Come and join us in Aberystwyth! Great opportunity to join the Department of Geography and Earth Sciences, working with Mike Woods and team on this very topical project.

Frida Kahlo, 1937 by fashion photographer Toni Frissell #womensart

Peace is fragile; constitutions are fragile; civil order is fragile. Wise political leaders realise this.

Does anyone know of any (UK-based) ECRs in geography, history & archaeology working on the Little Ice Age? I'm looking for collaborators for a potential workshop! @eseh.bsky.social @northernenvhistory.bsky.social @esehnextgate.bsky.social @carsoncenter.bsky.social @greenhouseuis.net

Megalithic Locmariaquer #standingstonesunday - The Grand Menhir Brisé and the capstone of the nearby Table des Marchands. The capstone, with an engraving of an axe was re-used from another broken menhir, likely from the same alignment as the Grand Menhir. Such an impressive site.

Lucky to spend #tombtuesday waliking among the Carnac alignments. Photo 1 - dolmen on the western edge of the Kermario alignments. Photo 2 - menhir on top of burial mound at Le Manio.

"Helsinki has not recorded a single traffic fatality in the past 12 months, city and police officials confirmed this week." This is the direct and predictable result of policy decisions, not random happenstance. #visionzero #publichealth yle.fi/a/74-20174831

What a tragedy this is even being proposed on paper... 💔 NOAA FY2026 Congressional Justification: www.noaa.gov/sites/defaul...

Liza Adamczewski (aka the Accidental Ecologist), artist and creator of the 1000 postcards project; mini paintings of natural life inspired by her ‘re-wilding’ of a Welsh farm #WomensArt

Today, I am following the coastal path from Blaenplwyf to Aber. Grey and blustery but lovely views.

It is in this context that Dickinson wrote her great poem about hope: the little bird that never stops singing, sings sweetest in a storm, cannot be abashed, keeps us warm, sings where it is cold and strange and dark, and never, no matter how extreme the trials, asks anything in return. /6

Managed a quick walk up Foel Drygan yesterday while waiting for the junior football tournament in Crymych to kick off.

A group of Labour MPs, peers and supporters write: “We should legislate to root out DEI in hiring practices, sentencing decisions and wherever else we find it in our public bodies.” Devastated to see how quickly this has arrived in the UK mainstream. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

🌏 Rare opportunity to join us! We’re hiring two new Lecturer/Senior Lecturers in the School of Earth Atmosphere & Environment #MonashUni, a top 50 global university 🔬 Isotope Geochemistry 🛰️ Remote Sensing/Geospatial careers.pageuppeople.com/513/cw/en/jo... careers.pageuppeople.com/513/cw/en/jo...

Alexandra Buckle, contemporary printmaker known for her woodland scenes created via linocuts #WomensArt

Wales and Scotland rarely exist in the minds of London-based political commentators and news organisations.

Award-winning author and screenwriter Fflur Dafydd returns with her most gripping novel yet - a psychological crime thriller that blends crime, identity, and buried secrets against the haunting backdrop of a Welsh town devastated by floods

3/3 Only at the very end of this rehearsal of the lore do we get to the real basis of the problems here:

The UK is not a single-language state. A powerful argument by @owswills.bsky.social for understanding and valuing multiculturalism. nation.cymru/opinion/the-...

Congratulations to my DGES colleague @woodszzp.bsky.social on this richly deserved honour 👏👏

The only #Crannog in Wales & England sits on Llangorse Lake in the Bannau Brycheiniog/Brecon Beacons National Park. Excavations between 1989-92 found that it was a likely Early Medieval royal site occupied in the C8th-9th AD Read more here: the-past.com/feature/the-... 📷 My own, April 2024

MORGI MAWR - yr enw Cymraeg ar y siarc (Lamna nasus) a fu'n ymweld ag Aberystwyth yn ddiweddar. Mae'n debygol fod yr enw Saesneg PORBEAGLE yn dod o'r iaith Gernyweg: o porth + bugel, felly "bugail y porthladd / harbwr'.

My VE Day was nothing like our image of it today. I hope we can honour what it really meant | Sheila Hancock

Interesting results from this study using mesocosms created from peat taken from our #GGRPeat demonstration site 👍 #UKRI #IBERS #CO2RE www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

A Carnyx at dusk, howling over Llyn Cerrig Bach votive lake on Ynys Môn / Anglesey - very special 🐗👌 #OpNightingale #IronAge

Smoke from the ongoing wildfires at Cwm Rheidol and Ffair Rhos has drifted down the valleys to Aberystwyth. Hazy today and smell of smoke in the air. Not what we usually get in April in West Wales, but we can expect more in a warming world.

Cracking day for a trip to Ireland...off to Killarney with our second year geographers and environmental scientists

EXCEPTIONAL HEAT IN MEXICO :45C/113F Extraordinary and unprecedented heat for March in the Pacific plains 45.0 Boquilla Oaxaca State 44.4 Ciudad Altamirano, Guerrero State 43.0 Xicatlacotla ,Morelos State These temperatures are rare even in April,they are exceptional in March.

#Bacteria isolated from soil collected near the village of Llanfairpwllgwyngyll, on #Anglesey #Wales is given longest species name in Europe. #taxonomy

Once I got the DIRTIEST look during a conference panel when a facilities manager asked me if technology gave me hope for the future. I said ramps are older than old and we still can’t get those put in, so no, it doesn’t. Tech is only as good as the people doling it out.

“It should be a source of national embarrassment that our country’s transport services effectively treat disabled people as second-class citizens, denying them access to jobs, leisure, support networks and essential services – denying them their rights.” www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

The submerged forest at Borth was spectacular today.

"The worst thing of all is the trauma, the mental effect. Waiting, wondering if it's going to get flooded again." www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

NEW on Wonkhe: Why does it take the British Academy to plot subject geographies? https://bit.ly/4b7HChM

This morning, the US National Science Foundation fired 168 employees, approximately 10% of its workforce, for no cause other than they were the agency's most recent hires. 🧪 Co-workers are leaving supportive messages before they have to clear out of the building at 5 p.m. Sent to me by a source ⬇️

Here's some more of Major's quotes from the R4 interview. Direct, clear and obviously very worried.

We're new here so here's a quick introduction. We're a 5-year project selected by @erc.europa.eu & funded by @ukri.org on connections between rural discontent & disruptive politics through a spatial justice lens. Find out more about us here: ruralspatialjustice.substack.com/p/introducin...

The story of marram grass weaving at Niwbwrch/Newborough.

Quantifying cultural losses from climate change (read the whole thread for some good place-based context) #climateheritage

Hello from Aberystwyth University Archives 👋. Follow us to hear about our collections. We promise there will always be nice pictures! 📸

Chilling read… DOGE staffers enter NOAA headquarters and incite reports of cuts and threats “They apparently just sort of walked past security and said: ‘Get out of my way,’ and they’re looking for access for the IT systems, as they have in other agencies” www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Happy St Brigid’s Day! The cult of St Brigid travelled beyond Ireland, including to Wales. In the CHERISH project we collaborated with colleagues in Wales researching sites at risk from climate change, including the lime kiln at St Brides Haven #CHERISHlegacy #RCAHMW @aberuni.bsky.social

The CHERISH Project's nominated for a Current Archaeology award! We're in the category of Rescue Project of the Year - vote for us here: archaeology.co.uk/vote-now CHERISH finished last year but we're continuing to share our findings #cherishlegacy @aberuni.bsky.social @interregeurope.bsky.social

Next Monday, 3 Feb at 6.30pm, I'm giving an illustrated lecture at the Royal Geographical Society @rgsibg.bsky.social, entitled 'A Nation of Map Addicts'. There'll be history, politics, art and fun. Tickets available, and it will also be livestreamed for free. Details: www.rgs.org/events/upcom...

Pob dydd Llun rydym yn cynnal ein Seminar Adrannol wythnosol! 🧬🌱 ⏰ Amser: 4:10pm 📍 Lleoliad: Edward Llwyd 1.16 neu DM-iwch am ddolen Teams Siaradwr dydd Llun: Tom Williams (Cyfoeth Naturiol Cymru) ar Rhaglen Mwyngloddfeydd Metel Cymru Croeso cynnes i bawb!

My piece is out! A history of archaeological scholarship on the potential for matrilineal societies in Iron Age Europe.

A new study led by @umaine.bsky.social Climate Change Institute Associate Director, Dr. Jasmine Saros, shows significant rapid changes to Greenland lakes 🧪https://www.pnas.org/doi/full/10.1073/pnas.2413855122?

Yowsah! Today we got a #postcard from Dr. Kathleen Carpenter, mother of freshwater ecology! But how do we tell her that her inspirational Pwll Seimon sampling site is now a "ghost pond" in #Aberystwyth? #creativewriting #naturewriting #envhist #HistSTM #ghostpond #nature #pond #biodiversity #Wales

The Durotriges An Iron Age people with women at the centre of power, kinship and land ownership A great report on our joint @tcddublin.bsky.social @bournemouthuni.bsky.social research project by @spoke32.bsky.social in @science.org 😊👍 www.science.org/content/arti...