QRA ADM in Brighton, abstract submission deadline 10th November!!! Submit your abstracts for a talk or a poster @quaternaryra.bsky.social sites.google.com/view/qraadmb...

Currently writing up the results of new radiocarbon dating from this amazing Neolithic monument, Le Déhus, on the Channel Islands. With thanks to @isotopesuk.bsky.social and @oxradiocarbon.bsky.social for funding radiocarbon dating.

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...

Stood in the Cretaceous looking at the first grasses on Earth (British Geological Survey) geological walkway…

In 1955 the third (?) mass spectrometer in the world (maybe for geochronology?) was purchased by Oxford University for the determination of the oldest rocks… at the grand price of £10,000. Apparently the determination will have “no immediate practical application” but it was beautiful…

The University of Nottingham has appointed BGS’s senior isotope research geochemist, Angela Lamb, as an honorary professor. As part of her role, Angela will contribute to undergraduate and postgraduate teaching alongside facilitating collaborative research programmes between BGS and the University.

Congratulations to NEIF researcher, Francesco Putzolu, whose Economic Geology paper 'Origin of the Jadar Volcano-Sedimentary Li-B Deposit, Serbia' has been awarded the prize for the best Mineral Deposits paper from Young Researchers by the Italian Geological Society: www.socgeol.it/N6807/premio...

So grateful to NEIF for funding this research! The new dates suggest cemeteries started about the same time, rather than gradually spreading from east to west. They reveal funerary practices on the scale of human lifetimes, and raise new questions about how burial rites related to LBK social change

A momentous day, the 1000th run on the Elementar isoprime 100 aqua prep (aka monkey), 13 years old and still excellent

We're excited to announce the launch of the Stable Isotope Ecology course on the GAEA platform. Learn more and register for this and other courses at www.gaea.ac.uk @isotopesuk.bsky.social vimeo.com/757190807?fl...

Congratulations Charles Gowing on 32 years service to inorganic geochemistry /British Geological Survey - happy retirement, you will be missed! Follow your dreams ✈️🌍🛩️🌏

Great insights from the Elementar Elemental Analysis & TOC Forum at Manchester Museum! Jack, Kotryna and Charlotte recently attended the Elementar Elemental Analysis & TOC Forum, an event packed with innovation & expertise in advanced elemental analysis.

One month before the next NEIF deadline! Please get in contact asap if you want to apply for some radiocarbon dates in this round. For UK based students, post-docs and beyond. @isotopesuk.bsky.social @unioxarchaeology.bsky.social www.isotopesuk.org/apply.html

A momentous day, the 1000th run on the Elementar isoprime 100 aqua prep (aka monkey), 13 years old and still excellent

Lovely new paper by @pennybickle.bsky.social and team, using some NEIF funded dates to suggest European Neolithic cemeteries were a short-lived phenomenon. 20 years on, things are still getting shorter! @oxradiocarbon.bsky.social www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Interested in joining a world-leading geological organisation? We have two vacancies available: 🌱 Organic geochemist 📋 Administrator / business assistant Keep updated on these and all of our latest vacancies over on our jobs page: www.bgs.ac.uk/about-bgs/wo...

Congratulations to those who have received stable isotope NEIF funding (BGS node) at the spring 2025 meeting: Dr KA Hemer (UCL). Prof D Thornalley (UCL). Dr JF Dean (Bristol). Prof GMF van der Heijden (Nottingham). Dr AC Law (Nottingham). Dr D Wright (Newcastle).

Thoroughly enjoyed talking to the students and staff at the Museu de Zoologia at the University of Sao Paulo, about our @isotopesuk.bsky.social Stable Isotope Ecology Lab at @suerc.bsky.social , but also the many ways in which stable isotopes can be used in ecological applications.

Congratulations to Sir Keith O’Nions on his retirement as Chair of the British Geological Survey Board, thanks for your 8 years of service… Keith was presented by Karen Hanghøj with a garnet laser engraved by Matthew Horstwood in the NEIF National Environmental Isotope Facility

I am co-convening a meeting at the Royal Society later this year, with @krhendry.bsky.social and other very excellent polar science colleagues. If you have interests relating to Antarctica and the impacts of climate change, please consider participating!

NEIF 14C groups from Oxford & SUERC, together in Kraków! Great to see everyone at the 25th Radiocarbon Conference last week—enjoying 14C science, collaboration, and a bit of Kraków sunshine. #Radiocarbon2025 #NEIF #14C #Krakow

Delighted that pangolin research by @ruthlewissmith.bsky.social is featured by Birmingham Museums. Huge thanks from SUERC @isotopesuk.bsky.social for the generous donation of sample material from their natural science collection!

🧬 Professor Melanie Leng delivered the 2025 Battarbee Lecture on stable isotope analysis in diatoms, insects, and lake sediments—continuing her impactful work with @ucl.ac.uk Geography. More: tinyurl.com/ucl-leng #UCLGeography #StableIsotopes #BattarbeeLecture #EnvironmentalResearch

Tracing the geographic origin of Atlantic cod products using stable isotope analysis - Wilson - 2025 - Rapid Communications in Mass Spectrometry #stableisotopes analyticalsciencejournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

Andi Smith and Chris Bengt (BGS) travelled to the Philippines for Chris’s PhD fieldwork at Lake Bulusan, Sorsogon Province. The core material will shed light on phosphorus dynamics and the role volcanic eruptions play in fertilising the surrounding forests.

Isotopes in Palaeoenvironmental Research - update Published 1.6.25. This is an update on the 2004 QSR issue on “Isotopes in Quaternary Paleoenvironmental Reconstruction”.The last 2 decades have seen huge advances in methods and interpretation… www.sciencedirect.com/journal/quat...

Congratulations NERC on 60 yrs of leadership in environmental science. In celebration NERC published its new 10-year vision, launched at the Royal Society. The Forward Look for Environment Science www.ukri.org/publications...

Andi Smith and Chris Bengt (BGS) travelled to the Philippines for Chris’s PhD fieldwork at Lake Bulusan, Sorsogon Province. The core material will shed light on phosphorus dynamics and the role volcanic eruptions play in fertilising the surrounding forests.

At the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) isotope labs today learning about their GloWALL network (Global WAter Analysis Laboratory Network) Thanks to Jhenelle Williams for the tour!

NEIF staff @meljleng.bsky.social and @angelalamb.bsky.social are at #EGU25

Another glorious day @egu.eu #EGU25

Angela’s talk today at #EGU25 on the palaeoecology of wolves 👏👏👏 @angelalamb.bsky.social @britgeosurvey.bsky.social

A couple of great mass spec companies we work with here at #EGU25 Sercon and Elemtex (catch them in the exhibitors hall this week)

NEIF staff @meljleng.bsky.social and @angelalamb.bsky.social are at #EGU25

Trains, buses, metros… travelling overland to #EGU2025 Nottingham, London, Paris, Zurich, Otztsl, Vienna…

Today, GAEA launches their Cosmogenic Nuclide Geochronology. This course has been developed by Dr Derek Fabel of the @isotopesuk.bsky.social NEIF Cosmogenic Nuclide Facility at SUERC. The course is free to any academic email address, any problems use the contact form. www.gaea.ac.uk/about-the-co...

I'm thrilled to have started a new role as an "In situ Radiocarbon Scientist" at @uofglasgow.bsky.social/ SUERC/ @isotopesuk.bsky.social! I'll be setting up a new NEIF in situ 14C lab over the next year 🧪🏔️

This issue of Quaternary Science Reviews comprises reviews on stable isotopes in different types of records. This is an update of the 2004 issue on “Isotopes in Quaternary Paleoenvironmental Reconstruction (ISOPAL)”, volume 23, issue 7–8, pages 739–992. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

7/7 Huge thanks to @thomasbodey.bsky.social @bescott-abdn.bsky.social Ana Payo-Payo, Al Baylis, @raorben.bsky.social Amandine Gamble, @isotopesuk.bsky.social @ronamcgill10.bsky.social @jasonisotopes.bsky.social @quadratdtp.bsky.social @saerifi.bksy.social @uniofaberdeen.bsky.social

Did I mention I'm so stoked that this is published? :) Collect feather fragments🪶; chop 'em up✂️; set 'em on fire🔥; measure the gases👩‍🔬! Super excited to build on this research in coming months combining stable isotope analysis (made possible w huge help from @isotopesuk.bsky.social) & geolocators!

It’s arrived! Our new Elementar isoprime precisION with iso DUAL INLET and iso MULTI PREP - aka Gemini (the bright twin stars representing its dual purpose)… for extremely high precision water d18O and micro carbonate d18O and d13C analysis…🐚🦪🐣💦🌊💧

Congratulations @daniel-a-villar.bsky.social !!!

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

NEIF has launched an online course developed by our stable isotope teams at BGS and SUERC covering the fundamentals of stable isotopes. Through these 5 videos, covering basic terminology, notations, essential equations, and potential applications of stable isotopes. vimeo.com/1067017318?s... 1/3

Spring has sprung, hello from some of the stable isotope team (Kot, Doris (radiogenic interloper), Chris, Charlotte, and Angela 👋🏻👋🏻👋🏻☀️☀️

Dr Saurav Dutta of British Antarctic Survey is working with us this week sampling shells for oxygen isotopes to look at millions of years of temperature change in the Southern Ocean @sauravdutta.bsky.social @bas.ac.uk

For UK-based ecologists submitting a #stableisotopeecology application to the National Environmental Isotope Facility, please get in touch with your ideas - stableisotopelab.com/people The next deadline will be 26th March 2025. More details see www.isotopesuk.org/apply.html