An afternoon wander along the Ridgeway to Wayland's Smithy Long Barrow. Even on a sunny day I find this place has a powerful and eerie atmosphere. Then on to Uffington White Horse, which was carved ~3000 years ago.

Question for Picarro GasScouter users: has anyone seen this before? Our field tech has been having an issue where the analyser works normally for a little while, then goes weird and gives an error message.

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A few hours alone, stravaiging the Wiltshire Downs around Avebury, and with a visit to Silbury Hill (a prehistoric artificial mound). A good afternoon for cloudscapes.

New paper accepted in FEMS Microbiology Ecology: "Winter microbial community structure and methane-cycling potential in constructed agricultural wetlands across regions and microhabitat" For this, we sampled ~40 wetlands in two different regions of Sweden.

Essential new reading for all ditch fans.

A successful day coring two sites on the Migneint blanket bog in North Wales with Laura Baugh, Rich Chiverrell & undergrad Teleri. We'll analyse the cores for geochemistry (via XRF) and organic matter composition (infrared spectrometry). #PeatTwitter

Thrilled that our collaborative, multi-author paper from this workshop has been submitted, led by Teresa Silverthorn. It's all about improving accounting and mitigation of GHG emissions from ditches, sparked by the great presentations and discussions at our ditch symposium.

Now online in early view academic.oup.com/femsec/advance…

Does anyone have access to this paper and, if so, could email to me (m.peacock at liverpool.ac.uk)? schweizerbart.de/papers/fal/det…

A car full of greenhouse gas sampling collars, made by the School of Engineering LivUni workshops. These will go into a North Wales blanket bog for our Water4All Partnership - EU project ECOWADE. #PeatTwitter

Now online (open access) in final version academic.oup.com/femsec/advance…

A short article about our recent ditch perspectives paper (also available in English) slu.se/nyheter/2025/0…

News article from Virginia Institute of Marine Science about our recent ditch paper, with quotes from Chelsea Clifford, Mapalljohn and me. vims.edu/newsandevents/…

Some excellent marginalia at Norton Priory

Our new paper, led by Dr. Kirsten Lees, and with Mike Waddington Andy Baird Colin McCarter Emma Shuttleworth and others. #PeatTwitter onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/hy…

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.

"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.

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