Despite their somewhat arrogant reluctance to wing shake with me, it was with serendipitous joy and curiosity that I encountered these fellows three months ago. Emperors, as they humbly call themselves.

"To know that no one before you has seen an organ you are examining, to trace relationships that have occurred to no one before, . . . - all this is so enticing that I cannot describe it." - V. Nabokov. Immensely fortunate to be part of this: science.sciencemag.org/content/368/64…

A new study in Science Magazine, by researchers from Scott Polar Research Institute, Loughborough University & Norges geologiske undersøkelse (NGU) calculates that ice shelves surrounding the Antarctic coast retreated at speeds of up to 50 m per day at the end of the last Ice Age ow.ly/yAKx50zTklG

It's kind of amazing that we can retrieve the daily behaviour of a retreating ice sheet that existed 20,000 years ago. But the record is there if you know where to look. #NorwegianSea #Antarctica Christine Batchelor Frazer Christie bbc.co.uk/news/science-e…

Interested in the mechanism of buoyancy-driven ice-sheet retreat described in our new nature paper? (rdcu.be/c9eZ4). Here’s a short thread explaining some of the key points from the manuscript! Christine Batchelor Dr Jeff Evans Scott Polar Research Institute NCL Physical Geog 1/n