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Clare Warren

@geologyclare.bsky.social
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Professor of Metamorphic Geology and Director of the Graduate School at the Open University. Cold water swimmer and parkrunner. Posts only about fun stuff!

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Clare Warren @geologyclare.bsky.social · 10/10/2025
This is great!
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Clare Warren @geologyclare.bsky.social · 06/10/2025
Calling sedimentary-types! All applications welcome
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Clare Warren @geologyclare.bsky.social · 06/10/2025
Great new visual about Geodiversity published recently!
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Jude Taylor @m1cr0-judetaylor.bsky.social · 30/09/2025
Welcome to all our postgraduate researchers! You are what makes us a University.
Welcome 2025 PGR Adventure Begins You are the OU
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Open University Graduate School, UK @ougradsch.bsky.social · 07/05/2025
Embarking on your fieldwork soon? We've added a checklist and timeline to our fieldwork and gathering data page: www5.open.ac.uk/students/res...
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Planning fieldwork and data collection, including travel arrangements and risk assessments, are largely managed in the Faculties. What follows are some general advice and training links. Good overall…
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Environment, Earth and Ecosystem Sciences @ou-eees.bsky.social · 06/05/2025
We have a Research Experience Placement with Dr Phil Wheeler advertised for this summer via @centa.bsky.social: centa.ac.uk/centa-resear... Project title: Using 3D models from smartphone video to assess urban tree crown volume
An local park with trees, paths and other infrastructure.
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UK Council for Graduate Education @ukcge.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
Booking now: this online discussion session on June 12th (free for members) will examine the experiences of doctoral candidates during the viva. ukcge.ac.uk/events/t...
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UKCGE | The Student Experience of the Viva
This online discussion session will examine the experiences of doctoral candidates during the viva. The session will open with a summary of the findings…
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Clare Warren @geologyclare.bsky.social · 28/04/2025
Thanks to the @floodplainmead.bsky.social team for hosting a group from @ougradsch.bsky.social last week! We learned loads of botanical facts and it's always lovely to put some of our students' rather abstract PhD titles into context 🤩
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Clare Warren @geologyclare.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
@geologyjohnson.bsky.social Finally... These crinoid photos took a bit of digging to find! Field photo (crinoidal dolomite sits between eclogite and cacl schist), close up in field, and SEM images. Eclogite-facies crinoids!
Colour SEM photomicrograph of two crinoid stem platesField photograph of crinoid stem piece, 1 cm long, in orange-brown dolomiteSEM close-up of crinoid stem.plates showing crenulated jointsField photograph of eclogite at As Sifah, Oman, showing magic eclogite boudin on the left, enveloping calc schists on right, and 1-2m crinoid-bearing orange dolomite unit in between
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Clare Warren @geologyclare.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
I chair Panel C- please get in touch if you want to know more or have any questions about what serving on a panel involves 🙂
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British Geological Survey @bgs.ac.uk · 21/02/2025
BGS is looking for new members to join our NERC Facilities Steering Committees over the next 4 years. We are looking for people from a wide range of scientific disciplines, at different career stages. Deadline for submissions is 5pm on March 14th 2025. www.bgs.ac.uk/news/call-fo...
An image of one of the BGS laboratories. In the centre of the image (which is curved with a fisheye lens) is a computer with a scientific image on the screen.
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Clare Warren @geologyclare.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
Lots in here that I am sure will resonate with many PhD students.
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Clare Warren @geologyclare.bsky.social · 17/02/2025
Authored by our very own @zjayres.bsky.social! A very useful read due everyone involved in supporting post-grad research, not just the students!
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Clare Warren @geologyclare.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
Without technicians, I wouldn't ever have been able to collect any research data. They perform an absolutely critical function in research and need valuing and appreciating more
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Athene Donald @athenedonald.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
My piece for @productivity.bsky.social about the importance of technicians. We won't deliver growth and opporotunity without enough of them in our labs and across universities and schools. It's an urgent conversation to have www.productivity.ac.uk/news/the-rol...
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The role of universities in supporting technical pathways and the delivery of innovation - The Productivity Institute
A commentary on the critical role of technicians in boosting productivity and innovation.
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Centre for Open Thanatology @openthanatology.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
Congratulations to Sam Gould, a PhD student with Open Thanatology, for winning the Faculty Postgraduate Award recently. Sam works at Sobell House Hospice as part of Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, and they've written a news item about Sam's work! www.ouh.nhs.uk/research/new...
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Sobell House nurse wins Open University award for research - Oxford University Hospitals
Sobell House nurse wins Open University award for research
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Open University Graduate School, UK @ougradsch.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
Welcome to @openuniversity.bsky.social new PhD students! We have loved hearing about your varied and fascinating research projects and look forward to supporting you. @oulibrary.bsky.social @oustudents.bsky.social @geologyclare.bsky.social
Group of around 25 people standing in front of a tree sculpture made up of gold shields
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John Wheeler @johneclogite.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
The Metamorphic Studies Group Research in Progress (RiP) meeting and related events will be held in Liverpool, UK, on April 8-11th, 2025. Registration deadline is February 20th, 2025.; see the MSG website for more. metamorphicstudiesgroup.wordpress.com/msg-rip-2024/ Regards John
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MSG RiP 2025
The Metamorphic Studies Group Research in Progress (RiP) meeting will be held in Liverpool, UK, on April 9-10th, 2025. Registration for the RiP meeting, the MAGEMin workshop (April 8th, 2024), and …
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Clare Warren @geologyclare.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
Well done Elisa!!
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Open University Graduate School, UK @ougradsch.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
Congratulations on your viva, Elisa Oliveira da Costa! #ProudSupervisor @geologyclare.bsky.social
3 women and one man stand with glasses of wine smiling
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Angelo Salatino @angelosalatino.bsky.social · 19/12/2024
Pleased to see many units at the OU are also on BlueSky. @ougradsch.bsky.social @oulibrary.bsky.social @ou-ld-social.bsky.social @oustudents.bsky.social @pacespaceou.bsky.social @kmiou.bsky.social I have created a starter pack: go.bsky.app/8tZrvn4
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Museum of Natural History, University of Oxford @morethanadodo.bsky.social · 19/12/2024
HIRING: Project Archivist for our Phillips Archive The Archive consists of correspondence, geological papers, lecture notes, notebooks, watercolours, prints, sections, and more. This is a full-time, fixed-term post for 20 months. oumnh.web.ox.ac.uk/project-arch...
A concept sketch of the OUMNH main court showing double height display cases, by John Phillips
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The Open University Library @oulibrary.bsky.social · 19/12/2024
A fascinating piece of research this #ThesisThursday that is highly relevant worldwide. Read Jeremy James Cunningham's 'Schooling for conflict transformation: a case study from Northern Uganda' on ORO here: oro.open.ac.uk/54692/
Children in a classroom in Uganda stand in front of a number-covered chalkboard, eagerly raising their hands to ask a question. The accompanying text reads '#ThesisThursday: Schooling for conflict transformation: a case study from Northern Uganda by Jeremy James Cunningham. Photo credit: illustrate Digital Ug on Pexels.'
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Richard Holliman @richard-holliman.bsky.social · 19/12/2024
Colleagues and I were one of 10 winners in a Landmark Trust competition for an academic writing retreat. I think it runs annually. If you have an idea for 2026… www.landmarktrust.org.uk/get-involved.. @geologyclare.bsky.social @nationaltrust.bsky.social @naturalengland.bsky.social
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Clare Warren @geologyclare.bsky.social · 18/12/2024
#proudsupervisor! A very successful end to a great #Fluidnet collaboration!
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Open University Graduate School, UK @ougradsch.bsky.social · 17/12/2024
OU PG research students & staff are warmly invited to the Roc Soc/Grad School Ceilidh & Burns Night Celebration on 31 Jan 2025 in the Hub Theatre, 17:00. Tickets are £10 (PGR) & £15 (Staff). forms.office.com/e/cMwkyM5px4 @riobanerjee.bsky.social @geologyclare.bsky.social @oulibrary.bsky.social
Ceilidh flyer. Full description of contents in the Bluesky post.
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Clare Warren @geologyclare.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
Your cake was awesome Jude! And tasted great too 😁
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Open University Graduate School, UK @ougradsch.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
Are you an Open University PGR with an idea for a meme on your research, the doctoral journey or Milton Keynes life? Enter #MemeYourResearch by 10 December for kudos and prizes. Full instructions in the PGR Community Team: teams.microsoft.com/l/message/19... @riobanerjee.bsky.social
Image from the film 50 Days of Summer of the male and female characters looking at each other in a record store, repeated vertically. in the upper image, the male character says 'I love MK' and the female character says 'Me too'. In the lower image, the man has a series of Mariokart images on him, the woman has images of Milton Keynes: the concrete cows, a roundabout and the OU headquarters at Walton Hall.
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Clare Warren @geologyclare.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
Funded PhDs at the Open University on topics as diverse as veganism, dementia, energy, sustainability, policing, space and beyond. Please browse through the options ⬇️⬇️⬇️ and spread the word!
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Clare Warren @geologyclare.bsky.social · 30/11/2024
So nice to get away from the madness once in a while- escaped the crowds up Cader Idris in the mist today. My legs hurt now though!
Me on a mountain path up Cader Idris with the high ground hidden in cloud
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Clare Warren @geologyclare.bsky.social · 29/11/2024
The Bake your Research cakes were soooo good 😋😋😋. Better double my exercise plans this weekend to make up for it!!
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Open University Graduate School, UK @ougradsch.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
Another year, another thrilling #BakeYourResearch competition in @oulibrary.bsky.social! Ismay was a worth winner with her Gingerbread Men-ders cake, and Liz shone with her Embedding Impact cake, winning Tastiest Bake. Thanks @riobanerjee.bsky.social for organising!
Cake in shape if pink and green tshirt - a mending mushroom is on the middle with threads of icing connected to gingerbread people A pink-ish 3 tier cake, iced on the corners and dusted with petals. The bottom layer has green and black icing people. The second has a black building and the top shows interconnected strands of green and black icing. A carrot flapjack tray back with a race course laid out with a sweetie bootlace. Little flags give different pronunciations of phenomenology. Above there is a mobile of dangling weather symbols White-ish triangle cake with yellow and green splodges and a translucent globe as decoration
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Open University Graduate School, UK @ougradsch.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
Day 2 of welcoming our wonderful Affiliated Research Centre colleagues to Open University campus @oulibrary.bsky.social
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Open University Graduate School, UK @ougradsch.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
Thinking about starting a PhD in 2025? Current funded PhD studentships now live on our Employment pages with closing dates in January: www5.open.ac.uk/employment/a... Please share! @oulibrary.bsky.social @ou-ld-social.bsky.social @oustudents.bsky.social
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The OU offers funded studentships, either wholly or with an element of matched funding from an external partner in industry, government or a public body. Each faculty will have different funds availab...
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Clare Warren @geologyclare.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
I'm so very excited to be able to connect with so many Geo Twitter friends from the good old days on this platform. I've missed the rock and mineral chat! Here's an beautiful chunk of Norwegian eclogite that my wonderful friend Anjana sent me 😍
Hand sample of eclogite held in hand
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The Open University Library @oulibrary.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
Calling all PhD and Professional Doctorate research students (present and alumni) at the Open University - let the wonderful @ougradsch.bsky.social know if you'd like to be added to their Starter Pack... 👇 #OUfamily
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Clare Warren @geologyclare.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
A snowy morning on the open University campus today! #OUlife
A snowy view of the Open University campusSnow before daybreak on the OU campus.
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