Screenshot of an abstract in Area by Jeremy Schmidt, Mary Lawhon, Jonathan Darling & Eli Lazarus (2025) entitled 'Areas of opportunity' Short Abstract This editorial introduces Area's new editorial team and offers a collective sense of why Area continues to be an important outlet for geographical scholarship.

📢New Editorial in Area📢

Our new editorial team, @jeremyjschmidt.bsky.social, @jonnydarling.bsky.social, @envidynxlab.bsky.social & Mary Lawhon, have written their first editorial outlining their ambitions for the journal - have a read here⬇️

doi.org/10.1111/area... #geosky

Second job alert! We just opened a tenure-track junior professor position at @cerege.bsky.social focusing on Pleistocene and Holocene paleoenvironments and population dynamics.
emploi.cnrs.fr/Offres/CPJ/C...
Contact me if you are interested!

@massobsarchive.bsky.social @massobscritical.bsky.social @bloomsburyhist.bsky.social

🛰️ Summer School in Geospatial & AI
📍 hosted by Southampton Geospatial @unisouthampton.bsky.social
📅 14–18 July 2025
🔗 go.soton.ac.uk/h4y
⏳ Deadline: 30 June 2025
Course explores AI & deep learning methods and real-world geospatial data challenges

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Applications are now open for the EGU Science Journalism Fellowship 2025!

Up to €5000 awarded to #journalists reporting on ongoing #research in Earth, planetary, or space sciences.

Apply Now!

📆 Deadline: 17 June 2025.
👉 Learn more: egu.eu/783DX3

The Anthropocene Laboratory is hiring: 3 postdocs - Anthropocene Lab

My colleagues at
The Anthropocene Laboratory
at Swedish Royal Academy in Stockholm

are hiring:
3 postdocs
www.anthropocenelab.se/news/the-ant...

and
2 researchers
www.anthropocenelab.se/news/the-ant...

Figure 1 from Toomey, M., Ashton, A. D., & Perron, J. T. (2013) Profiles of ocean island coral reefs controlled by sea-level history and carbonate accumulation rates. Geology, 41(7), 731-734. Figure shows examples of various carbonate reef systems arrayed as a function of an ecomorphodynamic feedback between relative sea-level forcing and reef growth rates.

Thinking of @drkingothebeach.bsky.social today: teaching Toomey et al. (2013: doi.org/10.1130/G341...) [one of my all-time favourite papers] and Ortiz & Ashton (2019: doi.org/10.1016/j.ma...) as we near the end of this year's @sotongeogenviron.bsky.social Y2 coastal module.

Black tile with a quotation taken from the introduction to this Special Section on 'Rivers as Borders' by Kanesu, Lamb & McGrath (2025): "As dynamic, multidimensional moving environments, rivers are not suitable for rigidly defining and delimiting geographical space"

Seven tiles on a black background listing the papers in this Special Section: 1) Rivers as borders? Navigating in-between the tensions of water-state-society geographies Rebekka Kanesu, Vanessa Lamb & Eva McGrath 2) Median line: A century of border violence and the alluvial geopolitics of the Evros/Meric/Maritsa River border Ifor Duncan & Stefanos Levidis 3) Slow violence on the Yarmouk River: Encounters form the river-border environments Muna Dajani 4) Migrating sands: Refocusing transboundary flows from water to sediment C.R. Hackney 5) Crossing riverborderscapes and a view from in-between: Passenger ferries in South West England Eva McGrath, Richard Yarwood & Nichola Harmer 6) Liquid lines: Exploring the Moselle River between France, Luxembourg and Germany Rebekka Kanesu 7) Caring for the river-border: Struggles and opportunities along the Salween River-border Vanessa Lamb

New Special Section in Area!

'Rivers as Borders', edited by Rebekka Kanesu, @drvanessalamb.bsky.social & Eva McGrath, features 6 #OpenAccess papers on river-borders from the Yarmouk and Salween to the Moselle and Torridge.

Read all papers here ⬇️
rgs-ibg.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/toc/10.1... #geo

Title: SOME GRAMMATICAL VOICES FOR USE IN SCIENTIFIC WRITING ACTIVE VOICE e.g. Our team collected samples and then we tested them. CLICKBAIT VOICE e.g. We collected some samples... You won't believe what happened next! PASSIVE VOICE e.g. Samples were collected and tested. HAIKU VOICE e.g. Quiet science lab. Workers arrive with samples. The testing begins. PASSIVE-AGGRESSIVE VOICE e.g. We did all the collecting and testing. No need to thank us. Just doing our job. CONSPIRACY VOICE e.g. Mysterious "Samples" were harvested and covertly "tested" by so-called scientists.

My latest @newscientist.com cartoon

Tenure Track Assistant or Associate Professor in Environmental Hydraulics and/or Ecohydrological modelling at the University of Oulu, Finland. Apply by 19 May. See also: csdms.colorado.edu/wiki/Jobs

Emergence of wind ripples controlled by mechanics of grain–bed impacts - Nature Geoscience Numerical simulations suggest the wavelength of wind ripples is controlled by the mechanics of grain–bed impacts, not grain hop length, explaining why ripples on Mars and Earth are the same scale desp...

Conner Lester and his colleagues offer a clear, thorough rendering of the statistical physics of impact ripples. Conner recently completed his PhD at Duke. His thesis should be available online soon.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Can’t believe the lithified ripples, right there, looking like a footprint…

Dark, ashy wildfire sediment still sits on L.A beaches. But there's no health risk, officials say Ashy wildfire sediment on Los Angeles County beaches does not contain chemicals at a level that pose a danger to human health, the public health department says.

Dark, ashy wildfire sediment still sits on L.A beaches. But there's no health risk, officials say

Vote for the best of the internet I just voted in The Webby People's Voice Awards and checked my voter registration.

SFI’s Complexity podcast is up for a Webby Award!

Nominated in the Science & Education category, Episode 2 of the most recent season explores the relationship between language and thought with guests Evelina Federenko, Steve Piantadosi, and Gary Lupyan.

vote.webbyawards.com/PublicVoting...

3-year postdoc here in Geography at Durham working on sand extraction with Dr. Laura Schoenberger: durham.taleo.net/careersectio...

In Key West, testing shows cruise ships stir up as much sediment as a hurricane Tests in Key West show sediment stirred up by cruise ships, which can harm marine life, routinely exceed federal standards. Key West has responded by suspending the tests.

A few weeks ago, I shared with the students of my “International Tourism” course this interesting, but worrisome, article. Key West in Florida has been studying how cruise ships docking affect the quality of water: it stirs up as much as sediment as a hurricane.

www.npr.org/transcripts/...

Logos for The British Academy and Green Park Job title: Director of Communications Location: 10-11 Carlton House Terrace, SW1Y 5AH Reports to: Chief Executive

OK folks - will you please help me spread this far and wide. A really exciting opportunity to be the new Director of Comms at @britishacademy.bsky.social - the national academy for humanities and social sciences. £100k. Lovely team. Reports directly to me
micro.green-park.co.uk/thebritishac...

Work led by Alice Puppin shows that tidal-channel abandonment (due to stream captures or meander cutoff) leads to rapid C accumulation.
"Rapid Infill of Abandoned Tidal Channels Creates Hotspots for Blue-Carbon Accumulation in Coastal Wetlands"
agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/...

And we played home-built, retro-aesthetic arcade video games too👀🚜🌊🏝️

Similar happenings. Was feeling optimistic about some newfound strength - but realised the shirt is 20 years old. 😞

Flyer for trio of seminars delivered at the Dipt of Geoscienze (Padova).

Was an absolute pleasure to be @unipd.bsky.social Dipt di Geoscienze last week with @alvitello.bsky.social & others. A hat-trick of seminars (with special thanks to the admin team for advert), lots of time set aside for head-scratching at the board, and delicious food at every turn. The 🤌 best 🤌.

Africa is seeing "carbon grabs" by foreign firms, warns the head of the African Development Bank.

Read more: bit.ly/4cmmgxX

U.S.D.A. Freezes Funding for Maine Amid Battle Over Transgender Athletes The administration concluded last month that Maine had violated federal law by allowing transgender athletes to play on girls’ or women’s teams.

There's a lot going on, God knows, but don't miss that the President of the United States is using the full force of the Federal government, as well as tax dollars, to punish a state because its Governor... refused to do as he instructed.

www.nytimes.com/2025/04/02/u...

Addressing food insecurity through better food aid and improved collaboration at University of Southampton on FindAPhD.com PhD Project - Addressing food insecurity through better food aid and improved collaboration at University of Southampton, listed on FindAPhD.com

Want to do a PhD with @nisreenalwan.bsky.social and me on food aid and working to make this system better for those who need to use it? Fully funded, make it your own, more details here: www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
#PhDfunding #foodaid #foodinsecurity #healthgeography #food

SFI welcomes C. Brandon Ogbunu to Resident Faculty Over the past three years, C. Brandon Ogbunu has become a familiar face at SFI as an External Professor. In February, he joined SFI as a part-time Resident Professor.

“Discoveries,” Ogbunu says, “are made when you borrow ideas from certain disciplines and carefully and responsibly combine them.”
www.santafe.edu/news-center/...

That’s a typical number of reviewers for an ERC, in my experience (and anecdotally from others).

❄️🌊Nice write-up of a Nature Climate Change paper by Jan Kavan et al. on coast development as Arctic glaciers recede. Includes some commentary from me. Enjoyed peer-reviewing the NCC article, writing a 'news and views' piece, and speaking to @ayeshatandon.carbonbrief.org about it all to top it off.

Lagrangian modelling reveals sediment pathways at evolving coasts - Scientific Reports Scientific Reports - Lagrangian modelling reveals sediment pathways at evolving coasts

Where do the sand grains from a beach nourishment go? Check out Bart van Westen's latest paper on the application of our SedTRAILS model to the Sand Engine: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
@deltares.bsky.social @tudelftceg.bsky.social

An open cardboard box containing paperback copies of a book entitles making sense of chaos

Paperback copies of my book have arrived in the office! They'll be available in UK stores/online from April 24.
#MakingSenseOfChaos