Mike Peacock

I am totally here for these hashtags.

A damp (and mostly misty) day for a 10 mile stomp across Kinder Scout and Mount Famine in the Peak District.

Up to the Lake District today to recce some field sites for our first year undergrad field class.

IPS is great but this is such a flawed criteria. It toally excludes any PhD students over 30 (they exist!).

A cold day on a rewetted Welsh blanket bog with @laurabaugh94.bsky.social and @peatblogger.bsky.social, but great to get our GHG sampling underway for our @water4all-eu.bsky.social project ECO-WADE.

How to cut harmful emissions from ditches and canals – new research Ditches and canals can be climate heroes.

Check out our new article in The Conversation highlighting strategies for reducing greenhouse gas emissions from ditches and canals 💦 🌱🚜 @peatymike.bsky.social @jpritson.bsky.social theconversation.com/how-to-cut-h...

Prepping for peaty fieldwork. I MacGyvered a dipmeter with a cane, tape, and a £15 liquid level indicator for visually impaired people. Result!

A neat new pond/lake mapping paper from Germany
essd.copernicus.org/articles/18/...

I turned 40 this week. Today, as a birthday present to myself, I finally dug my own pond. Looking forward to getting some plants in next.

Do you work on peatland carbon, hydrology, biodiversity, or restoration? We’d love to see your research in our Special collection for Sustainable Environment! 💧🌿🧪📈

Paging: @peatlandecr.bsky.social

Peaty people: we're hosting a special issue in the Taylor & Francis journal Sustainable Environment. Do consider submitting to it - the scope is broad and multidisciplinary. think.taylorandfrancis.com/article_coll...

Author team including @mapalljohn.bsky.social ljohn.bsky.social, @wahajhb.bsky.social, @judithvdknaap.bsky.social, @fluitans.bsky.social, @drtatariw.bsky.social, @peatblogger.bsky.social, @dralanlaw.bsky.social, @emofthewoods.bsky.social, @jackiewebb.bsky.social, @laurabaugh94.bsky.social and more

Our new ditch GHG paper now online in final view. A great team effort led by @tksilver.bsky.social with contributions from an all-star cast of supporting authors.

iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1...

Frontiers | RETRACTED: Globally, Freshwater Ecosystems Emit More CO2 Than the Burning of Fossil Fuels Freshwater emits substantial volumes of CO2 to the atmosphere. This has largely gone unnoticed in global carbon budgets. My aim was to quantify the CO2 emana...

Haha, funny you should mention that. A bunch of us (including @fluvialbenthos.bsky.social and @grocherros.bsky.social) drafted a letter to the editor of the Frontiers journal and we managed to get it retracted. Annoying when it popped up again elsewhere.
www.frontiersin.org/journals/env...

Yep. With each iteration he has gone further down the rabbit hole of climate change denial. It's wild.

Great to see this rebuttal of Peter Pollard's freshwater CO2 nonsense published.
ascelibrary.org/doi/10.1061/...

I've been seeing a lot of reviews and syntheses doing this lately: just ignoring "old" work without any justification. Editors and reviewers need to object. It's just bad science.

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Honours & Grants - International Peatland Society IPS offers Honorary Membership to its members and, since 2015, the Allan Robertson Grants to students and young professionals. Previously Awards of Excellence were provided. To do honour to a person w...

The 2026 Allan Robertson Grants are now open for applications! Are you under 30 and working in peatland conservation, responsible management, or innovative peat research? 👉 Apply here: peatlands.org/about-us/hon... 📅 Deadline 31 January #peatlands #peat #management #research #grants #earlycareer

Pleased to see this new paper with Dylan Young published: "Understanding the Carbon Balance of Peatlands: A Comment on Heinemeyer et al. (2025)". See: www.mires-and-peat.net/article/1547...

Christmas is over. Time to panic submit your EGU abstract! Why not send it to our session on aquatic ecosystems and greenhouse gases?

And now online in early view: "Towards improved accounting and mitigation of greenhouse gas emissions from ditches and canals"
iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1...

Pleased to say this paper has been accepted and coming soon to @iopp-environment.bsky.social. Led by @tksilver.bsky.social and with an all-star cast of supporting authors. A lovely way to end the year. Merry Ditchmas all!

I suspect UKCEH will also put in an EoI, seeing as a lot of their current work overlaps with some of the Qs.

Yes! Recently led a WP for an EA project that dealt with Q11 so should probably enter an EoI for that...

A good day stomping across the valleys and moors of the Western Pennines today, especially for fans of Molinia. Ended the day with some ancient stone bothering at the Neolithic Pikestones burial cairn.

Thanks! (I'll add the paper to my post-Christmas reading pile for a proper read).

I'll read the paper properly but one question: do you factor in C losses of any topsoil removed off site? Or does it all get used on site for bunds and dams?

Happy Solstice all. I enjoyed a bleak walk along the Sefton Coast. My favourite time to be here, when the landcape feels huge and elemental and empty.

Out of office reply: activated. Happy to have reached the end of a very busy semester 🥳🎄