The global phenomenon of “bikelash” has become one of the biggest barriers to implementing interventions that make our streets more liveable, accessible and sustainable. So how do we best manage it as advocates for change? Here are eight strategies we recently presented at the Velo-city Conference.🧵

Our new study lead produced enhanced paleo‑geomorphological mapping of the Ararat Depression to decode how shifting landforms shaped human movement and settlement in the Late Pleistocene doi.org/10.1016/j.qu... @humendylab.bsky.social @arikmalinsky-b.bsky.social @yannismicrooikon.bsky.social

Unravelling the formation processes and depositional histories of the Middle Palaeolithic Ararat-1 Cave, Armenia: A multiscalar and multiproxy geoarchaeological approach www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

There are 2 previous historical cases of countries destroying their science and universities, crippling them for decades: Lysenkoism in the USSR and Nazi Germany. The Trump administration will be the 3rd. It's not just budgets but research, institutions, expertise, and training the next generation.

‘The West Tofts handaxe is a small British Acheulean biface well known for its cortical preservation of a fossilised bivalve shell’ www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Great to attend the Mersey Forest plan launch yesterday at the Museum of Liverpool

The Alpine glaciers are lacking snow! ❄️🥵 ~2 m of snow less than average on Austrian glaciers! 📈 The difference with last year (a negative annual balance though) is striking! Half last year accumulation in this snow pit at Hallstätter Glacier (Dachstein) 👇 📷 Giulia Bertolotti / IG

Congratulations to Prof Mark Green (@livunigeog.bsky.social) who has been awarded the Royal Geographical Society (@rgsibg.bsky.social) 2025 Back Award for outstanding geographical research impacting public policy on a national and international scale👏👏👏 news.liverpool.ac.uk/2025/05/12/p...

Wrapped up fieldwork in Spain! Incredible fluvial sequences, archaeology, loess, and top-notch company. Learned so much about the Tagus Basin’s Quaternary history from real experts. Now to prep for next year's fieldwork in Madrid: notes, photos, permits—& a new PhD student! 🇪🇸 #LoessIsMore

Global RIver Topology (GRIT) is a new and improved global river network that represents bifurcations, multi-thread channels and canals. Great to see this important output from the NERC-funded EVOFLOOD project. See more here: doi.org/10.1029/2024...

The largest temperature anomalies were found over the extratropics of the Northern Hemisphere again in April 2025. Plot shows zonal-mean surface air temperature anomalies, where latitude = x-axis (not scaled by distance). Data from NASA/GISS GISTEMPv4 using their 1951-1980 reference period.

Thrilled to see this paper out in the world! Huge credit to Ioannis for the incredible effort in pulling together so many proxies and areas of expertise to reconstruct the record from Ararat Cave. Glad to have contributed the OSL chronology for this work.

Huge congratulations to Mark Green of the GDSL on being awarded the Back Award 🏆 by @rgsibg.bsky.social for an outstanding contribution to the development of national or international public policy! 🎉 🎉 🎉

Getting up at 5:45am was totally worth it we found — two gorgeous profiles. Plus a third small one #LoessISMore

A double whammy from the research gods today 1) Found a perfect section for sampling; thick, well preserved, clear contact with the units below, bones and ceramics popping out of the section. But farmer did not allow us to sample 😭 2) another grant rejection

Fieldwork day 1. "In a village in la Mancha, whose name I do not care to remember..."

After a lunch interlude to mark some assignments, I’m back with the broadcast—this time from the Natural History Museum.

Dear reader, This, of course, was no mere pit stop. 2.5 hours later and I’m just leaving—feeling like I could’ve easily spent another 2.5h there

On my way to a café for some work and last minute field planning, and stumbled across this. Obviously making a quick pit stop

It's fieldwork time again; part loess hunt, part pilot sampling, 100% weather regret. Naturally, the weather in Liverpool looks better than Madrid for the next week. #LoessIsMore

#ClimateChange 🌡️ is exceptional and caused by human greenhouse gas emissions 🏭 We are causing #globalwarming 10 times faster than past natural changes We are taking Earth’s 🌎 climate beyond natural limits, with carbon dioxide & temperatures levels not seen for 3 million years

100th rapid attribution study @wwattribution.bsky.social - Climate change made South Korean wildfire weather ~2x as likely. 4x the previous record burnt area, 32 people dead. Impacts would have been much worse if it wasn't for the good early warning. www.worldweatherattribution.org/climate-chan...

Thousands of hectares of farmland in northern Ukraine that were considered too dangerous for cultivation following the Chornobyl disaster almost 40 years ago can safely return to agricultural production, according to new research. Read more: www.ceh.ac.uk/news-and-med... 🧪

At the airport putting the final touches to my talk at @ucddublin.bsky.social School of Earth Sciences tomorrow — all about loess geochemistry, chronology, and chasing ancient dust across continents. Slide attached for a sneak peek. Looking forward to the discussion! #AcademicLife #LoessIsMore

The cover of this week’s Economist.

Scales of toolstone transport in the Armenian Highlands during MIS 3: The contribution of Ararat-1 Cave (Ararat Depression) to reconstructing opportunities for social interactions www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Eolian Deposition! Kelso Dunes, Mojave Desert!!! #geology #teaching #desert #depositionalenvironments

Classic geographers… Give them a little free time, a cliff, some dirt, a bit of vegetation— and they’ll spontaneously prod, poke, and point. Because any time outside is basically fieldwork @livunigeog.bsky.social @livunisoes.bsky.social

Day 2 of our @livunigeog.bsky.social field class to the Lake District. Today our students meausured lichens at multiple locations to look at how aspect, position, and human activity (e.g. air pollution) affect lichen growth.

Cloudy start to the day here in the Algarve—hoping the rain holds off as students kick off their first day of data collection on the residential trip. @livunisoes.bsky.social #fieldtrip #Algarve

Starting residential fieldtrip in Algarve how I mean to go on...

Classic turn of events-just as term winds down and we’re about to head off for a 10-day residential field trip in Portugal, my immune system has decided to go on Easter break early. Can I fight it off in 36 hours? Place your bets and send your best rapid recovery tips.

Saturday in the darkroom— sorting the long run before the residential field trip next week. Science never sleeps, just glows ✨ #labmonkey #OSL #lablife

A breezy day at Formby Beach—perfect for our second-year Geography and Environmental Science students! 🌬️ This morning they worked on analysing wind flow along beach and dune transects, putting theory into practice in a stunning coastal environment. @livunigeog.bsky.social @livunisoes.bsky.social

ScienceSky I'm putting up a signal. I'm working on a new series of Horrible Science for Children's BBC. We would love to chat to experts about their favourite science facts for kids. I'm looking to chat to chemists first as well as some peeps who know their human biology.

Spring is in the air in Liverpool #birds #bird #nature #wildlife #goldfinches #goldfinch #birdphotography #rspb #wildlifephotography

I'm Dr Kaja Fenn @drloessismore.bsky.social a Lecturer in Environmental Change. I love working with arid and aeolian sediments. Loess is my fav so I'm often found hanging off cliffs. But I've also worked on archaeological sites, caves, table mountains, and more. Plus I'm into sediment provenance!

me staring at my data

I'm Dr Rachel Smedley, Reader in Physical Geography & Director of the LivLumLab for the last 7 years! I love to push the luminescence dating technique to its limits to answer innovative environmental research questions, including dating our hominin ancestors, underneath Antarctica and much more!

The Liverpool Luminescence Laboratory has joined Bluesky! We're a busy, friendly lab performing lots of innovative, exciting research using the luminescence dating technique across many different environments. Check out our webpages to find out more. www.liverpool.ac.uk/geography-an...

I left the hellhole site a while ago and took a break from all this. But hey, I'm back. Hi everyone—hit me up if you're into anything dusty, chronology, and Quaternary. And here's an image of some lovely sand wedges preserved in loess as a little welcome gift.