Excited to be attending the 2025 British Diatom Meeting in Bristol this weekend! Looking forward to meeting up with fellow #diatom enthusiasts and learn about some of the current research being undertaken across both modern and palaeo diatom studies!
24.10.2025 07:59 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Each #microscope slide is a tiny window into the past 😊. This #diatom slide was from a sequence of samples from offshore southern North Sea, and is full of only freshwater species! This is because during the Early #Holocene much of the southern North Sea was land, connecting the UK to Europe!
22.09.2025 19:36 — 👍 10 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
We're happy to announce that abstract submission for the 45th AEA conference, on 4th-6th December 2025, in Stavanger, Norway is OPEN!
Visit aeastavanger.wordpress.com for info, cost details coming soon!
Abstract Submission by 15/08/25: nettskjema.no/a/525786
#environmentalarchaeology #AEA
03.06.2025 09:45 — 👍 0 🔁 3 💬 1 📌 0
One of my all time favourites 😊
06.08.2025 20:36 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Near Keadby, N. Lincs! Still awaiting final dates to confirm chronology. Commercial archaeology project, so can’t say much more at this stage!
16.07.2025 08:44 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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15.07.2025 06:47 — 👍 16 🔁 15 💬 0 📌 0
Enjoying counting some rather nice #pollen samples from a #Neolithic peatland site in N England, UK. Rammed with well preserved grains with pine, hazel and lime visible here. Sequence also includes alder, elm, oak, birch and ivy. A native UK #woodland summarised in one pollen sample!
15.07.2025 19:48 — 👍 10 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0
I had a great time yesterday attending the Summer Social at @nhm-london.bsky.social . Having worked there for 9 years, I’m fortunate to remain a Scientific Associate and be able to continue to work (and socialise!) with so many inspiring people 😁
03.07.2025 14:51 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
New microscope to celebrate 4yrs of being a freelance #geoarch #micropalaeontology consultant! Decided to stick with #Motic, as the image quality is 💪💪👌👌, easily comparable to leica, Olympus etc, plus fraction of price! #pollen #diatoms
15.06.2025 10:34 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Rectangular trench in a muddy environment, in which sit many wooden planks and logs in situ, arranged to form a trackway.
5800-year-old wooden trackway from Neolithic Britain, preserved in the waterlogged environment #NationalTrailsDay 🏺
Wetlands are home to some of the world's best-preserved archaeology, but they are under threat from climate change.
Learn more 🆓 doi.org/10.15184/aqy...
07.06.2025 13:12 — 👍 51 🔁 10 💬 1 📌 1
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21.05.2025 15:23 — 👍 5 🔁 5 💬 0 📌 0
If you’re having a bad day…. Just say hello to these #pollen grains of #Lactuca (lettuce), who are smiling at you 😃
30.04.2025 07:13 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Great opportunity to also catch up with some great friends who regularly worked with John, at his Favorite South Kensington restaurant, Pierinos ☺️☺️
26.04.2025 07:38 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
John was an incredible scientist. Not only was he an expert in the application of #foraminifera and #ostracods in geological deposits, but he was also the leading #geoarchaeologist in his field, applying calcareous #microfossils to reconstructing environments to #archaeological contexts
26.04.2025 07:38 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
On Wednesday we said farewell to a true legend in #foraminifera and #ostracoda, John Whittaker. John spent almost all his career at the NHM in London, so it was fitting to celebrate his life there, surrounded by his colleagues, friends and family.
26.04.2025 07:38 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
The politics of early Neolithic connectivity: Relations between Britain and Ireland | Proceedings of the Prehistoric Society | Cambridge Core
The politics of early Neolithic connectivity: Relations between Britain and Ireland
Pssst...yeah you mate...interested in Alasdair Whittle's new paper on the interconnectivity between Britain and Ireland 6000 years ago, during the development of the Neolithic? It's niche but rich stuff. I'll do you a deal, mate.
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
19.04.2025 06:40 — 👍 43 🔁 7 💬 2 📌 1
Partial #solar #eclipse any time now! Between 10.30 UK time! But don’t look directly at the sun…… Apparently if you use a colander when no clouds in way, you’ll see tiny eclipses instead of circles!
29.03.2025 09:45 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
original images of pollen and diatom species, which have been converted into pixilated art
Over the last few wks I've had so much fun working with @walternewton.bsky.social, who is a graphic artist specialising in pixel-based illustrations! He has managed to convert my geeky obsession with #pollen and #diatoms, to create bespoke illustrations for PERCS publicity purposes!
21.03.2025 10:07 — 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 2 📌 0
Ventured to London today to give a lecture to the students from @uclarchaeology.bsky.social on ASE’s Wantsum Channel project @archsoutheast.bsky.social
11.03.2025 19:46 — 👍 7 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
Both the dog and owner provide major flashbacks to GSCE Latin lessons!
'Caecilius est in atrium scribit!'*
*sincere apologies if my grammar has deteriorated in the intervening 30yrs 😄
04.03.2025 15:49 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
My photo shows a view through the entrance passage of the house of Lucius Caecilius Iucundus (Casa di Cecilio Giocondo), REGIO V, INSULA I, 26, looking towards the atrium and tablinum. On the floor of the entrance passage is a mosaic depicting a small black guard dog which is curled up asleep. Mosaic depictions of ‘guard dogs’ were popular placed at the entrance of wealthy homes in Pompeii. Lucius Caecilius Iucundus, the owner of this house, was a wealthy banker who lived in Pompeii 2,000 years ago.
Beware of the dog??! 👀 🐾
Endearing Roman mosaic of a little black guard dog curled up asleep 💤 in the entrance passage of his family home in Pompeii.
House of Lucius Caecilius Iucundus. 📷 by me
#MosaicMonday
#Archaeology
03.03.2025 12:54 — 👍 463 🔁 88 💬 11 📌 6
Oh and last one for today! Prior to going freelance I worked @nhm-london.bsky.social for ten years! One particular highlight was meeting David #Attenborough and having a lovely conversation about #micropalaeontology and #microfossils. The man is a walking natural history encyclopaedia!
28.02.2025 09:30 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
I did a little study of microfossils in my garden a few years ago, and amazingly these #testate amoebae were found in an old metal bucket full of sludge!
28.02.2025 09:25 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Geologist, writes on the history of geology and palaeontology, especially in the late 18th–early 19th C, and on the history of geology in Antarctica. Patron Lyme Regis Museum. Author of THE FOSSIL WOMAN A LIFE OF MARY ANNING (Dovecote Press 2020).
Scientist Interested in all things oceans and climate (esp. carbon cycle). Bike rider, hiker and nature lover. Privileged white feminist. Advocate for diversity.
The journal publishes on wetland archaeology, including scientific and methodological features, geoprospection, environmental reconstruction, and conservation.
Assistant Professor @coventrycawr.bsky.social. Using microfossils to understand long-term environmental change and its impacts on socio-ecological systems. Interested in islands, wetlands, peat, prehistory, heathlands, biodiversity.
Interesse in natuur en aardwetenschappen, paleontologie, astronomie, fotografie. ©Mynfoto op foto's.
Professor of Biology/Ecology and #TriBeta advisor doing #SLACScience. I focus on understanding how human activities affect freshwater algal biochemistry. Gardener, hiker, baker, dog/cat mom. RP ≠ endorsement.
Rich Pancost, Earth Scientist at the University of Bristol. Interested in past climates and earth system processes, from peatlands to the deep sea. First gen/ working class. Privileged white cis male. Anti-racist, pro LGBTQ+, unapologetically woke. He/Him
Mesolithic & community archaeologist, FSA Scot, Hon Research Fellow at Durham University Archaeology, Long Covid since 2020.
timevista.co.uk | clevelandarchaeology.com
Entomologist, Sevilla, Spain @ebdonana.bsky.social, Australian Fossils, climate change studies using Diptera fossils, insect decline and microplastic pollution - once @swarmofthoughts/ Investigador Ramon y Cajal en EBD-CSIC, Entomologo y Paleontologo
Professor of Physical Geography |Earth System Science |Ecology |Biogeochemistry |Climate Change |Peatlands |Concerned about the future of our planet |Musician and Songwriter |My Views
Award-winning science communicator, bestselling author, TV personality & co-founder of Scientists for XR - making STEM fun, fighting misinformation & advocating for diversity.
AuDHD, she/her
2x TEDx speaker, 4x cat lover
www.emilygrossman.co.uk
PhD student at the Slovak Academy of Sciences. Paleoecology, limnology & Chironomidae.
📈 Strategic data analyst @UHasselt
🌊 Paleoceanographer by training @YaleUniversity and @KULeuven.
🇧🇪 🇺🇸 Fulbright & BAEF fellow (boat 2014)
🔬 🐚 Lover of microfossils, Open Science,
🌪️ 🌀 ⛈️ Climate and extreme weather
ORCID: 0000-0003-1248-3188
3rd Paleolimnology & Limnogeology International Symposium
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Earth System Scientist/Marine Palaeobiologist. Lecturer in Past Climates & Earth System Change at Cardiff University. Foram specialist for IODP Exp. 375+398 #firstgen he/him
I like mud and abrupt climate change, I'm a Geographer. Strange sediments lying in ponds distributing proxies is no basis for understanding climate change. Significant findings derive from formal testing of ideas, not from some farcical aquatic ceremony.
Diatomist at the Natural History Museum
Environmental campaigner & author, The Lie of the Land (William Collins, 2024), The Lost Rainforests of Britain (2022), & Who Owns England? (2019). Forthcoming: The Ghosts of Chalk Country (2027). Agent: @jmlockhart.bsky.social
I am a professor of tropical ecology at the University of York. I have a passion for Mountain ecosystems and cultures across the Global South, particularly in Kenya and Tanzania where I work with many Universities, NGOs and Government organisations.
