Sarah Greene

📣 We have an exciting opportunity within CENTA! We're recruiting for a new Teaching and Training Fellow to develop and deliver our CENTA training programme for our doctoral researchers.

www.linkedin.com/jobs/view/42...

#PhDjobs #environmentalscience

@mudwaterclimate.bsky.social & I started dreaming this project up while sharing a postdoc office many moons ago. Then the excellent @mollytrudgill.bsky.social picked up the torch and ran with it. Thx to our many amazing collaborators for the assist. So glad it is (finally!) seeing the light of day!

🚨New open access paper: Pulses of ocean acidification at the Triassic-Jurassic boundary🚨
rdcu.be/ev6XV 🧪🌊⚒️

See James' thread for further details!👇

I hoped #UCU would redouble efforts to resolve the @uniteucu.bsky.social staff dispute

Instead our own union-as-employer has issued management instructions NOT to use tactics #UCU members have routinely been advised to use *by #UCU*

Then this page was deleted: web.archive.org/web/20230218...
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A sign at Royal Agricultural University describing a regenerative farming project called 'GREAT Project Zerodig'

A picture of the river and banks at the upper Thames.

An infographic from Cotswolds Lakes Brewing Co. describing the sequential process of brewing beer

A black and white Friesian cow calf.

This week, CENTA is on our annual first year residential, the CENTA Field TRiPP (Training Residential in Policy and Publishing, FKA 'The Speed PhD'.) We're in sunny Cheltenham and the Cotswolds with some fantastic field projects across various areas of Environmental Science #CENTATRiPP2025

The crisis in British higher education is acute + painful right now. If you are in it you already know this, but for those who are not I want to share what is going on. As strikes start at Newcastle Uni + others will doubtless follow, now is a time for solidarity + resistance

US threatens permanent visa bans on trans athletes based on sex markers Exclusive: State department memo directs officers to bar those deemed to misrepresent birth sex on applications

The US is not a safe place to conduct sporting events, host academic conferences or conduct business. Those who decide such things have an obligation to act in the safety of their members.

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Universities must defend the right to protest.

That’s why I wrote to @unibirmingham.bsky.social, urging them to drop disciplinary actions against students targeted for peaceful pro-Palestine activism & to review investment policies so they align with international human rights standards.

Major investment in doctoral students to support next generation of researchers - University of Birmingham Two doctoral training programmes supported by the University of Birmingham are to receive fresh funding from UK Research and Innovation.

We are happy to announce that the CENTA3 Doctoral Landscape Award Bid has been successful.
This will allow us to continue on the work done in CENTA1 and CENTA2 to deliver excellence in PhD training within the Environmental and Earth Sciences: #CENTA3
www.birmingham.ac.uk/news/2024/ma...

Cover of the Sept/Oct 2024 issue of the journal Geobiology. Subheading: 'Mapping microbial mats on the micrometer scale'. Central image is a high resolution picture of the microbialite described in the linked article, including stromatolitic and dendrolitic features.

Our new paper is featured on the cover of the latest issue of Geobiology. The paper describes microbial fabrics that have previously been misinterpreted as ancient sponge fossils. Very sorry to anyone who now has to update their early animal evolution powerpoints! 🧪⚒️
doi.org/10.1111/gbi....

Image of a tweet reading “I have been at conferences with many tools who will offer real time feedback”

Still laughing hours after I read this. So true so true

Thanks very much! And also . . . . ouch. 😢

🥱 So unoriginal it reads like ChatGPT wrote this. Prompt was probs something like 'cantankerous old man geologist screed about fieldwork'.

Thanks for sharing!

This summary written by the paper's lead author Steve Rogers. It was a big team project - huge thanks to co-authors @gilespalaeo.bsky.social @drnatashadowey.bsky.social @rehemat24.bsky.social Katrien Van Landeghem and Chris King

We suggest geologists need to better align with other disciplines (including social sci and humanities), shout about the relevance of the subject in a modern and inclusive way, and push the narrative of Earth story telling (processes, history/future).

'Geologists' tend to describe an interdisciplinary subject that changes how you see and interact with the world, with a wide range of job prospects for a wide range of people - but then really struggle to clarify this when describing "what is geology"

'Non-geologists' describe the subject as being niche, only for outdoors types, focused on describing rocks, and as being overwhelmingly boring... (amongst many other perceptions!)

The illustration is separated into three main sections: perceptions highlighted by the work, themes drawn from the data and conclusions. Perceptions - many perceptions highlighted that geology was just about describing and cataloguing rock, the poor diversity amongst geologists was highlighted, the discipline was described as being niche, and boring. Themes - "what is geology" - there is a struggle to define the discipline. "Geology is boring" there was an overwhelming number of instances that the subject was described as boring (mostly byn-geologists). "Employability and destructive practices" - this theme highlights that many only see outdoors, remote and often hydrocarbon linked jobs available for geologists, geologists themselves describe a huge variety of occupations and opportunities. "Diversity and Inclusivity" - the lack of diversity amongst geologists is highlighted as a barrier to entering the field. Conclusions - highlights storytelling, inclusivity, interdisciplinarity

New paper: “you just look at rocks, and have beards” Perceptions of Geology From the United Kingdom: A Qualitative Analysis From an Online Survey.

We explore perceptions of geology from both 'Non-geologists' and 'Geologists', who describe the subject very differently! ⚒️🧪

doi.org/10.3389/esss...

Why the mental cost of a STEM career can be too high for women and people of colour Under-represented groups face chronic barriers, creating psychological — and physical — effects. The scientific community must ease this burden. Under-represented groups face chronic barriers, creatin...

“There is a cost for success in STEM academia. The few minoritized people who seem to thrive might be doing what psychologists call ‘high-effort coping’”

True words by Jean King, and gosh, do I not feel it.

Palestinians are eating grass and drinking polluted water as famine looms across Gaza | CNN Hanadi Gamal Saed El Jamara, 38, says sleep is all that can distract her children from the aching hunger gnawing at their bellies.

‘We are dying slowly:’ Palestinians are eating grass and drinking polluted water as famine looms across Gaza

www.cnn.com/2024/01/30/m...

Bathroom Ban Resurgence: 20 Bills in 12 States Attempt to Force Trans People Into the Wrong Bathroom... In 2024, a resurgence of bathroom bans across the country is testing how far the GOP’s targeting of the trans community will go.

Today on Assigned: The bathroom bill resurgence. So far 20 separate bills restricting access for trans people to public bathrooms have been introduced in 12 US states.

One of the worst, a ban in Utah may pass that state's Senate today.

The Unseen Barriers Around Bathroom Breaks in the Field Taboos around toilet care can make fieldwork uncomfortable and even dangerous. Some scientists want that to change.

F*** the taboos. Break the cycle. The field is for everyone and every body.

Features interviews from me and several colleagues about both the challenges and successes of changing the culture of fieldwork in geoscience. 🧪⚒️

undark.org/2024/01/17/f...

screenshot from a Tweet by me that reads” My latest column for @TeenVogue on the latest surge, how high risk people have been abandoned by the Biden administration, & why I won’t be voting this election w/ quotes from @/tinu @/AngelaMSWinCA & @/Christine_ScD” Underneath is a photo of an empty shelf at a drugstore with a few COVID-19 text kits. Below is the title of the article, “COVID Isn’t Going Anywhere. Masking Could Save My Life

In my latest column for Teen Vogue I wrote about the latest surge, my disappointment with the Biden administration and Democratic party & how so many high risk people have been abandoned by the state:

www.teenvogue.com/story/covid-...

Postdoc position w/ @thefosterlab.bsky.social, as part of a very friendly and collaborative large grant team that I lead. Come join us!😊

🧪⚒️@geochemgroup.bsky.social

CENTA is giving Blue Sky a go. We're still on Twitter/X and may be a little quieter on here until it becomes more open/used by students, but feel free to follow and/or interact with this account!

Thanks for the well wishes, folks! My symptoms are a lot better now and I'm hoping that trajectory continues.

Reminder to #AGU23 attendees: now that you've seen so many posts from people who got COVID there, AGU sent out a survey yesterday for feedback on the meeting. 👀

Hey look - it's my sister! On a podcast! 🤩🧪

England in biggest Covid wave in well over a year - and it's only just begun Well the latest results of the ONS Covid Winter Infection Survey are in and they are, frankly, eye-popping. The estimate prevalence (percentage of infected people) in England as of a week ago is alrea...

Beyond a shadow of a doubt that England is in its biggest Covid wave for well over a year now, with latest ONS infection survey results published.

An estimated 4.3% of people infected in England as of last week (6% in London!)

I've written about it here
christinapagel.substack.com/p/england-in...