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Christine S. Lane
@chslane.bsky.social
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Geography Prof of tephra at Uni Cambridge. Thinks & teaches about Quaternary environments, volcanic ash and field/lab skills. She/her. 🧪🌍🌋⚒️
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Christine S. Lane @chslane.bsky.social · Nov 9
My turn for a starter pack! Here is a collection of Quaternary Scientists (broadly defined) that you might find interesting to follow. Enjoy. And let me know your suggestions please!

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profelainechalus.bsky.social
Jennifer Ward Oppenheimer Professorship of the Deep History & Archaeology of Africa- University of Cambridge - Department of Archaeology #skystorians 🗃️www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DPP065/j...
Jennifer Ward Oppenheimer Professorship of the Deep History & Archaeology of Africa at University of Cambridge
Recruiting now: Jennifer Ward Oppenheimer Professorship of the Deep History & Archaeology of Africa on jobs.ac.uk. Click for details and explore more academic job opportunities on the top job board
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December 2, 2025 at 7:16 AM
chslane.bsky.social
My end of year brain cannot find a caption for this image that I took when I’d borrowed these awesome 3D printed pollen grains from Matthew @conservepalaeolab.bsky.social, but it’s begging for a joke about modeling and scale in Quaternary Science.
Your suggestions?
Quaternary science themed models: 3 hand made ceramic tephra shards, a small plastic mammoth and two big jars full with bright yellow 3D printed models of pollen grains. The jars tower over the mammoth in the foreground and the tephra is about 1/4 the size of the grains.
December 15, 2025 at 8:32 PM
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claireboardman.bsky.social
👀 Postdoctoral position in radiocarbon dating and Bayesian modelling at the Department of Archaeology and Heritage Studies @auarcher.bsky.social

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Postdoctoral position in radiocarbon dating and Bayesian modelling at the Department of Archaeology and Heritage Studies - Vacancy at Aarhus University
Vacancy at School of Culture and Society - Department of Heritage Studies, Aarhus University
international.au.dk
December 8, 2025 at 7:07 PM
chslane.bsky.social
Given what we all work in, it has to be “a core of geographers”!
camtephra.bsky.social Cambridge Tephra Lab @camtephra.bsky.social · 20d
What’s the collective noun for a cluster of geographers rarely seen out of the labs?

Seasons Greetings from Cambridge everyone!
🎄✨🎄✨🎄✨🎄
@camunigeography.bsky.social
December 12, 2025 at 10:04 AM
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helenrobertsosl.bsky.social
Seeking a strong applicant for Aberystwyth University PhD Funding scheme 'AberDoc', on the topic: 'Novel biogenic carbonates for luminescence dating of the entire Quaternary period'.
Our lab also welcomes PhD applications for other luminescence dating projects for the same AberDoc funding round.
PhD Opportunities  : Department of Geography & Earth Sciences , Aberystwyth University
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December 9, 2025 at 7:38 PM
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timholtwilson.bsky.social
Suffolk ploughsoil is rich in far-travelled wonders. One could teach a geology course using just one field in Gislingham! Thanks @megwildflowers.bsky.social for specimen cutting & pictures. Perhaps some from Charnwood @charnwoodforest.bsky.social, others from Scotland.
A brown rock with a slightly sparkley surface. It has been sawn through with a cutting disk. A brown rock which has been sawn through with a cutting disk to reveal metamorphic flow banding. Deep burial (perhaps at over 30 km) of what might have started as a mudstone or schist protolith but the minerals and texture have now been reorganised into a gneiss. The wavy structures indicate plastic deformation under heat and pressure. The outside of a grey rock, showing several large feldspar crystals. The right side of the specimen has been sliced with a cutter. The inside of the grey rock looking like a dog's dinner of black, pink and white minerals. The mineral composition looks intermediate in character, so this is probably a granodiorite. It may come from the Charnwood Forest area.
December 7, 2025 at 3:18 PM
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carlsayer.bsky.social
A wooded multi-channel #chalkstream in a Norfolk (eastern England) military training area that has avoided tidying & dredging. Lots of fallen wood & bankside trees. Sparkling gravel patches, sands & leaf packs. Crystal clear waters fed by healthy local springs. Everything we have lost & want back
December 7, 2025 at 5:41 PM
chslane.bsky.social
Does anyone else feel they are just too disorganised for their jobs? Why does sorting field kit and printing handouts fill so much time? 🤯 Maybe it’s just that point in term 🤷‍♀️
November 26, 2025 at 3:28 PM
chslane.bsky.social
Hope no one is hurt.
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
Ethiopian volcano erupts for first time in 12,000 years
Ash clouds from Hayli Gubbi volcano sent drifting across the Red Sea toward Yemen and Oman
www.theguardian.com
November 24, 2025 at 7:03 PM
chslane.bsky.social
@geographicalassoc.bsky.social @rgsibg.bsky.social @rgs-ibghe.bsky.social @camunigeography.bsky.social
chslane.bsky.social Christine S. Lane @chslane.bsky.social · Nov 20
This year we’ve added #Geography to the @corpuscambridge.bsky.social Pelican Programme. Part of our widening participation package, the 6-month intensive PP is a great way to expand geographical skills and knowledge ahead of a university application.
Find out more: www.corpus.cam.ac.uk/pelican
The Pelican Programme
Nominations for the 2026 Pelican Programme are now open and will close on Friday 12 December (17:00).
www.corpus.cam.ac.uk
November 20, 2025 at 4:30 PM
chslane.bsky.social
This year we’ve added #Geography to the @corpuscambridge.bsky.social Pelican Programme. Part of our widening participation package, the 6-month intensive PP is a great way to expand geographical skills and knowledge ahead of a university application.
Find out more: www.corpus.cam.ac.uk/pelican
The Pelican Programme
Nominations for the 2026 Pelican Programme are now open and will close on Friday 12 December (17:00).
www.corpus.cam.ac.uk
November 20, 2025 at 4:22 PM
chslane.bsky.social
Celebrations in the PhD office as another fantastic @camunigeography.bsky.social student comes out of their viva smiling. Congratulations Ciara Greaves!!
(and 10/10 for the tree ring cake🤩)
A (chocolate) cake decorated to look like a section through a tree, with mint leaves around the edge for decoration.
November 19, 2025 at 5:47 PM
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icdpdrilling.bsky.social
📢 Workshop CALL: Deep CHB (Addis Ababa, Ethiopia)
Deep Chew Bahir Drilling Project

WHEN 📆 June 30th – July 3rd, 2026

CALL ▶️ www.icdp-online.org/fileadmin/Ne...

MORE INFO ℹ️ www.icdp-online.org/all-events/d...
November 19, 2025 at 9:12 AM
chslane.bsky.social
Two weeks until our 2/12 PhD funding deadline! If you’re interested in a cryptotephra research project and joining @camtephra.bsky.social there’s still time drop me an email to discuss your ideas.
Dept funding info: www.geog.cam.ac.uk/postgraduate...
NERC DLA: nercdtp.esc.cam.ac.uk/StaffDirecto...
A grey, unoccupied lab with sink, centrifuge and shelves A hand holding a tally counter with 294 showing, next to the stage of a microscope. There is a slide on the microscope A row of labelled centrifuge tubes, with white caps, in a test tube rack. A few platy fragments of glass viewed under high powered optical microscopy.
November 14, 2025 at 1:10 PM
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thirstygecko.bsky.social
Exciting news! Student applications for paleoCAMP 2026 are open! Are you a graduate student working on any aspect of past climates or environments? Apply to be part of our 2-week summer school in the eastern Sierra Nevada! More details here: paleoclimate.camp/apply
Application — paleoCAMP
paleoclimate.camp
November 13, 2025 at 2:41 PM
chslane.bsky.social
Proud supervisor moment 🫶 Brilliant to see your paper published online @elowilkinsonrowe.bsky.social
November 13, 2025 at 8:54 AM
chslane.bsky.social
Fun finds in our sediment labs today. @camunigeography.bsky.social
Two people in lab coats in the foreground looking at a microscope screen with an image of a gastropod on it.
November 12, 2025 at 10:43 PM
chslane.bsky.social
Signs of a good day in the field with the Quaternary students from
@camunigeography.bsky.social
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Two pairs of hands, palm up, brown with mud. One has a tap measure hanging on their wrist. The ground below is covered in autumn leaf litter and walking boots can be seen.
November 6, 2025 at 4:38 PM
chslane.bsky.social
This week with our 2nd year @camunigeography.bsky.social students we’ve been learning about varve lake sediments and what they’ve revealed about abrupt climate change. It’s been fun! Here is a peek at some diatomaceous varves in the Lake Chala cores from Kenya/Tanzania. Enjoy…
The surface of a split sediment core, with a cm scale along each edge. You can see about 8 cm of the core. The surface shows fine mm-scale to cm-scale laminations, which for the most are alternating light-dark couplets. There is a cocktail stick marking a ~1 cm grey layer, which is a volcanic ash deposit.
October 31, 2025 at 6:17 PM
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tephraportal.bsky.social
Abstract submission is open for #EGU2026!

Join our session ESSI3.6 "From Principles to Practice: Multidisciplinary Approaches to Data-Driven Tephra Research." Share your multidisciplinary research, workflows, best practices, and cyberinfrastructure.

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October 23, 2025 at 3:14 PM
chslane.bsky.social
Anyone else have happy feet today? 🍂
October 17, 2025 at 8:52 AM
chslane.bsky.social
Thank goodness for the @camunigeography.bsky.social first-year trip to Breckland. The best place to escape my avalanching inbox at this point in the term. Heading back happily tomorrow for round three…
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An open lowland heath landscape with clumps of heather growing amongst hummocky grassland. There are a few nearby trees (including some tall Scott’s pines), a swathe of dried bracken, and forests in the distance. Sun has broken through the clouds. A few scattered backpacks can be seen in the foreground.
October 16, 2025 at 6:23 PM
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camunigeography.bsky.social
Welcome to all our Geography students — undergraduate and postgraduate, new and returning!
As we begin the academic year, we look forward to the department once again buzzing with energy, ideas, and curiosity.
October 7, 2025 at 6:07 PM
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imascientist.org.uk
Show students where geography can take them!

I’m a Geographer, supported by @rgsibg.bsky.social, highlights how geography is used in real jobs.

If you use geography in your work and have a post-16 geography qualification, apply here 👉 imageographer.uk/signup/c/
A graphic encouraging geographers to take part in 'I'm a Geographer, Get me out of here'. It reads 'Take part in easy and flexible online outreach to inspire the next generation.' with a link to sign up: imageographer.uk/signup/c. There is also a picture of a student taking part.
October 7, 2025 at 2:45 PM
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camtephra.bsky.social
Last week PhD student @yqnatdeng.bsky.social and @chslane.bsky.social were sampling cores from an Ethiopian lake…in Aberystwyth! Here’s hoping there’s lots of ancient cryptotephra to be found!
#tephratastic
A women stands by a wooden lab desk with a spatula held over a drainpipe filled with sediment. Close up of a sediment core with a small channel of samples removed (plus a couple of bigger gaps from previous sampling). A labelled drainpipe lies alongside, plus a centrifuge tube rack with labels filled tubes in it.
September 25, 2025 at 8:40 PM