Get those abstracts in!👇

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This was an excellent presentation. Well worth watching again, particularly for the fabulous illustrations by @charlottepriddy.bsky.social

What a superb day yesterday. As part of @originalgcg.bsky.social annual seminar, I went walking in the footprints of giants - mainly Iguanadonts. Between Pett Level beach & Fairlight Cove, I observed dinosaur trackways, tail marks, bone beds, fossil wood and ripples ⚒️🪨🦕 @derbyuni.bsky.social

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December 14, 1972, Apollo 17 the last manned mission to the Moon returns to Earth. After collecting 741 individual rock and regolith core samples - totaling 110.5 kilograms - astronaut-geologist Jack Schmitt leaves his geological hammer on the lunar surface 🌙🔨

Yesterday I attended the annual seminar of the Geological Collections Group @originalgcg.bsky.social to learn about putting our collections to work. I presented a poster on @derbyuni.bsky.social collection: emphasis on our unique holistic approach to making our specimens accessible to students.

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Today, University of Derby Technician @annettelokier.bsky.social is at the Geological Conservation Group annual meeting presenting how Derby uses our world class geological sample collection to support integrated interactive teaching

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Last night. We all very much enjoyed our annual University of Derby Geology Society Christmas Party!

In our final webinar of 2025, Dr Charlotte Priddy (University of Derby) will present: 'Dryland fluvial systems: From outcrop to reservoir models' Wednesday 10th December, 4pm (UK) Register here: sedsonline.com @charlottepriddy.bsky.social @derbyuniearth.bsky.social @derbyunigeo.bsky.social

The Carbonate Forum is back! The 4th edition will take place online on 12–13 May 2026 and will be hosted by @sedsonline.bsky.social. Find all details here: sedsonline.com/the-carbonat...

Graduation day @derbyuni.bsky.social. Congratulations to all our fabulous graduates! 🎓🥂 @derbyuniearth.bsky.social @derbyunigeo.bsky.social

Exciting times ahead!👇

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Fully funded PhD projects available in my group (Please share with interested parties, details here: www.thefosterlab.org/blog/2025/11...):

We have an excellent line up for this weeks Seds Online Student Webinar....

Scientists feel that the pressure to publish is rising, but that the time and resources they have to do the necessary research are falling, according to a survey of 3,200 researchers go.nature.com/4hNDvuN

It’s #RadonAwarenessWeek. The UK Health Security Agency (UKSHA) recommends that radon levels should be reduced in homes where the annual averages is at or above 200 becquerels per cubic metre.

Submission is open for our session 'Carbonates - archives of time, space and change' at the the EGU General Assembly (3-8 May 2026) Join Karolina Bienko, Arnaud Gallois and I for some lively discussions about all things carbonate! Submit here: meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/EGU26/abstra...

Had a lovely day in Buxton with @derbyuni.bsky.social Water Resources students visiting Nestlé Buxton Water and sampling water from Hogshaw Brook; the UofD borehole and St Anne’s Well. @derbyuniearth.bsky.social

30 October 1846: a newspaper reported that a fund had been set up by the geologists at that year's @britsciassoc.bsky.social meeting in Southampton to raise money for ailing fossil dealer #MaryAnning, 'an old woman' (she was 47), following a fire at her home in Lyme Regis.

Fabulous to see our @EarthSciences students out there sampling the delights of @Derbyshire

The deadline has been extended!! Submit your abstract by tomorrow, 22nd of October lnkd.in/dBBx7Pne! #fluvial, #sedimentology, #morphodynamics, #geomorphology

PHD OPPORUNITY: Feeding strategies and symbiosis of marine calcifiers in a changing ocean (University of Southampton, UK) www.findaphd.com/phds/project... #coralreefs #calcification #phd #phdopportunity #careers #coral #nutrients #coralreefecology #coralscience #marinebiology

Some stromatolites to get your Saturday started. El Paso Formation (Ordovician; roadcut along Scenic Drive in El Paso) ⚒️

@sumikotsuka.bsky.social and I are looking for a postdoc (2 yrs) to work w/ us at @uni-jena.de and LIAG Hannover on constraining exhumation rates in #Albania using calcite/dolomite thermoluminescence thermochronology. www.structures.uni-jena.de/en/1012/open.... @paleoseismicity.bsky.social @dfg.de

University of Derby Student Geological Society Annual Quiz starting soon…..

#MolluscMonday: Rather nice example of the Lower Lias bivalve Gryphaea in life position, Westbury-on-Severn, Gloucestershire.

All hands on the great unconformity in the Sandias, New Mexico. Pennsylvianian limestones on 1.4 billion years A type granites. @riceuniversity.bsky.social geology trip.

Fossil found on Dorset coast is unique 'sword dragon' species www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Our new #OpenAccess paper 'Sediment-stressed reefs over the past 420 Myr', led by Tanja Unger, has been published in The Depositional Record Understanding natural and anthropogenic sediment influx to reef systems is critical to planning protection strategies onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

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Join us at 18.00 BST on Friday 10th October at Burlington House in London for our next free talk - Thames Through Time: Cornish Flavour by Ian Mercer This will be a hybrid event: in-person and online via Zoom. For those attending in person, tea will be served in the Lower Library from 17.30 BST

Everybody makes money out of academic authors except the authors...News. Wiley is the latest academic publisher to reach a multi-million deal to allow access to its content to AI developers, with no opt out, let alone payment, for the authors who created that content.

Calling MSc & PhD students working on fluvial sedimentary systems. Apply to present at the 12th #SedsOnline Student Webinar. Take this opportunity to share your research & get feedback. Submit your abstract by 15 Oct. here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

We open the 6th #Seds_Online Season with a talk by Frank Heitmuller from the University of Southern Mississippi: 🗓 8 October, 4:00 PM (UK time) 🎙 “Clogged Sieve? – Floodplain sedimentation above the deltaic apex of the Lower Mississippi River” 🔗 More details and registration: sedsonline.com

Today is University of Derby undergraduate open day! Come along and learn all about our excellent Earths Sciences program and meet some of the lecturers. No need to book, just turn up! www.derby.ac.uk/open-days/un...

Seismic data from the #NASA #InSight mission reveal a solid inner core at the center of Mars. Story by @javibar.bsky.social eos.org/articles/sci...

The 2025 Google Earth imagery is wild. We live on such an astoundingly beautiful planet. Namibia (-23.6551610, 15.2430470). Close-up and wider view. In wide view: a structural dome popping out to say hello. Note the different eolian sediment compositions to N and S of the stream channel. 🧪⚒️🪨

Last week I was co-leading a field trip in Utah, to check out some fluvial and eolian rocks. It was exhausting but fun and forced me to think more carefully than before about complex bedforms. This is a 3D model of one of the many stunning exposures of the Navajo Sandstone near Escalante 🧪⚒️

Some delicate actively growing stalactites from Ruakuri Caves, formed in Oligocene limestones. Skinny varieties are probably few decades old; the larger a few centuries. Ruakuri is the Maori name for Two Dogs - refers to early Polynesian canines brought to NZ. On a visit w a couple of grandkids ⚒️🧪

🌟 Postdoc Opportunity in Marine Biogeochemistry at CNRS-CEREGE! 🚢 Are you a passionate researcher ready to tackle climate change? Dive into the ERC-funded Deep-C project in Aix-en-Provence, France! ⬇️

I'm hiring a new post-doc to work on the @rottnrock.bsky.social project! Come help us understand hydrothermal alteration and volcanic hazards! Advert here: www.unistra.fr/universite/t... 📸 Recent ROTTnROCK trip to Mombacho, Nicaragua 🌋