Let the science begin!
Spring has sprung in Antarctica, our aircraft have landed, and #RRSSirDavidAttenborough leaves the UK tomorrow.
This season our teams will deliver more than 60 science projects at research stations, on the ship, and in remote deep field and marine locations.
🧵 1/4
A headshot of a woman looking at the camera. There is a round map of Antarctica behind her.
"As a human being, I have so much trouble trying to think about the magnitude of the sea-level rise, that I’m not sure I have the capacity to really think it through."
📸Tom Pilston/The Guardian
Love ❤️ this!
Trust me? 🤔 I’m speaking at the CIPR East Anglia 2025 Conference on the challenges and responsibilities of communicating science in an age of misinformation.
📅 16 September 2025
📍 Cambridge
🎟 Book your place: www.cipr.co.uk/CIPR/Events/...
Early bird tickets available until 1 July 2025.
Delighted that the fab @bas.ac.uk Communications team (modest of course!) has been shortlisted for a @cipr.co.uk Excellence Award for our work on the Ticket to Antarctica 🇦🇶 campaign 🙌
Join our award-winning communications team! We’re looking for a talented web manager to curate the new @bas.ac.uk website.
Are you doing science? Or just whale watching? 🤣😉🐋
That is such a good response. I’ll be using that next time I’m asked…
My communications roadshow of the north concludes 🙌
4 x talks over 3 days at universities in Leeds, Newcastle and Durham, about what comms looks like in 2025. It was a treat to talk to and advise some of the brightest ⭐️ minds in polar science.
If you were there, remember you are the expert 💪
Thwaites Glacier in West #Antarctica would add 65cm to global sea levels if it melted. Great explainer thread from BAS colleague @polarrobs.bsky.social
Add this to your podcast playlist! Great stories from our people about living and doing science in Antarctica. Even after 25 years in this job, I learn so much from listening to Iceworld ❄️🧊📚
Very cool news and views from BAS space weather guru Richard Horne about the discovery of chorus waves in space 💥
Phew, It’s been quite a week! Everyone loved our recruitment drive on Blue Monday about ‘seriously remote work in Antarctica’ 🇦🇶 my favourite article was about the Captain of RRS Sir David Attenborough, a colleague I have huge respect for. Read this and smile! www.theguardian.com/environment/...
A23a has finally escaped the vortex! 🏊♀️🌀
The biggest iceberg in the world is on the move again after a casual half-year sabbatical spent spinning in circles.
Our @magic.bas.ac.uk colleagues have illustrated A23's super circuitous 2024 journey via satellite imagery ⬇️
www.bas.ac.uk/media-post/w...
A warm and cosy Christmas dinner at King Edward Point Research Station. Around 20 people sit at a large and busy table heaving with glowing candles and trays of food.
Did someone say 'White Christmas'?
Almost certainly, for folks at our stations in Antarctica and on the RRS Sir David Attenborough!
Christmas in Antarctica means operations and science projects are in full swing - but there's still time for fun ⬇️
www.bas.ac.uk/media-post/s...
📸 Alastair Wilson
