Peatlands are one of the world’s biggest carbon sinks. Despite covering just 3-4% of Earth’s land surface, they’re thought to store more carbon per area than the world’s forests combined. In honor of World Peatland Day on June 2 here's three recent Mongabay stories on this critical ecosystem...

What do you do when three of your mine water sites are dominated by a pair of cooccurring SOB, while all other sites are dominated by a pair of cooccurring FeOB and the pattern can’t be explained by any of the measured variables? You start digging! doi.org/10.1093/fems...

Kathleen Drew Baker, Mother of the Sea.

Bird chirping 🎶 #Aberystwyth

Aberystwyth in Spring colours 🌸🌷

Great to see that Cymdeithas Ddysgedig Cymru | Learned Society of Wales 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 has just joined #blusky Give them a follow at: @lswalescddcymru.bsky.social

It's International Year of Glacier Preservation and the inaugural World Glacier Day. But why should we preserve these glaciers? from.ncl.ac.uk/why-should-w....

It’s the first-ever #WorldGlaciersDay! Glaciers are critical to life, yet climate changes causes them to disappear at an alarming rate. #ClimateAction is key to protecting them & supporting those who rely on glaciers. www.un.org/en/observanc...

On this first-ever World Glacier Day, we are reminded of an undeniable reality: the glaciers of the #HinduKushHimalaya (HKH) region—our planet’s “Third Pole”—are melting at an alarming rate. #Glacier2025 #IYGP2025

Melting glaciers threaten the food and water supply of 2 billion people around the world, UN warns, as current rate of retreat is “unprecedented” #climatecrisis Story by @fionaharvey.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Happy St. David's Day Dydd Gŵyl Dewi Hapus! #Aberystwyth #NationalLibraryofWales

Clear views of the moon this morning over South Georgia. #BIOPOLE2 @biopole.bsky.social @bas.ac.uk

🧵"So this is how liberty dies..." Trump’s first 3 weeks have been a relentless flood of actions. It's incredibly hard to keep up. I’ve gone through 69 actions & mapped out the pattern - showing how they fall within 5 broad domains consistent with authoritarian states 1/9

The idea of renaming "Greenland" to "Red, White and Blueland" must have come from our 2020 Science paper where we (Ben Smith and 14 others) used NASA's ICESat and ICESat-2 laser altimetry to show how much the ice sheet surface went up or down in 16 years.

The Polar Impact Mentorship Initiative invites you to join us! During this panel, we will consider "successful" collaborations through multiple lenses and embrace the benefits of engaging with interdisciplinary research groups, policy and decision makers, and Indigenous and local community members.

Hi everyone! CryoCommunity is now on BlueSky! Please share us around so everyone who has switched over to this app can find us! Thank you! ❄️ #glaciology #cryosphere

Organising an academic conference in 2025? See our reflections here from the @quaternaryra.bsky.social Annual Discussion meeting: www.antarcticglaciers.org/2025/01/how-...

Tears in Rain is a great podcast with inspiring speakers and I am sure many more in coming days. It's a good feel podcast.

Mari Lwyd #Aberystwyth #Wales

Hello Bluesky! We're excited for our new home. We're an inclusive network of racial & ethnic minorities and allies in the polar research community. More about us: www.polarimpactnetwork.org Please share your recommended feeds related to polar science and folks who live/work in polar regions.

Delighted that our Juneau Icefield paper made it into the top 10 climate papers featured in the media in 2024, in this @carbonbrief.org analysis. Along with another on how melt in polar ice sheets is changing the Earth's rotation: www.carbonbrief.org/analysis-the... @iamdonovan.bsky.social

Two UKRI funded #PhD opportunities to join our lab @aberdlsagb.bsky.social 1. #Dormancy in soil #microbes: findaphd.com/phds/project... (closing 03/02) 2. #Aerosols and #zoonoses: findaphd.com/phds/project... (closing 31/01)

🚨New post!🚨 Fieldwork in high mountain Nepal. Fieldwork diary by Gunjan Silwal, detailing her recent challenging expedition to chart the loss of glaciers here. Evocative, thoughtful and compelling, and details the challenges of working in these areas. www.antarcticglaciers.org/2025/01/fiel...

UN International Year of Glaciers' Preservation starting appropriately with this in @nature.com ❄️🦠🏔️ www.nature.com/articles/s41...

#DYK glaciers are sensitive indicators of #ClimateChange and are retreating globally due to rising temperatures. Find out more about the International Year of Glaciers' Preservation #IYPG2025, implemented by @unesconow.bsky.social & @wmo-global.bsky.social : www.un-glaciers.org/en/homepage

Are you an analytical aqueous geochemist interested in a postdoc to study biogeochemical element cycles in terrestrial polar environments ? Come join us in Potsdam Team and research details @ www.gfz-potsdam.de/en/section/i... Application deadline Jan 5th 2025 www.gfz-potsdam.de/en/career/jo...

Happy to share our latest paper published in Environmental Research, a collaborative effort with our colleagues from China. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

After 24 years of work, I’m thrilled to announce the TYMEFLIES dataset, which comprises metagenomes from Lake Mendota (Madison, WI), collected roughly every 10 days (471 samples) for 20 years! @quendi.bsky.social @robinrohwer.bsky.social rdcu.be/d5put A thread…

Congratulations to @dnthomas01.bsky.social who is awarded an honorary doctorate from Bangor University today (to add to honours such as a glacier named after him & the polar medal!). Well deserved. www.bangor.ac.uk/news/2024-12...

Now hiring! Looking for PhD student for May 2025 semester investigating terrestrial and aquatic microbial biogeochemical cycling of nutrients and pollutant mobilisation in the Canadian north. Deadline to apply January 20, 2025 More details here: www.envmicrobio.uoguelph.ca/interested-i...

An opportunity to work with dream team

PLEASE SHARE: New PhD ALERT...New tools to detect small genes in genomes! Led by Dr Wayne Aubrey Comp Sci AU, myself and Dr Amanda Gibson @aberdlsagb.bsky.social and the wonderful @pauliomcveigh.bsky.social from QUB 🍂 #TeamFluke www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

📢 New paper led by postdoc Kirsten Ball Soil organic & inorganic carbon interactions under tillage & cover cropping determine potential for carbon accumulation in temperate, calcareous soils Surprising findings: tillage increased soil C, microbial biomass correlated w/ SIC doi.org/10.1016/j.st...

"#Antarctica hosts hundreds of native species of mosses, liverworts, lichens, and fungi, but only two native species of flowering plants" earthobservatory.nasa.gov/images/15362...

When is low #biodiversity something we should protect? The harsh conditions of the intertidal ( #beach) of the polar regions can create unique low biodiversity ecosystems. New paper from #Arctic #Canada/#Nunavut ᓄᓇᕗᑦ (1/) www.frontiersin.org/journals/mar...

Birthday weekend at Wales Ecology and Evolution Network (WEEN) conference. Great venue WISE (Wales Institute for Sustainable Education) building with friendly atmosphere with full of amazing people from undergrad to post doctorate with their amazing research. #WEEN2024

"No Welsh Art" Dim Celf Gymreig “So much for the past. No patron, no critic, therefore no painter, no sculptor, no Welsh Art. It is as simple as that.” Dr Llewelyn Wyn Griffith, 1950 #NationalLibraryofWales

Breaking news: will shortly advertise a UKRI OneZoo funded PhD opportunity “Assessing the potential for aerosol transmission of zoonoses within critical environments”. Project borne from frustrating knowledge gaps experienced during the COVID pandemic response. Supervisory dream team assembled too!

Happy Friday! Getting Christmassy office desk ❄🎄 #AberystwythUniversity #Aberystwyth

📢New paper in ISME Journal: 7 years in the making spanning three affiliations. Really excited to present a trait analysis in populations. Bacterial population-level trade-offs between drought tolerance and resource acquisition traits impact decomposition doi.org/10.1093/isme...

🚨🚨🚨 Glaciology peeps - @igsoc.bsky.social has joined the chat! ❄️🏔️🧪⚒️

🌨❄ #Aberystwyth

November 18 is the International Day of LGBTQIA+ People in STEM! Join our Pride in Microbiology @prideinmicro.bsky.social community and attend our first symposium!

Happy Polar Pride y'all 🏳️‍🌈❄️🐧🇦🇶 #PolarPride is a declaration of commitment to support & enhance diversity in Polar science. Every day is appropriate to celebrate, support, unite & uplift LGBTQIA+ people in #PolarScience & #STEM but 18 Nov is marked in particular to unite 😎🏳️‍🌈❄️ #DiversityInPolarScience

November 18 is the International Day of LGBTQIA+ People in STEM! The #UConn Microbial Ecophysiology Lab promotes inclusive & safe environments. We do science, but we also work to provide resources that enhance positive experiences in academia. @prideinstem.bsky.social @prideinmicro.bsky.social

Recognizing and celebrating the many contributions, achievements, and inherent value of LGBTQIA+ community members today and every day! 🧵 of a few papers describing how we can better support 🏳️‍🌈 and 🏳️‍⚧️ individuals in STEM. #QueerInSTEM #LGBTQStemDay

The fantastic @shaunoboyle.bsky.social has put together a vast list linking many studies and reports focusing on the experiences of LGBTQIA+ people studying or working in STEM. You can read it here. prideinstem.org/2024/11/18/t...

Happy Polar Pride! 🌈 Today we're celebrating the contribution of LGBTQ+ people in the international polar research and operations community 💙 ➡️ www.bas.ac.uk/media-post/p... #PolarPride2024 #LGBTSTEMDay #DiversityinPolarScience

If you like all things #polar, then why not follow bsky.app/profile/stev... He takes amazing photos, does fieldwork in remote places and studies mud! #PolarPride