We missed you at #SchnitzelClub, @seismatters.bsky.social! But at least @carolineclason.bsky.social @seismo-steve.bsky.social @venditti.bsky.social, Toby Minear, and Chloe Ross could join us. #EGU26

Come find out more about research and community work by members of the Durham Glaciology Group at #EGU26! Presentations this year span palaeo reconstructions to glacier hydrology, plus an opportunity to find out more about publishing in The Cryosphere ❄️ @egu-cr.bsky.social @geogdurham.bsky.social

"Age at the speed of a glacier"... how can the name of an entire field of science have been trademarked by a skincare brand?! www.boots.com/no7/no7-skin...

📢 @geogdurham.bsky.social, a world-leading department for geographical research and education at @durham.ac.uk, is seeking to appoint an Assistant Professor in Physical Geography with expertise in Earth Observation... 🛰️ 1/3

Really enjoyed contributing to this week's UNESCO World Day for Glaciers activities in Paris. ❄️ My colleagues and I hosted a side event on "Cryosphere in Crisis: Pathways for a Safe and Just Future" and introduced our new @iacscryo.bsky.social working group on Cryosphere Stewardship. 🌎💧🫶 (1/2)

New paper out today from Durham Glaciology member Lauren Gill! Lauren's interdisciplinary PhD is exploring how processes and change in glacial environments impact the preservation and analysis of human remains. ❄️🌡️🦴 @geogdurham.bsky.social @arcdurham.bsky.social link.springer.com/article/10.1...

🌎 World Water Day 2026: Water and Gender 💧 ONE WEEK TO GO! How does gender shape water access, governance, cooperation and sustainability worldwide? Join us online on Monday 23rd March for this event hosted by @ihrr.bsky.social & @geogdurham.bsky.social at @durham.ac.uk. @un-water.bsky.social 🧵👇

30 years since Dunblane - never again ❤️‍🩹

I'm looking foward to heading to Paris next week to celebrate the World Day for Glaciers and World Water Day 2026, with events taking place online and in-person at UNESCO HQ. I'll be speaking about resource security in a side event on 'Cryosphere in Crisis: Pathways for a Safe and Just Future' (1/3)

Probably the pinnacle of my many years supporting Scottish rugby. What a game, and a better result than even my wildest dreams! 🥳🏉🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

Applications open for a 3-year Post Doc position in Leeds (UK) on the #UKRI funded Still Waters project. We are looking for #hydrology #geomorphology modelling skills to embed surface hydrology into #malaria models with fieldwork in Zambia. Pls contact me for more details: tinyurl.com/3356rt44

🌎 World Water Day 2026: Water and Gender 💧 How does gender shape water access, governance, cooperation and sustainability worldwide? Join us online on Monday 23rd March 2026 for this special event hosted by @ihrr.bsky.social & @geogdurham.bsky.social at @durham.ac.uk. 🧵👇 @un-water.bsky.social

We’re a leading centre for research into glaciers and ice sheets. Recently @carolineclason.bsky.social @geogdurham.bsky.social @durhamglaciology.bsky.social co-authored a major report for the UK National Commission for @unesco.org on the effect of melting ice on people and planet 👉 bit.ly/4r51PMl

It’s been a busy winter so far for us, with a selection of our activities recently highlighted in Durham University’s Global Research Newsletter: tinyurl.com/bdc88kk4 ❄️ Find out more about just some of what we’ve been up to across Arctic, Antarctic and mountain glacier regions! tinyurl.com/mshk3ute

Congratulations to Cameron Powell who won the postgraduate poster prize at last week's @quaternaryra.bsky.social ADM in Brighton! There was lots of Durham palaeoglaciology research on show, including work by @hollyjenk.bsky.social and Molly Gath. 👇❄️ durhamglaciology.wordpress.com/2026/01/12/d...

With the EGU abstract deadline fast approaching, a reminder to check out our session on "impacts, risks and adaptation to a changing cryosphere" (CR1.3) when choosing where to submit! ❄️🌡️💧

Funded PhD! Building Resilience to Interactions and Cascades Between Hydrometeorological and Biological Hazards in African Rangelands (Project 2). co-supervisors @carolineclason.bsky.social Jed Stevenson. Funded by Christoper Moyes Memorial Studentship @ihrr.bsky.social Link 👇 Contact if interested

📢 Excited to advertise a PhD opportunity at @geogdurham.bsky.social and @ihrr.bsky.social generously funded by the Christopher Moyes Memorial Foundation. There are ten projects to select from (two highlighted below), and the deadline is 6th February. Learn more at: www.durham.ac.uk/research/ins...

CONGRATULATIONS to @geogdurham.bsky.social's own Dave Roberts and Colm O'Cofaigh who have both been awarded the prestigious Polar Medal by the King in the 2026 New Year's Honours List. Such a well-deserved achievement for two excellent colleagues! ❄️🍾🥂 durhamglaciology.wordpress.com/2025/12/30/p...

Wishing everyone a very merry festive season and a happy 2026! 🥂 This year, in place of sending cards, I've donated to St Mungo's who provide pet-friendly support to people experiencing homelessness. Best wishes from my furry bestie and I! 🐾🎄♥️

@hollywytia.bsky.social has written a short, public-friendly blog post about her new paper in the Cryosphere about supraglacial (ice-surface) streams on Swiss glaciers. Learn more at the link below 👇 durhamglaciology.wordpress.com/2025/12/09/r...

Looking forward to co-chairing a new IACS Working Group on Cryosphere Stewardship. It aims to explore frameworks to address the diminishing cryosphere while strengthening coordinated action for its stewardship. We'll shortly be inviting the wider cryosphere community to join! ❄️ lnkd.in/eW4isT55

🚨 Interested in the form and variability of the supraglacial hydrological system? @hollywytia.bsky.social et al. explore the controls on channel distribution and characteristics on Swiss Alpine glaciers in a new paper hot off the press at The Cryosphere! ❄️ tc.copernicus.org/articles/19/...

#Cop30 - Closing plenary now started - proposed final deal does not include a plan for a transition away from fossil fuels #climatecrisis www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Thinking about EGU 2026? Check out our session on "Impacts, risks and adaptation to a changing cryosphere"! We invite abstracts on a range of topics from cascading hazards to social and ecological impacts, resource security to environmental risk... 👇 meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/EGU26/sessio...

@carolineclason.bsky.social @geogdurham.bsky.social @durhamglaciology.bsky.social has co-authored a major new report from the UK National Commission for UNESCO looking at the consequences of melting ice on people and planet. Discover more 👉 www.durham.ac.uk/news-events/... @cop30brazil.bsky.social

As the United Nations marks the 2025 International Year of Glaciers’ Preservation and the opening of COP30 in Brazil, I'm happy to have been able to contribute a chapter to a new UK National Commission for UNESCO report on "Glaciers and Ice Sheets in a Warming World: Impacts and Outcomes". (1/2)

📣 We are advertising a range of glaciology/polar PhD projects at @geogdurham.bsky.social funded by @iapetusdtp.bsky.social. ❄️ For more information on these projects, and info on eligibility, support for under-represented groups, and how to apply, visit durhamglaciology.wordpress.com/opportunities/

Very happy to announce that I have just started as Co-Editor-in-Chief of The Cryosphere! ❄️ The Cryosphere is an open-access, not-for-profit journal of @egu.eu, providing an inclusive publishing space for the global cryospheric community. I'm really looking forward to contributing in this new role!

Excited to advertise a new interdisciplinary PhD opportunity at @geogdurham.bsky.social - "From ice to ecosystem: assessing the risk of glacier melt and legacy contamination for reindeer in Sápmi (Lapland)" ❄️ 🦌 To learn more about the project and how to apply visit: iapetus.ac.uk/studentships...

Relieved to have got round the Kielder Marathon in one piece yesterday, and to (miraculously after the last few weeks) have finished a bit faster than last year too. It really is a beautiful but relentlessly hilly race! The joint care supplements in the finishers bag were very apt... 😅

📣 Deadline extended until 30th November! We welcome submissions from studies offering both modern and palaeo perspectives of ice streams and outlet glaciers and hope this special collection will help to cross-pollinate ideas and theoretical insights into one of glaciology's most important topics! ❄️

A good example of why spatial literacy is an important skill and why geography is as relevant now as ever! #epicfail #studygeography @rgsibg.bsky.social www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

A reminder that submissions are now open for the @igsoc.bsky.social special collection of the Annals of Glaciology on ‘Ice Streams and Outlet Glaciers’. Accepted papers will be published continuously and will be brought together in an online thematic collection in 2026: www.igsoc.org/ice-streams-...

Be sure to check out our sessions at the @rgsibg.bsky.social Annual Conference tomorrow! The sessions are jam-packed with variety and include live performances and displays of creative work. I wasn't able to attend in-person sadly, but @hywelgriffiths.bsky.social will be chairing in the room!

Israel bombed a hospital. Rescue workers and reporters rushed to recover the dead and the wounded. Israel bombed the hospital again. Live on TV. Read that again. Our government’s legacy will be its complicity in crimes against humanity. End all arms sales to Israel, now.

Bank holiday activities included catching up with @beardydylan.bsky.social while he's visiting from Canada (lovely to get a copy of his PhD thesis too - I'm a very proud supervisor! 😊), and painting the front door and garage to brighten up the house a bit... I think it looks better?! 😬🖌️🩵

Looking forward to convening the @geolsoc.bsky.social GeoFutures conference on 15th September. We have five fantastic keynote talks (including by @klausdodds.bsky.social who will discuss "making sense of a no longer reliably frozen Arctic" ❄️). Come join us online! www.geolsoc.org.uk/events/geofu...

Reflecting back on how enjoyable it was to host the @igsoc.bsky.social Symposium here at @geogdurham.bsky.social. A big thank you to everyone who attended, presented and contributed to organisation! It was lovely to see so many friendly faces and to hear about some fantastic glaciological science! ❄️

Excited to have started a new role as Co-Director of the IHRR. I'll be developing my work on environmental risk, hazards and water security in glacial environments, while fostering new cross-sector collaborations and supporting others with their own research ideas. www.durham.ac.uk/research/ins...

The @ihrr.bsky.social is hosting the UK Alliance for Disaster Research (UKADR) Annual Conference on 4-5 September 2025 at @durham-university.bsky.social, with a theme of "Pathways to Practice and Resilience: UK Interdisciplinary Hazard and Disaster Research on the National and Global Stage". (1/3)

Enough.

Motherfucking wind farms…

This is an interesting thing to ponder. In university settings it sometimes feels like we are moving away from oracy, debate, and presentations due to the the fear of causing anxiety to some students, but in doing so we are in danger of neglecting a vital skill. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

I might not have come home with a finisher's medal this year but Islay suits the Lakeland 100 race buff and is happily providing cuddles! 🐾❤️🤣

Apparently organizing a symposium and finishing Lakeland 100 don't mix... my first DNF. Not enough rest or the right food over the week, conference dinner the night before the race, lots of nausea, and bad feet from the wet conditions. It just wasn't going to happen this time, but I gave it a shot!

Another great day of the IGS symposium, with a field trip visiting evidence of glaciation in upper Teesdale, Eden Valley drumlins at Brough Castle, the fluvioglacial landscape of the Brampton Kame Belt, and streamlined bedforms from Tyne Gap ice streaming (plus Roman archaeology) at Hadrian's Wall!

Fantastic turnout at the @igsoc.bsky.social symposium ECR event last night! Really insightful advice from @iceybethan.bsky.social and Becky Sanderson about how to navigate networking and conferences! We enjoyed putting their tips into practice during speed networking afterwards.

It's been a great first two days hosting the @igsoc.bsky.social symposium on ice streams and outlet glaciers. We've had excellent talks & posters spanning both contemporary and palaeo glaciology, and a sunny icebreaker in the courtyard of Durham Castle. ❄️🥂 Looking forward to tomorrow's excursion!

We're really looking forward to hosting the @igsoc.bsky.social International Symposium on Ice Streams and Outlet Glaciers here at @geogdurham.bsky.social next week! ❄️ To learn more about glaciology research at Durham check out our brand new website! durhamglaciology.wordpress.com