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Bridget Wade
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Interested in corals, dispersal, and diversification dynamics? 🪸

We're offering a PhD project on how the Tethys closure shaped global marine biodiversity — supervised by me, Bridget Wade, Nadia Santodomingo, & Francesca Bosellini.

🗓️ Apply by 17th December 2025

www.trees-dla.ac.uk/projects/how...
How did the closure of the Tethys Ocean impact global marine biodiversity? | TREES DLA
The closure of the Tethys Ocean during the Miocene represents one of the most profound reorganisations of Earth’s surface systems in the Cenozoic. Once a vast marine corridor linking the Indo-Pacific ...
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November 3, 2025 at 1:59 PM
Everything you want to know about Pulleniatina can be found in the paper out last week: Systematic taxonomy of Pulleniatina. Journal of Foraminiferal Research, 55: 245-275. DOI:10.61551/gsjfr.55.3.245 by Paul Pearson, Alessio Fabbrini and Bridget Wade @es-ucl.bsky.social
#IODP
#UCL
#NERC
July 27, 2025 at 5:52 PM
Out now: Community guidelines to increase the reusability of marine microfossil assemblage data. Journal of Micropalaeontology, 44: 145–168. doi.org/10.5194/jm-4....
Community guidelines to increase the reusability of marine microfossil assemblage data
Abstract. Data on marine microfossil assemblage composition have multiple applications. Initially, they were primarily used for (chrono)stratigraphy and palaeoecology, but these data are now also wide...
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June 4, 2025 at 12:26 PM
2-year NERC postdoc position on Oligocene planktonic foraminifera available in my lab @bridgetwade.bsky.social working as part of the TONIC Large Grant www.ucl.ac.uk/earth-scienc.... Closing date: 16 June 2025. More details:
www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...
#geologyjob #micropalaeontology #forams
May 27, 2025 at 8:20 PM
Onset of strong Iceland-Scotland overflow
water 3.6 million years ago. Nature Communications: doi.org/10.1038/s414...
Onset of strong Iceland-Scotland overflow water 3.6 million years ago - Nature Communications
This study examines the history of North Atlantic deep-water masses, as recorded in marine sediments. Major lithological changes and increased rate of deposition reveal that stronger deep-ocean circul...
doi.org
May 15, 2025 at 10:09 PM
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#ICP15 #perspective #speakers are Raja Ganeshram @edinburgh-uni.bsky.social , B N Goswami, Sidney Hemming @lamontearth.bsky.social @bridgetwade.bsky.social Thomas Westerhold @marumunibremen.bsky.social
All our #pleanry #speakers are now announced 👇🏼😊
www.icp15.com/themes
March 17, 2025 at 6:29 PM
How do these forams get such crazy shapes? See the open access paper out now by Brombacher et al. (2024). Heterochrony in the evolution of the planktonic foraminifer Globigerinoidesella fistulosa from the Trilobatus sacculifer plexus. Paleobiology, 50: 582–591. doi.org/10.1017/pab....
March 16, 2025 at 10:24 PM
New paper out in Biogeosciences: Exploring macroevolutionary links in multi-species planktonic foraminiferal Mg/Ca and δ18O from 15 Ma to recent. Read all about it here doi.org/10.5194/bg-2...
Exploring macroevolutionary links in multi-species planktonic foraminiferal Mg∕Ca and δ18O from 15 Ma to recent
Abstract. The ratio of the trace element Mg over Ca (Mg/Ca) and the oxygen isotopic composition (δ18O) of foraminiferal calcite are widely employed for reconstructing past ocean temperatures, although...
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March 2, 2025 at 4:29 PM
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Hello Manchester :) I'll be giving the Darwin Day Lecture this Thursday at the Friends Meeting House, 7:30pm. All welcome :) Come and hear the biggest story on Earth - that of our ocean, and why it matters far more than we generally think. Spread the word!

gmh.humanist.org.uk/event/darwin...
February 9, 2025 at 1:30 PM
Full-time or part-time Research Technician in Micropalaeontology available in my lab @bridgetwade.bsky.social
@es-ucl.bsky.social
as part of the NERC TONIC Large Grant. Closing date: 23rd February 2025. More details:
www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...
#technician #micropalaeontology #plankton #NERC
February 3, 2025 at 3:04 PM
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We are seeking a Lecturer (Teaching) to act as Deputy Undergraduate Tutor and to assist with delivering our taught programmes (particularly in areas of environmental geoscience and environmental geochemistry).
www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/... Deadline: 14.02.2025
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).
www.ucl.ac.uk
February 3, 2025 at 11:12 AM
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In friday’s palaeo seminar @bristolpalaeo.bsky.social we were treated to Microfossil evolution and morphological change through warm and cold climates by the amazing @bridgetwade.bsky.social
January 27, 2025 at 10:02 AM
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The data is in.

2024 was the warmest year on record, and probably in the whole of human history – about 1.6°C warmer than the pre-industrial period.

More than 1 billion individual thermometer measurements have been condensed into a single vital number.

theconversation.com/my-new-dark-...
My new dark red climate stripe for 2024 shows it’s the hottest year yet
These ‘warming stripes’, adopted around the world as a symbol of climate awareness, action and ambition, now include another dark red stripe for 2024.
theconversation.com
January 12, 2025 at 9:57 AM
The North Pacific subtropical gyre was not the same in the past. Modelling studies suggest it expanded further north in the warm early Eocene. Get free access to Zhang et al. for the next 50 days (until February 27, 2025) authors.elsevier.com/c/1kPH073N~E...
#DeepMIP
January 8, 2025 at 11:07 PM
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Postdoc position on Silicious Microfossils available in my lab
@bridgetwade.bsky.social @es-ucl.bsky.social
as part of the NERC TONIC Large Grant. Closing date: 10th January 2025. More details: www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...

#postdoc #micropalaeontology #plankton #radiolaria #diatoms
December 10, 2024 at 10:45 PM
Timing is Everything.
Read all about it in: Westerhold, T., Agnini, C., Anagnostou, E., Hilgen, F., Hönisch, B., Meckler, A. N., Pälike, H., Wade, B., Sosdian, S. and Kasbohm, J. 2024. Timing is everything. Paleoceanography and Palaeoclimatology, 39, e2024PA004932. doi.org/10.1029/2024...
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December 18, 2024 at 8:22 PM
Postdoc position on Silicious Microfossils available in my lab
@bridgetwade.bsky.social @es-ucl.bsky.social
as part of the NERC TONIC Large Grant. Closing date: 10th January 2025. More details: www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...

#postdoc #micropalaeontology #plankton #radiolaria #diatoms
December 10, 2024 at 10:45 PM
Fully funded PhD project “Changing life and changing ocean in the Oligocene icehouse” available through TREES Doctoral Research Programme. Project details here: www.trees-dla.ac.uk/projects/cha...
Deadline 20th January 2025.
#NERC #PhD #TREESDLA
December 8, 2024 at 5:22 PM
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🚨 TREES Projects Are Live! 🚨
🌍 Over 120 PhD projects now available on the TREES website! Explore Route 1 projects or develop your own Route 2 proposal.
🗓️ Applications are open—deadline: 20th Jan 2025.
🔗 www.trees-dla.ac.uk
#PhD #EnvironmentalScience #TREESDLA
December 6, 2024 at 1:49 PM
Question: What’s the impact of a couple of extraterrestrial impacts?
Answer: Not a lot!
Read all about it in open access research in Communications Earth & Environment here: rdcu.be/d2miA
#IODP #NERC #UCLEarthSciences
December 4, 2024 at 1:04 PM
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Two massive asteroids hit Earth around 35.65 million years ago, but did not lead to any lasting changes in the Earth’s climate, according to a new study by Prof @bridgetwade.bsky.social and Geoscience MSc graduate Natalie Cheng @es-ucl.bsky.social www.ucl.ac.uk/news/2024/de...
December 4, 2024 at 11:22 AM
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🌱Announcing TREES! 🌍The Training, Research & Equity in Environmental Sciences Doctoral Award led by UCL will train future environmental scientists with a focus on sustainability, EDI, and interdisciplinary research. Learn more at www.trees-dla.ac.uk

#TREES #EnvironmentalScience #Sustainability #EDI
November 14, 2024 at 11:07 AM
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🌊📉 New Paper Alert! "Migrating is Not Enough for Modern Planktonic Foraminifera in a Changing Ocean" published Open Access in Nature🧵👇
Me & @tdegaridel.bsky.social @juliemeilland.bsky.social @sulpis.bsky.social @chalkyoceans.bsky.social and others
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Migrating is not enough for modern planktonic foraminifera in a changing ocean - Nature
Low-latitude planktonic foraminifera are coping with rapid ocean warming, acidification and nutrient shifts by migrating to deeper water-column depths or polewards, displacing higher-latitude species ...
www.nature.com
November 13, 2024 at 7:03 PM