A well-presented comment on the importance of long-term perspectives in science and society thespinoff.co.nz/politics/29-...

At least 12 people were killed in a landslide triggered by the M=7.8 earthquake near Mindanao in the Philippines this morning. The landslide location is reported to be New Aklan in Glan, Sarangani. New Aklan appears to be at 5.7705 N, 125.3356E. #earthquake #mindanao #philippines

A livestream of a volcano in the Philippines captured a meteor crashing to Earth today. What are the odds? Mayon Volcano, Location: Albay, Luzon, Philippines

Autumn in Queenstown, and four days talking about landslides with @davepetley.bsky.social and others at LaRGE 2026. If ever there was need for indoor - outdoor flow, this is it! landsliderisk.nz

These are the kind of people we will be needing more of as climate change worsens. The extreme weather events around the country are a stark reminder that the coalition govt. is plucking out the eyes of our research system by reducing $ / shifting $ to things they think will make $$ fast. #NZPOL

Our paper, led by Ignacio Sepulveda, with Bjarke Nilsson, Yao Yu, Matías Carvajal, Matthew Brandin, David Sandwell is out in Science today! science.org/doi/epdf/10.... Video: Bjarke Nilsson @sdsuresearch.bsky.social @scrippsocean.bsky.social @ucsandiego.bsky.social @udeconcepcion.bsky.social @lmu.de

This should be the biggest weather and climate news on your radar today. You can send an email today to say why dismantling NCAR is a bad idea for everyone: [email protected]

Postdoc position on speleothem seismic vulnerability from FEM modeling (1-2 years) in Katowice (Poland) w/ @speleojacek.bsky.social paleoseismicity.org/postdoc-posi...

It's not often we see videos of landslides in action. Here's one from last weekend's storm that passed down New Zealand www.facebook.com/share/v/182G...

TectoTalks remind!⏰ Don’t miss it!🔥

In a new #SRL paper, scientists use a new and more complete catalog of earthquakes spanning 14 years to explore the relationship between geodetically observed slow slip events and seismicity in the Hikurangi subduction zone in Aotearoa, New Zealand. ⚒️ buff.ly/9pr3QRT

Across 3 consecutive autumn terms, installing HEPA air filters helped this Hampshire school achieve: 🔥21% fewer illness absences 🔥4,500 extra pupil-days in school 🔥Clear benefits for SEND | SEMH | FSM #EvidenceInAction #SafeAirSchools www.portsmouth.co.uk/education/th...

The 16th Euroconference on Rock Physics and Rock Mechanics is now over! What a week! Great science, great people, great location! Best conference ever? 😆

📢 Georgina Taiapa said two feet of deep silt, water and debris surrounded the motel after a large slip crashed into the property.

On 22 January 2026, a landslide was triggered by heavy rainfall at Mount Maunganui in New Zealand. Six people are missing. Two more people are confirmed to have been killed by a landslide at Papamoa. eos.org/thelandslide... #landslide #mountmaunganui

Our paper about phreatic explosions at Whakaari is the featured paper on the Communications Earth & Environment homepage! 🌋 Check out our open-access paper here 👇 www.nature.com/articles/s43...

A sensational guest post by Derek Cronmiller, Theron Finley Panya Lipovsky and Jan Dettmer of the Yukon Geological Survey: Photos and Preliminary Observations from an Overview Flight of the 6 December 2025 Hubbard Glacier Earthquake, Yukon Territory, Canada. eos.org/thelandslide...

Like many kiwis with grownup kids, I'm in Australia today! So, Happy Christmas to everyone who understands this graph! An explanation / Christmas message in the ALT text x

🌋Phreatic eruptions at Whakaari volcano are influenced by subsurface pressurisation magnitudes and timescales, which in turn are significantly influenced by hydrothermal mineralisation and magmatic gas input rates. 👉Read more here: www.nature.com/articles/s43...

Consider submitting your #EGU26 abstract in the broad theme of #Landslides to our session of #NH3.6. We are among the continuous major landslide sessions during the meeting, and will continuously try to give more opportunities to #ECS researchers. 🧐 AI is good in preparing infographics by the way.

📢 Luis Arevalo fears his grandson will never be able to drink water straight from the tap because of the nitrate in the local water supply. 👉 Bot to check Bluesky account creation dates

My dad texted me that he ran into a now-retired professor in the department today, one of my favorite instructors. I can't stop thinking about how this must feel for someone like that, seeing the community you spent a whole career building get dissolved by administrators using faulty data.

🚨 Scholarship alert! 🚨 Join us on a masters scholarship to work on the impacts of extreme climate events for coastal systems and communities → www.tepunahamatatini.ac.nz/posts/master...

Heartbreaking. The University of Nebraska will terminate its entire Earth science department. One of the country's most successful and respected geology & climate programs: gone. When ideologues & politicians are threatened by the very act of studying climate change, I wonder: who of us is next?

I never imagined this could be the case, but I identify with many of these sentiments. The until very recently "no. 8 wire, fix anything, she'll be right" country has made so many journalists redundant we now outsource local reporting to a foreign newspaper. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...

It still feels so unreal! Yesterday, we were awarded the "Nobel Prize" of Supercomputing, the ACM Gordon Bell Prize at #SC25 for our paper “Real-Time Bayesian Inference at Extreme Scale: A Digital Twin for Tsunami Early Warning Applied to the Cascadia Subduction Zone”: dl.acm.org/doi/full/10....

Expressions of Interest close on Friday! Make sure you get your applications in to join our PhD training course. A great way to meet other new PhD students in the field of geomorphology 🌍❄️💧🌊🌴

Water causes #rock to shift on the #Matterhorn: #SLF research on the Matterhorn shows how meltwater in #permafrost can lead to rock slope instability – a consequence of #climatechange. More: www.slf.ch/en/news/wate... 📷️ Samuel Weber / SLF

📢We are hiring! 🌍 We currently have two open positions in #geoinformatics and #remotesensing - from fundamental PhD research to applied data science work. Details & application: 1.) karriere.plus.ac.at/en/jobs/9dae... 2.) karriere.plus.ac.at/de/jobs/d3a9... #geomorphology #earthobservation #InSAR

On 31 October 2025, a landslide occurred at Kukas in Enga Province, Papua New Guinea, triggered by heavy rainfall at about 2 am. Reports indicate that at least 22 people were killed. This image, from Facebook, suggests that it occurred in a steep gully. eos.org/thelandslide...

UTTERLY SURREAL LOW ANGLE GLACIER SLIDE!! 😮😱 On Saturday at 11:00 am, a 2 km-long, 25 m-high, and 150-200 m in width section detached off the Ismoil Somoni Glacier (Tajikistan) and slid down the gorge! 🧊🌊 asiaplustj.info/en/node/354309 📽️ via @volcaholic1

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You know, there’s this pervasive view that people don’t care about climate change / are bored of it / find it overwhelming but I wrote this story this week and social media went crazy over it. People care!!!! They really care are they need a way to channel it www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...

CLaSH is seeking an Assistant Director to help lead an ambitious, interdisciplinary effort to transform the science of and advance community resilience for hazards like landslides and flooding. Apply by November 15th. See also csdms.colorado.edu/wiki/Jobs

We all know that squashing a rock makes it stiffer, but did you know water makes it softer? We wondered what happens underground, where rock is both squashed AND wet? TLDR: moisture dominates sandstone to >400m depth, and granite to >1000m depth! agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/...

How over- and underrepresented are different causes of death in the media? Another way to visualize this data is to measure how over- or underrepresented each cause is. To do this, we calculate the ratio between a cause’s share of deaths and its share of news articles.

An example of how *not* to do a research findings article headline. By using "Scientists finally reveal", it sounds like scientists were holding back from telling the public something. I can't think of anything further from the truth.

If you are attending the 11th IGC Conference in February 2026. Come along on the mid-conference Glacial Geomorphology fieldtrip to the Waimakariri to see landscapes like this... #geomorphology #NewZealand #Christchurch #geoscience #geology #geography #Aotearoa

I'm giving social media a go after a hiatus, so hi! I'm a Kiwi volcanologist working on Ngāuruhoe (Mt Doom) in NZ, the 2021 La Palma/Tajogaite eruption impacts, seafloor geologic hazards, & collaborate w. @geotenerife.bsky.social. More on my work here: janinekrippner.weebly.com Nice to meet you❤️🌋

🚨A reminder that the submission deadline for abstracts to the '8th International Conference on Rock Physics' closes tomorrow (20th September)! 🚨 Feb 22 - 27, Auckland, New Zealand www.8iwrp.auckland.ac.nz/abstract-sub...

'Swiss government tasked with developing strategy for Long Covid' 'The Swiss government is to draw up a national strategy to improve the medical situation of people suffering from Long Covid. On Thursday, Senate tacitly accepted a House of Representatives motion' www.swissinfo.ch/eng/health-s...

New JGR paper led by Zihua Niu! Evolving off-fault brittle damage alters elastic moduli between 3D fault step-overs, enabling dynamic rupture to cascade onto neighboring faults with rheology-dependent delay times and radiates isotropic high-frequency waves. doi.org/10.1029/2025...

🚨Job Alert 🚨 The Department of #Geology at the University of Otago in #NewZealand invites applications for a faculty position (Lecturer – equivalent to Assistant Professor in North American academic systems) in Earth sciences or adjacent field. ⚒️🧪 #Geosciences otago.taleo.net/careersectio...

First day of the 4th IAG-EGU intensive course for young geomorphogists! Slightly wet, and a little cloudy, but everyone was excited to learn about soil erosion processes and human impacts, and dendrogeomorphology and avalanches! #IAG #EGU

📣📣 Call For Donations! 💰💰 I am raising funds to finance the 2025 'glacier subfossil wood' field campaign! Do you want to continue hearing tales about glaciers and trees? 🧊🌲💍 I need your help! 🤍 To learn more: wemakeit.com/projects/gla... 🙏🙏 Please share it widely! 🙏🙏

More cuts to the Marsden Fund of @royalsocietynz.bsky.social. This takes it down to $10/capita in real terms when it was over $16 for most of this century. Australia's equivalent, the ARC, is NZ$42/capita, as is the US NSF (despite ongoing attempts to gut the latter). www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...

Completely agree with this. A Minister who believes all kids brains develop the same and that outdoor ed offers nothing worthwhile let alone for the economy when they go on to find work is ignoring evidence that proves otherwise.

#Christchurch #NZ #eqnz AA Insurance says they are to stop opening _new_ policies in Lincoln (7608) and Rolleston (7615) due to reaching their earthquake cover limit. They can extend existing policies in those postcodes. www.odt.co.nz/star-news/st...

At least 1,000 people are reported to have died in a landslide in Sudan, triggered by heavy rainfall. Tirsin in Central Darfur’s Amo District, was completely buried. There was just one survivor. bnonews.com/index.php/20...

The disastrous impacts of debris flows at Dharali village in Uttarakhand this week are an important reminder of the need for good risk communication. Maps that clearly communicate relative risk levels can save lives, by flagging areas that are marginal for development - before an event occurs.