Helen Williams

Do you have a passion for marine geohazards and want a permanent job? Join us!

UCL – University College London UCL is consistently ranked as one of the top ten universities in the world (QS World University Rankings 2010-2022) and is No.2 in the UK for research power (Research Excellence Framework 2021).

We are offering a full-time permanent academic post at Lecturer level (Grade 8) in UCL Earth Sciences. Research areas include the climate crisis, hydrogeology, sustainable resources, the energy transition, natural hazards, and planetary science.
www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...

Well - if it isn't just as I predicted/encouraged as soon as Trump came into power! ❤️

Delighted to see leading European nations so relatively bold and quick off the mark.

The UK is really lagging on this open goal. Canada also have a massive opportunity too, given their new Horizon affiliation.

To understand this government, look at who it bailed out – and the flailing UK sector it didn’t | Gaby Hinsliff Universities, a key plank of our economy, face a bonfire of jobs. But are they the jobs Starmer wants to be seen to be saving, asks Guardian columnist Gaby Hinsliff

Universities matter at least as much as much as steel. Invest in minds as well as materials. This it’s a sector we really can lead in globally, especially given the US car crash. But it means welcoming international students and removing bizarrely punitive visas

What’s more vacuous than an endless vacuum? It’s Lauren Sánchez and Katy Perry’s party in space | Marina Hyde The all-female Blue Origin flight on Monday broke boundaries and set records in the spouting of girlboss gibberish, says Guardian columnist Marina Hyde

This article from Marina Hyde pretty much matches my feelings about the blue origin flight. It feels like the message behind the flight was actually Jeff Bezos and his cronies saying "Look, we've made space flight so easy even women can do it!"
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

This is ridiculous. NSF is pausing *all* outgoing grants awarded this cycle and subjecting them to a “secondary review” by DOGE.

Gumming up the funding pipeline like this threatens the job security of nearly a million graduate students and post docs, to say nothing of the science…

NOAA just announced a long list of datasets that are going away🧪⚒️🌊: www.nesdis.noaa.gov/about/docume...
Download what you need asap and send comments to: ncei.info@noaa.gov

NSF halts grant awards while staff do second review Action comes after DOGE team arrives at science agency

BREAKING:The National Science Foundation (NSF) has put a cork in its grantmaking pipeline after billionaire Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) set up shop at the agency this week. | Science | AAAS www.science.org/content/arti...

UH announces $30 million in research cuts from Trump administration According to University of Hawaii president Wendy Hensel, 36 research programs have been terminated, issued stop work orders, or in the process of being phased out.

The Trump administration has clawed back $30 million of funding from the University of Hawaiʻi, targeting research related to diversity, equity, inclusion and accessibility, sustainability, renewable energy, climate change, and minority health disparities. It will get worse.

Hard to believe it was only a week ago that I returned from the incredible place that is Antartica via the Sir David Attenborough, a truly amazing ship! All part of the SiCLING BAS & @cambridge-earthsci.bsky.social NERC project led by PI Kate Hendry (BAS). Excited for future sample analyses!

Incredibly exciting to see that the diamond open access journal @weareagc.bsky.social will open for submissions in January!

Free to publish, free to read.

So stop feeding @elsevierconnect.bsky.social, Springer, etc, and send us your great geo- and cosmochemistry papers!

Spread the word📢 Please repost this msg so that we can build the #geochemistry community 👨‍👨‍👧‍👧 on Bluesky. Follow the European Association of Geochemistry for regular updates on: job & funding opportunities; the latest papers in #GPLetters; #Goldschmidt2025 & other events.

More info: www.eag.org

Come join us! Wonderful #job opportunity to be the next director of the #Oxford University #Museum of Natural History.

Just next door to @oxuniearthsci.bsky.social with very close #research and #teaching links @rosspanderson.bsky.social!

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So sad to learn this :(

We are excited to announce our Department will be hosting a series of new #PhD studentships, starting from Oct 2025! 🥳

The studentships will be in the field of environmental science, working on topics at the heart of some of the most pressing societal challenges #EarthScience

Geochemistry Group Mentor Scheme (GGMS) The objective of the Geochemistry Group Mentor Scheme (GGMS) is to connect early career researchers (ECRs) and PhD students with more established geochemists, people they might not normally have th…

The deadline for our Geochemistry Group Mentor Scheme (GGMS) is fast approaching! The scheme aims to pair PhD students and ECRs with more established geochemist mentors. Deadline is 25th Nov. Full details here: geochemistry.group/ggms/

Senior Lecturer in Geological Data Science :Oxford Road

Job opportunity at The University of Manchester - 'Senior Lecturer in Geological Data Science'.

Come work with us, including if you work with Planetary Data #PlanetaryScience

www.jobs.manchester.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai...

I’m doing the same thing and have the same issue - Julbo Vermont at RX Sports seemed to fit. Good luck!

This is one for all my geo-friends out there...we have a job opening for a permanent isotope clean lab manager (www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/44994/).... pass on to anyone that you think might be interested and let them know I'm happy to be contacted informally about the role! Thanks :-)

Thrilled to say I’ve been elected a Geochemistry Fellow by @eageo.bsky.social and the Geochemical Society. I’m really very moved that there are folk out there that wanted to nominate and support me for this award - thank you all, whoever you are!

We are looking for a part-time Laboratory Technician in our Geochemistry Labs at the School of Ocean and Earth Sciences, Southampton. Please DM/email me if you are interested and/or please pass on to other interested parties. Details here: jobs.soton.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx.... Deadline 29th Nov 2023.