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John Wainwright

@tjohnwainwright.bsky.social

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Professional Yorkshireman, geomorphologist, geoarchaeologist, Northumbrian smallpiper and all things more esoteric musically

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John Wainwright @tjohnwainwright.bsky.social · 10/11/2025

Delighted that our paper led by Deborah Priß "The social behind the physical" on connectivity of Bronze and Iron Age societies is now out in Journal of Archaeological Science. It's available Open Access at authors.elsevier.com/sd/article/S...

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John Wainwright @tjohnwainwright.bsky.social · 03/11/2025

Anyone interested in a PhD project modelling resilience of dryland ecosystems in a changing climate, led by @ecogeo.bsky.social and with @blindmath.bsky.social, Denis Patterson and Roy Sanderson, please apply to our @iapetusdtp.bsky.social PhD position iapetus.ac.uk/studentships...

A composite image of vegetation change at the Sevilleta LTER site in New Mexico USA, illustrating how grass landscapes on the left of the image are progressively invaded by shrubs, leading to a shrub-dominated landscape on the right. Image by John Wainwright

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John Wainwright @tjohnwainwright.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

Some great discussions in Durham Geography today around #PolarPride

Stickers with rainbow fronted penguin and polar bear

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John Wainwright @tjohnwainwright.bsky.social · 09/11/2024

A splendid day of dolphins, seals, murmurations and Vikings on Lindisfarne.

Emmanuel Head daymark on Lindisfarne with rainbow.

Bamburgh Castle from Lindisfarne. Photo but could be a pastel given the lighting

Domesday Stone at Lindisfarne priory showing viking raiders in the 9th century

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John Wainwright @tjohnwainwright.bsky.social · 24/10/2024

Delighted that a paper from our Fragile Landscapes project in Central Türkiye, led by Maddy Boon and Davide Motta, has now been published in The Holocene. It looks at long-term patterns of irrigation system development in the Konya Basin and is Open Access at doi.org/10.1177/0959...

Part of a figure from the paper by Boon et al. at https://doi.org/10.1177/09596836241285795 showing a step in the methods for determining locations of Pre-Modern Waterways in the Konya Basin, Turkiye

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John Wainwright @tjohnwainwright.bsky.social · 26/09/2024

Delighted that Josep Fortesa and Fran Coello from Riscbal and the University of the Balearic Islands could join Durham University Geography students today to explain the Mallorcan flood early warning system in the field.

Weather station part of the Mallorcan early warning system with students listening to a presentation about the Riscbal approach

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John Wainwright @tjohnwainwright.bsky.social · 26/09/2024

Durham University Geography students working to conceptualize landscape dynamics and connectivity at the Fonts Ufanes natural park in Mallorca

Students working on a project in holm oak woodland in Mallorca

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John Wainwright @tjohnwainwright.bsky.social · 19/09/2024

Ritual reuse of space in a quintessentially English way - a motte at Clun Castle becomes a bowling green 🏺

Bowling green at Clun Castle in Shropshire on top of a mediaeval motte

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John Wainwright @tjohnwainwright.bsky.social · 17/09/2024

Bluesky now has over 10 million users, and I was #2,985,869!

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John Wainwright @tjohnwainwright.bsky.social · 14/09/2024

Delighted to receive Ian Stephenson's "Return from Helsinki" tunebook from his crowdfunder. Looking forward to some new tunes!

Copy of Ian Stephenson's Return from Helsinki tunebook

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