And now for something slightly different, some mountain bog pools in the Bannau Brycheiniog this weekend! And some very friendly wild ponies. Happy place.
Catherine Baldwin
@catearthsci.bsky.social
PhD student @RivEscape at @OxUniEarthSci. Peatlands, aquatic GHGs and isotopes 🫧 Mountain Leader ⛰️ Cymraes 🏴
Government today confirms wave of new funding for peatland restoration programmes. www.businessgreen.com/news/4531847...
Defra ringfences £47m to boost peatland protections
Fresh funding aims to restore peatlands that can reduce carbon emissions, support nature recovery, and boost rural the economy
businessgreen.com
New Job! Please RP! 2 year Postdoctoral Research Associate in #Biogeochemistry in Oxford @oxfordgeography.bsky.social using novel methods to explore organic matter stability and new proxies of rock #weathering &wider team in Southampton. Any Qs let me know 🧪🥼⚒️ my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecru...
Check out the #EGU26 session today on “Greenhouse gas dynamics and fluxes in aquatic ecosystems” meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/EGU26/sessio...
Session BG4.3
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Learning how to sample peat - I think I may stick to river water 😅
❄️ Want to do a PhD in the Arctic? ‼️ The University Centre in Svalbard (UNIS) is hiring 5 PhD candidates across Arctic science fields! 🧊 Work at the frontlines of climate & cryosphere research 📍 Svalbard, Norway 🔗 www.unis.no/about/positi...
Available positions
All vacant positions at UNIS are announced on JobbNorge, and applications must be sent through the JobbNorge system.
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New job! Please RP! 🥼🧪 ⚒️ Laboratory Manager (gr8, permanent) @oxfordgeography.bsky.social Leading the Geolabs, with cutting edge facilities in water #geochemistry, #ecosystem science, #eDNA, luminescence Apply by 13 March or please get in touch with any Qs my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecru...
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“Shoogly” ground in the peat bogs up on the Moelwynion yesterday. In my happy place 🐸
This International Day of Women and Girls in Science, we celebrate the talented, trailblazing women who we have the honour of working with every day here at Oxford Earth Sciences 🌏 #IDWGS #WomenInScience @ox.ac.uk @mplsoxford.bsky.social
Today is World Wetlands Day! This year’s focus is on the cultural heritage and traditional knowledge these landscapes provide: www.worldwetlandsday.org Sundew pic from Hebrides fieldwork last year 🌸 #worldwetlandsday #peatlands
There's a current lack of good documentaries & series in Cymru/Wales which celebrate & investigate Welsh prehistory & early history - to match the excellent English- or dual-language wildlife, landscape and modern history documentaries. More work needed I think...🤔 www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
We can portray Wales better on screen, says BBC boss Tim Davie
Tim Davie says BBC can do more to improve representation of Wales in English-language programmes.
bbc.co.uk
💦World Wetlands Day 2026 #WWD2026 is celebrated on 2nd February. This year it focuses on the cultural heritage of wetlands, so we'll be looking at how our #peatlands are linked to our cultural identity and their importance to past and present ways of life 😊
In a similar vein as the “don’t cite a paper you didn’t read” article earlier, I quite like Stephen’s take here on AI for writing. I *could* ask AI to read papers for me, I *could* ask it to draft my text, but I choose not to, because the process IS the point. Even - especially! - when it’s hard.
Stephen Turner@stephenturner.us · 9mo agoNew blog post: Spiritual Bypass, but with GPUs. The "Machinal Bypass," when AI becomes a shortcut around the work that makes us human, and why some tasks should feel a little hard. blog.stephenturner.us/p/machinal-b...
One of my favourite recent finds and a very cool crossover between science and folklore: www.pnas.org/doi/full/10.... 🧚♀️🫧 #methane #wetlands
Unveiling ignis fatuus: Microlightning between microbubbles | PNAS
Will-o’-the-wisps, ghostly blue flames seen at night in marshlands and long attributed to methane cool flames, have remained scientifically unexpla...
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New funded PhD opportunity on large-scale export of aquatic carbon from peatlands: yes-dtn.ac.uk/research/lar... Join an amazing group of peatland researchers at the University of Leeds. Project supervised by me, Paul Morris, Jiren Xu (Glasgow), Taylor Maavara (Cary). Deadline 7 January 2026
Large-scale export of aquatic carbon from peatlands - Yorkshire Environmental Sciences • Doctoral Training Network
Peatlands are wetland environments in which saturated, anoxic soil conditions cause carbon-rich plant detritus – peat – to accumulate over thousands of years. Peatlands are thought to store approximat...
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🌎 Funded PhD Opportunity | @acce-dla.bsky.social **The carbon drain: quantifying carbon removal from peatlands and forests by rivers in the Peruvian Amazon**
We are extending the deadline until November 09 for submissions to the #2026PeatECRcalendar. Send us your best #wildlife photos in #peatlands and other #wetlands. Include the coordinates, peatland and animal name, some information about your project. Email to peatecr@gmail.com
A few more from our recent Svalbard fieldwork 🫧 what an incredible place.
Bringing you today’s #bogbrunch from Svalbard - maybe permafrost picnic is more suitable? 🏔️🫧 @oxuniearthsci.bsky.social #ch4 #co2
Really fantastic @goldschmidt-confer.bsky.social #Goldschmidt2025 conference in Prague! Thanks @eageo.bsky.social Some 🧪🥼⚒️ highlights #greenhouse gases in rivers & lakes; timescales of #water and element #storage in catchments; #enhancedweathering state of play; closing the geological #C budget.
Today is #WorldPeatlandsDay! 🌎 These amazingly boggy ecosystems are threatened by human pressures/climate change, but international/interdisciplinary awareness and collaboration is helping to mitigate this. Pics from Riv-Escape fieldwork on Isle of Lewis, April 2025
bsssjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.... not sure if I should use the #PeatTwitter tag on here but there we go
A deep learning approach for high‐resolution mapping of Scottish peatland degradation
Peat makes up approximately a quarter of Scotland's soil by area. Healthy, undisturbed, peatland habitats are critical to providing resilient biodiversity and habitat support, water management, and c...
bsssjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com
A positive step for #peatland #conservation in England - you can’t protect something you can’t measure 🗺️ naturalengland.blog.gov.uk/2025/05/12/a...
A new peat map for England
By Dr Ruth Waters, Director for Evidence, Natural England, and David Jones, Senior Responsible Officer for the Natural Capital and Ecosystem Assessment, Defra England’s peat deposits are one of our mo...
naturalengland.blog.gov.uk
