One of our affiliated societies - The Earth Science Teachers' Association is holding their 58th annual conference next weekend at @es-ucl.bsky.social in London. Join them for two days of learning, networking, and fun! Tickets available here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-58th-e...

New research! Scientists have identified a new constraint on the chemistry Earth’s core by showing how it was able to crystallise millions of years ago. buff.ly/YzhrM1l @natcomms.nature.com @earthandenvleeds.bsky.social @es-ucl.bsky.social

Day 3, #ICP15 , perspective talk by Bridget Wade @es-ucl.bsky.social The Oligocene - with ice and a twist 🙏🏼

Stunning conditions (and enthusiastic students!) for the first few days of the @es-ucl.bsky.social mapping course in North West Scotland! ☀️ ⛰️ ⚒️🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🗺️ #fieldworkfriday

Prof @tomatronmitch.bsky.social @es-ucl.bsky.social talks to @newscientist.com about ‪crushing Antarctic ice in his lab as part of an NERC-funded project with @bas.ac.uk to understand how the continent's ice may crack in future – with implications for sea level www.newscientist.com/video/249090...

eartharxiv.org/repository/v... In our new preprint we describe in detail the software & workflows behind www.SewageMap.co.uk! One for the open environmental data nerds out there :) 💩 🧑‍💻 🏞️

📽️In April, a team of scientists from @ucl.ac.uk journeyed to Resolute Bay to explore the use of Ku- and Ka-band in understanding snow and ice properties ❄️ Find out more about and watch the case study film on our website 👇 cpom.org.uk/testing-kuka... Image credit: Rosemary Willatt (UCL)

Had a really great time at @eavpalaeo.bsky.social in Kraków last week with all of team croc/sauropod from @es-ucl.bsky.social 🐊🦕 (as well as many old/new pals). Big thanks to everyone involved in organising! @macroecoevoale.bsky.social @devinhoffman.bsky.social @pdmannion.bsky.social

A few snaps from Open Day one! Featured: @es-ucl.bsky.social and their cool gadgets, @uclrdr.bsky.social and #AI's role in it, @stsucl.bsky.social info session, and our #student ambassadors at the end of a long day! 🫰 #UCLOpenDays @ucl.ac.uk #EarthSciences #humanitarian #science #technology

Everything you want to know about Pulleniatina can be found in the paper out last week: Systematic taxonomy of Pulleniatina. Journal of Foraminiferal Research, 55: 245-275. DOI:10.61551/gsjfr.55.3.245 by Paul Pearson, Alessio Fabbrini and Bridget Wade @es-ucl.bsky.social‬ #IODP #UCL #NERC

The European Space Agency (ESA) Women Trailblazers Round Tables: Dr Rosie Willatt took part in the ‘Frontiers of Technology’ panel discussions during the Living Planet Symposium 2025 in Vienna. @esa.int She talked about encouraging young people to consider a career in space science.

And now we are hearing from Rosemary Willatt in the session ‘Identifying the next research priorities for the ESA Polar Science Cluster 2026+’.

Last but not least session for me at #LPS25 with Rosie Willatt from @es-ucl.bsky.social telling us about up future opportunities in polar earth observation and upcoming satellites 🛰

One of the highlights of the year – the MSci Independent Project Poster Session. Congratulations to all our master’s students on this great achievement! We’re proud of your hard work and excited to see where your journey takes you next.

Have you got your ticket for our in-person #Undergraduate #OpenDays on 27 and 28 Jun? Join us to find out everything you need to know about what it's like being a UCL student: www.ucl.ac.uk/prospective-... @uclrdr.bsky.social @stsucl.bsky.social @es-ucl.bsky.social @uclchemistry.bsky.social

New paper in @currentbiology.bsky.social led by Steve Poropat @curtinuniversity.bsky.social ‪in which we present the first ever direct evidence of sauropod dinosaur feeding, based on stomach contents of the Australian titanosaur Diamantinasaurus: www.cell.com/current-biol... @es-ucl.bsky.social

Our MSc student Hannah Dixon participated in the eighth UN Global Platform for Disaster Risk Reduction forum last week. Held in Geneva, the event enabled participants to share new knowledge, exchange best practice and discuss the latest developments in reducing disaster risk. @es-ucl.bsky.social

New paper led by @es-ucl.bsky.social & @nhm-london.bsky.social PhD student @plesiosarahs.bsky.social on the earliest fossil whale preserved with evidence of the bone-eating worm, Osedax, with implications for the latter's survival across the end-Cretaceous mass extinction: doi.org/10.1098/rsos...

New post: Analytical Geochemistry Technician! The role will involve providing technical support to the Geochemistry related laboratories, and will include the use of various analytical equipment including Spectroscopy, XRD, LA-ICP-MS and SEM. Deadline: 24.6.2025! www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...

We are advertising for a full-time permanent lectureship in Earth Sciences. You can find out more about the position (and apply) here: www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...

If you're interested in applying for a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Postdoctoral (or any other) fellowship to come work with me @es-ucl.bsky.social on sauropods, crocodiles, fossil birds, past biodiversity patterns and/or conservation palaeobiology for vertebrates, please get in touch

Come along with Sandra, one of our @es-ucl.bsky.social Digital Student Ambassadors, as she jets off to #Spain for a #Geology #FieldTrip as part of her Sedimentology & Stratigraphy module: youtu.be/WB32OLKxeoM #Pyrenees #EarthSciences #StudyUCL

Today is an exciting day at the Museum, we’re opening our exhibition Space: Could Life Exist Beyond Earth? 🚀🌟 From a meteorite older than Earth to interactive games, get a sneak peak of what to expect. ⬇️

Prof Peter Clift is interested in the Indus river, when it was born and how it developed. Read more at: timesofindia.indiatimes.com/articleshow/...

Terribly sad to report the death of geologist, palaeontologist and pioneer of building stone studies Eric Robinson (1929-2025). My colleague and friend @es-ucl.bsky.social he was a lovely man & a huge influence on my career. Condolences to his family.

Tyrannosaurus rex evolved in North America, but its direct ancestor came from Asia, crossing a land bridge connecting the continents more than 70 million years ago, finds a new study by an international team led by PhD researcher @cretaceous-cass.bsky.social @es-ucl.bsky.social @uclmaps.bsky.social

On the first day of our MSc Geophysical Hazards field trip to the Azores, our students walked in a lava tube and discussed the hazards associated with lava flows and lava-water interaction. @es-ucl.bsky.social 🌋

On the second day of our field trip to the Azores, students had a go at taking soil carbon dioxide concentration and flux measurements to investigate soil diffuse degassing, which can be a significant hazard on parts of the island here. @es-ucl.bsky.social

On the third day of our Azores field trip, we learnt about structural controls on volcanism, including the formation and hazards associated with calderas and monogenetic fields. Here is the group stood in Sete Cidades caldera on the western margin of São Miguel. @es-ucl.bsky.social

On the fourth day of our field trip, students learnt about landslide hazards and mitigation at Ribeira Quente. ⛰️ @es-ucl.bsky.social

Some of the scenery on our Azores field trip....😍 @es-ucl.bsky.social

A technique to cool the planet, in which particles are added to the atmosphere to reflect sunlight, would not necessarily require developing special aircraft but could be achieved using existing large planes, finds a new modelling study led by PhD student @aliduffey.bsky.social @es-ucl.bsky.social

The idea that dinosaurs were already in decline before an asteroid wiped most of them out 66 million years ago may be explained by a worsening fossil record from then, rather than a genuine dwindling of dinosaurs, suggests a study led by Dr Chris Dean @princessquatris.bsky.social @es-ucl.bsky.social

The Betics 2025 Year 3 fieldtrip. Hello from sunny southern Spain where students taking Crustal Dynamics, Mountain Building and Basin Evolution module have been in the field investigating the lithologies, deformation styles and tectonic setting of the Betics cordillera.

@royalsociety.org released a beautiful #documentary on #KathleenLonsdale, partly filmed at UCL's Kathleen Lonsdale Building, commemorating the 80th anniversary of the election of the first women Fellows: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jwcf... @es-ucl.bsky.social @uclchemistry.bsky.social @ucl.ac.uk

In just one hour, we’re opening the doors to our first new permanent gallery in almost a decade. Want to peek behind the curtain and take a quick tour to see what Fixing Our Broken Planet has to offer? 👀 We thought you might…

We call this a "super-shear" earthquake, Dr Stephen Hicks @seismo-steve.bsky.social explains...

There's such great diversity in stable isotope applications! I asked our @es-ucl.bsky.social students to find and summarise an article on a stable isotope system that they don't learn about in class. Here are the keywords from the papers that they chose!

To bring awareness to #WorldWaterDay, @es-ucl.bsky.social student Sandra gives us the rundown on the delicate balance that is struck between #Earth's #glaciers and the #ocean, and how continued #carbon release is harming and altering these delicate systems: youtu.be/AaGmzm1_ySM #water #environment

Our new paper @royalsociety.org describing a new notosuchian crocodyliform from the early Paleocene of Argentina that we interpret as evidence for survival of a large-bodied terrestrial lineage across the K–Pg mass extinction (w/@piginatutu.bsky.social): doi.org/10.1098/rspb... @es-ucl.bsky.social

Our new paper out today describes a sebecoidean crocodylomorph from the Early Palaeocene of Patagonia, and provides support for the survival of a large-bodied terrestrial vertebrate lineage across the K-Pg. @pdmannion.bsky.social @es-ucl.bsky.social royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...

New paper @cp-trendsecolevo.bsky.social in which we consider how species' ranges shift, expand, and contract in the present day, past, and future, along with the effects on local and global biodiversity, with Jed Brodie, Ben Freeman & Anna Hargreaves: doi.org/10.1016/j.tr... @es-ucl.bsky.social

The discovery of two new sauropod dinosaur species in Romania, including a 12 metre-long giant, challenges a theory that dinosaurs in what was then Hateg Island adapted to their limited habitat by becoming smaller. Researchers included Profs @pdmannion.bsky.social & Paul Upchurch @es-ucl.bsky.social

Experts urge government to address climate emergency in national curriculum reforms | UCL News - UCL – University College London www.ucl.ac.uk/news/2025/fe...

On my way to London to give my @thepalass.bsky.social Innovations in Palaeontology Lecture to @es-ucl.bsky.social - thanks for the invite @pdmannion.bsky.social! www.palass.org/awards-grant...

👃🔬 Sniffing out history! UCL researchers uncover the scents of ancient mummies! 🏺✨ From woody and spicy to sweet and incense-like, these 3,500-year-old aromas could help assess mummy preservation—no sampling needed. Read more: bit.ly/41dlnUi #UCLResearch #Egyptology #Science #Mummies

Our second student blog article by Ella Hunter-Campbell looks at issues of social vulnerability and resilience exposed by the 2003 Bam earthquake in Iran. Check it out here... www.ucl.ac.uk/earth-scienc... @es-ucl.bsky.social

New paper led by @daniajinn.bsky.social (+Zoltan Csiki & Paul Upchurch) in which we revise the latest Cretaceous Romanian titanosaur sauropods, including the largest phylogeny of the group, and revised view of their palaeobiogeography: doi.org/10.1080/1477... (@es-ucl.bsky.social, @royalsociety.org)

For our final student blog article, Ruby Tavola explores Fiji's vulnerability to Cyclone Winston in 2016. Enjoy: www.ucl.ac.uk/earth-scienc... @es-ucl.bsky.social

Our students have been writing blogs on vulnerability to natural hazards, and this week we will be sharing links to three of them. The first, written by Sébastien Schillé, explores Colombia's vulnerability to the 1985 eruption of Nevado del Ruiz: www.ucl.ac.uk/earth-scienc... @es-ucl.bsky.social