New research highlighting the utility of #MuseumCollections and #stableisotopeecology. @williammills.bsky.social and others found that brown skuas in the Southern Ocean have shifted wintering strategies over the past 100 years, moving to more oceanic subantarctic waters. doi.org/10.1098/rsos...

Stable isotopes show how land use shapes stream chemistry and entire foodwebs. The study demonstrates links between low drainage soils / agricultural pastures, increased CH4 and C isotopes in consumers. Funding of measurements- @isotopesuk.bsky.social doi.org/10.1002/ece3... @robbriers.bsky.social

The meeting brings together the latest developments and applications for the use of stable isotopes across a wide range of disciplines including: archaeology, food science, geoscience, health sciences, and forensics, to name but a few.

Registration for SIMSUG 2026 remains open until Monday 8th June and can be accessed by visiting: simsug2026.carrd.co Abstract submission is also open but will soon close on Friday 22nd May. Please submit your abstract for an oral/poster presentation as soon as possible.

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

It’s great to see Nho’s paper published on the identification of the dominant moisture sources, the development of a framework for characterizing precip, & evalu of the hydrological processes & anthropogenic influences / using water isotopes from the Red River. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Happy birthday Sir David, here you are in 2017 when you visited the NEIF labs at @BGS for ‘Attenborough and the giant elephant’ documentary…🐘

From lake sediments to tropical soils 🌱 Chris recently took a break from his PhD research with Envision DTP at Lancaster University and British Geological Survey to spend three months as a placement student in West Java, Indonesia. @isotopesuk.bsky.social

Well done @charhipkiss.bsky.social - another PhD paper 👏👏👏

Well done @charhipkiss.bsky.social www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

The impact of giant iceberg melting on Southern Ocean productivity… www.nature.com/articles/s43...

Industrial placements at BGS for undergraduate students give real-life experience of working in laboratories and learning different analytical techniques. Here, Dorontina Domi tells us about her industrial placement in BGS' stable isotope facility: www.bgs.ac.uk/news/isotope...

Happy International Geologist’s Day to all #geologists and #geochemists ! May your expeditions run smoothly and with great success & your experiments savely! @bgs.ac.uk @olakwiecien3.bsky.social @andrejpaleo.bsky.social @worrytimez.bsky.social @geohenning.bsky.social @geolsoc.bsky.social @egu.eu

Had an excellent time attending UKAS 2026 in Bristol this past week. Heard a lot about new isotope work within archaeological science and presented some of my modelling work. Looking forward to the next meeting in 2028! @charhipkiss.bsky.social

At last...new paper with Kathryn Adamson, @glaciologytim.bsky.social, Phil Hughes, and Derek Fabel and Delia Gheorgiu at @isotopesuk.bsky.social - thanks, everyone! 36Cl dates from the Irish Midlands, plus some geomorphology to complicate things. doi.org/10.1016/j.qu...

Many thanks to all participants in the Radiocarbon Short Course this week. Many excellent discussions had, and great to see so many people so enthusiastic about radiocarbon! @isotopesuk.bsky.social @unioxarchaeology.bsky.social

This EA-IRMS has filled the space. It runs 'mega-fast' batches increasing throughput, and our tech Gary loves it! It's able to combust organic samples, measure C and N stable isotopes and collect CO2 in our collection system for 14C dating. @isotopesuk.bsky.social @unioxarchaeology.bsky.social

NEIF @isotopesuk.bsky.social are recruiting new members for the NEIF Strategy Group and three Steering Committees (Radiocarbon (Panel A), Life Sciences (Panel B) and Geology & Environment (Panel C)). We are also recruiting for a Chair for Panel A – Radiocarbon. See www.bgs.ac.uk/download/ner...

New paper!

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@oxradiocarbon.bsky.social student Jessica Ratcliff, who is supported by a NEIF grant to date materials from these caves, reporting on her work with local partners to protect this wonderful environment

Three nodes of NEIF (Bristol, BGS and Oxford) are at the UK Archaeological Science conference. Great to see so many isotope and organic residue talks and posters! @unioxarchaeology.bsky.social

New Open Access Paper! We present the site of Al Uyaynah, Pre-Pottery Neolithic in Saudi Arabia, excavated by my former PhD student Dr. Khalid Alasmari. New set of C14 dates, thanks to @isotopesuk.bsky.social funding onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... @uoyarchaeology.bsky.social

Are you UK based and need funding for radiocarbon dating? Spring has sprung, which means it is time for the next deadline for NEIF applications! Please get in contact asap to discuss your project. Deadline 25th March; www.isotopesuk.org/apply.html

Looking forward to Monday and filling this space! @isotopesuk.bsky.social @unioxarchaeology.bsky.social

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.