Rebecca Colquhoun

I’ve not read it yet but I’m looking forward to reading The Whispers of Rock by @anjanakhatwa.bsky.social

New Post: Maintenance loan in England now covers just half of students’ costs www.hepi.ac.uk/2025/08/12/m...

Springer Nature Discovers MDPI – The Strain on Scientific Publishing Home page for the paper ‘The Strain on Scientific Publishing’ by Mark A Hanson, Dan Brockington, Paolo Crosetto and Pablo Gomez Barreiro

Springer-Nature launched a series of "Discover" journals that closely mimic MDPI titles -- sharing *identical* journal names, and likely similar business model.

What is going on, and why researcher will - as always - fall for it?

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Kevin in a bookshop holding copies of his books Rainbow Trap and Queer Data.

🎉 It’s publication day for Rainbow Trap! 🎉

I’m really proud of the book and hope that, even in a small way, it can help us fight back against anti-LGBTQ efforts to determine who counts in law, policy and data.

www.bloomsbury.com/uk/rainbow-t...

We (Tim Coulson & Syma Khalid) are launching a new science podcast. We will discuss recently published work of world leading scientists in an accessible and non-technical style. Topics will include, AI, search for alien life, latest treatments for diseases, quantum computers, science of football.

This past semester was the most stressful of my academic career. I had 180 students and about half cheated at some point in the semester

They submit weekly reflections where the questions are opinion-based, graded only on effort, don't care about grammar

SO MANY students submitted ChatGPT essays

Queer Natural History - The Great Exhibition Road Festival How gay is nature? Join the author of 'A Little Gay Natural History' to explore the diversity of sexual behaviour in the natural world, which science has tried to cover up or ignore!

Happy Pride Month folks! 🌈🙌🏼

If you're free this Sunday 08 June between 15.30–16.15 and want to listen to me natter on about queer natural history then come find me at Imperial University 🏳️‍🌈🌳🦋🐠🐧🏳️‍⚧️ #Pride
www.greatexhibitionroadfestival.co.uk/event/queer-...

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 at @es-ucl.bsky.social are hiring a Lecturer! Research area is broadly defined within the climate crisis, hydrogeology, sustainable resources, the energy transition, natural hazards, and planetary science.

www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...

A collection of circular hard enamel pins which say "It's Dr, Actually". The backgrounds of the pins are in the style of the nonbinary, trans, agender, genderqueer, genderfluid, bigender, intersex, lesbian, and progress pride flags. There are also flagless backgrounds in black, white, hot pink, pearlescent purple, pearlescent dark green, pearlescent pink, pearlescent light blue, and pearlescent light green. A handwritted URL directs you to look up CanopyRobin.Etsy.Com

They're finally here! The full range of "It's Dr, Actually" pins is now available, thanks to your support!

Please share them as much as possible so that they reach the people who'll love them: canopyrobin.etsy.com/listing/1841...

Rebecca Colquhoun standing behind a sign on an easel that reads Shake Rattle and Roll How we use waves to study the earth at Brookes Science Fair

From #earthquake determinism to teaching #geophysics to people who don't like maths, find out what
@oxuniearthsci.bsky.social @colquhoun.bsky.social
Rebecca Colquhoun's been up to in this month's SSA At Work! buff.ly/79dzn6E 🧪⚒️

Hey everyone!

If anyone is looking for a senior data scientist role over the upcoming year, please send them my way ❤️❤️

Ideally still in London/hybrid

If anyone needs a multi-disciplinary Raman & FTIR expert starting in early 2026, let me know!

The progress flag in the shape of a shield against an outdoorsy background, titled "Pride guidelines: pointers for research that is inclusive, diverse, and equitable for LGBTQ+ fieldworkers"

New LGBTQ+ science resources! Today, we’re excited to share our PRIDE Guidelines for LGBTQ+ inclusive field work at inclusivefieldwork.leeds.ac.uk/pride. Please share widely and see the thread below for more details 🧪🌍🌐

New evidence out on the EMA today.

We find that while it did keep more students in full-time education, this didn't pass through to better quals or earnings later in life - in fact, reduced links to the labour market may have even reduced earnings.

Have a read of the thread below and the report 👇

Newton International Fellowships | Royal Society This fellowship is for non-UK scientists who are at an early stage of their research career and wish to conduct research in the UK.

If you're a non-UK scientist who wants to come to the UK for a postdoc, this year's Newton Fellowships are now open. You'll need a lab to host you (which could be me, but truly, could be any PI, so get in touch with someone you'd like to work with!)

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A photo of the wills memorial building with a clear blue sky. The building is an ornate tower of pale sandstone.

Excited to be in Bristol for the final COMET student meeting of my PhD! #COMETstudents2025

Scientists at the University of Miami are carrying out a research study on how scientists use online platforms like Twitter/X and Bluesky. If you are 18 years of age or older and are a scientist who uses these platforms for professional purposes, please click the link below to complete a short survey. If you are interested in learning more about this research study, please e-mail us at Julia.wester @ miami.edu. In the body of your email please provide your full name, and if you would prefer to be contacted by phone, your phone number and the best time to reach you. Contacting us for more information does not commit you to participating, and should you decide to participate you may terminate your participation at any time.

If you are a scientist (including graduate students) or professional science communicator who is at least 18 years old and are using Bluesky for any kind of professional purposes, please consider taking our survey.

Link:

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Please help share. 🧪🌎 #SciComm

2024 AGQ Community Interest Form This form serves to gauge interest in the AGQ community, and will be used to form an emailing group for future AGQ communications.

Reminder!! Join our community to stay in the know about all things AGQ!!
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Kayak and learn #glaciology - Applications for Girls* in Icy Fjords are open now for 16/17 year olds. Please share with teachers, youth in your community! With support from @osuceoas.bsky.social

Today, the UK government announced a proposal to change copyright law - for the benefit of AI companies - that would cause huge, irreversible harm to creators.

More info below, but most importantly here's what you can do (wherever you live):

1. Email your MP. Template letter in 🧵 👇

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A great session and inspiring end to #AGU24!

Very happy to chat to anyone who is thinking of setting up an LGBTQIA+ group in their department!

A selfie of Rebecca in front of their poster. The poster has a dark blue background with white text and rainbow coloured histograms and other graphs. Rebecca is a white person with short brown hair and glasses and they are wearing a green quarter zip and rainbow lanyard.

It’s poster day for me at #AGU24! Come and chat about source time functions this morning at board 3387.

Job opportunity! The Department of Earth Sciences and St Hugh’s College are recruiting an Associate Professor of Climate Science. Please see the job advert before for more details.

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A successful start to #AGU24, with a win in the Earth's Interior and Planetary Sciences Trivia Night for the @oxuniearthsci.bsky.social team! The recent department quiz was clearly great training.

🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️Next Thursday we are hosting the LGBTQ+ Geoscientists & Allies Reception with @agu.org !! We look forward to seeing you in person at the South Pre-Function in the Convention Center from 6:30-8:30pm!

Are you ready to get muddy? Our first Cores 2 Code (C2C) undergraduate summer research experience will take place in June 2025 @ Cal Poly Humboldt. We will delve into the earthquake and tsunami history of the Cascadia subduction zone through field, lab, and computational methods. See the link below!

Back by popular demand! AGQ is thrilled to once again host public pods during this year's annual @agu.org meeting! Join us each day for 30min to connect and support one another!
Note: the locations and times vary by day!

Connecting geology and people - GEOSCIENTIST Tell us about your background  Anjana: My background is in Earth science and I love telling stories about rocks, fossils, and landforms. My journey into geoscience communication and broadcasting start...

"Getting recognition for being a #geoscience communicator is a challenge because it’s seen as the easy thing to do... collecting gas samples from volcanoes is seen as hard..."

Out today: @anjanakhatwa.bsky.social and I talk to Geoscientist: geoscientist.online/sections/une...