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Christine S. Lane

@chslane.bsky.social
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Geography Prof of tephra at Uni Cambridge. Thinks & teaches about Quaternary environments, volcanic ash and field/lab skills. She/her. 🧪🌍🌋⚒️

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Christine S. Lane @chslane.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
The incredible Worthing Museum… and a chip off the old block. Spotted both of my archaeo-folks and lots of familiar faces in the Burpham Big Dig exhibition. A real celebration of local history and community. wtm.uk/exhibitions/...
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Christine S. Lane @chslane.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Where do we shout to drown out the haters with voices of kindness? I am filled with sadness tonight.
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PARK Jinheum @jinheum.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
Great article in Ars Technica by Jacek Krywko about our recent publication. Many thanks!
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Christine S. Lane @chslane.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
I missed this great The Conversation article by the brilliant Jayde Hirniak last September, but it’s a timely article given @jinheum.bsky.social’s recent paper showing the 74ka Toba eruption didn’t have a lasting climatic impact in eastern Africa: theconversation.com/a-massive-er...
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A massive eruption 74,000 years ago affected the whole planet – archaeologists use volcanic glass to figure out how people survived
Researchers can study volcanic deposits at archaeological sites to piece together how ancient people responded to catastrophic events.
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PARK Jinheum @jinheum.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
We reveal, at sub-annual resolution, the ~74 ka Toba super-eruption‘s acute, but short-lived impact on eastern African climate using varved sediments in Lake Chala (Kenya/Tanzania)! www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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Sub-annual resolution evidence for limited impact of the 74-ka Toba eruption on eastern African climate
Sub-annually resolved lake sediments suggest the Toba eruption caused modest cooling and drought in eastern Africa.
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Royal Geographical Society (with IBG) @rgs.org · 05/06/2026
📊New data shows benefits of choosing geography at university. This includes high graduate employment rates, with geography graduates having a higher rate than average. Find out more: www.rgs.org/about-us/our-work/lates…
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Cambridge Geography @camunigeography.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
Geographers celebrated for their contribution to research culture! Huge congratulations to María Inés Hernández, Thomas Fry, Liam Saddington @saddy94.bsky.social, Alex Cullen, Olga Petri, Sarah Hall @drsarahhall.bsky.social and Christine Lane @chslane.bsky.social
A photograph taken by Paolo Juan. From left to right: Christine Lane, Olga Petri, Liam Saddington, Thomas Fry, Alex Cullen.
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Christine S. Lane @chslane.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
Palynology Postdoc position, Institute of archaeology, Oxford. www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DRE447/p...
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Postdoctoral Research Associate MEMELAND (Palynologist) at University of Oxford
Recruiting now: Postdoctoral Research Associate MEMELAND (Palynologist) on jobs.ac.uk. Click for details and explore more academic job opportunities on the top job board
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Dr Scott J. Davidson @wetlandresilienceresearchgroup.com · 16/02/2026
🚨Funded #PhD opp🚨 in my lab, co supervised by Vincent Maire at Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières Linking above-and belowground plant #phenology to carbon cycling in #peatlands You can see full advert (in english/french) here: wetlandresilienceresearchgroup.com/Opportunitie... Please share!
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Cambridge Geography @camunigeography.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
Year 12s at UK state schools: Apply for the FREE @suttontrust.bsky.social UK Summer School at Cambridge! Experience life at Cambridge & dive into Geography—all for free. Deadline: 12 Feb (Midday) Apply: summerschools.suttontrust.com/course/university-of-cambridge/geography-4/
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Tom Higham @tommyhigham.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
Several exciting PhD opportunities here in the University of Vienna STEM-call. In our department fully funded positions in biomolecular zooarch, Pleistocene felid diversity and admixture, sedaDNA and popgen, and archsci and AMS 14C dating. Apply below now! careers.univie.ac.at/en/praedoc/s...
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Leverhulme Trust @leverhulme.ac.uk · 05/01/2026
Made by MA students @nftsfilmtv.bsky.social, this film features volcanologist Clive Oppenheimer exploring the links between volcanoes and the beginning of life on Earth. @camunigeography.bsky.social
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Oppenheimer or How I learned to stop worrying and love the volcano
Featuring volcanologist Clive Oppenheimer, this film explores the links between volcanoes and the beginning of life on earth
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Dr Carmen Martín-Ramos @cmramos.bsky.social · 02/02/2026
Palaeoecology Research Fellow at @qubelfastofficial.bsky.social www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DQJ146/p...
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Palaeoecology Research Fellow (Ecologies of Governance) at Queen's University Belfast
Discover Palaeoecology Research Fellow (Ecologies of Governance) jobs and more in higher education on jobs.ac.uk. Apply for further details on the top job board.
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Christine S. Lane @chslane.bsky.social · 12/01/2026
📣 Studying tephra in archaeology? Then submit an abstract to our #tephratastic session at the European Association for Archaeologists #EAAs in Athens this summer. 🌋🏛️ Session #203 “Advances in Tephrochronology for Archaeological Research”. 👉5th Feb deadline👈 More info: bit.ly/3LCcuyy
Session abstract:
Tephrochronology is one of the most effective tools for building precise and independent chronological frameworks that link archaeological, palaeoenvironmental, and geological archives. By relating tephra layers to eruptive events, it establishes isochrons – time-synchronous surfaces that enable stratigraphic sequences to be correlated across regions with exceptional precision. In recent years, the study of cryptotephra – fine-grained (<125 μm) volcanic glass shards preserved in sediments far from their source – has profoundly expanded the potential of this approach. The identification and geochemical fingerprinting of these invisible ash layers now allow long-distance correlations, extending the applicability of tephrochronology to regions and contexts once considered beyond its reach.
This session focuses on how the integration of tephra studies into archaeological research is transforming our ability to correlate, date, and interpret the complex relationships between human activity, archaeological cultures, landscape evolution, and volcanic events across space and time. By bringing together examples from different regions and periods—from prehistoric to historical contexts—the session will highlight the diversity of applications and the growing analytical precision that characterise this rapidly evolving field.
We welcome contributions demonstrating how both visible tephra and cryptotephra layers have been used to refine archaeological chronologies, synchronise cultural and environmental sequences, or strengthen the chronological control of multiproxy datasets. Methodological and case-study papers are equally encouraged, especially those integrating tephrochronology with geoarchaeological and palaeoenvironmental methods such as micromorphology, sedimentology, and palaeoecological analyses. Research from regions traditionally considered “tephra-poor”, where cryptotephra discoveries are revealing new temporal anchors, is particularly welcome.
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Christine S. Lane @chslane.bsky.social · 12/01/2026
📣 Studying tephra in archaeology? Then submit an abstract to our #tephratastic session at the European Association for Archaeologists #EAAs in Athens this summer. 🌋🏛️ Session #203 “Advances in Tephrochronology for Archaeological Research”. 👉5th Feb deadline👈 More info: bit.ly/3LCcuyy
Session abstract:
Tephrochronology is one of the most effective tools for building precise and independent chronological frameworks that link archaeological, palaeoenvironmental, and geological archives. By relating tephra layers to eruptive events, it establishes isochrons – time-synchronous surfaces that enable stratigraphic sequences to be correlated across regions with exceptional precision. In recent years, the study of cryptotephra – fine-grained (<125 μm) volcanic glass shards preserved in sediments far from their source – has profoundly expanded the potential of this approach. The identification and geochemical fingerprinting of these invisible ash layers now allow long-distance correlations, extending the applicability of tephrochronology to regions and contexts once considered beyond its reach.
This session focuses on how the integration of tephra studies into archaeological research is transforming our ability to correlate, date, and interpret the complex relationships between human activity, archaeological cultures, landscape evolution, and volcanic events across space and time. By bringing together examples from different regions and periods—from prehistoric to historical contexts—the session will highlight the diversity of applications and the growing analytical precision that characterise this rapidly evolving field.
We welcome contributions demonstrating how both visible tephra and cryptotephra layers have been used to refine archaeological chronologies, synchronise cultural and environmental sequences, or strengthen the chronological control of multiproxy datasets. Methodological and case-study papers are equally encouraged, especially those integrating tephrochronology with geoarchaeological and palaeoenvironmental methods such as micromorphology, sedimentology, and palaeoecological analyses. Research from regions traditionally considered “tephra-poor”, where cryptotephra discoveries are revealing new temporal anchors, is particularly welcome.
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Christine S. Lane @chslane.bsky.social · 09/01/2026
#Tephratastic PhD alert!! Study the record of volcanism hidden in the sediments of Lake Ohrid with the brilliant @pgalbert.bsky.social…and even better, you’d live on the Welsh coastline 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🌊☀️ Bad news: deadline is Monday 12th Jan!! 🧑‍💻 More info: bit.ly/4pu3FVu
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“New insights into the timing and scale of past Mediterranean volcanism and climate change from Lake Ohrid (Macedonia/Albania)
Swansea University
Crocus DLA”
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Dr Beccy Scott @beccyscottuk.bsky.social · 06/01/2026
Lots of offshore Quaternary talks today, and an inspiring keynote from Professor Becky Briant on the benefits that Quaternary scientists can deliver during ground engineering design: if any of this floats your boat (sic), we're hiring at Wessex Archaeology share.google/MbXadGnfgrLB... #QRA2026ADM
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Marine Geoarchaeologist
Marine Geoarchaeology
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Christine S. Lane @chslane.bsky.social · 06/01/2026
Couldn’t be happier to see Phil Barker win the QRA Croll Medal today. He ended his thanks with some wise words: “Collaboration is better than competition to advance Quaternary Science”. Thanks Phil for all the wisdom and guidance you’ve shared with so many 👏👏 #QRA2026ADM
A man in smart casual navy clothes shakes hands with a women in white and green, standing on a stage in front of a lit projector screen. They both smile. You can just see the edge of a little black box that contains a medal.
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Christine S. Lane @chslane.bsky.social · 05/01/2026
👀 A postdoc position working with the incredible @fegbutcher.bsky.social on Martian glaciology! (prepping my CV right away 🤩🤩)
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Christine S. Lane @chslane.bsky.social · 05/01/2026
Enjoyed every word of Dr @abistone.bsky.social ‘s Wiley Lecture today at Day 1 of #QRA2026ADM in Brighton. On a cold winter’s day she took us to the warmth of the Namib to search for ancient hominin landscapes.
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Abi Stone @abistone.bsky.social · 05/01/2026
#QRA2026ADM is go!
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Prof. Elaine Chalus @profelainechalus.bsky.social · 02/12/2025
Jennifer Ward Oppenheimer Professorship of the Deep History & Archaeology of Africa- University of Cambridge - Department of Archaeology #skystorians 🗃️www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DPP065/j...
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Jennifer Ward Oppenheimer Professorship of the Deep History & Archaeology of Africa at University of Cambridge
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Christine S. Lane @chslane.bsky.social · 15/12/2025
My end of year brain cannot find a caption for this image that I took when I’d borrowed these awesome 3D printed pollen grains from Matthew @conservepalaeolab.bsky.social, but it’s begging for a joke about modeling and scale in Quaternary Science. Your suggestions?
Quaternary science themed models: 3  hand made ceramic tephra shards, a small plastic mammoth and two big jars full with bright yellow 3D printed models of pollen grains. The jars tower over the mammoth in the foreground and the tephra is about 1/4 the size of the grains.
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Claire Boardman @claireboardman.bsky.social · 08/12/2025
👀 Postdoctoral position in radiocarbon dating and Bayesian modelling at the Department of Archaeology and Heritage Studies @auarcher.bsky.social international.au.dk/about/profil...
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Postdoctoral position in radiocarbon dating and Bayesian modelling at the Department of Archaeology and Heritage Studies - Vacancy at Aarhus University
Vacancy at School of Culture and Society - Department of Heritage Studies, Aarhus University
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Christine S. Lane @chslane.bsky.social · 12/12/2025
Given what we all work in, it has to be “a core of geographers”!
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Helen M. Roberts @helenrobertsosl.bsky.social · 09/12/2025
Seeking a strong applicant for Aberystwyth University PhD Funding scheme 'AberDoc', on the topic: 'Novel biogenic carbonates for luminescence dating of the entire Quaternary period'. Our lab also welcomes PhD applications for other luminescence dating projects for the same AberDoc funding round.
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PhD Opportunities  : Department of Geography & Earth Sciences , Aberystwyth University
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Tim Holt-Wilson @timholtwilson.bsky.social · 07/12/2025
Suffolk ploughsoil is rich in far-travelled wonders. One could teach a geology course using just one field in Gislingham! Thanks @megwildflowers.bsky.social for specimen cutting & pictures. Perhaps some from Charnwood @charnwoodforest.bsky.social, others from Scotland.
A brown rock with a slightly sparkley surface. It has been sawn through with a cutting disk.A brown rock which has been sawn through with a cutting disk to reveal metamorphic flow banding. Deep burial (perhaps at over 30 km) of what might have started as a mudstone or schist protolith but the minerals and texture have now been reorganised into a gneiss. The wavy structures indicate plastic deformation under heat and pressure.The outside of a grey rock, showing several large feldspar crystals. The right side of the specimen has been sliced with a cutter.The inside of the grey rock looking like a dog's dinner of black, pink and white minerals. The mineral composition looks intermediate in character, so this is probably a granodiorite. It may come from the Charnwood Forest area.
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Carl Sayer @carlsayer.bsky.social · 07/12/2025
A wooded multi-channel #chalkstream in a Norfolk (eastern England) military training area that has avoided tidying & dredging. Lots of fallen wood & bankside trees. Sparkling gravel patches, sands & leaf packs. Crystal clear waters fed by healthy local springs. Everything we have lost & want back
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Christine S. Lane @chslane.bsky.social · 26/11/2025
Does anyone else feel they are just too disorganised for their jobs? Why does sorting field kit and printing handouts fill so much time? 🤯 Maybe it’s just that point in term 🤷‍♀️
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Christine S. Lane @chslane.bsky.social · 24/11/2025
Hope no one is hurt. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
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Ethiopian volcano erupts for first time in 12,000 years
Ash clouds from Hayli Gubbi volcano sent drifting across the Red Sea toward Yemen and Oman
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Christine S. Lane @chslane.bsky.social · 20/11/2025
@geographicalassoc.bsky.social @rgsibg.bsky.social @rgs-ibghe.bsky.social @camunigeography.bsky.social
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Christine S. Lane @chslane.bsky.social · 20/11/2025
This year we’ve added #Geography to the @corpuscambridge.bsky.social Pelican Programme. Part of our widening participation package, the 6-month intensive PP is a great way to expand geographical skills and knowledge ahead of a university application. Find out more: www.corpus.cam.ac.uk/pelican
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The Pelican Programme
Nominations for the 2026 Pelican Programme are now open and will close on Friday 12 December (17:00).
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Christine S. Lane @chslane.bsky.social · 19/11/2025
Celebrations in the PhD office as another fantastic @camunigeography.bsky.social student comes out of their viva smiling. Congratulations Ciara Greaves!! (and 10/10 for the tree ring cake🤩)
A (chocolate) cake decorated to look like a section through a tree, with mint leaves around the edge for decoration.
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International Continental Scientific Drilling Program ICDP @icdpdrilling.bsky.social · 19/11/2025
📢 Workshop CALL: Deep CHB (Addis Ababa, Ethiopia) Deep Chew Bahir Drilling Project WHEN 📆 June 30th – July 3rd, 2026 CALL ▶️ www.icdp-online.org/fileadmin/Ne... MORE INFO ℹ️ www.icdp-online.org/all-events/d...
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Christine S. Lane @chslane.bsky.social · 14/11/2025
Two weeks until our 2/12 PhD funding deadline! If you’re interested in a cryptotephra research project and joining @camtephra.bsky.social there’s still time drop me an email to discuss your ideas. Dept funding info: www.geog.cam.ac.uk/postgraduate... NERC DLA: nercdtp.esc.cam.ac.uk/StaffDirecto...
A grey, unoccupied lab with sink, centrifuge and shelvesA hand holding a tally counter with 294 showing, next to the stage of a microscope. There is a slide on the microscopeA row of labelled centrifuge tubes, with white caps, in a test tube rack.A few platy fragments of glass viewed under high powered optical microscopy.
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Kevin Anchukaitis @thirstygecko.bsky.social · 13/11/2025
Exciting news! Student applications for paleoCAMP 2026 are open! Are you a graduate student working on any aspect of past climates or environments? Apply to be part of our 2-week summer school in the eastern Sierra Nevada! More details here: paleoclimate.camp/apply
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Application — paleoCAMP
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Christine S. Lane @chslane.bsky.social · 13/11/2025
Proud supervisor moment 🫶 Brilliant to see your paper published online @elowilkinsonrowe.bsky.social
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Christine S. Lane @chslane.bsky.social · 12/11/2025
Fun finds in our sediment labs today. @camunigeography.bsky.social
Two people in lab coats in the foreground looking at a microscope screen with an image of a gastropod on it.
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Christine S. Lane @chslane.bsky.social · 06/11/2025
Signs of a good day in the field with the Quaternary students from @camunigeography.bsky.social 🌍
Two pairs of hands, palm up, brown with mud. One has a tap measure hanging on their wrist. The ground below is covered in autumn leaf litter and walking boots can be seen.
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Christine S. Lane @chslane.bsky.social · 31/10/2025
This week with our 2nd year @camunigeography.bsky.social students we’ve been learning about varve lake sediments and what they’ve revealed about abrupt climate change. It’s been fun! Here is a peek at some diatomaceous varves in the Lake Chala cores from Kenya/Tanzania. Enjoy…
The surface of a split sediment core, with a cm scale along each edge. You can see about 8 cm of the core. The surface shows fine mm-scale to cm-scale laminations, which for the most are alternating light-dark couplets. There is a cocktail stick marking a ~1 cm grey layer, which is a volcanic ash deposit.
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Tephra Information Portal @tephraportal.bsky.social · 23/10/2025
Abstract submission is open for #EGU2026! Join our session ESSI3.6 "From Principles to Practice: Multidisciplinary Approaches to Data-Driven Tephra Research." Share your multidisciplinary research, workflows, best practices, and cyberinfrastructure. meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/EGU26/sessio...
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Christine S. Lane @chslane.bsky.social · 17/10/2025
Anyone else have happy feet today? 🍂
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Christine S. Lane @chslane.bsky.social · 16/10/2025
Thank goodness for the @camunigeography.bsky.social first-year trip to Breckland. The best place to escape my avalanching inbox at this point in the term. Heading back happily tomorrow for round three… 🌍
An open lowland heath landscape with clumps of heather growing amongst hummocky grassland. There are a few nearby trees (including some tall Scott’s pines), a swathe of dried bracken, and forests in the distance. Sun has broken through the clouds. A few scattered backpacks can be seen in the foreground.
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Cambridge Geography @camunigeography.bsky.social · 07/10/2025
Welcome to all our Geography students — undergraduate and postgraduate, new and returning! As we begin the academic year, we look forward to the department once again buzzing with energy, ideas, and curiosity.
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I'm a Scientist, Get me out of here @imascientist.org.uk · 07/10/2025
Show students where geography can take them! I’m a Geographer, supported by @rgsibg.bsky.social, highlights how geography is used in real jobs. If you use geography in your work and have a post-16 geography qualification, apply here 👉 imageographer.uk/signup/c/
A graphic encouraging geographers to take part in 'I'm a Geographer, Get me out of here'. It reads 'Take part in easy and flexible online outreach to inspire the next generation.' with a link to sign up: imageographer.uk/signup/c. There is also a picture of a student taking part.
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Cambridge Tephra Lab @camtephra.bsky.social · 25/09/2025
Last week PhD student @yqnatdeng.bsky.social and @chslane.bsky.social were sampling cores from an Ethiopian lake…in Aberystwyth! Here’s hoping there’s lots of ancient cryptotephra to be found! #tephratastic
A women stands by a wooden lab desk with a spatula held over a drainpipe filled with sediment. Close up of a sediment core with a small channel of samples removed (plus a couple of bigger gaps from previous sampling). A labelled drainpipe lies alongside, plus a centrifuge tube rack with labels filled tubes in it.
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William Colgan @glacierbytes.bsky.social · 28/09/2025
Hey ice-sheet modellers! 👋 The next Ice Sheet Model Intercomparison Project (ISMIP) workshop will be hosted in Copenhagen (at GEUS) 23-25 March 2026. Details to follow! Learn more about ISMIP at: www.ismip.org
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Ice Sheet Model Intercomparison Project
ISMIP7 is the Ice Sheet Model Intercomparison Project for CMIP7 (pronounced `IZ-mip`) Melt of Earth's ice sheets is already contributing to flooding experienced by coastal communities, globally. ISM...
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Christine S. Lane @chslane.bsky.social · 29/09/2025
This from last year’s Quaternary Climates and Environments sediments practical class still makes my day 🥼⚒️🌍
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Christine S. Lane @chslane.bsky.social · 26/09/2025
Spent #fieldworkfriday in sunny Dartmoor extracting an exquisite peat sequence 😻
View from a grassy verge of an expansive peat bog.50 cm of peat extracted into a drainpipeThe dream team. Dan and Lauren enjoying the Dartmoor scenery. Granite boulders and smooth topped hills.
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University Museum of Zoology, Cambridge @zoologymuseum.bsky.social · 22/09/2025
📢ARTIST REQUIRED📢Love working with young people & families? We're seeking an artist/facilitator to lead some workshops & create an art installation, film or animation, on the theme of climate change & the Ice Ages! ❄️ Apply by Mon 6 Oct 🙂@camunivmuseums.bsky.social ow.ly/llRt50X05P3
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