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Huw Griffiths @huwiceandstuff.bsky.social · Mar 21

What happens when giant #icebergs start to fall apart! #biopole2 #antarctica #southgeorgia #ice #A23a @bas.ac.uk @biopole.bsky.social

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Domino Jones @dominoajones.bsky.social · Mar 6

Very artsy pictures for the Nottingham Science Festival team!

Everyone who worked on the event, from the organisers to the library staff, were a dream to work with. And thanks to our volunteers!

@ukpolarnetwork.bsky.social festivals 🤩🤩

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Australian Antarctic Program Partnership @antarctic.bsky.social · Apr 1

👀 A fascinating insight to how changes in #Antarctic sea ice have effects elsewhere in the world:

🕳️ Lack of usual sea ice in Ross Sea
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🌪️ hurricane-strength winds
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🌊 strong, long-period swell on the southern NSW coast more than 4000km away!

▶️ www.swellnet.com/news/swellne...

Melting Sea Ice Brings Rare Groundswell | Swellnet Analysis | Swellnet

www.swellnet.com

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Polar Bears International @polarbearsinternational.org · Apr 2

“The first step in protecting the cubs starts with giving female polar bears & their offspring the best chance to be able to make it through this crucial development period & move on to the sea ice to begin hunting.” — Dr. Louise Archer in convo with @mongabay.bsky.social on our maternal den study

Rare polar bear cub footage offers crucial conservation insights

To a layperson, it’s footage of adorable polar bear cubs with their moms against the backdrop of endless Arctic snow. For researchers who study the animals, however, it’s a rare and incredibly importa...

news.mongabay.com

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Irene Quaile @iceblogger.bsky.social · Mar 30

„But in a world suffering tremendous political upheaval and conflict, it’s hard for polar researchers to get the public’s attention and raise concerns with policymakers to conserve these frigid regions.“
news.mongabay.com/2025/03/pola...

Polar sea ice continues steep decline; but will a troubled world notice?

Sea ice extent is at record, and near record, lows for this time of year in both polar regions, leaving the planet increasingly vulnerable to the cascading effects of global warming. This March, the A...

news.mongabay.com

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British Antarctic Survey 🐧 @bas.ac.uk · Apr 7

For doctors dreaming of an adventure: how about being deployed for a season to Antarctica?

We chatted to Dr Nisha Mistry (now on RRS Sir David Attenborough) and Dr Becky Boys (was at Rothera Research Station) about practising medicine in the frozen South.

🎧 ICEWORLD podcast:
tinyurl.com/5xw4t3kd

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polareducators.bsky.social @polareducators.bsky.social · Apr 12

We'd love to talk to you about how ice colour and reflectance can tell us about carbon storage :)

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Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR) @scar-antarctic.bsky.social · Apr 10

Meet the 2025 INSTANT Fellows!

🇦🇶 Giselle Lujan Marincovich – aerosols
🇦🇶 Camila Marin-Arias – methane release
🇦🇶 Yikai Zhu – ice shelf pinning points
🇦🇶 Alexander Bradley – tipping points

Congratulations!
scar.org/scar-news/pr...

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European Geosciences Union (EGU) @egu.eu · Apr 10

The SciComm 101 #webinar introduced some of the fundamental practices and #tips for delivering oral and poster #presentations at scientific #conferences.

If you missed it, check out the recording now published on YouTube!
🔗: egu.eu/35YG6D

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Southern Ocean Observing System (SOOS) @soosocean.bsky.social · Apr 10

SOOSmap.aq not only makes it easy to access data from different sources…

…but also from different decades!

The Southern Ocean moored time series compiled by @oceaniceeu.bsky.social provides data since 1975!

Access temp, salinity & current velocity.

#SOOSMap_Month #SOOS_DATAMonday @bas.ac.uk

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OCEAN ICE @oceaniceeu.bsky.social · Apr 10

🆕 Check out our latest 'Researcher in the Spotlight' feature on Anastasiia Chyhareva, a meteorologist and climatologist at NASC in Ukraine.

🔎Learn more about Anastasiia here
ocean-ice.eu/researcher-i...

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polareducators.bsky.social @polareducators.bsky.social · Apr 12

Check out this fact-packed and fascinating thread of 2024 climate chronically published by Nature last year

Nature Reviews Earth & Environment @natrevearthenviron.nature.com · Apr 11

Our 2024 climate chronicles have just been published!

Check out the Collection: www.nature.com/collections/...

Thread below details all articles and their take-home messages.

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Climate chronicles

Climate chronicles brings together Nature Reviews Earth & Environment's annual series of 'Year in Review' articles.

www.nature.com

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polareducators.bsky.social @polareducators.bsky.social · Apr 12

Great opportunities for polar educator researchers!

Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR) @scar-antarctic.bsky.social · Mar 3

Our partners have also announced opportunities for early-career professionals today:

➡️ COMNAP // Deadline: 1 June 2025: www.comnap.aq/early-career...
➡️ IAATO // Deadline: 1 June 2025: iaato.org/supporting-s...
➡️ CCAMLR // will open later this year: www.ccamlr.org/en/science/c...

polareducators.bsky.social @polareducators.bsky.social · Apr 12

We see you!

Katharina Hochmuth @hochmuth.bsky.social · Apr 12

😳 That‘s us!

Australian Antarctic Program Partnership @antarctic.bsky.social · Apr 12

🛰️ Seen from space: our satellite mapper Pat Wongpan @utas.edu.au found RSV Nuyina and the Denman Marine Voyage #DMV on 10 April near Shackleton Ice Shelf in East #Antarctica. Using Landsat-8 imagery, he identified Nuyina from its track through the sea ice, reddish colour and 160.3 m length.

polareducators.bsky.social @polareducators.bsky.social · Mar 29

Built some great 'Polar Bridges' @ 6th International Workshop for @polareducators.bsky.social #PEI2025-USA in Boulder #assw2025 #icarpiv @scottpolar.bsky.social @ukpolarnetwork.bsky.social @iasc-arctic.bsky.social @scar-antarctic.bsky.social

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polareducators.bsky.social @polareducators.bsky.social · Mar 22

Spectacular views of #Arctic #Spring pack ice enroute to #PEI2025-USA Boulder, Colorado #ASSW2025

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Katharina Hochmuth @hochmuth.bsky.social · Mar 21

Happy International Glacier/ Poetry Day!

For all ❄️🌊🧊🧪🇦🇶 friends, I highly recommend this wonderful poem by my amazing fellow @antarcticsciaus.bsky.social expeditioner @christinaocean.bsky.social

antarctic.org.au/world-day-fo...

#DenmanMarineVoyage
#Antarctics

World Day for Glaciers - a poem - ACEAS

World Day for Glaciers – a poem A little poem written by Christina Schmidt to celebrate today’s World Day for Glaciers and World Poetry Day – Friday 21 March, 2025: – I have now seen the Denman Glacie...

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Irene Quaile @iceblogger.bsky.social · Mar 21

www.rcinet.ca/eye-on-the-a...

Blog: First UN World Day for Glaciers – A call to climate action in desperate times

Accelerating ice melt from glaciers worldwide means an increased loss of freshwater resources, ever-faster sea level rise and life-threatening floods and landslides. In some regions, ice loss is alrea...

www.rcinet.ca

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Irene Quaile @iceblogger.bsky.social · Mar 16

phys.org/news/2025-03...

New map of landscape beneath Antarctica unveiled

The most detailed map yet of the landscape beneath Antarctica's ice sheet has been assembled by a team of international scientists led from the British Antarctic Survey (BAS).

phys.org

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polareducators.bsky.social @polareducators.bsky.social · Feb 22

Lots of over-heating #penguins & melting #ice at #Nottingham Central Library #science day with UKPN\ @ukpolarnetwork.bsky.social #polar #outreach #education #Antarctica #Arctic

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polareducators.bsky.social @polareducators.bsky.social · Feb 22

All publicity is good publicity?? @bas.ac.uk #polar #antarctica #education #outreach #globalwarming #what-happens-at-the-poles-affects-us-all

British Antarctic Survey 🐧 @bas.ac.uk · Feb 21

Yeah, they gave us some candid feedback on all the disappearing sea ice.

Turns out, that's a real hot topic in Antarctica? The conversation got pretty heated.

Private Eye Magazine @privateeyenews.bsky.social · Feb 21

British Antarctic Survey

From the new Private Eye, out now.

polareducators.bsky.social @polareducators.bsky.social · Feb 22

Looking forward to hearing all the Antarctic science updates from RSV Nuyina. Bon voyage from PEI! #polareducators #PEI #polar #education #antarctic

Australian Antarctic Program Partnership @antarctic.bsky.social · Feb 22

amp.abc.net.au/article/1049...

Australian icebreaker RSV Nuyina heads to Denman Glacier on first Antarctic science voyage - ABC News

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polareducators.bsky.social @polareducators.bsky.social · Feb 11

Plastics and Polar Oceans is just one of our themes for our workshop for polar educators - Join us in Boulder #ASSW2025 We're developing a section of the new IPY5 Polar Resource Book

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polareducators.bsky.social @polareducators.bsky.social · Feb 11

Peter, it's great to see your work in this context!!!

polareducators.bsky.social @polareducators.bsky.social · Feb 11

It's not funny because it's true?

Climate Analytics @climateanalytics.org · Feb 10

With 2024 coming in at or above #1o5C, and a run of 12 months to June 2024 where monthly warming was at or above 1.5°C, questions are coming about whether or not the longer-term 1.5°C limit set out in the Paris Agreement has been reached.

2 papers out today look at these Qs. 🧵👇

Reaching the Paris Agreement’s 1.5°C limit: are we there yet?

Two new papers published in Nature Climate Change today ask whether the recent global temperatures at or exceeding 1.5° warming above preindustrial mean the Paris Agreement’s 1.5°C limit has been reac...

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