🚨New paper! Our latest study, led by Sophie Vineberg, integrates proximal & distal tephra records to reveal the timing and dispersal of large explosive eruptions at Aso volcano (Japan) 🌋 🔗 doi.org/10.1016/j.jvolgeores.2025.108436 #tephra #volcanology #Aso #Japan #LakeSuigetsu #tephrochronology

👋 Hello, Bluesky! We’re Radiocarbon, an international peer-reviewed journal (since 1959) dedicated to advancing radiocarbon research, from calibration and chronology to applications across archaeology, geology, environmental science, and more. We’re glad to be here. #Radiocarbon #Geochronology

Good news for those of us juggling busy schedules — the deadline for submitting conference abstracts has been extended to April 22. radiocarbon25.agh.edu.pl/en/about/inf...

Stable isotopes: Small atoms, big discoveries! From ancient climates to modern ecosystems, stable isotopes reveal hidden stories in nature. Want to learn more? Join Professor @meljleng.bsky.social for the Battarbee Lecture 2025 on 8 May. 🕔 5–6 PM | Free event

We dated some charcoal for @timeteam.bsky.social, and it showed that the standing stone at Farley Moor was indeed Bronze Age. Lovely to see how the project came together! www.youtube.com/watch?v=RtCM...

A reminder that the deadline for the next application round to access NEIF facilities is the 26th March 2025. Applicants must discuss projects with the relevant NEIF laboratory prior to submission. Applications are submitted online via the NEIF Application Portal - www.isotopesuk.org/apply.html

For something a bit more lighthearted. www.bluey.tv/blog/watch-a...

Congratulations Jamie! 🍾 😊 🏆 @oxradiocarbon.bsky.social

📢The School of Archaeology proudly presents: the #radiocarbon dating process - 🎞️⭐: Dr Rachel Wood, Jamie Cameron, Gary Lai, Shutong Jin, Silvia Tardaguila Giacomozzi & Nikta Sarie. #archaeologicalscience #womeninstem #lablife @ox.ac.uk @socsci.ox.ac.uk @graduate.ox.ac.uk youtu.be/xQka8ohWLFo?...

If Trump was President in 1940

Word of the day is ‘huff-snuff’ (16th century): a hectoring bully or braggart.

This is thuggery from Trump and Vance, plain and simple. They are bullying the brave true patriot Zelensky into accepting a deal which effectively hands victory to Russia. Unless the UK and Europe step up, we are facing a betrayal of Ukraine.

Registration for the Radiocarbon Short Course will close 28/02. Come along if you would like to learn a bit more about radiocarbon as a dating technique or as a tracer, or you would like some training on OxCal; conted.ox.ac.uk/courses/shor... @unioxarchaeology.bsky.social @isotopesuk.bsky.social

The thing about being a scientist, and a casual runner, is that the latter provides an opportunity to quantify the ageing process... I.e., precisely "HOW MUCH SLOWER am I now, compared to when I was in my prime?", rather than just a qualitative feeling of "ooh, that didn't used to ache"... 🤨

A new season's best for the half marathon! 🥇🏃‍♂️ And yes, it still counts even though it's my first race of the year! 😝 #CarsingtonWater #RunThroughUK

📣 UGs in archaeology, geography and Earth science 📣 Considering a PhD? Join our lab @oxfordtephra.bsky.social this summer on a 7-week long research internship 🌋. Stipended & with accommodation. Deadline Feb 19th. Application details and eligibility criteria: www.ox.ac.uk/admissions/g...

Excited to share that SUERC has successfully renewed its Athena SWAN Bronze Award from @advancehe.bsky.social This achievement reflects our ongoing commitment to advancing gender equality and fostering an inclusive environment for all at the Centre.

Does your project need some 14C dates? The next deadline for NEIF is 26th March. Please get in contact if you are thinking of applying. Open to PIs, post-docs and students. 1-99 dates. You can even come to the lab to work on your own samples if you'd like. www.isotopesuk.org/apply.html

I don't remember Newsweek taking that photo of me! 👇🤔 (Sorry! 🙄)

What have we been up to?💥 Have you seen our recent publications... Sophie Vineberg and the #LakeSuigetsu Members have published a new detailed record of Japanese eruptions between 120 - 50 ka🇯🇵, with forty-one crypto/ #tephra layers (!!) characterised and dated 🕰️ See here: doi.org/10.1016/j.qu...

If you are interested in coming to do doctoral research in the #tephra group, apply for this fully funded doctoral program. bsky.app/profile/iles... We have various research projects in a range of interesting locations and happy to discuss these so please get in touch if you are interested! 🌋🔬🥼🧑‍🔬

Curious about doing a PhD? Looking to gain some laboratory experience? Applications are now OPEN for 2025 UNIQ+ postgraduate research internships at Oxford University. Our lab has two fantastic tephra projects available! Application closing date is 19 February. www.ox.ac.uk/admissions/g...

The Oxford Radiocarbon Accelerator Unit have joined BlueSky! Very happy to be here. We'll continue to post a little on the other place (esp. NEIF deadlines and jobs), but hope to transition over here.

Are you interested in a research degree in life or environmental science? We offer 4 year PhD studentships which cover your course fees and provide a tax-free living grant plus funding for project costs and travel. Find out more & register for our virtual open day @ www.ilesla.ox.ac.uk

Looking for a #PhD in #Quaternary science, #loess & #luminescence Check out this opportunity with the wonderful Dr Kaja Fenn & colleagues www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

This years London Quaternary Lectures are on Wednesday 27th November from 4pm in the Shilling Lecture Theatre. In person, all welcome - hope to see you there ! #CQRLQL #Quaternary #QuaternaryScience #royalhollowayuniversityoflondon #RoyalHollowayUniversity #lectureseries

It's been a while since I last BlueSkyed (that's the verb, right?)... ...but here's the latest #tephra -tastic offering from the #LakeSuigetsu varved sediments, led by Sophie Vineberg, @volcrocks.bsky.social, @danmclean.bsky.social and other not-yet-BlueSkyers (the noun?)... 📑🎌🌊📏🌋👇 [#水月湖]

Interested in land use and net zero? I am looking for an interdisciplinary PDRA to look at peatlands through space & time on - looking for a wetland environmental archaeologist, palaeoecologist and/or geo archaeologist to work on UKRI RESPECT project, 21st Nov: www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DKM419/i...

We are excited to be hosting the @quaternaryra.bsky.social Annual Discussion Meeting on 6-9 Jan 2025 here in Geography @newcastleuni.bsky.social "Quaternary Insights: Linking the Past, Present and Future" 11 Nov Abstract deadline 30 Nov early bird registration sites.google.com/view/qraadm2...

So incredibly proud of Dr Charlie Rex, graduating from the University of Glasgow last week, 😊 Congratulations Charlie, you absolute legend! 👨‍🎓🎌🌊 #LakeSuigetsu, #水月湖

Somewhat after THE proverbial HORSE (i.e., me!) HAS BOLTED… 🐎 But I have moved on from SUERC (University of Glasgow) to PASTURES NEW… 🌾🌾🌾 My thanks, in particular, to David Sanderson & the Luminescence (#OSL) group… 🚨 But it’s out of the darkness at SUERC, and back in to the light… 💡 (1/3)

Woohoo, the results of our collaborative project on lateglacial biodiversity change have just been published! Paper (OA) here: doi.org/10.1016/j.qu... Data here: doi.org/10.1594/PANG... With many thanks to all the contributors who made this one possible!!

Hello #EGU24 go check out the INTIMATE Session for me, it’s today! 16:15–18:00 (CEST) Room 0.31/32 Abrupt climate changes and ice-ocean-atmosphere interactions inferred from the INTegration of Ice-core, MArine and TErrestrial records (INTIMATE) Posters Friday: 10:45-12:30 (Hall X5)

So much time and hard work gone into this #tephra -tastic effort led by Becca Kearney analysing sediment cores from Lakes Lia and Brazi, Romania: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... Major and trace element analysis imply volcanic sources from Anatolia, Italy and Iceland! 🇹🇷🌋 🇮🇹🌋 🇮🇸🌋 ➡️ 🇷🇴 🌊

Hello there Suigetsu 👀 Feels like we have a celebrity in the Cambridge Tephra Lab today!

Latest #LakeSuigetsu #tephra paper out, 📑🎌🌊📏🌋👇 [#水月湖] doi.org/10.1016/j.qu...

I made a new friend! 🌨️⛄ #snow

It's taken 3 days to recover, but putting out there a new marathon PB! 🏃‍♂️🏅 #OultonPark #RunThroughUK Note the precision timing of the geochronologist in ducking under 3 and a half hours! ⏱️😊

VERY excited to be giving one of this year's prestigious London Quaternary Lectures at Royal Holloway, University of London, 👨‍🏫 (#CQRLQL) "You know you've made it when..."!!! 😊 Wednesday 22nd November from 4pm, all welcome!