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Anthropocene Sediment Network @anthrosednet.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

Thank you so much for joining us James! It was great to see you.

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James Hardwick @jahardwick.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

Three days in Oslo at a writing workshop for Geoscience Disrupted: A Guide to Anthropocene Sediment — rethinking what sediment means in the Anthropocene, across disciplines from anthropology to geology. Thanks to Alessandro, Catherine and Alejandro for organising. @anthrosednet.bsky.social

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Anthropocene Sediment Network @anthrosednet.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

Our conference program is now live! It is happening on Wednesday 27th May! Find more information here: anthrosednet.com/2026-confere... Please register here to join us (free & online) for what promises to be a fantastic day: us06web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

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2026 Conference

The Anthropocene Sediment Network Conference 2026 Wednesday 27th May 202610:00 – 16:30 London Time The 2026 ASN Conference will bring together researchers, practitioners, and creative thinker…

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Anthropocene Sediment Network @anthrosednet.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

We have extended abstract submissions to Friday 8th May but won't be able to extend beyond that! We look forward to learning about your work! 😁

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Anthropocene Sediment Network @anthrosednet.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

#Showcase your work at our #conference! Deadline for a talk outline is tomorrow! Link below: forms.gle/QsvNVoBjH12W... All disciplines are welcome, it's a complex topic that deserves complex conversations!

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Anthropocene Sediment Network @anthrosednet.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

📣HAPPENING TODAY!📣 Join us to learn about "Sand Mining in India"! The event is free and online, register here: lnkd.in/eKiCRq7M

Flyer for an Anthropocene Sediment Network online event titled “Sand Mining in India.” The event takes place Wednesday, 22 April 2026, from 7:30–9:30 pm IST (3:00–5:00 pm London time). The programme includes talks by Priyank Pravin Patel, Suraj Gupta, and Siddharth Agarwal, introduced by Prantika Bhowmick, followed by discussion. The flyer includes speaker photos, images of sand mining landscapes and excavators, and a QR code for free registration.

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Paul Byrne @theplanetaryguy.com · 03/04/2026

This image of home just came down from the Artemis II crew. Taken after their translunar injection burn, there are aurorae at top right and lower left, and zodiacal light at lower right. Credit: NASA/Reid Wiseman

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Anthropocene Sediment Network @anthrosednet.bsky.social · 30/03/2026

Don't forget to register for our upcoming event on #SandMining in #India! The event is #FreeAndOnline so that it is #accessible to all. Feel free to share this flyer widely, it promises to be an excellent event! Register here: us06web.zoom.us/meeting/regi... #anthropocene #sediment #collaboration

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Anthropocene Sediment Network @anthrosednet.bsky.social · 27/03/2026

We’re happy to announce a new Special Issue in Anthropocene: “Plastic Fate Across Environments and Sedimentary Systems”! We are looking for cutting-edge contributions on how plastics move, transform, fragment, and accumulate across Earth surface systems 🧪⚒️🌍🔎 www.sciencedirect.com/special-issu...

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Anthropocene Sediment Network @anthrosednet.bsky.social · 23/03/2026

Look how wide the field of #Anthropocene #Sedimentology already is! We gather to discuss and consider how sediment moves, changes, and records our human-shaped world... Abstract submission is open for our free and online 2026 Conference! anthrosednet.com/2026-confere... Join us! 😆

Illustrated cross-section “landscape” graphic showing a wide range of Anthropocene sediment settings, with many labels marked as times (e.g., 09:45, 10:30, 12:45, 15:30, 17:30, which refer to the schedule that we had on the day). The scene includes a city/industrial area and port on the left, housing and a quarry/extraction area toward the centre, a hill with grazing animals, engineered/managed slopes, and an industrial plant with smokestack and machinery. The subsurface shows layered ground with tunnels/voids and channel-like features, suggesting buried infrastructure, excavation, and sediment movement. Overall, the image conveys the variety of environments and processes covered by ASN conference talks.

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Anthropocene Sediment Network @anthrosednet.bsky.social · 19/03/2026

Plastic is beginning to form rock-like #materials! Fernanda Avelar Santos & team document #plastic “rock” types on an outcrop on #Trindade Island. Synthetic rocks shaped by humans as depositional and post-depositional agents! Find more in our #Sedimentarium! www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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Plastic debris forms: Rock analogues emerging from marine pollution

Continuous input of plastic litter in ocean and coastal environments achieved alarming levels that are exposing new settings in natural systems. While…

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Anthropocene Sediment Network @anthrosednet.bsky.social · 16/03/2026

What happens when plastics and grass meet on the beach? Patricia Corcoran explores how #plastic debris can get incorporated into natural “tumbleweed”-like agglomerations. Field studies from the #GreatLakes and #Sardinia show what affects their ability to gather debris! Full video on our website!

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Anthropocene Sediment Network @anthrosednet.bsky.social · 11/03/2026

We are hosting our first focussed event! Come and join us for free and online for what promises to be a fascinating deep dive into #sandmining in #India! #sediment #anthropocene #geopolitics #geology #environment #geomorphology Register here: us06web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

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Anthropocene Sediment Network @anthrosednet.bsky.social · 09/03/2026

What happens when landfill meets the sea? Billy looks at how erosion is exposing a #coastal #landfill site, releasing hazardous materials into the #marine environment. He’s developing new methods to track how these materials move along the coast. @qmul.bsky.social Full video on our website!

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Anthropocene Sediment Network @anthrosednet.bsky.social · 06/03/2026

"Vanishing Sands: Losing Beaches to #Mining" exposes the #sandmining crisis. Written by marine geologist Orrin H. Pilkey and a team of interdisciplinary experts, we learn how sand is ecologically irreplaceable when removed from dynamic #sediment systems. www.goodreads.com/book/show/59...

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Vanishing Sands: Losing Beaches to Mining

In a time of accelerating sea level rise and increasing…

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Anthropocene Sediment Network @anthrosednet.bsky.social · 04/03/2026

Abstract Submission for our 2026 Conference is now OPEN! Find out more here: anthrosednet.com/2026-confere.... Deadline 6th May 2026. The 2026 ASN Conference will bring together researchers, practitioners, and creative thinkers with sediment in common. The event is free and online!

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The Anthropocene Sediment Network Conference 2026 27th May 2026 The 2026 ASN Conference will bring together researchers, practitioners, and creative thinkers from across many fields, with sediment …

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Anthropocene Sediment Network @anthrosednet.bsky.social · 02/03/2026

How does urban waste become #coastline? Rachel Rozanski explores #Toronto’s Leslie Street Spit, a human-made peninsula built from construction rubble since 1959. Today it forms a layered record of #UrbanGeology and shoreline reworking. Full video on our website!

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Anthropocene Sediment Network @anthrosednet.bsky.social · 25/02/2026

Thank you for being here! 👋😆 If you’d like to help more people find the #Anthropocene Sediment #Network, feel free to share this #flyer in your channels and communities! 📜 The ASN is a free, open #community for applied, multidisciplinary work on #sediment movement in a #human-shaped world 🌍🌏🌎

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Anthropocene Sediment Network @anthrosednet.bsky.social · 23/02/2026

How are we sinking and shaping #coastal plains? Kay Koster looks at land #subsidence in the #Netherlands, where #anthropogenic #sediments have been used for centuries to stabilise low-lying land, but can also drive subsidence through compaction, drainage, and loading. Full video on our website!

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Anthropocene Sediment Network @anthrosednet.bsky.social · 20/02/2026

Lebreton's classic 2017 paper “River #plastic emissions to the world’s oceans” shows a snapshot of how bad the problem already was... now nearly 10 years ago! Have we met this challenge, or has #river #pollution become worse? Read more in our #Sedimentarium 📚 www.nature.com/articles/nco...

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River plastic emissions to the world’s oceans - Nature Communications

Rivers provide a major pathway for ocean plastic waste, but effective mitigation is dependent on a quantification of active sources. Here, the authors present a global model of riverine plastic inputs...

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Anthropocene Sediment Network @anthrosednet.bsky.social · 16/02/2026

How does mining reshape #landscapes? Bryony Reynolds explores how millennia of #mining in England have reshaped topography, drainage, and vegetation. Lasting pits, spoil heaps, and underground voids still influence ground stability and landscape form. Full video on our website!

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Anthropocene Sediment Network @anthrosednet.bsky.social · 13/02/2026

How can we see the world with a different lens?🔎 In #Timefulness, Marcia Bjornerud invites us to think like geologists and feel #Earth’s deep rhythms to consider how a longer sense of time may reshape today’s decisions... www.goodreads.com/book/show/39... One of many books in our #Sedimentarium📚

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Timefulness: How Thinking Like a Geologist Can Help Sav…

Why an awareness of Earth's temporal rhythms is critica…

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Anthropocene Sediment Network @anthrosednet.bsky.social · 11/02/2026

Yesterday the #Anthropocene #Sediment Network Team met to map out our 2026 event programme! We made some important steps in planning our 2026 conference... watch this space! If you’re interested in sediment and human impacts, now is a very good time to get involved! Membership is free!

Screenshot of an ASN team Zoom meeting showing eight participants in a grid layout. Top row (all left to right): Eun Young Lee, Catherine Russell, Julie Hope. Middle Row: Prantika Bhowmick, Diana Hatzenbühler, Cari Johnson. Bottom row: Penny Tristram, and Mohammed Mofizur Rahman. Participants are seated indoors in home or office settings and smiling toward their cameras.

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Anthropocene Sediment Network @anthrosednet.bsky.social · 09/02/2026

How does sand mining reshape rivers? @drchrishackney.bsky.social explores how #sandmining is transforming riverbeds in the #MekongRiver, #Cambodia. His work shows that bedforms become larger, steeper, and rougher than natural ones, altering flow and #sediment dynamics! Full video on our website!

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Anthropocene Sediment Network @anthrosednet.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

What is the ASN? How did it begin? And what are we doing? Our founder and leader, Dr Catherine Russell, opened the first #Anthropocene #Sediment #Network conference in June 2025. We’re excited for this #interdisciplinary space for understanding materials and their motion on a human-shaped #Earth!

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Anthropocene Sediment Network @anthrosednet.bsky.social · 02/12/2025

Our website has some shiny new updates and the Sedimentarium is looking spectacular with new Gallery, Maps, and Paper collections to go alongside our Library! Check it out here: anthrosednet.com

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Empowering community-driven solutions on a changing planet

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Rachel Carson Center for Environment & Society @carsoncenter.bsky.social · 04/11/2025

We are excited to share that the newest issue of 𝘚𝘱𝘳𝘪𝘯𝘨𝘴 is now live! Three essays, a visual narrative, a short story, and an interview join forces to uncover missing pieces in our quest to understand human–environment interactions: springs-rcc.org #publications #envhum #envhist #RCCSprings #issue8

Poster to advertise new issue of Springs: The Rachel Carson Center Review, showing an Arctic glacier. Image by Flora Mary Bartlett.

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Anthropocene Sediment Network @anthrosednet.bsky.social · 22/07/2025

The ASN Conference 2025 talk are now online! Feel free to share, promote, and explore them all. Our speakers were awesome! ✨ youtube.com/playlist?lis... If you would like to get involved in the ASN, check out the link in our profile!

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The Anthropocene Sediment Network Conference 2025 - YouTube

Today's sediment doesn't just route through natural systems, but also engineered channels, infrastructures, economies, and legislation. We have entangled the...

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Anthropocene Sediment Network @anthrosednet.bsky.social · 22/07/2025

Thank you so much for speaking Dev! We loved your blend of geoscience and creativity 😁✨

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Anthropocene Sediment Network @anthrosednet.bsky.social · 18/06/2025

Well that conference was absolutely incredible! Thank you THANK YOU to everyone who presented and to everyone who came along to participate in the discussions! What an amazing day ✨

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Anthropocene Sediment Network @anthrosednet.bsky.social · 09/06/2025

📣 Save the date! 18th June 2025 🌍 Online! This free one-day event will explore #sediment through the lenses of #archeology, #art, #environmental #architecture, #history, #envsci, #geology, and many more! Registration link here: 🔗 anthrosednet.com/2025-confere... #Anthropocene #Sediment #ASN2025

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Nina Willburger @drnwillburger.bsky.social · 05/06/2025

Glass beads were a luxury product in Bronze Age central Europe. These 3,000 year-old beads were found in the pile-dwelling settlements of Sipplingen and Hagnau-Burg at Lake Constance. They were probably made in the Alpine foothills from raw glass imported from Italy. 📷 @almbawue.bsky.social 🏺

Cylindrical glass beads in bright shades of blue and turquoise with white horizontal stripes
Photo: Archäologisches Landesmuseum Baden-Württemberg

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Anthropocene Sediment Network @anthrosednet.bsky.social · 05/06/2025

Love the story of how Blue John got its name… they used amber to extract it, turning the edges of some blocks yellow & the mineral itself is blue. When trading it to France, it was called bleu jaune (blue yellow) stone, and the name returned to the mines in a more native sounding “Blue John”. 🪨

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Anthropocene Sediment Network @anthrosednet.bsky.social · 05/06/2025

🌍ASN 2025 #Conference registration is OPEN!🌍 Sediment processes are no longer simply natural, they involve #economies, #cities, #engineered #environments, and much more! Join us in expanding our understanding of #sediment system complexity: anthrosednet.com/2025-confere... #Anthropocene #ASN25

A box model diagram, showing a 3D "wedge" of landscape. On the model, each talk is represented. There is a city and a lignite mine in the background, with some horses on the far mountain. The meandering river is dammed, and has sandmining, subsidence, and anthropogenic alteration along the beach. A spit and lagoon, island, and reef represent the other fascinating coastal talks. In the foreground is a deep sea corer, and to the right of the image are mined tunnels and some surface spoil heaps. Each feature is labelled with the time at which the equivalent talk occurs, details of which may be found in the programme.

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Anthropocene Sediment Network @anthrosednet.bsky.social · 16/05/2025

Just one week to go! Submit your abstract for our free one day online conference! From artists to scientists, if you work anywhere in the human-Earth interface, you will fit in here! Deadline 23 May - anthrosednet.com/2025-confere... #ASN25

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ASN Conference 2025 18th June 2025 Join us in exploring materials and their motion on Earth, through an interdisciplinary lens. We encourage submissions from archaeology, environmental science, art…

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Dr Alex Bond @thelabandfield.bsky.social · 05/05/2025

One bird. 399 pieces of plastic. 55 g. This is not our record.

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Ruth Siddall @pavementgeology.bsky.social · 13/05/2025

WWII shrapnel damage on the church of St Clement Danes on The Strand which caused impact craters in Portland Stone #urbangeology #impacts

The apse of the church showing the Portland stone masonry pick-marked by shrapnel damage

Close-up of some of the impact craters on the church walls

Another close-up of some of the impact craters on the church walls

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WATERSHED Investigations @watershed-i.bsky.social · 12/05/2025

Bottom trawling devours vast numbers of sea creatures, many not killed for food but as bycatch. At the same time it scours the seabed, destroying the habitat young sea life needs to grow - leading to generational decline in population & biodiversity. oceanographicmagazine.com/news/ocean-f...

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Ocean footage of bottom-trawling depicts "ecological vandalism" - Oceanographic

Heartbreaking footage of bottom-trawling features in new cinema release, Ocean with David Attenborough to open the world's eyes to its horrors

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Anthropocene Sediment Network @anthrosednet.bsky.social · 09/05/2025

2 weeks left to submit your abstract for our free one day online conference! If you work on exploring the intersection of humans and Earth from landscapes to legacies, this is a community for you! Deadline 23 May - anthrosednet.com/2025-confere... #ASN25 #Anthropocene #Sediment #Interdisciplinary

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Jackie Caplan-Auerbach @geophysichick.bsky.social · 05/05/2025

Fossils of the Anthropocene.

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Lego Lost At Sea @legolostatsea.bsky.social · 04/05/2025

May the 4th be with you. A beachcombed Obi-Wan Kenobi for #StarWarsDay

Beachcombed Obi-Wan Kenobi on black background

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Anthropocene Sediment Network @anthrosednet.bsky.social · 02/05/2025

You asked, we listened!📣 Abstract submission deadline for the ASN meeting is extended till 23rd May!🌞 We welcome anyone working at the interface between Earth and humanity🌍 To find out more / reach out and ask questions / submit something, info is at this link: anthrosednet.com/2025-confere...

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Anthropocene Sediment Network @anthrosednet.bsky.social · 30/04/2025

The hard work behind the film is evident, its powerful stuff. Thank you for making it! We are all connected through sediment, and highlights the complexity of the challenges we are faced with today! Drinking water shouldn’t be “toxic waste”, that much is clear.

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Anthropocene Sediment Network @anthrosednet.bsky.social · 30/04/2025

Leana Hosea’s film “Thirst for Justice”🎥 is critical context on the importance of #environmental monitoring & accountability re #waterpollution🧪 It speaks deeply to the entanglement of pollutants, health, and #EnvironmentalJustice⚖️ Watch here: vimeo.com/ondemand/thi... @leanahosea.bsky.social

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Watch Thirst For Justice Online | Vimeo On Demand

— For Home Use Only — Armed only with facts and their illnesses, extraordinary citizens take on industry and government, risking arrest to protect…

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Nina Willburger @drnwillburger.bsky.social · 29/04/2025

A #Roman pottery colander found in Vindobona, present-day Vienna. Just like today, colanders were also an important utensil in #Roman kitchens - and the form hasn't really changed. Form follows function. Dating 2nd/3rd c. AD 📷me 🏺 #archaeology

A dome-shaped clay vessel with a handle, displayed in a museum case. The upper part is perforated with evenly spaced rows of small holes.

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