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Ruth Minogue

@ruthmin.bsky.social
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Interested in everything but particularly landscapes, place, people and ecology. Very fond of bats, studying environmental history

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Ruth Minogue @ruthmin.bsky.social · 17/09/2025
Right now, just a few powerful polluters are holding the whole world hostage - stopping a Plastics Treaty that could protect our health, wildlife, and planet. Join me today and speak up for a strong global policy to protect us from plastic pollution! action.wemove.eu/sign/2025-08...
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End the Plastic Era!
Right now, just a few powerful polluters are holding the whole world hostage - stopping a Plastics Treaty that could protect our health, wildlife, and planet. Join me today and speak up for a strong g...
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Katja Bruisch @kbruisch.bsky.social · 17/09/2025
Exciting list of speakers presenting in our Environmental History Research Seminar this term. If you happen to be in Dublin, come along. We'll meet on Mondays at 1 PM in the Trinity Long Room Hub #envhist Thanks to @tlrhub.bsky.social for hosting us! @historytcd.bsky.social 👇
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Richard Chambers @newschambers.bsky.social · 13/09/2025
Politicos, hacks, news organisations and buffoons like Stephen King still clinging on to pretending it’s alright to *PAY* Elon Musk to use his platform - or be on it for a start. You’re funding a man calling on hundreds of thousands of people to carry out acts of violence.
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Ruth Minogue @ruthmin.bsky.social · 06/08/2025
I have just signed this petition. It's an issue I care about. Will you sign it too? action.wemove.eu/sign/2025-08...
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We won’t let climate-deniers rest
Extreme heat and floods show the climate crisis is no longer a warning. But far-right parties are turning climate action into a divisive issue - they just took control of key negotiations on European ...
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Grist @grist.org · 16/07/2025
Inside the movement to recognize nature as an artist. Musicians have long sampled nature sounds. Now, they have a way to share credit — and share their royalties with conservation efforts. grist.org/looking-forw... #Art #Artist #Nature #Climate #Music #Environment #Culture
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Inside the movement to recognize nature as an artist
Musicians have long sampled nature sounds. Now, they have a way to share credit — and share their royalties with conservation efforts.
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Ruth Minogue @ruthmin.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
Our landscape forum is taking place this year in Athlone, located on the River Shannon. Theme of shared landscapes and waterscapes. All welcome for talks, walks, workshops and chats. Anyone interested in presenting research landscape related, just get in touch. Thanks
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Centre for the Sciences of Place and Memory @memoryplace.bsky.social · 18/04/2025
Unique interdisciplinary opportunity. Apply now! Applications close 22 April.
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⚫️🐦‍⬛ 🇬🇪🇺🇦🇪🇺 @theskyisnotblue.bsky.social · 05/04/2025
If you believe Georgia deserves democracy — not dictatorship — please read and share this thread. The world needs to see what’s happening. Silence only helps the regime. 🇬🇪🇪🇺 #GeorgiaProtests
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The Author, Séamas O'Reilly @seamas.bsky.social · 05/04/2025
On hatred.
I hate all of this in almost every way a thing can be hated. I hate the factless waffle that surrounds Big AI’s every improbable goal. I hate how insipidly stupid, or just plain evil, those goals so often are, and the yawning chasm between them and any form of achievable reality. I hate that Big AI’s successes are inflated and its failures ignored — or are even categorised as hilarious mis-steps, like when AI chatbots tell people to eat poisonous mushrooms, put glue on pizza, or make air diffusers from chlorine gas.

I hate that Big AI consumes so much energy that every time you generate a six-fingered portrait of Anne Frank or a scene from the Vietnam war in the style of Studio Ghibli, you might as well just kill a polar bear with a crossbow. I hate that it can run roughshod over every copyright law and environmental protection on the planet in pursuit of the data it needs to continue failing, with no consequences save for the enrichment of the worst people on Earth, who have managed to make all of this magical bullshit seem sensible to an intellectual class comprised of people I wouldn’t trust to print an email.
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UCD School of Archaeology, Dublin @ucdarchaeology.bsky.social · 05/04/2025
▪️ ▪️ ▪️ NEW ONLINE FOR 2025-26 ▪️▪️▪️ Graduate Certificate Hunter-Gatherer Archaeology and Anthropology (online) from UCD Archaeology 🔹Applications now open, closing date 30 May 2025 www.ucd.ie/archaeology/... @ucddublin.bsky.social @ucdglobal.bsky.social
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News Eye @newseye.bsky.social · 22/03/2025
NEW: Elon Musk’s X has suspended accounts of Turkish opposition groups, suppressing footage of anti-government protests. So, best we share all the footage we can here! This was last night’s massive demo against Erdogan’s government, which follows the arrest of his rival Ekrem İmamoğlu. 🇹🇷 #Turkey
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ShellsLies @shellslies.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
US court has ordered #Greenpeace to pay $660m+ in damages to Energy Transfer Partners, a US #OilAndGas company worth almost $70bn. Its an appalling & dangerous ruling w/ huge implications as it'll stifle advocacy campaigning across a spectrum of environmental & human rights issues #ClimateLitigation
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Karl Whitney @karlwhitney.ie · 11/03/2025
Followed by a walking tour where we try to find/drink from the underground rivers of the Liberties www.eventbrite.ie/e/the-hidden...
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The Hidden Rivers of the Liberties: Walking Tour
An event as part of the programme celebrating the One Dublin One Book 2025 anthology Dublin, written in our hearts.
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Irish Studies at QUB @irishstudiesqub.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
Our #IrishStudies seminar on Mon 31 March will be given by Dr Colleen Taylor of @bc-irish-studies.bsky.social on 'Tales of seals and shipwrecks: Irish new materialism goes to sea’. All welcome, in-person or online: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/irish-stud...
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National Museum of Ireland @nmireland.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
‘Songs of the Sea’, what are they? Do you have knowledge of a song, in either Irish or English, that is related to life along Ireland’s Atlantic coast? If you do and you would like to share your story, we would love to hear from you. #MaritimeHistory www.ouririshheritage.org/content/arch...
Enjoying a song in the house of Mrs. Mary O’Donnell, Baile Thiar, Inis Oírr, Árainn, Co. na Gaillimhe, 1966. © National Museum of Ireland.
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John McCafferty @jdmccafferty.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
The Ó Cléirigh seminars continue this Friday 28 Feb in UCD at 4pm with Carol Baxter on ‘Networking for success: the dynamics of early modern nuns' networks of influence’. Fáilte roimh chách/ all welcome. Please feel free to Repost.
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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 27/11/2023
This painting of a slug by 18th century Japanese painter Nagasawa Rosetsu is my very favorite thing today
excellent 18th century Japanese painting of a slug with slug trails
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Alisa Bokulich @alisabokulich.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
Great source of images from the history of science now available in public domain #histsci 🐡 pdimagearchive.org
Orra White Hitchcock, 1828-40 painting of Elephas primigenius (Woolly Mammoth) skeletonFrom Geological Investigation of the Alluvial Valley of the Lower Mississippi
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Harold Fisk, 1944
Beautiful colorful diagram of river meanders over time. John Herschel, 1842 Photograph of [a paper mache & clay model of a crater the Moon]Although the photograph (a "calotype") appears to show the surface of a distant moon crater, it was actually technically impossible to take such a close-up of the lunar surface in the mid-19th century. Rather it is a photograph of a papier-mâché or clay model.
Up the right hand side of the sheet, is the word "Copernicus", a label identifying the name of the distinctive crater (named after the great Polish voyager and scientist of the 1500s). On the upper left hand side runs a scale showing the size of the crater in miles.
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Rachel Coldicutt @rachelcoldicutt.bsky.social · 22/02/2025
Three interesting pieces on the consequences of datafication in the Guardian today. On what we do and don't learn from the quantified self www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...
https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2025/feb/22/the-bot-asked-me-four-times-a-day-how-i-was-feeling-is-tracking-everything-actually-good-for-us?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other
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SARS‑CoV‑2 (COVID-19) @covid19disease.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
We are now finding bird flu in deer mice and house mice in Washington State. H5N1 is advancing along the evolutionary ladder—affecting birds, mammals, and humans. This is not speculation; it’s a timeline.
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The Journal @thejournal.ie · 14/02/2025
On Grafton Street today lies what looks on the outside to be an ordinary flower shop. On the inside, it's really an exhibition to remember hundreds of women killed violently in Ireland - and a call to action for men to stand up against abuse. jrnl.ie/6622859
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Outside, it's a florist's. Inside, it's a stark reminder of women killed violently in Ireland.
This St Valentine’s Day, Women’s Aid is raising awareness of violence against women and calling for men to stand up as allies.
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Tim Waterman @tim-waterman.co.uk · 13/02/2025
📢 Applications Open: CAIRO Critical Field Study 2025 The Landscape Research Group's (@landscaperesearch.bsky.social) six-night/five-day Critical Field Study to Cairo, 19-25 September 2025. The programme offers a unique opportunity to critically examine Cairo’s evolving natural & urban landscapes.
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Cairo Critical Field Study - Landscape Research Group
Building on the success of our previous trips to the Isle of Arran and Dunkirk, LRG is thrilled to announce its third Critical Field Study (CFS), set in the city of Cairo, 19th - 25th September. This ...
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Centre for Culture and Evolution @brunelcce.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
📣 CCE's next talk is coming up next week 📣 @viveknityananda.bsky.social from Newcastle University is presenting on 'Comparing minds: from bees to humans" 📅 19th Feb 13:00 - 14:15 GMT 🔓 Open to everyone online or in person in Brunel Online joining info 👇
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Abbey Page @abbeyepage.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
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Simon Kirby @simonkirby.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
A thread explaining our new discovery about humpback whale song published today in Science... We found key statistical properties that characterise all human languages in another species for the first time. We have more in common with whales than we previously thought! doi.org/10.1126/scie...
A picture of a humpback whale just below the sea surface taken by Marc Quintin
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Aidan O'Sullivan @aidanosullivan.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
MSc/GradDip (on campus) or Graduate Certificate (online, distance learning) in Experimental Archaeology & Material Culture at UCD www.ucd.ie/archaeology/...
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Ruth Minogue @ruthmin.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
Animals, humans, landscapes, tourism...
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Landscape Research @landscaperesearch.bsky.social · 26/12/2024
A special treat for everyone! We're pleased to share a post on our recent Landscape Leaders event, featuring a link to the event recording - insightful discussions and inspiration for the year ahead! 🎥 landscaperesearch.org/lrgs-decembe... Here’s to continued collaboration and research in 2025! 🌍
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LRG's December Event: Landscape Leaders - Landscape Research Group
On 5th December 2024, the Landscape Research Group, in partnership with the Bartlett School of Architecture’s MA/MLA Landscape Architecture programme, hosted Landscape Futures in the Twenty-First Cent...
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Jonny Gordon @jonathan-gdon.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
Just a few days left (Feb 2nd!) to apply for this fully funded, interdisciplinary PhD with Lindsey Gilson, Brennen Fagan and me at @anthropocenebio.bsky.social looking at past-present-future variation in savanna carbon stocks! Please do share 🌏 🧪 www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
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Fully Funded PhD in Biology: Past-present-future variations in carbon stocks, and trade-offs with other ecosystem services in the Kruger National Park, South Africa at University of York on FindAPhD.c...
PhD Project - Fully Funded PhD in Biology: Past-present-future variations in carbon stocks, and trade-offs with other ecosystem services in the Kruger National Park, South Africa at University of York...
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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 30/01/2025
And as always, please check out @laminda.bsky.social's starter pack of independent news rooms. go.bsky.app/2Fq4P6e
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Meg Schwamb @megschwamb.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
The Armagh Observatory and Planetarium is managing the Northern Ireland STEM Ambassadors program. They are seeking to make two appointments, one for the program manager, the other for an outreach and admin officer. Closing date Feb 19 www.armagh.space/opportunities 🔭 🧪 #scicomm
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Opportunities - Armagh Observatory and Planetarium
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Orla Breslin @stitchlily.eurosky.social · 27/01/2025
#PhDfairy #jobfairy #SpéireGhorm
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Prof. Liz Oakley-Brown @earlymodlancs.bsky.social · 25/01/2025
Hoping to catch Somerset House's new "SOIL" exhibition #Soil_Imaginaries www.somersethouse.org.uk/whats-on/soil
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SOIL
This groundbreaking exhibition unites visionary artists and thinkers from around the world to explore the remarkable power and potential of soil.
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BSHS @bshsnews.bsky.social · 20/01/2025
📢 Rediscover natural history! The Linnean Society of London invites historians, archivists, curators, and artists to (re)visit natural history. 🗓️ Tuesday, February 11 · 9:30am - 7pm GMT - London www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/symposium-... Supported by BSHS through a small events grant! 🌟
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Symposium | (Re)discovering Natural History
A symposium with historians, archivists, curators & artists to discuss ways of finding and telling the best stories in special collections.
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Anxious Rage @anxiousrage.blacksky.app · 21/01/2025
We can stop reading the NYT and WaPo any time and support independent journalism instead.
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Leonie V. Hicks @lvhicks.bsky.social · 19/01/2025
Definitely one for my #BayeuxTapestry inspired art folder and #EnvHist.
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Katharine Hayhoe @katharinehayhoe.com · 19/01/2025
@tressrms.bsky.social welcome, here’s a starter pack for you! I also have another one of climate activist organizations. Just go to my profile and swipe to the right to find it.
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Rachel Carson Center for Environment & Society @carsoncenter.bsky.social · 16/01/2025
With an audio introduction from RCC editor Christopher Steil, this article explores the entwined history of legends, literature, limnology, and a Cold War nuclear power plant at Lake Stechlin in northeastern Germany.
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Saeed Jones @theferocity.bsky.social · 09/01/2025
“In order to shoot off one email per week for a year, ChatGPT would use up 27 liters of water, or about one-and-a-half jugs… that means if one in 10 U.S. residents—16 million people—asked ChatGPT to write an email a week, it’d cost more than 435 million liters of water.”
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AI doesn’t just require tons of electric power. It also guzzles enormous sums of water.
It also guzzles enormous sums of water.
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Anna Gvarishvili @annagvarish.bsky.social · 09/01/2025
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Ecocide. How the war waged by Russia is harming the Black Sea - NIKCENTER
Russia's full-scale war against Ukraine is causing irreparable damage to the already fragile Black Sea ecosystem. Investigative journalists from six Black Sea countries have come together to measure t...
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Tales of Britain and Ireland @talesofbritireland.bsky.social · 30/12/2024
So glad another episode of this is up, so so good as always. The first personal bit about encountering was spellbinding and the rest was just as informative and thoughtful as ever. Absolutely cannot recommend this podcast and episode enough for anyone with an interest in folklore and its history.
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Dr Tess Machling @tessmachling.bsky.social · 28/12/2024
"A request made through ChatGPT, an AI-based virtual assistant, consumes 10 times the electricity of a Google Search" This isn't a game. This is accelerated destruction via huge usage of power, water, resources etc. Stop using it - especially for messing about!! www.unep.org/news-and-sto...
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AI has an environmental problem. Here’s what the world can do about that.
The sprawling data centres that house AI servers churn out toxic electronic waste and are voracious consumers of electricity, which in most places is still produced from fossil fuels.
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Grassroots for Europe @grassrootsforeurope.org · 27/12/2024
For those who are interested. Here’s a great starter pack on academics, journalists etc focused on Georgia go.bsky.app/UvictXj
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Joel Herman @joelherman.bsky.social · 23/12/2024
For historians of the news, media, eighteenth-century Ireland, and the Atlantic world: the Dublin Gazette, 1750-1800 is up on the @virtualtreasury.bsky.social online platform here www.virtualtreasury.ie/browse/Dubli...
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Virtual Treasury
Virtual Treasury
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Justin LaLiberty @jlalibs.bsky.social · 20/12/2024
A good time to remind physical media people that plenty of indie stores exist to shop from: @diabolikdvd.bsky.social @orbitdvd.bsky.social @atomicbooks.bsky.social @bookshop-org.bsky.social @turntablelab.bsky.social @roughtraderecords.bsky.social Don’t cross that picket line
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Dr Bendor Grosvenor FRHistS @bendorgrosvenor.bsky.social · 17/12/2024
I don't see many long threads on here, but I'll try one - it's about Holbein's Ambassadors, his 1533 masterpiece in the National Gallery. It's often presented as a great mystery, but I think once we understand the circumstances in which it was made, its meaning becomes clearer. 1/
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tararaecarey.bsky.social @tararaecarey.bsky.social · 18/12/2024
International Energy Agency @iea.org reports world #coal consumption has doubled in past 30yrs & "aftermath of Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, has resulted in record global coal production, consumption, trade & coal-fired power generation..." #EndFossilFuels www.iea.org/reports/coal...
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Coal 2024 – Analysis - IEA
Coal 2024 - Analysis and key findings. A report by the International Energy Agency.
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Prof. Stefan Rahmstorf @rahmstorf.bsky.social · 13/12/2024
More than 90% of fossil fuel emissions occurred since my parents were born. Over 80% since I was born. Over 30% since my children were born. And well over 50% since the world agreed at the Rio Earth Summit to prevent dangerous climate change. And I thought: „At last!“
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Ruth Minogue @ruthmin.bsky.social · 12/12/2024
Deep history
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