A newly discovered fossil site in southwest China has transformed our understanding of how complex animal life emerged on Earth, revealing that many key animal groups had already evolved before the start of the Cambrian Period
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The Department of Earth Sciences is recruiting for a Postdoctoral Research Assistant in Oceanography and Palaeoclimatology to join our thriving academic community!
Further details and apply: www.earth.ox.ac.uk/vacancies
schematic diagram showing hypothetical vertebrate assemblages and corresponding time samples in a 15 m sequence of fluvial deposits over 30 kyr with various time-averaging and about 50% time sampling completeness.
The new annual review from Kay Behrensmeyer has a killer Figure 3 depicting how different samples of the geologic record equates to different samples of stratigraphic time.
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Durophagous Palatobaena, found to both sides of the extinction horizon, sitting on an extinct Basilemys with the mandatory T. rex skull in the background. Art by Joschua Knüppe
New paper: royalsocietypublishing.org/rsbl/article...
Guilherme & I investigate dietary selectivity on turtle K/Pg extinction - durophagous turtles have higher survivorship probability. Beautiful art by @joschuaknuppe.bsky.social
Photograph of a pale brown rock surface with a human hand for scale, showing a roughly circular textured pattern in the sandstone surface which is thought to be the feeding trace of a polychaete worm.
Amazing trace fossil - Zoophycos - from the mid-Miocene sediments of the Tabernas basin, Almeria. First time to have seen this, in many years of field visits - spotted by eagle-eyed 3rd year @oxuniearthsci.bsky.social students. ⚒️
East Sands beach, St Andrews, in the sunshine (which happens more often than you probably think!)
Chair in Earth Sciences position @uniofstandrews.bsky.social closing soon - Monday 23 March.
Very broad remit, so if you’d like to join our lovely school, and get to live in the super beautiful and friendly wee nation of Scotland, please apply!
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Delighted to see Amde Tadesse’s latest paper now out - on volatiles in silicic magmas from the #Ethiopian Rift. Work funded by the Fondation Wiener-Anspach at @oxuniearthsci.bsky.social and Addis Ababa University and completed at @lamont.columbia.edu ⚒️
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Now out: How did earthquakes come to have a (quantitative) size? How can we quantify without experimental control? @cristianlarph.bsky.social and I answer both questions and show their implications for human science measurement.
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#philsci #histsci #seismology
New paper alert. Lead by PhD student Zsanett Szilagyi. Geomorphology of mesophotic Halimeda bioherms - which cover large areas (>6000km2) of the northern Great Barrier Reef and form very distinct honeycomb shapes. Why? Still working on that.
Oxford Martin School seminar next week - 12.30 March 9th #energy #sustainability
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Great news from #Cornwall, where #geothermal energy and lithium are now being generated from deep, hot granite. ⚒️
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Oxford Earth Sciences is recruiting an Associate Professor (Tutorial Fellow) in Earth Surface Processes (broadly interpreted, including carbon cycle, ancient and modern carbonates, biogeochemistry, geohazards, etc). Please share! Further details: my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecru...
The Department of Earth Sciences and St Peter's College are recruiting an Associate Professor (or Professor) in Earth Surface Processes to join our thriving academic community!
earth.web.ox.ac.uk/vacancies
Are you a researcher in the field of history of science, technology and medicine? There's still time to submit your paper for the #NotesAndRecords essay award. Submit your research by 28 February 2026: buff.ly/dedMm93 #HistSci #HistSTM #HistMed
My wee book has had its first formal review!
A lovely piece in @geoscientistmag.bsky.social.
I love how they've picked up on elements of my personality - didn't realise how much this came through.
"as if a geology-savvy friend is excitedly sharing something they have just learned."
and Universities of Bristol, Cambridge, Hawaii and Oxford. It was a wonderful journey of discovery with many colleagues, and published with excellent support from the team at Volcanica|
This was a deeply collaborative effort, supported with @ukri.org funding from AHRC and NERC to the #CuratingCrises project, and supported by archivists and special collections in Montserrat, @carnegiescience.bsky.social, @royalsociety.org, @nationalarchives.gov.uk.web.brid.gy, @bgs.ac.uk (2/n)
Black and white photo-postcard showing the steaming gorge of Gages Soufriere, Montserrat, and the bare, altered rock around the sides of the gully. The sulphur and steam vents were vigorously active during a seismic crisis in the 1930s, and were eventually buried following the volcanic activity that began in 1995. Photographer: K. E. Perkins.
Photograph from May 1936 of a group of six people standing in front of a house on Montserrat, during a visit to the island by the Royal Society expedition team. L-R: Thomas Jaggar (Hawaii Volcano Observatory), Cecil Powell (University of Bristol), Frank Perret, Mr and Mrs Howes, Isabel Jaggar (Hawaii Volcano Observatory). Image number 208964 from the British Geological Survey special collections.
Delighted to share the origin story of the first #volcano observatory on #Montserrat, established in response to a seismic crisis in the 1930s. The observatory was staffed by Montserratians from 1936 to 1946, including Ian and Cecil Kelsick, and Greta Scotland (1/n)
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Photograph of the front cover of a new illustrated book on volcanoes for children, called the Power of Volcanoes. The cover has a red background, and a cut-out circle reveals an erupting volcano inside.
Photograph of on page from the book, showing illustrations of some of the different sorts of rocks erupted from volcanoes.
Excited to see early copies of ‘The Power of Volcanoes’, written with Tamsin Mather and wonderfully brought to life with illustrations by Daniel Long. Part of the ‘Think Big’ series of science books for children, published by @nosycrow.bsky.social and @cam.ac.uk Publication date - 4 June 2026
Friends, can I ask you to spread the word that we have a THREE-YEAR postdoc in American history at Cambridge up for grabs - ANY field, but applications are due March 1 so don't delay - apply, apply, apply! networks.h-net.org/jobs/69790/u...
The biggest upheaval in UK science policy since the 1980s is currently underway, with the creation of a much more direct & explicit link between UK government priorities & £9bn/ yr of R&D funded by the agency UKRI
My attempt to explain & set in historical context
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Archaeological interpretations beyond demonstrating that this approach has potential for detecting subsurface structures, it is regrettable that we included a citation to an unreliable source, but we certainly are engaging with disciplinary experts in follow-on work.
We show that there are some vegetation indices that correlate with the gravity signal across the tunnel, and most of the paper is devoted to this analysis and the development of a workflow for future work. In the context of a paper in an Earth Observation that cites 149 references and makes no ..
Thanks for the cautionary note. The primary purpose of the paper was to test whether there are any correlations between Vegetation Indices derived from multi-spectral satellite imagery and geophysical data (gravity, ground-penetrating radar), at a known control site, where there is a shallow tunnel.
Photograph inside a stone-walled tunnel with one end open to the light. This structure is called a fogou, and is thought to have been constructed in the Iron Age. Location - Carn Euny ancient village, Cornwall. Thanks to English Heritage and Historic England Southwest for permissions.
New paper from Adam Morley shows that some vegetation anomalies in multi-spectral satellite data correlate with geophysical data, and can be used to identify buried archaeological structures like tunnels and drains, with examples from Cornwall and Normandy.
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Poster showing our profile picture (stylized logo of Scientific Ocean Drilling) over a set of five photos: a thin section, a row of cores, a microbiology lab, an ice sheet, and the derrick of the ship at sunrise.
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Romanticists and Long Eighteenth Centuryists — there’s an Associate Professorship (or Professorship) being advertised, a joint appointment with St Peter’s College.
www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DQK016/a...
Schematic summary of the eruptive history of Kolumbo Volcano.
🚨Check out our new IODP paper on Kolumbo Volcano in Greece. Despite being one of Europe's most dangerous volcanoes not much is known about its eruptive history. The paper led by @abigaillily.bsky.social adds important insight into the Kolumbo-Santorini system
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Delightful video explainer from @sofiadellasala.bsky.social and @oxfordsparks.bsky.social about a research expedition to the deep sea floor of #Santorini's caldera during the HYDROMOX project led by @isobelyeo.bsky.social and funded by @ukri.org
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