⚒️ 🧪 A catastrophic earthquake just struck northern Venezuela. Large buildings have collapsed, and the USGS PAGER is forecasting thousands of fatalities. Our colleague in Caracas, Dr. Frank Audemard, has shared with us what the earthquake felt like and footage from the region. Here’s what we know.

OK, so #FIFA tells us that symbols commemorating national independence and liberation from colonial oppression and exploitation is "too political" and we should maintain a neutral perspective on these types of benchmark historical events. Got it. #worldcup2026 www.theguardian.com/football/202...

Enshittification of the Beautiful Game #FIFA #Worldcup2026 p.dw.com/p/5ETB2

Powerful #earthquake south off #Mindanao #Philippines triggering #tsunami. Stay safe everyone! www.rappler.com/philippines/...

First full manuscript of the #NORSEAT project funded by @belspo.be on stratigraphies and sedimentary environments offshore of the #Shetland Islands - led by Rikza Nahar #UGent #preprint #openaccess @ppcosta.bsky.social @tsuenamidawson.bsky.social @debatistmarc.bsky.social doi.org/10.31223/X53...

In October 2026 we're going to host the annual meeting of the German Society for #Geomorphology #DGGM @uniheidelberg.bsky.social - Submissions are welcome, deadline 30 June 2026 - Detailed information ➡️ www.geog.uni-heidelberg.de/en/dggm2026

It's time to introduce six new associate editors at Geomorphica, who will help us manage the growing number of submissions. First up is Max Engel! #MeetMeMonday

The #NORSEAT project on #offshore #tsunami deposits and Holocene sea-leve change in the #Shetland Islands is in its final year and reports are being drafted. During the wait I'll drop here the first project report published by the #Heidelberg Geographical Society shorturl.at/Wobxn

When your colleague is sick in bed and you jump in to give their presentation...

Anatomy of a massive landslide #tsunami facilitated by #climatechange in the Subarctic

Was great to have you here at Heidelberg, @stever60.bsky.social !!!

💎 Diamond Open Access ftw! 🙌🏽

@uniheidelberg.bsky.social Master student Nel's first manuscript on #EarthArXiv #preprint - Flooding pattern and refined timing of the Late #Holocene tsunami on the #Shetland Islands based on #OSL and high-res grain size and heavy mineral data, funded by @belspo.be doi.org/10.31223/X55...

Trotz fataler Abhängigkeit von Erdöl und Erdgas plant die Regierung Angriffe auf #Energiewende und #erneuerbare Energien. Das gefährdet Wohlstand und Demokratie. , 12 Uhr: Stoppschild in #Hamburg #Berlin #Münchenn #Kölnn.

The last breath of winter last week got us some fabulous hikes in knee-deep snow ❄️🤍🏔️ #Alps #Garmisch #Höllental

18. April #Energiewende verteidigen - Bring it to the streets, defend #renewables ✊🏽 ⚡ 🔋 ☀️ 🌬️

Happy to have Aleksandre Prosperini #PhDstudent @sorbonne-universite.fr back in our lab through a @daadworldwide.bsky.social scholarship - last week exploring the relic periglacial block field of Felsenmeer, a local #geomorph gem 💎 #Odenwald 🇩🇪 (yeh, it gets busy on a weekend...)

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March 11 marks the 15th anniversary of the 3rd-largest seismic event ever recorded, the magnitude 9.1 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami. Recovery from this devastating event is still ongoing. Research into ways to make our society more resilient to nature's unpredictability continues.

We still have a long way to go for climate education 😵...

Das muss man erstmal schaffen, ein Gesetzesvorhaben zu präsentieren, das so durchsichtig ausschließlich fossilen Lobbyinteressen dient, allen anderen aber schadet, dass man diese Phalanx aus Kritik inspiriert. Chapaeau, Schwarz-Rot! Hier eine kleine Auswahl.

#throwback to chilly mornings and interesting choices of shades in the #Arabian desert #fieldwork #2015 with @dai-weltweit.bsky.social @unicologne.bsky.social @dfg.de

This study on historical clay extraction in the floodplain the late-glacial palaeo-channel of the Neckar river evolved from several undergrad field courses and is our first collaboration with the #Hessen State Archive @uniheidelberg.bsky.social @henselowsky.bsky.social doi.org/10.5194/egqs...

Meinen die uns? #zarti #noafd

Our PhD student Katharina 👩🏼‍🔬 starring in @uniheidelberg.bsky.social #tdlab' s video 📽️ about transformative environmental research in Physical Geography which is going to be used in teaching in the #TrafU framework. Great fun to shoot this in the lab! ⚗️🧪🔬🐚 @nicoleaeschbach.bsky.social

Sand and dust in all colours and shapes at the annual meeting of the German working group on Desert Margin Research in snow-covered #Hessen Schloss Rauischholzhausen

First home game in 2026, first win 🙌🏼⚜️⚽🏟️ #SVDFCN #SVD #D98

Our review on coastal environmental archives of storminess in NW Europe led by Katharina Hess is avilable as a #preprint on @eartharxivbot.bsky.social lakes, machairs, peatland, dunes, tidal flats, lagoons, cliff tops, beach ridges - it's all covered! 🏞️ doi.org/10.31223/X58...

First bumper stickers arrived - announcing the 2026 annual meeting of the German Society for Geomorphology #DGGM at Heidelberg, 07-10 Oct #DGGM2026 more info tba!

Another ⚽ World Cup to ignore in light of this moral abyss.

"Four decades of the 🇩🇪 Working Group on Marine and Coastal Geography – Interdisciplinary perspectives and practices" 🌊🏖️🌍🚢🌐🦪 #ERDKUNDE #AMK #AMK24 #openaccess doi.org/10.3112/erdkunde.2025.03.01

Bunter #Sandstone #Buntsandstein #Odenwald magic ✨☀️

Guter Tag um an @hateaid.org zu spenden, habe das auch gerade schnell erledigt. hateaid.org

OK, that was super-fast typesetting: the #AMK24 special issue "Four decades of the Working Group on Marine and Coastal Geography" is now published as Vol 79(3/4) in #ERDKUNDE 💎 #openaccess doi.org/10.3112/erdk... www.erdkunde.uni-bonn.de/issue/view/404

Finally, all papers from the #AMK24 meeting of the German working group of marine and #coastal #geography @uniheidelberg.bsky.social in 2024 accepted for the SI in ERDKUNDE 💎 #openaccess #notforprofit are online. Guest editorial submitted ✅ Watch out! www.erdkunde.uni-bonn.de/issue/view/e...

Got 6 of them from the 📘 shop yesterday - 🎄🎁 for everyone in my team 🙌🏽

I met Martin Koehler #phdstudent #UQ #Australia at the 2024 #ISROC field school St. Croix #USVI. This week he visited @uniheidelberg.bsky.social and presented his work on coastal boulder deposits in the South Pacific #Tonga. Good opportunity for a short tour of the (geo)highlights of #Heidelberg!

Another ⚽ World Cup to ignore in light of this moral abyss.

Bullsh*t policies on 🚙💨 exposed. Good read. Physics 🤝🏽 Economics 🤝🏽 Sociology

On unethical editorial practice at STOTEN - Science of the Total Environmental- and how this has ultimately led to delisting at Clarivate. english.elpais.com/science-tech... #academia #academicchatter

Winter commute 🚲 🚉 🚲 ❄️ 🧤🧣

Paid the German conference on Luminescence and Electron-Spin Resonance Dating #DLED2025 @uniheidelberg.bsky.social a visit today. Gorgeous location right below the castle at the Heidelberg Academy of Sciences and Humanities, and definitely the best conference gadget! dled2025.geog.uni-heidelberg.de

Starting XRF scanning of this summer's #Shetland Islands lake sediment cores @uniheidelberg.bsky.social #earthsciences in 3, 2, 1... 🏁 🩻 📉#avaatech

The rate at which the Philippines are hit by super-typhoons is breathtaking. At the same time it is 💔 to see how global leaders seem to absolutely not care about the accelerating impacts of climate change as reflected by their policies.

BREAKING: The Philippines declares a state of emergency after Typhoon Kalmaegi leaves at least 114 dead and hundreds missing in central provinces.

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The first cores of the HOTSTORMS project! @uniheidelberg.bsky.social @bas.ac.uk @stever60.bsky.social + collaborators across 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇬🇧🇫🇷🇧🇪🇩🇪

Office for today, on an 11-hr train journey from Poland 🇵🇱 back home 🚄👨🏻‍💻🎧🍜😌

Quite impressed by #Gdańsk 🇵🇱 not gonna lie...

Spending 2 days at Gdańsk University 🇵🇱 for the STORMLINK Workshop 🌬️🌊 discussing washover dynamics in all detail. Thanks for having us @damianm.bsky.social !