Clare Warren
@geologyclare.bsky.social
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Professor of Metamorphic Geology and Director of the Graduate School at the Open University. Cold water swimmer and parkrunner. Posts only about fun stuff!
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This is great!
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🧠 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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Calling sedimentary-types! All applications welcome
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#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

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Lecturer in Earth Sciences
Lecturer in Earth Sciences
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Great new visual about Geodiversity published recently!
Reposted by Clare Warren
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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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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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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 🤩
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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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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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@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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Sadly not this year!
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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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Are you in Cambridge all weekend? It would be lovely to catch up.... I'm not far away
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I do! I'll dig them out! Or find my thesis, whichever is quickest!!
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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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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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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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Well done Lou! Clearly highly deserved 🥳🥳
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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 🙂
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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.
Reposted by Clare Warren
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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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Can I hold you to that promise, Lou? 😁
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Authored by our very own @zjayres.bsky.social! A very useful read due everyone involved in supporting post-grad research, not just the students!
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'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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