A new species of #dinosaur, a long-clawed predator up to four metres long, has been discovered by a team led by UCL Earth Sciences @es-ucl.bsky.social from a #fossil found on the Isle of Wight: www.ucl.ac.uk/news/2026/oc...

Register for our live #Undergraduate Virtual Open Events, hear from our teachers & current students, & get answers to your questions about studying at UCL: www.ucl.ac.uk/mathematical... @es-ucl.bsky.social @uclchemistry.bsky.social @uclrdr.bsky.social @stsucl.bsky.social @statisticsucl.bsky.social

PhD applications are now open via @treesdla.bsky.social (14th Dec deadline), including this project @es-ucl.bsky.social supervised by @rnf.bsky.social & I on early crocodylian evolution & end-Cretaceous extinction selectivity: www.trees-dla.ac.uk/projects/ear...

More memories from our recent graduates - the people really do create the experience! Excited for our freshers to start theirs… 🙌 www.youtube.com/shorts/3uuyP... #freshers #FreshersWeek #memory #LoveUCL #UCLGrad @es-ucl.bsky.social @uclrdr.bsky.social @stsucl.bsky.social

More memories from our recent graduates - excited for our freshers to create theirs… 🙌

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Thanks to @livescience.com for the news feature! Had a great time working on this with @geofrances.bsky.social, and @royalsociety.org 🧪⚒️. Original open access paper here www.science.org/doi/full/10.... @es-ucl.bsky.social

Landscapes buried beneath large-volume ignimbrites reveal preeruptive uplift rates

Pyroclastic density currents from large explosive eruptions can generate expansive ignimbrite deposits with planar, low-angle surfaces. We demonstrate the utility of these surfaces for constraining pr...

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South American 'Pompeii': Volcanic eruption 22 million years ago preserved a snapshot of the Andes forming www.livescience.com/planet-earth...

A vast sheet of #VolcanicRock in the #Andes has preserved clues to a buried landscape that existed 22 million years ago, according to a new study led by Dr Byron Adams and Dr Frances Cooper (UCL Earth Sciences @es-ucl.bsky.social): www.ucl.ac.uk/news/2026/se...

More on flipping plankton: Why Do These Fossil Shells Flip Their Spirals Every Few Millennia? www.quantamagazine.org/why-do-these...

Why would a species of ocean plankton coil its shells to the right for millions of years and then suddenly, flip to the left? To find out more see Flipping Plankton in PNAS www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/... by Bridget Wade , Paul Pearson, David King and Valeria Luciani

Our new paper led by @devinhoffman.bsky.social + @piginatutu.bsky.social on growth in mekosuchine crocodylians, with implications for their extinction versus the survival of Crocodylus in Australasia (+ @houssayecnrs.bsky.social, @rnf.bsky.social, @reddirtpalaeo.bsky.social): doi.org/10.1002/ar.7...

Congratulations to all our graduates! You are an inspiration, and we wish you only the best in the next steps of your journey 💜🧑‍🎓 youtube.com/shorts/_Cb61... #graduation #LoveUCL #graduate #UCLGrad #UCLGraduation @ucl.ac.uk @uclrdr.bsky.social @statisticsucl.bsky.social @es-ucl.bsky.social

Congratulations to all our graduates! 🧑‍🎓💜 #graduation #UCLGrad #graduate

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Job opportunity: Lecturer in Climate Science Position We are currently advertising for a full-time permanent lectureship in Climate Science with particular interest in polar and cryosphere research! Closing date: 1st October 2026 More details here: www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...

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UCL is consistently ranked as one of the top ten universities in the world (QS World University Rankings 2010-2022) and is No.2 in the UK for research power (Research Excellence Framework 2021).

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An interesting year to be teaching Ocean Physics and Climate Change #GEOL0022 @es-ucl.bsky.social @ucl.ac.uk. Looking forward to the new cohort of students this year - we have lots to cover!

Scientific American@sciam.bsky.social · 2mo ago

The world’s oceans hit 21.10 degrees Celsius last Saturday, breaking a record set in 2024. And it's only going to get worse.

Job opportunity: We are currently advertising for a nine month Lecturer (Teaching) in Geodynamics position to cover parental leave. www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...

UCL – University College London

UCL is consistently ranked as one of the top ten universities in the world (QS World University Rankings 2010-2022) and is No.2 in the UK for research power (Research Excellence Framework 2021).

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5/n The paper is currently among the top 35 most-downloaded articles in The Cryosphere over the last 12 months. Thanks to my co-authors and everyone who contributed especially all the amazing master students over the years @es-ucl.bsky.social Paper: tc.copernicus.org/articles/20/...

Bayesian inversion of satellite altimetry for Arctic sea ice and snow thickness

Abstract. Inverse methods have been widely used in the field of Earth Sciences, particularly in seismology. Here, we introduce a new application of inversion theory to retrieve Arctic sea ice thicknes...

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Study the Geoscience MSc at UCL and develop the analytical and technical skills needed to understand Earth's processes. www.ucl.ac.uk/prospective-... From fieldwork to the laboratory, turn geoscience theory into practical expertise. @uclmaps.bsky.social #Geoscience #EarthSciences #UCL

Departments of @uclchemistry.bsky.social and @es-ucl.bsky.social at the UCL Technical Showcase: #UCL200 special edition, displaying the work of our technicians and their contributions to UCL’s research ⚗️🌋 www.youtube.com/shorts/vofD8... #chemistry #earthsciences #geology #lab #laboratory

UCL Chemistry & @UCLEarthSciences at the at the UCL Technical Showcase: #UCL200 special edition ⚗️🛘

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⚒️ Q&A: Cretaceous oceanic intraplate volcanism, with Ana Ferreira (@es-ucl.bsky.social), @justsomeisotope.bsky.social (@umdgeology.bsky.social), and Jennifer Georgen (Old Dominion University) www.nature.com/articles/s41...

New paper out, co-led with Federico Fanti, in Global and Planetary Change! 🌩️🦖 We show how monsoons & tropical cyclones built the ~80 Ma Villaggio del Pescatore Lagerstätte in NE Italy, the Tethyshadros–Acynodon site. Image: “Stormbringer” by Davide Bonadonna. doi.org/10.1016/j.gl...

Interested in studying an MSc in Geophysical Hazards with us at UCL? Visit.... www.ucl.ac.uk/prospective-... 🌋🌪⛈🌊 Hurry though, applications for 2026-2027 close on 28 August @uclhc.bsky.social

Catastrophe modellers and exposure management teams - come and learn about natural hazards at UCL through our (CII accredited) postgraduate certificate programme 🌋🌪️🌊⛈️Apply now at: www.ucl.ac.uk/prospective-... @uclhc.bsky.social

If you've ever wondered what the inside of a crocodile's skull looks like, wonder no more! Here are 43 of them in our new paper led by @palaeoburke.bsky.social in which we evaluate endocranial anatomy across extant + fossil crocodylians 🐊: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... @es-ucl.bsky.social

Computed tomography reveals the endocranial anatomy of Crocodylia: Implications for phylogenetic relationships and ecomorphological convergence across Crocodylomorpha

The evaluation of the endocranial anatomy of 43 crocodylian species reveals several differences, including variation in the curvature of the encephalic endocast, the size of the endosseous labyrinth ...

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Our new paper led by @profpaulbarrett.bsky.social @nhm-london.bsky.social & Mark Evans @bas.ac.uk on a sauropod from Antarctica 🦕 that represents the earliest collected dinosaur fossil from this continent: www.app.pan.pl/article/item... www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... @es-ucl.bsky.social

Alisia is our PhD student, studying snow–sea ice interactions, with her research on snow flooding and snow ice formation taking her to the Arctic. ❄️

UK Centre for Polar Observation and Modelling@cpom-uk.bsky.social · 4mo ago

📽️CPOM PhD Researcher Alicia (@ucl.ac.uk) spent ten days at the @esa.int CEMSIE campaign - digging snow pits, running experiments, and collecting data to improve future satellite retrievals. Read the full article and watch the day-in-the-life film 👇 www.youtube.com/shorts/OKzRs...

Great work by Connor Neloson @es-ucl.bsky.social. Snow Depth on Arctic Sea Ice Retrieval Using a Synergy of Sentinel‐3's Active and Passive Microwave Instruments - Nelson - 2026 - Geophysical Research Letters - Wiley Online Library agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

Snow Depth on Arctic Sea Ice Retrieval Using a Synergy of Sentinel‐3's Active and Passive Microwave Instruments

We use Sentinel-3's active and passive microwave instruments synergistically to produce retrievals of snow depth on Arctic sea ice The resultant snow depths achieve a root mean square error (RMSE...

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Our new 🦕 paper led by @es-ucl.bsky.social PhD student Sam Beeston shows that pneumaticity extends far into the tail in multiple sauropod dinosaur lineages, including brachiosaurids, suggesting that its evolution was probably complex across the clade: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Why did meat-eating dinosaurs like T. rex evolve such tiny arms? 🦖 A new study led by researchers at @es-ucl.bsky.social and @cam.ac.uk finds that it was down to their strong, powerful heads: www.ucl.ac.uk/news/2026/ma... #Trex #dinosaur #dinosaurs #evolution #NaturalHistory

Why meat-eating dinosaurs like T. rex evolved tiny arms

The evolution of tiny arms in several groups of meat-eating dinosaurs was likely driven by the development of strong, powerful heads, which were used to attack prey, according to a new study led by re...

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Fascinating #AI4EO #GEOL0069 project by @es-ucl.bsky.social student Simone Pang! The satellite data shows how initiatives like #ULEZ are successfully clearing our city's air. Video: www.youtube.com/watch?v=_bFP... Code: github.com/muimui9/lond... #London #AirQuality #EarthObservation #AI

Classifying Urban NO₂ Pollution Zones over Greater London

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Full-time or part-time Research Technician in Micropalaeontology available in my lab @bridgetwade.bsky.social @es-ucl.bsky.social as part of the NERC TONIC Large Grant. Closing date: 18th June 2026. More details: www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/... #technician #micropalaeontology #plankton #NERC

Congratulations to UCL Hazard Centre affiliate David Smart for being awarded The Gordon Manley Weather Award by the Royal Meteorological Society for his work done on the editorial board of their journal Weather. www.rmets.org/rmets-awards... @rmets.org @es-ucl.bsky.social

Book your spot at the undergraduate in-person Open Days on 26-27 June while there's space: www.ucl.ac.uk/study/prospe... www.youtube.com/shorts/a8IYY... #UCLOpenDays #undergraduate #LoveUCL @uclrdr.bsky.social @es-ucl.bsky.social @stsucl.bsky.social @uclchemistry.bsky.social

Our people and places 💜🩵 #Undergraduate #OpenDay #LoveUCL #MadeAtUCL

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