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Oldfirmfacts @oldfirmfacts.bsky.social 4x SFSA ‘Best Writer’ winner. Writing, podcasts, radio, live shows. Anti-your-team agenda.
International Continental Scientific Drilling Program ICDP @icdpdrilling.bsky.social International consortium supporting and guiding scientific drilling worldwide to solve the world's most important societal and environmental problems.
https://www.icdp-online.org
European Research Council (ERC) @erc.europa.eu European Research Council, set up by the EU, funds top researchers of any nationality, helping them pursue great ideas at the frontiers of knowledge. #HorizonEU
Brent Ward @geobrentatlarge.bsky.social SFU Earth Sciences, Quaternary Geologist, Cordilleran Ice Sheet, purveyor of Natural Hazards, Climate Change of the past and the future, Long suffering Canucks fan, loves woolly mammoths (he, him, his)
ICIMOD @icimod.bsky.social Regional intergovernmental knowledge centre working across 8 Hindu Kush Himalayan #HKH countries
Tweets on #HKH #MountainsMatter
Jeff Warburton @jeffwarburton.bsky.social Loves geomorphology of mountains, fells and peaty places
Copernicus ECMWF @copernicusecmwf.bsky.social The #CopernicusClimate Change Service (#C3S) & #CopernicusAtmosphere Monitoring Service (CAMS), implemented by @ecmwf.int on behalf of the @ec.europa.eu.
Fredrik Høgaas @fredrhog.bsky.social Quaternary geologist at the Geological Survey of Norway (NGU). Past ice sheets, palaeolakes and outburst floods.
𝔐𝔞𝔤𝔫𝔢𝔱𝔰 🧲 @magnets.eurosky.social We're heavily into the world of magnets now
Dave Roberts @daveroberts2026.bsky.social Glacial geologist/geomorphologist; Greenland Ice Sheet; British-Irish Ice Sheet
Kirsty Grainger @kirstygrainger.bsky.social By day: enabler of research & cheerleader of people. By night: sweary embroidery, speedcubing, books, parkrun. University of Bath (ex-UKRI). She/her
Naureen Khan @hyouga-to-yuki.bsky.social PhD candidate studying crevasses on the Greenland Ice Sheet @UBuffalo
Howie Hua @howiehua.bsky.social I teach math to future elementary school teachers at Fresno State. I make math memes and explainer videos. http://linktr.ee/howiehua
Jan Lenaerts @janlenaerts.bsky.social Climate expert & (non-expert) dad. Managing climate products at MSCI. Former prof, ex-McKinsey
Scott K. Johnson @sjon.earth sci comm person
writing at https://www.sjon.earth
Ricarda Winkelmann @ricarda-winkelmann.bsky.social Founding Director | Max Planck Institute of Geoanthropology
www.gea.mpg.de
Allen Pope @allenpope.bsky.social Polar scientist & glaciologist. Sec Gen for @igsoc.bsky.social. Trail running. Still new to this platform & figuring things out!
MicroLab@Bristol @microlabbristol.bsky.social Polar microbiology research group led by Chris Williamson
Christine Siddoway @iphigenesdream.bsky.social Field geologist, US Antarctic Program investigator - West Antarctica, College professor, Proterozoic-lover, admirer of Iphigene Ochs. Favorite mineral: Cordierite. Best rock types: mylonite, kinzigite and diamictite! Favorite weather: blowing snow.
Geraint Jenkins @gthjenkins.bsky.social Science & Nature | PhD Luminescence Dating / Quaternary / Palaeo Ice Sheets | Durham & Aberystwyth University | Love, light & peace
Adrian Luckman @adrianluckman.bsky.social Polar scientist studying ice dynamics using satellite data. I create and share animations of icy activity from satellite images
Jay Dickson @erroneoustholus.bsky.social Polar & Planetary scientist. Director of the Polar Geospatial Center. Dad.
Ellen Robson @drellenrobson.bsky.social Postdoctoral Research Associate @ihrr.bsky.social researching road resilience
Peter T Fretwell @ptfretwell.bsky.social Scientist at British Antarctic Survey, Cambridge and author. Interest include Science, nature, cartography, Polar regions and satellite imagery/ remote sensing.
Jonathan Rosenthal @journalistjon.bsky.social International Editor at The Economist
Previously covered Africa, banking, European business & finance
Guy Paxman @polarguy.bsky.social Polar geoscientist at Durham University, UK. Interested in landscapes underneath ice sheets and the stories they tell.
Calen Rubin @calenrubin.bsky.social PhD candidate at Boston College. Geochemistry, ice sheets, and paleoclimate. She/her.
@bmenounos.bsky.social @bmenounos.bsky.social
Ellery Littlewood @paleomagpie.bsky.social Geoarchaeologist @GeogDurham | Painter/illustrator | Rock hoarder | they/them 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
https://www.instagram.com/elittlewood_art
Imperial Earth Science & Engineering @eseimperial.bsky.social News from the Department of Earth Science & Engineering, a world leading centre for geoscience & engineering at Imperial College London.
Edmund Lea @mappermundle.bsky.social PhD candidate at Durham University on @IapetusDTP | BSc & MRes Geography | Outreach Officer @UKPolarNetwork | Glaciers, Landscapes & Remote Sensing
Geophysics Tübingen @geophys-tuebingen.bsky.social Geophysics at University of Tübingen | ice and geophysical research by friendly people ❄️ https://uni-tuebingen.de/de/147603
Durham Glaciology @durhamglaciology.bsky.social Glaciology research at Durham University on the past, present and future of our mountain glacier and ice sheet environments ❄️
https://durhamglaciology.wordpress.com/
Lilian Schuster @lilianschuster.bsky.social Glaciologist using OGGM.org, passionate about climate change impact science & sustainability. Former postdoc @uniiinsbruck, on the lookout for new opportunities. I feel at home in the mountains.
Anneke Vries @annekevries.bsky.social Researcher glacier-fjord interaction in Greenland 🇬🇱🧊🌊
PhD Candidate at @niozsearesearch.bsky.social and @utrechtuniversity.bsky.social 🇳🇱
Ellie Honan @elliehonan.bsky.social PhD on snow petrels with geogdurham.bsky.social and @bas.bsky.social funded by @erc.europa.eu ❄️ | seabird movement & diet | fatty acids & stable isotopes 🪶🐟🦐 | R | marine predators | polar ECR training & support with @ukpolarnetwork.bsky.social 🐧🐻❄️ | 🇮🇪 in 🇬🇧
Levan Tielidze @levantielidze.bsky.social Research Fellow in Glaciology at Monash University, Australia 🇦🇺 Home country Georgia 🇬🇪 Glacial-geomorphological studies ❄️🗻 Cosmogenic nuclide dating 💥☄️Remote Sensing 🛰 Cartography and GIS 🗺 Father of three cubs 🐯🐺🦁
Edwin Baynes @edwinbaynes.bsky.social Geomorphologist at Loughborough
www.edwinbaynes.wordpress.com
NEIF National Environmental Isotope Facility @isotopesuk.bsky.social The National Environmental Isotope Facility (NEIF) offers world-leading integrated isotope and organic analytical capability to support the UK NERC science communities.
SCAR INSTANT @scarinstant.bsky.social Instabilities and Thresholds in Antarctica" is a Research Programme from the Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research. It fosters multi-disciplinary discussions and research priorities about ice sheet instabilites from paleo to future to inform policy.
Glen O'Hara @gsoh31.bsky.social Historian. Writer.
Dr. Peter Neff @icy-pete.bsky.social Assistant Prof U Minnesota. Antarctic history from ice cores. Antarctic science. Views mine.
Graeme MacGilchrist @gmacgilchrist.bsky.social Oceanographer and climate scientist. Senior research fellow at U. of St Andrews.
Alexa Robles-Gil @alexaroblesgil.bsky.social Science Reporter, The New York Times
roblesgilalexa@gmail.com
Andrew Freedman @afreedma.bsky.social Senior Reporter, Weather & Climate @cnn. Priors: Axios, WaPo | Alum: The Fletcher School, Columbia Climate & Society | Tips: andrew.freedman@cnn.com | afreedman@protonmail.com | Signal: @afreedmanclimate.03- E Eric Steig @ericsteig.bsky.social Glaciologist and isotope geochemist. Research focus is the climate of the Antarctic Ice Sheet.
siegfried @siegfried.bsky.social glaciology, running, sometimes triathlon. mostly dogs.
mrsiegfried.github.io
Penny How @snowhow.bsky.social Data scientist for the PROMICE/GC-Net weather station network at GEUS ❄️ Interested in software development and programming, and remote sensing of the cryosphere 🛰️ Living and working in Greenland 🇬🇱
Dorothea E. Baur @heartmeltingice.bsky.social Fascinated by the fragile beauty of the polar regions. Studying melt features in firn & ice records. PhD @BAS.
Irina Marinov @irinaclimatemom.bsky.social mom, oceanographer, climate scientist, prof at Univ of Pennsylvania, West Philly resident. Romanian to start with, Middlebury BA, Princeton PhD, then MIT and WHOI.
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
@livlumlab.bsky.social @livlumlab.bsky.social
Katherine Deakin @katherinedeakin.bsky.social PhD student in Antarctic glaciology @GeogDurham | IAPETUS2 | she/her
Matthias Huss @matthias-huss.bsky.social glaciologist @ethzurich and @wslresearch.bsky.social, head of GLAMOS, passionate about mountains
U.S. Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (US-SCAR) @usscar-antarctic.bsky.social US-SCAR is a focal point for U.S. participation in the Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR). https://usscar.org/
i2B - Into The Blue @i2b-erc.bsky.social ERC Synergy Grant (2024-2030) resolving past Arctic greenhouse climates
Lindsay Prothro @lindsayo-geo.bsky.social Sedimentologist, geomorphologist, glacial geologist 🇦🇶. Assistant Professor at Texas A&M University - Corpus Christi. (she/her)
Amelia Shevenell @ashevenell.bsky.social Paleoceanographer, sedimentologist, scientific ocean drilling evangelist, Antarctic ice historian, Professor, Mom of human and Labradors, potter, knitter, unapologetic Swiftie, doer of many things. These are my personal views.
Anja Rutishauser @anja-ruti.bsky.social Glaciology ❄️ | Geophysics, radar sounding 🌍🛰 | Researcher at GEUS | Views are my own | she/her
Dr. Emily Broadwell @emilylmb.bsky.social (she/her) Postdoc researcher with the Deep Purple project looking at snow and glacier algae ❄️
Alexander Haumann @alexhaumann.bsky.social Climate scientist fascinated by polar regions, ocean, ice, and the global carbon and water cycles
Elena Field @elenafield.bsky.social GIS & Web Mapping Specialist at British Antarctic Survey.
Cartographer. Geologist. Bookworm. All views my own.
Laura Glastra @glastra.bsky.social Oceanography PhD candidate at URI GSO
@laurajlarocca.bsky.social @laurajlarocca.bsky.social
Rachel Oien @racheloien.bsky.social Teaching Fellow | Glaciers | palaeoclimate | Arctic | Greenland | cirques | Durham University | 🏴👩🏼🔬❄️🌍🏕🏔⚒
Institute of Hazard, Risk & Resilience (IHRR)-Durham University @ihrr.bsky.social A world-leading research institute in Hazard, Risk & Resilience
durham.ac.uk/ihrr
Email: ihrr.admin@durham.ac.uk
Tanja Schlemm (she/her) @tschlemm.bsky.social I do numerical modelling of ice sheets, iceberg calving and sea ice melange at PIK, exploring their role in climate change and our planet’s future.
Jowan Barnes @jowanbarnes.bsky.social Research fellow at Northumbria University.
Currently working on ice sheet modelling of Greenland and Antarctica.
Durham University Library @dulib.bsky.social 📚 Home to @durham-university.bsky.social Libraries and @ducollections.bsky.social
💜 Amazing resources, fantastic spaces and friendly staff
💬 Not monitored 24/7
Website: durham.ac.uk/library
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Marte Hofsteenge @hofsteengemarte.bsky.social PostDoc at Utrecht University | Interested in polar meteorology and interactions with ice sheets, glaciers and sea ice 🇦🇶 | Printmaker 👩🎨❄️
www.martehofsteenge.com
Charlotte Pizer @paleopizer.bsky.social Subduction zone paleoseismologist.
Ursula E @ursenz.bsky.social Poetry - PhD student in Glaciology🍦
📍Austrian now @NTNU in Trondheim 🇳🇴
📍Studying Glacier Hydrology ❄️🧊💧through 🔎 Firn, Snow, pressurised 🌊,GLOFs & Glacierdynamics⚡️
🐧APECS Norway National Committee Member
📍Fieldwork sites in:
Norway, Svalbard & Pakistan
Maya Fields @mayafields.bsky.social she/her • University of Michigan, Ann Arbor PhD Candidate • Glaciology • Ice Shelf Processes • Climate Action • Social Justice •
Crafting and baking my way through the PhD 🥐🏺🪴
Tobias Stål @tobiasstl.bsky.social Geophysicist and antifascist. Also at: @Toby@fediscience.org 🇦🇺🇩🇰🇸🇪🇬🇭
Hans-Peter (H.P.) Marshall @snowradar.bsky.social snow scientist using geophysics and remote sensing to improve snow estimates for water resources, avalanche, flood, and hydropower forecasting
Frank Pattyn @fpattyn.bsky.social Professor @ULB | Antarctic glaciologist | Ice Sheet Modeller | #ClimateChange | Pianist/Keyboardist | https://frank.pattyn.web.ulb.be
Sleepless @paulsdmcr.bsky.social Very cheap unreleased stuff (1997-2015) https://shadowdancermusic.bandcamp.com
https://youtube.com/@Sleepless1138
The Paul half of Shadow Dancer. Balkan Vinyl / GND / Unknown To The Unknown / BNR / Bad Life / Turbo
Cryolist.org @cryolist.bsky.social Repost != endorsement by moderation team
cryolist.org | email mailing list for the global cryospheric community (snow, ice, glaciers, permafrost, ocean, geomorphology, climate, etc)
Paul Bierman @paul-bierman.bsky.social Geoscientist, environmental historian, professor, author who cares deeply about our planet. Obsessed with snow, ice sheets, climate, and science as a way of knowing. Passionate about teaching, equality, and explaining Earth. https://www.paulbierman.net
Durham RDM @durhamrdm.bsky.social Durham University RDM (Research Data Management) Service.
RDM support for the University's researchers:
https://libguides.durham.ac.uk/open_research/rdm
Durham Research Online @drodurham.bsky.social Posts from the Open Research team at Durham University Library.
View details of journal articles and book chapters – free access to full-text of many – by scholars from one of UK’s leading research-intensive universities: https://t.co/ocmv3du16G
Amy Jenson @ajjenson.bsky.social (she/her)
PhD candidate in geophysics and glaciology @ University of Alaska Fairbanks
NEaar lab @neaarlab.bsky.social NE-aar is obsessed with amino acid racemization analysis for Quaternary geochronology, earth science, archaeology & to understand protein breakdown. Based at Uni of York; posts are own views.
@lornalinch.bsky.social @lornalinch.bsky.social
Geography at Royal Holloway, University of London @rhulgeography.bsky.social We are ranked within the top 5 geography departments in the UK, and in the top 3 for geography teaching (Times Good University Guide 2025). We offer degrees across Human and Physical Geography which give excellent career prospects to our graduates.
Dr Natasha Dowey @drnatashadowey.bsky.social Assoc Prof in Sustainable Geoscience & Volcanology at Sheffield Hallam. Posting about explosive volcanism, hazard and risk, equitable, multidisciplinary geoscience, and the juggles of academia! Creator of www.GeosciencefortheFuture.com. She/her.
Melanie Leng @meljleng.bsky.social Chief Scientist/British Geological Survey/Professor University of Nottingham
Jacquelyn Gill @jacquelyngill.bsky.social Climate, extinction, and biodiversity scientist at the University of Maine researching Earth’s past for a better future. Writing and podcasting for the planet. Chaotic good professor. She/her.
Richard Staff @richardstaff.bsky.social Academic - radiocarbon dating and Quaternary science; Dad; Occasional runner
Dr. Andrea Dutton @drandreadutton.bsky.social Geologist. Obsessed w/ carbonates, isotopes, sea level & climate. Professor at Univ. Wisconsin-Madison. she/her
The Empty City @davidallengreen.bsky.social Writes about law, history, and policy.
At The Empty City blog and elsewhere.
Birmingham/London. Janeite. #AVFC
www.theemptycity.com
Tirthankar Ghosh @glacioverse.bsky.social PhD Student at Monash Uni & IIT Bombay | Aspiring glaciologist and mountaineer ❄️🏔| working on glaciers in Ladakh| member @egg_igs
https://sites.google.com/view/tirthankarghosh
European Polar Board @europeanpolarboard.bsky.social Coordinating, promoting and advancing European polar research.
🌐 www.europeanpolarboard.org
Emma C. Smith @emma-c-smith.bsky.social Project Manager for DARA (Development in Africa with Radio Astronomy) @ University of Leeds, UK.
Science Education 🤓 | Glaciology 🧊 | Geophysics 🫨
Cycle tourist 🚴 | Climber 🧗| Runner🏃 | Podcast addict 🎙️| (she/they) 🏳️🌈
All views my own.
Falk Oraschewski @oraschewski.bsky.social PhD student in Geophysics and Glaciology, Uni Tübingen. Starting at GEUS soon.
Investigating firn, ice dynamics and ice fabric with radar.
Samuel Brenner @sdbrenner.bsky.social PhD in physical oceanography from the University of Washington.
🇨🇦(he/him)
https://sdbrenner.github.io/
JB Sallée @jbsallee.bsky.social Ocean & Climate scientist. Lead author @IPCC_CH AR6. Chercheur au CNRS, Paris