📢New Editorial in Area📢 Our new editorial team, @jeremyjschmidt.bsky.social, @jonnydarling.bsky.social, @envidynxlab.bsky.social & Mary Lawhon, have written their first editorial outlining their ambitions for the journal - have a read here⬇️ doi.org/10.1111/area... #geosky

Second job alert! We just opened a tenure-track junior professor position at @cerege.bsky.social focusing on Pleistocene and Holocene paleoenvironments and population dynamics. emploi.cnrs.fr/Offres/CPJ/C... Contact me if you are interested!

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Nick Clarke@nickclarkegeo.bsky.social · last yr.

The Covid-19 pandemic: Five years on Join me, Nicola Madge, and Ben Highmore 4 June on Zoom massobs.org.uk/engagement/e...

🛰️ Summer School in Geospatial & AI 📍 hosted by Southampton Geospatial @unisouthampton.bsky.social 📅 14–18 July 2025 🔗 go.soton.ac.uk/h4y ⏳ Deadline: 30 June 2025 Course explores AI & deep learning methods and real-world geospatial data challenges

Applications are now open for the EGU Science Journalism Fellowship 2025! Up to €5000 awarded to #journalists reporting on ongoing #research in Earth, planetary, or space sciences. Apply Now! 📆 Deadline: 17 June 2025. 👉 Learn more: egu.eu/783DX3

My colleagues at The Anthropocene Laboratory at Swedish Royal Academy in Stockholm are hiring: 3 postdocs www.anthropocenelab.se/news/the-ant... and 2 researchers www.anthropocenelab.se/news/the-ant...

The Anthropocene Laboratory is hiring: 3 postdocs - Anthropocene Lab

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Thinking of @drkingothebeach.bsky.social today: teaching Toomey et al. (2013: doi.org/10.1130/G341...) [one of my all-time favourite papers] and Ortiz & Ashton (2019: doi.org/10.1016/j.ma...) as we near the end of this year's @sotongeogenviron.bsky.social Y2 coastal module.

New Special Section in Area! 'Rivers as Borders', edited by Rebekka Kanesu, @drvanessalamb.bsky.social & Eva McGrath, features 6 #OpenAccess papers on river-borders from the Yarmouk and Salween to the Moselle and Torridge. Read all papers here ⬇️ rgs-ibg.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/toc/10.1... #geo

My latest @newscientist.com cartoon

Tenure Track Assistant or Associate Professor in Environmental Hydraulics and/or Ecohydrological modelling at the University of Oulu, Finland. Apply by 19 May. See also: csdms.colorado.edu/wiki/Jobs

Conner Lester and his colleagues offer a clear, thorough rendering of the statistical physics of impact ripples. Conner recently completed his PhD at Duke. His thesis should be available online soon. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Emergence of wind ripples controlled by mechanics of grain–bed impacts - Nature Geoscience

Numerical simulations suggest the wavelength of wind ripples is controlled by the mechanics of grain–bed impacts, not grain hop length, explaining why ripples on Mars and Earth are the same scale desp...

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Dark, ashy wildfire sediment still sits on L.A beaches. But there's no health risk, officials say

Dark, ashy wildfire sediment still sits on L.A beaches. But there's no health risk, officials say

Ashy wildfire sediment on Los Angeles County beaches does not contain chemicals at a level that pose a danger to human health, the public health department says.

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SFI’s Complexity podcast is up for a Webby Award! Nominated in the Science & Education category, Episode 2 of the most recent season explores the relationship between language and thought with guests Evelina Federenko, Steve Piantadosi, and Gary Lupyan. vote.webbyawards.com/PublicVoting...

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3-year postdoc here in Geography at Durham working on sand extraction with Dr. Laura Schoenberger: durham.taleo.net/careersectio...

A few weeks ago, I shared with the students of my “International Tourism” course this interesting, but worrisome, article. Key West in Florida has been studying how cruise ships docking affect the quality of water: it stirs up as much as sediment as a hurricane. www.npr.org/transcripts/...

In Key West, testing shows cruise ships stir up as much sediment as a hurricane

Tests in Key West show sediment stirred up by cruise ships, which can harm marine life, routinely exceed federal standards. Key West has responded by suspending the tests.

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OK folks - will you please help me spread this far and wide. A really exciting opportunity to be the new Director of Comms at @britishacademy.bsky.social - the national academy for humanities and social sciences. £100k. Lovely team. Reports directly to me micro.green-park.co.uk/thebritishac...

Work led by Alice Puppin shows that tidal-channel abandonment (due to stream captures or meander cutoff) leads to rapid C accumulation. "Rapid Infill of Abandoned Tidal Channels Creates Hotspots for Blue-Carbon Accumulation in Coastal Wetlands" agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/...

And we played home-built, retro-aesthetic arcade video games too👀🚜🌊🏝️

Was an absolute pleasure to be @unipd.bsky.social Dipt di Geoscienze last week with @alvitello.bsky.social & others. A hat-trick of seminars (with special thanks to the admin team for advert), lots of time set aside for head-scratching at the board, and delicious food at every turn. The 🤌 best 🤌.

Africa is seeing "carbon grabs" by foreign firms, warns the head of the African Development Bank. Read more: bit.ly/4cmmgxX

There's a lot going on, God knows, but don't miss that the President of the United States is using the full force of the Federal government, as well as tax dollars, to punish a state because its Governor... refused to do as he instructed. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/02/u...

U.S.D.A. Freezes Funding for Maine Amid Battle Over Transgender Athletes

The administration concluded last month that Maine had violated federal law by allowing transgender athletes to play on girls’ or women’s teams.

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Want to do a PhD with @nisreenalwan.bsky.social and me on food aid and working to make this system better for those who need to use it? Fully funded, make it your own, more details here: www.findaphd.com/phds/project... #PhDfunding #foodaid #foodinsecurity #healthgeography #food

Addressing food insecurity through better food aid and improved collaboration at University of Southampton on FindAPhD.com

PhD Project - Addressing food insecurity through better food aid and improved collaboration at University of Southampton, listed on FindAPhD.com

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“Discoveries,” Ogbunu says, “are made when you borrow ideas from certain disciplines and carefully and responsibly combine them.” www.santafe.edu/news-center/...

SFI welcomes C. Brandon Ogbunu to Resident Faculty

Over the past three years, C. Brandon Ogbunu has become a familiar face at SFI as an External Professor. In February, he joined SFI as a part-time Resident Professor.

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❄️🌊Nice write-up of a Nature Climate Change paper by Jan Kavan et al. on coast development as Arctic glaciers recede. Includes some commentary from me. Enjoyed peer-reviewing the NCC article, writing a 'news and views' piece, and speaking to @ayeshatandon.carbonbrief.org about it all to top it off.

Carbon Brief@carbonbrief.org · last yr.

NEW – Global warming is ‘exposing’ new coastlines and islands as Arctic glaciers shrink | @ayeshatandon.carbonbrief.org with comment from Jan Kavan @glaciocook.bsky.social Read here: buff.ly/1yCsB85

Where do the sand grains from a beach nourishment go? Check out Bart van Westen's latest paper on the application of our SedTRAILS model to the Sand Engine: www.nature.com/articles/s41... @deltares.bsky.social @tudelftceg.bsky.social

Lagrangian modelling reveals sediment pathways at evolving coasts - Scientific Reports

Scientific Reports - Lagrangian modelling reveals sediment pathways at evolving coasts

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Paperback copies of my book have arrived in the office! They'll be available in UK stores/online from April 24. #MakingSenseOfChaos

Interested in waterfalls? My former PhD student, Sophie Rothman, (with support from NSF) made a fun outreach video about how waterfalls erode, check it out and please share widely: www.youtube.com/watch?v=sVgr...

Waterfalls and how they erode

YouTube video by Sophie Rothman

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Postdoc Carlos Alvarez shows that Mars’s large #aeolian #ripples are not impact ripples through low-pressure #wind tunnel experiments at #NASA Ames. Very excited about this one! @stanforddoerr.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Ripples formed in low-pressure wind tunnels suggest Mars’s large windblown ripples are not impact ripples - Nature Communications

Low-pressure wind tunnel experiments suggest that large sand ripples on Mars are drag ripples, not impact ripples. Windblown drag ripples constitute an untapped record of atmospheric evolution under t...

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Five years ago today, most historical UK monthly rainfall observations were not available to scientists. But the 66,000 pieces of paper containing the data had been scanned. With covid lockdown approaching we saw an opportunity to transcribe the data. #RainfallRescue began... 🧵