I missed this great The Conversation article by the brilliant Jayde Hirniak last September, but it’s a timely article given @jinheum.bsky.social’s recent paper showing the 74ka Toba eruption didn’t have a lasting climatic impact in eastern Africa: theconversation.com/a-massive-er...

A massive eruption 74,000 years ago affected the whole planet – archaeologists use volcanic glass to figure out how people survived

Researchers can study volcanic deposits at archaeological sites to piece together how ancient people responded to catastrophic events.

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We reveal, at sub-annual resolution, the ~74 ka Toba super-eruption‘s acute, but short-lived impact on eastern African climate using varved sediments in Lake Chala (Kenya/Tanzania)! www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Sub-annual resolution evidence for limited impact of the 74-ka Toba eruption on eastern African climate

Sub-annually resolved lake sediments suggest the Toba eruption caused modest cooling and drought in eastern Africa.

science.org

📊New data shows benefits of choosing geography at university. This includes high graduate employment rates, with geography graduates having a higher rate than average. Find out more: https://www.rgs.org/about-us/our-work/latest-news/new-data-shows-the-benefits-of-choosing-geography-at-university

Geographers celebrated for their contribution to research culture! Huge congratulations to María Inés Hernández, Thomas Fry, Liam Saddington @saddy94.bsky.social, Alex Cullen, Olga Petri, Sarah Hall @drsarahhall.bsky.social and Christine Lane @chslane.bsky.social

Palynology Postdoc position, Institute of archaeology, Oxford. www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DRE447/p...

Postdoctoral Research Associate MEMELAND (Palynologist) at University of Oxford

Recruiting now: Postdoctoral Research Associate MEMELAND (Palynologist) on jobs.ac.uk. Click for details and explore more academic job opportunities on the top job board

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🚨Funded #PhD opp🚨 in my lab, co supervised by Vincent Maire at Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières Linking above-and belowground plant #phenology to carbon cycling in #peatlands You can see full advert (in english/french) here: wetlandresilienceresearchgroup.com/Opportunitie... Please share!

Year 12s at UK state schools: Apply for the FREE @suttontrust.bsky.social UK Summer School at Cambridge! Experience life at Cambridge & dive into Geography—all for free. Deadline: 12 Feb (Midday) Apply: summerschools.suttontrust.com/course/university-of-cambridge/geography-4/

The Sutton Trust@suttontrust.bsky.social · 7mo ago

Applications for our FREE UK Summer Schools are now open! This year we have partnered with 13 leading universities, to offer summer schools across 40+ subjects. Our summer schools are for students in Year 12 (Eng & Wls), S5 (Scot) or Year 13 (NI). Apply now ⤵️ summerschools.suttontrust.com

Several exciting PhD opportunities here in the University of Vienna STEM-call. In our department fully funded positions in biomolecular zooarch, Pleistocene felid diversity and admixture, sedaDNA and popgen, and archsci and AMS 14C dating. Apply below now! careers.univie.ac.at/en/praedoc/s...

Made by MA students @nftsfilmtv.bsky.social, this film features volcanologist Clive Oppenheimer exploring the links between volcanoes and the beginning of life on Earth. @camunigeography.bsky.social

Oppenheimer or How I learned to stop worrying and love the volcano

Featuring volcanologist Clive Oppenheimer, this film explores the links between volcanoes and the beginning of life on earth

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Palaeoecology Research Fellow at @qubelfastofficial.bsky.social www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DQJ146/p...

Palaeoecology Research Fellow (Ecologies of Governance) at Queen's University Belfast

Discover Palaeoecology Research Fellow (Ecologies of Governance) jobs and more in higher education on jobs.ac.uk. Apply for further details on the top job board.

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📣 Studying tephra in archaeology? Then submit an abstract to our #tephratastic session at the European Association for Archaeologists #EAAs in Athens this summer. 🌋🏛️ Session #203 “Advances in Tephrochronology for Archaeological Research”. 👉5th Feb deadline👈 More info: bit.ly/3LCcuyy

📣 Studying tephra in archaeology? Then submit an abstract to our #tephratastic session at the European Association for Archaeologists #EAAs in Athens this summer. 🌋🏛️ Session #203 “Advances in Tephrochronology for Archaeological Research”. 👉5th Feb deadline👈 More info: bit.ly/3LCcuyy

#Tephratastic PhD alert!! Study the record of volcanism hidden in the sediments of Lake Ohrid with the brilliant @pgalbert.bsky.social…and even better, you’d live on the Welsh coastline 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🌊☀️ Bad news: deadline is Monday 12th Jan!! 🧑‍💻 More info: bit.ly/4pu3FVu

Lots of offshore Quaternary talks today, and an inspiring keynote from Professor Becky Briant on the benefits that Quaternary scientists can deliver during ground engineering design: if any of this floats your boat (sic), we're hiring at Wessex Archaeology share.google/MbXadGnfgrLB... #QRA2026ADM

Marine Geoarchaeologist

Marine Geoarchaeology

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Couldn’t be happier to see Phil Barker win the QRA Croll Medal today. He ended his thanks with some wise words: “Collaboration is better than competition to advance Quaternary Science”. Thanks Phil for all the wisdom and guidance you’ve shared with so many 👏👏 #QRA2026ADM

👀 A postdoc position working with the incredible @fegbutcher.bsky.social on Martian glaciology! (prepping my CV right away 🤩🤩)

Frances Butcher@fegbutcher.bsky.social · 7mo ago

Potentially of interest to #QRA2026ADM attendees! Sorry I can't be there this year, but please email me if you have queries.

Enjoyed every word of Dr @abistone.bsky.social ‘s Wiley Lecture today at Day 1 of #QRA2026ADM in Brighton. On a cold winter’s day she took us to the warmth of the Namib to search for ancient hominin landscapes.

#QRA2026ADM is go!

Jennifer Ward Oppenheimer Professorship of the Deep History & Archaeology of Africa- University of Cambridge - Department of Archaeology #skystorians 🗃️www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DPP065/j...

Jennifer Ward Oppenheimer Professorship of the Deep History & Archaeology of Africa at University of Cambridge

Recruiting now: Jennifer Ward Oppenheimer Professorship of the Deep History & Archaeology of Africa on jobs.ac.uk. Click for details and explore more academic job opportunities on the top job board

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My end of year brain cannot find a caption for this image that I took when I’d borrowed these awesome 3D printed pollen grains from Matthew @conservepalaeolab.bsky.social, but it’s begging for a joke about modeling and scale in Quaternary Science. Your suggestions?

👀 Postdoctoral position in radiocarbon dating and Bayesian modelling at the Department of Archaeology and Heritage Studies @auarcher.bsky.social international.au.dk/about/profil...

Postdoctoral position in radiocarbon dating and Bayesian modelling at the Department of Archaeology and Heritage Studies - Vacancy at Aarhus University

Vacancy at School of Culture and Society - Department of Heritage Studies, Aarhus University

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Given what we all work in, it has to be “a core of geographers”!

Cambridge Tephra Lab@camtephra.bsky.social · 8mo ago

What’s the collective noun for a cluster of geographers rarely seen out of the labs? Seasons Greetings from Cambridge everyone! 🎄✨🎄✨🎄✨🎄 @camunigeography.bsky.social

Seeking a strong applicant for Aberystwyth University PhD Funding scheme 'AberDoc', on the topic: 'Novel biogenic carbonates for luminescence dating of the entire Quaternary period'. Our lab also welcomes PhD applications for other luminescence dating projects for the same AberDoc funding round.

Suffolk ploughsoil is rich in far-travelled wonders. One could teach a geology course using just one field in Gislingham! Thanks @megwildflowers.bsky.social for specimen cutting & pictures. Perhaps some from Charnwood @charnwoodforest.bsky.social, others from Scotland.

A wooded multi-channel #chalkstream in a Norfolk (eastern England) military training area that has avoided tidying & dredging. Lots of fallen wood & bankside trees. Sparkling gravel patches, sands & leaf packs. Crystal clear waters fed by healthy local springs. Everything we have lost & want back

Does anyone else feel they are just too disorganised for their jobs? Why does sorting field kit and printing handouts fill so much time? 🤯 Maybe it’s just that point in term 🤷‍♀️

Hope no one is hurt. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...

Ethiopian volcano erupts for first time in 12,000 years

Ash clouds from Hayli Gubbi volcano sent drifting across the Red Sea toward Yemen and Oman

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Christine S. Lane@chslane.bsky.social · 9mo ago

This year we’ve added #Geography to the @corpuscambridge.bsky.social Pelican Programme. Part of our widening participation package, the 6-month intensive PP is a great way to expand geographical skills and knowledge ahead of a university application. Find out more: www.corpus.cam.ac.uk/pelican

This year we’ve added #Geography to the @corpuscambridge.bsky.social Pelican Programme. Part of our widening participation package, the 6-month intensive PP is a great way to expand geographical skills and knowledge ahead of a university application. Find out more: www.corpus.cam.ac.uk/pelican

Celebrations in the PhD office as another fantastic @camunigeography.bsky.social student comes out of their viva smiling. Congratulations Ciara Greaves!! (and 10/10 for the tree ring cake🤩)