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James Darling

@darlingplanets.bsky.social
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Earth and planetary scientist at the University of Portsmouth. Love geochronology, geochemistry, petrology, microstructures, and teaching geoscience ⚒️🪐🌍 Ranked 34,358th best male runner in 🇬🇧🦥

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MarcA Millet @marcamillet.bsky.social · 18/07/2025
New paper up in @weareagc.bsky.social! Thanks to @climategordon.bsky.social et al looking at hopanoid distributions soils and peat. Read more: doi.org/10.33063/agc... Advances in Geochemistry and Cosmochemistry is a community run Diamond Open Access journal. Submit your paper here: www.agcj.org
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Hopanoid distributions differ in mineral soils and peat: a re-evaluation of hopane-based pH proxies | Advances in Geochemistry and Cosmochemistry
Angst, G., Mueller, K. E., Nierop, K. G. J., & Simpson, M. J. (2021). Plant- or microbial-derived? A review on the molecular composition of stabilized soil organic matter. Soil Biology and Biochemistry, 156, 108189. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.soilbio.2021.108189
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James Darling @darlingplanets.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
Exciting news! AGC is now live, and our first editorial is online. First papers will follow soon 😊
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James Darling @darlingplanets.bsky.social · 25/01/2025
Great to finally make it to @esrf.fr in Grenoble for experiments, after a remote session in 2020. Loving that the synchrotron comes with spectacular on-site geological sketching exercises. Wonderful fold-thrust geology during breaks from incredible sulphur speciation measurements 😁⚒️⚛️
Rock formations viewed from the European Synchrotron Radiation Facility, Grenoble, France
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James Darling @darlingplanets.bsky.social · 07/12/2024
Apollo 14 basaltic impact melt sample 14310 #thinsection We have two fully-funded PhD projects available to work on impact melt processes. Please do share with students looking for planetary geology opportunities 😀🌍🌑⚒️ www.port.ac.uk/study/postgr... www.trees-dla.ac.uk/projects/ign...
Thin section image of a lunar basaltic impact melt
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Trees DLA @treesdla.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
🚨 TREES Projects Are Live! 🚨 🌍 Over 120 PhD projects now available on the TREES website! Explore Route 1 projects or develop your own Route 2 proposal. 🗓️ Applications are open—deadline: 20th Jan 2025. 🔗 www.trees-dla.ac.uk #PhD #EnvironmentalScience #TREESDLA
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James Darling @darlingplanets.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
I'm delighted to be a Production Editor for this new community-led diamond open access journal (free to read and publish) 💎 Please do check out the fantastic team of Handling Editors who are eagerly awaiting manuscripts 😀 journals.uu.se/AGC/handling...
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Advances in Geochemistry and Cosmochemistry @weareagc.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
We are opening submissions on the 20th of January 🌋 Do you have research you would like to submit and be part of the very first issue of AGC? Help us gauge the volume of anticipated submissions filling in the form you find below. Publish diamond, publish in AGC!
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