Des Teasdale
@desteasdale.bsky.social
Quaternary sediments and landforms. Glaciers and climate change.
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Des Teasdale
@desteasdale.bsky.social
· Jun 20
Tho' much is taken, much abides; and tho'
We are not now that strength which in old days
Moved earth and heaven, that which we are, we are;
One equal temper of heroic hearts,
Made weak by time and fate, but strong in will
To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield.
(Ulysses, Tennyson).
We are not now that strength which in old days
Moved earth and heaven, that which we are, we are;
One equal temper of heroic hearts,
Made weak by time and fate, but strong in will
To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield.
(Ulysses, Tennyson).
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Happy #PolarPride 2025! Celebrate diversity and the contributions of LGBTQIA+ people to polar science!
November 18, 2025 at 10:18 AM
Happy #PolarPride 2025! Celebrate diversity and the contributions of LGBTQIA+ people to polar science!
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For #FossilFriday, meet Inoceramus : the largest bivalve to ever exist. This genus lived in the Cretaceous seas of North America and Europe.
This one is 178 cm long. And look at these rings ! It must an amazing palaeoenvironmental recorder to work with 😍
#PaleoSky 🦑 🧪 ⚒️
This one is 178 cm long. And look at these rings ! It must an amazing palaeoenvironmental recorder to work with 😍
#PaleoSky 🦑 🧪 ⚒️
October 3, 2025 at 8:36 AM
For #FossilFriday, meet Inoceramus : the largest bivalve to ever exist. This genus lived in the Cretaceous seas of North America and Europe.
This one is 178 cm long. And look at these rings ! It must an amazing palaeoenvironmental recorder to work with 😍
#PaleoSky 🦑 🧪 ⚒️
This one is 178 cm long. And look at these rings ! It must an amazing palaeoenvironmental recorder to work with 😍
#PaleoSky 🦑 🧪 ⚒️
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Let me tell you a beautiful story about this couch. 🧵
IG msviciousdesign
IG msviciousdesign
September 26, 2025 at 11:58 PM
Let me tell you a beautiful story about this couch. 🧵
IG msviciousdesign
IG msviciousdesign
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‼️📣Extremely proud to see this great collaborative work out!
Oldest Shell Ornament Workshop in Western Europe at Saint-Césaire: www.pnas.org/cgi/doi/10.1...
#Prehistory #Archaeology #Chatelperronian #Shells #Beads #Homosapiens #Neandertal #Ornament
Details of discovery & implications ⏬ 🧵 1/20
Oldest Shell Ornament Workshop in Western Europe at Saint-Césaire: www.pnas.org/cgi/doi/10.1...
#Prehistory #Archaeology #Chatelperronian #Shells #Beads #Homosapiens #Neandertal #Ornament
Details of discovery & implications ⏬ 🧵 1/20
PNAS
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), a peer reviewed journal of the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) - an authoritative source of high-impact, original research that broadly spans...
www.pnas.org
September 22, 2025 at 7:55 PM
‼️📣Extremely proud to see this great collaborative work out!
Oldest Shell Ornament Workshop in Western Europe at Saint-Césaire: www.pnas.org/cgi/doi/10.1...
#Prehistory #Archaeology #Chatelperronian #Shells #Beads #Homosapiens #Neandertal #Ornament
Details of discovery & implications ⏬ 🧵 1/20
Oldest Shell Ornament Workshop in Western Europe at Saint-Césaire: www.pnas.org/cgi/doi/10.1...
#Prehistory #Archaeology #Chatelperronian #Shells #Beads #Homosapiens #Neandertal #Ornament
Details of discovery & implications ⏬ 🧵 1/20
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We don't have a problem with immigrants, just those who are criminals...
We don't have a problem with immigrants, just those who entered the country illegally...
We don't have a problem with immigrants, just those who don't speak English...
We don't have a problem with immigrants, just those who entered the country illegally...
We don't have a problem with immigrants, just those who don't speak English...
September 23, 2025 at 12:09 PM
We don't have a problem with immigrants, just those who are criminals...
We don't have a problem with immigrants, just those who entered the country illegally...
We don't have a problem with immigrants, just those who don't speak English...
We don't have a problem with immigrants, just those who entered the country illegally...
We don't have a problem with immigrants, just those who don't speak English...
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The first 50 Haredic Jews ever seem to have been drafted into the IDF (usually exempt). In British politics, Hasidic Jews (a branch of Haredim) are often avid socialists and anti-Zionism, some of our most vocal defenders of Palestine ❤️
The Haredis have decleared a "war" against Israeli authorities for imprisoning them in military prison for not enlisting to the IDF
Now footage from over multiple roads and junctions around the country 👇 "don't get out of the road" "don't listen to police"
Now footage from over multiple roads and junctions around the country 👇 "don't get out of the road" "don't listen to police"
August 20, 2025 at 5:27 PM
The first 50 Haredic Jews ever seem to have been drafted into the IDF (usually exempt). In British politics, Hasidic Jews (a branch of Haredim) are often avid socialists and anti-Zionism, some of our most vocal defenders of Palestine ❤️
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2022 was the most detrimental summer for glacier loss ever! 🔥😱
It foreshadows what our summers will be like from now on, as 2025 looks almost similar... 😭
Here is a 9-months timelapse of Mer de Glace (Dec. 2021-Sept. 2022) ending with those terrible melt rates
Via laplaceduvillagetv
It foreshadows what our summers will be like from now on, as 2025 looks almost similar... 😭
Here is a 9-months timelapse of Mer de Glace (Dec. 2021-Sept. 2022) ending with those terrible melt rates
Via laplaceduvillagetv
August 20, 2025 at 6:37 PM
2022 was the most detrimental summer for glacier loss ever! 🔥😱
It foreshadows what our summers will be like from now on, as 2025 looks almost similar... 😭
Here is a 9-months timelapse of Mer de Glace (Dec. 2021-Sept. 2022) ending with those terrible melt rates
Via laplaceduvillagetv
It foreshadows what our summers will be like from now on, as 2025 looks almost similar... 😭
Here is a 9-months timelapse of Mer de Glace (Dec. 2021-Sept. 2022) ending with those terrible melt rates
Via laplaceduvillagetv
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Interesting report from NISTA regarding the UK’s search for a #geological disposal facility for legacy and arising #nuclear waste ☢️
envirotecmagazine.com/2025/08/20/u...
envirotecmagazine.com/2025/08/20/u...
UK plans for geological disposal of nuclear waste declared “unachievable” by Treasury | Envirotec
The UK government’s GDF programme is intended to take all of the UK’s higher-activity radioactive waste including spent fuel from commercial sites such as S ...
envirotecmagazine.com
August 20, 2025 at 6:52 PM
Interesting report from NISTA regarding the UK’s search for a #geological disposal facility for legacy and arising #nuclear waste ☢️
envirotecmagazine.com/2025/08/20/u...
envirotecmagazine.com/2025/08/20/u...
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@justineshaw.bsky.social featured in a Guardian post of glacial retreat on our island.
August 4, 2025 at 4:32 PM
@justineshaw.bsky.social featured in a Guardian post of glacial retreat on our island.
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"This indicates potential under-projections of end-of-century extreme high temperature events in current model outputs"
I feel increasingly like the UK is headed for 50C in my lifetime and we are IN NO WAY prepared to even imagine that let alone adapt
I feel increasingly like the UK is headed for 50C in my lifetime and we are IN NO WAY prepared to even imagine that let alone adapt
Climate models have underestimated the departure of high temperature extremes from monthly means.
If we assume these model biases persist in future projections, then the climate models are also likely underestimating the magnitude of future high temperature extremes.
www.nature.com/articles/s43...
If we assume these model biases persist in future projections, then the climate models are also likely underestimating the magnitude of future high temperature extremes.
www.nature.com/articles/s43...
Historical model biases in monthly high temperature anomalies indicate under-estimation of future temperature extremes - Communications Earth & Environment
Models tend to underestimate mean monthly maximum temperature anomalies by 2-3% and extreme anomalies by 11-12% over the period 1980 and 2023, which could lead to temperatures 3 °C to 5 °C higher than...
www.nature.com
August 3, 2025 at 9:18 AM
"This indicates potential under-projections of end-of-century extreme high temperature events in current model outputs"
I feel increasingly like the UK is headed for 50C in my lifetime and we are IN NO WAY prepared to even imagine that let alone adapt
I feel increasingly like the UK is headed for 50C in my lifetime and we are IN NO WAY prepared to even imagine that let alone adapt
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This what Israel has done to Gaza. Forbidden pics by a Washington Post photographer whose Jordanian air crew didn't pass on Israel's order to only photograph aid being dropped. City, suburbs, schools, people: bombed to rubble. People being starved in makeshift camps on road roundabouts. #Genocide
August 3, 2025 at 4:31 AM
This what Israel has done to Gaza. Forbidden pics by a Washington Post photographer whose Jordanian air crew didn't pass on Israel's order to only photograph aid being dropped. City, suburbs, schools, people: bombed to rubble. People being starved in makeshift camps on road roundabouts. #Genocide
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Truly. The distinction between the treatment of elderly Gaza demonstrators and far-right protestors suggests a complete breakdown in our moral compass.
Yet there was not an iota of understanding or sympathy for the legions of people peacefully protesting the genocide in Gaza, who are now being roundly labelled ‘terrorists.’ Why is it only ever the fash who have ‘legitimate’ concerns?
Fucking hell the standard of the debate on that asylum hotel protest is appalling. Broadcasters and politicians bending over backwards to defend and justify the actions of the protestors. Not even a hint of the bravery required to stand up or challenge far-right ideas.
July 23, 2025 at 8:14 AM
Truly. The distinction between the treatment of elderly Gaza demonstrators and far-right protestors suggests a complete breakdown in our moral compass.
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Among yesterday's arrestees is Deborah Hinton, an 81-year old retired magistrate with an OBE.
That's Yvette Cooper's idea of a terrorist.
Language has been turned on its head.
The law has been turned on its head.
Murdering children is righteous.
Trying to stop it is terrorism.
That's Yvette Cooper's idea of a terrorist.
Language has been turned on its head.
The law has been turned on its head.
Murdering children is righteous.
Trying to stop it is terrorism.
July 20, 2025 at 5:31 AM
Among yesterday's arrestees is Deborah Hinton, an 81-year old retired magistrate with an OBE.
That's Yvette Cooper's idea of a terrorist.
Language has been turned on its head.
The law has been turned on its head.
Murdering children is righteous.
Trying to stop it is terrorism.
That's Yvette Cooper's idea of a terrorist.
Language has been turned on its head.
The law has been turned on its head.
Murdering children is righteous.
Trying to stop it is terrorism.
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DWP boss just said Universal Credit gives disabled people 'perverse incentives' not to work
Liz Kendall's shocking comments came just as a new report slams the DWP for failing vulnerable claimants.
So which is it???
www.thecanary.co/uk/analysis/...
Liz Kendall's shocking comments came just as a new report slams the DWP for failing vulnerable claimants.
So which is it???
www.thecanary.co/uk/analysis/...
DWP boss just said Universal Credit gives disabled people 'perverse incentives' not to work
Liz Kendall believes people on benefits are incentivised not to work - yet a new report slams the DWP for failing vulnerable claimants
www.thecanary.co
July 18, 2025 at 11:59 AM
DWP boss just said Universal Credit gives disabled people 'perverse incentives' not to work
Liz Kendall's shocking comments came just as a new report slams the DWP for failing vulnerable claimants.
So which is it???
www.thecanary.co/uk/analysis/...
Liz Kendall's shocking comments came just as a new report slams the DWP for failing vulnerable claimants.
So which is it???
www.thecanary.co/uk/analysis/...
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No more sucking up to Trump.
No more hand waving about so called "special relationships."
Beyond time for Keir Starmer to condemn this - and then stop our own active involvement with the genocide.
www.bbc.com/news/article...
No more hand waving about so called "special relationships."
Beyond time for Keir Starmer to condemn this - and then stop our own active involvement with the genocide.
www.bbc.com/news/article...
US sanctions UN expert Francesca Albanese, critic of Israel's Gaza offensive
Secretary of State Marco Rubio linked the move to her support for the International Criminal Court (ICC).
www.bbc.com
July 10, 2025 at 10:19 AM
No more sucking up to Trump.
No more hand waving about so called "special relationships."
Beyond time for Keir Starmer to condemn this - and then stop our own active involvement with the genocide.
www.bbc.com/news/article...
No more hand waving about so called "special relationships."
Beyond time for Keir Starmer to condemn this - and then stop our own active involvement with the genocide.
www.bbc.com/news/article...
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Disabled people are already THREE times more likely to need to use food banks.
MPs must vote NO to cuts to disabled people’s social security tomorrow.
MPs must vote NO to cuts to disabled people’s social security tomorrow.
July 8, 2025 at 2:44 PM
Disabled people are already THREE times more likely to need to use food banks.
MPs must vote NO to cuts to disabled people’s social security tomorrow.
MPs must vote NO to cuts to disabled people’s social security tomorrow.
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Israel are planning to force Gaza's population into an 'internment camp' in Rafah.
As if any more evidence of Israel's ethnic cleansing were needed...
The Government must act now to protect Palestinian lives and prevent any further atrocities.
As if any more evidence of Israel's ethnic cleansing were needed...
The Government must act now to protect Palestinian lives and prevent any further atrocities.
July 8, 2025 at 2:51 PM
Israel are planning to force Gaza's population into an 'internment camp' in Rafah.
As if any more evidence of Israel's ethnic cleansing were needed...
The Government must act now to protect Palestinian lives and prevent any further atrocities.
As if any more evidence of Israel's ethnic cleansing were needed...
The Government must act now to protect Palestinian lives and prevent any further atrocities.
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Absolutely horrific. We are watching ethnic cleansing and genocide happening in broad daylight, in real time. Our govt has a duty to prevent genocide - and yet is still selling arms to Israel. The UK's complicity must end.
July 8, 2025 at 8:52 AM
Absolutely horrific. We are watching ethnic cleansing and genocide happening in broad daylight, in real time. Our govt has a duty to prevent genocide - and yet is still selling arms to Israel. The UK's complicity must end.
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Has anyone been more tragically correct than Naomi Klein
July 6, 2025 at 7:19 PM
Has anyone been more tragically correct than Naomi Klein
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🚨 BREAKING: The government's bill to cut disabled people's social security is still proceeding, but with all cuts to PIP now set to be REMOVED. 🧵
July 2, 2025 at 8:31 AM
🚨 BREAKING: The government's bill to cut disabled people's social security is still proceeding, but with all cuts to PIP now set to be REMOVED. 🧵
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Yesterday, the government removed vital support from disabled people.
Today, the government will criminalise protestors who want to stop genocide.
I opposed the government's attack on the disabled - and I will oppose the draconian proscription of Palestine Action.
Today, the government will criminalise protestors who want to stop genocide.
I opposed the government's attack on the disabled - and I will oppose the draconian proscription of Palestine Action.
July 2, 2025 at 9:02 AM
Yesterday, the government removed vital support from disabled people.
Today, the government will criminalise protestors who want to stop genocide.
I opposed the government's attack on the disabled - and I will oppose the draconian proscription of Palestine Action.
Today, the government will criminalise protestors who want to stop genocide.
I opposed the government's attack on the disabled - and I will oppose the draconian proscription of Palestine Action.
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The death toll of Israel’s ongoing genocide in Gaza is now estimated at 100,000
The list is 1,227 pages long.
The first 11 pages are names of babies dead before the age of 6 months.
The first 381 pages are all children.
archive.is/2025.06.28-0...
The list is 1,227 pages long.
The first 11 pages are names of babies dead before the age of 6 months.
The first 381 pages are all children.
archive.is/2025.06.28-0...
June 28, 2025 at 4:29 PM
The death toll of Israel’s ongoing genocide in Gaza is now estimated at 100,000
The list is 1,227 pages long.
The first 11 pages are names of babies dead before the age of 6 months.
The first 381 pages are all children.
archive.is/2025.06.28-0...
The list is 1,227 pages long.
The first 11 pages are names of babies dead before the age of 6 months.
The first 381 pages are all children.
archive.is/2025.06.28-0...
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Language is important.
I'm tired of media euphemisms.
It's not climate skeptic, it's climate denier.
It's not vaccine skeptic, it's anti-vaxxer.
And it's "lies" and "racism" and "genocide" and "war." Words have meaning.
I'm tired of media euphemisms.
It's not climate skeptic, it's climate denier.
It's not vaccine skeptic, it's anti-vaxxer.
And it's "lies" and "racism" and "genocide" and "war." Words have meaning.
June 26, 2025 at 6:30 AM
Language is important.
I'm tired of media euphemisms.
It's not climate skeptic, it's climate denier.
It's not vaccine skeptic, it's anti-vaxxer.
And it's "lies" and "racism" and "genocide" and "war." Words have meaning.
I'm tired of media euphemisms.
It's not climate skeptic, it's climate denier.
It's not vaccine skeptic, it's anti-vaxxer.
And it's "lies" and "racism" and "genocide" and "war." Words have meaning.
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The only argument Labour defenders have left is “1,000 people go on PIP a day – the size of Leicester!”
So let’s contextualise:
💥 4,822 adults are referred to IAPT every single day
💥 13,699 to mental health services – most left waiting
Want fewer PIP claims? Give help upstream.
#TakingThePIP
So let’s contextualise:
💥 4,822 adults are referred to IAPT every single day
💥 13,699 to mental health services – most left waiting
Want fewer PIP claims? Give help upstream.
#TakingThePIP
June 25, 2025 at 10:30 AM
The only argument Labour defenders have left is “1,000 people go on PIP a day – the size of Leicester!”
So let’s contextualise:
💥 4,822 adults are referred to IAPT every single day
💥 13,699 to mental health services – most left waiting
Want fewer PIP claims? Give help upstream.
#TakingThePIP
So let’s contextualise:
💥 4,822 adults are referred to IAPT every single day
💥 13,699 to mental health services – most left waiting
Want fewer PIP claims? Give help upstream.
#TakingThePIP