Funders can drive change. Authors can't. Authors are producers, not consumers. Producers don't decide demand, consumers do. Funders and research institutes must demand change of their authors, or withhold their funds. It's that simple. Funders have all the cards. 10/n

More fundamentally, every active scientist has been brought up in a system where The Drain was already normalized. This system hasn't always existed. For-profit publishers are a recent invention. Their value proposition has always been awful, and now they are actively eroding trust in science. 5/n

We wrote the Strain on scientific publishing to highlight the problems of time & trust. With a fantastic group of co-authors, we present The Drain of Scientific Publishing: a 🧵 1/n Drain: arxiv.org/abs/2511.04820 Strain: direct.mit.edu/qss/article/... Oligopoly: direct.mit.edu/qss/article/...

New marine pollen records by my student Laura McDonald (who just handed in her PHD), from offshore NZ that test the potential bias in the pollen assemblage due to distance and sediment transport mechanisms from the land to the ocean. 🌊 🌲 🌸 the results are surprising - there is not much difference.

Quaternary people, I need to source a high-resolution graphics file of an up-to-date Marine Isotope curve? One I can use at two different resolution, one 1,000,000 to present, the other 100,000 to present. Any idea where to look? Has anything definitively replaced Railsback? 🦣

Abstract submission is open for #EGU26 (3 - 8 May 2026) 🚨 Are you working with #microfossils and have a story to tell about the #paleoenvironment and/or #paleoclimate? Then join our session to put a focus lens on these amazing micropaleontological proxies!

Registration for the Round 6 of Mentorship Pods is now OPEN! More info👉 femalesinms.com/mentorship-p... Registration 👉 femalesinms.com/mentorship-p...

What ho fossil fiends! I’m here at #SVP2025. Look out for fat beardy man with thousand-yard stare. I’ll have my @nature.com hat on which today is a black woolly beanie. Also vintage leather jacket because Brum is the City of Rock.

Dr Owen King & @iceybethan.bsky.social from @ncl-geography.bsky.social have contributed to a @unesco.org report highlighting the accelerating decline of glaciers and ice sheets, the consequences for people and the planet, and what needs to be done about it. 🧊 https://bit.ly/47AJUGi #WeAreNCL

Come and study for a PhD with me @ncl-geography.bsky.social!

Join us on Monday 17th at 10 am uk time for our live streamed COP30 talk on tipping points in the Cryosphere! We’re talking at the Cryosphere Pavilion, Blue Zone.

Interesting! Cc @neaarlab.bsky.social

Flowstones from the Cradle of Humankind in #SouthAfrica reveal no evidence of intrusion. New work, led by HERI’s Georgina Luti, counters arguments that the flowstones are uniform & intrusive, adding support for their role in dating fossils. 🔗 www.heriuct.co.za/news-content...

The website for UKAS2026 in Bristol is live! www.ukas2026.co.uk. Save the date - 30th March to 2nd April.

Latest paper: Boxgrove is a key European site dating to 480,000 years ago. At GTP17, hominins knapped handaxes and then butchered an adult female horse. A fragment of the horse's scapula appeared to have evidence of impact from a wooden spear..... www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Don't forget the @quaternaryra.bsky.social ADM 2026 abstract deadline is today! sites.google.com/view/qraadmb...

My co-authored marine GDGT « cookbook » review paper led by Peter Bijl 👨‍🔬 and @kasiasliwinska.bsky.social 👩‍🔬 is now published in @egubg.bsky.social! doi.org/10.5194/bg-2... Again, I am so happy to be the @cerege.bsky.social @climatecerege.bsky.social expert on #GDGTs! @egu.eu 🧪 ⚒️ 🌊 #PaleoSky (1/3)

I'm guiding the review process of this interesting @Biogeosciences manuscript about trace element incorporation into fish otoliths. Feel free to check out the preprint and contribute to the open review discussion if you're interested! egusphere.copernicus.org/preprints/20...

#OceanOpportunities W3 Professorship in the field of Polar Marine Geology and Palaeoclimatology / Palaeoceanography - Deadline 12 December 2025 nf-pogo-alumni.org/05112025-5/

seafront-project.com/post/calibra... Largest dataset on Mg/Ca in shells yet (+100 and over a dozen sites)🐚 Again, we found tightly correlated but shell-specific relationships between temperature and Mg/Ca. Lots of potential for future archaeological studies🏺 @leizarchaeology.bsky.social

SEM folks! 🏺🐚🧪 Has anyone seen structures like this before?

Latest #Climate data shows a podium finish for 2025 We are in the decade where the 1.5°C limit is likely to be exceeded, highlighting the accelerating pace of climate change Average global temperature for 2023–2025 is likely to exceed 1.5°C, the first three-year average to do so 🌡️🌏🧪⚒️

Should we start historical climate simulations in 1750 (or 1800) rather than 1850? Importance of beginning industrial-era climate simulations in the eighteenth century Ballinger, Schurer et al.: iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1...

Are you interested in human evolution? Would you like to work in palaeoproteomics 👩🏻‍🔬 and live in Copenhagen 🇩🇰🚴🏽‍♀️? So, apply to these advertised positions. More info 👇

📍 Project based in Liverpool in @livevobiomech.bsky.social 🥼 The team includes @tguillerme.bsky.social @toriherridge.bsky.social @nottswildlife.bsky.social and me! 🔗 Project description: www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

We're looking for researchers to join the INASIA project. If you're an archaeologist specializing in Stone Age research adept in advanced digital, geospatial, and analytical methods, you may want to join us as ERC-POSTDOC-FIELD: www.euraxess.pl/jobs/383000

@robertosaezm.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s41...

We are looking forward to welcoming #EmmaLoftus to #HEASVienna for the #HEASSeminar in #HumanEvolutionandthePalaeolithic on Monday the 10th November at 10:30 CET. More information and registration on our website 🔗👇 www.heas.at/events/heas-...

🆕New on the EGU Climate Blog 🌡️🌊The North Sea Is Heating Up: What Marine Heatwaves Tell Us About Climate Change by Mohamed Bayoumy. blogs.egu.eu/divisions/cl... Recent work shows accelerated warming in the North Sea and more frequent marine heatwaves. #Climate #MarineHeatwaves #EGU

This is a useful piece on the Royal Society's solar geoengineering report, indicating that the report contains enough caveats that press can pick up on the dangers. One wonders, though, if there are any "right hands" that a technology like SRM can be put into.

ERC-Postdoc-ECO We're looking for a detail-oriented researcher specializing in geochemical and biochemical analyses of sediments and artefacts. Check this and other open positions in the INASIA project at: inasia.uw.edu.pl/we-are-hirin... And join us for an info session: forms.gle/s6WxXdnZKUxr...

Congratulations to Dr Tamsin O’Connell on being elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry. This well-deserved recognition highlights her exceptional contributions to chemistry and her work in bioarchaeology. Read more about Tamsin's research below.👇 www.trinhall.cam.ac.uk/news/trinity...

Submission deadline extended until December 1st!

New study in Nature by Lin et al shows how the sea-level rise from the melting Ice Age ice (a total of 120 meters rise) ended thousands of years ago. Until our fossil fuel use started a new phase of rising seas. Graph shows the global mean rate of sea level rise. 🌊 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

🚨 Less than 1 month left! 🚨 Students in Europe — want to run your own proteomics experiment? Apply for the YPIC Student Proteomics Fund and get €5,000 to make it happen! 💡 Top 3 will present in Madrid (April 16, 2026)! 🗓️ Deadline: Nov 30, don’t miss your chance! #YPIC #Proteomics #StudentGrant

Evidence from China clarifies the 'muddle in the middle' of human evolution Tickets, Tue, Nov 11, 2025 at 6:30 PM | Eventbrite www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/evidence-f...

New paper(s) alert! Check out @agu.org Palaeoceanography & Paleoclimate. Including our piece on best practices going forward for d11B-CO2 reconstructions. agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/... including @case4climate.bsky.social, @michaelhenehan.bsky.social,... @eleniwater.bsky.social.

Living in York, is a great place to reflect on what it means to be 'British'. Founded in 71AD by the Roman Empire, Eboracum was such an important city that two Roman Emperors happened to be here when they died. The multangular tower is largely of Roman construction. @VisitYork 1/12

Some ancient stony corals were able to survive extreme environmental changes, which suggests that some modern species could possess some resilience to the effects of climate change, according to research in Nature. go.nature.com/4hrpLpi 🌊 🧪

The annual 10 new insights in climate science are here! Perhaps the best way to keep up with climate science news of the past year, made for lay people, policy makers and scientists alike with its different levels of detail: from simple tiles to a journal paper. 10insightsclimate.science#explore

What to know more about radiocarbon or chronological modelling? Our 2026 short course is now open for registration. 17th - 19th March in Oxford/online. @isotopesuk.bsky.social @philascough.bsky.social @unioxarchaeology.bsky.social lifelong-learning.ox.ac.uk/courses/shor...

The eleven organisations, including the CNRS, that won the European Equality Prize signed a declaration of principle in support of gender equality in research.

My 14 year old daughter has set up an Etsy shop (account managed by me) to raise money to attend the 2027 World Scout Jamboree in Poland: do take a look and support her www.etsy.com/uk/shop/Flic...

ChatGPT cited a paper of mine which I did not know existed, so I asked it for the link to it. Unfortunately that link to the Nature website just gave a "Page not found". So sad.

Whether it’s personal or professional, physical, mental or financial, the Chemists’ Community Fund is here to help RSC members and their families through life’s challenges. Call 0800 084 3451 (UK Freephone) or +44 1223 853549 (International) ➡️ https://rsc.li/3L1mktt #RSCCommFund #ChemSky

Age is no barrier to starting a PhD. Three current students share how their wider life experiences have been an asset to their research.

Teaching chatbots to say “I don’t know” could curb hallucinations. It could also break #AI’s business model. https://scim.ag/49cPY9d

Some additional thoughts on Yunxian, Homo longi, Denisovans and the origin of Homo sapiens

Government has published one of those quiet but important documents that might get overlooked as it is not 'newsy'. The headline finding is that £1 of public R&D investment generates £8 in net economic benefits for the UK over the long term www.gov.uk/government/p...