Excited about our annual varsity staff football game this Sunday vs. Bath, at Twerton Park. Looking to bring the trophy back to Bristol where it belongs! Raising money for Southmead Hospital.
www.justgiving.com/page/bigmatc...
Our "Climate of Middle Earth" got a shout-out from Stephen Colbert on The Late Show @colbertlateshow.bsky.social :
www.youtube.com/watch?v=MMue...
See here for the "paper" describing the results:
www.paleo.bristol.ac.uk/~ggdjl/repor...
Postdoc position in Oceanography and Paleoclimatology at the University of Oxford - shorturl.at/yTblW
The role involves exploring the role of ocean circulation in setting and responding to equator-pole temperature gradients over the Phanerozoic.
Deadline is 17 April 2026.
This began years ago when I interviewed Dan Lunt from the University of Bristol about his climate model of Middle-earth (from Lord of the Rings). I released the interview as a trilogy of videos because, of course a trilogy! youtu.be/jJNkd5g6oxI?...
Just published an article about our paper in @fafnirjournal.bsky.social describing how climate models were used to simulate fantasy worlds like Middle-earth & Westeros as well as for a new world I've developed for a cli-fi fantasy story theconversation.com/do-middle-ea...
Recently published in Fafnir - the Nordic Journal of Science Fiction and Fantasy: "Climate Models as a Retroactive and Exploratory World-building Tool" fafnir.journal.fi/article/view...
Thanks to
@johnfocook.bsky.social @climatedann.bsky.social and Alex and Michael Farnsworth.
Just putting this out there again - deadline 8th January:
www.bristol.ac.uk/geography/co...
Just putting this out there again - deadline 19th January:
shorturl.at/wKh2W
It is hard to overstate how critical @ncar-ucar.bsky.social is to climate science in the US and around the world. It's the beating heart of our field. Generations of scientists have trained there, and almost everyone I know relies on deep collaborations with NCAR scientists. It's end is unthinkable.
📢📢PhD position available!! 📢📢
"Improving future climate prediction through
modelling and data of Earth’s past"
At the University of Bristol, UK.
More details and how to apply:
shorturl.at/wKh2W
..or message me here directly.
📢📢PhD position available!! 📢📢
"A unified approach to climate, sea-level, and coastal change projections in the UK"
For more info, and how to apply, see here:
www.bristol.ac.uk/geography/co...
The project is base at the University of Bristol, one of the most beautiful cities in the UK!
Currently visiting @ncar-ucar.bsky.social for two weeks, as part of their affiliate scientist programme, working with the paleo modelling group, including @climate-z.bsky.social . Amazing views out of the back door of the lab!!
#ICP15 hosts a panel discussion by inviting a Science journalist to discuss aspects of Trust in Science. Our panel members are @carbon8.bsky.social @triptychphrases.bsky.social Dan Lunt Adina Paytan and Sambuddha Mishra
Hosted by Sahana Ghosh @nature.com India
CBEP 2026 - sites.google.com/view/cbep202...
2nd-7th August 2026 in Washington.
Sessions on:
Climate States and Processes
Stratigraphy and Surface Processes
Terrestrial and Marine Ecosystems
Biogeochemical Cycles
New paper from @climatesamwell.bsky.social on #paleoclimate modelling and niche #evolution across the end Cretaceous mass extinction doi.org/10.1017/pab....
AGU 2025, New Orleans: session on "Applying Machine Learning to better reconstruct and understand paleoclimates and paleoecology".
Submit an abstract here: agu.confex.com/agu/agu25/pr...
@thefosterlab.bsky.social @flimsin.bsky.social @pages-ipo.bsky.social @leafwax.bsky.social @kencaldeira.com
The lagerpetid Scleromochlus, one of the closest relatives of pterosaurs. Artowrk by Gabriel Ugueto
[1/n] New paper co-lead by @emmadnn.bsky.social @macroecoevoale.bsky.social and I: we combined fossil occurrences, biogeography and climate modelling to investigate the origins and early evolution of pterosaurs 🔗 www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Top: Plot showing variation in the estimated slopes of the palaeolatitudinal biodiversity gradient through time across the Phanerozoic (including data from Europe and North America) for 1000 km grid cells. Slopes are estimated as the coefficient of per-cell, stage-level SQS diversity on absolute palaeolatitude for individual stages. Triangle data points meet quality criteria; circles do not. Red points are significant; grey points are not. A blue ring around a data point indicates a post-extinction interval. Horizontal blue shaded region highlights slopes close to zero. Bottom right: Plot illustrating the relationships between per-cell, stage-level diversity estimates and palaeolatitude aggregated across the entire Phanerozoic, globally. Data point colours indicate palaeolatitude zone: blue triangles, low; green squares, mid; purple circles high latitude. Solid black line is ordinary least squares regression line; dashed line traces the 95th quantile for each latitudinal band.
Marine animal diversity across latitudinal and temperature gradients during the Phanerozoic onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.... @climatesamwell.bsky.social @eesaupe.bsky.social @paleodb.bsky.social
Deadline to register for food/presenting is 10th April!!
EGU Town Hall meeting on "Applying Machine Learning to better reconstruct and understand paleoclimates".
Wed, 30 Apr, 19:00–20:00 (CEST), Room M2
Register:
forms.gle/GyonoV8pTrbf...
More info:
meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/EGU25/sessio...
For those going to EGU....We are running an EGU 2025 Town Hall meeting on "Applying Machine Learning to better reconstruct and understand paleoclimates".
Wed, 30 Apr, 19:00–20:00 (CEST), Room M2
Sign up:
forms.gle/GyonoV8pTrbf...
More info:
meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/EGU25/sessio...
We are really pleased to announce a 3-year postdoc at Bristol to work on tuning a state-of-the-art CMIP7 model using paleoclimate data, and using the tuned model to make future climate predictions.
More details available from me, or here: tinyurl.com/mvx5wmet .
Closing date: 15th Feb
Well done to my amazing colleagues at Bristol, who have made it into the @carbonbrief.org 10 most talked about climate papers for the second year running. Good work @climatesamwell.bsky.social and Paul Valdes! www.carbonbrief.org/analysis-the...
Hi all, just forwarding this in 2025 as the deadline is 8th January...also, the link has changed:
noc.ac.uk/gsnocs/proje...
📢📢📢📢📢📢📢📢📢
Just sending this postdoc job advert out again in 2025! The deadline to apply is 15th January. Apply here: tinyurl.com/mrx66d2y
📢📢PhD position available!! 📢📢
"A unified approach to multiple timescale climate, sea-level, and coastal change projections in the UK"
For more info, and how to apply, see here:
noc.ac.uk/gsnocs/proje...
We are really pleased to announce a super-exciting opportunity for a 2-year postdoc to work understanding changes in latitudinal temperature gradient in Earth’s past history. University of Bristol, UK. More info and apply here:
tinyurl.com/mrx66d2y
@drsturobinson.bsky.social
