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: NSF_NCAR@nsf.gov
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. ⚒️
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.. for now. Its been great having you here!
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...
Sorry to hear - sounds like you were in the right place at the right time though
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...
Rock avalanche below Mt King George triggered by the 6 December 2025 Hubbard Glacier Earthquake. The runout distance is 1.4 km.
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...
The graph shows Govt (pink) running near continous deficits - with a break in the early 2000s when Aussie households (blue) plunged deep into debt as they bid up the price of houses (partners in crime with NZ, Canada, UK, etc). Remember: Govts can only run budget surpluses if the country as a whole is running surpluses with the rest of the world (yellow) and/or the domestic private sector is piling deeper into debt (red/blue). Since 2008, the Aussie Govt has run large deficits and, in the first few cvid years, Aussie deficits were WAY bigger than NZ. Those Govt deficits, along with strong mineral exports (2019 - 2024), have given the Aussie economy a big boost. That's why our kids live there now. Those Govt deficits through the 2010s are why Aussie cities have nicer things. Meanwhile, in NZ, our dumbass commentariat are still fawning over the potential date for aGovt surplus. The UK, USA, Japan and loads of other advanced economies haven't run surpluses for 20+ years. All I want for Christmas is a sensible discussion about the *whole* economy - how we invest in our resilience, reduce our addiction to dirty fossil fuel imports, stop exporting the products of rampant ecocide. A discussion about we balance our economy with the rest of the world, with nature, and, restore the societal balance that we know will be better for all of us (and yet...).
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
The aftermath of the 25 October 2025 landslide at Kukas in PNG. Still from a video posted to Facebook by Ben Mcpitu.
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
![Comic. [two connected spacecraft hovering in space above the Earth] Houston, the view is superb. We can see the continents spread out below us, right where they’ve been since the Earth formed. [caption] I still can’t believe we developed spaceflight before we figured out that the continents moved.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:cz73r7iyiqn26upot4jtjdhk/bafkreicp2ka5asjgkmgfdfj33vnjb5bbvk3vnyao6ju5kipxcdc23pqasm)
Comic. [two connected spacecraft hovering in space above the Earth] Houston, the view is superb. We can see the continents spread out below us, right where they’ve been since the Earth formed. [caption] I still can’t believe we developed spaceflight before we figured out that the continents moved.
Continents
xkcd.com/3159/
