Low-angle sunlight glinting off the mottled Carboniferous limestone surface of the Burren, western Ireland, with people walking near an archaeological site in the background.

Gordon Bromley peering underneath a perched limestone boulder on the Burren. Although a nice example of a glacially perched boulder, the boulders sampled for exposure dating were granitic (or else silica veins in the limestone bedrock). But I like this photo and decided to share anyway.

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That's my mother-in-law there, protesting outside the US Customs & Border Protection Building. Like many other brave souls, she doesn't agree that an under-trained, partisan paramilitary group of masked vigilantes has a place in america. History is precedent: speak up now, or lose the right to speak

banning X is a national security issue for every country, plain and simple

its explicit goal is to amplify and empower the largest Nazi-adjacent party in every country in which it operates

it is also the largest deepfake porn generator in the world

this is not a difficult call to make

Agreed! Haggis is my life ❤️

Colin Bunce on the loess deposits in the Burren. #IQUAAutumnSymposium

Whatever the weather on deck, it's always a good day inside the Burren. Christopher in a tight spot this week, sampling ancient rhythmites (metres thick!) in Pol an Ionain for OSL dating, part of our @geolsurvie.bsky.social-funded study of Ireland's caves #UniversityofGalway @bokuvienna.bsky.social

Dear Europe, especially Germany,

Stop obsessing over what Trump will or won’t do. Hoping & praying America will step up so we don’t have to is dangerously stupid.

Step up yourself, destroy Russia’s war economy, & give Ukraine what they need to win.

Europe must defend Europe.

This is Zelensky putting pressure on Trump. He knows Ukrainians don't want to surrender. He's talking to all Americans across the political spectrum who support Ukraine, love freedom, and hate surrender. He's telling them: "you can't allow Trump to align the US with Ru against Europe". Let's see.

Your travels are the perfect tonic to the late semester teaching blues, Michael. Keep us posted!

Enough to keep you a busy man, Melaine! 🙂

Watched this two nights ago & agree, nothing new under the sun. But why beat about the bush? It's poignant because another big democracy, the US, is collapsing into fascism before our eyes & we pretend not to notice or call a spade a spade. Like the frog in the pan of heating water. & a cute penguin

A student told her professor “President Trump’s laws state that there are two genders,” and that the lesson was “illegal” for contradicting that. It’s not. Executive orders are not laws.

Compliance with authoritarianism will not protect universities. Either we stand up for our missions or we fall.

The world’s greatest killer of journalists Israel is conducting a war against journalism. But journalists keep on documenting its crimes

In May 2022, an Israeli sniper shot and killed Al Jazeera reporter Shireen Abu Akleh. Last week, Israel targeted and killed five journalists in one attack. In between those dates, Israel became the largest killer of journalists in the world.

The EU surrendered to Trump over trade tariffs – now it’s in danger of capitulating again | Thierry Breton A fresh US assault is aimed at Europe’s right to regulate tech. It’s an outrage – and we must resist it, says former European commissioner Thierry Breton

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Nicely put

The way I see it: if Trump is going to eliminate science in the United States, we have absolutely nothing to gain through obedience. If he wants to step on us, he should be stepping on our quills.

How to preserve a glacier’s legacy - High Country News Artists are called to document the existence, and disappearance, of glacier.

For the past 19 years the North Cascade Glacier Climate Project has integrated artists into our summer field science expedtion. This article by @thatsmohrlikeit.bsky.social explains well, why and how it has worked with @jillpelto.bsky.social leadership #glaciology

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INCREDIBLE !!

Here we are... 😱😱😱

After days of overloading and cracks propagating, Birch Glacier collapsed today at 3.24 pm over Blatten and the dammed Lonza river...

Devastating! 😭

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Palaeoglacial and palaeoclimate inferences from cirque morphometry and spatial distribution across northern Patagonia (40o – 45o S) The evolution of the cryosphere and climate in northern Patagonia during the late Pleistocene are relatively well-known thanks to chronologies on ice-…

New paper, led by @rlsoteres.bsky.social

Cirques, paleo-glaciers, landscape changes, paleoclimate!

The team coring peat in Rannoch Moor.

Victorious core acquisition.

Rannoch Moor moraine ridge. I collected samples for 10Be dating from boulders in these landforms while Gordon et al. collected mud.

#fieldphotofriday

Rogue grad students coring Rannoch Moor, Scotland, in April 2010. Clear skies with no contrails, thanks to the eruption of Eyjafjallajökull.

(With @gordonbromley.bsky.social, Kurt Rademaker, and Gordon’s friend Dan.)

BREAKING: Elon Musk's rocket explosion nearly hit a commercial flight.

This kind of content is being downranked on X. Please share it here. This is so dangerous.

Good things are happening, too. 24 BSc students took to the Connacht hills last week, following #Quaternary greats Francis Synge & Hal Borns & learning glacial-geomorphic mapping, beryllium-10 sampling, drone survey, & stone skimming. No chatgpt screwing this up! #geography @uniofgalway.bsky.social

That makes my day, Jeffrey, living vicariously as I am from my office! Take care in the mountains.

Nobody knowing where you are is, for a while at least, a most wonderful feeling, don't you think? The essence of being a human alive on this planet.

That must be one of the strongest winds I've ever seen modelled from AROME, with over 110 mph gusts on the west coast of Ireland near Galway. It's looking like a significant event for sure, please heed the warnings! #StormÉowyn