Bilingual information for river walk.
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
Painting featuring a green field full of purple crocus flowers and yellow daffodils
'Crocus & Daffodils' by UK contemporary painter Susan Entwistle #WomensArt
#spring #March
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...
Beatrix Potter, Four rabbits on bicycles, 1895 #womensart #Sunday
Painting featuring a sitting tortoiseshell cat facing right against a beige wall which reflects it's shadow
Study of a Cat, c.1909 by Welsh born painter Gwen John #WomensArt
Painting in ink of two swimming otters one above the other
'Otters' in ink by Jackie Morris, artist, author and illustrator who lives and works in a small cottage by the sea in Wales #WomensArt
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...
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.
Image: Dorset Landscape with Evening Sky, John Everett (1876–1949), Dorset Museum & Art Gallery.
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.
'“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
👏 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
The monitoring set up: you put your phone in the rig and take a standardised photo, and upload it via a QR code
Thd info plaque
The photo I uploaded, showing the Swansea Bay coast eastwards from Blackpill, all beach and sea and mist
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
Good luck Ans!
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.” 😞😠
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.
A rare snow day in Llanilar
Important 🧵that is worth reading to the end ⬇️
Print featuring bare winter trees causing long blue diagonal shadows on white snow
'Snow Shadows' by contemporary printmaker Alexandra Buckle #WomensArt
Painting of a snowy hill with some trees and many figures with sledges viewed from a distance
'Snow Day London'
by contemporary Welsh painter Sarah Evans #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
"Two Rabbits with a Sled' (1894) illustration by celebrated English author Beatrix Potter
#Womensart ❄️
Print featuring the silhouette of a deer walking amongst trees in a snowy landscape
'Stag in the birches'
by printmaker Celia Lewis #WomensArt ❄️
Painting of a stylised hare leaping over frosty ground under a red sun and pink winter sky
Catherine Hyde, contemporary UK artist, photographer, writer and award-winning illustrator #WomensArt #Solstice
#December21st #ArtAdvent
Painting of a white cat sitting on the inside of a window with reflections of bare winter trees on the glass
Contemporary Ukrainian painter Maria Chepeleva #WomensArt #ArtAdvent
Painting of a sunrise or sunset with a view to a low golden sun over grasses in winter
Victoria Crowe,
Low Winter Sun,
Links House Window, 2023
Scottish painter #WomensArt
NCAR is quite literally our global mothership.
Everyone who works in climate and weather has passed through its doors and benefited from its incredible resources.
Dismantling NCAR is like taking a sledgehammer to the keystone holding up our scientific understanding of the planet.
Unbelievable.
Winter village scene, medieval church on right, windswept tree on left, graveyard in foreground. The early morning gloom is lifted by a Christmas tree with multicoloured lights. Llanilar, West Wales
Atmospheric walk to the bus stop this morning
Textile pictorial artwork featuring snow falling in a forest and low winter sun peeping through bare trees
The work of Alison Holt, contemporary textile artist who creates machine and hand embroidered landscapes #WomensArt
Seeking a strong applicant for Aberystwyth University PhD Funding scheme 'AberDoc', on the topic: 'Novel biogenic carbonates for luminescence dating of the entire Quaternary period'.
Our lab also welcomes PhD applications for other luminescence dating projects for the same AberDoc funding round.
Photo of a snow covered rural landscape viewed from above, the land is covered in large spirals circles and connecting lines drawn into the snow
Land artist Sonja Hinrichsen, epic scale Snow Drawings - Briancon, France, 2014 #womensart
Want a job with the best palaeolandscapes team in the world? Seinor/Principal Marine Geoarch job up for grabs! Hit me up, DMs open... www.wessexarch.co.uk/marine-geoar...
Stylised painting of trees with purple frost and figures in silhouette walking underneath
Frost, 1910 by painter Natalia Goncharova #womensart
