Attention! Registration is now open for the European School on Ostracoda at GeoEcoMar, Bucharest, 12–16 May 2025. Visit support-irgo.net/eso/ or email [email protected] Scholarship is available, supported by The Micropalaeontological Society (TMSoc) and an award from PeerJ Publishing. 📚 Apply now! #Ostracoda

Downs in Winter, Eric Ravilious, 1935. A classic view of the Southdowns in East #Sussex (now South Downs National Park). The original artwork is in the collection of Towner Eastbourne.

Today, apart from the River Thames, there are seven London rivers that remain almost entirely above ground. This posts list the names of all of London’s rivers. wandlenews.com/how-many-river…

On December 28 at 4:00 PM (IST), Dr Ekta Gupta will be giving a lecture on the role of old maps and satellite remote sensing in understanfing the ancient landscape 🛰️🌄 IIT Gandhinagar ICAC-CERCA, Institut Català d'Arqueologia Clàssica #SomCERCA Join us! 👇

Left it late this year, but it wouldn't be Christmas without Aggro Tonty Blair Just leave it, Tony, honestly, it isn't worth it.

With the New Year's Honours list upon us. Albert Finney David Bowie Stephen Hawking George Bernard Shaw Alan Bennett Ken Loach Aldous Huxley L.S. Lowry Harold Pinter J.B. Priestley all turned down a knighthood.

The Aurora Borealis last night in the far north of Britain at the Ring of Brodgar, The Orkney Islands, Scotland, UK. Pic by Robbie Stanger

Churchill Gardens and Battersea Power Station. The story of the estate and how heating was supplied via pipes under the Thames from the power station at alondoninheritance.com/london-infrast…

PhD studentship, metalworking jobs.ac.uk/job/DLF408/phd…

The usual comment about heritage sector pay applies here sadly..

Do you know a wheelchair user who works in a lab who'd be willing to user-test our prototype of what is believed to be the first-ever lab coat adapted for wheelchair users? Please share far & wide! Interest form: forms.office.com/e/66FhcQjqRT ucl.ac.uk/ucl-east/news/…

Una profunda i extensa obra en el cor del Raval revela la seqüència sedimentària complerta de l'antiga zona humida litoral del Cagalell, sobre un nivell de sorra consolidada que podria correspondre a una barra sorrenca. Agraïr la col.lbaoració d'ATICS i Servei d'Arqueologia

Al final debajo de los adoquines estaba la playa

JOB ALERT to end the week! Are you good at geometric morphometrics? Do you like letters, books, and craftspeople? We may have a job for you! #GMM #openscience #oldbooks #letterpress #smallperformances jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/49871

Interested in a PhD in peatland biogeochemistry at QUB? IN-PEAT: Impact of Nitrogen deposition on PEATlands in Northern Ireland at Queen’s University Belfast on FindAPhD.com

The Otters are back! We were sent this gorgeous video of the otters in the Cherwell by Magdalen Fellow John Nightingale - they look like little Loch Ness Monsters 🥹🥹

MEGA Make Elon Go Away Who’s with me

The History of Four-Footed Beasts and Serpents by Edward Topsell is a fascinating natural history book first published in 1607.

El projecte PaleoBarcino col.labora amb aquets estudi sobre configuració del litoral de la plana d'Alcanar per relacionar els seus canvis amb l'ocupació del Ferro al Montsià. De moment, s'han recuperat fins a 3 m de sediments orgànics adients per als estudis paleoambientals

I think about this passage from David Lynch's Catching the Big Fish all the time