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Danielle McLean @danmclean.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

🔔🌋Tonight is the @cot-iavcei.bsky.social social gathering at #EGU26 We will be meeting at 7Stern brewery from 8pm Note the kitchen closes at 9pm so please place any food ordered when you arrive. 🍲

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Commission on Tephrochronology @cot-iavcei.bsky.social · 03/05/2026

Note that the flyer says the COT social is on Wednesday, that is incorrect- it is on Tuesday! Oops! Please rsvp if interested! The link is correct. #EGU26 @tephraportal.bsky.social @oxfordtephra.bsky.social

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Britta Jensen @tephrabird.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

It will be a busy but exciting meeting. A lot of people from many different places getting together. Looking forward to catching up with everyone! #EGU2026 #tephra #volcano #geology 🌋⚒️🧪

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Britta Jensen @tephrabird.bsky.social · 26/02/2026

This isn't any special issue, it is a is a bit more like a special book. Who hasn't wanted to be in a book? Three major tephra themes: reconstruction of past eruptions, generation and dispersion, and forecasting. Check out the flyer! Spread the word! @camtephra.bsky.social @oxfordtephra.bsky.social

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Britta Jensen @tephrabird.bsky.social · 18/02/2026

It was fun walking home in the blizzard last night. Down pants, mitts and something to cover the face. All good. #yeg Also, June Lake had snow yesterday too. Next door to some of the coolest volcanoes ever, the Mono-Inyo Craters.

Frosted face of me in a snow storm, but smiling under my buff

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Commission on Tephrochronology @cot-iavcei.bsky.social · 06/02/2026

XXII INQUA Congress 2027 in Lucknow, India. Abstract deadline: 15th Feb 2026 COT sponsored session on Tephrochronology across multiple disciplines. Should be fantastic for many tephra fans out there! 🧪⚒️🌋 @oxfordtephra.bsky.social @camtephra.bsky.social @iavcei.bsky.social @inquaecr.bsky.social

Tephra session advertisement for INQUA congress in India, 2027.

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Kevin Anchukaitis @thirstygecko.bsky.social · 05/02/2026

We're hiring a full-time technician to support radiocarbon analyses. If you have some experience with analytical instruments and background in chemistry, earth sciences, archaeology, and/or ecology, this could be the job for you! arizona.csod.com/ux/ats/caree...

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Research Technician III, Tree Ring Laboratory

Duties and Responsibilities:Assisting with the meticulous preparation of samples for radiocarbon analysis following established protocols. This includ...

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Britta Jensen @tephrabird.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

The VARG lab @tephrotastic.bsky.social wants to show off the first first author publication of former MSc (now PhD!) Shaun Woudstra. Pioneering work in a challenging remote region. Looking forward to getting back there this summer to figure out where these tephra are coming from. #tephra🧪🌋

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Holocene tephrochronology in the Northern Cordilleran Volcanic Province, northwestern British Columbia

The Northern Cordilleran Volcanic Province (NCVP) of northwestern British Columbia and southwest Yukon is the most active volcanic region in Canada, including both the most recent eruption in Canada a...

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Britta Jensen @tephrabird.bsky.social · 29/01/2026

I found this a powerful article. The entire toxic empathy part is mind-boggling. It is easy to be hateful, self-interested, and only take care of yourself. It is hard to be caring, empathetic and vulnerable. To give a shit. These ass-hats take the easy way out. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

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When I see brutality like we’ve all witnessed in Minnesota, I ask myself: Can I really find empathy for people who insist on dehumanizing others? I’m not sure, to be honest. I’m still working on it. I believe our hearts are big enough to hold two truths at once. We can see the humanity in even the worst of our fellow human beings and still fiercely resist tyranny and repression. We can stand firm without mirroring the cruelty of our opponents. These are dark days in America. To rekindle our light, we must reject cruelty and corruption. To be strong, we need more empathy, not less.

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Zack Labe @zacklabe.com · 26/01/2026

Very exciting to share that @climatecentral.org is hiring a Climate Data Scientist to join a new climate services effort focused on advancing predictions of risks and hazards on seasonal-to-decadal timescales. The application closes on February 9, 2026 at 5pm ET, & the description can be found here:

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Climate Data Scientist | Climate Central

Climate Central is seeking a highly-skilled Climate Data Scientist to join our team. Reporting to the Vice President for Science, the scientist will be part of a new initiative in climate services to ...

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Britta Jensen @tephrabird.bsky.social · 19/01/2026

This is one of my absolutely favourite movies. It is so absurd and amazing. I have no idea how many times I have watched it. However it probably has been a couple years, so I know what I am watching this weekend!

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Britta Jensen @tephrabird.bsky.social · 10/01/2026

This is an wonderful documentary. It shows how important international science ventures are, and highlights the Earth Sciences. One of the most important subjects that isn’t taught in most K-12 schools, creating a crisis in illiteracy about our planet with major consequences. Watch it 🧪⚒️

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Callan Bentley @callanbentley.bsky.social · 10/01/2026

New video about the JTRACK expedition's work on better understanding stress, earthquakes, and tsunami at the Japan Trench subduction zone: www.youtube.com/watch?v=qoBN... ⚒️🌊

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IODP Expedition 405 "JTRACK: The Story of Stress"

YouTube video by JAMSTEC 海洋研究開発機構

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Britta Jensen @tephrabird.bsky.social · 26/12/2025

UAlberta not moving as fast as the UCalgary, but word on the street is that we might have something to announce soon(ish) too, so please keep you eyes open and fingers crossed 🤞 Will be wonderful to see some reinvestments in some world class Geoscience departments!!

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Britta Jensen @tephrabird.bsky.social · 23/12/2025

Great department, beautiful spot!

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Robert Way @labradorice.bsky.social · 23/12/2025

If you are interested in studying participatory cryosphere science or permafrost science feel free to reach out about these opportunities. Will be recirculating in early January. Also for international scholars there's a new funding opportunity for postdocs where these projects could apply as well!

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Britta Jensen @tephrabird.bsky.social · 22/12/2025

Because I definitely do 🫠 ...and two more #EGU2026: GMPV11.1: Tephra processes and dispersal: from tephrochronology to hazard assessment applications in volcanology ESSI3.6: From Principles to Practice: Multidisciplinary Approaches to Data-Driven Tephra Research @tephraportal.bsky.social

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Britta Jensen @tephrabird.bsky.social · 19/12/2025

I don't usually do this but if you love nature & quality journalism please donate to The Narwhal. Their work is more important than ever, and are currently trying to raise $200,000 to keep the lights on. You get a charitable receipt, and a donor is matching funds. Please share 🧪⚒️ @thenarwhal.ca

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Alberta officials stalled coal mine pollution study | The Narwhal

An Alberta government scientist was prevented from speaking publicly about his coal mine pollution research, emails show

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Jed O. Kaplan @jedokaplan.bsky.social · 18/12/2025

I've updated the opportunities part of my website with fresh openings for researchers interested in climate and vegetation science, archaeology, history, and geography at all levels from undergraduate intern to postdoc. Take a look! jedokaplan.github.io/opportunities/

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Work with me!

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Britta Jensen @tephrabird.bsky.social · 17/12/2025

I think you could lessen the firestorm this has started (pun, intended) by making this opt-in. Firefox has been my go to browser since you started. Please, don’t start acting like the others now. Give us the choice please. I don’t want to start over with a new browser, but will. @firefox.com

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Britta Jensen @tephrabird.bsky.social · 17/12/2025

#AGU Long time member & attendee. For several years it feels like they lost the plot, extortionate, and the meetings seem more about cramming more in than quality exchange. I was unable to attend for personal reasons, but there are others who couldn’t attend because they didn’t know if it was SAFE 🧵

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Julie Talbot @julietalbot.bsky.social · 17/12/2025

Le démantèlement annoncé de NCAR est un scandale. On brûle une cathédrale de la science climatique qui sera pratiquement impossible à reconstruire. Un recul de plusieurs décennies. Je suis sans mots

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Andy Emery @andydoggerbank.bsky.social · 10/12/2025

Just happened across this, as well as being great for new Quaternary scientists looking for the good stuff, it's also great for heyday twitter alumni to reunite! Rebuilding that network slowly... Thanks Christine!

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Kevin Anchukaitis @thirstygecko.bsky.social · 09/12/2025

Very cool work by Bryan Black here at the Laboratory of Tree-Ring Research establishing the exact date of the Electron Mudflow in the Puget Sound metropolitan area: 'Forest-floor burial in 1507 by the largest Mount Rainier lahar of the past millennium' doi.org/10.1130/G537...

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Forest-floor burial in 1507 by the largest Mount Rainier lahar of the past millennium | Geology | GeoScienceWorld

New dating of lahar-killed trees underscores volcano hazards in the Puget Sound metropolitan area. Beginning as a landslide from the west flank of Mount

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Britta Jensen @tephrabird.bsky.social · 22/11/2025

This is so cool! I had an amazing undergraduate student right after I started my job, and his research project included looking at the 1842 eruption. We concluded it was not just a phreatic event, but a bit more exciting. I wish this letter had been available then. 🌋⚒️🧪

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elodielebas.bsky.social @elodielebas.bsky.social · 21/11/2025

🔎You want to share your latest research in volcanology & tephra ? Don't hesitate to submit an abstract to one of the three #EGU2026 sessions or to contact us regarding the #GeoHorizons and #JQS Special Issues 🌋⚒️ #tephra #volcanology Details are provided in the flyer below 👇

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Britta Jensen @tephrabird.bsky.social · 20/11/2025

@watershedlab.bsky.social Makes me think (a bit tangentially) of your Globe article…. but in a place way less prone to earthquakes! 🧪⚒️

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Britta Jensen @tephrabird.bsky.social · 20/11/2025

Come one, come all! It will be a great time at #EGU2026! COT will also be hosting a meeting and organizing a pub night.

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Andrej Spiridonov @andrejpaleo.bsky.social · 15/11/2025

Eruption of the Hunga Tonga–Hunga Haʻapai in 2022 was a unique phreatic eruption even where we can learn many things on the effects of explosive eruptions on the Earth system. Eruption was so large that in the atmosphere formed transient ice ring. www.nature.com/articles/s43... 🧪 ⚒️ #Geology

Satellite-based estimation of the temporal evolution of temperature in the lower-middle stratosphere (LMS; 6–52 hPa; 21–35 km) within the ice-ring region

Hunga Tonga–Hunga Haʻapai eruption and the ice ring

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Tephra Information Portal @tephraportal.bsky.social · 23/10/2025

Abstract submission is open for #EGU2026! Join our session ESSI3.6 "From Principles to Practice: Multidisciplinary Approaches to Data-Driven Tephra Research." Share your multidisciplinary research, workflows, best practices, and cyberinfrastructure. meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/EGU26/sessio...

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Britta Jensen @tephrabird.bsky.social · 09/11/2025

Another one of Zack’s posts that you want to like because his work is great, but can’t because what it says is definitively not likeable. My asters are still blooming in Edmonton. In November. We haven’t had a hard enough frost to kill them. That snow? Gone today, highs of 8 today, 12 (!) tomorrow.

Aster flowers peering through the snow that fell. Asters are cold hardy but should be dormant in early November as frosts should have been hard enough to kill them. But they haven’t been, and now the snow is gone.

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Scottish Geology Trust @scottishgeology.bsky.social · 03/11/2025

“300 years on from the birth of James Hutton, these ideas are still relevant. They’ve laid the foundations of geology, but they also remind us that these ongoing processes that don’t stop” Help make the deep time trail a reality. Donate today at www.crowdfunder.co.uk/siccar-point

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Britta Jensen @tephrabird.bsky.social · 27/10/2025

Current situation. Happens regularly. They should fix this, at least on the cross country trains. People saying sorry constantly as they block the aisle because there is no room for luggage. And then those bonking into luggage saying sorry as well. Kind of makes me feel like I am in Canada again 😂

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GeoCron @geocron.bsky.social · 21/10/2025

Very happy to share another new paper. This one on an entirely different topic; the timing and interaction of alpine glaciers with at the northern margin of the Cordilleran Ice Sheet. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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Timing and interaction of Pleistocene alpine glaciers at the northern margin of the Cordilleran Ice Sheet, southwest Yukon

Stratigraphic and geomorphic analysis paired with 10Be surface exposure dating provides evidence of extensive local ice growth in the Ruby Range, sout…

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Britta Jensen @tephrabird.bsky.social · 17/10/2025

#fieldworkfriday! Early June was steep hikes in Jasper National Park looking for erratics. The Canadian Rockies are truly astounding. One of my favourite places on the planet, lucky I live pretty close! So many geology questions remain. Also nice to support Jasper after last year’s awful fires. ⚒️🧪🪨

Looking towards the summit of Cinquefoil and the endless sea of mountain peaks to the north of Jasper.

My favourite erratic I stumbled across, split and balanced and huge. Just casually resting against the slopes of Hawk Mountain. The Athabasca river flowing east to the left and some old burn scars across the valley - not from last year’s devastating fires.

Some beauty erratics, including a few odd lithologies such as this metamorphic rock - a schist that had to have been brought over the continental divide from BC and outside of the Rockies. Cool! The ice was BIG.

A lovely little Gog Fm Quartzite erratic on the ridge of Cinquefoil mountain.

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Britta Jensen @tephrabird.bsky.social · 17/10/2025

Given the cost of some academic books these days I wonder if this could be seen as a legitimate grant expense… what a find. ⚒️

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Oxford Tephrochronology Group @oxfordtephra.bsky.social · 16/10/2025

🚨New paper! Our latest study, led by Sophie Vineberg, integrates proximal & distal tephra records to reveal the timing and dispersal of large explosive eruptions at Aso volcano (Japan) 🌋 🔗 doi.org/10.1016/j.jvolgeores.2025.108436 #tephra #volcanology #Aso #Japan #LakeSuigetsu #tephrochronology

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Natural Resources @natural-resources.canada.ca · 14/10/2025

Hello Bluesky! We’re excited to be here. Join us for updates on: 🔋 energy sources and distribution 🌲 forests and forestry ⛏️ minerals and mining 🛰️ earth sciences 🔌 energy efficiency 🔬 science and data

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Britta Jensen @tephrabird.bsky.social · 08/10/2025

Hits a bit too close… gah. 😩

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St Andrews Earth & Environmental Sciences @earthscista.bsky.social · 07/10/2025

Over the last six weeks, SEES scientists Mengwen, Patrick, Helen & Andrea jointed the Beyond EPICA – Oldest Ice project, which aims to analyse the oldest ice on Earth – up to 1.5 million years old, beyond the 800,000 years previously covered – to understand more about Earth's climate 🧊🧪🥼 @bas.ac.uk

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Radiocarbon @14cjournal.bsky.social · 03/10/2025

👋 Hello, Bluesky! We’re Radiocarbon, an international peer-reviewed journal (since 1959) dedicated to advancing radiocarbon research, from calibration and chronology to applications across archaeology, geology, environmental science, and more. We’re glad to be here. #Radiocarbon #Geochronology

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Britta Jensen @tephrabird.bsky.social · 05/10/2025

@ualberta.bsky.social How about showing EAS you also think we are worth supporting?The geoscience side has lost so many that we are losing research capacity and ability to teach our programs. Best rated in Canada. Top 5 in North America. But not for long. Investing in existing strengths pays too!

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isset-ualberta.bsky.social @isset-ualberta.bsky.social · 11/09/2025

Hello folks! We're thrilled to announce that the 2025 University of Alberta Space Exploration Symposium will take place Wednesday, October 15th, Thursday October 16th, and Friday, October 17th. Stay tuned for more info about participation and our two fantastic keynote speakers! 🌟

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Britta Jensen @tephrabird.bsky.social · 03/10/2025

I jumped ahead last #fieldworkfriday and forgot about our first year geology field school before Iceland. Amazing rocks, landscapes and students on a road trip through southern Alberta and SE BC. Drumheller to Waterton, Fernie and Jasper just to name a few spots. Glorious. ⚒️🧪🪨

The amazing Horsethief Canyon outside of Drumheller never gets old. Stunning landscape of Cretaceous fluvial sequence - Horseshoe Canyon Formation

Our mascot is scale for cryoturbated Pleistocene gravels - a remnant periglacial landscape in the Del Bonita uplands on the Milk River Ridge - one of the only spots in Alberta not over ridden by an ice sheet during the last glacial maximum.

A lunch break at Fort Steele. We found a goat. He was great.

After I told the students if they stick their heads into the freezing Kootenay River near canal flats they will be able to hear the silt hissing and gravel moving on the river bed. They did it and were blown away that I wasn’t lying!

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Maryanne W @uptownone.bsky.social · 25/09/2025

Dr Markland was the heartbeat of Friday’s @coffeeoutside.bsky.social in Edmonton. Here’s a few of my favorite photos from over the years. You made us all better humans for knowing you. RIP

5 people in a snowy park, 3 sitting on benches & the others social distancing, smiling & enjoying the company

8 people in a park, 2 sitting on benches, 1 sitting on the ground & 5 standing

Man making coffee, 2 others standing on a sunny cool morning

Man in a green canoe being towed by a man on a bike smiling

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