Here is a video of a frozen creek that had begun to thaw, and the water was flowing beneath the thin ice on top. I took this because it was soothing and wonderfully bloopy and I wanted to listen to it for hours. You are all welcome to enjoy it, too. Let your brain settle here and rest for a moment.

Why is @news.sky.com not mentioning the #hungerstrike ?

Hey here’s a policy from Denmark we (and others) SHOULD be emulating:

Welcome @nullschool.net and thank you for the new nullschool app. Seeing the atmosphere all at once is a great way to learn how it behaves. earth.nullschool.net

That morning glow

Interesting book, Toward a Global History of Soil, Sciences, Practices, and Materialities, 1300–1750. Available as open access brill.com/display/titl...

Some people think science is just for nerds, but science is the foundation of the modern world and science is what made America great. Even though many of us don’t work directly in space science, we were inspired to become scientists by NASA. Destroying it makes zero sense.

As the year draws to a close, I’m signing off 2025 with a magical find! An ancient amber bear. Carved some 10,000 years ago, it washed up on a beach at Fanø, Denmark, from a submerged Mesolithic settlement in the North Sea. ✨ Happy New Year all! ✨ National Museum of Denmark 📷 by me #Archaeology

This is a good primer on the ocean.

This is find -dot- gif Towards the middle of the century, ~4000 glaciers worldwide will disappear every year.

“He raped me. Donald Trump raped me along with Jeffrey Epstein.” -accuser in Epstein Files. The reason Trump wanted to hide this becomes very clear as he is consistently named and described abusing people. #trump #epstein #epsteinfiles www.justice.gov/epstein/file...

Pay for journalism!

Gatehouse

Shrooms 2 just dropped

Big tech companies like Amazon and Meta may be passing the costs of building and operating their data centers on to YOU. That’s right. You could be bankrolling the electricity costs of trillion-dollar tech companies. I'm launching an investigation.

Eight Palestine Action activists on hunger strike in the UK while in prison awaiting trial are dying, according to a doctor

Pieter de Hooch (bapt. #otd 20 Dec 1629 - 24 Mar 1684) A Woman Preparing Bread and Butter for a Boy, about 1660–1663 (The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles)

A Tunicate #Salp’s Last Supper. A swimming smorgasbord wrapped in glassy flesh #photography #UnderwaterPhotography Link for more #photos and information: mossandfog.com/a-salps-last...

Undergraduate research conducted by three University of Limerick students has been showcased to politicians and policy makers in the Oireachtas at the first ever student research in parliament event, Póstaeir san Oireachtas. Read on: www.ul.ie/news/ul-stud... #StudyAtUL

How rainy is Dublin for biking? The answer will amaze you! (OK, probably not if you already use a bike here...) www.dublincycling.com/cycling/how-...

Another December day, another set of record-warm temperatures across much of American West. This lengthy period of anomalous winter warmth is coinciding w/severe downslope winds along Rocky Mountain Front Range, leading to extreme wildfire risk & public safety power shut-offs.

Photos of landslides from the Yakutat/Hubbard Glacier M7.0 earthquake. One photo is of a 6 km landslide runout.

Human righs apply to everyone; changing that on behalf of Ireland should be challenged. www.irishtimes.com/opinion/2025... I wish irishtimes.com would provide links to the sources it reports on.

On FB, Yukon Geological Survey posted some spectacular photos of landslides & snow avalanches triggered by the magnitude 7.0 earthquake on Dec 6 in the St Elias Mountains. Here are some of my favs. @geocron.bsky.social @theronfinley.bsky.social @davepetley.bsky.social @ksvenenvig.bsky.social 🧪⚒️

The West Front of Saint Patrick's Cathedral, Dublin James Malton, 1793 (National Gallery of Ireland)

Dr. Leila Denmark co-developed the pertussis (whooping cough) vaccine. World's oldest practicing pediatrician until she retired at age 103 (after 73 yrs). At the time of her death at age 114 & 60 days, she was the 5th-oldest validated living person in the world & 3rd-oldest in the US. #WomenInSTEM

12/11/25💡US Rep. Bennie Thompson (D-Mississippi) questions FBI official michael glasheen 🇺🇸🙏

Pieter de Hooch The Bedroom, 1658/1660 (National Gallery of Art, Washington)

Plans are progressing for social housing on a long, long-vacant site in Dolphins Barn. It’s one of two prominent sites in Dolphins Barn that the Iveagh Trust has been prepping to build out.

That’s a startling graphic @galwaycommuters.bsky.social 😲

Dr Thomas Cummins welcomes all attendees at this #worldsoilday celebration! If you missed an opportunity to snap the QR code 👉 www.ucd.ie/sssi/aboutss... @ucdearth.bsky.social | @tudublinsustain.bsky.social

Thousands of Starbucks workers are on strike for a living wage and better working conditions. Stand with them by boycotting Starbucks until it can strike a fair contract. sbworkersunited.org @sbworkersunited.org

A councillor has renewed calls for a community toilet scheme in Dublin city centre. Council officials say they’ve already tried and it flopped. So how have towns elsewhere managed to set them up?

Ah here. Active Travel getting €360m every year while road spend goes up from €1,600m to €2,700m. We've seen time and again how building active travel infrastructure increases modal shift, boosting health, reducing congestion and saving money. Serious leadership would have understood that.

"Runctitiononal features"? "Medical fymblal"? "1 Tol Line storee"? This gets worse the longer you look at it. But it's got to be good, because it was published in Nature Scientific Reports last week: www.nature.com/articles/s41... h/t @asa.tsbalans.se

The long-nosed Pinocchio #chameleon is multiple species. #Biologists have finally solved the century-old #reptilian mystery. Link for more info and photos: www.popsci.com/environment/...

✨ Paper spotlight ✨ (🧵 1/7) Moving from an experiment- to an observation-dominated era in global change impact research on vegetation nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Today @TheNewYorker released our short documentary “Rovina’s Choice” online. It traces the ongoing effects of the sudden shutdown of US foreign aid through the story of one mother in Kenya as she seeks to save her daughter from sickness and starvation. 🎥 1/ www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...

I helped make a film, out this week, called “Rovina’s Choice,” about the deaths this man without conscience or accountability has caused — already 600,000, ⅔ of them children.

"The skin simply starts sloughing off and you become unable to maintain your body temperature, where you also get skin infection....They had not seen cases like that for two decades." Thanks, Elon Musk! www.thebulwark.com/p/this-may-b...

Anti-Zionism is now winning politics. @simonerzim.bsky.social discusses Zohran Mamdani’s groundbreaking victory, how it was decades in the making, and how it will change the political landscape in New York and the wider U.S. for years to come. Watch Beyond Israelism exclusively on Zeteo.com.

A shared heritage - "The #Llangorse #crannóg is an unique example of an Irish monument type constructed in Wales." Good to see this archaeological conservation work carried out. #Ireland #Wales #archaeology #LakesOfWales onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1...

Bohernabreena reservoir, Glenasmole, constructed in the 1880s - River Dodder tributaries were segregated into those with clear water feeding the upper reservoir for drinking water supply and those with peaty water which were diverted around it to the lower reservoir to supply mills downstream

Loss and damage, #COP30. Most important negotiations in history — @eamonryan.bsky.social Worth watching

‘In the fifth century, Augustine complained that an unexpectedly large and “rather restless” horde had come to listen to him preach. Amid the commotion he had to read out a passage from the Gospels twice.’ Pablo Scheffer on the unpredictability of medieval crowds. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

The Harvesters, 1565 by Pieter Bruegel the Elder (Met Museum)

Can we align with Wyoming lawmakers to agree that anthropogenic greenhouse gases are atmospheric contaminants, emitted by planes and other combustion sources with the effect of modifying the atmosphere, and ban them on those grounds? wyofile.com/claims-chemt...

“A tiger, an elephant, a giraffe…”