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Mike Peacock
@peatymike.bsky.social
Biogeochemist at University of Liverpool & SLU Uppsala. Greenhouse gases and water chemistry in peatlands, lakes, streams, ditches and ponds. Lover of mountains and wild places.

https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=GXE28xwAAAAJ&hl=en
A really fun day at Risley Moss with our @livunigeog.bsky.social MSc students. Peat coring, pool biogeochemistry, and vegetation ID. Loads of enthusiasm from the students.
November 7, 2025 at 6:14 PM
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🌎 Funded PhD Opportunity | @acce-dla.bsky.social

**The carbon drain: quantifying carbon removal from peatlands and forests by rivers in the Peruvian Amazon**
November 4, 2025 at 5:04 PM
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🚨 Funded PhD 🚨 How does the reproduction of trees respond to drought? How does this shape forest resilience to drought? Join us in Liverpool & Kew Gardens @rbgkew.bsky.social
to answer this question!

Details & application info here: www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

Deadline: 7th January

🌳🌰🌲🌱🌤️🌡️
November 4, 2025 at 7:07 AM
Interested in peatlands and biogeochemistry? Like fieldwork? Then come and do a PhD at @livunigeog.bsky.social
supervised by me, @rchiverrell.bsky.social, Jenny Williamson (@ukceh.bsky.social eh.bsky.social) + Dewi Davies (@nationaltrust.org.uk ltrust.org.uk) www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
November 4, 2025 at 7:56 AM
Really cool audio story on our recent ditch paper by @emfurd.bsky.social. Let's all pay more attention to our ditches...
October 31, 2025 at 8:24 PM
Somehow managed to dodge the showers on Binsey in the northern Lake District today
October 29, 2025 at 6:22 PM
A very pleasant few hours on Sale Fell in the Lake District today.
October 27, 2025 at 5:42 PM
Our session on aquatic ecosystems and greenhouse gases will be running again at #EGU26. Why not get ahead of the post-Christmas last-minute rush and submit an abstract unfashionably early?
October 27, 2025 at 8:07 AM
New ditch GHG paper out, led by @etechlab.bsky.social. Was fun to be involved in something with a tropical focus for a change. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Greenhouse gas emissions from ditches in oil palm plantations on tropical peatlands in Malaysia - Scientific Reports
Scientific Reports - Greenhouse gas emissions from ditches in oil palm plantations on tropical peatlands in Malaysia
www.nature.com
October 26, 2025 at 8:11 PM
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PhD on carbon and greenhouse gas fluxes in ditches. Supervised by @aquaticcarbon.bsky.social at Uni Glasgow with @peatymike.bsky.social, Amy Pickard (@ukceh.bsky.social ) and me.
Get in touch if interested and circulate to potential candidates!
🧪 #GreenhouseGases

share.google/lvswIyC9TYg5...
The role of ditches in the global carbon cycle: A critical & unrecognised player.
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October 24, 2025 at 12:38 PM
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We are looking for a postdoc to help us develop a novel #Peatland Triage Tool as part of the RESPECT project (gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref...).
More details in the advert below.

Vacancy details | University of Stirling share.google/t3mKgh2EZAmr...

🧪 #PeatSky #Postdoc #AcedemicJobs
Vacancy details | About | University of Stirling
Job vacancy at the University of Stirling.
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October 23, 2025 at 9:38 AM
It's Thursday which can only mean one thing: lab day for our 1st year @livunigeog.bsky.social undergrads. My students are out on campus @liverpooluni.bsky.social enjoying the sunshine and measuring CO2 emissions from grasses and soils.
October 23, 2025 at 9:39 AM
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Pick your kids up from school.
Don't reply to that email at 10pm. It almost certainly can wait until the morning.
Not every conference is worth it.
Call bad behaviour out.
Don't be afraid to stick up for yourself.
You're not the only who feels that way.

"No." is a complete sentence.
October 22, 2025 at 2:33 PM
Looking for a PhD in environmental science? I will soon have an advert out for a project at @liverpooluni.bsky.social with @ukceh.bsky.social & @nationaltrust.org.uk.

"Peatland drainage + rewetting across the UK uplands + lowlands"

All about GHG emissions and aquatic carbon. Watch this space!
October 16, 2025 at 12:36 PM
Well this is cool. A new peat paper with a possible mechanism for Will-o’-the-wisps in @pnas.org

www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
October 15, 2025 at 9:11 AM
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The Conversation article that @avnimalh0tra.bsky.social and I wrote about the PeatPic Project and the power of harnessing people, community science and the importance of research networks is now online too

theconversation.com/harnessing-t...

#Peatlands #PeatColour
October 14, 2025 at 5:18 PM
Migneint blanket bog with @laurabaugh94.bsky.social
today, installing collars for our @water4all-eu.bsky.social
project ECOWADE, + doing some pool GHG measurements for Laura's PhD.

Also enjoyed visiting a new restoration site where work has just started to reprofile an eroded area of peat hags.
October 14, 2025 at 5:37 PM
I really enjoyed being part of this project and paper, led excellently by @wetlandresilienceresearchgroup.com
🚨New Paper 🚨
The PeatPic Project: Predicting plot-scale green leaf #phenology across #peatlands

So happy to see this paper online — one of my favourite projects!

We explored how to capture how peatlands change colour using smartphones and community science!

iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1...
October 13, 2025 at 1:17 PM
Got some people together for a whisky tasting and we all brought a few bottles. Ardbeg Uigeadail was unanimously voted the best.
October 12, 2025 at 12:41 PM
Looking for a PhD in aquatic carbon/GHG cycling? Take a look at this fantastic opportunity. Led by @aquaticcarbon.bsky.social and with Amy Pickard, Jens-Arne Subke and me. Field + lab components, and lots of exciting science.

iapetus.ac.uk/studentships...
October 6, 2025 at 9:50 AM
"These authors contributed equally to the manuscript."

This is fair enough, I've used this text in at least two papers. But how many authors can "equally contribute"? Is there a limit? I've seen examples of n = 4.
September 29, 2025 at 6:42 PM
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We shouldn't say peatlands act as sponges...but they can slow flow and dampen droughts. Our new paper led by Kirsten Lees onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1...

@peatofmind.bsky.social @peatymike.bsky.social @em-shuttleworth.bsky.social @andybairdj.bsky.social @researchleeds.bsky.social
The Sponge Analogy Problem: Moving Towards Clearer Communication of Peatland Hydrological Processes
Correctly communicating peatland hydrology.
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
September 25, 2025 at 4:07 PM
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Are you fascinated by how peatlands form and how they are impacted by human land use? I am seeking PhD students to join my lab at the Asian School of the Environment in Singapore. For more, visit dynamicpeatlands.org/phd-programme
Opportunities to join Alex Cobb's group
PhD, postdoc, Masters and undergraduate opportunities with Alex Cobb's group at the Asian School of the Environment.
dynamicpeatlands.org
September 22, 2025 at 1:51 PM
Received a review invite from Inland Waters. No deadline given. Accepted the review to find the deadline is 10 working days. Hilarious. The race to the bottom goes on.
September 22, 2025 at 11:02 AM