My conversation with Irish folklorist and scholar Chris Thompson about the conspicuous parallels between #Celtic and #Australian mythologies and their likely origins is now available as a podcast - tinyurl.com/53y5r25p #myth #legend #Ireland #Indigenous #Castlerigg

"Traditional Knowledge in Fiji for Anticipating, Averting and Accommodating Environmental Risk", a talk by Taniela Bolea, Roselyn Kumar and me to Indigenous Knowledge Institute at the University of Melbourne is now on YouTube - 12 minutes long. #Fiji #TK tinyurl.com/3m4hdmt8

UPDATE: Global average sea level has risen over 101 mm (almost 4 inches) since 1993 as a result of human-caused global warming, with recent rates being unprecedented over the past 2,500-plus years. climate.nasa.gov/vital-signs/se…

Congratulations on this output, Simon Harding, 👁🔑🇫🇯, Ulamila Matairakula & Élodie Fache - exploring the monetary, subsistence & sociocultural value of marine resources in Kadavu Province! USP-Institute of Marine Resources Marine Studies @ USP Leibniz Centre for Tropical Marine Research (ZMT) IRD.fr link.springer.com/article/10.100…

Brilliant new article in Hakai Magazine about ancient stories of submerged lands and what they probably mean for our understanding of the past and the future. tinyurl.com/2p9unmny Margaret Cook Research at USC UniSC: University of the Sunshine Coast #Jersey #Australia #myth #legend Chris Baraniuk

#IslandsMatter Webinar | 20 Oct 12pm 'First a wudd, and syne a sea: Scottish stories of memorable landscape change in their global context' will be a fascinating exploration about the Scottish stories of coastal landscape change with Prof Patrick Nunn👉bit.ly/3SEJyo4

🎉 Happy 1 year birthday to the book of the lands, memories, and people who once were lost to the depths of the oceans... Read our review of WORLDS IN SHADOW by Patrick Nunn here! bit.ly/btw10521 #scienceBooks Bloomsbury U.S. Bloomsbury Sigma #STEMbooks #nonfiction #books

Ancient stories have reached us across thousands of years since the last ice age ended – we do our ancestors great disservice by dismissing these stories as myth. Great piece in The Atlantic about my work with @MCookHistory tinyurl.com/54jjjfr9

Patrick Nunn The Atlantic Margaret Cook Fantastic Patrick. Since working with you, I constantly re-evaluate any stories/tales that I come across: what was their basis? Fascinating work...

Relocation of Pacific villages, communities can disrupt more than just the physical sense of home - ABC Pacific abc.net.au/pacific/progra…

Another Ancestor Kaekae - Palolo Worm.Harvested by Rossie Wala during the full Moon season/first week of october on Malo Island🇻🇺Following our traditional calendar (Pacific Island nations),this is one of the abundance in relation to seasonal change, environment & community/people

Margo Neale and I will be talking about our co-authored book, Songlines - Pacific Palms Writing Festival. Margo will also talk about the NMA Songlines exhibition in the first session. I'll also talk about The Memory Code in the second. Live or virtual. events.humanitix.com/songlines-and-…

I am giving a well-illustrated presentation tomorrow on #Scottish #myths live at the University of the Highlands and Islands - register here tinyurl.com/ybtuaj3j - based on my recent study in Scottish Geographical Journal #Hebrides #Islands #memory #archaeology UHI Institute for Northern Studies

Huge congratulations to my PhD student, Delia Siivola, for being awarded her PhD on 'Indigenous Knowledge in Protected Area Management' that took her to Uch Enmek Nature Park, Russia, and Auyuittuq National Park, Canada. #JenCarter #ChrisJacobson

Incredible adaptation methods, using indigenous knowledge. This is the way forward for many countries facing devastating sea level rise. Relearning the past and avoiding industrial farming methods can safeguard our future. reuters.com/investigates/s…

Giving a talk tomorrow night on Indigenous memory systems and natural history - including how-to memorise plant and animal knowledge - Bellarine Landcare. Free, but you need to register. 7PM, Melbourne time. eventbrite.com/e/dr-lynne-kel…?

Did you miss last week's #islandsmatter webinar? Here is Prof Patrick Nunn's fascinating exploration of the passing down of stories of landscape change across hundreds of generations on our YouTube channel youtu.be/_hbo44wgafo @OrkneyCollege UHI UHI Shetland @uhi_oh

Research in Australia’s universities should be driven by curiosity, not commerce - so well said theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

A partnership between Sunshine Coast Council & UniSC: University of the Sunshine Coast will reduce hot spots as the Sunshine Coast braces for a future of soaring temperatures due to climate change. On #wtpd2022, this is a great example of how planning makes a real difference to quality of life! sunshinecoastnews.com.au/2022/11/08/sun…

My Twitter account Patrick Nunn is becoming inactive in protest at recent Twitter developments. I have a new social media account @[email protected] #PatrickNunn #mastodon