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Benjamin Mills

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Professor of Earth System Evolution // University of Leeds Chair of Earth System Science Group of the Geological Society of London. Research group: https://earthevolutionmodelling.com Life and Planet Conference: https://lifeandplanet.com

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Benjamin Mills @bjwmills.bsky.social · 21d

Public talk this eve at the wonderful Seven Arts bar! I am reliably informed there will also be jazz!

www.sevenleeds.co.uk/events/

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Mark Walters @mark-walters.bsky.social · 24d

There’s an interesting series of 5 free online paleobotany lectures via the Oxford University Botanic Garden this autumn. You can book all 5 lectures here (scroll down webpage to ‘Get your tickets now’ button) www.obga.ox.ac.uk/event/dr-san... #paleobotany

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Robert Sansom @fossilrob.bsky.social · Jul 31

New palaeo-PhD opportunity! Will you be the one to figure out the anatomy and function of fossil jawless fish? Come join the team! Application Deadline August 22nd, funding for UK student only (sorry)
www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

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Climate group @CEREGE, France @climatecerege.bsky.social · Jul 30

🚨Job offer 🚨 Postdoctoral position in micropaleontology opened in our team!

Thibault de Garidel @tdegaridel.bsky.social · Jul 28

Postdoc (6 mois)ouvert au CEREGE en micropaleontology and ML / short term postdoctoral contract (6 months) in micropaleontology and ML @climatecerege.bsky.social ANR project #BioIndicIA emploi.cnrs.fr/Offres/CDD/U...

Portail Emploi CNRS - Offre d'emploi - H/F CDD Chercheur en Micropaléontologie quantitative

emploi.cnrs.fr

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Benjamin Mills @bjwmills.bsky.social · Jul 8

Hi Goldschmidt! Catch my Berner Lecture at 2.30 today!

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Benjamin Mills @bjwmills.bsky.social · Jul 3

Check out this cool map of sea level variability due to glaciation over geological time. Awesome to be involved in this work led by Douwe van der Meer

open access paper here: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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Benjamin Mills @bjwmills.bsky.social · Jul 2

Good summary!

Benjamin Mills @bjwmills.bsky.social · Jul 2

Great to see this finally out today! We show that the collapse of tropical vegetation during the Permo-Triassic extinction is a key driver of the long-term super-greenhouse climate that followed it.

Read more at www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Figure from the paper showing our model results when considering the tropical vegetaiton collapse - a long-high temperature period following the PTME

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Benjamin Mills @bjwmills.bsky.social · Jun 13

I found it!

southampton.cloud.panopto.eu/Panopto/Page...

EOS seminar 11 June 2025 Ben Mills

southampton.cloud.panopto.eu

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Benjamin Mills @bjwmills.bsky.social · Jun 12

Thanks- likewise!

Benjamin Mills @bjwmills.bsky.social · Jun 11

There is a recording i believe!

Benjamin Mills @bjwmills.bsky.social · Jun 11

Talking about the deep past and deep future of the Earth today at @sotonoceanearth.bsky.social / @noc.ac.uk Seminar at 3pm!

Title slide- Earth evolution models and the past and future of life on our planet

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Benjamin Mills @bjwmills.bsky.social · May 25

It still may be LIP weathering, perhaps with more uplift and different hydrology, and maybe the Neoproterozoic system is less resilient to temperature change... plenty to investigate!

Benjamin Mills @bjwmills.bsky.social · May 25

Yes, same! And even if we assume more weathering then we start to get in trouble with the strontium isotope record!

Benjamin Mills @bjwmills.bsky.social · May 24

Did flood basalt weathering draw down significant amounts of CO2 in the Mesozoic? We think not so much:

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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Benjamin Mills @bjwmills.bsky.social · May 15

Registration is open for Life and Planet 2025 on July 14-16!
lifeandplanet.com
£60 (student/GSL fellow)
£80 standard
Hope to see you there!

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Geology Johnson @geologyjohnson.bsky.social · May 8

Registration is now open for @lifeandplanet.bsky.social in London July - 14th -16th. A nice conference for ECRs working on all aspects of the co-evolution of life and the Earth's surface. #geology #paleontology lifeandplanet.com

Life and Planet

lifeandplanet.com

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James Bradley @drbradbrad.bsky.social · Apr 28

How can zombie microbes interact with the Earth system? 🦠🧟🌎

Microbes, even when dormant, play a massive role in shaping Earth's ecosystems & biogeochemistry 🌎

In @natcomms.nature.com I explore dormancy in the context of Earth’s geosphere-biosphere co-evolution

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www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Microbial dormancy as an ecological and biogeochemical regulator on Earth - Nature Communications

Dormancy enables microbes to withstand periods of environmental harshness. It occurs throughout diverse ecosystems and spans vast timescales, and could play an important role in shaping the co-ev...

www.nature.com

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Benjamin Mills @bjwmills.bsky.social · Apr 10

The best part about running a conference is knowing that everyone else also leaves their submissions to the last minute!

PS: Life and Planet 2025 abstract submissions are extended for another week, so if you missed it you are not too late!

lifeandplanet.com

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Benjamin Mills @bjwmills.bsky.social · Apr 9

Awesome!

Benjamin Mills @bjwmills.bsky.social · Apr 4

Excited for Life and Planet 2025 in London this July - please don't forget to submit your (free) abstracts!

lifeandplanet.com

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Dr Alison Cribb @alisoncribb.bsky.social · Apr 1

🌎🦠🐚🧪🌏🧬🌳👽🌍

Interested in the co-evolution of life and our planet? Life and Planet 2025 abstracts are still open until 9 April! The meeting this year will be 14-16 July. Students and early career researchers especially encouraged!

lifeandplanet.com @lifeandplanet.bsky.social

An advertisement for the Life and Planet meeting with text reading: “Life and Planet 2025. London. 14-16 July. Co-evolution of life and the Earth. lifeandplanet.com” over a blue, purple, and pink cartoon of the London skyline in front of the Earth. On the right, addition text reads: “Abstract submissions open until April 9th! Life and Planet is a meeting for researchers exploring the co-evolution of life and the Earth over geologic time. We are interested in all work that examines how life impacts the Earth, and how the global environment influences life. We welcome research from all time periods, at all scales, from the oceans to the land, and beyond! Life and Planet is Early Career Researcher (ECR) focused. Keynotes are chosen from ECR abstract submissions”

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Benjamin Mills @bjwmills.bsky.social · Mar 25

FYI if you are using language models for research:

Here's Chat 4.5 making a series of totally incorrect - but plausible to a nonspecialist - claims about our work:

Benjamin Mills @bjwmills.bsky.social · Mar 19

And where is Snowball Earth you may ask? Well yes, while the Cryogenian is cooler than other periods, we didn't get one. Ongoing work to test specific hypotheses to see if we can recreate it.

Benjamin Mills @bjwmills.bsky.social · Mar 19

This is model version 1.2.0, which also includes some other quality of life improvements.

As always, 100% OA - get yours today!

github.com/bjwmills/SCI...

Release v1.2.0 · bjwmills/SCION

Extended model timeframe to 1 Ga Other functional improvements - see Guidebook Research paper at https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gloplacha.2025.104791

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