This is a very important, clear article and I recommend reading it! If you don't want to read the whole thing (which has important info) there is a great point by point summary in the last section. Let's reach people and spur action!

Global coral reef 🪸 collapse is not inevitable. We explain why in our new science & society piece for TREE! www.cell.com/trends/ecolo... Written with Lisa McManus and Rob Toonen! @soest.hawaii.edu @oxuniearthsci.bsky.social

These days talking about de-extinction comes with the feeling that I will be punished for it by whoever 👀 it is who is tragic enough to smear me and my work (academic and engagement). But talk about it we must, as these things should be public discussions -- not the preserve of private enterprise

👉 Europa 2026: What can we learn from Neanderthals?🏺🧪 Online event Saturday 6 June • 8 AM - 2 PM EDT

Ice core water-isotope records from eight locations in Antarctica spanning 400,000 years show that the warmest parts of the continent have had the most temperature variability. In PNAS: https://ow.ly/OmwB50YZOhp

Couldn't be prouder of my former PhD student Danai Theodoraki, who just published her thesis on Neolithic Franchthi and high-res climate variability! 🥳 books.ub.uni-heidelberg.de//propylaeum/... @leizarchaeology.bsky.social @unimainz.bsky.social

In this work, the rate of reaction for the RNA precursor aminooxazoline differed depending on the enantiomer. www.chemistryworld.com/news/elusive...

TV scheduling is well-known to be a complete mystery, and so it is that Channel 5 are only now showing the final two episodes of Natural History Museum: World of Wonder Please enjoy me in my last role as a @nhm-london.bsky.social scientist, a thousand years ago...

Out now in @pnas.org! 🌊 Our new paper explores how Neanderthals adapted to coastal environments and scheduled their annual subsistence strategies. Thanks to everyone who has supported this study over the years! 🔗 www.pnas.org/doi/abs/10.1...

1/ One thing that took me years to accept: Good data analysis is often surprisingly slow at the beginning. Not because strong analysts are inefficient. But because they spend time understanding the dataset before deciding what to do with it.

🐚Research shows Neanderthals gathered shellfish like modern humans. New ICTA-UAB study led by @asierge.bsky.social and Andre Colonese. themercury.com/news/nationa...

Job alert: Director of Science @ Defra! Join my team in a critical science leadership role to ensure robust evidence underpins decisions on nature, climate, pollution, food & more. Apply if you enjoy solving big, complex challenges & want to make a real difference! www.linkedin.com/jobs/view/44...

There’s only one week left to vote. If you’re an RSC member, you can decide on everything from our future President to who will serve on our Subject Community Councils. Shape the future of the chemical sciences – get your ballot in by 5pm UK time on 21 May: https://rsc.li/42jdBIb #ChemSky

The difference between isoleucine and valine is not that great, which made isoleucine the ideal target for substitution, but simply replacing isoleucine with valine didn’t work as well as hoped. Read on: www.chemistryworld.com/news/strippe...

Happy centenary Sir David! Are there one hundred things named after David Attenborough? Surely we should be able to compile a list… I will start: 1. Attenborosaurus a plesiosaur from the Jurassic Coast en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attenbo... Let’s see if we can get to 100! /🧵

And back to the #archaeology 🏺 🦣 Exciting new analysis of MSA shell bead evidence from El Mnasra North Africa: large assemblage likely >100 Ka, inc pigment residue and wear from ?thread, but other wear suggests diverse uses. journals.plos.org/plosone/arti...

Today’s Education Select Committee report on higher education is the best report on HE to come from Govt/Parliament in ages. It takes a rounded view of the whole system, moving away from the more atomistic or narrow accounts we’ve seen 🧵 committees.parliament.uk/committee/20...

aDNA lab manager position (maternity cover for ~16 months) at UniVie. Come work with us, several cool projects, new labs and great potential for further future work. Happy to answer questions! jobs.univie.ac.at/job/Senior-S...

'Policy analysts looked at 20 years’ worth of data collected for the annual Student Academic Experience Survey, currently run by the Higher Education Policy Institute and Advance HE, to establish key trends in a tumultuous period for higher education.' 1/3

Paper alert! V pleased to announce my latest paper "The relative role of direct orbital forcing versus CO2 & ice feedbacks on Quaternary climate", in Nature Communications - doi.org/10.1038/s414..., with @natalieslord.bsky.social, @climatesamwell.bsky.social, @thefosterlab.bsky.social + many others!

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An analysis of 141 films since 1919 finds geologists are usually portrayed as likable characters, though nearly a third of on-screen geologists die, most often by murder or geological events. doi.org/hb3tq4

'During a symposium held by the UK Research Integrity Office (UKRIO) on 13 May, James Morris, senior policy officer at Science Europe, said many of the group’s members were experiencing 50 per cent annual hikes in applications.' 1/2

So my read on this new proteomic work is that we don't know what Homo erectus is. I'll share more, but an early and good article is this one www.livescience.com/archaeology/...

Rainfall intensity matters as much as how much rain falls. New in Nature: Corey Lesk and I show that daily-scale concentration of precipitation dries the land over the long-run, an effect as strong as total precipitation is climatological wetting. Paper here: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

🏺 🧪 🦣 I've commented on this research elsewhere, but while #Neanderthals using a stone tool to dig around in a rotten tooth is far from surprising (we know they used tooth picks), I don't think it's possible to describe it as being "drilled". journals.plos.org/plosone/arti...

interesting study! though sadly after the root canal the neandertal's dental insurance rejected the claim and they had to pay the whole thing out of pocket

The original study: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Proteins recovered from 400,000-year-old fossils show humans living today may have inherited genes from Homo erectus: "There’s far greater complexity in terms of hominins across Eurasia than previously recognized," says @york.ac.uk geochemist Kirsty Penkman. @science.org

Did Homo erectus cuddle up with Denisovans? Yes, and what's more, their Union was Blessed with Issue. Paper in @nature.com www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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Stable Isotope researchers of all varieties - come to Bristol in June!! The 17th meeting of the Stable Isotope Mass Spectrometry Users Group (SIMSUG) will take place 15th-16th June 2026 at the School of Chemistry, University of Bristol. Register at simsug2026.carrd.co

Lovely to see info about @trowelblazers.bsky.social at the @sedgwickmuseum.bsky.social inspiring even more scientists!

⚠️🚨 deadline for expression of interest is today!! 🚨⚠️

More goodies from the ‘Seeing the Dead’ project - Roman burial of two infants in Roman York were buried in textiles dyed with Tyrian purple. www.yorkpress.co.uk/news/2606019...

Join the People’s Emergency Briefing at Tempest Anderson Hall on 9 May. 🎥 Includes a film screening and panel discussion with MP Rachael Maskell and local climate experts. Reserve your spot: york.earth/peb

‘I am deeply disappointed, though I cannot say I am entirely surprised,’ says former board member and analytical chemist Willie May. www.chemistryworld.com/news/trump-a...

The European State of the Climate Report is launched today: 🌐 more than 40 datasets 👩‍🔬 over 100 scientists 🗺️ > 130 charts and graphics 🌍 🌡️ Europe is the fastest warming continent, with temperatures rising at around twice the global average rate Check it out: climate.copernicus.eu/ESOTC

The world is warming. Every country is warming. www.ShowYourStripes.info #ShowYourStripes

We’re excited to share our new Inclusion & Diversity Strategy. This is our commitment as we work to improve inclusion across the chemical sciences, & signals a move from intention to impact as we work to build a fairer future for our community. Read the full story ➡️ https://rsc.li/4mR224M #ChemSky

In honor of Earth Day: a thread of environmental wins

Great to see us academics doing our bit for falling income inequality 😬

'Could the Rising Star hominins represent relict australopiths?' Nice new preprint. www.researchsquare.com/article/rs-8...

„For every pound spent on net zero, the benefits would outweigh the cost by between 2.2 and 4.1 times, the body said.“ www.ft.com/content/d163...

👀 Postdoctoral Research Associate in Bioarchaeology (with particular experience in the analysis of infants) @durham.ac.uk Closes: 14th May www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DRH266/p...

1/5 Well over three years of work and I’m thrilled to see it out today in Science Advances: the cover feature no less! Using an innovative pipeline, we show that malaria shaped the spatial organization of human groups in sub-Saharan Africa over the last 74,000 years. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Hey folks! We are looking to fill a visiting assistant professorship in Earth & Env Sciences at Denison. Are you an Environmental Scientist who can teach GIS and geomorphology and want to hone your skills at teaching here at a liberal arts college? Then apply by May 4! apply.interfolio.com/183740

PhD position open: The weather forecast for groundwater recharge events • Seeking a PhD researcher with expertise in groundwater, climatology or meteorology, interested in tackling the question: • What weather events replenish groundwater and how do climate influences change this? • Using our…

A 15,000-year-old pendant is changing how we see Ice Age Britain. Reanalysis of a Kents Cavern artefact shows it’s a modified grey seal tooth, likely worn as a pendant and transported over 100km inland. #Archaeology #IceAge #Prehistory @ucl.ac.uk @nhm-london.bsky.social

Communicating changes in the intensity of UK heatwaves Global warming of ‘just’ 1°C does not necessarily sound like a problem. But in the UK, the hottest summer days are warming much faster than typical summer days, changing our experience of heatwaves rmets.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....