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Tori Herridge @toriherridge.bsky.social · 22d

Open Quaternary is looking for a new Editor in Chief!

openquaternary.com/announcements

If you have any questions about OQ, or the role, I am very happy to answer Qs >> [email protected]

Announcements | Open Quaternary

We are looking to appoint an Editor-in-Chief starting in January 2026 for a period of three years. The new Editor-in-Chief will be working closely with the current Editors-in-Chief during a transition period.

openquaternary.com

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Frederik Schenk @freddyschenk.bsky.social · Jul 28

📣 Open position for a PhD student in Arctic Aeolian Processes & Paleoclimate at the Department of Geological Sciences @stockholm-uni.bsky.social with closing date 15 August 2025.
Collaborators: Uppsala University, Sweden & University of Santiago de Compostela, Spain 🧪⚒️ su.varbi.com/en/what:job/...

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Trish Greenhalgh @trishgreenhalgh.bsky.social · Jun 19

Thanks for the reminder @janemunday.bsky.social. Every summer, I repost this article DROWNING DOES NOT LOOK LIKE DROWNING. To date, I know of FOUR kids who were saved after someone who'd clicked on the link learnt how to spot actual drowning. Take time to read and pass on.

slate.com/technology/2...

Drowning Doesn’t Look Like Drowning

Drowning is not the violent, splashing call for help that most people expect.

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Anna Hughes @annalchughes.bsky.social · Jun 18

Scandinavian Ice Sheet chronology PhD opportunity - deadline to apply 21 July - with Karol Tylmann at University of Gdańsk

PhD opportunity: A multiple in-situ cosmogenic nuclides approach to dating erratics within the southern fringe of the Scandinavian Ice Sheet. Contact: k.tylmann@ug.edu.pl

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Maurycy Żarczyński @mzarowka.bsky.social · Jun 9

Paleoenvironmental Research Lab
at the University of Gdansk is looking for a PhD student interested in #paleolimnology #lakes #sediments #geochronology #geology #sedimentology #geochemistry
#phdchat

Project: Varved sediments have been established as one of the most prominent environmental archives. Lake Synevyr is the first site in the Eastern Carpathians where varved sediments were discovered, providing the basis for completely new reconstructions of the Holocene environmental changes in this region. With our project we address the following research questions: What was the dynamics of climate change / human impact in the region during the transition from a nature-dominated to a human-dominated environment? Is the most recent time unusual within the Holocene? We aim to (1) reconstruct local vegetation changes, soil erosion and lake productivity since lake initiation to the present, and (2) evaluate the interactions between climate variability / human activity, and their impact on the lake environment.
Contact: The project is led by Prof. Wojciech Tylmann form Paleoenvironmental Research Laboratory, Department of Geomorphology and Quaternary Geology. Candidates are requested to send (in one PDF file!) their CV including scientific achievements, motivation letter, references from the supervisor of their MSc thesis or immediate superior, and consent to the processing of personal data to the following email address: wojciech.tylmann@ug.edu.pl. The final deadline for submissions is July 25th at 3:00 pm, and the competition results will be announced by July 31th, 2025. Any questions regarding both the scientific scope of the project and the organizational-financial aspects can be directed to the same email address (wojciech.tylmann@ug.edu.pl).

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Dr Joanne Williams @jowilliams.bsky.social · May 30

A fantastic opportunity for an open-ended senior post in sea level science in Liverpool. These do not come up very often! Closing date 19th June. @noc.ac.uk 🌊
careers.noc.ac.uk/vacancy/seni...

Careers | National Oceanography Centre

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Prof Andrew Mackintosh @andrewmackintosh.bsky.social · May 31

🌏 Rare opportunity to join us!

We’re hiring two new Lecturer/Senior Lecturers in the School of Earth Atmosphere & Environment #MonashUni, a top 50 global university

🔬 Isotope Geochemistry
🛰️ Remote Sensing/Geospatial
careers.pageuppeople.com/513/cw/en/jo...
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Wilson’s Promontory or Yiruk Wamoon, 3 hours drive from Melbourne, Australia, is National Park with magnificent peaks, beaches, rainforest, and the world’s southernmost mangroves. A hiking and boating paradise, the promontory and surrounding islands are the exposed portions of a Devonian granite batholith.

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Polar Geospatial Center @polargeospatial.bsky.social · Apr 28

📢 The final ArcticDEM & REMA release is here - and it might be the last. Funding cuts put vital polar data at risk. Help us rally support: take the survey! 🔗https://z.umn.edu/pgc-dem-survey #PolarScience #SavePolarData

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Anna Hughes @annalchughes.bsky.social · Feb 23

POSTDOC on the multi-disciplinary Amazonian BioTechQuilombo Project to document and project Amazonian biodiversity via collaborative community-based research - apply by 12/03/25 www.jobs.manchester.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai...

Post-Doctoral Research Associate - Amazonian BioTechQuilombo :Manchester

www.jobs.manchester.ac.uk

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Anna Hughes @annalchughes.bsky.social · Feb 21

Peatland and peatland-adjacent researchers take note - my place is hiring a Lecturer in Physical Geography (Research & Teaching position, NOT fixed term). Apply by 27 March 2025. www.jobs.manchester.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai...

Lecturer in Physical Geography :Oxford Road

www.jobs.manchester.ac.uk

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Anna Hughes @annalchughes.bsky.social · Feb 12

very short deadline (21 Feb) - but if you got your PhD within 4 years and are looking for your next research opportunity - then check out the UoM bi-centenary fellowship scheme www.jobs.manchester.ac.uk/internal/Job...

Bicentenary Research Fellowships in Humanities:Oxford Road

www.jobs.manchester.ac.uk

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Ruth Mottram @ruthmottram.bsky.social · Jan 8

New year new PhD project?

In case your career ambitions extend to a PhD in #Denmark, @aarhusuni.bsky.social have some really exciting positions open right now, everything from ancient human migrations to atmospheric physics. PhD students in Denmark are employees

#phdPosition #PhD #AcademicJobs

Open calls for PhD positions at Graduate School of Natural Sciences, AU

You can apply for a PhD position with your own project description (general call) or via a position on the list of specific calls.

phd.nat.au.dk

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Ruth Mottram @ruthmottram.bsky.social · Jan 8

In case all the interest in #Greenland has raised your interest, our ace collaborators in #Asiaq, the logistics and survey organisation are currently recruiting a #climate + cryosphere position.
This is a *permanent* position and a super opportunity

asiaq.career.emply.com/en/ad/climat...

Climate, hydrology and cryosphere - Researcher (repost) I Asiaq

ASIAQ – Greenland Survey is recruiting a new colleague to join the Hydrology, Climate & Environment (HKM) department. We are looking for a motivated, engaged person who can be part of a department wit

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Tim Bartholomaus @timbartholomaus.bsky.social · Dec 6

With glaciers worldwide in retreat, you don't typically see moraine building. But at Yahtse Glacier, during my PhD project, we got a great look at the process responsible for so many critical reconstructions of glacier change and paleoclimate.

Enjoy! ⚒️🧪

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Dr Ruby (she/her) @paperwhispers.bsky.social · Nov 21

Leeds has a fully funded scholarship program for undergraduate and Masters study for Gaza students.

**Tell Everyone**

www.leeds.ac.uk/masters-scho...

Gazan Humanitarian Scholarship

We offer scholarships for citizens of Gaza who have been displaced as a result of the ongoing conflict in the region and are living in a different country (outside of the UK).

www.leeds.ac.uk

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Henry Patton @rhewlif.xyz · Dec 11

Have you recently defended your PhD thesis? Does your topic cover the Quaternary within the Nordic region? ⚒️🧪

At NORDQUA we would love to highlight your research on our website to the rest of our Nordic Quaternary network 🇩🇰🇫🇮🇮🇸🇳🇴🇸🇪

Follow the link below for more info:
nordqua.org/phds/

Recent PhD graduates

Recent PhD graduates from the NORDQUA network, or whose research has focussed on the Quaternary in Nordic countries.

nordqua.org

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Anna Hughes @annalchughes.bsky.social · Nov 15

you'll only find me over here now 👋

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Caroline Clason @carolineclason.bsky.social · Nov 15

⚒️🧪🚨Job alert🚨 The Department of Geography at Durham University is currently seeking a 36-month Postdoctoral Research Associate focussed on glacimarine sedimentology to work alongside Professor Colm O’Cofaigh. More details about the post here 👉 durham.taleo.net/careersectio...

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Henry Patton @rhewlif.xyz · May 7

iC3 in Tromsø are hiring a #postdoc

Investigate how the Antarctic ice sheet impacts Southern Ocean plankton ecosystems & productivity.
ic3.uit.no/job/postdoc-...

Please repost and help someone to find their dream job with our polar research centre here in the #Arctic. ⚒️

We are hiring a postdoc.
Antarctic ice, nutrients & diatoms
Are you passionate about polar research, oceans and climate?
Want to investigate how the Antarctic ice sheet impacts Southern Ocean plankton ecosystems and productivity?
Come join the friendly iC3 team.

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Anna Hughes @annalchughes.bsky.social · Apr 23

If you like geospatial and environmental change come join us! Permanent lectureship (research and teaching). Deadline 16 May.

Anna Hughes @annalchughes.bsky.social · Apr 20

My place is hiring! www.jobs.manchester.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai...

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Anna Hughes @annalchughes.bsky.social · Apr 20

My place is hiring! www.jobs.manchester.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai...

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Anna Hughes @annalchughes.bsky.social · Nov 10

Really excited that this paper is now out (and thankful for being able to contribute) to this HUGE effort by led April Dalton and Martin Margold to put together a new chronology for the N Am ice sheets - NADI-1 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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Berna Devezer @devezer.bsky.social · Oct 21

I could not be less surprised by this. I am a data point. I've watched so many (and I mean TOO MANY) of my women colleagues experience the same. Women networks in academia are so fragile because there's never a sense of security or permanence. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Toxic workplaces are the main reason women leave academic jobs

Women feel driven out by problems with workplace culture more often than by lack of work–life balance. Women feel driven out by problems with workplace culture more often than by lack of work–life...

www.nature.com

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