Stefan Engels

Just reflecting on a great week at the IAL-IPA joint meeting in Aix-les-Bains. Lots of PalaeOpen work through a poster, a talk and a full-day workshop as well. And a great social to round up proceedings!

Just coming to the end of my first week as a lecturer at @royalholloway.bsky.social - great times chatting to colleagues old and new. Next week it's off to Macedonia to host a workshop for the PalaeOpen COST Action, very exciting too
palaeopen.github.io
@costprogramme.bsky.social

Might have to rethink that @rspb.bsky.social membership 😛

From half May I will be joining RHUL - I am really looking forward to this bext phase of my career!

Last week I handed back my office keys and laptop, which wrapped up my time at BBK. Nearly 8 years, they have flown by and I learned a lot! In a month's time I'll be starting a new position (which I'm really looking forward to). In the meanwhile, BBK is now recruiting: cis7.bbk.ac.uk/vacancy/lect...

Just added @cesar-morales.bsky.social and @laurahmt.bsky.social to this starter pack in #palaeoecology
go.bsky.app/5Z2LANk Do not hesitate to 1) follow these wonderful folks and 2) suggest more names!

Thank you! And of course I'm happy to share a pdf (coming right up :)). To manage expectations though, we didn't really focus on Quercus as that wasn't a major constituent of the NW European forests of the time

#TREES_ThemeThursday: TREES (@treesdla.bsky.social) is offering PhD studentships in 9 themes across environmental science. 1 theme is …

Past Life & Environments 🦴🩻

Search for projects and supervisors on the TREES website:
trees-dla.ac.uk/projects

Great stuff, really interesting manuscript!

Nearly ready to turn on my auto-reply and start the holidays, and just reflecting on a thing my Phd supervisor Sjoerd Bohncke (who sadly no longer is with us) used to say: "Strange things can happen in the Holocene" :)
Have a nice break everyone!

Picture showing the sample mass needed for Chironomid head capsule d18O measurement as well as results for a Cellulose standard. The results show that results stabilise above ca 25 ug of material, which smaller samples showing increasingly lower d18O values. This result applies to both the chironomid material and the standard that was tested

Very grateful that Chris Francis and I were asked to contribute some work that illustrates "how low you can go" in terms of sample weight of chironomid HC samples used for d18O analyses

Stable isotope analyses of lacustrine chitinous invertebrate remains: Analytical advances, challenges and potential This review examines recent developments in the application of stable isotope analyses (δ18O, δ13C, δ15N, δD) to lacustrine invertebrate remains. Thes…

Great to see the paper by @angelalamb.bsky.social appear OA in Quat Sci Rev! The paper reviews the recent progress on stable isotope analyses on invertebrate remains found in lake sediment records. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Bioscience and environmental science at Birkbeck given government boost The Natural Environment Research Council is funding two new PhD training programmes to be delivered through a consortium of universities, one of which is Birkbeck.

Birkbeck is participating in 2 newly awarded doctoral landscape awards, offering PhD positions in (a.o.) environmental research for the next 5 years:
www.bbk.ac.uk/news/bioscie...

🌱Announcing TREES! 🌍The Training, Research & Equity in Environmental Sciences Doctoral Award led by UCL will train future environmental scientists with a focus on sustainability, EDI, and interdisciplinary research. Learn more at www.trees-dla.ac.uk

#TREES #EnvironmentalScience #Sustainability #EDI

Faculty of Science is recruiting Assistant Professors in Biodiversity - Stockholm University Faculty of Science is recruiting Assistant Professors in Biodiversity - Stockholm University

Three (!) positions as Assistant Professor in #Biodiversity
We hope to get one to our department #biogeography
A super recruitment within Life sciences. Maximum of 7 since PhD 🌍🧪
#biodiversity #academic #climatechange #lifescience #ecology #StockholmUniversity
Please re-🦋
www.su.se/english/news...

This looks like a nice teaching resource - soil maps for the UK

Open Palaeoecological Data - analysing the past building foresight Restoring and managing nature during times of rapid environmental change requires knowledge of ecosystem response to climate and land use change on timescales of decades to millennia. Different palaeo...

Waiting for the Eurostar to take me back home after a quick work-trip to Brussels: kick-off meeting of the PalaeOpen COST Action. Looking forward to 4 years of great science and cooperation! Do sign up to the working groups: www.cost.eu/actions/CA23...

We’re looking for a *Geospatial and Quantitative Skills Specialist* to join the Department of Geography, University of Cambridge.
It’s a technical research & teaching support role. Please pass details to anyone who may be interested & well qualified! #geosky #job #GIS
www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/47152/

Congratulations Richard!

Yes! COST Action "PalaeOpen" just got approved! Led by Thomas Giesecke and with involvement of lots of excellent scientists from across Europe. Really looking forward to the great science that is to come!

Woohoo, the results of our collaborative project on lateglacial biodiversity change have just been published!
Paper (OA) here: doi.org/10.1016/j.qu...
Data here: doi.org/10.1594/PANG...
With many thanks to all the contributors who made this one possible!!

Congratulations!

Look at that bottom screen!

en wat was het antwoord? :)

Always nice to see ones work appear in print. Esp this one, as it's my first book chapter and it was a while in the making - with @fossilbeetle.bsky.social

Lots of other great chapters in there too!

Marking essays will never be the favourite part of my job, but it does become a whole heap more pleasant when the final paper of the bunch is a well-written insightful piece where I even learned a few new things :)

Looking forward to starting my 1st year module on Environmental Science today. A general introduction through the concept of Planetary Boundaries (and yes I know the version below is now outdated :))

1) I am not the only one to ring the ⏰: Deadline for abstracts
@eurogeosciences.bsky.social
#EGU2024 is on Wed 10.1 (I also forgot)! And I have THE session for #palaeoclimate freaks like me CL1.2.10 from the INT-I-MA-TE network meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/EGU24/sessio... Come, join us!

Nice to see more people making it over here! I'm no longer on Twitter, but if you see anyone over there in need of an invite code, let me know, as I have a few spares :)