What a shot! Delighted that Nick Scroxton, Carla Sa Ferreira & the BSc Biological and Geographical Sciences got to enjoy some blue skies and sunshine. #albumcovermoment

Rock identification in CavenBurrenPark.ie with the BSc Biological and Geographical Sciences GY308 students on their way to #Bundoran . We think Nick Scroxton identified a big one!

#Fieldwork #Geology

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100%, BUT when respected scientific agencies come out and say it's 60 degrees in Spain when it's not, it's a sci-comm nightmare.

Ground temp scientists, though I love you dearly, learn when to shut up, or how to add nuance to your tweets.

Universal Basic Research Funding.

Brilliant, a huge boost to ECRs, junior faculty, those returning from time away. Can't wait to see how it turns out.

A nice presentation by Nick Scroxton at INQUARoma2023 showing dating methods for stalagmites in Madagascar, Australia and in Ireland.

Just in...

Hottest day on record for Rome, Italy with a staggering 42.9°C

Also hottest day on record for Catalonia with a searing 45.3°C.

A short thread on some of the most extreme temperatures on the planet right now...

Checking the weather forecast for the rest of #INQUARoma2023

Day two of #INQUARoma23 . Questions everywhere. Such as: Does that room have air-con? Could we shift the timetable by twelve hours and meet at night? Will the organisers provide free gelato?
bbc.com/news/world-eur…

Speaking of brilliant science communication through art.

theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

Day 1 of #INQUARoma2023 is all about bumping into people, saying 'let's chat about X later this week over a drink' and moving on. Repeat every 50m.

Wow.

In case it wasn't obvious. Don't use ChatGPT for peer review.

Great decision to start #INQUARoma2023 with a Science and Art session. Some inspiring ways of communicating our dynamic planet. All the way from Humboldt to the Anthropocene. Especially this: youtu.be/rnRfbOZ-ui0

I'm at #INQUARoma2023 !

Come say hi if you are!

Precisely defining the Anthropocene is a silly idea. Fuzzy terms in science are important. Examples: fish or blue. But small determined committees with singular focus tend to triumph over general apathy.

Time for some new fuzzy terms.

Breaking!

Anthropocene Golden Spike:
> Anthropocene Epoch begins in 1950
> Marked by Plutonium isotope.
> Site = Crawford Lake, Canada

Proposed by Anthropocene Working Group of International Commission on Stratigraphy today.
quaternary.stratigraphy.org/working-groups…

This week a version of this image created for/by ER was widely shared. But it was badly labelled. This one is better as it focuses on 2.7. To inspire climate action we need to talk more about 2.7C (trajectory) and 2C (ambition) and less about 1.5c and 4C (not gonna happen).

Suggestion. ICARUS Maynooth buys a train, because we seem to be at our most productive on them.

Be safe this fourth. Heat and humidity struck Arkansas, Louisiana, Mississippi, and Tennessee June 30th and wet-bulb temps soared above 90F. Temps over 87F is super dangerous to the human body, even if you’re sitting in the shade and drinking water. ko-fi.com/post/Deadly-we…

Deep under the Burren & adjacent lowlands, our team of troglodytes from University of Galway Geography, Maynooth Geography, & Burren and Cliffs of Moher UNESCO Global Geopark is microsampling speleothems for an exciting Geological Survey IE-funded study of Irish climate & cosmogenic 10Be production. Special thx, Doolin Cave! Nick Scroxton