Scientist living and working in Cambridge, studying planets through rocks, chemistry, and code.

Cambridge, England
Joined April 2012
How can the study of our home planet inform the search for life beyond our solar system? 🌎🔭 This month’s @Elements_Mag, co-edited by @oshorttle, explores how Earth and Planetary Sciences can collaborate to answer key scientific mysteries of our time. 👉bit.ly/3BSAqnv
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Are you a young scientist looking to pursue a career in research? Why not apply for the RAS Research Fellowship? Applications are now open, and the deadline is 15 October! 🕐 Find out more about the scheme and apply at the link below 👇 ras.ac.uk/awards-and-grants/…
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What was the geochemical composition of earliest continents? How have they been weathered on Gyr timescales? Our new paper in Geochemical Perspective Letters tries to answer these questions geochemicalperspectiveslette… 1/n
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Register now for our 2021 #YearOfSpace lecture series "The Geology of Other Planets - A geological journey through our solar system and beyond" ☄️ (1/8) geolsoc.org.uk/space21/lectu…
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And thats it from us for this year! We'll be back on Jan 14th for the start of our spring series, and don't forget that if you missed any of our seminars from this year, you can catch up with them over on our YouTube channel (youtube.com/channel/UCc5xVG8…). 1/2
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Quick reminder that our first seminar is tomorrow (Thursday) afternoon at 3pm, when when Prof. Raj Dasgupta and Dr. James Eguchi will be talking about “Mantle melting, deep carbon cycle, and the rise of atmospheric oxygen” – see earth2earthseminar.com/calen… for info on joining!
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UKEXOM2018 now open for registration, abstract submission, and session proposals. See physics.ox.ac.uk/ukexom2018
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PhD project: tracing mineralogical variations in the Earth's mantle, with @HelenWCam and @oshorttle @cambridge_astro essdtp.esc.cam.ac.uk/program…
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PhD projects available @CambridgeESS now all up on the web to browse #phd #jobs #phdfellowships @NERCscience essdtp.esc.cam.ac.uk/program… – at Barnet, London
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Academia due a phone-hacking type scandal about unacceptable "common" practices. dlvr.it/9zpDVk by @crookedtimber ht @TimHarford
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If you teach programming (esp. geo) I strongly encourage you to read this paper and buy a giant stack of post its! xitter.cf/ctjacobs_uk/status/601…
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RIP Dave Sackett. Experts in every field could learn from his *awesome* public resignation letter ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/article…
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Please share this Scientists for EU letter in The Times 22/5/2015
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Hey satellite people! Big grains go far paper shows ash retrievals underestimate grain size. all-geo.org/volcan01010/2015…
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Why are geology students the happiest at university? gu.com/p/2xvyx/stw
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University Lecturer in Seismology @Cambridge_Uni jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/6626/
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Oxford historian & former member of Bullingdon club put in charge of UK science bbc.co.uk/news/science-envir…
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Did life on Earth begin with volcanoes? Research into the origins of Oxygen suggests so: bit.ly/1bZMdDN