Colin Bunce on the loess deposits in the Burren. #IQUAAutumnSymposium

Whatever the weather on deck, it's always a good day inside the Burren. Christopher in a tight spot this week, sampling ancient rhythmites (metres thick!) in Pol an Ionain for OSL dating, part of our @geolsurvie.bsky.social-funded study of Ireland's caves #UniversityofGalway @bokuvienna.bsky.social

Dear Europe, especially Germany, Stop obsessing over what Trump will or won’t do. Hoping & praying America will step up so we don’t have to is dangerously stupid. Step up yourself, destroy Russia’s war economy, & give Ukraine what they need to win. Europe must defend Europe.

This is Zelensky putting pressure on Trump. He knows Ukrainians don't want to surrender. He's talking to all Americans across the political spectrum who support Ukraine, love freedom, and hate surrender. He's telling them: "you can't allow Trump to align the US with Ru against Europe". Let's see.

Watched this two nights ago & agree, nothing new under the sun. But why beat about the bush? It's poignant because another big democracy, the US, is collapsing into fascism before our eyes & we pretend not to notice or call a spade a spade. Like the frog in the pan of heating water. & a cute penguin

A student told her professor “President Trump’s laws state that there are two genders,” and that the lesson was “illegal” for contradicting that. It’s not. Executive orders are not laws. Compliance with authoritarianism will not protect universities. Either we stand up for our missions or we fall.

In May 2022, an Israeli sniper shot and killed Al Jazeera reporter Shireen Abu Akleh. Last week, Israel targeted and killed five journalists in one attack. In between those dates, Israel became the largest killer of journalists in the world.

The EU surrendered to Trump over trade tariffs – now it’s in danger of capitulating again | Thierry Breton www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

📣 Open position for a PhD student in Arctic Aeolian Processes & Paleoclimate at the Department of Geological Sciences @stockholm-uni.bsky.social with closing date 15 August 2025. Collaborators: Uppsala University, Sweden & University of Santiago de Compostela, Spain 🧪⚒️ su.varbi.com/en/what:job/...

The way I see it: if Trump is going to eliminate science in the United States, we have absolutely nothing to gain through obedience. If he wants to step on us, he should be stepping on our quills.

For the past 19 years the North Cascade Glacier Climate Project has integrated artists into our summer field science expedtion. This article by @thatsmohrlikeit.bsky.social explains well, why and how it has worked with @jillpelto.bsky.social leadership #glaciology www.hcn.org/issues/57-6/...

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📣 Postdoc position (2+ years) in the field of climate extremes (using paleoclimate to future climate model simulation data) at the Helmholtz-Zentrum Hereon in Geesthacht (near Hamburg), Germany. 🧪⚛️🌊⚒️ Deadline: 18 June 2025 hereon.de/career/vacan...

INCREDIBLE !! Here we are... 😱😱😱 After days of overloading and cracks propagating, Birch Glacier collapsed today at 3.24 pm over Blatten and the dammed Lonza river... Devastating! 😭 www.letemps.ch/suisse/valai...

New paper, led by @rlsoteres.bsky.social Cirques, paleo-glaciers, landscape changes, paleoclimate!

#fieldphotofriday Rogue grad students coring Rannoch Moor, Scotland, in April 2010. Clear skies with no contrails, thanks to the eruption of Eyjafjallajökull. (With @gordonbromley.bsky.social, Kurt Rademaker, and Gordon’s friend Dan.)

BREAKING: Elon Musk's rocket explosion nearly hit a commercial flight. This kind of content is being downranked on X. Please share it here. This is so dangerous.

Good things are happening, too. 24 BSc students took to the Connacht hills last week, following #Quaternary greats Francis Synge & Hal Borns & learning glacial-geomorphic mapping, beryllium-10 sampling, drone survey, & stone skimming. No chatgpt screwing this up! #geography @uniofgalway.bsky.social

That must be one of the strongest winds I've ever seen modelled from AROME, with over 110 mph gusts on the west coast of Ireland near Galway. It's looking like a significant event for sure, please heed the warnings! #StormÉowyn

Been a long time in the making (9 years 😬), but our new paper on long-term behaviour of the East Antarctic Ice Sheet derived from moraines at Otway Massif is out in Climate of the Past: cp.copernicus.org/articles/21/... Christmas 2015 atop Mom Peak, cold as hell, happy times!

“The thing that makes me worry is how much these people are giving up the very mental tasks that make them human.” chuckpearson.wordpress.com/2025/01/13/t...

Falls Foot landslide on #Ingleborough, picked out by snow, is a textbook example of mass movement. Thx to my brother, who took this shot last week. We dated the slide with 10Be to 12.5ka (Younger Dryas), bang on David Johnson's estimate in his book 'Ingleborough'. Climate influencing geomorphology?

Pio XI (or Brüggen) Glacier Trimetrogon flight 1945 SUPERLATIVE glacier! ❄️ The largest SH glacier outside Antarctica (1260 km²) and the only one that has pervasively advanced over last decades (~10 km!) and is currently at its Neoglacial maximum! 📉 You say weirdo? 🤪 1/

Surveying the shore platform at Rinvyle, #Connemara, last week on foot & by drone for our #iCRAG project on coastal erosion. The Dalradian rock platform is backed by a Pleistocene drumlin, the ongoing retreat of which reveals stunning geomorphic structures. @uniofgalway.bsky.social #geography

#Geography MSc team bushwhacked to the southern end of Lough Corrib in glorious sunshine (!) to collect a sediment core extending back to the end of the ice age in Galway, 17,000 years ago. Lowest 1m is stunning rhythmites from Heinrich Stadial 1 meltdown @uniofgalway.bsky.social #Galway

This pm #PRU @uniofgalway.bsky.social was whisked to the Andes (Colombia & Peru) by @gordonbromley.bsky.social. Glacial topography of high Andes (spectacular moraines formed by once active glaciers), dating & climate discussed Now #StormDarragh has arrived in #Galway @wildatlanticway.bsky.social

Wrapped up teaching last week w/ a visit to Galway's unique coastal geomorph. Ice-moulded granite overlain by drowned pine forest (doi.org/10.1177/0959...), overlain by drowned peat bog, capped with modern storm beach. ~20kyr compressed into one tiny strip of coast! #geography #universityofgalway

Love it, @drsadhbh.bsky.social! These sorts of maps, plus a lot of daydreaming, is what got me into Earth science in the first place.

Team Galway (& Northwestern Uni) back in the field last week, this time mapping & sampling in the shadow of Ireland's lofty Corrán Tuathail. Last glacial termination beautifully manifested in those erratics & moraines; we came home 60kg richer in samples bound for 10Be glory. Next up, Donegal!

Fabulous examples of mushroom stones in a field just north of the University of Galway campus. Geologic evidence of palaeo-lake levels? Probably. Or another mystery of the karst world (fairies)? It's actually contentious! Either way, a very cool, very tangible find for our Geography BSc students.

😀I’m not even an England supporter, but eating humble pie for the ‘world’s best rugby team’ is very funny.

We're organizing the 5th International #PalaeoArc Conference in Stockholm, 27-29 May 2024. Abstract deadline: 18 March 2024: su.powerinit.com/Data/Event/E... Conference hosted by @bolincentre.bsky.social, Stockholm University, the Natural History Museum and the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences.

We celebrate two whole rain-free days on Achill Island, Co. Mayo, conducting fieldwork for our SFI/GSI-funded Frontiers project. Glacial geology team is complete, so we're hitting HARD the mapping of Pleistocene deposits & sampling for beryllium-10 dating. Thx Jasmin for the pics! www.jasminshah.com