Do they ride in sleighs pulled by reindeer, too? Being Canada, you'd think they might.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... l Let's keep walking down that path while gathering fellow travellers.

Hawthorn is one of my favorite plants. My painting is from a photo I took earlier in the year (for the flowers) and a branch of berries from a tree on the Nunnington Ridge near where I live. @awatercolouraday.bsky.social @flowerpainting.bsky.social #watercolour #watercolor #flowerpainting

Science Cat is noting down important data: • PHYSICS FOR CATS is out on Thursday! • There is a launch party at @goshcomics.bsky.social! • More details are at www.tomgauld.com

What was she thinking?

Jane Goodall RIP. She has been a Titan that helped teach the World to respect the planet and all of its inhabitants. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... We must member her by action. @earthandenvleeds.bsky.social @priestleycentre.bsky.social @egu-ere.bsky.social @unileedsglobal.bsky.social

... and ... silver birch woodland near home. #watercolour #watercolor @awatercolouraday.bsky.social

The last 24 hours painting (and sleeping) have been quite productive :)

Ripe plums, fuchsias dropping red tears on parched earth and too many tomatoes to eat even for a tomato fiend like me! Bank holiday weekend!

Did not realise Tom Gault knew about what Leeds University is like.

I love that it is playing the air guitar! Well, you never know!

Every library needs a cat. Every laboratory needs one, too - as a source of serendipity & chaos which lead to unexpected advances - The Scientific Meowthod! @earthandenvleeds.bsky.social @priestleycentre.bsky.social @egu-ere.bsky.social Even Nicolai Tesla had a cat & Socrates had a feline assistant.

Piroska Lorinczi, Wei Wei and I are happy to announce the acceptance of a new TIPM paper entitled "Connectedness Theory of Relative Permeability", applying topological treatment of electrical conduction to relative fluid flow for the first time @earthandenvleeds.bsky.social @egu-ere.bsky.social

Earth at night viewed from space (watch fullscreen).

My cartoon for this week’s Books pages in @theguardian.com

There is a brilliant collaborator of mine who is just about to publish some stunning images of the pore textures that make shales so good as a carbon capture and underground storage target, as well as being beautiful @egu-ere.bsky.social @earthandenvleeds.bsky.social @priestleycentre.bsky.social

Kamchatka tsunami waves apparently travel backwards in time. The quake struck offshore Kamchatka at about 11:24 Wednesday local time, but arrived in Hawaii the previous Tuesday evening there! And all because it crossed the International Date Line. @egu-ere.bsky.social @earthandenvleeds.bsky.social

Recent top 10 largest earthquake had 6 preshocks >6.6. The largest came last, between the others. Ther'll be more siginificant post-shocks until that section of the plate boundary stabilises. Images courtesy of USGS. #earthquake @egu.eu @egu-ere.bsky.social @bgs.ac.uk @earth-science.bsky.social

...and the thing is, Northern England looks exactly like this at the moment!

via I Love Bees

You know now what to bring to the next lab meeting 🍫

It has probably happened before, but solar electricity generation has just become the biggest source of electricity generation in the UK. Who would have thought it! @priestleycentre.bsky.social @earthandenvleeds.bsky.social @egu-ere.bsky.social @iisd.org Data courtesy of grid.iamkate.com

I was in Waterstones in Wimbledon in London last Friday. They have 3 times as much shelf space dedicated to Smart Thinking than to Military. Great progress, but let's DEMILITARISE bookshops totally. #Peace

Annoyingly, Gemini started to pop up everywhere on my 'phone after an update. All I did was ask it to delete itself, and this is what I got as a reply!!

What's up in the garden - courgettes! Now just a few days away from gloriously light courgette fritters! @vegplotter.bsky.social #gardening #courgettes

I have reposted this before, but it always deserves posting again. Thanks to the anonymous cartoonist. @earthandenvleeds.bsky.social @egu-ere.bsky.social I tried something similar on a set of low-hanging hanging baskets at my local garden centre last weekend. Not sure I am welcome there anymore!

A useful look-up table for 3rd Year PhD students and ECRs. Courtesy of someone who pinched it from someone who pinched it from... Well, perhaps courtesy is not the right word either. @earth-science.bsky.social @earthandenvleeds.bsky.social @egu-ere.bsky.social @universityofleeds.bsky.social

This article on ‘Steps of Life’ inspired the cartoon below: publicdomainreview.org/collection/t...

Just noticed from grid.iamkate.com that the UK is only generating 1.3 GW of electricity from fossil fuels at this moment (09:35 GMT+1 29/05/25). Is it the lowest it has ever been? Please tell me if you know better. @priestleycentre.bsky.social @earthandenvleeds.bsky.social @egu-ere.bsky.social

Brilliant evening as 3 of 4 PhD awardees at the LPS presentations were from IAG at Leeds University. Well done Daniela, Wurood and Hager! Research from tight gas through fractures to AI. @earthandenvleeds.bsky.social @universityofleeds.bsky.social @egu-ere.bsky.social @piroskalorinczi.bsky.social

Roll on no mow year. Down with green deserts [unless you have children of lawn- age]. Let entropy be all! To bee or not to bee - that is the question.

Thanks to Book Lovers

I am very pleased about acceptance in JGR-B of the paper by our visiting academic Dr Wei: "A Fractal Interpretation of Archie-like Equation for Partially Saturated Porous Media". More Sino-British progress! @earthandenvleeds.bsky.social @universityofleeds.bsky.social @egu-ere.bsky.social

It is a week after EGU25, and here is a group photo of the dedicated ERE Division Team & some of their Convenors celebrating another excellent showing at EGU. @egu-ere.bsky.social @egu.eu @earthandenvleeds.bsky.social @priestleycentre.bsky.social If you want to help ERE, you will be very welcome.

Who needs a big grant when you can get an electron microscope from TEMU for £5!

@earthandenvleeds.bsky.social Tom Gault for you.

Why the World needs geologists and geographers @egu-ere.bsky.social @egu.eu @earthandenvleeds.bsky.social

Who can forget the Swiss-Austrian Union, or its famous capital - Istanbul.

... and this afternoon it was very heaven walking down the Kahlenberg @egu-ere.bsky.social @piroskalorinczi.bsky.social I wish you were here.

Here, finally, is Dr. Wei with his poster on the last day of EGU25. Great scientific discussions about it! @egu-ere.bsky.social @egu.eu @earthandenvleeds.bsky.social @priestleycentre.bsky.social @universityofleeds.bsky.social

GeoLatinas is attending #EGU2025! Do you want to chat with us & learn more about our community? Drop by our Splinter meeting anytime. Bring your lunch and meet our co-leaders Moka, @cruz-rosmery.bsky.social and @adriguatame.bsky.social . meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/EGU25/sessio...

I am pleased to say that today Dr Wei Wei (Leeds Petrophysics and China University of Geosciences, Wuhan) will be presenting his work in EGU session NP3.1 (abstract 4129) @priestleycentre.bsky.social @egu.eu @egu-ere.bsky.social @universityofleeds.bsky.social @earthandenvleeds.bsky.social

I want to offer my thanks to all of the speakers, co-convenors, Ewa the tech wizard, and the attendees at EMRP1.2 yesterday - it was extremely successful, with a full room and more than 20 people standing. @egu.eu @egu-ere.bsky.social @earthandenvleeds.bsky.social @priestleycentre.bsky.social

The Leeds Petrophysics Group delegation to EGU25 with guests at their celebratory dinner @egu.eu @egu-ere.bsky.social @earthandenvleeds.bsky.social @priestleycentre.bsky.social @universityofleeds.bsky.social

Happy Earth Day and International Workers Day to everyone! @egu-ere.bsky.social @egu.eu @priestleycentre.bsky.social @earthandenvleeds.bsky.social

Today, GeoLatinas at #EGU25 👉 Insights into thermal stress during the Permian-Triassic mass extinction using ostracods from the Southern Alps (Italy) By Mónica Alejandra Gómez Correa @magomezco.bsky.social meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/EGU25/EGU25-...

And the lithium posters from Joe Brabin, Taija Torvela, Chris Yeomans of Cornish Lithium! @egu.eu @egu-ere.bsky.social @priestleycentre.bsky.social @earthandenvleeds.bsky.social

Wurood taking a break from all of the interest in her poster including the fantastic Laurenz from Ghent with whom she made her 3D scans @earthandenvleeds.bsky.social @egu-ere.bsky.social @egu.eu @priestleycentre.bsky.social