Our new pond/wetland paper online in accepted form in Environmental Research Letters @iopp-environment.bsky.social "Tradeoffs between nutrient load reductions and greenhouse gas dynamics in constructed agricultural wetlands" iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1...

A day roaming the wetlands, rapids, and forests of Färnebofjärden National Park. Always a joy to be here.

Hej Uppsala! I lived in this city for 5yrs, and whenever I'm back it still feels a little like coming home.

Rejected a review invite from Geophysical Research Letters which asked for a 14 day deadline with the option to "e-mail to arrange a possible extension." No! Just give reviewers a month by default. I review a lot, and GRL is a great journal, but can we normalise civilised review times. @agu.org

Last call on this peaty special issue hosted by Sarah Cook, @tksilver.bsky.social and me. Ignore the below - deadline is 21 Aug.

Mike Peacock@peatymike.bsky.social · 9mo ago

Peaty people: we're hosting a special issue in the Taylor & Francis journal Sustainable Environment. Do consider submitting to it - the scope is broad and multidisciplinary. think.taylorandfrancis.com/article_coll...

Paper revision and grant application submitted on the same day 🥳

Was fun to chat with the "Meet the Fluxers" podcast team to record this about our Welsh blanket bog rewetting research, also featuring Rachel Harvey from Eryri National Park meetthefluxers.github.io/EP19/

Made myself some cloudberry gin. Delicious.

Can any academic folk, who might be willing to email a PDF, access this book chapter? brill.com/edcollchap/b...

On Chat Moss for GHG flux measurements with @laurabaugh94.bsky.social & @peatblogger.bsky.social. Fierce horseflies on the prowl as ever.

In the lab running some blanket bog water samples for UV-vis absorbance. Row 5: samples from yesterday, taken in the middle of an ongoing heatwave/drought. Clearly lots of DOC/DOM being produced.

Another warm day for GHG work and water sampling on the Migneint blanket bog - measuring the effects of rewetting/restoration with @laurabaugh94.bsky.social & @peatblogger.bsky.social. On the drive back saw my book in the wild for the first time at Rhug Farm.

Still plenty of tiny frogs in my pond (and a few large ones which must have arrived from elsewhere).

Mike Peacock@peatymike.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Three months in and my new pond is looking good, and is home to some happy tadpoles. Next: to source a few more nice rocks for the edging.

Read a paper with the data statement: "Data will be made available on request". Emailed the authors: "As for the underlying raw data, we hope you understand that they are part of an ongoing study and we are not yet in a position to share them publicly." Seriously?

And a 2nd paper, also led by @tksilver.bsky.social, published today in @jgrbiogeo.bsky.social, where we analysed lowland peat cores for chemistry via XRF. Heavy metals in sites near industrial centres, and more P in cores from agricultural sites. agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/...

Pollution Legacy and Land Use Influence Peat Chemistry in Temperate Lowland Peatlands

Drained grassland sites had lower organic matter content compared to semi-natural sites Peatland cores near historic industrial centers had metal enrichment Agricultural land use was also linked...

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Mike Peacock@peatymike.bsky.social · last mo.

Check out our new paper on how land use affects water quality in lowland peatlands. Here, we go beyond C, N and P - we measured all sorts of anions and cations and heavy metals.

Check out our new paper on how land use affects water quality in lowland peatlands. Here, we go beyond C, N and P - we measured all sorts of anions and cations and heavy metals.

Teresa Silverthorn@tksilver.bsky.social · last mo.

I’m excited to share our @globalchangebio.bsky.social article about water quality in UK lowland peatlands! dx.doi.org/10.1111/gcb....

Back from a few days in Nijmegen where I got to do the fun role of being the opponent in a PhD defence (and enjoy wearing a silly hat). Lovely to catch up with old friends and colleagues, and see some of the city and surrounding countryside.

This, in a new paper, is wrong. You can't collate data from different waterbodies/different studies + claim it shows emissions increase over time. It simply shows that different researchers have measured different systems that have different emissions. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Landing in Amsterdam today: a ditchologist's dream

One month left to apply for the summer round it @peatlandecr.bsky.social 2026 #PeatNeeds micro grants. It's a really easy application process, so go check it out if you are in need of a small financial boost as summer fieldwork kicks off.

Peatland ECR Action Team@peatlandecr.bsky.social · last mo.

📣 #PeatNeeds is back for July/August 2026! Microfunding of 125 CAD$ for one #ECR working on a wet-/peatland project. Global, no age limit. Apply by July 31; notifications by Aug 31. Previous #PEATNeeds awardees aren’t eligible. Apply ⤵️ docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F... #PeatNeeds #PeatECR #Peatlands

We have a new podcast interview out! We interviewed @peatymike.bsky.social from the @liverpooluni.bsky.social about the Migneint Bog #LTE in #Wales. Here Mike explains how he used the ECT small grant & about the impact of this #LTE on the water quality at Snowdonia. tinyurl.com/477ym98e 🌏

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...

A scorching day for some greenhouse gas fieldwork on the Migneint blanket bog in North Wales, with @laurabaugh94.bsky.social, @peatblogger.bsky.social, and others.

A recent interview I did with @ect-uk.bsky.social on our Migneint blanket bog rewetting work. soundcloud.com/ecologicalco...

Dr Mike Peacock on Migneint Bog

Interview with Dr Mike Peacock (University of Liverpool) at the Migneint Bog long-term experiment in Snowdonia Wales. This interview took place on 19 May 2026. To learn more about the Migneint Bog l

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Five months in and my new pond is doing great. Baby frogs everywhere!

Mike Peacock@peatymike.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Three months in and my new pond is looking good, and is home to some happy tadpoles. Next: to source a few more nice rocks for the edging.

Out on Chat Moss for some peat coring and greenhouse gas measurements with @rchiverrell.bsky.social, @laurabaugh94.bsky.social and @peatblogger.bsky.social. Lots of angry thistles and even angrier horseflies...

At #biogeomon a collaegue called our 2015 hydrological feedbacks paper a peatlands classic. So that got me thinking what dozen or so papers would be on the 'must read' for #peatland researchers. I'll start with one of my faves. @andybairdj.bsky.social Belyea and Baird, 2006 (Ecol. Mongr.)

Calling all peaty people. Still time to submit to our special issue on peatlands. Details below. Free free to DM/email me if you want to ask any questions.

Mike Peacock@peatymike.bsky.social · 9mo ago

Peaty people: we're hosting a special issue in the Taylor & Francis journal Sustainable Environment. Do consider submitting to it - the scope is broad and multidisciplinary. think.taylorandfrancis.com/article_coll...

Will you attend our lunch time webinar this month? @peatymike.bsky.social from @liverpooluni.bsky.social‬ will be talking about the Migneint Bog #LTE in #Wales that has been going since 2011. Register: https://bit.ly/ECTWebinarsEvents #Peatbog #Restoration 🌍

I'm looking for a post-doc to work on the interaction between past hydrological changes and vegetation in a disturbed peatland, using paleoecological and modelling approaches. The post-doc duration is 18 months and start date is any time before Jan 2027. DM if you are interested / have questions! 🌿🧪