🚨New paper!

Our latest study, led by Sophie Vineberg, integrates proximal & distal tephra records to reveal the timing and dispersal of large explosive eruptions at Aso volcano (Japan) 🌋

🔗 doi.org/10.1016/j.jvolgeores.2025.108436

#tephra #volcanology #Aso #Japan #LakeSuigetsu #tephrochronology

👋 Hello, Bluesky! We’re Radiocarbon, an international peer-reviewed journal (since 1959) dedicated to advancing radiocarbon research, from calibration and chronology to applications across archaeology, geology, environmental science, and more. We’re glad to be here. #Radiocarbon #Geochronology

Nice one McKenzie, @lorenabecval.bsky.social et al.! 😊 📄

Good news for those of us juggling busy schedules —
the deadline for submitting conference abstracts has been extended to April 22.

radiocarbon25.agh.edu.pl/en/about/inf...

Recent Advances in the use of Stable Isotopes in Environmental Science Professor Melanie Leng presents the Battarbee Lecture 2025 on advances in stable isotopes and their applications in environmental science.

Stable isotopes: Small atoms, big discoveries!

From ancient climates to modern ecosystems, stable isotopes reveal hidden stories in nature. Want to learn more?

Join Professor @meljleng.bsky.social for the Battarbee Lecture 2025 on 8 May.

🕔 5–6 PM | Free event

New Episode! | The Mystery of the Standing Stone | Time Team X Crew YouTube video by Time Team Official

We dated some charcoal for @timeteam.bsky.social, and it showed that the standing stone at Farley Moor was indeed Bronze Age. Lovely to see how the project came together! www.youtube.com/watch?v=RtCM...

Snap! 🃏🃏😊

A reminder that the deadline for the next application round to access NEIF facilities is the 26th March 2025. Applicants must discuss projects with the relevant NEIF laboratory prior to submission. Applications are submitted online via the NEIF Application Portal - www.isotopesuk.org/apply.html

For something a bit more lighthearted. www.bluey.tv/blog/watch-a...

Well...
It seems like that might be the precursor to dancing?! 🍹 💃 😊

Where's the video of you dancing, Emma? 💃 😉
Congratulations on the paper acceptance! 😊 📝

Congratulations Jamie! 🍾 😊 🏆
@oxradiocarbon.bsky.social

The Radiocarbon Dating Process - the Journey of a Sample YouTube video by University of Oxford

📢The School of Archaeology proudly presents: the #radiocarbon dating process - 🎞️⭐: Dr Rachel Wood, Jamie Cameron, Gary Lai, Shutong Jin, Silvia Tardaguila Giacomozzi & Nikta Sarie. #archaeologicalscience #womeninstem #lablife @ox.ac.uk @socsci.ox.ac.uk @graduate.ox.ac.uk youtu.be/xQka8ohWLFo?...

If Trump was President in 1940

Word of the day is ‘huff-snuff’ (16th century): a hectoring bully or braggart.

This is thuggery from Trump and Vance, plain and simple.

They are bullying the brave true patriot Zelensky into accepting a deal which effectively hands victory to Russia. Unless the UK and Europe step up, we are facing a betrayal of Ukraine.

Short Course in Radiocarbon Dating and Bayesian Chronological Analysis Developed by the NERC Radiocarbon Facility, this course is aimed at researchers using radiocarbon and other techniques, including Quaternary geologists, palaeobiologists, archaeologists and marine geo...

Registration for the Radiocarbon Short Course will close 28/02. Come along if you would like to learn a bit more about radiocarbon as a dating technique or as a tracer, or you would like some training on OxCal; conted.ox.ac.uk/courses/shor... @unioxarchaeology.bsky.social
@isotopesuk.bsky.social

The thing about being a scientist, and a casual runner, is that the latter provides an opportunity to quantify the ageing process...

I.e., precisely "HOW MUCH SLOWER am I now, compared to when I was in my prime?", rather than just a qualitative feeling of "ooh, that didn't used to ache"... 🤨

Me running up a fairly steep incline, giving thumbs up to the camera guy... despite being an hour and 27 minutes in to my run.

Me, crossing the finish line in a somewhat anguished and dishevelled state!

My finish time, 1 hour 39 minutes... and one second.

Wooden half marathon medal.

A new season's best for the half marathon! 🥇🏃‍♂️

And yes, it still counts even though it's my first race of the year! 😝

#CarsingtonWater #RunThroughUK

📣 UGs in archaeology, geography and Earth science 📣 Considering a PhD? Join our lab @oxfordtephra.bsky.social this summer on a 7-week long research internship 🌋. Stipended & with accommodation. Deadline Feb 19th. Application details and eligibility criteria: www.ox.ac.uk/admissions/g...

SUERC

Excited to share that SUERC has successfully renewed its Athena SWAN Bronze Award from @advancehe.bsky.social This achievement reflects our ongoing commitment to advancing gender equality and fostering an inclusive environment for all at the Centre.

A magazine of targets (or cathodes) from the IonPlus MICADAS AMS after measurement for radiocarbon dating at the ORAU

Does your project need some 14C dates? The next deadline for NEIF is 26th March. Please get in contact if you are thinking of applying. Open to PIs, post-docs and students. 1-99 dates. You can even come to the lab to work on your own samples if you'd like. www.isotopesuk.org/apply.html

I don't remember Newsweek taking that photo of me! 👇🤔

(Sorry! 🙄)

Complete with traffic cone, obviously...!
🚧 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

A photo of Lake Toya - the caldera-forming eruption has been dated using the Lake Suigetsu sedimentary sequence to 108.1 ± 3.9 ka (±1σ)

What have we been up to?💥 Have you seen our recent publications...

Sophie Vineberg and the
#LakeSuigetsu Members have published a new detailed record of Japanese eruptions between 120 - 50 ka🇯🇵, with forty-one crypto/ #tephra layers (!!) characterised and dated 🕰️

See here: doi.org/10.1016/j.qu...

If you are interested in coming to do doctoral research in the #tephra group, apply for this fully funded doctoral program. bsky.app/profile/iles...
We have various research projects in a range of interesting locations and happy to discuss these so please get in touch if you are interested! 🌋🔬🥼🧑‍🔬

Curious about doing a PhD? Looking to gain some laboratory experience?

Applications are now OPEN for 2025 UNIQ+ postgraduate research internships at Oxford University. Our lab has two fantastic tephra projects available! Application closing date is 19 February.

www.ox.ac.uk/admissions/g...

The Oxford Radiocarbon Accelerator Unit have joined BlueSky! Very happy to be here. We'll continue to post a little on the other place (esp. NEIF deadlines and jobs), but hope to transition over here.

Are you interested in a research degree in life or environmental science? We offer 4 year PhD studentships which cover your course fees and provide a tax-free living grant plus funding for project costs and travel. Find out more & register for our virtual open day @ www.ilesla.ox.ac.uk

I don't think it's just #Archaeology...
#Academia more generally?
Society, more generally?

I've been reflecting on the Gregg Wallace stuff and been so triggered in relation to my own experiences in academia from a decade ago (ok - you win - in archaeological academia, more specifically!)... 😪