Our latest paper (and last from my PhD) is out now in Quaternary Science Reviews! A thread... #geomorphology #Arabia #quaternary authors.elsevier.com/sd/article/S02…

Archaeological sites in the Makgadikgadi salt pans reveal how ancient humans used black silcrete formed from lake mud to make tools

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Sallie Burrough

#wild #africageo graphic #africageo #naturestories #wild lifestories #conservation

Great article from Sallie Burrough about the importance of listening as part of the research process and science communication

timeshighereducation.com/campus/why-lea…

A year of failed fieldwork in Africa led Sallie Burrough of University of Oxford to ask questions about how #research ers interact with societies they work in. She shares five tips for transparent, inclusive #research practices timeshighereducation.com/campus/why-lea… via Times Higher Education #academictwitter

'Funding requirements to partner with local institutions are not enough. The partnership should be one driven by local priorities & equal participation.'
Important article from Sallie Burrough on sharing scientific data with local communities buff.ly/3hFYc11

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.
Sallie Burrough David Thomas
doi.org/10.1016/j.ears…

'You know what’s wrong with scientific power? It’s a form of inherited wealth. And you know what assholes congenitally rich people are.' We're trying to do things differently in the Geosciences now. sarah mothulatshipi David Thomas   theconversation.com/why-im-rightin… via The Conversation

The University of Cambridge Cambridge University has a new Scholars program for African researchers to pursue a Master course in any subject - including archaeology: cambridge-africa.cam.ac.uk/opportunities/…

Four papers of this special issue with Emmy Noether Group 'Kgalagadi Human Origins' members sarah mothulatshipi and Sallie Burrough are now published! Lithics, silcrete provenance, dating and geoarchaeology, providing a much needed view into the archaeology of the Middle Kalahari. Congrats to all authors!

In this experiment Dr Rob Thompson of Reading Meteorology 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.

Dr Rob Thompson Water @ Reading

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/articl…
David Nash David Thomas sarah mothulatshipi The Leverhulme Trust #archaeology #palaeoclimate

It's great to see the new volume 'Landscapes and Landforms of Botswana' (edited by Frankuct) 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/10.1007/9…

sarah mothulatshipi, Sallie Burrough et al. are presenting on their project 'Public engagement: a responsible research and innovation tool within earth and archaeological science in Botswana' on Tuesday morning. (2/4)

Mapped: How ‘proxy’ data reveals the climate of the Earth’s distant past | Robert McSweeney Zeke Hausfather Tom Prater #archive

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Life is better in #gweta . 2nd community information board outside the library. SoGE, University of Oxford David Thomas sarah mothulatshipi #archaeology #palaeoclimate #scicomm #makgadikgadi

After 18 years of taking mud out of this old lake, finally giving something back. Community info board going in #nata sarah mothulatshipi David Nash David Thomas SoGE, University of Oxford #botswana #scicomm #archaeology #botswana

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.
Sallie Burrough David Thomas
doi.org/10.1002/esp.53…

In case you missed our work published last year on dune formation in the Makgadikgadi Basin, you can read a short research highlight about it in the BSG Geomorphology Newsletter. Perfect for a mid-week tea break!
Sallie Burrough Giles Wiggs David Thomas

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

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/s4301…