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IPCC @ipcc.bsky.social · 23h

📣 Attention: Early-career researchers from developing countries & countries in transition!

Are you interested in becoming a Chapter Scientist and supporting author teams for #IPCC’s Seventh Assessment Report?

Apply by 18 Oct 2025

🔗 www.ipcc.ch/2025/10/07/c...

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Teresa Silverthorn @tksilver.bsky.social · 1d

The Little Ecology Group at @sfuscience.bsky.social is hiring a PhD student to conduct aquatic biodiversity research in alpine streams! 🏔️💧🔬👩‍🔬 This is an awesome opportunity to join a supportive research group in a beautiful part of the world! littleecologygroup.ca/join-us/

Join Us!

Open PhD positions in the Little Ecology Group starting May or September 2026! Come join the Little Ecology Group (www.littleecologygroup.ca)! We are hiring a PhD student to conduct aquatic biodive…

littleecologygroup.ca

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Mike Peacock @peatymike.bsky.social · 2d

Looking for a PhD in aquatic carbon/GHG cycling? Take a look at this fantastic opportunity. Led by @aquaticcarbon.bsky.social and with Amy Pickard, Jens-Arne Subke and me. Field + lab components, and lots of exciting science.

iapetus.ac.uk/studentships...

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Teresa Silverthorn @tksilver.bsky.social · 15d

Beautiful few days in the British Columbia Coast Mountains for some fieldwork. We were taking down a long-term warming experiment for the winter. Already looking forward to coming back in the spring/summer! 🏔️🛶🥾

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Teresa Silverthorn @tksilver.bsky.social · 28d

Wahoo! Looking good! Good luck 😃

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Teresa Silverthorn @tksilver.bsky.social · Sep 6

Just submitted our collaborative perspective piece! 🎉 It‘s all about improving accounting and mitigation of GHG emissions from ditches—sparked by the great presentations and discussions at our ditch symposium! 📈🧪👩‍🔬🌍

Mike Peacock @peatymike.bsky.social · Mar 25

What's the collective noun for a group of ditch scientists?

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Teresa Silverthorn @tksilver.bsky.social · Sep 2

First day at SFU today starting a new postdoc position—which was preceded by a weekend of kayaking in the Sechelt Inlet! It’s great to be back in British Columbia! 🥳

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Teresa Silverthorn @tksilver.bsky.social · Aug 24

Fab! I would love to! I’ll send you a message 😊

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Teresa Silverthorn @tksilver.bsky.social · Aug 23

Yes, I think he mentioned it!

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Teresa Silverthorn @tksilver.bsky.social · Aug 23

Ooh! Very excited to read this! 👏

Chelsea Clifford @ditchontologist.bsky.social · Aug 23

It's out! 🧪 "Lines in the landscape," on the under-appreciated importance of #ditches as diverse ecosystems: doi.org/10.1038/s432.... By @peatymike.bsky.social, @fluitans.bsky.social, @drtatariw.bsky.social, @timaukel.bsky.social, @jordannabergman.bsky.social, @juliecrabot.bsky.social, ...

Lines in the landscape - Communications Earth & Environment

Ditches have many overlooked environmental and societal roles, including impact on biodiversity and pollution, and management strategies to enhance their multifunctional landscape-scale benefits are n...

doi.org

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Teresa Silverthorn @tksilver.bsky.social · Aug 16

Study finds impacts of colonization destroyed nearly 90% of Burrard Inlet marine food ecosystems
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Study reveals colonization wiped out nearly 90% of marine food ecosystems in Vancouver's coastal waters | CBC News

A new research partnership between the University of B.C. and Tsleil-Waututh Nation indicates impacts of colonization, including smallpox, overfishing and industrialization, destroyed nearly 90 per ce...

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Maria Strack @wetland-ghg.bsky.social · Jul 23

COP15 of the Ramsar Convention starts today. Here in Canada we have the privilege of being home to a quarter of the world's remaining wetlands. Let's not forget what a treasure they are.
theconversation.com/canadian-wet...

Canadian wetlands are treasures that deserve protection

Canada is home to a quarter of the world’s remaining wetlands. Despite decades of efforts, wetlands continue to be under threat around the world.

theconversation.com

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Teresa Silverthorn @tksilver.bsky.social · Jul 23

If you want to reminisce about some #EGU25 inland water GHG highlights, I wrote a little something for the BG division blog! ✍️

EGU Biogeosciences Division (BG) @egubg.bsky.social · Jul 22

New blog posts! Teresa Silverthorn @tksilver.bsky.social shares her personal #EGU25 highlights and newest developments in inland water GHG emissions. 💧🐟🌾

Let us know some of your personal highlights of this year's #EGU25!

blogs.egu.eu/divisions/bg...

My EGU25 highlights: Inspiring inland water greenhouse gas emission science

The notion that inland waters are passive participants in biogeochemical cycling, with lakes as recipients and rivers as pipes, has long been overturned. More and more research suggests the global imp...

blogs.egu.eu

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Teresa Silverthorn @tksilver.bsky.social · Jul 4

Yeah… the EGU ones seem to appear automatically, maybe there is a way to get rid of them?! Although I’ll take ‘em to beef up my meagre publication list 😂

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Teresa Silverthorn @tksilver.bsky.social · Jul 1

We found some mixed results: no observed effect of the impoundments on leaf litter decomposition, a longitudinal effect on organic matter stocks, and a local effect of high diffusive CO2 and CH4 emissions downstream of one of the two impoundments.

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Teresa Silverthorn @tksilver.bsky.social · Jul 1

We measured upstream and downstream of two small impoundments like this one, as well as at other reaches along the Tarentaine river network in France.

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Teresa Silverthorn @tksilver.bsky.social · Jul 1

Our article about the local and longitudinal effects of small water impoundments on riverine carbon cycling is out now in River Research and Applications @tdatry.bsky.social @rsarremejane.bsky.social onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

Small Water Impoundments Have Local and Longitudinal Impacts on Carbon Cycling Along a River Network

Damming may be one of the most significant anthropogenic modifications fragmenting river networks. Damming alters the transport and processing of coarse particulate organic matter (OM), hence influen...

onlinelibrary.wiley.com

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Teresa Silverthorn @tksilver.bsky.social · Jun 25

Visited some lowland peat ditches in East Anglia with @peatymike.bsky.social to collect CH4 ebullition measurements for the LowlandPeat3 project. Some of the ditches were dry, others covered in duckweed, and we even spotted a fish in one!

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Mike Peacock @peatymike.bsky.social · Jun 24

A big tour of fenland ditches with @tksilver.bsky.social today for the Defra-funded Lowland Peat 3 project. Samples collected for dissolved GHGs and dissolved organic carbon, and 24hr chambers deployed to capture total CH4 emissions.

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Mike Peacock @peatymike.bsky.social · Jun 5

No advert out yet, but I will recruiting a 2yr postdoc, start date autumn 2025, at @livunigeog.bsky.social soon. Lowland and upland peatlands, GHGs, DOM and water chemistry. Plenty of fieldwork. Feel free to drop me a DM or email if you might be interested, and please spread the word.

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Mike Peacock @peatymike.bsky.social · Jun 3

Lovely to be once again back in Uppsala. Visited five rewetted/restored peatlands today to measure aquatic GHG emissions with @laurabaugh94.bsky.social & @tksilver.bsky.social

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Teresa Silverthorn @tksilver.bsky.social · May 23

An excellent few days in Aarhus, Denmark for the Beyond the Surface symposium on inland water greenhouse gas emissions! So many inspiring talks and discussions

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Teresa Silverthorn @tksilver.bsky.social · Apr 27

Stoked to be kicking off a week of science at EGU in Vienna! #EGU25

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Peatland ECR Action Team @peatlandecr.bsky.social · Apr 26

The second recipient for the April round of #PeatNeeds is Laura Baugh (laurabaugh94.bsky.social). Laura is interested in GHG fluxes from waterbodies in rewetted peatlands, with a specific focus on methane. 1/2

Laura, wearing a black ball cap, light blue long-sleeved top, black trousers, and hiking boots, is standing on a boardwalk in a peatland and smiling at the camera. There are trees in the background. Behind Laura is a pool, and to the left are a couple of floating chambers stacked up which are used to measure greenhouse gas fluxes from peatland waterbodies.

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Camille Minaudo @caminaudo.bsky.social · Apr 24

We went to the #Gambia to evidence how rising salinity in the river is affecting both local communities and the ecosystem, and @milevafilms.bsky.social made a documentary about it.
It will be shown for the first time to the public next week at @egu.eu #egu25.
Don't miss it if you are there!

Announcement of projection of documentary "Salbia, a salinity threat to the river Gambia" during the EGU25 conference in Vienna.
This will take place 1st of May 2025, 18:10, room E1 at the Conference Center.

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