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Dr. Michela Mariani

@michela-mariani.bsky.social
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Mum of 2, Associate Professor, photographer, traveller, European in UK. Travelling in time and space to uncover past landscapes and 🔥 using fossil pollen |

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Dr. Michela Mariani @michela-mariani.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
It was so lovely and inspiring to spend a couple of days with Graciela Gil-Romera and Kilian Jungkeit-Milla in Zaragoza at the Istituto Pirenaico de Ecología ⛰️🏞️🔥 Os agradezco muchísimo y me siento súper afortunada con mis colegas 😍 y qué buenas las tapas !
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Dr. Michela Mariani @michela-mariani.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
We had an awesome palaeo-filled day at University of Nottingham School of Geography for the #PAGES symposium 🤓 It was inspiring to hear about lots of interdisciplinary projects from all over the world. I also loved the logo with Robin Hood's hat! Thank you Keely Mills and Matt Jones for organising!
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Nottingham Pollen Lab @nottspollen.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
That's how you read a pollen diagram 😎🔥 Our visiting PhD student Valentina Fontana is clearly showing off ! #pollen #palynology #science #womeninstem
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Dr. Michela Mariani @michela-mariani.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
I had a couple of lovely days in Pisa to discuss current and future projects on Mediterranean fire 🔥 and past human-landscape interactions with Andrea Columbu (a friend from PhD times in Melbourne!) 💪🏻🇮🇹
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Anne-Laure D 🌿 @aldpaleo.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
📣 Abstract submission is now opened for the 12th European #Paleobotany and #Palynology Congress : www.uni-muenster.de/GeoPalaeonto... 🌿⛏️ Deadline is May 31. Don't hesitate to contact me if you have any questions about our symposium for early career researchers.
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Mario Coiro @lepidodendron.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
We have a new symposium at this year's European Palaeobotany and Palynology Conference in Muenster, Germany: Plant Paleoart: Perspectives and promises", organised by @palaeojules.bsky.social and myself! Both scientists and artists are welcome to contribute! www.uni-muenster.de/GeoPalaeonto...
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Dr. Michela Mariani @michela-mariani.bsky.social · 01/03/2026
I had a great time in Bern last week delivering a seminar on Indigenous fire and food plants for the Institute of Plant Sciences! Many thanks to Willy Tinner for the invitation 🔥🌱
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Graciela Gil-Romera @gilromera.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
We knew that trees produced lots of pollen, which always biased our interpretation of the past towards truly forested landscapes. This manuscript led by @kijumil.bsky.social challenges that view!
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Adrian Regos @adrianregos.bsky.social · 15/01/2026
🎬 New animation out! Nature-based Solutions to Extreme Wildfires. This video presents a roadmap to integrate #NatureBasedSolutions into wildfire governance. 📄 Open-access paper: lnkd.in/eEd7mqj7 ▶️ youtu.be/6yTn5olrZ5o
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Nature-based Solutions to Extreme Wildfires
YouTube video by Adrian Regos
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Abi Stone @abistone.bsky.social · 07/01/2026
And then to SE Australia to explore Holocene vegetation change and which models to employ for facilitating quantitative reconstructions with Alastair Wills #QRA2026ADM
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Dr. Michela Mariani @michela-mariani.bsky.social · 07/01/2026
Ground-based validation is crucial ! Alastair Wills at @nottspollen.bsky.social shows how pollen-based vegetation reconstuctions (from 4 different models !) compare with vegetation survey data for SE Australia. Well done Alastair on this pollen modelling overload for the #QRA2026ADM audience!
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Dr Matt Pope @mattpope.bsky.social · 07/01/2026
Now, Alastair Wills on reconstructing Holocene vegetation through pollen models to examine indigenous Vegetation management in south-eastern Australia. #QRA2026ADM
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Peter Gardner @peterdgardner.bsky.social · 05/01/2026
Outskirts of Australian cities at risk of catastrophic fires on scale of deadly LA blazes, study finds At least 6.9 million residents on Sydney, Melbourne, Canberra, Adelaide, Perth and Hobart fringes exposed as dry summer follows years www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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Outskirts of Australian cities at risk of catastrophic fires on scale of deadly LA blazes, study finds
At least 6.9 million residents on Sydney, Melbourne, Canberra, Adelaide, Perth and Hobart fringes exposed as dry summer follows years of vegetation growth
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Nottingham Pollen Lab @nottspollen.bsky.social · 06/01/2026
Enjoying a couple of days of Brighton sunshine and Quaternary-dense conversations to start 2026 ! @quaternaryra.bsky.social #QRA2026ADM
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Dr. Michela Mariani @michela-mariani.bsky.social · 06/01/2026
Absolutely a pleasure to be in Brighton to attend QRA in flesh this year ! #QRA2026ADM
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Russell Garwood @russellgarwood.co.uk · 22/12/2025
Looking for a PhD in palaeontology or associated fields? Just a heads up that we have a list of opportunities on the @thepalass.bsky.social website: palass.org/phd-opportun... ⚒️🧪🦀🦑 #evosky (If you're advertising one, you can add it to our listings too: palass.org/form/webform... )
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PhD Opportunities | The Palaeontological Association
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Pedro L. Lomas @lomaspdr.bsky.social · 20/11/2025
Interesante artículo en @jappliedecology.bsky.social de expertos #incendios y eco. terrestres en el que se resalta papel plantaciones forestales pinos en: (1) exacerbación severidad incendios y mayor facilidad extensión a masas contiguas... (1/9) besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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The legacy of pine plantations on fire severity
Our findings provide quantitative evidence that pine plantations can exacerbate fire severity under contemporary climate conditions, and that, once burned, these areas seldom recover. Effective spati....
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Nottingham Pollen Lab @nottspollen.bsky.social · 12/12/2025
See you in 2026 pollen people 🤩 May the next year be filled with smiles and success stories 🙌🏼
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Dr. Michela Mariani @michela-mariani.bsky.social · 08/12/2025
Are you going to #EGU26 and you'd like to present about past human-fire-landscape interactions?🔥 Check our session below ! ⏰ Abstract deadline is on the 15th of January! ⏰
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Dr. Michela Mariani @michela-mariani.bsky.social · 19/11/2025
Today's sunset. No filter needed ! @uniofnottingham.bsky.social
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Dr. Michela Mariani @michela-mariani.bsky.social · 08/11/2025
I feel like I am back to Kangaroo Island while counting these modern pollen samples 😍🔥 a lovely mixture of Acacia, Banksia and other Proteaceae 🤓 Sorry pics not to scale (shot using the phone camera on microscope technique) 😅 #kangarooisland #pollen #palynology #pollencounting #australia
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Steve Pyne @sjpyne.bsky.social · 16/10/2025
As reports tally up the 2025 fires, here's a long view back. I've updated and abridged Vestal Fire - now 40% as long, with half the new text completely rewritten, reorganized, and reconceptualized. The narrative still includes Russia. Should be published in spring, 2026.
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Dr. Michela Mariani @michela-mariani.bsky.social · 06/11/2025
🔥 Call for Abstracts – #EGU26 Interdisciplinary Session: Cultural Pyroscapes Through Time ITS3.5/BG5.6 🔥 📅 Deadline 15/01/2026. @gilromera.bsky.social @hcadd.bsky.social @thatpollenguy.bsky.social 👉[https://lnkd.in/eWYtRsge] #Wildfire #Palaeoecology #Archaeology #ClimateChange #FireEcology
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Marco Raczka @mfraczka.bsky.social · 25/10/2025
Exciting opportunity! Research Fellow to join the “Voices of Indigenous Amazonia” project…exploring environmental archaeology in the Brazilian NW Amazon.
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UCL – University College London
UCL is consistently ranked as one of the top ten universities in the world (QS World University Rankings 2010-2022) and is No.2 in the UK for research power (Research Excellence Framework 2021).
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The English Oak Project @thekentacorn.bsky.social · 22/10/2025
One of the most beautiful trees in Europe is the 550 year old Arbour Oak in Wollaton Park, Nottingham My youngest son is at university in the City, and took this photo 30mins ago
A beautiful oak tree
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ARC COE for Indigenous and Environmental Histories and Futures @ciehf.bsky.social · 21/10/2025
ANU Research Fellow position! We're looking for someone with a PhD in palaeoecology, geography or related field, who has experience with paleoenvironmental and archaeobotanical analysis. A familiar with sedimentology or geochemistry is also an advantage. Apply now: jobs.anu.edu.au/jobs/researc...
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Research Fellow - Canberra / ACT, ACT, Australia
Classification:  Research Fellow Level BSalary package: $118,5632 – $134,507 per annum (pro-rata) plus 17% superannuationTerm: Part-time (up to 21 hours per week), Continuing (contingent Funded) This ...
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Sean Ulm @seanulm.bsky.social · 19/10/2025
ABC Deep Time Australia Launched Today Congratulations to everyone involved in working with the ABC News Story Lab to bring this project to fruition! @ciehf.bsky.social is proud to have closely collaborated on this project. www.abc.net.au/news/deeptime/
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Explore an epic story 65,000 years in the making
Dive into Deep Time, an immersive story of the knowledge, art and ingenuity of Australia’s First Nations peoples — told like never before.
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Nottingham Pollen Lab @nottspollen.bsky.social · 17/10/2025
It's such a pleasure to have Kilian around ! Looking forward to collaborating further and seeing his novel work being published ! ✨
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Dr. Michela Mariani @michela-mariani.bsky.social · 16/10/2025
Another day, another Australian visitor exploring our University of Nottingham University Park Campus painted with autumnal colours 🍂 It was great to host @billabongs.bsky.social and John Tibby to discuss future joint research possibilities 🤓🌏
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Matt Jones @mattwjones.bsky.social · 16/10/2025
Be sure to check out our key messages report, which not only covers our global findings but also includes a regional breakdown of the wacky wildfire events of the fire season. stateofwildfires.com/latest-report/
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Dr. Michela Mariani @michela-mariani.bsky.social · 15/10/2025
It was a great pleasure to host A/Prof John Tibby today for our Environmental Change Theme seminar series at the University of Nottingham School of Geography ! It's so nice to see more of Australia up on the screens in our School 🌏🤓🤩
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Murphy Woodhouse @murphywoodhouse.bsky.social · 14/10/2025
A must-read from the @washingtonpost.com's @sadbumblebee.buzz on the cultural burning resurgence taking place in N California. We have a terrible relationship with fire, but the Karuk, Yurok and others show us that a better relationship is possible. www.washingtonpost.com/climate-solu...
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How indigenous practices can help protect forests
The Post followed cultural burning practices, an Indigenous tradition now permitted under California law and used to help protect forests from wildfires.
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Dr. Michela Mariani @michela-mariani.bsky.social · 24/09/2025
It's such a pleasure to have Kilian Jungkeit-Milla from Zaragoza visiting our @nottspollen.bsky.social team this month ! It's great to hear about his fascinating work on Iberian pollen productivity and dispersal 🌟 💪🏼
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Dr. Ramesh Glückler @rglueckler.bsky.social · 17/07/2025
Very glad to see this hot 🔥 journal! It fills what for me always felt like a gap in the fire research journal landscape. Happy to follow along and consider for future publications! #pyrogeography #wildfires 🌏🧪⚒️
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Marco Turco @marco-turco.bsky.social · 11/07/2025
Happy to share our new paper: we show that human-caused climate change is raising the odds of extreme climate-driven fire years across forested regions of the globe @climate-guy.bsky.social @pyrogeog.bsky.social rdcu.be/evJkX #ClimateChange #Wildfires
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Climate change has increased the odds of extreme regional forest fire years globally
Nature Communications - The authors show that extreme fire years in global forests align with rare fire weather extremes. Climate change has made such extremes 88-152% more probable. These findings...
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Dr. Michela Mariani @michela-mariani.bsky.social · 08/07/2025
Today we completed our #SneezingCity project mapping allergenic tree pollen in #Nottingham during spring 2025! We collected data from over 50 #pollen traps across the rebel city and showcased our results using our amazing augmented reality display !
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Dr. Michela Mariani @michela-mariani.bsky.social · 27/06/2025
This week we hosted @hcadd.bsky.social at the Nottingham Pollen Lab @nottspollen.bsky.social ! Lots of great discussions about present and future work to unpack 🔥, human activities and climate change through past millennia in Australia and beyond. Homemade pistachio cake post-seminar was delicious!
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Dept of Classics & Archaeology, Nottingham @uonclassarch.bsky.social · 26/06/2025
💥 Job Alert 💥 We’re currently seeking a Heritage Science Technician to join us in the Department of Classics & Archaeology at the University of Nottingham. Closing date July 24th 2025. Details here: jobs.nottingham.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx... #archaeology #archaeologicalscience
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Job Vacancy at the University of Nottingham: Heritage Science Technician (Fixed term)
Following £1.6 million UKRI-investment in our Archaeological Science Laboratories, we are delighted to offer this exciting opportunity to bring specialist technical expertise to our new AHRC-funded cl...
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Prof. Stefanie Kaboth-Bahr (she, her) @paleoclimategirl.bsky.social · 24/06/2025
🚨NEW PAPER ALERT: really excited 😊 about our new paper #PNAS on anthropogenic fire usage 🔥during the Pleistocene across Africa, Asia and Europe🌍 🌏 doi.org/10.1073/pnas...
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Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), a peer reviewed journal of the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) - an authoritative source of high-impact, original research that broadly spans...
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Dr. Michela Mariani @michela-mariani.bsky.social · 14/06/2025
It was great to meet with pupils and parents from local schools to chat about 3D pollen and landscapes for the University of Nottingham Family Discovery Day! 🔥🌱🌼🌲 School of Geography proudly represented by Gary Priestnall, myself and Alastair Wills 💪🏼
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Dr. Michela Mariani @michela-mariani.bsky.social · 12/06/2025
I had a wonderful time in Athens and the island of Euboea this week to discuss current and future research on Mediterranean palaeoecology and fire ! 🔥 🌲🌱🌼 Ευχαριστώ Katerina Kouli and Nikos Koutsias for everything (especially for your patience with my Greek – έμαθα πολύ και πέρασα ωραία!).
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juli g pausas @jgpausas.bsky.social · 03/06/2025
Se acaba de publicar una propuesta didáctica sobre incendios forestales. El libro entero está disponible en la web; ver detalles y prólogo del libro aquí: jgpausas.blogs.uv.es/2025/05/24/i... 🌍🔥🌳📚 #LenEdu wildfires
Tapa del libro: Incendios impredecibles
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Dr. Michela Mariani @michela-mariani.bsky.social · 20/04/2025
And that's a wrap ! We had a busy time in southeastern #Australia for my last expedition as part of the @leverhulme.ac.uk International Fellowship. A journey from the arid inland shrublands to the wet temperate forests, I have learnt so much ! Thanks to all who helped (see below) 🙏🏼 #fieldwork2025
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Dr. Michela Mariani @michela-mariani.bsky.social · 20/04/2025
Finally, huge thanks to my partner and my little boys for being my companions and most excited supporters on the journey ❤️ #familyexpedition #australia25 #academicmama
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Dr. Michela Mariani @michela-mariani.bsky.social · 20/04/2025
And that's a wrap ! We had a busy time in southeastern #Australia for my last expedition as part of the @leverhulme.ac.uk International Fellowship. A journey from the arid inland shrublands to the wet temperate forests, I have learnt so much ! Thanks to all who helped (see below) 🙏🏼 #fieldwork2025
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Socializing with Scientists @socwithsci.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
Listen to the full episode with University of Nottingham paleoecologist @michela-mariani.bsky.social www.buzzsprout.com/2464891
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Socializing with Scientists @socwithsci.bsky.social · 14/04/2025
Go outside and get lost with paleoecologist @michela-mariani.bsky.social ! Have a listen to the first episode of the Socializing with Scientists podcast. www.buzzsprout.com/2464891
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Dr. Michela Mariani @michela-mariani.bsky.social · 13/04/2025
Thank you so much Rachael for the opportunity to have a lovely chat about my research, my love for science and nature, and my life path! ❤️🌼
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Dr. Michela Mariani @michela-mariani.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
Bonus: the team is great too! 😁
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Dr. Michela Mariani @michela-mariani.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
Festival of Science and Curiosity activities completed ✅ lots of fun activities for kids and adults around Nottingham this week ! 🎉 @nottspollen.bsky.social University of Nottingham School of Geography always present as 'time detectives' and 'pollution police'! 🙂
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