David Small
@davidsmall.bsky.social
Assistant Professor @Durham University. I don’t know what I do either. Ice and Antarctica I’m told. Also part-time fitba fan and listener of music wholly or predominantly categorised by the emission of a succession of repetitive beats. He/Him.
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I am hiring 4 postdoctoral researchers for up to 4 years each. Topics include ice sheet reconstruction, GIA, spatial stats, and satellite geodesy. Based in Tasmania.
All details are here: careers.utas.edu.au/en/listing/ with titles below
I am also recruiting multiple PhD students (see below)
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All details are here: careers.utas.edu.au/en/listing/ with titles below
I am also recruiting multiple PhD students (see below)
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Current Vacancies
careers.utas.edu.au
November 13, 2025 at 3:04 AM
I am hiring 4 postdoctoral researchers for up to 4 years each. Topics include ice sheet reconstruction, GIA, spatial stats, and satellite geodesy. Based in Tasmania.
All details are here: careers.utas.edu.au/en/listing/ with titles below
I am also recruiting multiple PhD students (see below)
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All details are here: careers.utas.edu.au/en/listing/ with titles below
I am also recruiting multiple PhD students (see below)
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Hey ice sheet types! 👋
The memes about the insane number of starter packs on this thing motivated me to create one more.
Please let me know who I am missing from the ice sheet world. 👇
go.bsky.app/4SxszWw
November 24, 2024 at 4:00 PM
Hey ice sheet types! 👋
The memes about the insane number of starter packs on this thing motivated me to create one more.
Please let me know who I am missing from the ice sheet world. 👇
go.bsky.app/4SxszWw
You say ice shelf, I say ice plain…
November 4, 2025 at 9:15 PM
You say ice shelf, I say ice plain…
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Applications are now open for a Glasgow-based Iapetus DTP project centred on using in situ 14C to study glacier histories in East Antarctica! tinyurl.com/3ddvynn2 @stever60.bsky.social @uofglasgow.bsky.social @iapetusdtp.bsky.social @bas.ac.uk
October 9, 2025 at 10:56 AM
Applications are now open for a Glasgow-based Iapetus DTP project centred on using in situ 14C to study glacier histories in East Antarctica! tinyurl.com/3ddvynn2 @stever60.bsky.social @uofglasgow.bsky.social @iapetusdtp.bsky.social @bas.ac.uk
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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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What happens when 80 Antarctic scientists from Australia and Japan get together to discuss future research?
This 👉 aappartnership.org.au/australia-an...
@anthonypress.bsky.social
@utas.edu.au
@imas-utas.bsky.social
This 👉 aappartnership.org.au/australia-an...
@anthonypress.bsky.social
@utas.edu.au
@imas-utas.bsky.social
Australia and Japan launch plan for joint Antarctic research - AAPP
Japan and Australia working together in Antarctica and the Southern Ocean
aappartnership.org.au
September 17, 2025 at 2:18 AM
What happens when 80 Antarctic scientists from Australia and Japan get together to discuss future research?
This 👉 aappartnership.org.au/australia-an...
@anthonypress.bsky.social
@utas.edu.au
@imas-utas.bsky.social
This 👉 aappartnership.org.au/australia-an...
@anthonypress.bsky.social
@utas.edu.au
@imas-utas.bsky.social
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Chuffed to be included in this review paper on the Foundation-Patuxent-Academy ice stream system, Antarctica led by Neil Ross - you can see the preprint in open review here: doi.org/10.5194/egus... - featuring the busiest figure I've ever made 🇦🇶🧊
September 10, 2025 at 2:19 PM
Chuffed to be included in this review paper on the Foundation-Patuxent-Academy ice stream system, Antarctica led by Neil Ross - you can see the preprint in open review here: doi.org/10.5194/egus... - featuring the busiest figure I've ever made 🇦🇶🧊
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Fire-induced rock spalling! This area burnt about 1-2 months ago. All of the little rock shards on the ground are spalled pieces of the granite boulder, overlying burnt soil and moss.
Before seeing this in person, I didn't really consider the mechanical weathering effects of fire!
Before seeing this in person, I didn't really consider the mechanical weathering effects of fire!
September 4, 2025 at 5:07 PM
Fire-induced rock spalling! This area burnt about 1-2 months ago. All of the little rock shards on the ground are spalled pieces of the granite boulder, overlying burnt soil and moss.
Before seeing this in person, I didn't really consider the mechanical weathering effects of fire!
Before seeing this in person, I didn't really consider the mechanical weathering effects of fire!
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📢Big news: PGC has secured 5 more years of funding from NSF-OPP!
Remote sensing, mapping, and geospatial support continues for the polar research community.
Some services remain paused as we rebuild capacity.
🎉Cheers to keeping the poles on the map and in focus!
www.pgc.umn.edu/news/pgc-sec...
Remote sensing, mapping, and geospatial support continues for the polar research community.
Some services remain paused as we rebuild capacity.
🎉Cheers to keeping the poles on the map and in focus!
www.pgc.umn.edu/news/pgc-sec...
August 11, 2025 at 9:05 PM
📢Big news: PGC has secured 5 more years of funding from NSF-OPP!
Remote sensing, mapping, and geospatial support continues for the polar research community.
Some services remain paused as we rebuild capacity.
🎉Cheers to keeping the poles on the map and in focus!
www.pgc.umn.edu/news/pgc-sec...
Remote sensing, mapping, and geospatial support continues for the polar research community.
Some services remain paused as we rebuild capacity.
🎉Cheers to keeping the poles on the map and in focus!
www.pgc.umn.edu/news/pgc-sec...
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🌊❄️🧪 🇦🇶 Please share:
We have learned that the National Science Foundation is moving ahead with plans to decommission the U.S. Research Vessel/Ice Breaker Nathaniel B. Palmer this October.
If you care about Antarctic research, please read on (1/n)
We have learned that the National Science Foundation is moving ahead with plans to decommission the U.S. Research Vessel/Ice Breaker Nathaniel B. Palmer this October.
If you care about Antarctic research, please read on (1/n)
July 25, 2025 at 7:50 PM
🌊❄️🧪 🇦🇶 Please share:
We have learned that the National Science Foundation is moving ahead with plans to decommission the U.S. Research Vessel/Ice Breaker Nathaniel B. Palmer this October.
If you care about Antarctic research, please read on (1/n)
We have learned that the National Science Foundation is moving ahead with plans to decommission the U.S. Research Vessel/Ice Breaker Nathaniel B. Palmer this October.
If you care about Antarctic research, please read on (1/n)
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Another great day of the IGS symposium, with a field trip visiting evidence of glaciation in upper Teesdale, Eden Valley drumlins at Brough Castle, the fluvioglacial landscape of the Brampton Kame Belt, and streamlined bedforms from Tyne Gap ice streaming (plus Roman archaeology) at Hadrian's Wall!
July 23, 2025 at 6:11 PM
Another great day of the IGS symposium, with a field trip visiting evidence of glaciation in upper Teesdale, Eden Valley drumlins at Brough Castle, the fluvioglacial landscape of the Brampton Kame Belt, and streamlined bedforms from Tyne Gap ice streaming (plus Roman archaeology) at Hadrian's Wall!
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Yesterday I gave a talk to ECRs at the @igsoc.bsky.social @igs-egg.bsky.social conference @geogdurham.bsky.social @durhamglaciology.bsky.social on academic networking. My tips and tricks for academic networking for career success are here: www.antarcticglaciers.org/2025/07/stra...
Anything to add?
Anything to add?
Strategic networking: building an academic career - AntarcticGlaciers.org
Strategies for academic networking at conferences, using formal networks and committees, and informal or peer networks.
www.antarcticglaciers.org
July 23, 2025 at 8:13 AM
Yesterday I gave a talk to ECRs at the @igsoc.bsky.social @igs-egg.bsky.social conference @geogdurham.bsky.social @durhamglaciology.bsky.social on academic networking. My tips and tricks for academic networking for career success are here: www.antarcticglaciers.org/2025/07/stra...
Anything to add?
Anything to add?
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Really disappointing new policy from NERC banning resubmissions of grant applications
Many of us, including me, have won grants on resubmission,
using the reviews to improve the application
This is is neither fair nor productive
www.ukri.org/councils/ner...
Many of us, including me, have won grants on resubmission,
using the reviews to improve the application
This is is neither fair nor productive
www.ukri.org/councils/ner...
NERC policy on resubmissions
This policy only applies to research grant applications.
www.ukri.org
July 17, 2025 at 5:16 PM
Really disappointing new policy from NERC banning resubmissions of grant applications
Many of us, including me, have won grants on resubmission,
using the reviews to improve the application
This is is neither fair nor productive
www.ukri.org/councils/ner...
Many of us, including me, have won grants on resubmission,
using the reviews to improve the application
This is is neither fair nor productive
www.ukri.org/councils/ner...
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Our University Research Fellowships are now open for applications. These fellowships are for outstanding early career scientists to pursue cutting-edge scientific research and build an independent research career. Find out more: #RSGrants royalsociety.org/grants/unive...
July 16, 2025 at 11:15 AM
Our University Research Fellowships are now open for applications. These fellowships are for outstanding early career scientists to pursue cutting-edge scientific research and build an independent research career. Find out more: #RSGrants royalsociety.org/grants/unive...
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Bedmap3 map PDFs are now available to freely download from BAS
data.bas.ac.uk/items/757872...
data.bas.ac.uk/items/757872...
July 15, 2025 at 4:02 PM
Bedmap3 map PDFs are now available to freely download from BAS
data.bas.ac.uk/items/757872...
data.bas.ac.uk/items/757872...
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Great work by our colleagues Stewart Jamieson and Guy Paxman: "We have been using satellite data to map an ancient river landscape beneath the East Antarctic Ice Sheet:. The landscape has been frozen in time for up to 34 million years." ⚒️🧪
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Extensive fluvial surfaces at the East Antarctic margin have modulated ice-sheet evolution - Nature Geoscience
Extensive flat surfaces observed beneath the East Antarctic Ice Sheet margin were formed by fluvial erosion and have modulated the ice-sheet response to climate change, according to an analysis of rad...
www.nature.com
July 11, 2025 at 10:57 AM
Great work by our colleagues Stewart Jamieson and Guy Paxman: "We have been using satellite data to map an ancient river landscape beneath the East Antarctic Ice Sheet:. The landscape has been frozen in time for up to 34 million years." ⚒️🧪
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Congratulations to @cristinabalaban.bsky.social who was back visiting Durham today for graduation! 🎓 Cristina's PhD research reconstructed the past glaciation of the Southern Carpathians, Romania, and she is now continuing her palaeoglaciological work as a postdoc in Prague. Well done Cristina! 👏❄️🍾
July 8, 2025 at 8:22 PM
Congratulations to @cristinabalaban.bsky.social who was back visiting Durham today for graduation! 🎓 Cristina's PhD research reconstructed the past glaciation of the Southern Carpathians, Romania, and she is now continuing her palaeoglaciological work as a postdoc in Prague. Well done Cristina! 👏❄️🍾
Do you want to play with your toys?
8 month old:
8 month old:
July 4, 2025 at 10:34 AM
Do you want to play with your toys?
8 month old:
8 month old:
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Electronic duo combine Arctic soundscapes and indigenous music to spotlight climate crisis
Electronic duo combine Arctic soundscapes and indigenous music to spotlight climate crisis
Titled ‘Takkuuk’ — an Inuit-language word meaning ‘look’ — the project highlights Greenlandic and Arctic ice sheet loss.
www.semafor.com
July 2, 2025 at 6:32 PM
Electronic duo combine Arctic soundscapes and indigenous music to spotlight climate crisis
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The changing shape of the solid earth is usually considered to be purely responding immediately to changes in surface load, like a spring.
Grace Nield now shows that in the Antarctic Peninsula there's a whole lot more going on. ⚒️🧪❄️ #geodesy
agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/...
Grace Nield now shows that in the Antarctic Peninsula there's a whole lot more going on. ⚒️🧪❄️ #geodesy
agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/...
Surface Mass Balance Variability Causes Viscoelastic Solid Earth Deformation in the Antarctic Peninsula
Surface mass balance (SMB) variability causes solid Earth viscoelastic deformation in the Antarctic Peninsula; commonly assumed to be elastic
Results show upper mantle steady-state viscosity is <...
agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com
June 19, 2025 at 10:40 PM
The changing shape of the solid earth is usually considered to be purely responding immediately to changes in surface load, like a spring.
Grace Nield now shows that in the Antarctic Peninsula there's a whole lot more going on. ⚒️🧪❄️ #geodesy
agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/...
Grace Nield now shows that in the Antarctic Peninsula there's a whole lot more going on. ⚒️🧪❄️ #geodesy
agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/...
Getting asked to prove your right to work by the institution where have been working for the last 8 YEARS.
University of Manchester comfortably the weirdest university to try to get any payment from, not least because they absolutely insist that it is mandatory for external freelance contractors to provide e.g. their date of birth to get any money
June 14, 2025 at 8:53 AM
Getting asked to prove your right to work by the institution where have been working for the last 8 YEARS.
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New Job! Please repost!
We have a NERC funded PDRA position here @oxuniearthsci.bsky.social, 2 yrs, on modelling cryosphere change and hydrochemistry
#models, #carbon, #permafrost, #deglaciation
Come join our friendly team!
Apply by 11/06, any Qs get in touch!
my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecru...
We have a NERC funded PDRA position here @oxuniearthsci.bsky.social, 2 yrs, on modelling cryosphere change and hydrochemistry
#models, #carbon, #permafrost, #deglaciation
Come join our friendly team!
Apply by 11/06, any Qs get in touch!
my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecru...
May 15, 2025 at 9:30 AM
New Job! Please repost!
We have a NERC funded PDRA position here @oxuniearthsci.bsky.social, 2 yrs, on modelling cryosphere change and hydrochemistry
#models, #carbon, #permafrost, #deglaciation
Come join our friendly team!
Apply by 11/06, any Qs get in touch!
my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecru...
We have a NERC funded PDRA position here @oxuniearthsci.bsky.social, 2 yrs, on modelling cryosphere change and hydrochemistry
#models, #carbon, #permafrost, #deglaciation
Come join our friendly team!
Apply by 11/06, any Qs get in touch!
my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecru...
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📢 The final ArcticDEM & REMA release is here - and it might be the last. Funding cuts put vital polar data at risk. Help us rally support: take the survey! 🔗https://z.umn.edu/pgc-dem-survey #PolarScience #SavePolarData
April 28, 2025 at 5:37 PM
📢 The final ArcticDEM & REMA release is here - and it might be the last. Funding cuts put vital polar data at risk. Help us rally support: take the survey! 🔗https://z.umn.edu/pgc-dem-survey #PolarScience #SavePolarData
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Our new paper as part of Anya Towers' PhD research is out in ESPL! We used in situ 14C to trace sediment storage dynamics in the River Feshie, Cairngorms - finding paraglacial terraces are an important sediment source: doi.org/10.1002/esp.... @simonmariusmudd.bsky.social
Denudation rates and Holocene sediment storage dynamics inferred from in situ 14C concentrations in the Feshie basin, Scotland
Inferred catchment-averaged denudation rates in post-glacial landscapes do not always reflect true ‘basin-wide’ denudation rates, and instead represent a mixture of sediment sourced from paraglacial ...
doi.org
March 27, 2025 at 9:43 AM
Our new paper as part of Anya Towers' PhD research is out in ESPL! We used in situ 14C to trace sediment storage dynamics in the River Feshie, Cairngorms - finding paraglacial terraces are an important sediment source: doi.org/10.1002/esp.... @simonmariusmudd.bsky.social