Ahhhh my mum and sister are at the evening performance (I got them tickets for their respective birthdays)!! I hope it was spectacular. ✨✨

You forgot the can of Stella.

I think the pampas grass would make it bad vibes, have you considered a less overwhelming grass for your bisection?

The news has been more than a bit grim of late, so hooray for @carbonbrief.org providing some genuine and really meaningful **good** news: the UK's carbon emissions in 2024 were the lowest since 1872, because demand for fossil fuels just keeps decreasing.

www.carbonbrief.org/analysis-uk-...

If I had ever enjoyed a single sports autobiography I would be tempted to read this, but they’re all rubbish. The only good thing I’ve ever learnt from a sports biography is that Rio Ferdinand almost became a baller dancer.

My dad and brother went on a stag do this weekend and all I got was the greatest fridge magnet ever.

Thank you ever so much, I’m absolutely chuffed. ☺️✨

Apologies, I did not appreciate how well-networked you are in the mud nerd community, but it makes sense given you have always been such an advocate for our crucial work.

Your favourite mud doctor, now award winning! 😎😎

Thank you Cathy, it’s been such a lovely surprise! ☺️✨

Thanks Abi! ❤️✨

The sun is shining and there’s cricket on the radio? Very grateful for this little slice of summer in February. 🌞🙏

Transcription of the image, because I forgot to add one (apologies!): "It is rather jolly this writing about matters non-scientific— let’s give up Science when you have done the 3 vols & take to gossip".

Hooker telling Darwin that they should abandon science and turn to gossip is very relatable, actually. www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter?docId...

The deep-sea 'emergency service' that keeps the internet running Ninety-nine percent of the world's digital communications rely on subsea cables. Fixing them keeps us all connected – and has changed our understanding of the ocean.

I have been thinking a lot recently on how little of the Earth humanity leaves untouched. The dense network of undersea cables that connects us all is fascinating. Really enjoyed this article. www.bbc.co.uk/future/artic...

I’ve been adding slowly to my #Quaternary science starter pack but aware lots have joined since I made it. It is (not accidentally) biased toward female scientists, so in case you need to diversify your follows, take a look!
Keep sending suggestions - I’m happy to add you/them.
go.bsky.app/71XJ4jH

Crashed ✨Dr✨ Sophie Vineberg’s viva celebrations @oxfordtephra.bsky.social yesterday. Sophie’s PhD adds to the amazing tephra work being done on Lake Suigetsu, so I made her some lake/tephra themed earrings. I don’t think jewellery making is my calling, but it’s the thought that counts, right?

My mum’s chickens forced you to post this, didn’t they?

The trunk, head and dorsal hump of a mammoth drawn in black outline. A silhouette of a hand, painted in red placed within and partially over it. On the beige, scratched wall of a limestone cave

The juxtaposition of a mammoth reduced to the barest line, with the most human of symbols in blood-red ochre.
Yes, there is probably something to decode, but first it's important to share the awe that human art can persist for such spans of time.
That we can still encounter it.
Chauvet ~32,000
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The 1st February is St Brigid’s day, celebrated in Ireland as the first day of spring. Sometimes called Imbolc, it sits midway between the winter solstice and the spring equinox. I have decided this is my new years’ day. The seasons are turning, and life begins anew.

Not again, Gordo!! You really need to stop doing this.

I am out of practice, and I’ve forgotten how to #post. It’s a great tragedy.

Éowyn was wheely up to no good in Leeds (I’m sorry, I’ve been sat on this pun all day).

Was rummaging through my PhD thesis LaTeX code to dig out a neat little package I used, and I am a bit obsessed with all these cute little notes I left myself as I was writing. Also, NYE 2019 Amy had NO IDEA what was around the corner.

Catch me imminently wearing it for the school run (no, I don’t have children, someone will have to lend me some).

Deep snow in West Yorkshire! I wore my dryrobe for a non-swimming adventure for the first time and no regrets.