What an amazing thing to do! ❄️ #Bristol student will spend seven weeks there in an ex-whaling station 🔗⬇️ bbc.in/3UmbVen

New Opinion article for our forthcoming APECS Collection: Madeleine Lewis and Emily Broadwell of @Bristol_Glac discuss emotional challenges faced by early career polar scientists journals.plos.org/climate/articl…

Really excited to be here as part of our work at MicroLab@Bristol

Ny-Ålesund: How UK scientists are studying climate change in the Arctic | Daisy Dunne British Antarctic Survey 🐧 Read here: bit.ly/42CBpX1

New MicroLab@Bristol paper out today revealing glacier algal bloom ecology during record melt years in the alps! Great work by the The Leverhulme Trust iDAPT team and others. @Bristol_Glac Cabot Institute for the Environment🏳️‍🌈✊🏿✊🏾✊🏽 @GeogBristol frontiersin.org/journals/micro…

I promise not to spam this with Antarctica photos straight away!

Algae is surprisingly colourful! 💚🤎💜 Look at the greens and reds of the snow algae, and the dark purple of glacier algae from Signy's Gourlay Snowfield under the microscope. These algae live in places seemingly inhospitable to life - it's so cold and low on nutrients. 🧵

Emily will compare Signy samples with Arctic and Alps samples. Emily 🐝 💬 "These glaciers might be some of the first habitats we lose to climate change. We're racing to capture as much as we can - about how these microorganisms are adapted, and how these places are changing."

Great thread on the work I’m doing here on Signy Island! 🔬

Really happy to have my first ever paper featured here! 🔬❄️

CASP-ICE is in full swing with lots of exciting conversations, ranging from smaller scale sampling methods up to large scale satellite monitoring 🔬🛰️ #CASPICE #algae #phycology #AlpineScience #microbiology #cryosphere

Finally back from my Antarctic fieldwork adventure, a magical time with lots of snow and glacier algae samples on their way back for me to process! Was hard to leave Signy island, will hopefully get the chance to go back down south one day 🦭🇦🇶 #fieldworkfriday #antarctica

I am so pleased to share that the first publication from my PhD has been accepted by FEMS! We found that Arctic cyanobacterial mat community diversity decreases with latitude across the Canadian Arctic... and talk a lot about #protists along the way! doi.org/10.1093/femsec…

Delighted to see the work from my postdoc at University of Bristol on algal evolution on ice and land out in New Phytologist Tom Williams (tweethinking.bsky.social) | Phil Donoghue | Doug Campbell | MicroLab@Bristol @Bristol_Glac | UoB Palaeobiology nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/np… 1/6

Worth reading: First genome-scale dataset for ice-inhabiting glacier #algae by Alex Bowles MicroLab@Bristol et al. #Polar #Genomics nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/np…

Dr Alexander Bowles gives insight into the evolutionary journey of glacier algae from the deep past to the present in this new blog. As we face a changing climate, understanding these microscopic organisms is key to predicting the future of Earth’s icy environments.

We are excited to share a new Collection of articles resulting from a collaboration with the Association of Polar Early Career Scientists APECS, featuring original research, reviews and opinions from across the APECS community collections.plos.org/collection/ear…

5th Snow Alga Meeting in Bodø, Norway! ❄️🧊🦠 Fantastic organization and exciting scientific advances. From 🔬understanding of microbial life and ecology to 🛰 global view. Next meeting in 2026 in Grenoble!