Thomas Bauska
@tinyicybubbles.bsky.social
Ice Core Scientist @bas.ac.uk
University Research Fellow @royalsociety.org
Affiliated Lecturer @cambridge-earthsci.bsky.social
https://www.bas.ac.uk/profile/thausk/
University Research Fellow @royalsociety.org
Affiliated Lecturer @cambridge-earthsci.bsky.social
https://www.bas.ac.uk/profile/thausk/
🇬🇧: The data begin to look a tad squiffy.
🇺🇸 (me): Yeah, they get super janky there.
🇩🇪: I am not following. Can you please state the accuracy and precision during the interval we are discussing?
🇺🇸 (me): Yeah, they get super janky there.
🇩🇪: I am not following. Can you please state the accuracy and precision during the interval we are discussing?
September 11, 2026 at 12:37 PM
🇬🇧: The data begin to look a tad squiffy.
🇺🇸 (me): Yeah, they get super janky there.
🇩🇪: I am not following. Can you please state the accuracy and precision during the interval we are discussing?
🇺🇸 (me): Yeah, they get super janky there.
🇩🇪: I am not following. Can you please state the accuracy and precision during the interval we are discussing?
“The next talk will be giving by Doctor…
August 26, 2026 at 4:10 PM
“The next talk will be giving by Doctor…
Slowly but surely accumulating supervisor papers (and coffee mugs).
Latest is here: cp.copernicus.org/articles/22/...
Latest is here: cp.copernicus.org/articles/22/...
August 11, 2026 at 1:18 PM
Slowly but surely accumulating supervisor papers (and coffee mugs).
Latest is here: cp.copernicus.org/articles/22/...
Latest is here: cp.copernicus.org/articles/22/...
On the flip side, this was me opening up those old boxes today...
July 30, 2026 at 8:41 PM
On the flip side, this was me opening up those old boxes today...
View from outside the Bern ice core gas lab.
View from outside the BAS ice core gas lab.
View from outside the BAS ice core gas lab.
July 17, 2026 at 5:18 PM
View from outside the Bern ice core gas lab.
View from outside the BAS ice core gas lab.
View from outside the BAS ice core gas lab.
Getting one child ready in the morning = deterministic chaos.
Getting two children ready in the morning = purely stochastic.
Getting two children ready in the morning = purely stochastic.
July 7, 2026 at 8:52 AM
Getting one child ready in the morning = deterministic chaos.
Getting two children ready in the morning = purely stochastic.
Getting two children ready in the morning = purely stochastic.
Dang. Title for my autobiography has already been taken.
July 2, 2026 at 9:57 AM
Dang. Title for my autobiography has already been taken.
Reposted by Thomas Bauska
New Job! Please RP!
2 year Postdoctoral Research Associate in #Biogeochemistry in Oxford @oxfordgeography.bsky.social using novel methods to explore organic matter stability and new proxies of rock #weathering
&wider team in Southampton.
Any Qs let me know
🧪🥼⚒️
my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecru...
2 year Postdoctoral Research Associate in #Biogeochemistry in Oxford @oxfordgeography.bsky.social using novel methods to explore organic matter stability and new proxies of rock #weathering
&wider team in Southampton.
Any Qs let me know
🧪🥼⚒️
my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecru...
June 22, 2026 at 9:32 AM
New Job! Please RP!
2 year Postdoctoral Research Associate in #Biogeochemistry in Oxford @oxfordgeography.bsky.social using novel methods to explore organic matter stability and new proxies of rock #weathering
&wider team in Southampton.
Any Qs let me know
🧪🥼⚒️
my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecru...
2 year Postdoctoral Research Associate in #Biogeochemistry in Oxford @oxfordgeography.bsky.social using novel methods to explore organic matter stability and new proxies of rock #weathering
&wider team in Southampton.
Any Qs let me know
🧪🥼⚒️
my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecru...
My personal take-home: always test the "null" hypothesis when it comes to palaeoclimate.
Eric Mei, @bayesicallyalex.bsky.social, @cristiproist.bsky.social, et al.,
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
Fun times working with Eric on this as part of @fetch4.bsky.social
Eric Mei, @bayesicallyalex.bsky.social, @cristiproist.bsky.social, et al.,
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
Fun times working with Eric on this as part of @fetch4.bsky.social
Multidecadal preindustrial methane variability can be explained by noise in the source–sink imbalance | PNAS
Ice core records of preindustrial methane indicate variability of ±30 ppb (±5%) on
multidecadal-to-centennial timescales. Previous work has attribu...
www.pnas.org
June 16, 2026 at 8:55 AM
My personal take-home: always test the "null" hypothesis when it comes to palaeoclimate.
Eric Mei, @bayesicallyalex.bsky.social, @cristiproist.bsky.social, et al.,
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
Fun times working with Eric on this as part of @fetch4.bsky.social
Eric Mei, @bayesicallyalex.bsky.social, @cristiproist.bsky.social, et al.,
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
Fun times working with Eric on this as part of @fetch4.bsky.social
Reposted by Thomas Bauska
Just out in @natgeosci.nature.com we use ice sheet modeling to identify & characterize behavioral regimes, & the nature of ice sheet regime shifts. We do this using the Shannon entropy signature of mass loss, and find evidence of bistability under high, but not low, entropy regimes.
rdcu.be/fmIe1
rdcu.be/fmIe1
Ice-sheet regime shifts with climate warming
Nature Geoscience - Ice sheets are steady in cold climates, become unstable as warming weakens ice shelves, then restabilize at higher temperatures. Model simulations suggest sudden shifts between...
rdcu.be
June 5, 2026 at 10:14 AM
Just out in @natgeosci.nature.com we use ice sheet modeling to identify & characterize behavioral regimes, & the nature of ice sheet regime shifts. We do this using the Shannon entropy signature of mass loss, and find evidence of bistability under high, but not low, entropy regimes.
rdcu.be/fmIe1
rdcu.be/fmIe1
The combined pride and dread you get when someone says "oh, I was just reading your thesis"
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June 4, 2026 at 3:06 PM
The combined pride and dread you get when someone says "oh, I was just reading your thesis"
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Reposted by Thomas Bauska
⚒️ Article: Dust records from an Allan Hills ice core indicate the Ross Sea was likely open through the peak of the Last Interglacial, coincident with a smaller West Antarctic Ice Sheet
@lamont.columbia.edu
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
@lamont.columbia.edu
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Diminished Ross Ice Shelf and West Antarctic Ice Sheet during Last Interglacial warming - Nature Geoscience
Dust derived from Antarctic sources measured in an ice core from the Allan Hills spanning the peak of the Last Interglacial suggests that the Ross Sea was probably open at the time, coincident with a ...
www.nature.com
May 25, 2026 at 3:00 PM
⚒️ Article: Dust records from an Allan Hills ice core indicate the Ross Sea was likely open through the peak of the Last Interglacial, coincident with a smaller West Antarctic Ice Sheet
@lamont.columbia.edu
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
@lamont.columbia.edu
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Nice one! Almost like the authors made me a mixtape of my favourite topics.
-CO2 across the MPT
-Long-term changes in the Antarctic Ice Sheet
-Grounding line controls
BONUS: Transects of Filchner-Ronne in the SI that cross Berkner Island.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
-CO2 across the MPT
-Long-term changes in the Antarctic Ice Sheet
-Grounding line controls
BONUS: Transects of Filchner-Ronne in the SI that cross Berkner Island.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Increased sensitivity of the Antarctic Ice Sheet to decreasing CO2 across the Mid-Pleistocene Transition - Nature Geoscience
A transient ice sheet model simulation of the past 3 million years suggests that the Antarctic Ice Sheet became more sensitive to decreasing CO2 levels following the Mid-Pleistocene Transition, driven...
www.nature.com
June 1, 2026 at 9:29 AM
Nice one! Almost like the authors made me a mixtape of my favourite topics.
-CO2 across the MPT
-Long-term changes in the Antarctic Ice Sheet
-Grounding line controls
BONUS: Transects of Filchner-Ronne in the SI that cross Berkner Island.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
-CO2 across the MPT
-Long-term changes in the Antarctic Ice Sheet
-Grounding line controls
BONUS: Transects of Filchner-Ronne in the SI that cross Berkner Island.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Reposted by Thomas Bauska
Ice core water-isotope records from eight locations in Antarctica spanning 400,000 years show that the warmest parts of the continent have had the most temperature variability. In PNAS: https://ow.ly/OmwB50YZOhp
May 16, 2026 at 1:00 AM
Ice core water-isotope records from eight locations in Antarctica spanning 400,000 years show that the warmest parts of the continent have had the most temperature variability. In PNAS: https://ow.ly/OmwB50YZOhp
Writing a conference abstract titled “Towards a(n)…” is the academic equivalent of manifesting.
May 19, 2026 at 8:47 AM
Writing a conference abstract titled “Towards a(n)…” is the academic equivalent of manifesting.
So many gems. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
“The manner of geologist movie deaths:
Category 2: Work related. Typical examples are being hit by a volcanic bomb, falling into a crater or an opening fault, drowning in quicksand or lahar, and incineration in an oil pit. Grim stuff.”
“The manner of geologist movie deaths:
Category 2: Work related. Typical examples are being hit by a volcanic bomb, falling into a crater or an opening fault, drowning in quicksand or lahar, and incineration in an oil pit. Grim stuff.”
Geologists on the silver screen—the sequel
As geologists, our interest is piqued when geological processes—with varying degrees of accuracy—are portrayed in movies and especially when a geologist unexpectedly appears on screen, even in a mino...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
May 17, 2026 at 7:04 PM
So many gems. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
“The manner of geologist movie deaths:
Category 2: Work related. Typical examples are being hit by a volcanic bomb, falling into a crater or an opening fault, drowning in quicksand or lahar, and incineration in an oil pit. Grim stuff.”
“The manner of geologist movie deaths:
Category 2: Work related. Typical examples are being hit by a volcanic bomb, falling into a crater or an opening fault, drowning in quicksand or lahar, and incineration in an oil pit. Grim stuff.”
vibe coding meaning what is it
May 15, 2026 at 12:08 PM
vibe coding meaning what is it
*checks supplementary information for age model uncertainty*
May 8, 2026 at 1:13 PM
*checks supplementary information for age model uncertainty*
All the new ice core data at #EGU26 is pretty cool, I guess.
But nothing can top seeing this alongside a poster in Interdisciplinary Tree-Ring Research
But nothing can top seeing this alongside a poster in Interdisciplinary Tree-Ring Research
May 6, 2026 at 8:31 PM
All the new ice core data at #EGU26 is pretty cool, I guess.
But nothing can top seeing this alongside a poster in Interdisciplinary Tree-Ring Research
But nothing can top seeing this alongside a poster in Interdisciplinary Tree-Ring Research
Reposted by Thomas Bauska
I swore to support & defend the Constitution of the United States.
But I've spent the last two weeks in purgatory
on "administrative leave for investigative purposes" while NASA pondered me speaking in my personal capacity.
I'm back tomorrow.
firstamendment.mtsu.edu/article/pick...
But I've spent the last two weeks in purgatory
on "administrative leave for investigative purposes" while NASA pondered me speaking in my personal capacity.
I'm back tomorrow.
firstamendment.mtsu.edu/article/pick...
April 29, 2026 at 7:03 PM
I swore to support & defend the Constitution of the United States.
But I've spent the last two weeks in purgatory
on "administrative leave for investigative purposes" while NASA pondered me speaking in my personal capacity.
I'm back tomorrow.
firstamendment.mtsu.edu/article/pick...
But I've spent the last two weeks in purgatory
on "administrative leave for investigative purposes" while NASA pondered me speaking in my personal capacity.
I'm back tomorrow.
firstamendment.mtsu.edu/article/pick...
Reposted by Thomas Bauska
The MYIC @millionyearice.bsky.social project by the Australian Antarctic Program is drilling an ice core to 3,000 metres depth in three-metre segments, and returning the cores in pristine condition to Hobart, Tasmania.
Why? And how? Find out at aapp.shorthandstories.com/the-memory-of-ice
Why? And how? Find out at aapp.shorthandstories.com/the-memory-of-ice
April 29, 2026 at 6:43 AM
The MYIC @millionyearice.bsky.social project by the Australian Antarctic Program is drilling an ice core to 3,000 metres depth in three-metre segments, and returning the cores in pristine condition to Hobart, Tasmania.
Why? And how? Find out at aapp.shorthandstories.com/the-memory-of-ice
Why? And how? Find out at aapp.shorthandstories.com/the-memory-of-ice
The frequently used symbols of an isotope geochemist who can't decide what delta form to use.
April 21, 2026 at 9:49 AM
The frequently used symbols of an isotope geochemist who can't decide what delta form to use.