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Sarah Davies

@sarahdavies.bsky.social
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Geography Prof researching past climate, weather extremes, coastal change and cultural heritage. HoD Geography and Earth Sciences, Aberystwyth University. Wales. Dysgu cymraeg.

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Melaine Le Roy @subfossilguy.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
🧊🔥 6 meters !🔥🧊 This is what the largest glacier in the Alps has lost at Konkordiaplatz at 2900 m asl during the insane 2026 summer ! 'No words' as @matthias-huss.bsky.social (pictured here) said! 😲😱 📷 A. Linsbauer
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The Neotoma Paleoecology Database @neotomadb.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
⏳ Scientific Training Opportunity 2026 | Luminescence Dating 🇬🇧 🔬 Short Course in Luminescence Dating: Theory, Methods and Application 📅 16–20 November 2026 📍 Aberystwyth University, Wales, UK 🏛️ Aberystwyth Luminescence Research Laboratory (ALRL) ⏰ 5-day course www.aber.ac.uk/en/dges/rese...
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Gareth S Jones @garethsjones.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
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Why space weather matters on Earth, and the team trying to protect us
The weather in space has the potential to impact our lives here on Earth in a fundamental way.
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Cold War Steve @coldwarsteve.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
The Haywain 2026
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
Neoliberalism in a nutshell. UEFA on FIFA's proposal: “The moment external investors acquire ownership interests ... football changes forever. Commercial return becomes a permanent obligation. ... Every decision is no longer driven by what best serves the game, but by what best serves shareholders.”
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Sarah Davies @sarahdavies.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
Llongyfarchiadau enfawr i Siwan! Arbennig 👏👏👏
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Matt Davies @fwyalchen.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
28/07/2026 – Greggs overspill #aberystwyth #ceredigion #canolbarthcymru #cymru #wales
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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
Linocut by contemporary UK printmaker and artist Alexandra Buckle who is inspired by her local countryside #womensart #Summer
Print of a woodland in summer with dappled sunshine
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Leon Simons @leonsimons.com · 28/07/2026
This is such a great visualization of the carbon cycle and of how humanity has completely altered it within a geological instant. Visualization by @rarohde.bsky.social. 1/
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Sarah Davies @sarahdavies.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
Latest issue of @naturcymru.bsky.social arrived today, with a beautiful cover. Includes a timely article on impacts of wildfire on Welsh wildlife and complex issues around upland management.
Cover artwork of Natur Cymru / Nature of Wales, Number 74, summer 2026 features a painting of a dipper, by Alastair Robertson. A brown bird with a white bib against a backdrop of river cobbles and framed by a plant with white flowers.Opening page of an article about wildfire impacts on wildlife in Wales. A picture features the scorched remains of an egg among charred vegetation
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Hugh Jones @hbsj.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
An utterly epic and wonderful thread
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Sarah Davies @sarahdavies.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
Love this... also enjoying the wes wes references!
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Glen O'Hara @gsoh31.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
Hivemind! Can anyone help me out? If you like the content on this stream and you agree with me about Higher Ed, is anyone going to be at the UK National Archives now or soon who could photograph a single file for me? I will be eternally grateful/ can pay back in coffee, beer etc.! ☕🍺
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Hetan Shah @hetanshah.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
My heart is heavy that we are making a collective miscalculation in undervaluing the humanities - from my FT piece www.ft.com/content/fbde...
Thinking is hard. Reflection is hard. Perhaps we will persist with our collective miscalculation and ignore all that philosophy, literature, classics and history have to offer us. The humanities have a word for this: tragedy.
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Prof Ian Hall @ianhall.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
‘Unprecedented’ changes in UK climate are normalising extremes, report says Annual State of the UK Climate analysis finds last four years in UK are in top five hottest on record www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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Dr Claire Harris @drclaireharris.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
I'm exploring how @coastsinmind.bsky.social can help address the gap between formal evidence systems and the lived realities of those most affected by coastal change. Supported by Coast-R Network. #CoastsInMind #ArchiveToAction #CoastR www.ukcoastalresilience.org/project/arch..
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Archive to Action: Connecting Coastal Community Insights to Policy - Coast R Network
Archive to Action explores how coastal community archives can help policymakers use local knowledge in more inclusive, resilient coastal planning.
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Sarah Davies @sarahdavies.bsky.social · 28/06/2026
National Road Championships - womens road race peleton heading through the village this morning
A large group of cyclists racing through the village of Llanilar in Ceredigion, Wales. The medieval church of St Ilar is in the background, two children are sitting on the wall of the chruchyard watching the race.
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Emma Monk @monkemma.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
It was inevitable, wasn't it🙄 Of course the Telegraph would run with something like this👇 So let's remove some of the rose-tinted spectacles and also look at some of that data comparing 1976 with modern heat waves Because the 1976 nostalgia porn is wearing a bit thin at this stage 🧵1/23
Telegraph headiline:

"Heatwave hysterics wouldn't have lasted a day in 1976", overlaid with a bold “MONK DEBUNKED” stamp.
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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 31/05/2026
Pamela Grace, a contemporary artist and printmaker living and working in Galloway, south western Scotland #WomensArt #Summer
Print featuring swallows swooping over tall plants with pink blossoms
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The Discovery Programme @discoveryprogramme.bsky.social · 24/05/2026
📢 The Discovery Programme is hiring a skilled communicator to lead digital engagement, public outreach, partnerships, and content production for a national archaeology research centre 🧭 Full-time, permanent role Dublin ⏰ Closing 12 noon Friday 05 June 2026 🔎 Learn more at tinyurl.com/y89vxyp2
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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
'Spring bluebells' by contemporary UK painter Susan Entwistle #WomensArt
Painting featuring a woodland with sunlight coming through trees in silhouette and light blue flowers covering the ground
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Leighton Andrews @leightonandrews.bsky.social · 26/04/2026
This is excellent from @samfr.bsky.social Why saving universities is far more than academic observer.co.uk/news/columni...
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Why saving universities is far more than academic
Modern Britain needs young people with degrees – here’s how to make sure they still have somewhere to study them
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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 07/04/2026
This is the face of a lunar scientist who has just been told that the #Artemis II crew saw SEVERAL impact flashes (the flashes when meteors hit the lunar surface) in real time 😃 🌓💥
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Art UK @artukdotorg.bsky.social · 06/04/2026
The perfect painting for today – 'Easter Monday' by Winifred Nicholson 🌼 This artwork explores one of Winifred’s favourite themes. She loved painting views from windows, especially as the light and seasons changed. © Trustees of Winifred Nicholson. 📷 Tullie Carlisle
Yellow flowers in a vase on a window sill
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Sarah Davies @sarahdavies.bsky.social · 03/04/2026
The stunning Baptistery Window by John Piper.
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Francoise Chalie @frchalie.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
www.nature.com/articles/s41... Bravo : mille félicitations ! Well done! Congratulations! Osca, felicitacions !  👌 And thank You so much, Florence, for having given me the opportunity to contribute to this exciting and rewarding collaboration... ❤️🙏💚 .
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Decadal-scale droughts disrupted the African Humid Period in the Sahara - Nature
Sedimentary time-series data of Lake Yoa in Chad covering the past 10.25 thousand years (kyr) show that the mid-Holocene African Humid Period experienced several decadal-scale droughts, caused by sudd...
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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
'Sleeping Mud Maid', living sculpture, in summer and in winter, by UK artist Sue Hill (and Pete Hill) at The Lost Gardens of Heligan, Cornwall, UK #WomensArt #Spring
Photo featuring a horizontal sculpture resembling a sleeping woman covered in vivid green moss and grass sited in a woodland area
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Jenny Mathers @jgmaber.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
This ABC reporter can count himself lucky that he is a man - otherwise Trump would have also told him to smile more and wear a pretty dress
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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 14/03/2026
The embroidery produced by Otomi (Hñähñu) women of Mexico is known as Tenango Embroidery. Created with an "Otomi Stitch", the colourful designs of animals, plants & rural life represent the stories & beliefs of the people who produce this specific form of embroidered expression #Womensart
Colourful embroidery on a white background featuring a busy design of bird, plant and animal motifs
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Catherine Duigan @cduigan.bsky.social · 06/03/2026
Reading the #Landscape - our #rivers and #coast are more than lines on a #map - come join us for this celebration of #Aberystwyth #Ceredigion City of #Literature #UNESCO #Rheidol #RiversOfWales @hywelgriffiths.bsky.social @aberuni.bsky.social #envhistory #Wales #heritage #environment #art #write
Bilingual information for river walk.
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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 01/03/2026
'Crocus & Daffodils' by UK contemporary painter Susan Entwistle #WomensArt #spring #March
Painting featuring a green field full of purple crocus flowers and yellow daffodils
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Dr Toby Driver @drtobydriver.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
Huge news for Ceredigion & west Wales. Imperial #Roman lead mines on Cardigan Bay were under the control of Domitian by AD 87 as confirmed by the discovery of these lead pigs Only the 5th & 6th ingots ever found in Wales 😮 www.walesonline.co.uk/news/wales-n...
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Metal detectorists find 2,000-year-old treasure in field
The find - the first of its kind in west Wales - is incredibly rare and has been described as one of 'historical significance'
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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 22/02/2026
Beatrix Potter, Four rabbits on bicycles, 1895 #womensart #Sunday
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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 21/02/2026
Study of a Cat, c.1909 by Welsh born painter Gwen John #WomensArt
Painting featuring a sitting tortoiseshell cat facing right against a beige wall which reflects it's shadow
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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
'Otters' in ink by Jackie Morris, artist, author and illustrator who lives and works in a small cottage by the sea in Wales #WomensArt
Painting in ink of two swimming otters one above the other
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Mar Hicks @histoftech.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
No joke: I got angry hate mail today for writing an obituary of a Black woman scientist—because the person felt she did didn’t deserve the recognition. Which just makes me want to share it again: www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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Gladys Mae West obituary: mathematician who pioneered GPS technology
She made key contributions to US cold-war science despite facing huge barriers as a Black woman.
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Dr Rachel Hughes (she/her) 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🌱 @rachelgwenllian.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
Look what happens when you leave coloured pipe cleaners on tables when people are having conversations about ideas and potential collaborations. People potch, play & create. It helps to focus energy and tap into people’s creativity. Each one of these just so happen to represent their conversation.
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Anne Louise Avery @annelouiseavery.bsky.social · 17/09/2025
It was a very cold evening & the East wind was as thin as glass. Look, Wolf, look at the sky over the Downs, said Pine Marten, the clouds look so strange. They're called Lamenters, said Wolf, torn clouds, strife-tellers, come a long way they have to bring their warnings.
Image: Dorset Landscape with Evening Sky, John Everett (1876–1949), Dorset Museum & Art Gallery.
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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 15/01/2026
'“Embedded precarity” in higher education is diminishing research quality as staff on short-term contracts favour “safer” work to secure future employment, according to the author of a new report.' Royal Geographical Society maps important connections between precarity and research topics. 1/3
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Use of fixed-term posts ‘stifling more critical research’
Scholars with short contracts seen as more likely to favour doing ‘safer’ work, with ‘serious ramifications’ for their disciplines
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Aberystwyth University @aberuni.bsky.social · 12/01/2026
👏 Congratulations to field glaciologist Dr Samuel Doyle who has been awarded the Polar Medal in the 2026 New Year’s Honours List for his outstanding research and leadership in Greenland. 🖱️ tinyurl.com/569tuv47 #glaciology #arctic #Greenland #PolarMedal
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Hugh Jones @hbsj.bsky.social · 11/01/2026
I do love a bit of #CitizenScience Wales Coastal Monitoring Centre has a set up st Blackpill Bridge, to help review erosion in Swansea Bay www.wcmc.wales
The monitoring set up: you put your phone in the rig and take a standardised photo, and upload it via a QR codeThd info plaqueThe photo I uploaded, showing the Swansea Bay coast eastwards from Blackpill, all beach and sea and mist
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Andrew Potts🏳️‍🌈 @andrewspotts.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
The USA can withdraw from @ipbes.net but, IPBES Chair @davidobura.bsky.social observes, “unfortunately, we cannot withdraw from the fact that more than 1 million species of plants and animals face extinction.” 😞😠
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Sarah Davies @sarahdavies.bsky.social · 04/01/2026
A rare snow day in Llanilar
A medieval church with graveyard in foreground. A sprinkling of snow on the ground and church roof.A snow covered hill with trees lining the field boundary. A group of children are sledging on the slope.Looking up the Ystwyth Valley across to the village of Llanilar. Snowy fields in the foreground. Sunlight is breaking through onto the hills in the distance.
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Jenny Mathers @jgmaber.bsky.social · 01/01/2026
Important 🧵that is worth reading to the end ⬇️
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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 30/12/2025
'Snow Shadows' by contemporary printmaker Alexandra Buckle #WomensArt
Print featuring bare winter trees causing long blue diagonal shadows on white snow
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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 29/12/2025
'Snow Day London' by contemporary Welsh painter Sarah Evans #Womensart
Painting  of a snowy hill with some trees and many figures with sledges viewed from a distance
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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 23/12/2025
"Two Rabbits with a Sled' (1894) illustration by celebrated English author Beatrix Potter #Womensart ❄️
Illustration with a rabbit in a blue jacket pulling a sledge on which another rabbit sits in a pink blanket in a snowy rural scene
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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 22/12/2025
'Stag in the birches' by printmaker Celia Lewis #WomensArt ❄️
Print featuring the silhouette of a deer walking amongst trees in a snowy landscape
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