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Gordon Inglis @climategordon.bsky.social · Jul 29

Would highly recommend submitting your next geochemistry or cosmochemistry manuscript to @weareagc.bsky.social - and it's free for everyone!

Jessica Tierney @leafwax.bsky.social · Jul 17

✨Paper #2 has just been published @weareagc.bsky.social ✨ And it is about hopanoids!! Thank you @climategordon.bsky.social for trusting a brand new journal with your research. AGC is 💎 open access: free to publish and free to read 🙌 Geochemists, come publish with us! journals.uu.se/AGC/article/...

Hopanoid distributions differ in mineral soils and peat: a re-evaluation of hopane-based pH proxies | Advances in Geochemistry and Cosmochemistry

Advances in Geochemistry and Cosmochemistry, ISSN 2977-1994 | CC BY 4.0

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Jessica Tierney @leafwax.bsky.social · Jul 17

✨Paper #2 has just been published @weareagc.bsky.social ✨ And it is about hopanoids!! Thank you @climategordon.bsky.social for trusting a brand new journal with your research. AGC is 💎 open access: free to publish and free to read 🙌 Geochemists, come publish with us! journals.uu.se/AGC/article/...

Hopanoid distributions differ in mineral soils and peat: a re-evaluation of hopane-based pH proxies | Advances in Geochemistry and Cosmochemistry

Advances in Geochemistry and Cosmochemistry, ISSN 2977-1994 | CC BY 4.0

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Michaela K. Reay @mkreay.bsky.social · Jul 16

This work was funded by @ukri.org NERC FACE-Underground project and special thanks to the amazing team at BIFoR (www.birmingham.ac.uk/research/cen...) and PI Prof Sami Ullah, alongside all the co-authors, for making this work possible during COVID! 6/6

The Birmingham Institute of Forest Research (BIFoR) - University of Birmingham

BIFoR is dedicated to advancing our understanding of how forests respond to environmental changes.

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Michaela K. Reay @mkreay.bsky.social · Jul 16

🚨New in PNAS we show that mature oak trees under elevated carbon dioxide choreograph their investment into "do it yourself" and "outsourcing" to support nutrient acquisiton pnas.org/doi/10.1073/... 1/6

Elevated CO2 alters relative belowground carbon investment for nutrient acquisition in a mature temperate forest | PNAS

Forests are potential carbon (C) sinks that partially offset anthropogenic carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions via enhanced C assimilation and productiv...

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Michael E. Mann @michaelemann.bsky.social · May 6

Folks in the Southampton UK area, seats STILL available for tomorrow's #ScienceUnderSiege lecture at @unisouthampton.bsky.social | Preview of my forthcoming book w/ @hachetteus.bsky.social / @scribepub.bsky.social w/ the great @peterhotezmdphd.bsky.social:
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Kau))) @carbon8.bsky.social · Apr 28

New paper alert 🚨🚨 Here we posit a non-linear relationship between Indian Summer #Monsoon (ISM) intensity & marine productivity in the Bay of #Bengal: extremely weak & strong #ISM states of the last 22,000 yrs were *both* associated with sharp disruptions to primary production! (1/6)

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Extreme Indian summer monsoon states stifled Bay of Bengal productivity across the last deglaciation

Nature Geoscience - Changes in terrestrial runoff into the Bay of Bengal during both extremely weak and strong Indian summer monsoon phases since the Last Glacial Maximum caused a collapse in...

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Dr. Tripti Bhattacharya @triptychphrases.bsky.social · Apr 16

@clairerubbelke.bsky.social ‘s second PhD chapter is out in @natcomms.nature.com ! Her work shows a state shift in Southern African climate during the mid Pleistocene transition, with implications for understanding the future. (1/2)

Claire Rubbelke @clairerubbelke.bsky.social · Apr 16

Very proud to announce that our new paper is out in Nature Communications! rdcu.be/ehvip

Special thank you to my coauthors: @triptychphrases.bsky.social @hl-ford.bsky.social @erinmcclimate.bsky.social Paul Valdes and Alex Farnsworth

Southern Hemisphere subtropical front impacts on Southern African hydroclimate across the Mid-Pleistocene Transition

Nature Communications - Leaf wax isotopes and climate modeling show that Southern African rainfall and vegetation zones shifted in response to a stronger Meridional Temperature Gradient during the...

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Claire Rubbelke @clairerubbelke.bsky.social · Apr 16

Very proud to announce that our new paper is out in Nature Communications! rdcu.be/ehvip

Special thank you to my coauthors: @triptychphrases.bsky.social @hl-ford.bsky.social @erinmcclimate.bsky.social Paul Valdes and Alex Farnsworth

Southern Hemisphere subtropical front impacts on Southern African hydroclimate across the Mid-Pleistocene Transition

Nature Communications - Leaf wax isotopes and climate modeling show that Southern African rainfall and vegetation zones shifted in response to a stronger Meridional Temperature Gradient during the...

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Gordon Inglis @climategordon.bsky.social · Apr 15

Spotted this unusual vessel at NOCS today - these are new fuel-efficient, onshore-controlled vessels that will eventually be capable of working with no personnel offshore (!) whilst also consuming solely renewable fuel such as ammonia.

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Michaela K. Reay @mkreay.bsky.social · Apr 11

Really pleased to see "The agricultural plastic paradox: Feeding more, harming more?" led by Kai Wang at CAU published. We contextuliase negative tradeoffs of agricultural plastic use with the societial benefits delivered, showing the need for "zero-leakage" rather than "zero-use".

The agricultural plastic paradox: Feeding more, harming more?

Agricultural plastic film mulch (PFM) covers ca. 50 million hectares of the Earth’s surface and has revolutionized agriculture, particularly in arid a…

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University of Southampton @unisouthampton.bsky.social · Apr 8

We are leading a new project to improve the sustainability of oyster, mussel and clam farming in South East Asia, which is threatened by climate change and other pressures.

Read more 👉 brnw.ch/21wRQVL

@sotonoceanearth.bsky.social @royalvetcollege.bsky.social @worldfish.bsky.social

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Anson Mackay 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 @ans.bsky.social · Apr 7

Oh wow, big changes Stefan - you'll be missed at BBK! What's up next for you?

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Gavin Foster @thefosterlab.bsky.social · Apr 3

!New Paper Alert! Matrix independent and interference free in situ boron isotope analysis by laser ablation MC-ICP-MS/MS pubs.rsc.org/en/content/a.... In it we use our Neoma MC-ICPMS/MS to overcome the complexities of measuring boron isotopes by Laser Ablation in carbonates and other minerals. ⚒️🧪🌊🪸

Cross plots of d11B reference value vs. what we measure using Laser Ablation on our Neoma MC-ICPMS/MS. All the data lie on the 1:1 line showing that we can get accurate d11B data using laser ablation on a range of matrices from carbonate to silicate when normalised to NIST 612 glass.

Mass scans from m/z 9.7 to 11.1 for the Neoma MS/MS, base Neoma and Neptune when ablating carbonates. The Neptune shows an elevated background due to scattering of Ca and Ar 4+ ions. This is reduced in the base Neoma and entirely eliminated in the Neoma MS/MS. We think this is because the formation of Ca4+ and Ar4+ is reduced in this design of MS and scattering of this multiply charged ions is reduced once Ar and Ca are cut out by the pre-filter.

This shows the problem with laser ablation boron isotopes in carbonates on our Neptune MC-ICPMS. It shows a mass scan from m/z 9.7 to m/z 11.1 with peaks at the boron masses 10B and 11B. Rather than being a flat line - the baseline is elevated around boron 10 (and 11) due to scattering of 4+ Ar and Ca.

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Bieito Fernandez Castro @bfcastro.bsky.social · Mar 27

About ten days left for this job! Don't miss the chance!

Bieito Fernandez Castro @bfcastro.bsky.social · Mar 10

WE ARE HIRING. Interested in ocean mixing? Come work with us in the ARIA-funded POLEMIX project to create and deploy a float-based mixing observing system in the subpolar North Atlantic. Applications here: jobs.soton.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx...
@sotonoceanearth.bsky.social @noc.ac.uk

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Gordon Inglis @climategordon.bsky.social · Apr 1

Visiting DSIT today!

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Gordon Inglis @climategordon.bsky.social · Apr 1

Lunchtime walk to Big Ben and Millbank to try and spot some MPs. Didn't see any...

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Alexandra Witze @alexwitze.bsky.social · Mar 27

We polled Nature readers to ask if they were thinking of leaving the US for jobs abroad. Three-quarters of them (who said they were US-based scientists) said yes. 🧪

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75% of US scientists who answered Nature poll consider leaving

More than 1,600 readers answered our poll; many said they were looking for jobs in Europe and Canada.

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Kevin Anchukaitis @thirstygecko.bsky.social · Mar 18

We have a new paper now online in the Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Sciences with a group of amazing ECR coauthors reviewing methods and applications of (offline) paleoclimate data assimilation and looking toward the future www.annualreviews.org/content/jour...

Advances in Paleoclimate Data Assimilation | Annual Reviews

Reconstructions of past climates in both time and space provide important insight into the range and rate of change within the climate system. However, producing a coherent global picture of past clim...

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Gordon Inglis @climategordon.bsky.social · Mar 15

Oh well.

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Gordon Inglis @climategordon.bsky.social · Mar 15

Come on Scotland!

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Gordon Inglis @climategordon.bsky.social · Mar 14

Nocturne.

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Gordon Inglis @climategordon.bsky.social · Mar 13

Holding a rock was hard enough...

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Gordon Inglis @climategordon.bsky.social · Mar 13

Lights, camera, action!

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Jeff Thompson @echinerd.bsky.social · Mar 12

Like morphometrics, micro-CT scanning, and morphological evolution? Then please consider applying for our 18 month postdoc position at the university of Southampton! Details here: www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DMF402/r...

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Gordon Inglis @climategordon.bsky.social · Mar 11

Colin the Caterpillar visits the DESNZ office in Cardiff!

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