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British Antarctic Survey 🐧 @bas.ac.uk · 6d

🧊Our researchers have just finished analysing ancient Antarctic ice spanning 1.2 million years of climate history!

The Beyond EPICA project extends the ice core climate record by 400,000 years, helping us to understand long-term climate patterns and improve future predictions.

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St Andrews Earth & Environmental Sciences @earthscista.bsky.social · 1d

Over the last six weeks, SEES scientists Mengwen, Patrick, Helen & Andrea jointed the Beyond EPICA – Oldest Ice project, which aims to analyse the oldest ice on Earth – up to 1.5 million years old, beyond the 800,000 years previously covered – to understand more about Earth's climate 🧊🧪🥼 @bas.ac.uk

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St Andrews Earth & Environmental Sciences @earthscista.bsky.social · 2d

Hi @earlylife.bsky.social the preprint link doesn’t seem to work!

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Lucy Palmer @lucindapalmer.bsky.social · 15d

Had a great time at the NCAS Climate Modelling Summer School in Cambridge this year! 🌏

Huge thanks to the organisers and all the wonderful speakers. Would highly recommend!

National Centre for Atmospheric Science @ncas-uk.bsky.social · 19d

Hello from Cambridge!

We've just finished our Climate Modelling Summer School. It is an exciting two-week programme of lectures and practical work on climate models.

Thank you to everyone who came along to learn and network with our experts and with like-minded peers!

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St Andrews Earth & Environmental Sciences @earthscista.bsky.social · 8d

Delighted to have @climatesamwell.bsky.social visiting us and giving this week’s School seminar

Seminar room with slides showing a talk titled “Diagnosing 500 million years of forcings and mechanisms”

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St Andrews Earth & Environmental Sciences @earthscista.bsky.social · 19d

🌏 Say g’day to SEES' Prof. Richard White 🏜️🎓 His PhD involved spending weeks utterly alone in Australia's central desert.

🎧 Hear his fascinating field story on Geologists from Planet Earth:
www.buzzsprout.com/2502584/epis...

Solo geological fieldwork: a path to independence - Richard White - Geologists from Planet Earth

Richard White is a man whose PhD involved spending weeks utterly alone in Australia's central desert. In this episode, he recounts tales of encountering herds of camels (while in bed!), carrying half ...

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Nature Communications @natcomms.nature.com · 20d

Shankle et al. show how a better- #Ventilated #NorthPacific could have reduced the #ocean-carbon upwelled in the #SouthernOcean, reducing outgassing and revealing a remote influence on #SouthernOcean biogeochemistry in #GlacialTimes. #ice-ages @earthscista.bsky.social
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Southern Ocean CO2 outgassing and nutrient load reduced by a well-ventilated glacial North Pacific - Nature Communications

A better-ventilated North Pacific could have reduced the carbon of water upwelled in the Southern Ocean, reducing outgassing and revealing a remote influence on Southern Ocean biogeochemistry in glaci...

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James Rae @mudwaterclimate.bsky.social · 21d

🚨New paper on Southern Ocean CO2🚨
Using a suite of Earth system models, Maddie Shankle et al show that better ventilation of intermediate waters in the North Pacific ends up reducing outgassing of CO2 in the Southern Ocean 🌊🧪⚒️🧵 @earthscista.bsky.social
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Southern Ocean CO2 outgassing and nutrient load reduced by a well-ventilated glacial North Pacific - Nature Communications

A better-ventilated North Pacific could have reduced the carbon of water upwelled in the Southern Ocean, reducing outgassing and revealing a remote influence on Southern Ocean biogeochemistry in glaci...

www.nature.com

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St Andrews Earth & Environmental Sciences @earthscista.bsky.social · 23d

Last week, our 4th year Environmental Earth Science students were at Loch Etive, getting hands-on experience collecting data for investigating water column profiles & overturning events. Led by Drs James Barnet & @gmacgilchrist.bsky.social & supported back in the lab by @oceanicandrea.bsky.social.

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St Andrews Earth & Environmental Sciences @earthscista.bsky.social · 23d

Applications for Geology Field Camp in Scotland 2026, running from 9 June to 13 July 2026, are now OPEN!

Spaces are limited and fill fast, so get your applications in early!

Find out more and apply here: www.st-andrews.ac.uk/earth-scienc....

Students in high-vis on a rocky shoreline near St Andrews on a sunny day

Students in high-vis beneath an arch with tilted rock formations

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University of St Andrews @uniofstandrews.bsky.social · 25d

St Andrews top in Scotland and second in the UK in the @theguardian.com University Guide 2026 🎉

Maths, History, and International Relations take the top spot in the new rankings with a further 16 subjects ranking in the top 10 🎉

Read more 👇

ow.ly/hzCj50WWe9R

#EverToExcel

Five smiling students in St Salvator's Quad at the University of St Andrews.

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St Andrews Earth & Environmental Sciences @earthscista.bsky.social · 26d

Meet the motley crew of the School of Earth and Environmental Sciences – ready to kick off the new academic year! 🌍👋

Special mention to our Head of School, Prof. Rob Wilson, who is cleverly disguised a a responsible adult (the T-shirt says it all) 😅🤦‍♂

www.st-andrews.ac.uk/earth-scienc...

Members of SEES on the front steps of Bute, dazzled by the bright Scottish sun. Unless you were smart enough to wear sunglasses like Paul and Bob.

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St Andrews Earth & Environmental Sciences @earthscista.bsky.social · Sep 8

🌍 Welcome to Earth Sciences at St Andrews! 👋
A huge welcome to all our new students – and a big welcome back to our returning students! We’re thrilled to have you with us.
Get ready to (re)discover the dynamic planet we call home – from rocks 🪨 to oceans 🌊 volcanoes 🌋and climate change 🌡️

Visualisation fo Earth's layers and the atmosphere, within space

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St Andrews Earth & Environmental Sciences @earthscista.bsky.social · Sep 6

Big congratulations to @mudwaterclimate.bsky.social & team on securing funding to launch the St Andrews Global Research Centre for Changing Climates! 🌍 📈

The centre will take an interdisciplinary approach, harnessing the breadth of expertise across St Andrews

news.st-andrews.ac.uk/archive/the-...

The University of St Andrews announces two new Global Research Centres | University of St Andrews news

news.st-andrews.ac.uk

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Mike Byrne @drmichaelbyrne.bsky.social · Sep 5

We had a fantastic research 'away day' at East Sands in St Andrews, where we discussed the future of extreme temperatures as part of GLOBAL-EX project. A lunchtime swim + cheese toasties on the beach was an added bonus! @erc.europa.eu @ukri.org @earthscista.bsky.social @uniofstandrews.bsky.social

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European Research Council (ERC) @erc.europa.eu · Sep 5

In case you missed it...

Yesterday we announced the new 2025 ERC Starting Grant winners. 478 early-career researchers will be pushing the frontiers of science - from cancer and mental health to quantum breakthroughs.

👉 europa.eu/!89nG4M

5 explain what this funding means for their work & careers.👇

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Graeme MacGilchrist @gmacgilchrist.bsky.social · Sep 2

A real honor to be able to help out with this. An absolute gutter ball that it is required.

Kudos to @andrewdessler.com for exemplary leadership, @bobkopp.net for helping pull it together, and to all coauthors for resisting in our own way.

Andrew Dessler @andrewdessler.com · Sep 2

Our 400+ page comment on the DOE climate working group report is now out.

Our conclusion: The merchants of doubt are back, and they're coming for climate science.

DOEresponseSite

On July 29, 2025, the Department of Energy (DOE) published a report from its Climate Working Group (CWG). This report features prominently in the EPA's reconsideration of its 2009 Endangerment Finding. In response, over 85 scientists have come together to write a comprehensive review, which is

sites.google.com

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Pallavi Anand (she/her) @anandpallavijha.bsky.social · Sep 3

#ICP16 will be hosted by St Andrews, Scotland @mudwaterclimate.bsky.social thank you.
We had two pitches from Cardiff and St Andrews. 🙏🏼

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Simon Lee @simonleewx.com · Sep 2

A true pleasure to be visiting National Taiwan University this week, alongside Ioana Colfescu @ncas-uk.bsky.social, as part of our project on stratosphere-troposphere coupling & machine learning, funded jointly by @uniofstandrews.bsky.social & NTU. The hospitality and the food has been outstanding!

Me (left) and Ioana (right) in front of the sign for the Department & Institute of Atmospheric Sciences, College of Science, NTU

Ioana giving a seminar on ML and the NAO

Yu-Chiao Liang, of NTU, introducing the afternoon seminars

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St Andrews Earth & Environmental Sciences @earthscista.bsky.social · Sep 4

🎉 Big news! Dr Hana Jurikova has won a €2.5 million @erc.europa.eu Starting Grant for CarbonDIOs – a groundbreaking project to reconstruct 500 million years of Earth's atmospheric CO2 & ocean pH. Well done Hana! This also marks our School's 5th ERC grant in 10 years! 🌍🔬🧪

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Graeme MacGilchrist @gmacgilchrist.bsky.social · Aug 17

Welcoming anyone willing to fact check me on this — ironically, I don’t want to get it wrong.

Graeme MacGilchrist @gmacgilchrist.bsky.social · Aug 17

Made up quotes in the DOE CWG report?

In Ch8, authors claim to quote IPCC AR5 and AR6 summary statements suggesting difficulty attributing climate change due to decadal variability.

I suspected out-of-context, but I can't find the quotes (or anything like them) *at all*.

Anyone know any better?

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European Geosciences Union (EGU) @egu.eu · Aug 18

Are you struggling to #write about your #research for a non-specialist audience?

Don't miss this #webinar on best practices and techniques in academic writing to help you communicate and engage more efficiently with the #general #public.

🔗 Register here: egu.eu/8DDSBL

Image description: laptop, notepad, pen, and a cup of coffee with text reading:" WEBINAR SERIES. Text reading: " "Popular Science Writing: From Blogs to Press Releases Tuesday, 9 September 2025 at 14:00 CEST".

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University of St Andrews @uniofstandrews.bsky.social · Aug 14

The University of St Andrews has been named Scottish University of the Year in the Daily Mail University Guide. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🙌

Read more ⬇️

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British Antarctic Survey 🐧 @bas.ac.uk · Aug 19

Are you a researcher, policymaker or professional working in climate science, environmental policy and sustainability?

📆 Save the date for 29 and 30 September.

📸 Paul Holland, BAS

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St Andrews Earth & Environmental Sciences @earthscista.bsky.social · Aug 20

Paul Whincup (BSc 1962) was one of just three students in his Geology honours class @uniofstandrews.bsky.social. The trio bonded on their first day and remained lifelong friends.

Read on as Paul recalls his four years in St Andrews and reunions beyond: alumni.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/2025/08/20/f...

The Geology class of 1962 on an undergraduate field trip – before helmets and high-visibility vests became standard field attire

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