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Jamie McFarlin

@isotopes.bsky.social
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science enthusiast, think a lot about biogeochem Asst professor, studying cold places stable isotopes are my jam

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Jessica Tierney @leafwax.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
I rarely post on here (apologies) but: @danibarra.bsky.social and I have some thoughts about CO2 in blue ice 🧊 🧐 Preprint is up... essopenarchive.org/doi/full/10....
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A reassessment of proxy signal preservation in Antarctic blue ice: Implications for Plio-Pleistocene CO2 | ESS Open Archive
Marks-Peterson et al. (2026) measured greenhouse gas concentrations in “blue” ice from the Allan Hills, Antarctica and concluded that atmospheric CO2 was broadly stable over the past ~3 million years....
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IPCC @ipcc.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
📣 Registration is now open for experts to review the First Order Draft of the Working Group I contribution to IPCC’s Seventh Assessment Report. Interested experts can register until 25 Sept 2026 🔗 bit.ly/4vi25cq The review starts 10 August until 2 October. More 🔗 bit.ly/WGI7Fod
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IPCC @ipcc.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
📣 Registration is now open for experts to review the First Order Draft of the Working Group I contribution to IPCC’s Seventh Assessment Report. Interested experts can register until 25 Sept 2026 🔗 bit.ly/4vi25cq The review starts 10 August until 2 October. More 🔗 bit.ly/WGI7Fod
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Benjamin Cook @dustybowl.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
NOAA Climate & Global Change Postdoctoral Fellowship applications are now open! cpaess.ucar.edu/cgc/annual-r... I was one about 350 years ago, and cannot not speakly highly enough of this program. Applications due October 16, 2026
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Climate & Global Change Postdoctoral Program Recruitment Announcement | Cooperative Programs for the Advancement of Earth System Science (CPAESS)Climate & Global Change Postdoctoral Program Recruitmen...
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Felix Elling @lipidorama.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
Check out our new community-level review of archaeal lipids in marine systems, with a focus on paleoenvironmental reconstruction
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Jamie McFarlin @isotopes.bsky.social · 28/06/2026
New paper! We revisit Fredskild’s Greenland pollen diagrams from the 70s & compare these to published pollen & other temp estimates to dig into shrub response to climate in the Arctic. A fun collaboration between Bryan & me, inspired by our distinct & initially contrasting perspectives on the topic
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Rapid shrub tundra responses to climate fluctuations in southwest Greenland during the middle to late Holocene
Studies of Arctic vegetation history during the Holocene have often concluded that significant lags related to dispersal and landscape (soil) developm…
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Rage Against the Miocene @organiccarbon.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
We have known for a long time that rapid CO2-induced global warming 56 million years ago caused extreme rainfall events and enhanced erosion of the landscape. Our new work shows that this drove increased burial of eroded soil and plant organic matter, which could have removed some of that CO2.
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Dr. Nina Davtian (she/her/hers) @ninadavtian.bsky.social · 17/05/2026
And so, this important study for #PaleoSky and ⚒️ people like me is part of the #TopViewedArticle group! Thank you again Cindy De Jonge and Francien Peterse for leading this #TeamBacteria #brGDGTs round-robin study! 🔗: doi.org/10.1029/2024... @icta-uab.bsky.social @climatecerege.bsky.social 🧪 👩‍🔬 (1/3)
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Interlaboratory Comparison of Branched GDGT Temperature and pH Proxies Using Soils and Lipid Extracts
39 laboratories participated in a round robin to determine the reproducibility of glycerol dialkyl glycerol tetraethers (GDGT) proxy values and quantities Peak selection impacts the ratio values ...
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Jamie McFarlin @isotopes.bsky.social · 31/05/2026
Re-sharing now that it’s the current volume 🥳
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Jamie McFarlin @isotopes.bsky.social · 10/03/2026
A deep dive into a suite of water isotope proxies, many thanks to this great team: @yarrowaxford.bsky.social Bryan, Gabe, Wil & Jeemin
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Water-Isotope Proxies in Lake Sediments: Calibrations, Uncertainties, and New Directions
Paleoclimatologists have long recognized that H and O isotopes of materials in lake sediments can help reconstruct past climate and environmental change. Here, a global synthesis of O isotopes in lab-...
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Bronwen Konecky @otherrock.bsky.social · 29/10/2025
We're hiring! I'm recruiting a Postdoctoral Research Associate in climate & paleoclimate modeling of the tropical Americas. Come obsess over the tropical rain belt with me! :) Please share w/folks who may be interested. Ad here: wustl.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/Extern...
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Postdoctoral Research Associate - Earth, Environmental, and Planetary Sciences
Position Summary The Climate and Paleoclimate Lab in the Department of Earth, Environmental, and Planetary Sciences at WashU in St. Louis seeks a Postdoctoral Research Associate in tropical climate/pa...
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Yarrow Axford @yarrowaxford.bsky.social · 01/10/2025
Mia is a highly talented PhD student approaching graduation at a tough time for U.S. science. I have to highlight another neat thing she's been up to: Art/science/community collaborations in the very special south Greenland town of Narsaq: www.miattuccillo.com/community-ou...
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Community Outreach: Greenland — Mia T Tuccillo
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Yarrow Axford @yarrowaxford.bsky.social · 01/10/2025
New paper! PhD student Mia Tuccillo has uncovered another big impact of past warming in Greenland: lakes lost oxygen for thousands of years and cyanobacteria took over 🦠 🧪 🦠. It's kinda yikes... With collaborator @geobiomaggie.bsky.social (1/3)
Earth scientists Maggie Osburn and Mia Tuccillo bag up plant samples in a rocky Greenland landscape, with an iceberg-spotted fjord and glacier-covered mountains in the background.
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Tristan Caro @tacaro.bsky.social · 26/09/2025
The vast majority of permafrost exists in the subsurface. What happens when this deep, ancient permafrost thaws? How fast does it take microbial communities to "wake up"? This project now published in JGR, with @isotopes.bsky.social , @kopflab.bsky.social , et al., aims to address that question!
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Microbial Resuscitation and Growth Rates in Deep Permafrost: Lipid Stable Isotope Probing Results From the Permafrost Research Tunnel in Fox, Alaska
Microbial growth is extremely slow within the first 30 days of thaw. Temperature may drive which taxa are active, but not growth rates Subsurface microbes preferentially produce glycolipids over ...
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Tristan Caro @tacaro.bsky.social · 26/08/2025
Excited to share our pre-print examining microbial activity and carbon utilization in the serpentinizing subsurface! Tl;dr: Serpentinite-hosted microbes are notably active, thriving on DIC despite alkalinity. Implications for #astrobiology, #carboncapture, and #GeoH2! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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Dissolved inorganic carbon supports robust anabolism and methanogenesis in actively serpentinizing rocks
Serpentinites, hydrated ultramafic rocks that produce [hyper]alkaline, reducing, H2-rich groundwaters, host subsurface microbial ecosystems. Though in the presence of enormous reducing power, life in ...
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Jamie McFarlin @isotopes.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
Ever wondered how long it takes microbial life in permafrost to ‘wake up’ after thawed? Hydrogen SIPing pro @tacaro.bsky.social ‘s newest preprint👇👇👇
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Tristan Caro @tacaro.bsky.social · 15/01/2025
for those who love both ggplot and dual-axis plots, rejoice! #rstats #dataviz #tidyverse
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Jamie McFarlin @isotopes.bsky.social · 15/01/2025
You know how annoying it is to make overlapping plots on the same x-axis but different y-axis in ggplot? Well…not anymore! 🎉🎉 @tacaro.bsky.social @rabergj.bsky.social ggstackplot.kopflab.org
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Create Overlapping Stacked Plots
Easily create overlapping grammar of graphics plots for scientific data visualization. This style of plotting is particularly common in climatology and oceanography research communities.
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Tristan Caro @tacaro.bsky.social · 11/12/2024
Do you sample groundwater for subsurface geochemistry/microbiology? If so, check out the Open-source Well Geochemistry Logger (OpenWGL)! We developed a sensor array that can go down boreholes up to 1000m and is made out of commercially-available components (<~$1000)! github.com/tacaro/OpenWGL
A person in a yellow safety vest hoisting a sensor out of a borehole
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Yarrow Axford @yarrowaxford.bsky.social · 08/12/2024
Our group has lots on tap for #AGU24! Past big shifts in temperature, lake level, anoxia. Close looks at several water isotope methods. News from Greenland, New England, & the Midwest. A rundown:
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Yarrow Axford @yarrowaxford.bsky.social · 09/12/2024
Tues at #AGU24: my late-morning talk on several paleolim methods you might want to try (with fab collaborators including @petepuleo.bsky.social @isotopes.bsky.social @geobiomaggie.bsky.social) and (1/2)
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Konrad Kording @kordinglab.bsky.social · 11/11/2024
NSF makes you say who you got conflicts (coauthored) with. We (really just Jordan Matelsky) just built you a tool for that. Literally one click: bib.experiments.kordinglab.com/nsf-coa
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NSF COA | Jordan Matelsky
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Jamie McFarlin @isotopes.bsky.social · 19/09/2024
So many lakes! And soil water 👀
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Jamie McFarlin @isotopes.bsky.social · 11/03/2024
Lipid biomarker peeps: do you routinely hydrolyze your TLE? Why/why not? Looking through the lit and it’s all over the board.
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David Harning @davidharning.bsky.social · 02/02/2024
New preprint on Icelandic water isotopes in lakes, streams, and soils. This was a really fun collaborative effort, and we welcome community feedback! @isotopes.bsky.social @yarrowaxford.bsky.social hess.copernicus.org/preprints/he...
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Spatiotemporal variation of modern lake, stream, and soil water isotopes in Iceland
Abstract. As global warming progresses, changes in high-latitude precipitation are expected to impart long-lasting impacts on earth systems, including glacier mass balance and ecosystem structure. Rec...
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Jamie McFarlin @isotopes.bsky.social · 19/12/2023
New LCMS, who dis?
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James Rae @mudwaterclimate.bsky.social · 07/12/2023
Just out, a 66 million year history of atmospheric CO2. Key take away: CO2 hasn't been at today's levels for at least 3 million years. These high CO2 worlds in the geological past had less ice and *much* higher sea levels 📈🌊 ⚒️🧪 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Graph showing atmospheric CO2 over the last 66 million years superimposed on bands indicating levels of global warming
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Kate Freeman @khfreeman.bsky.social · 28/10/2023
Are you a doctoral student? Want to explore how Earth and life dance together? 🧪⚒️🌎🔬🧬💃 Join us next summer in Italy and at Penn State! Dates and info for the 2024 International Geobiology Course here: t.co/nv3Ooy88Vn
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John Spear @spearmicrobe.bsky.social · 09/11/2023
Want to Go Deep learning about microbes from all 3 domains of life in what will be 6.5 weeks of low-suck factor time? Consider applying to Microbial Diversity at the MBL for summer 2024.
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Dr Georgy Falster @raindrop-herder.bsky.social · 02/11/2023
Today in Nature Geoscience, a culmination of NINEish years of hard work by 40+ people, lead by the indefatigable @otherrock.bsky.social Iso2k is the source of & inspiration for some of my best science, and definitely the source of some of my favourite science people.
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Globally coherent water cycle response to temperature change during the past two millennia - Nature ...
Global temperature fluctuations during the last 2,000 years caused consistent changes in ocean evaporation and atmospheric moisture condensation processes, reflected in coherent water isotope signals ...
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Randall Munroe @xkcd.com · 11/10/2023
Earth Layers xkcd.com/2840
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GeophotoMarli @marlimiller.bsky.social · 26/09/2023
Just added 63 Greenland geology photos to geologypics.com --all (+5000 more) for free download to support your class. Type "Greenland" into the search and you'll now get 91 images, 8 of which are shown here. Or try a different place or Earth Sci feature (try "landslide") Please share.
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Jamie McFarlin @isotopes.bsky.social · 29/09/2023
Hello bluesky! Please help me to share my latest 🧪🍃🌎 with @geobiomaggie.bsky.social, @yarrowaxford.bsky.social, Stephanie Kusch and others www.science.org/doi/full/10....
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Science | AAAS
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