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Rachel Lupien @loopdlupien.bsky.social · 10h

On my way back from @uio.no where I served (for the first time!) as a PhD opponent with new pal @sallieburrough.bsky.social. We dug deep into the work of @davidkwright.bsky.social's student (now) Dr. Aljasil Chirakkal on Central Asian Pleistocene paleo-environments. Learned a lot!

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Rachel Lupien @loopdlupien.bsky.social · 8d

Lucky to have gotten the chance to go to URI to see her speak. Because of you!

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Rachel Lupien @loopdlupien.bsky.social · Sep 4

ICP: international cat pics

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Rachel Lupien @loopdlupien.bsky.social · Sep 2

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...

phd.nat.au.dk

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Rachel Lupien @loopdlupien.bsky.social · Aug 4

We’ve just started the second week of our summer course ‘Climate Change: Cross-Disciplinary Challenges and Solutions’!

We have experts from different fields visit each day to provide new perspectives on the climate crisis, and students work in groups on case studies from different sectors 🌍

@au.dk

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Rachel Lupien @loopdlupien.bsky.social · Jul 28

Thrilled (and honored!) that Prof. Cat Beck from Hamilton College visited me at @au.dk during her sabbatical in Cologne. Cat and I have worked in Turkana, specifically on the HSPDP Lake Turkana drill core, for many years. It was great to catch up and talk about fun new things!

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Rachel Lupien @loopdlupien.bsky.social · Jun 3

We’re in Azerbaijan for field work! I’m collecting biomarker samples from a beautiful sediment sequence in the Azykh cave, where hominins lived over hundreds of thousands of years (we think, lol 😝). Downright honored to be a part of this team in this stunning landscape.

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Rachel Lupien @loopdlupien.bsky.social · May 21

... and will get reviews on their proposals before their 'interview'.

I've been taking the very intense @au.dk pedagogy course this semester, which has taught me the power of constructive alignment, feedback, scaffolding, and more.

I can't wait to see what the students come up with!

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Rachel Lupien @loopdlupien.bsky.social · May 21

This semester, the students have been performing one big 'literature review', and will now put their new skills in identifying knowledge gaps to the test by writing and defending a grant proposal. They did a 'pitch session' with their classmates, sent the 'program manager' (me) a 'one-pager', ...

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Rachel Lupien @loopdlupien.bsky.social · May 15

And that's a wrap! We finished up Cenozoic Paleoclimate in the last millennium with @kimcobb.bsky.social's coral records and @michaelemann.bsky.social's temperature compilations 📈

It is inspirational to see paleoclimatologists be politically active, standing up for what the data show. #receipts 🌡️

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Rachel Lupien @loopdlupien.bsky.social · May 14

Check out some nice coverage of my DFF-funded Sapere Aude project to start this October!

@au.dk @aarhusuniint.bsky.social

dff.dk/hvad-har-vi-...

Hvilke konsekvenser har klimaændringer haft for vores slægtninge de seneste tre millioner år?

Evolution handler om overlevelse, ikke mindst når klimaet ændrer sig. Nu skal forskere forsøge at finde frem til, hvordan klimaændringer har spillet en vigtig rolle for vores egen udviklingshistorie i...

dff.dk

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Nina Rønsted @ninaronsted.bsky.social · May 2

We are hiring. The Natural History Museum Denmark seeks a Tenure-track Assistant Professor and Curator in Vertebrate Paleontology.

Duties are collection-based research, curation of collections, teaching and public engagement.

Deadline: 18 May 2025. View full job posting: bit.ly/3XPIQcg

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Rachel Lupien @loopdlupien.bsky.social · May 2

Climate Change - Cross-disciplinary Challenges and Solutions 🌱

No matter what you study, this course will give you fresh perspectives on climate change 🌍

📅 July 28 – August 10, 2025
🚨 Non-AU students can sign up now until June 2nd!

@au.dk

international.au.dk/education/ad...

Climate Change - Cross-disciplinary Challenges and Solutions

international.au.dk

Rachel Lupien @loopdlupien.bsky.social · Apr 30

It was a beautiful day today at @au.dk, so we took our paper discussion outside ☀️

We’ve transitioned now to the tropics to learn about sapropels, monsoons, landscape feedbacks, threshold responses, and more! 🌱

I try not to pick favorites, but my excitement was hard to hide 🌍

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Jens-Christian Svenning @jcsvenning.bsky.social · Apr 24

🚨Postdoc opportunity @econovoau.bsky.social 🌍
Help forecast how rising ecological novelty reshapes #biodiversity & #vegetation 🌿 Work at the interface of species distribution models & dynamic global vegetation models 🌐🍃♨️- based in Aarhus, Denmark shorturl.at/t45JT #ecology #ecologyjob #macroecology

2-yr postdoc on Forecasting Biosphere-Scale Effects of Ecological Novelty Using Species Distribution and Vegetation Models - Vacancy at Aarhus University

Vacancy at Department of Biology - Ecoinformatics and Biodiversity, Aarhus University

shorturl.at

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Rachel Lupien @loopdlupien.bsky.social · Apr 24

In the last few weeks, we’ve gone deeper into triggers, processes, and responses of the Pleistocene, with lessons from the MPT (including a lovely virtual visit from @jfarmersalmanac.bsky.social!) and the ice core records. A highlight for me was stepping through the logic of Shakun et al 2012 🙌🏻

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Rachel Lupien @loopdlupien.bsky.social · Apr 20

Supurr interesting!

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Ruth Mottram @ruthmottram.bsky.social · Apr 10

Who wants to work on the Arctic in Copenhagen? Super postdoc job going with our friends at Aarhus University* together with DMI on climate modelling and Arctic influences on the mid-latitudes:

*at a campus not actually in Aarhus but just outside Copenhagen

international.au.dk/about/profil...

Postdoc in Climate Modelling and Arctic-Midlatitude Connections - Vacancy at Aarhus University

Vacancy at Department of Environmental Science - Atmospheric Emissions & Modelling, Aarhus University

international.au.dk

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Rachel Lupien @loopdlupien.bsky.social · Mar 31

Celebrating lab group birthdays the Danish way: by cutting off the head of a cake woman covered in candy.

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Rachel Lupien @loopdlupien.bsky.social · Mar 23

My first conference, the northeast regional @geosociety.bsky.social, 13 years ago 😎

Why did I think an orange poster was a good idea? Why.

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Lorelei Curtin @deltadeuterium.bsky.social · Feb 27

We’re hiring! The Bucknell Department of Geology is seeking a one-year visiting assistant professor to teach introductory level courses while I am on sabbatical. Happy to answer questions!

Visiting Assistant Professor of Geology and Environmental Geosciences

Position Title: Visiting Assistant Professor of Geology and Environmental Geosciences Position Type: Full time Location: O'Leary Center Categories: Faculty Exempt Job Summary: Job Duties: The Departme...

bucknell.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com

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Rachel Lupien @loopdlupien.bsky.social · Mar 20

To be fair, if you did become a crypto girlie, I might be convinced to buy in.

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Rachel Lupien @loopdlupien.bsky.social · Mar 20

After delving into the 57-record-stack of LR04 and more, we took a little journey through time over nearly 50 years from Hays, Imbrie, and Shackleton (1976) to the new Barker et al. (2025) on distinct roles for precession, obliquity, and eccentricity the 100-kyr world. 🌐

Literally so exciting.

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Rachel Lupien @loopdlupien.bsky.social · Mar 20

lab master Trine prepping fecal sterol/stanol samples 💯

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Rachel Lupien @loopdlupien.bsky.social · Mar 7

Over the past few weeks, we've traveled millions of years through time past the EOT, MMCO, and MPWP (students LOVE acronyms... not) with highlights from Goldner, Holbourn, Foster, Wara, Fedorov, Burls, and more.

Next, we transition to the glacial-interglacial world of the Quaternary! 🧊🌍 #LR04

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