Glad to see all the work folks have put in to getting testate amoebae into @neotomadb.bsky.social is paying off! Great new paper about their use as paleoecological indicators: doi.org/10.1016/j.qu... #paleoecology
Offered. Are they accepting?
NEW - North Vancouver RCMP is investigating after an explosive device went off beside MLA Bowinn Ma’s office in North Vancouver-Lonsdale. NDP MLAs have been told to close their constituency offices today. #bcpoli
Are all dog’s teeth canines? How do dentanarians even know which tooth to work on?
Interesting bibliometric analysis of #palynology papers and NeotomaDB datasets noting that papers per year has peaked, but the number of international coauthorships has grown, suggesting that the field has reached a new stage of maturity journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.... @neotomadb.bsky.social
À group photo of he participants from Australia
I had a fantastic week at the Karst Record #KR10 conference in Cape Town 🇿🇦. Sharing the joy of #speleomag and learning all about cave rocks science! Thanks @pickeringrobyn.bsky.social and the organisers ⭐️. 3 awards went to #unimelb students!
Many UK #peatlands are degraded due to historical drainage, reduced #biodiversity, #carbon and water storage. New findings show testate amoebae as #bioindicators for tracking habitat peatland and #restoration
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Hahah, the smell is burned into my memory.
A screenshot from the Bonsai Care app. The screen shows a list of bonsai and the tasks that need to be done. The list is long, indicating spring is coming soon.
My #bonsai app is reminding me it’s spring! Lots of work to do when I get home.
Microsfossils. The most exciting is the small shrew tooth, the brown one third from the top.
Fossil bed. Most of these are the now extinct short necked long horned giraffe, of which they've found 300 individuals!
An artists rendition of the short necked giraffe. Made from driftwood collected nearby. Note the eucalypt tail!
Excellent mid-week field trip to the West Coast Fossil Park today! The fossil beds are incredible, I had a lot of fun picking through sediment in their sieves for microfossils. Found a shrew tooth, which was pretty exciting!
The short necked giraffe is a […]
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People standing on a raised walkways above a collapsed gallery in sterkfontein cave. The sun is out, and the sky has some puffy white clouds.
A collapsed cave, showing some dolomite mixed with infilled sediments. The sediments are FULL of fossils.
Large cave decorations - huge stalactites and shawls line a wall. The calcite is white and shining, and the formations are bigger than you can imagine.
Day 2 of the #KR10 field trip took us to three caves in the cradle. Sterkfontein (home of famous australopithecus' little foot and Mrs Ples), Coopers (we got to get into the deposit and look for fossils - SO MANY!) And Wonder - the biggest formations I've […]
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A workshop group learning about the integration of speleothem data from SISAL into the Neotoma Paleoecology Database. People are arranged around a square table, while the presented talks.
Really exciting to see the SISAL and speleothem community working with @neotomadb.bsky.social to improve a whole-environment understanding of the past! #kr10 #paleoecology #paleoclimatology
Happy to see that our recent work has been featured in this article out now in @eos.org !!
Yep.
🚨Job alert🚨
Ongoing hydrogeology position at #UWA, open to international applicants.
https://internal.jobs.uwa.edu.au/en/job/519834/lecturer-hydrogeology
#AcademicChatter #FediJobs #GetFediHired
I think this work would be really interesting to do with @neotomadb.bsky.social. We have site locations and linked publications through the database. Let me know if you’re interested support!
Great talk by @pickeringrobyn.bsky.social at #kr10 talking about issues of neo-colonialism in karst & speleothem research. Includes this cool paper looking at volcanology: doi.org/10.30909/vol... @pages-ipo.bsky.social
Super cool work on outreach at #kr10 go do a virtual cave tour in Thailand: www.geo.sc.chula.ac.th/virtual/klan...
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Just saw this really cool paper using paleoecological data to discuss conservation issues around settlement in Madagascar.
Good pollen, great multiproxy #palaeoecology #paleoecology
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Any soundtrack with Jane Siberry gets my vote.
Hey, my friend is collecting data for her dissertation. Can y'all repost this and share with your networks that work with the youth? Thanks!
Will Signal ban their accounts for breaking the law? It's in the TOS after all.
The idea that I’m a “big shot” really just serves to reinforce my imposter syndrome 😂
Holy crap-o-saurus! This is really impressive! Amazing job!
Apologies for missing a couple talks by Silvia Frisia and Adam Hartland. Listening to Gang Xue now, talking about 14C in speleothems from dissolved and carbonate ages. Ages are consistently older than U-series dates because of old soil carbon pools. #kr10 @pages-ipo.bsky.social
Really cool stuff from @arachnocampa.bsky.social talking about sources of detrital Th into caves that can impact U-Th dating. The challenges of working in places where humans, tephra, coconut crabs and seismology exist (aka, everywhere).
Now @arachnocampa.bsky.social talking about dating difficult speleothems at #kr10.
Nice to start the day off with geochronology!
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Now Christopher Kinsley talking about Curaçao stalagmites and the IBIS Bayesian approach for age-depth models in U-Th dating. Learning lots about how we need to modify our age modeling tables in @neotomadb.bsky.social! #kr10 @pages-ipo.bsky.social @pickeringrobyn.bsky.social
One thing I’ve already learned at #kr10 that really surprised me is that most work is done on stalagmites, because the interaction between flow-water and the cave atmosphere is a critical element in capturing the climate signal. I’ll have to learn more, but I think that’s the gist 😅
Cool talk by Denis Scholz about geochronology, laminae counting and Monte Carlo simulation. Now Georgina Luti talking about petrography and the dating of the Cradle of Humankind. #kr10 @pages-ipo.bsky.social @pickeringrobyn.bsky.social
