plastic talks collapse as oil states rebel www.bbc.com/news/article...

I fully agree. With over half the attendees at COP29 representing industry - it is now dysfunctional and corrupted 😔 www.linkedin.com/posts/yberno...