The social care debate feels very close to home with mention of "devastating amounts of money". My dad developed early onset Alzheimer's at 54. No earning since, and at 68 we pay £1500 a week for his care with advanced dementia. We need reform or a spending cap so families don't lose everything.

John Crace@mrjohncrace.bsky.social · last wk.

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Beavers have been spotted as far north as the Arctic Ocean. Understanding the timeline of their move northward is critical for Arctic communities. 🦫🧪 Comments from @gmelodie.bsky.social @durham.ac.uk, Kirt Ruben of the Imaryuk Monitors, & Tom Glass @uafairbanks.bsky.social. eos.org/articles/how...

How Beavers Gnawed Their Way into the Arctic - Eos

Historical data on beavers’ Arctic expansion are lacking, but tree rings are shedding light on the timeline.

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Attending the #RENKEI UK-Japan Collaboration Lab 2026 🇬🇧🇯🇵 My first time in Japan visiting Tohoku and Sophia Universities in Sendai and Tokyo has been brilliant; making new connections and potential collaborations already, and loving the food, landscape and welcoming people 🚅🍱⛩️🏯🍜 @durham.ac.uk

It has been heartening hearing at #EGU26 how valuable the #P2F syntheses of #seaice proxy datasets for the Holocene, LGM and Last Interglacial will be for palaeoclimate communities. They are on their way (for both poles!), so watch this space! 🌊🧊 @egu.eu @durham.ac.uk @geogdurham.bsky.social

Want to read Hole et al.'s study for yourself? Find it here, in our #OpenAccess journal "Ecosphere": doi.org/10.1002/ecs2...

Dendrochronology and remote sensing reveal beaver occupancy and colonization dynamics in an expanding Arctic population

The North American beaver (Castor canadensis) is expanding its distribution in the Arctic tundra. Due to the species' capacity to engineer ecosystems, they can transform surface water dynamics and bi...

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Nice coverage of our recent @esajournals.bsky.social research in Canada's national paper, The Globe and Mail, with new evidence of "what Inuvialuit communities have long witnessed": beavers’ expansion "into the Far North, with cascading consequences for waterways, wildlife and a way of life."🦫⬆️

Beavers, moving deeper into the Far North, gnaw away at an Arctic way of life

New research confirms that North America’s most famous rodents are taking new territory, changing the landscape as they go

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Our new media tip sheet is out! Explore fresh research from our journals on: 🐦a new metric for migratory birds 🦊mid-sized carnivore scavenging 🐻‍❄️polar bear adaption 🌲European forestry for birds 🦫& beavers reshaping the Arctic Read it here: https://ow.ly/O5eU50YAEwh

Very nice to see our new paper feature in the March research news from the @ecologicalsociety.bsky.social: Eager beavers busy moving north 🦫 🌿 ⬆️ Read the highlight and link to the paper to learn more: esa.org/blog/2026/03...

New paper out! Arctic tundra shrubs keep records of beaver colonisation ❄️🦫🌿✏️ Our new study in Ecosphere used shrub growth rings & satellite imagery to reconstruct past beaver colonisation at the northern edge of their range in Arctic Canada. 🔗 doi.org/10.1002/ecs2... @esajournals.bsky.social

The UK Government just released its national security assessment on #biodiversity loss: an actual intelligence assessment using the same frameworks as military threat analysis. The conclusion? #Nature is a foundation of national security and every critical #ecosystem is on a pathway to collapse. 🧵

Enjoyed reconnecting with the many members of @horizoneu.bsky.social project #P2F (Past to Future: Towards Fully Paleo-Informed Future #Climate Projections) in Utrecht last week...including winning the scavenger hunt and getting the secret word - Globorotalia! #foraminifera #paleoclimate #H2020

Huge paper for the Arctic Ocean published today in @science.org - a new 30,000 year history of Arctic Ocean sea-ice cover reconstructed from the accumulation of cosmic dust-derived helium-3! www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... (1/n)

Cosmic dust reveals dynamic shifts in central Arctic sea-ice coverage over the past 30,000 years

Arctic sea-ice loss affects biological productivity, sustenance in coastal communities, and geopolitics. Forecasting these impacts requires mechanistic understanding of how Arctic sea ice responds to ...

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To learn a bit more about beavers in the Arctic tundra, and my work on the @ukri.org CINUK project, check out the 'Beavers from Above' episode of CBC's The Nature of Things! 🦫 gem.cbc.ca/the-nature-o... Premiering tonight on CBC TV at 8 p.m., 8:30NT

My review of ‘The Story of Earth’s Climate in 25 Discoveries’ by Donald Prothero has been published in The Geological Society's Geoscientist magazine. The book is a sweeping exploration of Earth’s 4.5Ga climatic journey and its role in shaping life. Learn more: geoscientist.online/sections/boo...

The Story of Earth's Climate in 25 Discoveries: How Scientists Found the Connections Between Climate and Life - GEOSCIENTIST

Donald Prothero takes readers on a sweeping 4.5-billion-year journey that reveals the intimate ties between climate and life.

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🚨Calling all U.K. Arctic terrestrial scientists. "UK Arctic terrestrial science strengths and priorities workshop" to discuss and then produce a prospectus outlining the UK’s “Strengths & Priorities” in Arctic terrestrial research. Info and registration link here 👇 drive.google.com/file/d/1HV0c...

Great to see the result of the workshop at @noc.ac.uk earlier this year on the contribution of Arctic Ocean science to the International Polar Year 2032/33.

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New report that outlines UK's vision for Arctic science is a UK-wide collaboration co-led by NOC. The report which highlights knowledge gaps, ambitions and capabilities for Arctic science will be presented this week at the Arctic Circle #Assembly2025. Read here👉 lnkd.in/gEjxhurR #IPY5

The many uses of #driftwood: the first large-scale mapping of Arctic coastlines. #AWI Press release for Carl‘s paper using AI to map driftwood abundance along the North American arctic coast with Planet satellite imagery. www.awi.de/en/about-us/...

Important to know for sea ice reconstructions! Arctic driftwood transport and deposition is determined by sea ice and surface current dynamics; making it a robust proxy for Holocene sea ice reconstructions. agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

Out of the woods: Driftwood insights into Holocene pan‐Arctic sea ice dynamics

Arctic driftwood transport and deposition is determined by sea ice and surface current dynamics; making it a robust proxy for Holocene sea ice reconstructions The first pan-Arctic collation of Holo...

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I was today years old when I learned that Picasso overlapped in time with both Charles Darwin and Eminem. True fact.

Always fun to join another UK Arctic Science Conference, this time at @northumbriauni.bsky.social, presenting initial stages of palaeo sea ice reconstruction, synthesis and mapping, within the @horizoneu.bsky.social project Past2Future - towards fully palaeo-informed climate projections.

Thank you all for attending BOGS 2025! We are a great community, and we look forward to many future successful meetings.

The poor "Sea Ice Index" nsidc.org/data/seaice_... 😢 See thread for more on this tragic data loss: bsky.app/profile/zack...

Last week I was at @noc.ac.uk for the first time since 2012(!) for a workshop on the contribution of Arctic Ocean science to the International Polar Year 2032/33. A great opportunity to help shape priorities for future research with a cross-section of polar ocean experts.

My photo of cotton grass at dawn on the Arctic Ocean coastline won the Canadian Permafrost Association photo competition! Thank you to everyone who voted :) www.instagram.com/p/DJB8SQqxmz...

A great kick off in Utrecht to my role within the new #HorizonEU #Past2Future project, working towards fully palaeo-informed future climate projections. I'm joining @durham-university.bsky.social as a research associate, focusing on Arctic and Antarctic sea ice reconstruction.

Sea ice in the Arctic and around Antarctica cool our climate, drive ocean circulation across the planet, and provide a unique habitat for polar ecosystems. Sea ice amounts have now fallen to their lowest since we started measuring them. This is not good. 🌊🥼❄️🧪 www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

World's sea-ice falls to record low

The world's frozen oceans keep the planet cool, but they currently have less ice than ever recorded before.

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Ancient Tree Rings Hold Clues to Volcanic Cooling Events In the frigid reaches of northern Norway, a curious phenomenon in tree rings is helping scientists uncover the climatic impact of distant volcanic eruptions from over a century ago. Researchers have discovered that unusually cold summers…

Ancient Tree Rings Hold Clues to Volcanic Cooling Events

In the frigid reaches of northern Norway, a curious phenomenon in tree rings is helping scientists uncover the climatic impact of distant volcanic eruptions from over a century ago. Researchers have discovered that unusually cold summers leave behind distinctive blue-tinted rings in trees and shrubs, providing a natural archive of historical temperature drops. The study, published in Frontiers in Plant Science…

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Wildfires offset the increasing but spatially heterogeneous Arctic–boreal CO2 uptake www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Wildfires offset the increasing but spatially heterogeneous Arctic–boreal CO2 uptake - Nature Climate Change

How the carbon stocks of the Arctic–Boreal Zone change with warming is not well understood. Here the authors show that wildfires and large regional differences in net carbon fluxes offset the overall ...

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"The life span of these sponges appears to be between about 6 and 18 thousand years" 🤯

Dr Craig R McClain@drcraigmc.bsky.social · 2y ago

A glass sponge skeleton found in the East China Sea in 1986 was estimated to be around 11,000 years old. The sponge's skeleton records changes in the ocean's silica content, which is important for the global carbon cycle. eos.org/research-spo....

Arctic has changed dramatically in just a couple of decades — 2024 report card shows worrying trends in snow, ice, wildfire and more, writes Twila Moon, Matthew Druckenmiller and Rick Thoman, @alaskawx.bsky.social, for @us.theconversation.com, via @alaskabeacon.com: alaskabeacon.com/2024/12/13/a...

Arctic has changed dramatically in just a couple of decades • Alaska Beacon

Commentary authors write of the Arctic Report Card that gases released by wildfires and thawing tundra add to human-produced emissions.

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