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Seb Breitenbach
@speleoseb.bsky.social
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Stable & clumped isotopes, caves, karst, past climate, permafrost, continental climate change & society, Asia, Siberia, environmental monitoring, head of the NICEST lab, Berliner at heart - Slava Ukraini 🇺🇦💙💛
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egu.eu
Are you attending #EGU26 and remember how overwhelming your first conference felt? Why not apply to the Peer Support Programme and help first-time attendees feel supported?
👉 More information about the programme: egu.eu/3YUO9G
📆 Register by 31 March 2026.
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January 22, 2026 at 1:20 PM
speleoseb.bsky.social
I wish I could visit right now! 🤩
@olakwiecien3.bsky.social @pucicu.de @speleojacek.bsky.social @drjosephgraly.bsky.social @mariabox.bsky.social
January 22, 2026 at 8:46 AM
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theguardian.com
Going beyond the surface in the Karst plateau: exploring the new cross-border geopark in Italy and Slovenia
Going beyond the surface in the Karst plateau: exploring the new cross-border geopark in Italy and Slovenia
GeoKarst is a new EU-funded project highlighting a unique landscape of caves, gorges and medieval villages near Trieste
www.theguardian.com
January 22, 2026 at 8:29 AM
speleoseb.bsky.social
Maybe something for the next shopping trip 😏 don’t buy products from bully #usa
#boycott #Donnyland #fckimperialism
#UdenUSA

@pucicu.de @drjosephgraly.bsky.social @olakwiecien3.bsky.social
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January 22, 2026 at 8:03 AM
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dailyherald.bsky.social
Farage failed to declare over £380,000 in outside earnings on top of his MP's salary.

He's lining his pockets when he should be standing up for Britain.

www.parliament.uk/globalassets...
January 21, 2026 at 9:20 AM
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benbraun.bsky.social
This one's high up there. Probably an all-time top-3 week.
January 21, 2026 at 9:15 PM
speleoseb.bsky.social
When MPs defect to another party - by-elections must be called automatically! Sign the petition! 👇

petition.parliament.uk/petitions/73...
Petition: By-elections to be called automatically when MPs defect to another party
When an MP decides they want to defect to another party a by-election should be automatically triggered to allow the constituents the opportunity have their democratic right to agree or not with their...
petition.parliament.uk
January 21, 2026 at 9:28 PM
speleoseb.bsky.social
🧪paper alert for #speleo geeks/ #clumped isotope aficionados: stalagmite drip cups are closer to isotope equilibrium comp. to t/ rim & provide windows into past #temperature 😎 kudos to a fantastic team! led by @drumbo.bsky.social , @leverhulme.ac.uk funded #IsoPerm🎉🤩
@nielsjdewinter.bsky.social
January 21, 2026 at 9:24 PM
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13sarahmurphy.bsky.social
They claim they’re putting personal ambition aside and defecting to Reform to help fix the country.
To stop that pisstaking farce, they should be made to hold by-elections in their constituencies and let the voters decide if that’s ok with them. Please sign.

petition.parliament.uk/petitions/73...
Petition: By-elections to be called automatically when MPs defect to another party
When an MP decides they want to defect to another party a by-election should be automatically triggered to allow the constituents the opportunity have their democratic right to agree or not with their...
petition.parliament.uk
January 20, 2026 at 7:47 PM
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jacquelyngill.bsky.social
College newspapers have stepped up to the challenge of speaking truth to power in this moment, both in investigative reporting and bold, visionary commentary. They're out here putting most mainstream media to shame.
January 20, 2026 at 6:40 PM
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eos.org
“Water bankruptcy” is the only apt term to describe the world’s freshwater supply, according to a new @ununiversity.bsky.social report. 🧪 🌎 🌊 eos.org/research-and...
We Are "Living Beyond Our Hydrological Means," UN Report Warns - Eos
Humanity has overspent and depleted freshwater in the world’s aquifers, glaciers, wetlands, and other natural reservoirs to an irreversible degree, according to a new United Nations report.
eos.org
January 20, 2026 at 6:34 PM
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mattpope.bsky.social
Woof!
De Sario et al. 2026 The dog domestication: new ichnological (footprint) evidence from the Upper Palaeolithic of the Bàsura cave (NW Italy)
"Human and canid tracks in Grotta della Bàsura date to ∼14,400 cal yr BP." 🏺🦣🐶https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0277379125005177
Human and dog prints in the cave floor sediment, they overlap and go in the same direction
January 20, 2026 at 7:12 PM
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joelhs.bsky.social
“ICE isn’t the Gestapo. The Gestapo was…” (proceeds to describe qualities that apply to what ICE is currently doing)
From Senator Chris McDaniel: “Lately, some folks have taken to calling ICE “the Gestapo.” It sounds fierce. It feels righteous. But it isn’t true, and it isn’t harmless. The Gestapo was a secret police force. No warrants. No courts. No lawyers. And no appeals. People vanished in the night, not because they broke the law, but because the law no longer meant anything. The knock on the door was the sentence. ICE isn’t that. Not even close. ICE is a public agency enforcing laws passed by elected officials. Its agents file reports. They seek warrants. They lose cases. Judges stop them. Lawyers challenge them. Some detainees go home. That’s not tyranny. That’s bureaucracy, for better and worse. You can hate immigration policy. You can argue enforcement is too harsh, too sloppy, or too broad. You can work to have the law changed if you wish. That’s a republic doing what it’s supposed to do. But when you call ordinary law enforcement “the Gestapo,” you cheapen real evil. You turn history into a slogan and suffering into a metaphor. And once every badge is tyranny, no tyranny is left to recognize. In Mississippi, I was raised to believe words should earn their weight. This one hasn't yet. It throws around the language of dictatorship while living under a system where courts still rule, lawyers still argue, and the government still loses. That difference matters. Because the day enforcement becomes secret, unchecked, and answerable to no one, we won’t need to borrow names from history. We’ll know exactly what we’re dealing with. And we’ll wish we’d kept our words honest.”
January 20, 2026 at 5:45 PM
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drjosephgraly.bsky.social
This is utterly horrifying. Armed, masked agents breaking down the doors of an elderly man's home and dragging him out into the snow in his pajamas. America cannot be called the land of the free until this regime falls. (The person is a US citizen, incidentally.)
leahmillis.bsky.social Leah Millis @leahmillis.bsky.social · 4d
Today in St. Paul: A house is raided by ICE agents and other law enforcement officers in St. Paul, Minnesota, U.S., days after an ICE agent fatally shot Renee Nicole Good, January 18, 2026. REUTERS/Leah Millis
Federal agents break a door down during a raid on a home in St Paul. A man is removed from a home in St Paul by ERO and ICE agents. A baby looks out the window after their home was raided by federal law enforcement in St Paul and a man was removed.
January 19, 2026 at 1:45 PM
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callmedon.bsky.social
I want you to consider this. People often comment that Trump is acting/talking like a “mob boss.” The reason is that he IS a mob boss-rackets, fraud, deceit, money laundering, protection, murder (hits), all of it. History will uncover it in time…if you’re under 40 you might live to see it exposed.
THE NEW ABNORMAL Trump Is Using Classic Mob Boss Tactics to Carry Out His Wishes DAILY BEAST
January 18, 2026 at 1:47 AM
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armymomjenn.bsky.social
January 17, 2026 at 4:04 PM
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ucunorthumbria.bsky.social
Bosses @northumbriauni.bsky.social will cut staff pay unless they move to a worse pension. Say 'no' here, and please share: www.megaphone.org.uk/petitions/no...
Northumbria Pay and Pension Petition: Stop the Steal!
If Northumbria does this, other universities will too.  These cuts will harm thousands of people, their students, families, and their local communities now and into the future.
www.megaphone.org.uk
January 17, 2026 at 7:49 AM
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citizensimpeachment.com
McSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net from his first regime:

www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/the...

And the current one: www.mcsweeneys.net/tags/lest-we...
Lest We Forget the Horrors: A Catalog of Trump’s Worst Cruelties, Collusions, Corruptions, and Crimes: The Complete Listing: Atrocities 1–1,056
We have commenced work on a new list covering Trump’s second term. Go here to read it. - - -As we find ourselves in the early days of his belated s...
www.mcsweeneys.net
January 16, 2026 at 1:59 AM
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egu.eu
Attend #EGU26 without a registration fee😮?

If you have physical or mental #disabilities, are chronically ill or have faced barriers attending a #meeting, you can now participate in our Accessibility and Inclusivity Advisory Group by 23 January 2026.
👉: egu.eu/9PXKSQ
📸: Daniel Hölbling on #imaggeo
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January 16, 2026 at 1:05 PM
speleoseb.bsky.social
Last chance to get your abstract submitted for @egu.eu 26! Join our session CL5.2 Novel and quantitative methods for reconstructing continental palaeoenvironments and palaeohydrology 🫵

www.egu26.eu/session/56342
January 15, 2026 at 10:22 AM
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ucunorthumbria.bsky.social
@georgeclarke.bsky.social...do management want to freeze staff pay indefinitely unless people change pension? And why didn't the Board of Governors even vote on those plans? And why is doing this OK or necessary when the number of people at the top earning over £100k has doubled since last year?
January 13, 2026 at 5:40 PM
speleoseb.bsky.social
🧪 geofolks!
You got novel, quantitative methods/results from some continent?
WE WANT YOU!
🫵
Join our session CL5.2!
Submit your abstract today!

www.egu26.eu/session/56342
January 13, 2026 at 10:40 PM
speleoseb.bsky.social
Join this team! You won’t regret it! 😅 👇
nielsjdewinter.bsky.social Niels de Winter @nielsjdewinter.bsky.social · 10d
🚨 New vacancy🚨

Interested in high-resolution climate reconstructions, or know someone who might be? Apply for our exciting new, fully funded PhD position where you will develop reconstructions of extreme weather events in the geological past from fossil shells! 🌩️🌀🌊🐚

werkenbij.vu.nl/vacatures/ph...
Vacature — PhD developing reconstructions for storms in a warmer climate
Are you enthusiastic about climate research and keen to discover how warmer climate changes the frequency of storms in the past and future? Then apply for this PhD project!
werkenbij.vu.nl
January 12, 2026 at 9:22 AM
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nielsjdewinter.bsky.social
🚨 New vacancy🚨

Interested in high-resolution climate reconstructions, or know someone who might be? Apply for our exciting new, fully funded PhD position where you will develop reconstructions of extreme weather events in the geological past from fossil shells! 🌩️🌀🌊🐚

werkenbij.vu.nl/vacatures/ph...
Vacature — PhD developing reconstructions for storms in a warmer climate
Are you enthusiastic about climate research and keen to discover how warmer climate changes the frequency of storms in the past and future? Then apply for this PhD project!
werkenbij.vu.nl
January 12, 2026 at 9:16 AM
speleoseb.bsky.social
Ich auch! 👇
ruthe.de Ralph Ruthe @ruthe.de · 10d
Die BILD fordert den Rücktritt von CDU-Politiker Daniel Günther, weil dieser sich gegen Fake-News ausspricht. 🙃
Zwei Fliegen schweben vor einem Kiosk, vor dem ein Schild steht mit der Aufschrift "Hier gibt's BILD". Linke Fliege (sieht das Schild nicht): "Komisch. Ich rieche die Scheiße, aber ich sehe sie nicht."
January 12, 2026 at 8:48 AM