Earth and planetary scientist @UOP_SEGG. Love rocks and 🏃🚴⛳️
Joined July 2014
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James Darling retweeted
Apr 11
🚨NEW: Internet influencer Sophie Rain breaks down how much it costs her to attend the three-day Coachella music festival in California, totaling $193,845.
She says she is bringing her assistants, stylist, and other members of her team, purchasing 12 tickets in total:
- Artist passes and a table at the main stage: $67,980
- Private jet: $37,490
- Airbnb: $83,375
- Clothes: $5,000
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James Darling retweeted
20 Aug 2025
Great to see a manuscript with @Dr_Baddeleyite on brachinite chronology published today in @MeteoriticsPS with some absolutely stunning electron backscatter diffraction (EBSD) images @OU_EM_Suite
doi.org/10.1111/maps.70023
@STFC_Matters @Romiche29 @JDarlingGeo @ma235camb
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17 Jul 2025
I had the tremendous honour of pressing the "publish" button on the first 💎 open access @WeAreAGCjournal research article during Goldschmidt... and now here is the second 😃
journals.uu.se/AGC/article/v…
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James Darling retweeted
#openaccess in @NatureComms shatter cone evidence for the worlds oldest known impact crater in ~3.5 Ga #Archaean rocks of the Pilbara. Led by @ChronKirkland, with @early_earth_tim, @DEMIRS_WA and @JDLCentre et al.
nature.com/articles/s41467-0…
The crater dates back 3.5 billion years, making it the oldest known by more than a billion years. @TimescalesEPS @jonas_kampf @CurtinUni theconversation.com/earths-o…
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James Darling retweeted
🌲 TREES DLA are holding a new webinar:
Friday Jan 10th at 3pm (UK time). We'll talk about the PhD studentships, the application process, and hold a Q&A session!
💻 To join the webinar, register: ucl.zoom.us/webinar/register…
When registering, you can submit 3 Qs for us to answer!
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James Darling retweeted
✨✨ Interested in learning more about TREES DLA and the application process? ✨✨
Come along on the 20th Dec (11:00am GMT) to our webinar for potential applicants! 📝
For more details and registration see here: tinyurl.com/w4z4um5h
trees-dla.ac.uk
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A meteorite thought to be from the Moon’s South Pole–Aitken basin is younger than expected.
eos.org/articles/meteorite-s…
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7 Dec 2024
Apollo 14 basaltic impact melt sample 14310 #thinsection
We have two fully-funded PhD projects available to work on impact melt processes. Please do share with students looking for planetary geology opportunities 😀🌍🌑⚒️
port.ac.uk/study/postgraduat…
trees-dla.ac.uk/projects/ign…
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James Darling retweeted
🚨 TREES Projects Are Live! 🚨
🌍 Over 120 PhD projects now available on the TREES website! Explore Route 1 projects or develop your own Route 2 proposal.
🗓️ Applications are open—deadline: 20th Jan 2025.
🔗 trees-dla.ac.uk
#PhD #EnvironmentalScience #TREESDLA
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2 Dec 2024
I'm delighted to be a Production Editor for this new community-led diamond open access journal (free to read and publish) 💎
Please do check out the fantastic team of Handling Editors who are eagerly awaiting manuscripts 😀
journals.uu.se/AGC/handlinge…
We are opening for submissions on the 20th of January!🥳 Do you have research you would like to submit and be part of the very first issue of AGC? To help us gauge the volume of anticipated submissions, register your interest via: forms.gle/GHHmHioBdRSijPas7
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21 Nov 2024
Banded iron formation from the ≥3.75 billion year old Nuvvuagittuq Supracrustal Belt, Québec, Canada. Chemical sediments from Earth's earliest oceans 🌎⚒️
Happy #thinsectionthursday to all who celebrate 😀
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14 Nov 2024
Delighted to say that @portsmouthuni is part of this exciting doctoral programme. Lots of NERC PhD opportunities coming soon @UoPScience and our partner institutions.
🌱 Announcing TREES! 🌍 The NERC-funded Doctoral Landscape Award led by UCL & partners will train future environmental scientists through interdisciplinary research and a commitment to EDI & sustainability.
🔗 Learn more: trees-dla.ac.uk
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1 Nov 2024
So excited that Hugo has joined us @CrustalEvo_UoP!
Sanukitoids, lasers and mass spectrometers seems like an apt starting point 😄
1 Nov 2024
A #Portsmouth geologist hopes to shed new light on the evolution of life on our planet, with the help of a prestigious @royalsociety fellowship win.
Find out more: bit.ly/48vDNBH
@UoPScience #PortsmouthUni #RoyalSociety
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23 Oct 2024
We are excited to have an opening for a new Lecturer/Senior Lecturer in Engineering Geology to join our brilliant geo-team in Portsmouth😀⚒️
mss.port.ac.uk/ce0732li_webr…
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James Darling retweeted
23 Oct 2024
An excellent opportunity to visit @OpenUniversity and get involved in various hands on activities involving rocks from literally out of this world! Meet our researchers and visit @OU_STEM labs where space instruments are built and extraterrestrial samples are analysed.
23 Oct 2024
🌑Moon Night is back! 🌑
FREE tickets are now available to book in person at our Milton Keynes campus, or book to watch online.
DO NOT DELAY - this is a very popular event - book now to avoid disappointment!
ow.ly/ET1550TRrPo
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James Darling retweeted
AGC is a community-led journal that aims to publish innovative and globally relevant articles in Geochemistry and Cosmochemistry, which are free to read, to publish and whereby authors retain full copyright.
Preparing to open submissions soon.
Read more:
journals.uu.se/AGC/editorial…
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19 Aug 2024
New paper alert! Great to be able to contribute to this exciting study led by @SpaceRockDoc
Linking martian meteorites to specific source craters; opens up exciting avenues for #Mars science ⚒️🚀
18 Aug 2024
Researchers have identified the likely source craters for six meteorites from #Mars, whose origins had been a mystery despite their preeminence in meteorite collections. scim.ag/84p
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19 Aug 2024
... and a really good explainer from New Scientist.
Love this quote from Anthony Lagain "it’s like five sample return missions that you get for free" 😎
newscientist.com/article/244…
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