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Clare Warren @geologyclare.bsky.social · 14h

This is great!

EGU Geodesy Division @g.egu.eu · 15h

🧠 How are you, really?

Today is World Mental Health Day - a reminder that caring for your mind is important.

Kristin Vielberg and Hanna Sänger from PhDpositive reflect on the mental health challenges of doing a PhD and share ways to make the journey more sustainable, fulfilling, and balanced. 🌱

Climbing Through a PhD – Mental Health on the Way to the Summit

Imagine you are going on a long mountain tour. Your backpack is heavy, the path is steep, and although you have been walking for hours, all you can see ahead of you is the next climb. Doing a PhD is l...

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Clare Warren @geologyclare.bsky.social · 4d

Calling sedimentary-types! All applications welcome

Pallavi Anand (she/her) @anandpallavijha.bsky.social · 11d

#Lecturer position in #EarthSciences 👇🏼@openuniversity.bsky.social

Please apply, if interested 🙏🏼

Closing Date: 20 October 2025
Contract Type: #Permanent
Fixed Term Contract/End Date: Not Applicable

jobs.open.ac.uk/job/Lecturer...

Lecturer in Earth Sciences

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Clare Warren @geologyclare.bsky.social · 4d

Great new visual about Geodiversity published recently!

UNESCO International Geodiversity Day @geodiversityday.bsky.social · 6d

🎨 To help promote the benefits of geodiversity, a team from the Open University have worked with artscientist Dr Vicky Bowskill to produce this amazing new image!

🌍 Read more, and download the image on our website: www.geodiversityday.org/post/visuali...

Visualising the Benefits of Geodiversity

International Geodiversity Day 2025 is approaching, and many people worldwide have organised events based on their professional or personal connections with geodiversity; whether these be around under...

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Jude Taylor @m1cr0-judetaylor.bsky.social · 10d

Welcome to all our postgraduate researchers! You are what makes us a University.

Welcome 2025 PGR Adventure Begins You are the OU

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Open University Graduate School, UK @ougradsch.bsky.social · May 7

Embarking on your fieldwork soon? We've added a checklist and timeline to our fieldwork and gathering data page: www5.open.ac.uk/students/res...

The Open University

Planning fieldwork and data collection, including travel arrangements and risk assessments, are largely managed in the Faculties. What follows are some general advice and training links. Good overall…

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Environment, Earth and Ecosystem Sciences @ou-eees.bsky.social · May 6

We have a Research Experience Placement with Dr Phil Wheeler advertised for this summer via @centa.bsky.social:
centa.ac.uk/centa-resear...

Project title: Using 3D models from smartphone video to
assess urban tree crown volume

An local park with trees, paths and other infrastructure.

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UK Council for Graduate Education @ukcge.bsky.social · Apr 30

Booking now: this online discussion session on June 12th (free for members) will examine the experiences of doctoral candidates during the viva. ukcge.ac.uk/events/t...

UKCGE | The Student Experience of the Viva

This online discussion session will examine the experiences of doctoral candidates during the viva. The session will open with a summary of the findings…

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Clare Warren @geologyclare.bsky.social · Apr 28

Thanks to the @floodplainmead.bsky.social team for hosting a group from @ougradsch.bsky.social last week! We learned loads of botanical facts and it's always lovely to put some of our students' rather abstract PhD titles into context 🤩

Floodplain Meadows Partnership @floodplainmead.bsky.social · Apr 28

Counting fritillaries + eating cake = a great day at North Meadow NNR! 🍰🌷

Along with @naturalengland.bsky.social we've been monitoring the UK’s biggest population here since the 1970s.
Read more about this iconic flower in our joint paper with @bsbibotany.bsky.social: bit.ly/4lLuPqt :)

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Clare Warren @geologyclare.bsky.social · Apr 10

They're only published in my thesis but were never a big enough story to publish in their own right. I can send you my thesis if you can DM me your email? Not sure if it's online...

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Clare Warren @geologyclare.bsky.social · Apr 10

@geologyjohnson.bsky.social Finally... These crinoid photos took a bit of digging to find! Field photo (crinoidal dolomite sits between eclogite and cacl schist), close up in field, and SEM images. Eclogite-facies crinoids!

Colour SEM photomicrograph of two crinoid stem plates

Field photograph of crinoid stem piece, 1 cm long, in orange-brown dolomite

SEM close-up of crinoid stem.plates showing crenulated joints

Field photograph of eclogite at As Sifah, Oman, showing magic eclogite boudin on the left, enveloping calc schists on right, and 1-2m crinoid-bearing orange dolomite unit in between

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Clare Warren @geologyclare.bsky.social · Apr 6

Sadly not this year!

Clare Warren @geologyclare.bsky.social · Apr 5

Hope you're having fun! Sorry only just caught up with this and suspect I'll have to wave from a distance! Hope all going well!

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Clare Warren @geologyclare.bsky.social · Apr 4

Are you in Cambridge all weekend? It would be lovely to catch up.... I'm not far away

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Clare Warren @geologyclare.bsky.social · Mar 26

I do! I'll dig them out! Or find my thesis, whichever is quickest!!

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Clare Warren @geologyclare.bsky.social · Mar 25

I found well-preserved crinoid fragments in a dolomite in Oman that had reached eclogite-fancies conditions of 550C and about 2.2GPa... beautiful!

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Clare Warren @geologyclare.bsky.social · Mar 12

Will do, thanks for the heads up!
Sadly the Bora design was discontinued, 35l was such a useful size! Fits exactly 26kg of eclogite 😂

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Clare Warren @geologyclare.bsky.social · Mar 9

Oooh I didn't know Arcteryx do free repairs. I adore my 19 yr old Bora 35 which is now seriously the worse for wear but still used for geo trips and shopping! But the top zip is busted. Will investigate!!
I like my newer Osprey pack but it's still my "smart" one and not been tested on rocks (yet)

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Clare Warren @geologyclare.bsky.social · Feb 28

I live in hope 😂

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Clare Warren @geologyclare.bsky.social · Feb 28

Well done Lou! Clearly highly deserved 🥳🥳

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Clare Warren @geologyclare.bsky.social · Feb 27

A beauty!

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Clare Warren @geologyclare.bsky.social · Feb 21

I chair Panel C- please get in touch if you want to know more or have any questions about what serving on a panel involves 🙂

British Geological Survey @bgs.ac.uk · Feb 21

BGS is looking for new members to join our NERC Facilities Steering Committees over the next 4 years. We are looking for people from a wide range of scientific disciplines, at different career stages.

Deadline for submissions is 5pm on March 14th 2025.

www.bgs.ac.uk/news/call-fo...

An image of one of the BGS laboratories. In the centre of the image (which is curved with a fisheye lens) is a computer with a scientific image on the screen.

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British Geological Survey @bgs.ac.uk · Feb 21

BGS is looking for new members to join our NERC Facilities Steering Committees over the next 4 years. We are looking for people from a wide range of scientific disciplines, at different career stages.

Deadline for submissions is 5pm on March 14th 2025.

www.bgs.ac.uk/news/call-fo...

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Clare Warren @geologyclare.bsky.social · Feb 21

Lots in here that I am sure will resonate with many PhD students.

Warwick Researcher Development @warwickrdo.bsky.social · Feb 21

The Emotional Rollercoaster of doing a PhD- an honest perspective of the challenges and joys of doing a research degree PhDLife Blog from Warwick University PGRs phdlife.warwick.ac.uk/2024/11/11/t...
#PhDSky #Academia #ResearcherCoach

The Emotional Rollercoaster of My PhD Experience

In this reflective blog post, النور explores the emotional rollercoaster of her PhD journey, filled with struggles, small victories and valuable lessons learned. Discover that you are not alone in …

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Clare Warren @geologyclare.bsky.social · Feb 18

Can I hold you to that promise, Lou? 😁

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Clare Warren @geologyclare.bsky.social · Feb 17

Authored by our very own @zjayres.bsky.social! A very useful read due everyone involved in supporting post-grad research, not just the students!

Springer @springer.springernature.com · Feb 10

'Managing your Mental Health during your PhD' investigates why mental health issues are so common among the postgraduate population, going beyond the statistics, looking at lived experience of both the author and as well as current PhD students. https://bit.ly/40HqkDk #psychiatry #mentalhealthsci

Managing your Mental Health during your PhD

This book is a survival guide on how to manage your mental health during your PhD and examines the research culture we work in.

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