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St Andrews Earth & Environmental Sciences @earthscista.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Our own Prof. @mudwaterclimate.bsky.social giving today’s James Gregory public lecture, “Can Humanity Flourish in a Warming World?” with a cautiously hopeful message for the future.

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St Andrews Earth & Environmental Sciences @earthscista.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

🪨 The Accidental Geologist A lovely feature from St Andrews Alumni on our very own Dr Catherine Rose, reflecting on how she discovered Earth Sciences as a student at St Andrews and the journey that eventually brought her back. 🌍 Read the full story: alumni.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/2026/09/07/t...

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St Andrews Earth & Environmental Sciences @earthscista.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

A huge welcome back to all our students – and an especially warm welcome to everyone joining us for the first time! 🌍🪨👋 Today is the first day of teaching and we’re excited to kick off a new academic year filled with fieldwork, labs, maps, mountains and, inevitably, some Scottish weather. 🥾🗺️🌧️🌱🌋

Photo of many members of the School of Earth and Environmental Sciences faculty and research scientists, taken on a very sunny day so many people are struggling to keep their eyes open!

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St Andrews Earth & Environmental Sciences @earthscista.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Our 4th-year BSc & MGeol students have just returned from our Alps field trip! Two weeks of camping across Italy and Switzerland, following a spectacular transect through the Alpine orogen and exploring the minerals, rocks, and structures that tell the story of mountain building. 🔨🧭🏔️🇮🇹🇨🇭

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St Andrews Earth & Environmental Sciences @earthscista.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

🌍🪨 Welcome to St Andrews and the School of Earth & Environmental Sciences! 🌋🌊 A huge welcome to all our new students! 👋 We’re looking forward to meeting you and kicking off the academic year together. 🎉

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Mike Byrne @drmichaelbyrne.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Counterintuitively, mixing of dry air into convecting plumes amplifies moist heat extremes. This "entrainment" effect strengthens as climate warms and dries, increasing human heat stress. Details in our new paper, led by @roshanjha.bsky.social: agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/...

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St Andrews Earth & Environmental Sciences @earthscista.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Our very own Dr Will Hutchison featured on BBC Radio 4’s Rare Earth, talking all things volcanoes 🌋 – including some of the fantastic research happening here at St Andrews. 🎧 Listen now on BBC Sounds: www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

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BBC Radio 4 - Rare Earth, Volcano

Helen Czerski and Tom Heap investigate the environmental impact of volcanoes.

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Simon Lee @simonleewx.com · 10/08/2026

Happy to have contributed to Chapter 5 "The Arctic" in a section led by @drahbutler.bsky.social – featuring some discussion of an unusually early final stratospheric warming for winter 2024/25 and an unusually early sudden stratospheric warming for winter 2025/26! doi.org/10.1175/BAMS...

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Mike Byrne @drmichaelbyrne.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

Warming temperatures + decreasing relative humidity = more water being sucked from soil / reservoirs = DROUGHT. Simple physics. Europe + UK are on the frontline because they are warming so rapidly – it will get worse until 'net zero' is reached. That's my TED talk 🌍 www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cw...

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UK weather: More than two-thirds of England now in drought with conditions set to worsen

The National Drought Agency adds the East Midlands, Kent, East Sussex, and other parts of England to the areas officially in drought conditions.

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St Andrews Earth & Environmental Sciences @earthscista.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

Huge congratulations to our colleagues on their well-deserved promotions! – Sami Mikhail & Eva Stüeken promoted to Professor – Nick Gardiner promoted to Reader – Tim Kinnaird promoted to Senior Research Fellow Well done all! 👏🥳

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St Andrews Earth & Environmental Sciences @earthscista.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

Watch Dr Claire Cousins tonight at 10pm BST on BBC Four’s The Sky At Night talking about how the rocks at North Berwick are helping us look for life on Mars! Also featured is SEES alumnus Dr Mark Fox-Powell talking about his icy moon research at The Open University 🔭📺🌌 @uniofstandrews.bsky.social

Poster advertising The Sky at Night "The Aliens Next Door?" on Monday 13 July at 10pm on BBC Four

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Open Research, University of St Andrews @standrewsopenres.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

What can distant worlds tell us about our own? Ilyana Guez's thesis introduces Molecule Agnostic Spectral Clustering (MASC), a novel method for analysing exoplanet atmospheres through comparative exoplanetology. Read more here: 👇🌎🪐✨ doi.org/10.17630/sta... @earthscista.bsky.social #OpenResearch

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Mike Byrne @drmichaelbyrne.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

The inaugural EUCLIDYAN workshop was hosted by the Max Planck Institute in March. It was a fantastic event, establishing new collaborations and a new community of European climate dynamics researchers. We will host EUCLIDYAN #2 @earthscista.bsky.social in 2027 🌍 mpimet.mpg.de/en/communica...

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Connected Across Europe: The EUCLIDYAN Initiative on Climate Dynamics

EUCLIDYAN connects European research groups studying climate dynamics in a unique way: The initiative focuses on young researchers—and on personal connections that encourage scientific collaboration.

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EAG @eageo.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

New in #GPLetters by Mikhail et al "Mixed-paragenesis diamonds don’t need multiple growth episodes: mantle metasomatism can do it all in one go ". Read more here: buff.ly/IK1dgZN #OpenAccess @earthscista.bsky.social

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GRIND @grindicdp.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

Catherine Rose @earthscista.bsky.social co-led the 2026 GSA Thompson Field Forum in Namibia with @geosociety.bsky.social and @jhu.edu colleagues, celebrating the completion of the GRIND drilling program through the Ediacaran–Cambrian transition and exploring the Nama Basin's remarkable geology.

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St Andrews Earth & Environmental Sciences @earthscista.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

A bit belated but huge congratulations to Celeste Smith on passing her PhD viva on 15 June! Celeste is now officially an expert in micro-scale analyses and a leading volcano detective-hunter 🌋 Well done, Dr Smith, and best wishes for the exciting adventures ahead! 👏

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St Andrews Earth & Environmental Sciences @earthscista.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

Huge congratulations to Anna Szreter on successfully defending her PhD on “The Power of Imperfections: The Sources of Colour and Luminescence in Natural Cryolite from Ivittuut (SW Greenland)” at the University of Oslo! 🎉 We look forward to celebrating again when Anna graduates with us on 3 July.

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Dr Joanne Boden @earlylife.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

New findings from Rika, Eva, Tony and I: We used evolutionary biology techniques to investigate how nitrogen sustained early life on Earth, and found that ammonium was key! It could have been supplied by hydrothermal activity and other planetary processes. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

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Abiotic sources of fixed nitrogen sustained early ecosystems for several hundred million years after the origin of life

Genomic evidence suggests early life relied on ammonium and other N molecules before biological nitrogen fixation evolved.

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Simon Lee @simonleewx.com · 23/06/2026

This afternoon, I asked faculty, staff, and research students in the School of Earth & Environmental Sciences @earthscista.bsky.social for their predictions/guesses for the highest temperature that will be recorded in the UK this week. With 34 responses, our ensemble mean is 39.2°C.

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Mike Byrne @drmichaelbyrne.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

Excited to host the Land-Climate Workshop @uniofstandrews.bsky.social this week! Looking forward to ~40 talks + posters on cutting-edge research questions spanning wildfires, drought, freshwater availability, monsoons, extreme weather and much more! @earthscista.bsky.social @gabihegerl.bsky.social

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St Andrews Earth & Environmental Sciences @earthscista.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

Congratulations to Dr Megan Pelly for passing her PhD viva! Megan's PhD employed modelling & palaeo proxies to understand past carbon cycling, supervised by @mudwaterclimate.bsky.social. Thanks to Eva Stüeken & Malin Odalen for examining, and the team behind an excellent cake & celebratory spread! 🎉

Megan (right) and her supervisor James Rae

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Dr Áine O’Brien @aineclareob.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

Great to be back at @bpsc2026.bsky.social after a few years I’ve been away from the field, thanks @earthscista.bsky.social for making sure the sun was out on arrival this morning 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿😎 #BPSC2026

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Helen Innes @heleninnes.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

🚨🌋❄️Delighted to share our paper identifying Newberry Pumice tephra in Greenland ice at 686 CE, and investigating other 7th Century eruptions associated with climate cooling is now available online in Quaternary Science Reviews. 🌋❄️🚨 doi.org/10.1016/j.qu...

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Simon Lee @simonleewx.com · 22/05/2026

A pleasure to host @timwoollings.bsky.social, Ken Mylne, @hcbloomfield19.bsky.social & @drchriswhite.bsky.social yesterday for the annual @earthscista.bsky.social symposium, this year on "From dynamics to impacts: Weather in a warming world". Thank you all for visiting and giving such great talks!

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Simon Lee @simonleewx.com · 14/05/2026

A big congrats to Josh Duffield, supervised by @drmichaelbyrne.bsky.social, for passing his PhD viva today with @ruthgeen.bsky.social and me as examiners. Some fascinating work on extreme temperatures that was a pleasure to read and discuss! 🥳 @earthscista.bsky.social

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St Andrews Earth & Environmental Sciences @earthscista.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

Our faculty, postdocs, PhD researchers, and MSc students delivered more than 25 talks and poster presentations at #EGU26 in Vienna last week, showcasing the breadth and diversity of research happening across the School. A fantastic week all around – well done to everyone who took part!

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St Andrews Earth & Environmental Sciences @earthscista.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

Last day of #EGU26 but still more science from SEES! 👋 Well done everyone for a smashing week 💥

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St Andrews Earth & Environmental Sciences @earthscista.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

Another busy say for SEES on Wednesday at @egu.eu 2026 with four talks and two posters from across our research themes – hope to see you there!

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EAG @eageo.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

Job alert: #postdoc "Unlocking the isotopic evolution of the early Solar System: evidence from chondrules", University of St Andrews (UK). Apply by: 20 May. More info: buff.ly/hXnFhGG @earthscista.bsky.social

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Job opportunities | European Association of Geochemistry

View below a list of current job opportunities.

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Helen Innes @heleninnes.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

First Bluesky post! 🦋 Great to be at EGU this week! I'll be presenting some (very exciting) ice core cryptotephra correlations from 680-700 CE tomorrow morning in session GMPV11.1. meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/EGU26/EGU26-... come say hello in hall X2 👋

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Mike Byrne @drmichaelbyrne.bsky.social · 03/05/2026

Exciting week for the @uniofstandrews.bsky.social Climate Dynamics Lab @egu.eu annual meeting in Vienna! Come along, say 'hi', and checkout our latest research at 9 presentations across the week:

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Simon Lee @simonleewx.com · 10/04/2026

That’s a wrap on our inaugural 2nd-year @earthscista.bsky.social undergraduate field trip to the Lake District! We were blessed with predominantly glorious weather ☀️ which made measuring water quality & transport, carbon flux and boundary layer properties all the more fun 😁

Staff and students on the summit of Helvellyn

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Simon Lee @simonleewx.com · 03/04/2026

Final prep underway for our inaugural 2nd-year undergrad Environmental Earth Science field trip to the Lake District next week! @earthscista.bsky.social We'll be exploring boundary layer meteorology, soil erosion, nutrient transport, water quality & carbon flux. Hoping the weather is on our side...

Thirlmere Reservoir on an overcast day in June 2025 looking toward Helvellyn

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James Rae @mudwaterclimate.bsky.social · 20/03/2026

Final call for our opening in @earthscista.bsky.social - chair in Earth Sciences, closes Monday. Fancy escaping to a great University in a lovely wee country? Need a wee weekend project?! Then get your applications in! 🧪⚒️🌊

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St Andrews Earth & Environmental Sciences @earthscista.bsky.social · 19/03/2026

A fantastic day at Cambo House for our School's Postgraduate Research Away Day – a beautiful setting for science, sunshine, and smiles. Excellent to see all our research students presenting their work through talks and posters, showcasing a great standard of diverse research. Well done all! ⭐

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Mike Byrne @drmichaelbyrne.bsky.social · 17/03/2026

IPCC in a Changing Climate: great event yesterday hosted by @earthscista.bsky.social and featuring current IPCC Chair Jim Skea. I gave a talk highlighting major contributions of St Andrews science to the IPCC process @uniofstandrews.bsky.social @ipcc.bsky.social

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St Andrews Earth & Environmental Sciences @earthscista.bsky.social · 13/03/2026

Deadline fast approaching (23 March) to apply to our exciting Chair in Earth Sciences (Full Professor) position! Full details: www.vacancies.st-andrews.ac.uk/Vacancies/I/...

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Mike Byrne @drmichaelbyrne.bsky.social · 03/03/2026

Climate Dynamics Lab is visiting Schloss Ringberg this week for the inaugural "EUCLIDYAN" workshop, hosted by the Max Planck Institute for Meteorology! Lots of science, collaboration + building lasting connections with groups working on similar topics @earthscista.bsky.social

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Mike Byrne @drmichaelbyrne.bsky.social · 27/02/2026

We are hiring a Chair in Earth Sci (Full Prof) @earthscista.bsky.social! Very limited teaching/admin for (at least) first 5 years. Atmosphere/oceans/climate firmly in remit. Reach out if you have questions! Deadline 23 March 2026 www.vacancies.st-andrews.ac.uk/Vacancies/I/...

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Chair in Earth Sciences - AC2672

Chair in Earth Sciences - AC2672, Earth and Environmental Sciences Salary: Grade 9/Negotiable Start Date: September 2026 , <p style="margin-right: 22.7pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: bl...

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St Andrews Earth & Environmental Sciences @earthscista.bsky.social · 24/02/2026

Our third years headed to Arbroath to explore incredible fluvial sediments! 🌊🪨 From channels and point bars to paleosols, debris flows and crevasse splay deposits — stunning fluvial architecture on display 👏📚 The only drama? A fast-moving tide that left a few soggy feet! 🌊👟😅

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St Andrews Earth & Environmental Sciences @earthscista.bsky.social · 19/02/2026

Lots of exciting School news with some big successes to celebrate! A thread of updates 🧵 🌍🧪💻 [1/8]

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Open Research, University of St Andrews @standrewsopenres.bsky.social · 13/02/2026

🚀Launching a new blog series for #LoveData26! 🌟Cornerstone your project with good research practice: Data management plans = small document, big impact 💪🎉 tinyurl.com/dsofdata #OpenResearch #RDM #FAIRdata @standrewspsyneuro.bsky.social @earthscista.bsky.social @standrewssgsd.bsky.social

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EAG @eageo.bsky.social · 16/02/2026

Job alert: #PhD position, fully funded on phosphorus cycling across the GOE, University of St Andrews (UK). Apply by 20 March. More info: buff.ly/pG71lDE @earthscista.bsky.social

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St Andrews Earth & Environmental Sciences @earthscista.bsky.social · 23/12/2025

📣 We seek to appoint a Chair (with rank of professor) within the School of Earth & Environmental Sciences. The successful candidate will be an outstanding scholar of international standing in the field. 🗓 Closing Date: 23 March 2026 Full details: www.vacancies.st-andrews.ac.uk/Vacancies/I/...

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Chair in Earth Sciences - AC2672

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Matt Patterson @mattpattclimate.bsky.social · 21/01/2026

Are you interested in climate? Do you have a background in maths, physics, climate science, or a related field? Would you like an office half a mile from the beach? If the answer to most of those is yes, you might be interested in this PhD project at St Andrews. @earthscista.bsky.social

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St Andrews Earth & Environmental Sciences @earthscista.bsky.social · 12/01/2026

Congratulations to Ed Stephens, who has been offered a position as Honorary Professor! Ed joined St Andrews in 1972 and “retired” in 2005. But since then, his work on applying geochemical methods to tobacco research and exploring the health impacts of vaping, has had outstanding impact.

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Simon Lee @simonleewx.com · 10/01/2026

📣 New paper with Lorenzo Polvani published in @agu.org GRL! Increasing Frequency and Persistence of the Summertime Greenland High Regime Not Captured by a Seasonal Prediction Model Very Large Ensemble Open access: doi.org/10.1029/2025... @earthscista.bsky.social @lamont.columbia.edu

Screenshot of part of our paper "Increasing Frequency and Persistence of the Summertime Greenland High Regime Not Captured by a Seasonal Prediction Model Very Large Ensemble" in GRL

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