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NEIF National Environmental Isotope Facility @isotopesuk.bsky.social · 6d

The University of Nottingham has appointed BGS’s senior isotope research geochemist, Angela Lamb, as an honorary professor. As part of her role, Angela will contribute to undergraduate and postgraduate teaching alongside facilitating collaborative research programmes between BGS and the University.

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NEIF National Environmental Isotope Facility @isotopesuk.bsky.social · 7d

Congratulations to NEIF researcher, Francesco Putzolu, whose Economic Geology paper 'Origin of the Jadar Volcano-Sedimentary Li-B Deposit, Serbia' has been awarded the prize for the best Mineral Deposits paper from Young Researchers by the Italian Geological Society: www.socgeol.it/N6807/premio...

Premio Miglior pubblicazione GGM 2025

Benvenuto nel sito ufficiale della Società Geologica Italiana, fondata a Bologna il 29 Settembre 1881, la più antica e rappresentativa associazione scientifica italiana nel campo delle geoscienze.

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Penny Bickle @pennybickle.bsky.social · Sep 1

So grateful to NEIF for funding this research! The new dates suggest cemeteries started about the same time, rather than gradually spreading from east to west. They reveal funerary practices on the scale of human lifetimes, and raise new questions about how burial rites related to LBK social change

NEIF National Environmental Isotope Facility @isotopesuk.bsky.social · Sep 1

Lovely new paper by @pennybickle.bsky.social and team, using some NEIF funded dates to suggest European Neolithic cemeteries were a short-lived phenomenon. 20 years on, things are still getting shorter! @oxradiocarbon.bsky.social www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

New temporal dimensions of the Linearbandkeramik cemetery horizon in Schwetzingen (Germany) | Antiquity | Cambridge Core

New temporal dimensions of the Linearbandkeramik cemetery horizon in Schwetzingen (Germany)

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NEIF National Environmental Isotope Facility @isotopesuk.bsky.social · Sep 1

A momentous day, the 1000th run on the Elementar isoprime 100 aqua prep (aka monkey), 13 years old and still excellent

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Jason Newton @jasonisotopes.bsky.social · 15d

doi.org/10.3389/fmar...

Frontiers | The abundance, diversity, and assemblage structure of the macrobenthos at the South Georgia shelf methane seeps

A quarter of all marine methane, a potent greenhouse gas, is estimated to be hosted in Southern Ocean sediments. Climate change-induced ocean warming and ice...

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Jason Newton @jasonisotopes.bsky.social · 15d

We're excited to announce the launch of the Stable Isotope Ecology course on the GAEA platform. Learn more and register for this and other courses at www.gaea.ac.uk @isotopesuk.bsky.social vimeo.com/757190807?fl...

Stable Isotopes in Ecology Intro

This is "Stable Isotopes in Ecology Intro" by GAEAcademy on Vimeo, the home for high quality videos and the people who love them.

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NEIF National Environmental Isotope Facility @isotopesuk.bsky.social · 19d

www.bgs.ac.uk/news/esthwai...

Esthwaite Water: applying novel approaches to understand lake-water nutrient pollution - British Geological Survey

Geology fieldwork in the Lake District, applying a novel stable isotope method for tracing phosphorus sources.

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NEIF National Environmental Isotope Facility @isotopesuk.bsky.social · 19d

Congratulations Charles Gowing on 32 years service to inorganic geochemistry /British Geological Survey - happy retirement, you will be missed! Follow your dreams ✈️🌍🛩️🌏

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NEIF National Environmental Isotope Facility @isotopesuk.bsky.social · 19d

Great insights from the Elementar Elemental Analysis & TOC Forum at Manchester Museum!
Jack, Kotryna and Charlotte recently attended the Elementar Elemental Analysis & TOC Forum, an event packed with innovation & expertise in advanced elemental analysis.

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Oxford Radiocarbon Accelerator Unit @oxradiocarbon.bsky.social · Sep 8

One month before the next NEIF deadline! Please get in contact asap if you want to apply for some radiocarbon dates in this round. For UK based students, post-docs and beyond. @isotopesuk.bsky.social @unioxarchaeology.bsky.social www.isotopesuk.org/apply.html

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NEIF National Environmental Isotope Facility @isotopesuk.bsky.social · Sep 1

A momentous day, the 1000th run on the Elementar isoprime 100 aqua prep (aka monkey), 13 years old and still excellent

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NEIF National Environmental Isotope Facility @isotopesuk.bsky.social · Sep 1

Lovely new paper by @pennybickle.bsky.social and team, using some NEIF funded dates to suggest European Neolithic cemeteries were a short-lived phenomenon. 20 years on, things are still getting shorter! @oxradiocarbon.bsky.social www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

New temporal dimensions of the Linearbandkeramik cemetery horizon in Schwetzingen (Germany) | Antiquity | Cambridge Core

New temporal dimensions of the Linearbandkeramik cemetery horizon in Schwetzingen (Germany)

www.cambridge.org

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British Geological Survey @bgs.ac.uk · Aug 3

Interested in joining a world-leading geological organisation? We have two vacancies available:

🌱 Organic geochemist
📋 Administrator / business assistant

Keep updated on these and all of our latest vacancies over on our jobs page: www.bgs.ac.uk/about-bgs/wo...

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NEIF National Environmental Isotope Facility @isotopesuk.bsky.social · Jul 19

Congratulations to those who have received stable isotope NEIF funding (BGS node) at the spring 2025 meeting:

Dr KA Hemer (UCL).

Prof D Thornalley (UCL).

Dr JF Dean (Bristol).

Prof GMF van der Heijden (Nottingham).

Dr AC Law (Nottingham).

Dr D Wright (Newcastle).

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Jason Newton @jasonisotopes.bsky.social · Jul 18

Thoroughly enjoyed talking to the students and staff at the Museu de Zoologia at the University of Sao Paulo, about our @isotopesuk.bsky.social Stable Isotope Ecology Lab at @suerc.bsky.social , but also the many ways in which stable isotopes can be used in ecological applications.

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Melanie Leng @meljleng.bsky.social · Jul 15

Congratulations to Sir Keith O’Nions on his retirement as Chair of the British Geological Survey Board, thanks for your 8 years of service…

Keith was presented by Karen Hanghøj with a garnet laser engraved by Matthew Horstwood in the NEIF National Environmental Isotope Facility

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Prof Michael Meredith 🌊🧪🥼❄️ @oceanandice.bsky.social · Jul 12

I am co-convening a meeting at the Royal Society later this year, with @krhendry.bsky.social and other very excellent polar science colleagues. If you have interests relating to Antarctica and the impacts of climate change, please consider participating!

Royal Society Publishing @royalsocietypublishing.org · Jul 11

Are you a scientist with an interest in #ClimateChange and Antarctica? This September, join a team of leading oceanographers & climate scientists from @bas.ac.uk for a scientific meeting at the Royal Society: royalsociety.org/science-even... @oceanandice.bsky.social @krhendry.bsky.social

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NEIF National Environmental Isotope Facility @isotopesuk.bsky.social · Jul 8

NEIF 14C groups from Oxford & SUERC, together in Kraków! Great to see everyone at the 25th Radiocarbon Conference last week—enjoying 14C science, collaboration, and a bit of Kraków sunshine. #Radiocarbon2025 #NEIF #14C #Krakow

NEIF 14C groups from Oxford & SUERC at the Radiocarbon Meeting in Krakow

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Jason Newton @jasonisotopes.bsky.social · Jul 1

Delighted that pangolin research by @ruthlewissmith.bsky.social is featured by Birmingham Museums. Huge thanks from SUERC @isotopesuk.bsky.social for the generous donation of sample material from their natural science collection!

Lukas Large @lukaslarge.bsky.social · Jul 1

A nice summary of a couple of projects that have used specimens from Birmingham's natural science collection www.birminghammuseums.org.uk/stories/birm...

Birmingham Museums’ natural science collection helps research to protect wildlife species under threat | Birmingham Museums

The collection of ca 250,000 specimens is the largest resource of its type in the West Midlands.Small samples from the bottom of the toes of taxidermied ni

www.birminghammuseums.org.uk

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UCL Department of Geography @uclgeography.bsky.social · May 20

🧬 Professor Melanie Leng delivered the 2025 Battarbee Lecture on stable isotope analysis in diatoms, insects, and lake sediments—continuing her impactful work with @ucl.ac.uk Geography.

More: tinyurl.com/ucl-leng

#UCLGeography #StableIsotopes #BattarbeeLecture #EnvironmentalResearch

The Battarbee Lecture 2025: Recent Advances in the Use of Stable Isotopes in Environmental Science

This year’s Battarbee Lecture was delivered by Professor Melanie Leng, Science Director of the NERC Stable Isotope Facility at the British Geological Survey, Keyworth.

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Stable Isotope Ecology (CER, Kyoto Univ.) @stableisotopeecol.bsky.social · May 10

Tracing the geographic origin of Atlantic cod products using stable isotope analysis - Wilson - 2025 - Rapid Communications in Mass Spectrometry #stableisotopes analyticalsciencejournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

Tracing the geographic origin of Atlantic cod products using stable isotope analysis

Rationale Increasing demand for fish and seafood means that the traceability of marine products is becoming ever more important for consumers, producers and regulators. Highly complex and globalised.....

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NEIF National Environmental Isotope Facility @isotopesuk.bsky.social · May 27

Andi Smith and Chris Bengt (BGS) travelled to the Philippines for Chris’s PhD fieldwork at Lake Bulusan, Sorsogon Province. The core material will shed light on phosphorus dynamics and the role volcanic eruptions play in fertilising the surrounding forests.

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Melanie Leng @meljleng.bsky.social · Jun 15

Isotopes in Palaeoenvironmental Research - update
Published 1.6.25.
This is an update on the 2004 QSR issue on “Isotopes in Quaternary Paleoenvironmental Reconstruction”.The last 2 decades have seen huge advances in methods and interpretation…
www.sciencedirect.com/journal/quat...

Quaternary Science Reviews | Journal | ScienceDirect.com by ElsevierScienceDirect

Read the latest articles of Quaternary Science Reviews at ScienceDirect.com, Elsevier’s leading platform of peer-reviewed scholarly literature

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Melanie Leng @meljleng.bsky.social · Jun 3

Congratulations NERC on 60 yrs of leadership in environmental science. In celebration NERC published its new 10-year vision, launched at the Royal Society.
The Forward Look for Environment Science www.ukri.org/publications...

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NEIF National Environmental Isotope Facility @isotopesuk.bsky.social · May 27

Andi Smith and Chris Bengt (BGS) travelled to the Philippines for Chris’s PhD fieldwork at Lake Bulusan, Sorsogon Province. The core material will shed light on phosphorus dynamics and the role volcanic eruptions play in fertilising the surrounding forests.

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