Dr Kaja Fenn (she/her)
@drloessismore.bsky.social
Lecturer in Environmental Change @liverpooluni.bsky.social
Interested in anything loessy, dusty, Quaternary, luminescence dating, and geochemistry. Happiest outside or in the dark lab.
www.kajafenn.com
Interested in anything loessy, dusty, Quaternary, luminescence dating, and geochemistry. Happiest outside or in the dark lab.
www.kajafenn.com
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Fantastic to see our colleagues Professor Bethan Davies @iceybethan.bsky.social and Dr Owen King contributing to UNESCO & WMO’s new volume Glaciers and Ice Sheets in a Warming World: Impacts and Outcomes!
www.ncl.ac.uk/press/articl...
www.ncl.ac.uk/press/articl...
Newcastle scientists contribute to UNESCO glacier loss report
Scientists from Newcastle University have contributed to a major new international report highlighting accelerating decline of glaciers and ice sheets and the consequences for people and the planet.
www.ncl.ac.uk
November 10, 2025 at 6:39 PM
Fantastic to see our colleagues Professor Bethan Davies @iceybethan.bsky.social and Dr Owen King contributing to UNESCO & WMO’s new volume Glaciers and Ice Sheets in a Warming World: Impacts and Outcomes!
www.ncl.ac.uk/press/articl...
www.ncl.ac.uk/press/articl...
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Nanotyrannus is real.
For years I’ve considered many mid-sized gracile tyrannosaurs to be juvenile T. rex.
But I was wrong. This stunning new skeleton of a mature long-armed small tyrannosaur is clearly a different species.
Isn’t science fun?!
www.theguardian.com/science/2025...
For years I’ve considered many mid-sized gracile tyrannosaurs to be juvenile T. rex.
But I was wrong. This stunning new skeleton of a mature long-armed small tyrannosaur is clearly a different species.
Isn’t science fun?!
www.theguardian.com/science/2025...
Researchers discover new tyrannosaur species in ‘duelling dinosaurs’ fossil
Analysis of Montana fossils shows the battling predator was a fully grown Nanotyrannus, not a young T rex
www.theguardian.com
October 30, 2025 at 4:39 PM
Nanotyrannus is real.
For years I’ve considered many mid-sized gracile tyrannosaurs to be juvenile T. rex.
But I was wrong. This stunning new skeleton of a mature long-armed small tyrannosaur is clearly a different species.
Isn’t science fun?!
www.theguardian.com/science/2025...
For years I’ve considered many mid-sized gracile tyrannosaurs to be juvenile T. rex.
But I was wrong. This stunning new skeleton of a mature long-armed small tyrannosaur is clearly a different species.
Isn’t science fun?!
www.theguardian.com/science/2025...
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We organized an excursion to a former peat extraction area, drained&now restored peatland forest, and a mire conservation area. I wanted to share with you the atmosphere of this crisp autumn day in the Finnish countryside.
October 30, 2025 at 7:01 AM
We organized an excursion to a former peat extraction area, drained&now restored peatland forest, and a mire conservation area. I wanted to share with you the atmosphere of this crisp autumn day in the Finnish countryside.
Reposted by Dr Kaja Fenn (she/her)
We have an @aries-dtp.bsky.social PhD opportunity working with the Snæfellsnes Research Centre, Iceland, on how seabird nesting decisions might shape ecosystem processes, aries-dtp.ac.uk/studentships... With folk inc. @wetlandresilienceresearchgroup.com. If that sounds like you, get in touch :-)
October 29, 2025 at 6:59 PM
We have an @aries-dtp.bsky.social PhD opportunity working with the Snæfellsnes Research Centre, Iceland, on how seabird nesting decisions might shape ecosystem processes, aries-dtp.ac.uk/studentships... With folk inc. @wetlandresilienceresearchgroup.com. If that sounds like you, get in touch :-)
We forget too easily: many major breakthrough started as blue-sky research.
The global shift toward prioritising funding for applied science is incredibly short-sighted. Curiosity-driven discovery is what fuels future innovation — here are some great examples.
The global shift toward prioritising funding for applied science is incredibly short-sighted. Curiosity-driven discovery is what fuels future innovation — here are some great examples.
Ozempic, MRI machines and flat screen televisions all emerged out of fundamental research decades earlier — the very types of study being slashed by the US government
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
7 basic science discoveries that changed the world
Ozempic, MRI machines and flat screen televisions all emerged out of fundamental research decades earlier — the very types of study being slashed by the US government.
www.nature.com
October 29, 2025 at 2:43 PM
We forget too easily: many major breakthrough started as blue-sky research.
The global shift toward prioritising funding for applied science is incredibly short-sighted. Curiosity-driven discovery is what fuels future innovation — here are some great examples.
The global shift toward prioritising funding for applied science is incredibly short-sighted. Curiosity-driven discovery is what fuels future innovation — here are some great examples.
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🧹🌲 Ever heard whispers of a witch who flies through the forest in a mortar and pestle? Meet Baba Yaga: the mysterious, chicken-leg-house-living legend of Slavic folklore! 👀 This #WorldCultureWednesday, we’re diving into the myths that mix magic, mystery, and moral lessons.💀✨
October 29, 2025 at 2:13 PM
🧹🌲 Ever heard whispers of a witch who flies through the forest in a mortar and pestle? Meet Baba Yaga: the mysterious, chicken-leg-house-living legend of Slavic folklore! 👀 This #WorldCultureWednesday, we’re diving into the myths that mix magic, mystery, and moral lessons.💀✨
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Krapina, Croatia (~130 ka): eight white-tailed eagle talons show smoothed cut marks, polished facets & small notches—clear Neanderthal ornaments. #PaleoPost #Neanderthals #Krapina #SymbolicBehavior
Paper: doi.org/10.1371/jour...
Paper: doi.org/10.1371/jour...
October 28, 2025 at 10:35 AM
Krapina, Croatia (~130 ka): eight white-tailed eagle talons show smoothed cut marks, polished facets & small notches—clear Neanderthal ornaments. #PaleoPost #Neanderthals #Krapina #SymbolicBehavior
Paper: doi.org/10.1371/jour...
Paper: doi.org/10.1371/jour...
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Need a break from teaching???
Why not have a class viewing of my Landscapes Live talk?
Topics are landscape evolution, weathering, landslides, reading signals in deposited sediment
youtu.be/kr-T-Xoxp_4?...
Why not have a class viewing of my Landscapes Live talk?
Topics are landscape evolution, weathering, landslides, reading signals in deposited sediment
youtu.be/kr-T-Xoxp_4?...
Nicole Gasparini: LL 16.10.25
YouTube video by Landscapes Live
youtu.be
October 23, 2025 at 6:59 PM
Need a break from teaching???
Why not have a class viewing of my Landscapes Live talk?
Topics are landscape evolution, weathering, landslides, reading signals in deposited sediment
youtu.be/kr-T-Xoxp_4?...
Why not have a class viewing of my Landscapes Live talk?
Topics are landscape evolution, weathering, landslides, reading signals in deposited sediment
youtu.be/kr-T-Xoxp_4?...
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As droughts become longer and more intense, their toll on ecosystems could be far greater than we thought. Our new paper in @science.org shows how prolonged & extreme droughts cause dramatic, cumulative losses in ecosystem productivity across the globe www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
October 17, 2025 at 5:53 AM
As droughts become longer and more intense, their toll on ecosystems could be far greater than we thought. Our new paper in @science.org shows how prolonged & extreme droughts cause dramatic, cumulative losses in ecosystem productivity across the globe www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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Exciting 24-month Postdoc opportunity for a peatland palaeoecologist, working with Dr Jenna Sutherland at Leeds Beckett U. on the NERC-funded InSPIRE project. Investigating initiation of new peatlands in deglaciating parts of Alaska, including fieldwork vacancies.leedsbeckett.ac.uk/ce0984li_web...
Job profile
vacancies.leedsbeckett.ac.uk
October 17, 2025 at 11:45 AM
Exciting 24-month Postdoc opportunity for a peatland palaeoecologist, working with Dr Jenna Sutherland at Leeds Beckett U. on the NERC-funded InSPIRE project. Investigating initiation of new peatlands in deglaciating parts of Alaska, including fieldwork vacancies.leedsbeckett.ac.uk/ce0984li_web...
My wonderful friend @geologyjohnson.bsky.social is working on early life and some controversial 2.1 billion years old fossils. Check out this article in Scientific American
www.scientificamerican.com/article/comp...
www.scientificamerican.com/article/comp...
October 15, 2025 at 4:43 PM
My wonderful friend @geologyjohnson.bsky.social is working on early life and some controversial 2.1 billion years old fossils. Check out this article in Scientific American
www.scientificamerican.com/article/comp...
www.scientificamerican.com/article/comp...
In another exciting news I am kicking off a new project generously supported by the @royalsociety.org 🙏
The title tells you the whole story: “SOUTHERN DUSTSCAPES – Reconciling scales of past dust fluxes and their impact on climate in the Southern Hemisphere.”
#LoessIsMore #Dust #Quaternary
The title tells you the whole story: “SOUTHERN DUSTSCAPES – Reconciling scales of past dust fluxes and their impact on climate in the Southern Hemisphere.”
#LoessIsMore #Dust #Quaternary
October 15, 2025 at 3:50 PM
In another exciting news I am kicking off a new project generously supported by the @royalsociety.org 🙏
The title tells you the whole story: “SOUTHERN DUSTSCAPES – Reconciling scales of past dust fluxes and their impact on climate in the Southern Hemisphere.”
#LoessIsMore #Dust #Quaternary
The title tells you the whole story: “SOUTHERN DUSTSCAPES – Reconciling scales of past dust fluxes and their impact on climate in the Southern Hemisphere.”
#LoessIsMore #Dust #Quaternary
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Here is a closer look at the record low #Arctic sea ice around Svalbard currently. This coincides with the record warmth as well (check out my earlier post). Earlier last week temperatures in parts of Svalbard were more similar to July than October.
Graphic produced by cryo.met.no/en/sea-ice-i...
Graphic produced by cryo.met.no/en/sea-ice-i...
October 11, 2025 at 1:57 PM
Here is a closer look at the record low #Arctic sea ice around Svalbard currently. This coincides with the record warmth as well (check out my earlier post). Earlier last week temperatures in parts of Svalbard were more similar to July than October.
Graphic produced by cryo.met.no/en/sea-ice-i...
Graphic produced by cryo.met.no/en/sea-ice-i...
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Lol the Nobels can't even acknowledge women's contribution to discovery. But sure let's acknowledge The Machines.
October 9, 2025 at 7:00 PM
Lol the Nobels can't even acknowledge women's contribution to discovery. But sure let's acknowledge The Machines.
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Campaigners + local businesses claim phosphates + nitrates from the collective poo of as many as 23million chickens packed into the Wye catchment from a growing number of intensive chicken farms are driving algal blooms, harming fish + wildlife.
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www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
River Wye pollution prompts UK's largest environmental lawsuit
Livestock and water companies are accused of “extensive” pollution in the Wye, Lugg and Usk rivers.
www.bbc.co.uk
October 8, 2025 at 5:30 PM
Campaigners + local businesses claim phosphates + nitrates from the collective poo of as many as 23million chickens packed into the Wye catchment from a growing number of intensive chicken farms are driving algal blooms, harming fish + wildlife.
🧵 1/
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Sheesh - a tsunami big enough to push coral boulders 100s of m inland in the British Virgin Islands around the year 1400, likely sourced from an earthquake on the Puerto Rico Trench.
This is cool - new paper from Hali Kilbourne et al. 'Dating a Medieval Tsunami With Uranium-Series Techniques on Caribbean Corals' agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/...
Dating a Medieval Tsunami With Uranium‐Series Techniques on Caribbean Corals
Uranium-series analyses provide dates for 15 annually banded coral skeletons on the low Caribbean island of Anegada
A subset of the corals was likely washed ashore in a Puerto Rico Trench tsunami...
agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com
October 8, 2025 at 6:29 PM
Sheesh - a tsunami big enough to push coral boulders 100s of m inland in the British Virgin Islands around the year 1400, likely sourced from an earthquake on the Puerto Rico Trench.
Reposted by Dr Kaja Fenn (she/her)
News that shocks no one: Carbon offsets do nothing for climate.
Carbon offsets fail to cut global heating due to ‘intractable’ systemic problems, study says
Analysis of 25 years of evidence shows most schemes are poor quality and fail to lower emissions
www.theguardian.com
October 7, 2025 at 11:43 AM
News that shocks no one: Carbon offsets do nothing for climate.
📣Our new paper presents new a high-resolution luminescence and radiocarbon chronology for the Naisiusiu Beds at Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania. This site is crucial for understanding the cultural and biological evolution of Homo sapiens in the Late Pleistocene.
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
October 6, 2025 at 10:04 AM
📣Our new paper presents new a high-resolution luminescence and radiocarbon chronology for the Naisiusiu Beds at Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania. This site is crucial for understanding the cultural and biological evolution of Homo sapiens in the Late Pleistocene.
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Check out our new paper 👇 in Quaternary Science Reviews.
It explores the geological context of Dalarik-1 Cave (Armenia) — refining how we understand early human activity in the Aragats Volcanic Province.
By the wider @humendylab.bsky.social team
📄 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
It explores the geological context of Dalarik-1 Cave (Armenia) — refining how we understand early human activity in the Aragats Volcanic Province.
By the wider @humendylab.bsky.social team
📄 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
October 4, 2025 at 12:32 PM
Check out our new paper 👇 in Quaternary Science Reviews.
It explores the geological context of Dalarik-1 Cave (Armenia) — refining how we understand early human activity in the Aragats Volcanic Province.
By the wider @humendylab.bsky.social team
📄 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
It explores the geological context of Dalarik-1 Cave (Armenia) — refining how we understand early human activity in the Aragats Volcanic Province.
By the wider @humendylab.bsky.social team
📄 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
It’s been a hectic summer and start to the academic year — full of exciting developments that I haven’t had a chance to share yet.
Over the next week I’ll be sharing a few updates — some new papers, additions to the team, a new role, and a brand-new project 👀
Stay tuned — lots of news coming soon!
Over the next week I’ll be sharing a few updates — some new papers, additions to the team, a new role, and a brand-new project 👀
Stay tuned — lots of news coming soon!
October 4, 2025 at 12:13 PM
It’s been a hectic summer and start to the academic year — full of exciting developments that I haven’t had a chance to share yet.
Over the next week I’ll be sharing a few updates — some new papers, additions to the team, a new role, and a brand-new project 👀
Stay tuned — lots of news coming soon!
Over the next week I’ll be sharing a few updates — some new papers, additions to the team, a new role, and a brand-new project 👀
Stay tuned — lots of news coming soon!
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🚨FOUR tenure track positions in my dept @ucalgary.bsky.social @ucalgaryscience.bsky.social in applied & computational geophysics, subsurface geochemistry, sedimentary geology, and sustainable soil science. careers.ucalgary.ca/search/jobs?...
(please reskeet widely!) #academicsky 🧪⚒️🇨🇦
(please reskeet widely!) #academicsky 🧪⚒️🇨🇦
Opportunities
matching 'earth'
Search 4 Careers available at University of Calgary.
careers.ucalgary.ca
October 3, 2025 at 5:57 PM
🚨FOUR tenure track positions in my dept @ucalgary.bsky.social @ucalgaryscience.bsky.social in applied & computational geophysics, subsurface geochemistry, sedimentary geology, and sustainable soil science. careers.ucalgary.ca/search/jobs?...
(please reskeet widely!) #academicsky 🧪⚒️🇨🇦
(please reskeet widely!) #academicsky 🧪⚒️🇨🇦
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The global phenomenon of “bikelash” has become one of the biggest barriers to implementing interventions that make our streets more liveable, accessible and sustainable. So how do we best manage it as advocates for change? Here are eight strategies we recently presented at the Velo-city Conference.🧵
August 14, 2025 at 9:54 AM
The global phenomenon of “bikelash” has become one of the biggest barriers to implementing interventions that make our streets more liveable, accessible and sustainable. So how do we best manage it as advocates for change? Here are eight strategies we recently presented at the Velo-city Conference.🧵
Our new study lead produced enhanced paleo‑geomorphological mapping of the Ararat Depression to decode how shifting landforms shaped human movement and settlement in the Late Pleistocene
doi.org/10.1016/j.qu...
@humendylab.bsky.social @arikmalinsky-b.bsky.social @yannismicrooikon.bsky.social
doi.org/10.1016/j.qu...
@humendylab.bsky.social @arikmalinsky-b.bsky.social @yannismicrooikon.bsky.social
Redirecting
doi.org
August 5, 2025 at 7:25 AM
Our new study lead produced enhanced paleo‑geomorphological mapping of the Ararat Depression to decode how shifting landforms shaped human movement and settlement in the Late Pleistocene
doi.org/10.1016/j.qu...
@humendylab.bsky.social @arikmalinsky-b.bsky.social @yannismicrooikon.bsky.social
doi.org/10.1016/j.qu...
@humendylab.bsky.social @arikmalinsky-b.bsky.social @yannismicrooikon.bsky.social
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Unravelling the formation processes and depositional histories of the Middle Palaeolithic Ararat-1 Cave, Armenia: A multiscalar and multiproxy geoarchaeological approach www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Unravelling the formation processes and depositional histories of the Middle Palaeolithic Ararat-1 Cave, Armenia: A multiscalar and multiproxy geoarchaeological approach
The sedimentary sequence of Ararat-1 Cave encapsulates an intricate depositional archive (Marine Isotope Stage 3), crucial for our understanding of th…
www.sciencedirect.com
May 22, 2025 at 6:30 AM
Unravelling the formation processes and depositional histories of the Middle Palaeolithic Ararat-1 Cave, Armenia: A multiscalar and multiproxy geoarchaeological approach www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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There are 2 previous historical cases of countries destroying their science and universities, crippling them for decades: Lysenkoism in the USSR and Nazi Germany. The Trump administration will be the 3rd.
It's not just budgets but research, institutions, expertise, and training the next generation.
It's not just budgets but research, institutions, expertise, and training the next generation.
May 31, 2025 at 4:43 AM
There are 2 previous historical cases of countries destroying their science and universities, crippling them for decades: Lysenkoism in the USSR and Nazi Germany. The Trump administration will be the 3rd.
It's not just budgets but research, institutions, expertise, and training the next generation.
It's not just budgets but research, institutions, expertise, and training the next generation.