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David Evans and the ‘Amoeba’ Lab at the University of Southampton (UK), researching (foraminifera) biomineralisation and climate change in Earth’s past

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Gavin Foster @thefosterlab.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
!New Paper Alert! Corals are thought to make their skeletons from amorphous calcium carbonate (ACC). @amoeba-lab.bsky.social and I show here that this is however not compatible with their chemical composition. www.geochemicalperspectivesletters.org/article2623/ 1/2
A false coloured SEM picture of rounded particles of amorphous calcium carbonate with an overlay of a photo of a branched coral (Stylophora pistillata) Three X-Y cross plots showing the trace element distribution coefficients in amorphous calcium carbonate (ACC), inorganic aragonite, and coral aragonite, and the impact of Rayleigh fractionation in a closed reservoir on these (see the Supplementary Information of the paper for sources). (a) ACC is characterised by trace element distribution coefficients 1–2 orders of magnitude higher than aragonite in many cases (see Evans et al., 2020 for ACC data and the Supplementary Information for aragonite data sources). (b) In contrast, inorganic aragonite precipitated from seawater and coral skeletons are characterised by broadly similar distribution coefficient ranges. (c) A Rayleigh fractionation model demonstrates that the composition of many corals (circles) can be reconciled with the inorganic distribution coefficient and moderate degrees of Ca utilisation.
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EAG @eageo.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
New in GPL by Foster & Evans: The chemical composition of corals suggests either ACC undergoes near complete dissolution & exchange with the calcifying fluid during crystallisation, and/or skeletogenesis via ACC is of minor importance buff.ly/vxCgn70 @thefosterlab.bsky.social @amoeba-lab.bsky.social
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PAGES (Past Global Changes) @pages-ipo.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
🥳 It’s out! 📢 New PAGES Magazine: “The essence of time” Explore gaps, challenges & future directions in geological dating - from biostratigraphy to radioisotopic methods. ⭐ Read here: pastglobalchanges.org/publications... #PAGES #Paleoscience #EarthScience @marumunibremen.bsky.social
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James Rae @mudwaterclimate.bsky.social · 14/03/2026
Chair in Earth Sciences position @uniofstandrews.bsky.social closing soon - Monday 23 March. Very broad remit, so if you’d like to join our lovely school, and get to live in the super beautiful and friendly wee nation of Scotland, please apply! www.st-andrews.ac.uk/earth-scienc... ⚒️🌊🧪
East Sands beach, St Andrews, in the sunshine (which happens more often than you probably think!)
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The Amoeba Lab @amoeba-lab.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
Our recent paper exploring the link between atmospheric CO2 and seawater chemistry was featured on CBC's (fantastic!) science programme 'Quirks & Quarks' this week, available here: www.cbc.ca/radio/quirks...
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Feb 28: How starfish move their tiny tube feet, and more… | CBC Radio
Measuring rocket pollution, how calcium induced an ice age, unpacking dark matter and a listener question about freezing flows
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Hilary Davidson @fourredshoes.bsky.social · 21/02/2026
FYI, Academia.edu has changed its terms of service to give an irrevocable worldwide license for anything uploaded to its site to be used for generative AI. I do not consent to this and have pulled all my papers.
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Flavia Boscolo-Galazzo @fboscolo-galazzo.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
Ice sheets big and small www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Ice sheets big and small - Nature Geoscience
Ice sheets can be extremely sensitive, or remarkably resilient, to environmental perturbations. Reconstructions of past ice sheet variability help identify what controls their stability and how they m...
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Howard Lee @hlee.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
"the drop in calcium closely matched the slowing down of seafloor spreading – the volcanic process that continuously creates new ocean floors" ⚒️ scitechdaily.com/scientists-s...
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Scientists Solve a 66-Million-Year-Old Climate Mystery That Changed Earth Forever
Scientists have uncovered a surprising mechanism that may explain how Earth cooled dramatically after the age of dinosaurs. Scientists have solved a 66 million-year-old mystery, explaining how Earth s...
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Jessica Tierney @leafwax.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
Really excited to see this paper out!! Led by @vtcoop.bsky.social we show that if you use cold and warm paleoclimates together, you can reduce uncertainty in Earth's climate sensitivity by quantifying the pattern effect and more precisely constrain future climate change www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
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Paleoclimate pattern effects help constrain climate sensitivity and 21st-century warming | PNAS
Paleoclimates provide examples of past climate change that inform estimates of modern warming from greenhouse-gas emissions, known as Earth’s clima...
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University of Southampton @unisouthampton.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
Our scientists have unravelled a 66 million-year-old mystery behind how our planet transformed from a tropical greenhouse to the ice-capped world of today. Read more: tr.ee/dPOe9u @amoeba-lab.bsky.social | @sotonoceanearth.bsky.social | @russellgroup.bsky.social
Earth with a greenish tint, showing North and South America against a dark background.A person in a hard hat and orange safety vest examines a rocky hillside, using a tool to inspect or collect samples. The terrain is rugged and the sky above is clear.Rows of tiny, translucent, spiral-shaped shells scattered on a black background.
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The Amoeba Lab @amoeba-lab.bsky.social · 14/01/2026
We're delighted to announce our latest paper, which argues that seawater chemistry changes may have played a key role in driving the long-term carbon cycle: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
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Douwe van Hinsbergen @vanhinsbergen.bsky.social · 12/01/2026
Paleolatitude.org 3.0 is online! At what latitude was your backyard in the time of the dinosaurs? The answer is a simple mouse click away, and now also if your backyard lies one of the world's big mountain ranges!
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Flavia Boscolo-Galazzo @fboscolo-galazzo.bsky.social · 07/01/2026
Paper Alert❗️We present the first Oligocene record of orbital variability in abyssal ocean temperature based on benthic foraminiferal clumped isotopes. Temperature changes up to 4 degrees C with a 110 kyr pacing, indicating Antarctic ice-volume at this time was less dynamic than previously thought.
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Will Gray @willerstorfi.bsky.social · 04/12/2025
new paper led by Andressa Nauter-Alves assessing controls on trace elements (Mg, Sr, B, Li /Ca) in multiple species of benthic foraminifera using a large compilation of coretop samples (>1500 sites). dx.doi.org/10.1029/2025...
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Thermal and Non‐Thermal Controls on Benthic Foraminiferal Mg/Ca, Sr/Ca, B/Ca, and Mg/Li: Global Core‐Top Compilation, Revised Calibrations, and Application to the Geologic Record
We compile ∼1,500 core-top benthic foraminiferal Mg-Sr-B-Li/Ca measurements from five species and one genus to produce new calibrations Many benthic foraminiferal elemental systems require multiv...
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The Amoeba Lab @amoeba-lab.bsky.social · 05/12/2025
Absolutely delighted to announce the publication of our benthic foraminifera trace element compilation + revised multivariate calibrations: Nauter-Alves et al. (2025): agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/... With @willerstorfi.bsky.social @mudwaterclimate.bsky.social and others
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Thermal and Non‐Thermal Controls on Benthic Foraminiferal Mg/Ca, Sr/Ca, B/Ca, and Mg/Li: Global Core‐Top Compilation, Revised Calibrations, and Application to the Geologic Record
We compile ∼1,500 core-top benthic foraminiferal Mg-Sr-B-Li/Ca measurements from five species and one genus to produce new calibrations Many benthic foraminiferal elemental systems require multiv...
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Gavin Foster @thefosterlab.bsky.social · 11/11/2025
Fully funded PhD projects available in my group (Please share with interested parties, details here: www.thefosterlab.org/blog/2025/11...):
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PhD Topics - Entry September 2026 — The Foster Lab
This year we are involved in 3 fully funded PhD projects via IGNITE our NERC DLA. The deadline is Thursday Jan 8th 2026 .  1.      Is the world already 1.5 C warmer?...
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Will Gray @willerstorfi.bsky.social · 23/10/2025
Hello! we have a new paper out today in @science.org reviewing Calcifying Plankton : from Biomineralization to Global change 🌊🧪🐚 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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Calcifying plankton: From biomineralization to global change
The cycling of calcium carbonate (CaCO3) in the ocean is closely linked to seawater alkalinity and the regulation of atmospheric CO2. In the modern pelagic ocean, almost all CaCO3 is produced by three...
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Gavin Foster @thefosterlab.bsky.social · 05/08/2025
New Paper Alert!! Tessa Page and others show how corals deal with low or unbalanced nutrients www.nature.com/articles/s41... The main issue is lack of P that causes them to upregulate P-transporter genes and likely consume their symbionts and bleach! 🪸🌊🧪
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Changes in host gene expression patterns underpin responses of the coral Stylophora pistillata to nutrient stress - Scientific Reports
Scientific Reports - Changes in host gene expression patterns underpin responses of the coral Stylophora pistillata to nutrient stress
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Laura Cotton @lauraminifera.bsky.social · 29/07/2025
🎉Are you a mineralogist who also loves museums? 🎉 Come join the Natural History Museum Denmark! We are looking for an assistant professor and curator of mineralogy. Advert can be found below, but apply soon! Deadline is 11th August😱 candidate.hr-manager.net/ApplicationI...
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211-0241/25-2N Tenure-track Assistant Professor and Curator in Mineralogy at Natural History Museum Denmark
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Niels de Winter @nielsjdewinter.bsky.social · 19/05/2025
Fascinating study on a #giantclam that was kept in the Dutch @burgerszoo.bsky.social aquarium for a decade and recorded changes in it's (semi)controlled environment in its shell. These types of growth experiments allow us to use shells as archives of past change www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Ten years of Tridacna sclerochemistry at up to daily resolution from a controlled aquarium environment – Records of habitat change, induced seasonality and growth variability
Giant clams such as Tridacna sp., with their rapid shell accretion (mm-cm/year), decade-long lifespans and aragonitic shells, are invaluable (palaeo)e…
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The Amoeba Lab @amoeba-lab.bsky.social · 03/05/2025
If you can't be with the forams you love, love the forams you're with #Ammonia
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Pallavi Anand (she/her) @anandpallavijha.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
👇🏼extended #ICP15 deadlines to submit abstracts and complete registration -5th May!
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Gavin Foster @thefosterlab.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
Great to finally hold this in my hand! Pleasure to work with @amoeba-lab.bsky.social and Ros Rickaby in editing this issue of Elements: Biomineral Geochemistry. Thanks also to all the authors who made such a great set of articles! www.elementsmagazine.org 🧪🌊⚒️
Cover of the latest issue of Elements Magazine called Biomineral Geochemisty: Windows into Past Climates and Calcification.  The cover shows a picture of small clusters of amorphous calcium carbonate
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Gavin Foster @thefosterlab.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
!New Paper Alert! Matrix independent and interference free in situ boron isotope analysis by laser ablation MC-ICP-MS/MS pubs.rsc.org/en/content/a.... In it we use our Neoma MC-ICPMS/MS to overcome the complexities of measuring boron isotopes by Laser Ablation in carbonates and other minerals. ⚒️🧪🌊🪸
Cross plots of d11B reference value vs. what we measure using Laser Ablation on our Neoma MC-ICPMS/MS.  All the data lie on the 1:1 line showing that we can get accurate d11B data using laser ablation on a range of matrices from carbonate to silicate when normalised to NIST 612 glass. Mass scans from m/z 9.7 to 11.1 for the Neoma MS/MS, base Neoma and Neptune when ablating carbonates.  The Neptune shows an elevated background due to scattering of Ca and Ar 4+ ions.  This is reduced in the base Neoma and entirely eliminated in the Neoma MS/MS.  We think this is because the formation of Ca4+ and Ar4+ is reduced in this design of MS and scattering of this multiply charged ions is reduced once Ar and Ca are cut out by the pre-filter. This shows the problem with laser ablation boron isotopes in carbonates on our Neptune MC-ICPMS.  It shows a mass scan from m/z 9.7 to m/z 11.1 with peaks at the boron masses 10B and 11B.  Rather than being a flat line - the baseline is elevated around boron 10 (and 11) due to scattering of 4+ Ar and Ca.
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Jenn Fehrenbacher @jennfehrenbacher.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
Need micropaleontology slides? I started a company! MicroPaleoWorks.com. If you need slides, hit me up. Prices range from 1.50 to 2.20 each depending on the variety. We can customize with numbering for a fee. We are a #smallbusiness #womenowned #madeintheUSA using #canadianaluminum & #recycledpaper
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Gavin Foster @thefosterlab.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
Very pleased to have co-edited the latest version of Elements Magazine (www.elementsmagazine.org) "Biomineral Geochemistry" with @amoeba-lab.bsky.social and Ros Rickaby. Topics range from controls on CaCO3 polymorph to the role of amorphous intermediate phases and "vital effects". 🧪🌊🪸⚒️
Cover of Elements Issue entitled Biomineral Geochemistry: Windows into Past Climates and Calcification.  The picture shows amorphous calcium carbonate particles - the precursors to many biominerals
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The Amoeba Lab @amoeba-lab.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
Absolutely delighted to announce that our issue of Elements was published today: www.elementsmagazine.org Highlighting how biomineral geochemistry can be (simultaneously) used to reconstruct past climate change and constrain biomineralisation processes
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Bieito Fernandez Castro @bfcastro.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
About ten days left for this job! Don't miss the chance!
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The Amoeba Lab @amoeba-lab.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
Today in the Amoeba lab - an initial step on our path to building a new dedicated foraminifera culturing facility. Here are our first images of live foraminifera!
An image of a live foraminifera around 200 microns in diameter with long pseudopodia
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Pallavi Anand (she/her) @anandpallavijha.bsky.social · 17/03/2025
#ICP15 #perspective #speakers are Raja Ganeshram @edinburgh-uni.bsky.social , B N Goswami, Sidney Hemming @lamontearth.bsky.social @bridgetwade.bsky.social Thomas Westerhold @marumunibremen.bsky.social All our #pleanry #speakers are now announced 👇🏼😊 www.icp15.com/themes
#ICP15 perspective speakers are Raja Ganeshram, B N Goswami, Sidney Hemming, Bridget Wade and Thomas Westerhold
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Pallavi Anand (she/her) @anandpallavijha.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
#ICP15 announces #invited #plenary #speakers on #ocean-climate dynamics Cristiano Chiessi Sophie Hines @whoi.edu @fpoeppelmeier.bsky.social Margit Simon @bjerknes.bsky.social And Xu Zhang @bas.ac.uk
#ICP15 announces speakers for #ocean ocean-climate dynamics: (left to right) Cristiano M Chiessi, Sophie Hines, Frerk Poeppelmier and Xu Zhang
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Pallavi Anand (she/her) @anandpallavijha.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
#ICP15 announces #invited #plenary #speakers on past climate state reconstructions from #proxies and #models Alex Farnsworth Lukas Jonkars @marumunibremen.bsky.social Johann allege @awi.de And Pam Vervoort @unibirmingham.bsky.social Complete line of theme speakers: www.icp15.com/themes
#ICP15 invited speakers on past climate state reconstructions from proxies and models are Alex J Farnsworth, Heather Ford, Lucas Jonkers, Johann P Klages and Pam Vervoort
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Pallavi Anand (she/her) @anandpallavijha.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
#ICP15 presents #invited #plenary #speakers for #paleomonsoon #monsoon dynamics theme @triptychphrases.bsky.social Pedro DiNezio @edhathorne.bsky.social @antacl.bsky.social Chuan-Chou (River) Shen and Arun Deo Singh www.icp15.com/themes
#ICP15 invited speakers photos (from left to right): Tripti Bhattacharya, Pedro DiNezio, Ed Hathorne, Anta-Clarissa Sarr, Chuan-Chou (River) Shen and Arun Deo Singh.
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Pallavi Anand (she/her) @anandpallavijha.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
#ICP15 presents #invited #speakers in theme 5, #innovation / #novel approaches in #paleocenaography and #paleoclimatology Hana Jurikova -> Uo St Andrews Lenart De Nooijer -> Matt Osman -> UoCambridge Yi Wang -> Tulane Uni Martin Ziegler -> Utrecht Uni www.icp15.com/themes (Scroll down to theme 5).
#ICP15 invited speakers of Theme 5 are: (from left to right) Hana Jurikova, Lenart De Nooijer, Matt Osman, Yi Wang and Martin Ziegler.
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Pallavi Anand (she/her) @anandpallavijha.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
#ICP15 presents theme 1 #invited #speakers #biogeochemistry #Climate @eleniwater.bsky.social @alexauderset.bsky.social @chalkyoceans.bsky.social @seavdavis.bsky.social @jfarmersalmanac.bsky.social and Arvind Singh
Theme 1 invited speakers at the ICP15, Eleni Anagnostou, Alex Auderset, Tom Chalk, Kate David, Jesse Farmer and Arun Singh.
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Bridget Wade @bridgetwade.bsky.social · 02/03/2025
New paper out in Biogeosciences: Exploring macroevolutionary links in multi-species planktonic foraminiferal Mg/Ca and δ18O from 15 Ma to recent. Read all about it here doi.org/10.5194/bg-2...
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Exploring macroevolutionary links in multi-species planktonic foraminiferal Mg∕Ca and δ18O from 15 Ma to recent
Abstract. The ratio of the trace element Mg over Ca (Mg/Ca) and the oxygen isotopic composition (δ18O) of foraminiferal calcite are widely employed for reconstructing past ocean temperatures, although...
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Will Gray @willerstorfi.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
new paper led by Flavia Boscolo-Galazzo 'Exploring macroevolutionary links in multi-species planktonic foraminiferal Mg∕Ca and δ18O from 15 Ma to recent' bg.copernicus.org/articles/22/...
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Exploring macroevolutionary links in multi-species planktonic foraminiferal Mg∕Ca and δ18O from 15 Ma to recent
Abstract. The ratio of the trace element Mg over Ca (Mg/Ca) and the oxygen isotopic composition (δ18O) of foraminiferal calcite are widely employed for reconstructing past ocean temperatures, although...
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Pallavi Anand (she/her) @anandpallavijha.bsky.social · 09/02/2025
Dear Paleoceanographers, #ICP15 #registration, #abstract, and #ECR #grant submission is now open. Please follow link on the website. If you are applying for ECR grant then please wait to register/book accommodation until you hear from us. 🙏🏼 www.icp15.com/register
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