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NHSN @nenature.bsky.social · 14d

We really enjoyed hearing from Grant about his Space Penguins last night! Check out our forthcoming program of Monday Night Talks here: www.nhsn.org.uk/wp-content/u...

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Grant Macdonald❄️ @geogeordie.bsky.social · 14d

Really enjoyed giving a talk on our penguin 🐧 work last night at the Natural History Society of Northumbria @nenature.bsky.social - I was the warm-up for this fantastic talk on Great Auks by Tim Birkhead

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Peter Mitchell @pdkmitchell.bsky.social · 14d

I'm leaving my day job soon, but one of the cool things about it has been helping midwife stuff like this excellent blog on the Hancock Museum condor, a bird kidnapped from Chile in the 1880s who spent the rest of her life being gawped at by Geordies and glumly trying to bite children's fingers off

NHSN @nenature.bsky.social · 14d

Did you know that Great North Museum: Hancock once had its own live condor? Us neither, until our brilliant volunteer Julia found it in our Society Transactions: www.nhsn.org.uk/that-condor-...

That Condor Moment

NHSN library and archive volunteer Julia Black explores the life and legacy of the Hancock Museum's very own condor While preparing the Summary for one of the recently digitised NHSN Transactions, I w...

www.nhsn.org.uk

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Alison Banwell, Ph.D. @alibanwell.bsky.social · 14d

I highly recommend this fellowship! This is what brought me to Boulder over 7 years ago, and I’m still here… ❄️ 🛰️ 🧪

CIRES @cires.colorado.edu · 14d

The CIRES prestigious Visiting Fellows Program invites scientists to join the thriving community of researchers at @colorado.edu and @noaa.gov laboratories. Applications opened TODAY, and will be accepted through January 1, 2026. Learn more here: buff.ly/gg7HNXe

Sunrise on flat but almost vertical mountains making them red with fall colored foliage in the foreground.

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IPCC @ipcc.bsky.social · 27d

📣 Attention: Early-career researchers from developing countries & countries in transition!

Are you interested in becoming a Chapter Scientist and supporting author teams for #IPCC’s Seventh Assessment Report?

Apply by 18 Oct 2025

🔗 www.ipcc.ch/2025/10/07/c...

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Ruth Mottram @ruthmottram.bsky.social · Oct 3

🚨New paper 🚨@natgeosci.nature.com Greenlandification of Antarctica - comment by me + colleagues @dmidk.bsky.social @eo4cryo.bsky.social + @universityofleeds.bsky.social showing how Antarctica increasingly resembles Greenland- drawing on a mass of work from @esaclimate.bsky.social

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The Greenlandification of Antarctica

Nature Geoscience - Climate and ice sheet processes in Antarctica increasingly reflect those observed earlier in Greenland. Applying process insights from Greenland can improve projections of...

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William Colgan @glacierbytes.bsky.social · Oct 3

Our Center for Ice Sheet & Sea Level Predictions (cisp.dtu.dk) is looking for a post-doctoral fellow to integrate satellite observations into ice-flow simulations.

efzu.fa.em2.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid...
(deadline 24/10/2025)

Funded by @novo-nordisk.bsky.social
Based at @dtucryo.bsky.social

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Grant Macdonald❄️ @geogeordie.bsky.social · Oct 1

Excited for @cryopolitics.com and her (first) book! Privilege to be at the launch tonight - almost exactly 13 years (😱) after meeting as @scottpolar.bsky.social mphil desk neighbours.

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Carbon Brief @carbonbrief.org · Oct 1

NEW – Antarctic sea ice winter peak in 2025 is third smallest on record | @ayeshatandon.carbonbrief.org Svetlana Onye w/ comment from @zacklabe.com

Read here: buff.ly/TBQ7aL8

First year sea ice forming floes in the Antarctic. Credit: Michael Nolan / Alamy Stock Photo

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Grant Macdonald❄️ @geogeordie.bsky.social · Oct 1

A great couple of days at this Royal Society event on Antarctica.

-Antarctica keeps surprising us
-We impact Antarctica and Antarctica impacts us
-Some changes are already underway but we still have a lot of agency, every .1 of a degree matters!

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British Antarctic Survey 🐧 @bas.ac.uk · Sep 29

Polar scientists meeting at @royalsociety.org
in London this week are issuing a stark warning: dramatic and extreme changes in Antarctica are happening faster than expected, with consequences that will affect everyone on the planet.

www.bas.ac.uk/media-post/a...

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Lisa Fretwell @lisaefretwell.bsky.social · Sep 17

Our book, 'The Penguin book of penguins' will be in all good bookshops as of tomorrow! We have signed some copies for Toppings and Co in Ely, Cambridge.

We are having a book launch at London zoo on Sept 28. Come and find us in the Garden room, anytime between 12 noon and 3.30pm. No need to book!

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Dr Michelle LaRue @drmichellelarue.bsky.social · Sep 15

Wow I've been off Bluesky for so long I forgot about the emojis

If you're interested in a PhD about tracking Antarctic wildlife, consider joining my group... And, spread the word!
🧪🌍🦑🦉🦊

Dr Michelle LaRue @drmichellelarue.bsky.social · Sep 15

Join Mia Wege and me to study niche partitioning among three Antarctic mesopredators!

Fully-funded PhD opportunity at U Canterbury, please email [email protected] if you're interested!

Applications will be reviewed until filled.

Fluffy Weddell seal pup looks straight into the camera

We are seeking a motivated PhD student to investigate how multiple mesopredators share space and resources in the Southern Ross Sea. The project will address questions about niche partitioning (both spatial and temporal) and foraging ecology in the Southern Ocean using three years of animal tracking data deployed on penguins (n = 60) and seals (n = 30). Specifically, we wish to uncover aspects of three-dimensional space use in Adélie penguins, emperor penguins, and Weddell seals at Cape Crozier, in the southern Ross Sea. There exists one of the largest colonies of Adélie penguins, a small colony of emperor penguins, and a small group of Weddell seals. We ask: How are these animals using the same space at the same time? How can that part of the ocean support hundreds of thousands of central-place foragers in a relatively small foraging halo, during the short summer window of time? Answers to these questions will provide fine-scale insights as part of the larger project which seeks to understand the metacommunity structure of marine mesopredators in the Southern Ocean and will inform conservation in the Ross Sea Marine Protected Area (one of the largest in the world). With the first 10-year evaluation of the MPA coming up, this project will have immediate real-world impact.
We cannot guarantee Antarctic field work as part of the PhD project.
Funding: Rutherford Discovery Fellowship ($27,000 NZD/year for three years + fees), plus potential school-supported (School of Earth and Environment) conference travel opportunities.
Requirements: Bachelor’s and Master’s degree in Ecology, Marine Biology, Geography, Zoology or Statistics required; good communication skills (written and verbal), with previous publication experience a bonus; strong work ethic, strong initiative, and team attitude; previous experience handling biologging data (in any system), large datasets, and data wrangling a plus.

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Zack Labe @zacklabe.com · Sep 11

Average sea ice thickness across the #Arctic Ocean dropped to a record low for the month of August. Current conditions show higher extent, but very thin ice to end the summer warm season.

More at zacklabe.com/arctic-sea-i.... Data simulated by PIOMAS.

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James Kirkham @jdkirkham.bsky.social · Aug 22

Guest post: Why the recent slowdown in Arctic sea ice loss is only temporary www.carbonbrief.org/guest-post-w...

Guest post: Why the recent slowdown in Arctic sea ice loss is only temporary - Carbon Brief

Observations reveal that Arctic sea ice extent at the end of summer has halved, since satellite records began in the late 1970s.

www.carbonbrief.org

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Grant Macdonald❄️ @geogeordie.bsky.social · Aug 12

When I was being advised by Ali in Chicago, I'd never have imagined we'd both end up both living and working in the north east.

Look forward to you moving to the toon!

Alison Banwell, Ph.D. @alibanwell.bsky.social · Aug 11

I’m excited to share that I’ve accepted a position as Professor of Glaciology @cpom-uk.bsky.social, @northumbriauni.bsky.social in the UK! I’ll be starting part-time next month and increasing my time from summer 2026, while retaining a part-time position at @cires.colorado.edu, @colorado.edu ❄️🛰️🧪

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Mapping and Geographic Information Centre @magic.bas.ac.uk · Jul 31

Come and join BAS, working with both MAGIC and the Wildlife from Space Team!

We are looking for an expert in ecological remote sensing with experience of spectral analysis to support our Darwin Plus South Georgia Seabird project. 🐦🦤
bas.ciphr-irecruit.com/applicants/v...

A photo of albatross. Mountains can be seen in the background, with water in between. Photo credit: BAS.

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Grant Macdonald❄️ @geogeordie.bsky.social · Aug 1

I was an ICCI early career volunteer at COP28 in Dubai and I highly recommend the experience.

Helen Millman @helenmillman.bsky.social · Aug 1

Are you an ECR working in some kind of cryosphere-related field? Are you interested in learning about international climate diplomacy and the COP process? Do you want to go to COP30 in Brazil in November? If yes, apply to volunteer with ICCI: iccinet.org/cop30-cryosp... It's an experience!

Large plenary meeting room at COP27. There are rows of desks, with people seated at the desks, facing a large stage with two big screens either side of it.

A diorama of 3 polar bears standing on a small iceberg, wearing orange lifejackets. One of them is looking at a penguin that appears to have been hanged.

Screenshot of text from The Times. It reads: "Then, this year, I arrived at the Glasgow Cop to see that the Qatar stand - the stand of the country with the highest per capita emissions in the world
- was especially popular because it had the best coffee. The Indonesian stand had the best food but a stern sign saying you had to listen to a talk before eating. The Tuvalu stand, just beyond it, inexplicably has a diorama of polar bears lynching a penguin."

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Paul Voosen @voosen.me · Jul 28

My latest: Polar scientists warn that the White House and NSF are planning to terminate the Nathaniel Palmer, the only US research icebreaker capable of handling Antarctic extremes, this October.

So far the plan has seen minimal pushback from Congress.

NSF plans abrupt end to lone U.S. Antarctic research icebreaker

Imminent termination of the RV Nathaniel B. Palmer shocks polar scientists

www.science.org

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Carlos Moffat @carlosmoffat.com · Jul 25

🌊❄️🧪 🇦🇶 Please share:

We have learned that the National Science Foundation is moving ahead with plans to decommission the U.S. Research Vessel/Ice Breaker Nathaniel B. Palmer this October.

If you care about Antarctic research, please read on (1/n)

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Australian Antarctic Program Partnership @antarctic.bsky.social · Jul 22

#Antarctic sea ice is:

⚙️ a global climate engine
☂️ a cooling sunshade
🌀 a pumphouse for currents
🧊 a vast verandah for life
♻️ one of the largest seasonal cycles on Earth
🌬️ highly sensitive to climate variability

🌊 What happens when there's less sea ice?
aapp.shorthandstories.com/a-world-with...

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Martin Stendel @martinstendel.bsky.social · Jul 21

Extreme Greenland melting event right now: thawing over 80% of the surface. Seen before only once in the record melt summer 2012.

See more at @polarportal.bsky.social!

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Jenny Arthur @antarcticjenny.bsky.social · Jul 21

🚨 Our new preprint!
*Cascading mass loss of Antarctic ice shelves triggered by iceberg collisions*

🔗 doi.org/10.22541/essoar.175285257.77669558/v1

In 2021, giant icebergs hit Dronning Maud Land ice shelves in #Antarctica, causing a chain reaction of calving & major regional ice-shelf area loss. 💥

Cascading mass loss of Antarctic ice shelves triggered by iceberg collisions

Iceberg calving accounts for about half of Antarctic ice-shelf mass loss. We used satellite imagery to analyze annual ice-shelf front changes and major calving events over eight years from austral sum...

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Luke Zoet @lzoet.bsky.social · Jul 16

Check out this time-lapse video of waves eroding an ice front from an experiment conducted in our cryogenic wave tank at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. The tank is housed in a walk-in freezer, and the waves are precisely controlled. This video captures about an hour of wave erosion.

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Prof Michael Meredith 🌊🧪🥼❄️ @oceanandice.bsky.social · Jul 12

I am co-convening a meeting at the Royal Society later this year, with @krhendry.bsky.social and other very excellent polar science colleagues. If you have interests relating to Antarctica and the impacts of climate change, please consider participating!

Royal Society Publishing @royalsocietypublishing.org · Jul 11

Are you a scientist with an interest in #ClimateChange and Antarctica? This September, join a team of leading oceanographers & climate scientists from @bas.ac.uk for a scientific meeting at the Royal Society: royalsociety.org/science-even... @oceanandice.bsky.social @krhendry.bsky.social

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