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Shalan McDonagh

@paleonotthediet.bsky.social
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Looking to answer big questions with tiny organisms 🐚 MS Oceanography @URIGSO| PhD Environmental Sciences @UMassBoston

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Jesse Farmer @jfarmersalmanac.bsky.social · 01/03/2026
Fantastic work by Aidan Starr, @ianhall.bsky.social & colleagues published in Paleo Paleo yesterday: Subsurface-to-deep C isotope gradients in the Southern Ocean across the MPT! agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/...
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Southern Ocean Vertical Carbon Stratification Across the Mid‐Pleistocene Transition
Breakdowns of Southern Ocean carbon isotope stratification occur at multiple glacial terminations back to at least 1.55 million years ago An increasingly efficient Southern Ocean biological pump ...
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Chandranath Basak @climchem.bsky.social · 08/03/2026
Interested in mid-Pleistocene transition? Check out our latest paper 👉🏽 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... @us-sciod.bsky.social @kapuge9paleo.bsky.social @jfarmersalmanac.bsky.social @julgottschalk.bsky.social #paleoceanography #EXP383
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Southern Hemisphere initiation of the mid-Pleistocene transition
A South Pacific neodymium isotope time series suggests Antarctic ice sheet growth triggered the mid-Pleistocene transition.
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Patrick Rafter @oceanandclimate.bsky.social · 03/10/2025
Today, we published a study long in the making on how upper and subsurface tropical Pacific waters responded (and maybe will adjust) to warmer global climate. Here’s the story of how we got here after 15 years. many authors but shout out @jfarmersalmanac.bsky.social 🌊 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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Persistent eastern equatorial Pacific Ocean upwelling since the warm Pliocene
Upwelling generates a nutrient-rich “cold tongue” in the eastern equatorial Pacific Ocean (EEP), with impacts on global climate, oceanic biological productivity, and the carbon cycle. The cold tongue ...
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Bella Duncan @antarcticabella.bsky.social · 16/09/2025
Geologists of bluesky, great opportunity at Otago Uni, NZ for a Lecturer in Earth Science! Special shout out to my #biomarker colleagues, the dept has a well set up, near new Org Geochem lab without a PI, with GCMS/FID and HPLC, if anyone wants a change of scene! ⚒🧪🥼🌊 otago.taleo.net/careersectio...
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Lecturer/Pūkenga - Geology
Click the link provided to see the complete job description.
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Shalan McDonagh @paleonotthediet.bsky.social · 06/09/2025
Especially honored to have received Honorable Mention in the Biogeochemical and Climate session. Could not have done it without my advisor @jfarmersalmanac.bsky.social and colleagues for their guidance and support. Already looking forward to #ICP16
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Shalan McDonagh @paleonotthediet.bsky.social · 06/09/2025
Leaving #ICP15 feeling inspired and motivated. Special thanks to all the organizers for making this week possible. I had a blast learning from the star-studded list of speakers and learning about on-going projects.
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Pallavi Anand (she/her) @anandpallavijha.bsky.social · 03/09/2025
#ICP16 will be hosted by St Andrews, Scotland @mudwaterclimate.bsky.social thank you. We had two pitches from Cardiff and St Andrews. 🙏🏼
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Prof Helen Bostock @oceanhelen.bsky.social · 02/09/2025
Also making a plea for new research ship to replace the JOIDES Resolution and continuation of deep sea drilling -post IODP 2 - as still lots of new discoveries to make and under-explored regions.
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Rachel Lupien @loopdlupien.bsky.social · 02/09/2025
I'm looking for a driven PhD student to join us at @au.dk and to both generate new paleoclimate data in the lab and work on computational problems to understand climate relationships across timescales. Get in touch if you'd like to hear more, and apply by Nov 1! phd.nat.au.dk/for-applican...
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Prof Ian Hall @ianhall.bsky.social · 02/09/2025
Concluding day 2 of #ICP15, the excellent Sidney Hemming, touching on the importance of ECRs and the continuation of scientific ocean drilling through #IODP, before addressesing the state of the Antarctic Ice Sheet during the Plio-Pleistocene transition and its lessons for the future
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Thomas Bauska @tinyicybubbles.bsky.social · 01/09/2025
Early Warming Over the Southern Ocean During the Last Deglaciation - Zheng, Bauska and Osman - 2025 - GRL agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/... I promise to write a serious thread of what (IMHO as Peisong's advisor) is an innovative analysis. This will have to suffice for now.
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Shalan McDonagh @paleonotthediet.bsky.social · 01/09/2025
Name tags automatically upgrade any outfit. If you’re going to #ICP15 stop by 1-38 to see some squiggly lines and learn about N consumption in the Subantarctic during the MPT!
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Shalan McDonagh @paleonotthediet.bsky.social · 20/08/2025
Photographer: ”Hold that cool pose for me” Me: *please don’t take photographic evidence of me vigorously shaking the standards I forgot to thaw*
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Shalan McDonagh @paleonotthediet.bsky.social · 22/07/2025
Emotions are so high with a view like this and a book so helpful and truly enjoyable to read 😊
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Shalan McDonagh @paleonotthediet.bsky.social · 10/07/2025
And just like that my time at MPIC has quickly come to an end! 6 weeks later and ~250 new data points to play with. Here’s me celebrating with my last oxidation sandwich. I was only slightly tempted to eat it 🥪
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Shalan McDonagh @paleonotthediet.bsky.social · 13/06/2025
It’s been two weeks since the PaleoLab landed in Mainz, Germany and we’ve certainly been making the most of our time. All our trainings have prepared me for this massive first ~26 hr IRMS run. Happy data soon to come! 🐚🌊
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Tim Vernimmen @timvernimmen.bsky.social · 28/05/2025
My latest story for @knowablemag.bsky.social is all about the astonishingly plentiful fossils of foraminifera, featuring @chrislowery.bsky.social, @fraass.bsky.social and @tracyaze.bsky.social! knowablemagazine.org/content/arti...
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The history of the ocean, as told by tiny beautiful fossils
Bountiful remains of foraminifera reveal how organisms responded to climate disturbances of the past. They can help predict the future, too.
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Shalan McDonagh @paleonotthediet.bsky.social · 24/05/2025
Yesterday I handed in my last assignments to complete my first year of my PhD! Feeling very grateful to have this incredible opportunity and honestly still in shock I get to pursue this dream 🤗 Time to celebrate with some tiramisu!
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Gavin Foster @thefosterlab.bsky.social · 14/05/2025
Look at this beauty! freshly fished out of the Sargasso Sea and imaged at the Bermuda Institute of Ocean Sciences with @chalkyoceans.bsky.social @juliemeilland.bsky.social and others 🧪🌊⚒️
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Shalan McDonagh @paleonotthediet.bsky.social · 03/05/2025
Today I lived vicariously through my samples. They received an all-inclusive spa day 💅🏼 including a deep pore cleaning and full body massage (via vortex and sonication). These guys will travel with me to @mpic.de this summer for further foram-bound d15N analysis!
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Gabrielle Hecht 🇵🇷 • she/elle/ella/cis⚔️ • AOC 4USpresident @gabriellehecht.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
Pause for a minute to appreciate the valiant Program Officers still at NSF, who are doing their utmost to preserve what they can. They’re in the stinking rotting belly of the beast, laboring on our behalf. ❤️❤️❤️❤️ to them
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Julie Meilland @juliemeilland.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
Interested in doing a PhD with living planktonic foraminifera? Come work with us! Check our PhD subject and get in touch! @tdegaridel.bsky.social
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Shalan McDonagh @paleonotthediet.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
*procrastinates writing abstract and instead scrolls* *sighs* *takes the hint and gets off socials*
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Shalan McDonagh @paleonotthediet.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
Very excited to read this as I delve deeper into my PhD research on the Southern Ocean!
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Shalan McDonagh @paleonotthediet.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
Celebrating this Earth Day with UMass Boston’s poster symposium. Here is PaleoLab’s own Charly Raymond presenting d15N values comparing wild blue mussels and those that underwent experiments.
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AGU (American Geophysical Union) @agu.org · 05/03/2025
AGU has joined a lawsuit challenging the firing of probationary employees at federal agencies. These actions weaken science, harm public health & the environment, and threaten national security. 🧵 #StandWithScience
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Shalan McDonagh @paleonotthediet.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
Our fellow researchers and colleagues need your help. It's time to step up and defend trusted research from agencies like NOAA so they continue to conduct crucial climate research and monitoring programs that impacts us all, regardless of political party.
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Earthworks-Jobs.com @earthworks-jobs.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
Three fully funded PhD positions in Earth Sciences with focus on solar activity, geomagnetic field and paleoclimate - Lund, Sweden - www.earthworks-jobs.com/climate/lund... #jobs #PhD #computationalEarthScience #icecoreresearch
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Climate / Meterology Jobs : Earthworks : Three fully funded PhD positions in Earth Sciences with focus on solar activity, geomagnetic field and paleoclimate - Lund, Sweden - Lund University <div id="t...
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