Adventures in past environments & African palaeo-science. National Geographic 'Explorer'. Wilderness addict. Science communicator learning to listen.

Oxford, England
Joined April 2011
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Our latest paper (and last from my PhD) is out now in Quaternary Science Reviews! A thread... #geomorphology #Arabia #quaternary authors.elsevier.com/sd/arti…
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Great article from @SLBurrough about the importance of listening as part of the research process and science communication timeshighereducation.com/cam…
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"Funding requirements to partner with local institutions are not enough. The partnership should be one driven by local priorities & equal participation." Important article from @SLBurrough on sharing scientific data with local communities buff.ly/3hFYc11
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Our paper is now out in Earth-Science Reviews! We bring together chronologies from fluvial sediments across southwestern Africa to assess evidence of late Quaternary hydrological change. @SLBurrough @kalaharidave doi.org/10.1016/j.earscirev.…
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In this experiment Dr Rob Thompson of @UniRdg_Met shows just how long it takes water to soak into parched ground, illustrating why heavy rainfall after a #drought can be dangerous and might lead to flashfloods. @R0b1et @UniRdg_water
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First of 6 papers out in QSR, peeking into the lives of our ancestors who were lugging about silcrete on a salt-pan 75-thousand years ago in the #Makgadikgadi #Botswana. sciencedirect.com/science/ar… @davidjnash @kalaharidave @SMothulatshipi @LeverhulmeTrust #archaeology #palaeoclimate
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Sallie Burrough retweeted
It's great to see the new volume 'Landscapes and Landforms of Botswana' (edited by @fekarduct) now published. I really enjoyed writing my chapters on Kalahari dry valleys and calcrete/silcrete duricrusts, drawing together research developed since my PhD. link.springer.com/book/10.10…
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Sallie Burrough retweeted
Mapped: How ‘proxy’ data reveals the climate of the Earth’s distant past | @rtmcswee @hausfath @tomoprater #archive ➡️ bit.ly/3dljN8U
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Life is better in #gweta. 2nd community information board outside the library. @oxfordgeography @kalaharidave @SMothulatshipi #archaeology #palaeoclimate #scicomm #makgadikgadi – at Botswana
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After 18 years of taking mud out of this old lake, finally giving something back. Community info board going in #nata @SMothulatshipi @davidjnash @kalaharidave @oxfordgeography #botswana #scicomm #archaeology #botswana
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Very happy that my first PhD paper is now out in #ESPL! We use luminescence dating, lithostratigraphy, and petrography to reconstruct the fluvial response of the Huab River, Namibia, to Holocene climates. @SLBurrough @kalaharidave doi.org/10.1002/esp.5349
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I'm an author on the new #ipcc report and I study climate change impacts and adaptation options in #Africa. 🧵: How bad could it get? Who is most vulnerable? How can we adapt? Here's a report summary for Africa. full report bit.ly/3vtrZhX tldr bit.ly/3stJexM
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The Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (#AMOC) is a key component of #climate through its transport of heat in the North Atlantic This new Review by Jackson et al. explores the evolution of the AMOC since 1980 Free to read for two weeks! nature.com/articles/s43017-0…
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It's a question that I often get asked by new postdocs - the responses to this tweet might help those sizing up their working day.
So, it takes me on average 4-5 hours to complete a review for a journal article... Am I just slow or is this everyone else too? 🥲
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.@antonioguterres: 'As current events make all too clear, our continued reliance on fossil fuels makes the global economy and energy security vulnerable to geopolitical shocks & crises...Now is the time to accelerate the energy transition to a renewable energy future' #IPCCReport
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For humanities sake @pritipatel make this the moment you step up. Help these people… open our doors as we would hope they would for us if ever we need them… make it easier not harder.
It is totally immoral that the Home Office is still applying normal visa restrictions to those fleeing Ukraine. The Government must urgently provide a simple sanctuary route to the UK for all who need it. This is our moral duty.
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"scientists and those who communicate about their findings need to develop narratives that reflect the nature of scientific inquiry and its norms and practices as well as the practices it uses to detect and correct error as well as fraud" journals.sagepub.com/doi/ful… #sciencetrust
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