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DrSadhbh @drsadhbh.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

There were two sites that the porcellanite was quarried - on Rathlin Island, off the NE coast of Antrim, and at Tievebulliagh, on the Antrim mainland. Porcellanite axes from these two areas have been found all over Ireland, and further afield. 2/2

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DrSadhbh @drsadhbh.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I think these are some of the most gorgeous stone axes, and their geology is pretty interesting too. They formed from porcellanite, a metamorphic rock formed from clays that baked in a basalt feeder dike (tube). The clays originally came from weathered (older) basalt. 1/2

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DrSadhbh @drsadhbh.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

A few years ago I was up at Sliabh Liag, enjoying the geology, when I walked around a knoll overlooking the sea to find a little pile of ashes and some very obvious bone (sorry!) at the foot of the rocks I was examining. Can't quite figure out how I feel about it yet tbh

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DrSadhbh @drsadhbh.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

I'll put a shout in for my discipline of geology - you can time-travel when you learn how to 'read' the stories in rocks 😍

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DrSadhbh @drsadhbh.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Ah yes, I know the area a little, but not in huge geological detail. Had problems finding the andalusite in the aureole of the Ardara granite due to housing etc a few years' ago. There's an interesting site at Rosbeg with an altered schist in the contact zone of a (meta)gabbro.

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DrSadhbh @drsadhbh.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

This figure for diesel has actually surprised me - this is ~€2.17 per litre. That's more or less what we are seeing here in Ireland - and petrol (gas) prices are about the same. Normally there's a huge discrepancy

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DrSadhbh @drsadhbh.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Where in Donegal were you mapping? Is this a skarn associated with the Donegal Batholith? I've some vesuvianite in a skarn assoc/w the Galway Batholith (Omey Granite). Obvious crystal is ~3cm in length. All the other similarly coloured material is vesuvianite too. +grossular+wollastonite

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Cormac MacFhionnlaoich @cormacscoast.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

A circular, sea-polished, septarian nodule. County Clare, Ireland. Cormacscoast.com walking tours

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DrSadhbh @drsadhbh.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

My stag print (and more!) arrived from @prayforpatrick.bsky.social today. Lovely to come home to a bit of unwrapping of a present for myself after a bit of a day at work. Bit spoiled by the extras too 😍

A framed linocut picture of a stag in black and cream, in a black frame with a cream border. A smaller print of an old Irish stamp in gold on black sits on top of the larger picrure, and there are two small cards. The background is cardboard packaging

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DrSadhbh @drsadhbh.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

If brakes are failing on a truck on a long descent, it's a way to go off the main road and slowing down by going uphill again, without (hopefully) crashing the truck into the barriers, or into other vehicles. Don't have them here in Ireland, but have seen them in the US.

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DrSadhbh @drsadhbh.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

When I was leaving home to go to university, my mother (who'd done a degree in maths and physics) told me that a degree just showed people you could learn.

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Ciara | Ciaraíoch 🎨 @ciaraioch.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

🍂 Some autumnal and Irish spook-inspired prints. Irish made, and available here: www.ciaraioch.com/artprints

Two prints, the púca and crows, against an autumnal leaf background.

#SpéirGorm #SpéirGhorm #Ireland #Art #BuyIrish

Two prints, the turnip versus pumpkin and the Morrigan, against an autumnal leaf background.

Two prints, Irish spooks and Queen Of Winter, against an autumnal leaf background.

Two prints, the rook and Don't Shrink, against an autumnal leaf background.

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DrSadhbh @drsadhbh.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

I thought this was a great image too. www.rte.ie/images/0024f...

rte.ie

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Alex von Tunzelmann @alexvont.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

If you feel like donating to the RNLI, here’s a link. I just have. Their minimum donation is £2: I think it might be nice for them to receive a lot of donations this week, even if they’re mostly very modest. Just so they know a lot of people out here appreciate their work. rnli.org/support-us/g...

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DrSadhbh @drsadhbh.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

How can I DM you? Can't here. via Etsy? Interested in the stag

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DrSadhbh @drsadhbh.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

This makes my blood boil, that there's teachers still out there who dare to say things like this to kids. I know there are, I've a teenaged daughter, but so far she's been lucky (apart from one term when she was 7 - and I acknowledge she's privileged too)

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DrSadhbh @drsadhbh.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Good luck! I had to go back doing citing/referencing this past year for a course and found Zotero useful, in case you're looking for a plug-in (but I guess you're way beyond that!)

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maedhbh4.bsky.social @maedhbh4.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Treated myself to this lovely print from the talented @ciaraioch.bsky.social. It arrived today with some added extras. Would highly recommend if you are looking for a present for yourselves or others. Good to support real artists over AI slop.

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DrSadhbh @drsadhbh.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

I thought I was going to see people dressed as llamas, not dressed-up llamas. Certainly has given me a smile at lunchtime (here)

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DrSadhbh @drsadhbh.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Thanks, it just looks so *young* !

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DrSadhbh @drsadhbh.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

That tillite does not look that old at all. Has it not been metamorphosed to any degree? Just curious, as the similar-aged tillites I've seen in the west of Ireland (part of the Port Askaig Fm) are very definitely metamorphic rocks.

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DrSadhbh @drsadhbh.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Same here, wore contacts all day every day for years, and my ophthalmologist (I've early onset glaucoma so have to go to her as well as the optician) is a woman you obey when she tells you to start wearing glasses more 😄 Ear grip things allow me to look down & shake my head without glasses slipping

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DrSadhbh @drsadhbh.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

I couldn't get the arms of my glasses altered comfortably at all - they were either too tight when they were holding my glasses on properly, but giving me sore areas behind my ears, or too loose and slipping. As a very short sighted person, the idea of my glasses slipping off when I'm cycling is 😨

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Dr. Wendy Bohon @drwendyrocks.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

A little levity to start the week

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DrSadhbh @drsadhbh.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

I got these and they are brilliant. make putting the glasses on a bit more awkward but they stay put - so no more slipping down my nose when I'm running, or cycling, and no fear of them dropping off into the water if I look over the side of a boat. www.drjonsgorillagrips.co.uk/product/uk-e...

drjonsgorillagrips.co.uk

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RTÉ News @news.rte.ie · 17/08/2026

A sprawling expanse of white marble waste in India is drawing tourists, filmmakers and social media enthusiasts to a landscape that looks more like a snow-covered valley than a dumping ground

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India marble waste dump turns unlikely tourist attraction

A sprawling expanse of white marble waste in India is drawing tourists, filmmakers and social media enthusiasts to a landscape that looks more like a snow-covered valley than a dumping ground.

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Tuairisc @tuairisc.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Lean grianghrafadóir Tuairisc, Seán Ó Mainnín, urú na gréine sna spéartha os cionn na Ceathrún Rua, Conamara, tráthnóna Dé Céadaoin.

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DrSadhbh @drsadhbh.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Ah yes, the marble (stone) vs marble (rock) discussion, which usually crops up when I'm teaching adult learners (not so much with undergrads). I take your line Ruth and discuss the different uses of the word (same for granite, quartz) depending on who is doing the naming.

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Ciara | Ciaraíoch 🎨 @ciaraioch.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

The discount will still be running until the end of August so there's plenty of time left to either buy one or work out exactly how many of my foes to slay in exchange for one A4 or A3 print

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DrSadhbh @drsadhbh.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

Definitely won't be the same without @robinince.bsky.social. not too sure I'll listen to it again

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DrSadhbh @drsadhbh.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

That is just gorgeous Cormac

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DrSadhbh @drsadhbh.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

I take it that is in situ - so really demonstrating how moss is preferentially growing on the phyllite rather than the quartzite. Wish I could make some clever comment about rolling stones and moss but can't come up with one!

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DrSadhbh @drsadhbh.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

I've recently done a couple of basket-weaving workshops. I will probably do more, one a year or something, now that I know I can finish a basket in the day (with help from the instructor), but I will not be buying bundles of willow to start doing it myself as a hobby!

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DrSadhbh @drsadhbh.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

One of the great joys of my professional life has been teaching people coming in as adult learners to 'just' learn about geology and Earth Sciences in general. Some seem to be serial course-takers, and all the better for it. I find it inspirational to have 80 year olds coming on field trips etc.

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DrSadhbh @drsadhbh.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

These are great! Love the souvenir bottle just as a piece of art/craft

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DrSadhbh @drsadhbh.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

There is an outcrop of serpentinite on Croagh Patrick in Co Mayo in the W of Ireland. This is where St Patrick is believed to have cast the snakes out of Ireland from. I wonder if the appearance of the rock led to the legend. I like to think it did.

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DrSadhbh @drsadhbh.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

Go down the rabbit hole of looking at rocks in thin section (virtualmicroscope.org has great ones) and you might never escape!

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DrSadhbh @drsadhbh.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

It's a really good book IMO - Conway is an economist who (by his own admission) only ever looked at the prices of commodities without really thinking about the extraction of minerals etc. Book is divided into chapters on Sand, salt, iron, copper, oil and lithium.

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DrSadhbh @drsadhbh.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

There's a great chapter on sand in 'Material World' by Ed Conway. Really opened my eyes, and I thought I was already aware of the finite resource nature of sand.

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DrSadhbh @drsadhbh.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

Ouch, hope the meds kick in to reduce itch and swelling.

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DrSadhbh @drsadhbh.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

That was worded really badly - I meant to say that I used to look enviously at the crinoids that @palaeokatie.bsky.social used to find with the little star-shaped centres. Now I've found one!

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DrSadhbh @drsadhbh.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

What a day to be out teaching summer school students @oideasgael.bsky.social about fossils at St John's Point, Co Donegal. Found my first star-centred crinoid stem too, after being envious for ages due to the pictures of them shared by @palaeokatie.bsky.social

Green grass in foreground with rocks and blue sea, in middle distance and green hills in background. Sky is blue with some fluffy clouds

A grey rock with grey-tan fossils. The biggest one is a cylinder, with a star shaped centre.

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DrSadhbh @drsadhbh.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

I've a (now 13) official 'photographer, fossil finder, and rock fizzer' in the field with me this week. She's had these jobs since she was small. May you have many good years with your apprentice too.

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DrSadhbh @drsadhbh.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

This is a great article on placenames and the leads they give 'as to area’s suitability for rewetting or its inclination to flood' Lots of information available if we know where to look for it. ⚒️ 💧@oideasgael.bsky.social #EarthSciences #Hydrology

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Patrick @prayforpatrick.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

one of the new prints added. linocut reproduction of the old punt coin. Green ink on a beautifully textured light pink lokta paper. Photos don’t do it justice tbh

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DrSadhbh @drsadhbh.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

I've just signed up for this, if you are a geologist ⚒️ check out the 'Stony Silence' strip if you haven't seen it already. It is just perfect! Simone Lia's Weekly Comic Strip simoneliacomics.substack.com?r=8o1n39&utm...

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Simone Lia's Weekly Comic Strip | Substack

A weekly comic strip delivered to your inbox, offering insightful reflections on human relationships and everyday life. Click to read Simone Lia's Weekly Comic Strip, a Substack publication with hundr...

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DrSadhbh @drsadhbh.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

Are you specifically looking to read fiction? I read a lot more non-fiction that fiction - maybe it's just laziness 😉 but travel and natural history books especially get me hooked in a way that novels generally don't. I don't beat myself up about this, my reading time is mine!

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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 23/06/2026

Begging news outlets to stop illustrating deadly heat waves with happy beach fun 🏖️😎 and life-saving vaccines with terrifying needle assaults 💉😭. Especially on social media (where many/most people get their news) the photo is the most prominent part of the story; these choices undermine it completely

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