@tomarney.com
Postdoc at Southampton using laser ablation geochemistry for palaeoclimate. Currently working on coral temperature proxies, previously geochemistry/geochronology of ice-rafted sand in Antarctica for ice sheet dynamics. https://tomarney.com
I will forever be haunted by this footage.
Trawling has only been filmed underwater a few times in documentary history, and never with such clarity.
What’s so heart-rending about these shots is watching how the animals don’t just get swept up — they swim for their lives.
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A small match stick shaped coral being mounted in the path of the XRay beam
Monitor showing coral sample number one in the beam line
Day 1 and coral 1 (of many) getting scanned at the Diamond synchrotron with @jtrendbio.bsky.social @tomarney.com and others! 🧪🌊🪸
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[Person with ponytail wearing lab coat hands balloon to another person in front of a springboard, a magnet hanging from above, and then a target] PERSON WITH PONYTAIL to Person 2: Rub this balloon against your head, then go jump past that magnet toward the target on the wall. [caption] Before the bathroom scale was invented, the only way to weigh people was mass spectrometry.
Mass Spec
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Today, GAEA launches their Cosmogenic Nuclide Geochronology. This course has been developed by Dr Derek Fabel of the @isotopesuk.bsky.social NEIF Cosmogenic Nuclide Facility at SUERC. The course is free to any academic email address, any problems use the contact form. www.gaea.ac.uk/about-the-co...
Nice summary thread too!
Icebergs? The size of a city? 90 miles from the UK? Must be a joke, right?
No! Our new paper in @natcomms.nature.com shows massive tabular icebergs broke off the UK in the last ice age before the UK’s ice shelves disintegrated from climate warming.
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www.nature.com/articles/s41...
@bas.ac.uk
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Thesis submitted! How apt that my deadline is on #earthday
This is great, I would have loved to take this! I hope it will involve the whole Earth system, not just ecology. If 16 yr olds leave with the idea that it's all connected in one beautiful complex web – biosphere, atmosphere, oceans, climate – it will have done a great service.
Like morphometrics, micro-CT scanning, and morphological evolution? Then please consider applying for our 18 month postdoc position at the university of Southampton! Details here: www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DMF402/r...
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I'm always amazed the anyone-can-edit free-for-all doesn't descend into rubbish, it's a modern marvel!
I agree! It's one of the best things about the internet, and arguably editing articles that you know about is the most impactful science communication you could do (or at least has the widest reach)
Oh nooooo! Just leave it alone!
Nice one Mike!
