Recent lecture ‘Mineral Memories’ in Aula Maxima @uniofgalway.bsky.social by Bernie Colhoun www.instagram.com/bernie.colho.... Bernie wowed us by her multifaceted artistic endeavours, portraying #landscapes, #time, #archaeology & #geology of #Ireland; making the complex appear simple & to be enjoyed

The winter sun goes down on #Galway Bay. @salthill.bsky.social @wildatlanticway.bsky.social

Linguists start compiling first ever complete dictionary of ancient Celtic

Are you a #teacher looking for training opportunities in #geosciences or seeking #financial assistance for events that promote geoscience #education? Apply now for the 2026 Field School for Teachers and Geoscience Education Event! 📆 31 December 2025: egu.eu/96EKUA 📸 Ole Zeising on #imaggeo

Ancient forest 🌳 in the Northern of Spain

I thanked someone working there and they were so nice about it, and even asked me to sign a few copies So you can probably get those ones at a discount now 😅

Ireland's evolving landscape the theme of #IQUA Autumn Symposium at @geolsurvie.bsky.social HQ, Beggars Bush, D4. Lectures ranged widely over time & space; many new ideas & fresh insights on the 11past, present & future at this critical juncture in Ireland's development @quaternaryirl.bsky.social

🎄 On the fifth day of #12PubsOfChristmas, we’re unwrapping Ireland’s past! Fintan O’Toole’s A History of Ireland in 100 Objects tells the story of Ireland through artefacts – from a Mesolithic fish trap to a modern AK-47. 🎁 A timeless gift for anyone curious about Ireland’s heritage.

Help us unlock the Plants of the Past, by supporting volunteers to digitise decades of paper records & inform C21st science! @biggive.bsky.social From #GivingTuesday to 9 Dec, we have £10K in matched funds to unlock: every donation, however small, will be doubled: donate.biggive.org/campaign/a05...

Just the Winter One rather than #thewinter10 in Conamara this week! Gorse / Aiteann (Ulex europaeus) can always be relied on for some flowers. #WildflowerHour

Thanks to all participants, & esp leader, @johnjfwalsh.bsky.social, & @corkgeological.bsky.social participants for helping make this a trip for the ages. Not forgetting Muintir Árann (esp Noel & Máirtín) for facilitating the group. Got there in a storm! that quickly gave way to glorious sunshine

Yesterday, mid-afternoon on the Prom, #Claddagh / #Salthill. A weather front slowly approaching from the west but all still calm in #GalwayBay; people, incl. many new comers, oblivious of approaching rain & wind. Language-wise, the Tower of Babel; diverse tongues most of which I didn't recognise

School of Law @uniofgalway.bsky.social Annual Distinguished Lecture 2025: 'The US Government’s Challenge to Universities: The Attack on University Curricula’ delivered with much eloquence & passion by Prof William Treanor, Dean of Georgetown University Law Center @georgetownlaw.bsky.social

On the prom, #Salthill, as the sun goes down on #Galway Bay

The manuscript of the week is RIA MS 23 P 16, Leabhar Breac. Written in Irish by Murchadh Riabach Ó Cuindlis, at Cluain Lethan and Lothra (Lorrha) in Múscraige Tíre, in north Co. Tipperary, it is the largest Irish vellum manuscript by one scribe.

A wonderful little fungi family soak up the morning sunshine deep in the ancient woods at Abbeyleix House & Gardens @irishwoodlandtrust.bsky.social @claireissimo.bsky.social @charleenhurtubise.bsky.social

Sure it is a tonic for myself given the weather we are having in Ireland. At least I made it across the Irish Sea just before the present downpours. Hope the bridges of Galway survive the waters of the swollen Corrib river. 😊🤔

Monday 10 November had a fun day exploring #Herculaneum / Ercolano. A Roman town on the Bay of Naples, it was preserved for posterity by ash from #Vesuvius eruptions in 79 CE. Roman querns, charred wooden furniture, Arbutus with flowers & fruit, & the site with Vesuvius capped by a cloud in photos

Rural landscapes often look their best as here at Westonbirt, #Cotswolds. Isolated large oaks & horses give an added dimension to an idyllic English landscape. Nearby English National Arboretum, Highgrove & Tetbury with its Ormond / Irish connection

The RIA is delighted to welcome @dhkaplanoh.bsky.social past president of the @geographers.bsky.social to deliver the keynote at our panel on the importance of Geography and Geoscience education. Taking place on 19 Nov Book your tickets: www.tickettailor.com/events/royal... @geolsurvie.bsky.social

#GGA lecture this evening at 7 pm: The Ethics of Mineral Extraction by Dr Nick O'Neill. The subject matter has seldom been more topical 😳

Climbed to the crater of #Vesuvius yesterday. Amazing to see gases emerging & smell S. Unfortunately, no explanations of the complex stratigraphy. Vegetation struggling to gain a foothold on the Volcanic deposits. Panoramic views of the Bay of Naples

Tuesday, 11 Nov, 19:00 h, #GGA Zoom lecture: The Ethics of Mineral Extraction by Dr Nick O'Neill, #TCD. Earthrise (Dec 24 1968), by Bill Anders (NASA, Apollo 8), shows earth as a fragile blue marble in blackness of space. It inspired the 1st Earth Day 1970 & this lecture. www.galwaygeology.net

End July 2025 retraced my steps to #Inishturk, Co #Mayo on @wildatlanticway.bsky.social. Weather not as good as in April, but managed to get reasonable photos, according to my own lights! #Fulmars still plentiful on western cliffs; single chicks in some of nests. Inishturk awe inspiring as ever

The #ClimateEmergency and #NatureCrisis are intimately interlinked. And we can ill afford to lose these trees on these under-forested islands www.theguardian.com/science/2025...

Some of the extensive remains of Roman Corbridge in Northumberland. A wonderful site with a great museum. 📸 My own. #RomanSiteSaturday #RomanBritain #Corbridge #Northumberland

#Macnas weaved its spell on the streets of #Galway last evening. An Treun – Summoning Of The Lost, a tale by Bram Stoker & featuring the haunting call of the vanished corncrake #Halloween #OícheShamhna #Samhain

Neanderthal coasteering and the first Portuguese hominin tracksites🏺🧪 www.nature.com/articles/s41... Carlos Neto de Carvalho, @stewartfinlayson.bsky.social, @gibgerry.bsky.social, @clivefin.bsky.social et al Oldest-known hominin track sites in SW Europe and clues to hunting patterns of Neanderthals

Prof Clive Finlayson, Director #GibraltarMuseum & Gorham’s Cave Complex UNESCO World Heritage Site wooed a packed house with his lecture on #Neanderthal people in #Gibralter this evening. 7th William King lecture @uniofgalway.bsky.social 📷Clive Finlayson presentation

One of the most beautiful trees in Europe is the 550 year old Arbour Oak in Wollaton Park, Nottingham My youngest son is at university in the City, and took this photo 30mins ago

Reminder: 7th William King Lecture 6pm, TODAY in Ó hEocha Theatre, Arts Millennium Building, S. Campus, University of Galway BY Prof Clive Finlayson, Director #GibraltarMuseum & Gorham’s Cave Complex UNESCO World Heritage Site. Introduction by Prof David Burn, President, @uniofgalway.bsky.social

Also impressive interview with Oliver Callan on @rteradio1.bsky.social this morning. Go n-éirí an bothar leat, a Shoilse!

High pressure dominating for days but no sun in #Salthill; only stillness, low cloud & some drizzle. 1 pm on 13th, tide on the ebb, a few strollers explored Grattan Beach, a handful of Brent geese were joined by several others & 3 cormorants sat patiently on a rock awaiting ideal fishing conditions

Reminder: this evening’s (Wed, 15 October at 7pm) GGA @galway-geol-ass.bsky.social Zoom lecture: Coastal boulder deposits on the #AranIslands BY Professor Rónadh Cox (Williams College, MA, USA). For Z link email: [email protected] 😉🌊 @wildatlanticway.bsky.social

Heute beginnt die Frankfurter Buchmesse. hpd-Autor Helmut Ortner gibt aus diesem Anlass zehn Buchempfehlungen zur Wappnung und Warnung in der heutigen Zeit. Aktuelle Neuerscheinungen und einige Bücher, die zwar nicht ganz druckfrisch sind, aber zum Verständnis beitragen können, in welcher Lage sich

"👻Long-melted #glaciers 🧊 haunt us, as terraformers that shaped the land👻". 👋Meet Elizabeth Case, a glacial hauntologist. In this #GeoTalk, you will learn about her journey and her science-art projects. 🧵Read more: https://bit.ly/4onOInX

Introduction to EBSCOhost Research Databases at University of Galway Date: Tuesday, October 21, 2025 Time: 11:00 - 12:30 Online Event - Registration required More information and Register on this link: universityofgalway.libcal.com/event/4416526

Thoroughly enjoyed the @galway-geol-ass.bsky.social #geology fieldtrip to Co. Offaly on Saturday led by Dr John Feehan, the expert on all things #Offaly and much more besides. This thread of 4 posts gives an idea of the interesting places that fully engaged everybody's attention

Join us on 14 Oct at the RIA for a Panel event to discuss the future of funding for fundamental scientific research in Ireland. The event includes a keynote by Jean-Pierre Bourguignon, former @erc.europa.eu president. Tickets available: https://www.tickettailor.com/events/royalirishacademy/1861191

Still some places in this #GGA #geology fieldtrip to #eskers (& more besides) of Co. #Offaly; lots to experience, guided by John Feehan. Weather forecast good. Email: [email protected] or myself for details. Fáilte roimh cách!

#Salthill prom: high tide & sun going down on #GalwayBay this evening. I'm told by year-round swimmer, sea temperature 12C; 14C earlier in week. Mackerel appear to be rather scarce but the fishermen still try their luck @wildatlanticway.bsky.social

October 6 was declared International #GeodiversityDay by the UNESCO in 2021. On this day we celebrate the abiotic beauty and diversity of Earth - including rocks, soils, landscapes, rivers, lakes, minerals & fossils ⛰️🪨🐚💎

This recalls the fine fieldtrip at around this time of year 2022 that included a magical walk during which we explored the Knockbarron #esker, nr Kinnitty, Co Offaly led by Dr John Feehan. Looking forward greatly to another magical day on Saturday

Greatly looking forward to this lecture by Prof Rónagh Cox on this highly topical subject - given the increased frequency of severe storms on the NW Atlantic coasts and especially western Ireland

Photos from recent travels to mark #InternationalGeodiversityDay. Dalradian metamorphic rocks with quartz veins #Connemara National Park, W Ireland; sandstone, slate etc, medieval tower house, St Marys & All Saints church, Conwy, Wales; dykes & Watt, Langwarder Groden, west of Bremerhaven, Germany

Storm #Amy was at max in #Galway at about 3 pm yesterday. Photos from about 6 pm on #Salthill Prom as winds abated, skies cleared & sun appeared to give fine rainbows; and @catherinegalway.bsky.social still standing!

So sorry to learn that Machán Magan has died. You certainly showed us the relevance of the past for the present; cf. your bestseller 'Thirty-Two Words for Field. Lost Words of the Irish Landscape'. 'Ireland in Iceland' another intriguing title. #Machán your enterprising & free spirit will be missed!

We stood and pondered on the stones,whose plan displays their pattern still; the small blunt arc, and, sill by sill, the pockets stripped of shards and bones. The legend has it, Ossian lies beneath this landmark on the hill Excerpt from Ossian’s Grave, John Hewitt (1962) #nationalpoetryday

#JaneGoodall, 3 Apr 1934 – 1 Oct 2025. A life well lived. An icon for the ages and particularly for the times we live in. Photo is a screengrab from a fine #BBC interview with Terry Wogan bbc.com/news/article...

Wonderful tribute to Tim Robinson, cartographer, writer, recorder of landscapes of #AranIslands #Burren & #Connemara in #NationalConcertHall, Dublin. Afterwards met 2 of contributors, #poet Moya Cannon & scholar & sean-nós singer Lillis Ó Laoire. Tim & Mairéad you have contributed so much to us