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!

New paper!

@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.

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!