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WATERSHED Investigations @watershed-i.bsky.social · 1h

Campaigners + local businesses claim phosphates + nitrates from the collective poo of as many as 23million chickens packed into the Wye catchment from a growing number of intensive chicken farms are driving algal blooms, harming fish + wildlife.
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River Wye pollution prompts UK's largest environmental lawsuit

Livestock and water companies are accused of “extensive” pollution in the Wye, Lugg and Usk rivers.

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Kelly Hereid @kellyhereid.bsky.social · 25m

Sheesh - a tsunami big enough to push coral boulders 100s of m inland in the British Virgin Islands around the year 1400, likely sourced from an earthquake on the Puerto Rico Trench.

Kevin Anchukaitis @thirstygecko.bsky.social · 59m

This is cool - new paper from Hali Kilbourne et al. 'Dating a Medieval Tsunami With Uranium-Series Techniques on Caribbean Corals' agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/...

Dating a Medieval Tsunami With Uranium‐Series Techniques on Caribbean Corals

Uranium-series analyses provide dates for 15 annually banded coral skeletons on the low Caribbean island of Anegada A subset of the corals was likely washed ashore in a Puerto Rico Trench tsunami...

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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 1d

News that shocks no one: Carbon offsets do nothing for climate.

Carbon offsets fail to cut global heating due to ‘intractable’ systemic problems, study says

Analysis of 25 years of evidence shows most schemes are poor quality and fail to lower emissions

www.theguardian.com

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Dr Kaja Fenn (she/her) @drloessismore.bsky.social · 2d

This supports chronological information derived from nearby Mumba Rockshelter, Lake Eyasi, Nasera Rock-shelter, and Enkapune Ya Muto Rockshelter in southern Kenya.

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Dr Kaja Fenn (she/her) @drloessismore.bsky.social · 2d

The new dates provisionally bracket the entire Middle Stone Age (MSA) to Later Stone Age (LSA) transition at Olduvai between roughly 63,000 years ago (the provisional age for the youngest MSA tools in the underlying Ndutu Beds) and 34,000 years ago (the oldest LSA tools in the Naisiusiu Beds).

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Dr Kaja Fenn (she/her) @drloessismore.bsky.social · 2d

Dating the Naisiusiu beds has historically been challenging due to scarce datable material. Our results now refine the Naisiusiu beds to:
• Lower Unit by 14C: 49,728±1378 cal year BP
• Middle Unit (hosting the LSA assemblage) by OSL 34.2±2.8 - 24.0±2.0 ka
• Upper Unit by OSL: 24.0±2.0 - 19.6±1.6 ka

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Dr Kaja Fenn (she/her) @drloessismore.bsky.social · 2d

📣Our new paper presents new a high-resolution luminescence and radiocarbon chronology for the Naisiusiu Beds at Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania. This site is crucial for understanding the cultural and biological evolution of Homo sapiens in the Late Pleistocene.
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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Dr Kaja Fenn (she/her) @drloessismore.bsky.social · 3d

This is a beautiful image

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Dr Kaja Fenn (she/her) @drloessismore.bsky.social · 4d

🧩 Highlights:
• First detailed geological sequence for Dalarik-1 Cave
• New age constraints on key volcanic + sedimentary units
• Links between volcanic history and archaeological preservation in the southern Caucasus

Dr Kaja Fenn (she/her) @drloessismore.bsky.social · 4d

Check out our new paper 👇 in Quaternary Science Reviews.
It explores the geological context of Dalarik-1 Cave (Armenia) — refining how we understand early human activity in the Aragats Volcanic Province.
By the wider @humendylab.bsky.social team

📄 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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Dr Kaja Fenn (she/her) @drloessismore.bsky.social · 4d

It’s been a hectic summer and start to the academic year — full of exciting developments that I haven’t had a chance to share yet.

Over the next week I’ll be sharing a few updates — some new papers, additions to the team, a new role, and a brand-new project 👀

Stay tuned — lots of news coming soon!

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Dr Dan Shugar 🇨🇦 @watershedlab.bsky.social · 5d

🚨FOUR tenure track positions in my dept @ucalgary.bsky.social @ucalgaryscience.bsky.social in applied & computational geophysics, subsurface geochemistry, sedimentary geology, and sustainable soil science. careers.ucalgary.ca/search/jobs?...

(please reskeet widely!) #academicsky 🧪⚒️🇨🇦

Opportunities matching 'earth'

Search 4 Careers available at University of Calgary.

careers.ucalgary.ca

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Melissa & Chris Bruntlett @modacitylife.com · Aug 14

The global phenomenon of “bikelash” has become one of the biggest barriers to implementing interventions that make our streets more liveable, accessible and sustainable. So how do we best manage it as advocates for change? Here are eight strategies we recently presented at the Velo-city Conference.🧵

Powerpoint slides from a presentation entitled “Unleashing the Silent Majority to Beat Bikelash”, which feature photographs of urban transformation from cities around the world.

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Dr Kaja Fenn (she/her) @drloessismore.bsky.social · Aug 6

always is👍

Dr Kaja Fenn (she/her) @drloessismore.bsky.social · Aug 5

Our new study lead produced enhanced paleo‑geomorphological mapping of the Ararat Depression to decode how shifting landforms shaped human movement and settlement in the Late Pleistocene
doi.org/10.1016/j.qu...

@humendylab.bsky.social @arikmalinsky-b.bsky.social @yannismicrooikon.bsky.social

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Chris Stringer @chrisbstringer.bsky.social · May 22

Unravelling the formation processes and depositional histories of the Middle Palaeolithic Ararat-1 Cave, Armenia: A multiscalar and multiproxy geoarchaeological approach www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Unravelling the formation processes and depositional histories of the Middle Palaeolithic Ararat-1 Cave, Armenia: A multiscalar and multiproxy geoarchaeological approach

The sedimentary sequence of Ararat-1 Cave encapsulates an intricate depositional archive (Marine Isotope Stage 3), crucial for our understanding of th…

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Peter Gleick @petergleick.bsky.social · May 31

There are 2 previous historical cases of countries destroying their science and universities, crippling them for decades: Lysenkoism in the USSR and Nazi Germany. The Trump administration will be the 3rd.
It's not just budgets but research, institutions, expertise, and training the next generation.

Graphs showing 25 years of budgets for the National Institute of Health, NASA, and the NSF. In all cases, the proposed budget for next year is far, far below any year of the previous quarter century.

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Chris Stringer @chrisbstringer.bsky.social · May 25

‘The West Tofts handaxe is a small British Acheulean biface well known for its cortical preservation of a fossilised bivalve shell’
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Victoria Janes-Bassett @toribassett.bsky.social · May 23

Great to attend the Mersey Forest plan launch yesterday at the Museum of Liverpool

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Melaine Le Roy @subfossilguy.bsky.social · May 22

The Alpine glaciers are lacking snow! ❄️🥵

~2 m of snow less than average on Austrian glaciers! 📈

The difference with last year (a negative annual balance though) is striking!

Half last year accumulation in this snow pit at Hallstätter Glacier (Dachstein) 👇

📷 Giulia Bertolotti / IG

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University of Liverpool News @livuninews.bsky.social · May 12

Congratulations to Prof Mark Green (@livunigeog.bsky.social) who has been awarded the Royal Geographical Society (@rgsibg.bsky.social) 2025 Back Award for outstanding geographical research impacting public policy on a national and international scale👏👏👏

news.liverpool.ac.uk/2025/05/12/p...

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Dr Kaja Fenn (she/her) @drloessismore.bsky.social · May 22

Wrapped up fieldwork in Spain! Incredible fluvial sequences, archaeology, loess, and top-notch company. Learned so much about the Tagus Basin’s Quaternary history from real experts.
Now to prep for next year's fieldwork in Madrid: notes, photos, permits—& a new PhD student! 🇪🇸

#LoessIsMore

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Rich Boothroyd @rjboothroyd.bsky.social · May 16

Global RIver Topology (GRIT) is a new and improved global river network that represents bifurcations, multi-thread channels and canals. Great to see this important output from the NERC-funded EVOFLOOD project. See more here: doi.org/10.1029/2024...

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Zack Labe @zacklabe.com · May 15

The largest temperature anomalies were found over the extratropics of the Northern Hemisphere again in April 2025.

Plot shows zonal-mean surface air temperature anomalies, where latitude = x-axis (not scaled by distance). Data from NASA/GISS GISTEMPv4 using their 1951-1980 reference period.

Bar graph showing zonal mean surface air temperature anomalies for the period of April 2025. Most all latitude bands observed above average temperature anomalies, especially in the Northern Hemisphere.

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Dr Kaja Fenn (she/her) @drloessismore.bsky.social · May 14

Congratulations-it was a huge 1st paper. And thanks for involving me.

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