After a couple of days of pretty bad weather we’ve been treated to some perfect field conditions today - can’t believe this is northern Scotland!

#peat #methane

Back in the bogs for some RIV-ESCAPE fieldwork! Happy place. @profbobhilton.bsky.social

Available positions All vacant positions at UNIS are announced on JobbNorge, and applications must be sent through the JobbNorge system.

❄️ Want to do a PhD in the Arctic?

‼️ The University Centre in Svalbard (UNIS) is hiring 5 PhD candidates across Arctic science fields!

🧊 Work at the frontlines of climate & cryosphere research
📍 Svalbard, Norway

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New job! Please RP! 🥼🧪 ⚒️

Laboratory Manager (gr8, permanent) @oxfordgeography.bsky.social

Leading the Geolabs, with cutting edge facilities in water #geochemistry, #ecosystem science, #eDNA, luminescence

Apply by 13 March or please get in touch with any Qs

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“Shoogly” ground in the peat bogs up on the Moelwynion yesterday. In my happy place 🐸

This International Day of Women and Girls in Science, we celebrate the talented, trailblazing women who we have the honour of working with every day here at Oxford Earth Sciences 🌏

#IDWGS #WomenInScience

@ox.ac.uk @mplsoxford.bsky.social

Today is World Wetlands Day! This year’s focus is on the cultural heritage and traditional knowledge these landscapes provide:

www.worldwetlandsday.org

Sundew pic from Hebrides fieldwork last year 🌸

#worldwetlandsday #peatlands

We can portray Wales better on screen, says BBC boss Tim Davie Tim Davie says BBC can do more to improve representation of Wales in English-language programmes.

There's a current lack of good documentaries & series in Cymru/Wales which celebrate & investigate Welsh prehistory & early history - to match the excellent English- or dual-language wildlife, landscape and modern history documentaries.

More work needed I think...🤔

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

💦World Wetlands Day 2026 #WWD2026 is celebrated on 2nd February. This year it focuses on the cultural heritage of wetlands, so we'll be looking at how our #peatlands are linked to our cultural identity and their importance to past and present ways of life 😊

In a similar vein as the “don’t cite a paper you didn’t read” article earlier, I quite like Stephen’s take here on AI for writing.

I *could* ask AI to read papers for me, I *could* ask it to draft my text, but I choose not to, because the process IS the point. Even - especially! - when it’s hard.

Unveiling ignis fatuus: Microlightning between microbubbles | PNAS Will-o’-the-wisps, ghostly blue flames seen at night in marshlands and long attributed to methane cool flames, have remained scientifically unexpla...

One of my favourite recent finds and a very cool crossover between science and folklore: www.pnas.org/doi/full/10.... 🧚‍♀️🫧 #methane #wetlands

New funded PhD opportunity on large-scale export of aquatic carbon from peatlands: yes-dtn.ac.uk/research/lar...

Join an amazing group of peatland researchers at the University of Leeds. Project supervised by me, Paul Morris, Jiren Xu (Glasgow), Taylor Maavara (Cary).

Deadline 7 January 2026

🌎 Funded PhD Opportunity | @acce-dla.bsky.social

**The carbon drain: quantifying carbon removal from peatlands and forests by rivers in the Peruvian Amazon**

Promotional poster for the 2026 PEAT (Peatland ECR Action Team) calendar themed "Wildlife." It announces that the photo submission deadline has been extended until November 9. The background shows a wooden path leading through peatland toward distant mountains at sunset. Photo credit: Justinas Sakas.

We are extending the deadline until November 09 for submissions to the #2026PeatECRcalendar.

Send us your best #wildlife photos in #peatlands and other #wetlands.

Include the coordinates, peatland and animal name, some information about your project.

Email to peatecr@gmail.com

Last one from Arctic fieldwork on Svalbard, promise… @profbobhilton.bsky.social

A few more from our recent Svalbard fieldwork 🫧 what an incredible place.

Not the most spreadable but cheaper than lurpak!

Bringing you today’s #bogbrunch from Svalbard - maybe permafrost picnic is more suitable? 🏔️🫧 @oxuniearthsci.bsky.social

#ch4 #co2

Earth Surface Geochemistry group members in Central Prague enjoying an evening after busy science 🧪 at the Goldschmidt Conference

Really fantastic @goldschmidt-confer.bsky.social #Goldschmidt2025 conference in Prague! Thanks @eageo.bsky.social

Some 🧪🥼⚒️ highlights #greenhouse gases in rivers & lakes; timescales of #water and element #storage in catchments; #enhancedweathering state of play; closing the geological #C budget.

Today is #WorldPeatlandsDay! 🌎 These amazingly boggy ecosystems are threatened by human pressures/climate change, but international/interdisciplinary awareness and collaboration is helping to mitigate this. Pics from
Riv-Escape fieldwork on Isle of Lewis, April 2025

A deep learning approach for high‐resolution mapping of Scottish peatland degradation Peat makes up approximately a quarter of Scotland's soil by area. Healthy, undisturbed, peatland habitats are critical to providing resilient biodiversity and habitat support, water management, and c...

bsssjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.... not sure if I should use the #PeatTwitter tag on here but there we go

A new peat map for England By Dr Ruth Waters, Director for Evidence, Natural England, and David Jones, Senior Responsible Officer for the Natural Capital and Ecosystem Assessment, Defra England’s peat deposits are one of our mo...

A positive step for #peatland #conservation in England - you can’t protect something you can’t measure 🗺️

naturalengland.blog.gov.uk/2025/05/12/a...

Back on the Isle of Lewis searching for #methane with @RivEscape! 🫧

Back in the Highlands for the annual #Assynt pilgrimage with @oxuniearthsci.bsky.social 😁