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Oxford Radiocarbon Accelerator Unit @oxradiocarbon.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Do you* need radiocarbon dates? Come work with us! It's exactly one month until the next NIEF deadline, so please get in contact asap if you would like to submit a proposal for Archaeological Science Based projects. www.isotopesuk.org/apply.html *You = UK based students, ECAs, PIs.

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Manuel Chevalier @manuelchevalier.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

“What’s the right way to do this in R?” There isn’t one! If you understand your solution, it’s valid. Whether it takes 3 lines or 20. The real skill isn’t memorising code. It’s knowing how tools work — and choosing what fits.

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IanPMatthews.bsky.social @ianpmatthews.bsky.social · 18/09/2025

It has been 20 years since we published this paper. It has been cited at least 278 times since then.

A screen grab of Blockley et al. 2005 tephra extraction paper

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Tom Higham @tommyhigham.bsky.social · 15/09/2025

PhD Studentship alert! I'm looking for a motivated student to work here in Vienna @vdsee-univie.bsky.social on my ERC grant "DISPERSE". It's a fulltime scholarship (working in 14C and #archsci in Palaeolithic archaeology in Eurasia. Details in the link below! jobs.univie.ac.at/job/Universi...

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University assistant predoctoral 1

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IanPMatthews.bsky.social @ianpmatthews.bsky.social · 03/07/2025

We've just published a paper on human occupation of the NW European margin and the importance of local climate reconstructions during the Lateglacial period. The paper represents a lot of work by myself and my coauthors over many years, we're all happy to see it published at last rdcu.be/eusdJ

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Summer warmth between 15,500 and 15,000 years ago enabled human repopulation of the northwest European margin

Nature Ecology & Evolution - The authors use the latest radiocarbon calibration curve and new local palaeoclimatic and palaeoenvironmental records from Britain to show that humans repopulated...

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Gerard McCarthy @germac.bsky.social · 12/06/2025

Really striking new study from van Westen and Baatsen and a class visualisation tool to go with it. This study looks at a future where the AMOC has collapsed. Temperatures hitting -22ºC in Dublin in the winter is pretty stark. Hearing these numbers can be shocking and worrying. amocscenarios.org

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AMOC Collapse Visualisation Map

The interactive map that shows you the effects worldwide of climate change scenarios and the AMOC current collapsing

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Graeme Warren @graemewarren.bsky.social · 21/05/2025

New paper klaxon: pre print now available OA: muse.jhu.edu/pub/423/arti... Thanks to everyone at @ria.ie for their work on this, and most importantly to Chantal for collaboration on the paper. A short 🧵 on what we argue... @ucdarchaeology.bsky.social @ucddublin.bsky.social @eaapam.bsky.social

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IanPMatthews.bsky.social @ianpmatthews.bsky.social · 11/03/2025

RHULs MSc in Quaternary Science began in 1992, but morphed into the fully realised Masters in 1995, thirty years ago. I am an alumnus of that course, alongside many colleagues and friends from around the world. When applying in 2001 the website was basic...

a wayback machine capture of the rhbnc.ac.uk website in 2001 showing postgraduate study options.

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History of Geology @historyofgeology.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

February 7, 1784, after 8 months of activity the Laki-eruptions ends. This series of fissures erupting lava fountains up to 800 meters high was the strongest eruption in #Iceland's history and largest effusive eruption on land in the last 1.000 years🌋 tinyurl.com/3cv9jwrv

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Prof. Stefan Rahmstorf @rahmstorf.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

We've reached 1.5°C global warming. With current policies, we're heading for a catastrophic 2.7°C warming. A new review paper in Science shows: this would change the Arctic 'beyond recognition', with knock-on effects (like rising seas) around the world. 🌊 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

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Brandon ❄️ @bdglaciers.bsky.social · 11/01/2025

This took me a long time to write 😮‍💨. 🥼❄️ ⚒️ Read about the seldom-told history about the first glaciologists, and why Louis Agassiz maybe gets too much credit for ice age hypothesis: open.substack.com/pub/glaciers...

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Glaciations, Tragedies, Betrayals, and Heartbreak

The rocky start to glaciology

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Brian Bilston @brianbilston.bsky.social · 30/11/2024

Today’s poem is dedicated to all those who have taken it upon themselves to correct the grammar or spelling in my poems over the last few weeks. It’s called ‘Pedents’.

Pedents

Foot soldiers in the War on Error,
They’re here to save us from ourselves,
With Fowler’s Modern English Usage
(first edition, nineteen twelve).

They scrutinise each word we write
For typos, gaffes, et cetera,
Correcting all our dumb mistakes
To make our grammar betterer.

They sigh and tut and tell us off
For the rules we have forsaken
And chart this nation’s steep decline
By the care we should of taken.

Custodians of the King’s English,
They merely serve to keep it pure
And restrict, they hope, the ignorant
To three mistakes or less.

In doing so, they hold no fear
they will deprive a thing of life:
for it’s not important what is said,
what matters is that its right.

Brian Bilston

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Jacob Carlin @locoako.bsky.social · 01/11/2024

We don't normally see "step changes" in the atmosphere, but the dichotomy of sea ice vs. no sea ice will do it.

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IanPMatthews.bsky.social @ianpmatthews.bsky.social · 18/10/2024

We got back from Windermere last weekend, the team collected some amazing sediments in a wonderful area. Our hosts at the jetty museum were fabulous and it was a great way to spend some of my research leave.

An atmospheric view from the jetty museum across the lake

A jetty in Lake Windermere with beautiful pink and blue morning colours on the water. This is juxtaposed by the lichen encrusted jetty post

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IanPMatthews.bsky.social @ianpmatthews.bsky.social · 06/10/2024

We are currently in Bowness on Windermere building our coring rig. Hoping for some excellent sediment tomorrow!

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John Kennedy @micefearboggis.bsky.social · 26/04/2024

The figures in the IPCC report are everywhere and do a lot to communicate what we do and don't know about climate change. This trenchant critique of how temperature reconstructions of the past 2k years were presented is spot on. www.nature.com/articles/s43...

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The IPCC’s reductive Common Era temperature history - Communications Earth & Environment

The summary of Common Era temperature reconstructions in the 2021 Sixth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change insufficiently characterizes reconstruction uncertainties ass...

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IanPMatthews.bsky.social @ianpmatthews.bsky.social · 03/09/2024

Summer has nearly gone so here’s a picture from July to brighten up my day. Swinley Forest is a beautiful place to cycle!

A pond with a birch tree in the background

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IanPMatthews.bsky.social @ianpmatthews.bsky.social · 28/08/2024

Glen Roy rightly getting the recognition it deserves. It’s my privilege to be able to take our MSc Past Climate and Environmental Change students here every Spring, and we find out new things every time we visit www.royalholloway.ac.uk/about-us/new...

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A key Scottish site for understanding rapid climate change gains status as Geological Heritage Site

A team of academics have successfully petitioned for a special geological area in the Highlands to gain acknowledgment from The International Union of Geological Sciences (IUGS) Geological Sites.

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IanPMatthews.bsky.social @ianpmatthews.bsky.social · 20/05/2024