Dr (of rocks) Marcus Badger
@climatebadger.bsky.social
Organic Geochemist, palaeoclimate scientist, UM-user, railfan, he/him, Senior Lecturer in Earth Sciences at The Open University. For The Mug!
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Back in June we were back on the Oxfordshire “dinosaur highway”, excavating more dinosaur tracks with our teams from the Universities of Birmingham, Oxford & Liverpool John Moores. The BBC have a story out today about our work at the site:
www.bbc.co.uk/news/resourc...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/resourc...
In the footsteps of giants - BBC News
One of the longest sets of dinosaur footprints in the world has been discovered in a limestone quary near Bicester, in Oxfordshire, England.
www.bbc.co.uk
October 14, 2025 at 6:13 AM
Back in June we were back on the Oxfordshire “dinosaur highway”, excavating more dinosaur tracks with our teams from the Universities of Birmingham, Oxford & Liverpool John Moores. The BBC have a story out today about our work at the site:
www.bbc.co.uk/news/resourc...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/resourc...
Still time to apply:
📢We're hiring!📢
We have a permanent Lecturer in Earth Sciences position available in @OU_EEE
@OpenUniversity
£47,389 to £56,535
Closing Date: 20 October 2025*
We are a friendly, research intensive school with supportive colleagues and great labs.
jobs.open.ac.uk/job/Lecturer...
We have a permanent Lecturer in Earth Sciences position available in @OU_EEE
@OpenUniversity
£47,389 to £56,535
Closing Date: 20 October 2025*
We are a friendly, research intensive school with supportive colleagues and great labs.
jobs.open.ac.uk/job/Lecturer...
Lecturer in Earth Sciences
Lecturer in Earth Sciences
jobs.open.ac.uk
October 4, 2025 at 3:36 PM
Still time to apply:
October 4, 2025 at 11:23 AM
📢We're hiring!📢
We have a permanent Lecturer in Earth Sciences position available in @OU_EEE
@OpenUniversity
£47,389 to £56,535
Closing Date: 20 October 2025*
We are a friendly, research intensive school with supportive colleagues and great labs.
jobs.open.ac.uk/job/Lecturer...
We have a permanent Lecturer in Earth Sciences position available in @OU_EEE
@OpenUniversity
£47,389 to £56,535
Closing Date: 20 October 2025*
We are a friendly, research intensive school with supportive colleagues and great labs.
jobs.open.ac.uk/job/Lecturer...
Lecturer in Earth Sciences
Lecturer in Earth Sciences
jobs.open.ac.uk
September 22, 2025 at 12:09 PM
📢We're hiring!📢
We have a permanent Lecturer in Earth Sciences position available in @OU_EEE
@OpenUniversity
£47,389 to £56,535
Closing Date: 20 October 2025*
We are a friendly, research intensive school with supportive colleagues and great labs.
jobs.open.ac.uk/job/Lecturer...
We have a permanent Lecturer in Earth Sciences position available in @OU_EEE
@OpenUniversity
£47,389 to £56,535
Closing Date: 20 October 2025*
We are a friendly, research intensive school with supportive colleagues and great labs.
jobs.open.ac.uk/job/Lecturer...
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Interested in joining a world-leading geological organisation? We have two vacancies available:
🌱 Organic geochemist
📋 Administrator / business assistant
Keep updated on these and all of our latest vacancies over on our jobs page: www.bgs.ac.uk/about-bgs/wo...
🌱 Organic geochemist
📋 Administrator / business assistant
Keep updated on these and all of our latest vacancies over on our jobs page: www.bgs.ac.uk/about-bgs/wo...
August 3, 2025 at 8:40 AM
Interested in joining a world-leading geological organisation? We have two vacancies available:
🌱 Organic geochemist
📋 Administrator / business assistant
Keep updated on these and all of our latest vacancies over on our jobs page: www.bgs.ac.uk/about-bgs/wo...
🌱 Organic geochemist
📋 Administrator / business assistant
Keep updated on these and all of our latest vacancies over on our jobs page: www.bgs.ac.uk/about-bgs/wo...
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NERC: We need to open up environmental science! Why is it not diverse?
Also NERC: We're scrapping Independent Research Fellowships, New Investigator Grants, Small Grants, are limiting applications from institutions based on past success rates and will only allow you to submit your proposal once.
Also NERC: We're scrapping Independent Research Fellowships, New Investigator Grants, Small Grants, are limiting applications from institutions based on past success rates and will only allow you to submit your proposal once.
July 18, 2025 at 9:38 PM
NERC: We need to open up environmental science! Why is it not diverse?
Also NERC: We're scrapping Independent Research Fellowships, New Investigator Grants, Small Grants, are limiting applications from institutions based on past success rates and will only allow you to submit your proposal once.
Also NERC: We're scrapping Independent Research Fellowships, New Investigator Grants, Small Grants, are limiting applications from institutions based on past success rates and will only allow you to submit your proposal once.
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![Comic. [two people in labcoats look at body pierced with blade draped over bench] PERSON 1: We found him lying uncomformably on the lab bench. I wonder if the iron-rich intrusion in his back is related. PERSON 2 with ponytail: It could be clastic. Maybe a rift opened in his body, and the intrusive material later fell into the hole. [caption] The Geology Department Investigates Their First Murder](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:cz73r7iyiqn26upot4jtjdhk/bafkreidexczuo22iq6o77sexfgdpvgx6baetimwtkzoeb7h7glon7enx4y@jpeg)
July 9, 2025 at 1:19 AM
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❗Doctoral students: want to experience first-hand how research feeds into policy?
The latest round of the UKRI Policy Internships scheme is open for applications.
Apply by 8 September 2025➡️ www.ukri.org/apply-for-fu...
The latest round of the UKRI Policy Internships scheme is open for applications.
Apply by 8 September 2025➡️ www.ukri.org/apply-for-fu...
July 8, 2025 at 1:06 PM
❗Doctoral students: want to experience first-hand how research feeds into policy?
The latest round of the UKRI Policy Internships scheme is open for applications.
Apply by 8 September 2025➡️ www.ukri.org/apply-for-fu...
The latest round of the UKRI Policy Internships scheme is open for applications.
Apply by 8 September 2025➡️ www.ukri.org/apply-for-fu...
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We are looking for a new researcher @UoBEarthSciences ! (36 months funded) if you like 🌋, are good at analysing. 🪨 and enjoy working in large collaborations. Then come and join us! This post is an important part of a new UK NERC funded Large Grant..
www.bristol.ac.uk/jobs/find/de...
www.bristol.ac.uk/jobs/find/de...
Details | Working at Bristol | University of Bristol
www.bristol.ac.uk
June 19, 2025 at 11:02 AM
We are looking for a new researcher @UoBEarthSciences ! (36 months funded) if you like 🌋, are good at analysing. 🪨 and enjoy working in large collaborations. Then come and join us! This post is an important part of a new UK NERC funded Large Grant..
www.bristol.ac.uk/jobs/find/de...
www.bristol.ac.uk/jobs/find/de...
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They say it can’t be done, but here we are, California is generated 106% of California’s entire state electricity demand from renewables.
California has a population bigger that 154 other countries around the world. It’s the 4th largest economy, in the world.
Let that sink in.
#energysky #greensky
California has a population bigger that 154 other countries around the world. It’s the 4th largest economy, in the world.
Let that sink in.
#energysky #greensky
May 24, 2025 at 11:06 PM
They say it can’t be done, but here we are, California is generated 106% of California’s entire state electricity demand from renewables.
California has a population bigger that 154 other countries around the world. It’s the 4th largest economy, in the world.
Let that sink in.
#energysky #greensky
California has a population bigger that 154 other countries around the world. It’s the 4th largest economy, in the world.
Let that sink in.
#energysky #greensky
Having spent some of last week in the sea I can confirm it is anomalously warm.
This is phenomenal.
Sea surface temperatures are >5C above average to the west of the UK and around Iceland. It's the strongest area of anomalous warmth on the planet at the moment.
It's the warmest in recorded history for northwest Europe.
Sea surface temperatures are >5C above average to the west of the UK and around Iceland. It's the strongest area of anomalous warmth on the planet at the moment.
It's the warmest in recorded history for northwest Europe.
May 25, 2025 at 5:05 PM
Having spent some of last week in the sea I can confirm it is anomalously warm.
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This is phenomenal.
Sea surface temperatures are >5C above average to the west of the UK and around Iceland. It's the strongest area of anomalous warmth on the planet at the moment.
It's the warmest in recorded history for northwest Europe.
Sea surface temperatures are >5C above average to the west of the UK and around Iceland. It's the strongest area of anomalous warmth on the planet at the moment.
It's the warmest in recorded history for northwest Europe.
May 25, 2025 at 10:13 AM
This is phenomenal.
Sea surface temperatures are >5C above average to the west of the UK and around Iceland. It's the strongest area of anomalous warmth on the planet at the moment.
It's the warmest in recorded history for northwest Europe.
Sea surface temperatures are >5C above average to the west of the UK and around Iceland. It's the strongest area of anomalous warmth on the planet at the moment.
It's the warmest in recorded history for northwest Europe.
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🚨Internship opportunity 🚨
Do you have:
🌡️ an interest in climate change?
✍️ some experience of writing on a technical topic for a general audience?
🎙️ an interest in journalism and a commitment to the integrity of journalism?
Apply for Carbon Brief’s internship here ⬇️
Do you have:
🌡️ an interest in climate change?
✍️ some experience of writing on a technical topic for a general audience?
🎙️ an interest in journalism and a commitment to the integrity of journalism?
Apply for Carbon Brief’s internship here ⬇️
Vacancy: Three-week summer journalism internship at Carbon Brief - Carbon Brief
Carbon Brief is offering an exciting opportunity for students, or recent graduates, to work with the team for three weeks this summer.
www.carbonbrief.org
May 21, 2025 at 1:50 PM
🚨Internship opportunity 🚨
Do you have:
🌡️ an interest in climate change?
✍️ some experience of writing on a technical topic for a general audience?
🎙️ an interest in journalism and a commitment to the integrity of journalism?
Apply for Carbon Brief’s internship here ⬇️
Do you have:
🌡️ an interest in climate change?
✍️ some experience of writing on a technical topic for a general audience?
🎙️ an interest in journalism and a commitment to the integrity of journalism?
Apply for Carbon Brief’s internship here ⬇️
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New Job! Please repost!
We have a NERC funded PDRA position here @oxuniearthsci.bsky.social, 2 yrs, on modelling cryosphere change and hydrochemistry
#models, #carbon, #permafrost, #deglaciation
Come join our friendly team!
Apply by 11/06, any Qs get in touch!
my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecru...
We have a NERC funded PDRA position here @oxuniearthsci.bsky.social, 2 yrs, on modelling cryosphere change and hydrochemistry
#models, #carbon, #permafrost, #deglaciation
Come join our friendly team!
Apply by 11/06, any Qs get in touch!
my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecru...
May 15, 2025 at 9:30 AM
New Job! Please repost!
We have a NERC funded PDRA position here @oxuniearthsci.bsky.social, 2 yrs, on modelling cryosphere change and hydrochemistry
#models, #carbon, #permafrost, #deglaciation
Come join our friendly team!
Apply by 11/06, any Qs get in touch!
my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecru...
We have a NERC funded PDRA position here @oxuniearthsci.bsky.social, 2 yrs, on modelling cryosphere change and hydrochemistry
#models, #carbon, #permafrost, #deglaciation
Come join our friendly team!
Apply by 11/06, any Qs get in touch!
my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecru...
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Postdoc position available at University of Reading
Interested in doing research to better understand the predictability of sub-polar North Atlantic tipping points?
jobs.reading.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai...
Interested in doing research to better understand the predictability of sub-polar North Atlantic tipping points?
jobs.reading.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai...
Research Scientist (North Atlantic Climate Tipping Points, PROMOTE WP3):Whiteknights Reading UK
jobs.reading.ac.uk
May 15, 2025 at 2:03 PM
Postdoc position available at University of Reading
Interested in doing research to better understand the predictability of sub-polar North Atlantic tipping points?
jobs.reading.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai...
Interested in doing research to better understand the predictability of sub-polar North Atlantic tipping points?
jobs.reading.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai...
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NEW – Analysis: Clean energy just put China’s CO2 emissions into reverse for first time | @laurimyllyvirta.bsky.social
Read here: buff.ly/6eAcjRU
Read here: buff.ly/6eAcjRU
May 14, 2025 at 11:01 PM
NEW – Analysis: Clean energy just put China’s CO2 emissions into reverse for first time | @laurimyllyvirta.bsky.social
Read here: buff.ly/6eAcjRU
Read here: buff.ly/6eAcjRU
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The best co-author papers are surprise co-author papers.
April 15, 2025 at 9:36 PM
The best co-author papers are surprise co-author papers.
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📢 New publication: Our interim report from phase 1 of the Gender Pain Gap in Sexual & Reproductive Health project is now available here: doi.org/10.21954/ou....
In it we highlight 4 key findings...
In it we highlight 4 key findings...
April 7, 2025 at 7:22 PM
📢 New publication: Our interim report from phase 1 of the Gender Pain Gap in Sexual & Reproductive Health project is now available here: doi.org/10.21954/ou....
In it we highlight 4 key findings...
In it we highlight 4 key findings...
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3 years ago, when I wrote The Lost Rainforests of Britain, I talked about the importance of expanding fragments of temperate rainforest like Wistman's Wood
Well now the Duchy of Cornwall is actually doing it. (And through natural regeneration, not just planting!)
duchyofcornwall.org/article/firs...
Well now the Duchy of Cornwall is actually doing it. (And through natural regeneration, not just planting!)
duchyofcornwall.org/article/firs...
First ‘Wistman’s Wood’ trees planted as part of efforts to double size of ancient temperate rainforest
duchyofcornwall.org
March 31, 2025 at 5:46 PM
3 years ago, when I wrote The Lost Rainforests of Britain, I talked about the importance of expanding fragments of temperate rainforest like Wistman's Wood
Well now the Duchy of Cornwall is actually doing it. (And through natural regeneration, not just planting!)
duchyofcornwall.org/article/firs...
Well now the Duchy of Cornwall is actually doing it. (And through natural regeneration, not just planting!)
duchyofcornwall.org/article/firs...
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According to the UN, eight days ago, the IDF executed paramedics and bulldozed them into a mass grave. The definition of a war crime. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m...
Israel killed 15 Palestinian paramedics and rescue workers one by one, says UN
Workers on a mission to help colleagues were buried in mass grave in southern Gaza, says humanitarian office
www.theguardian.com
March 31, 2025 at 3:22 PM
According to the UN, eight days ago, the IDF executed paramedics and bulldozed them into a mass grave. The definition of a war crime. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m...
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Government to extend ban on moorland burning - closing loopholes in existing rules
Great news for nature, carbon, & people who’ll be spared from acrid smoke & flooding
Bad news for dukes & billionaires who own grouse moors 🎻
Here's my quote running on PA newswire: 1/
www.gov.uk/government/n...
Great news for nature, carbon, & people who’ll be spared from acrid smoke & flooding
Bad news for dukes & billionaires who own grouse moors 🎻
Here's my quote running on PA newswire: 1/
www.gov.uk/government/n...
March 31, 2025 at 7:43 AM
Government to extend ban on moorland burning - closing loopholes in existing rules
Great news for nature, carbon, & people who’ll be spared from acrid smoke & flooding
Bad news for dukes & billionaires who own grouse moors 🎻
Here's my quote running on PA newswire: 1/
www.gov.uk/government/n...
Great news for nature, carbon, & people who’ll be spared from acrid smoke & flooding
Bad news for dukes & billionaires who own grouse moors 🎻
Here's my quote running on PA newswire: 1/
www.gov.uk/government/n...
As a geologist I endorse this message.
March 26, 2025 at 9:05 PM
As a geologist I endorse this message.
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Please pass on these details to anyone who might be interested in finding out whether the OU could work for them! Those who support Black and Asian students are very welcome too.
Friends! At the OU we are going to be running a series of online open days in the Arts and Humanities for Black and Asian students. Come along and find out how the Open University differs from other unis, and whether its accessible distance learning might suit you!👇🏻
March 24, 2025 at 10:19 AM
Please pass on these details to anyone who might be interested in finding out whether the OU could work for them! Those who support Black and Asian students are very welcome too.
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March 19, 2025 at 2:06 PM