Clare Warren

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Calling sedimentary-types! All applications welcome

Great new visual about Geodiversity published recently!

Welcome 2025 PGR Adventure Begins You are the OU

Welcome to all our postgraduate researchers! You are what makes us a University.

The Open University Planning fieldwork and data collection, including travel arrangements and risk assessments, are largely managed in the Faculties. What follows are some general advice and training links. Good overall…

Embarking on your fieldwork soon? We've added a checklist and timeline to our fieldwork and gathering data page: www5.open.ac.uk/students/res...

An local park with trees, paths and other infrastructure.

We have a Research Experience Placement with Dr Phil Wheeler advertised for this summer via @centa.bsky.social:
centa.ac.uk/centa-resear...

Project title: Using 3D models from smartphone video to
assess urban tree crown volume

UKCGE | The Student Experience of the Viva This online discussion session will examine the experiences of doctoral candidates during the viva. The session will open with a summary of the findings…

Booking now: this online discussion session on June 12th (free for members) will examine the experiences of doctoral candidates during the viva. ukcge.ac.uk/events/t...

Thanks to the @floodplainmead.bsky.social team for hosting a group from @ougradsch.bsky.social last week! We learned loads of botanical facts and it's always lovely to put some of our students' rather abstract PhD titles into context 🤩

They're only published in my thesis but were never a big enough story to publish in their own right. I can send you my thesis if you can DM me your email? Not sure if it's online...

Colour SEM photomicrograph of two crinoid stem plates

Field photograph of crinoid stem piece, 1 cm long, in orange-brown dolomite

SEM close-up of crinoid stem.plates showing crenulated joints

Field photograph of eclogite at As Sifah, Oman, showing magic eclogite boudin on the left, enveloping calc schists on right, and 1-2m crinoid-bearing orange dolomite unit in between

@geologyjohnson.bsky.social Finally... These crinoid photos took a bit of digging to find! Field photo (crinoidal dolomite sits between eclogite and cacl schist), close up in field, and SEM images. Eclogite-facies crinoids!

Sadly not this year!

Hope you're having fun! Sorry only just caught up with this and suspect I'll have to wave from a distance! Hope all going well!

Are you in Cambridge all weekend? It would be lovely to catch up.... I'm not far away

I do! I'll dig them out! Or find my thesis, whichever is quickest!!

I found well-preserved crinoid fragments in a dolomite in Oman that had reached eclogite-fancies conditions of 550C and about 2.2GPa... beautiful!

Will do, thanks for the heads up!
Sadly the Bora design was discontinued, 35l was such a useful size! Fits exactly 26kg of eclogite 😂

Oooh I didn't know Arcteryx do free repairs. I adore my 19 yr old Bora 35 which is now seriously the worse for wear but still used for geo trips and shopping! But the top zip is busted. Will investigate!!
I like my newer Osprey pack but it's still my "smart" one and not been tested on rocks (yet)

I live in hope 😂

Well done Lou! Clearly highly deserved 🥳🥳

A beauty!

I chair Panel C- please get in touch if you want to know more or have any questions about what serving on a panel involves 🙂

An image of one of the BGS laboratories. In the centre of the image (which is curved with a fisheye lens) is a computer with a scientific image on the screen.

BGS is looking for new members to join our NERC Facilities Steering Committees over the next 4 years. We are looking for people from a wide range of scientific disciplines, at different career stages.

Deadline for submissions is 5pm on March 14th 2025.

www.bgs.ac.uk/news/call-fo...

Lots in here that I am sure will resonate with many PhD students.

Can I hold you to that promise, Lou? 😁

Authored by our very own @zjayres.bsky.social! A very useful read due everyone involved in supporting post-grad research, not just the students!

Without technicians, I wouldn't ever have been able to collect any research data. They perform an absolutely critical function in research and need valuing and appreciating more

The role of universities in supporting technical pathways and the delivery of innovation - The Productivity Institute A commentary on the critical role of technicians in boosting productivity and innovation.

My piece for @productivity.bsky.social about the importance of technicians. We won't deliver growth and opporotunity without enough of them in our labs and across universities and schools. It's an urgent conversation to have www.productivity.ac.uk/news/the-rol...

Congratulations to Sam Gould, a PhD student with Open Thanatology, for winning the Faculty Postgraduate Award recently. Sam works at Sobell House Hospice as part of Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, and they've written a news item about Sam's work! www.ouh.nhs.uk/research/new...

Group of around 25 people standing in front of a tree sculpture made up of gold shields

Welcome to @openuniversity.bsky.social new PhD students! We have loved hearing about your varied and fascinating research projects and look forward to supporting you.

@oulibrary.bsky.social
@oustudents.bsky.social
@geologyclare.bsky.social

MSG RiP 2025 The Metamorphic Studies Group Research in Progress (RiP) meeting will be held in Liverpool, UK, on April 9-10th, 2025. Registration for the RiP meeting, the MAGEMin workshop (April 8th, 2024), and …

The Metamorphic Studies Group Research in Progress (RiP) meeting and related events will be held in Liverpool, UK, on April 8-11th, 2025. Registration deadline is February 20th, 2025.; see the MSG website for more.
metamorphicstudiesgroup.wordpress.com/msg-rip-2024/

Regards
John