Dr (of rocks) Marcus Badger

Very cool map of historic floodplain meadows by @floodplainmead.bsky.social - giving insights into lost habitats and places that will need restoring if we're to become more climate resilient:

floodplainmeadows.org.uk/discover/lea...

Evaluating the Reliability of Grain‐Size Sorting for Organic Biomarker Analysis We investigate the potential of using grain-size sorted marine sediments for biomarker analysis GDGT distributions are consistent regardless of grain-size sorting, and fine-grained sediment fract...

New paper out in Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology: We used Cenozoic-spanning marine sediments to determine whether archived grain-size sorted sediments can be resurrected for biomarker analysis.
Great to see my first piece of PhD work published, available #openaccess: doi.org/10.1029/2025...

Barkley Results

The #BM100 sheet has a 2026 tab now!
- Not a primary source, and neither are most of its sources, WILL contain misinformation
- Don't share screenshots, share the link, so people see corrections
- Refresh the page manually even if it says it can do it automatically
docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

The conch was blown at 5:00am. The 2026 Barkley Marathons begins in one hour. #BM100

It’s possible to reduce emissions while growing the economy. Many countries have decoupled economic growth from CO₂ emissions, even if we take offshored production into account.

You can see this in the chart for a selection of large economies.

As a geologist, as it comes up as a debate on our student forums quite often, I have searched "what is a rock?" more than you might think.

Brutal but beautiful: Southbank Centre’s Grade II listing is the cherry on a concrete cake As one of the longest running battles in British heritage comes to an end, the listing of the London arts complex vindicates the audacity of this sensational droogs’ paradise

Brutal but beautiful: Southbank Centre’s Grade II listing is the cherry on a concrete cake

You know it's Sunday right?

It's an alternative pirate flag: "Rrrrr"

There are many ways to expand this list just so long as you don't include Reading for some reason.

Me too (and I still do). It also features the Hermit of the Southern March, who is the character I would most like to be in the series.

@morethanadodo.bsky.social have a stuffed American black bear that you are encouraged to touch. I always do. It is very soft.

Tch-verch-chess

I think the band are on record as regretting the spelling.

The people who do it for OU have it written phonetically on their order paper and you can spot them leaning over to check some of the trickier ones with the graduands. It's a nice touch.

I love my editors. "I have written this thing which says essentially what I want it to but is an incoherent mess please fix" is the subtext of most of my writing.

Well that's caused me to learn a fun new thing. Thankyou.

The day I realised that listening to radio 4 was bad for my wellbeing and switched to 3, 6 and KEXP was a good day.

There you go:

(Also important to remember that the 1.5 °C threshold is a decadal average too, so we're not there yet)

I think the issue is as you identified they *don't* really age at the same rate - they catch up because everyone 30-50 is essentially the same. We've hit the plateau and they've hurried up behind.

Yup. I grew up in a village and my grandad was a game keeper. I hate fox hunting and so did he.

I'm a scientist. It's Sunday, so today I went sailing and cooked a smoked haddock and kipper tart.

Well aren't you awful.

Lovely datavis!

Do they still use prison labour to make them?

And that Lord Kelvin, with his heat flux methodology of 1862 was almost as many orders of magnitude out as Ussher.

13!? Who wants a phone 0.2 mm too thick??

In the footsteps of giants - BBC News One of the longest sets of dinosaur footprints in the world has been discovered in a limestone quary near Bicester, in Oxfordshire, England.

Back in June we were back on the Oxfordshire “dinosaur highway”, excavating more dinosaur tracks with our teams from the Universities of Birmingham, Oxford & Liverpool John Moores. The BBC have a story out today about our work at the site:

www.bbc.co.uk/news/resourc...

I guess there's nobody she can really punch up at anymore so maybe it's not fine that she writes diss tracks anymore.

Or perhaps it's all just conflated to encourage more column inches and sales.

Oh! Well maybe Actually Romantic isn't about Charli XCX either?