Thomas Cummins
@thoscummins.bsky.social
Soil Science at University College Dublin, archaeology and environmental resource management, urban and anthropogenic soils. Committee member @sssireland.bsky.social
And a little budburst survey (since 1994) #phenology
And a little budburst survey (since 1994) #phenology
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The long-nosed Pinocchio #chameleon is multiple species.
#Biologists have finally solved the century-old #reptilian mystery.
Link for more info and photos: www.popsci.com/environment/...
#Biologists have finally solved the century-old #reptilian mystery.
Link for more info and photos: www.popsci.com/environment/...
November 23, 2025 at 7:57 PM
The long-nosed Pinocchio #chameleon is multiple species.
#Biologists have finally solved the century-old #reptilian mystery.
Link for more info and photos: www.popsci.com/environment/...
#Biologists have finally solved the century-old #reptilian mystery.
Link for more info and photos: www.popsci.com/environment/...
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✨ Paper spotlight ✨
(🧵 1/7) Moving from an experiment- to an observation-dominated era in global change impact research on vegetation
nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
(🧵 1/7) Moving from an experiment- to an observation-dominated era in global change impact research on vegetation
nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
November 24, 2025 at 1:02 PM
✨ Paper spotlight ✨
(🧵 1/7) Moving from an experiment- to an observation-dominated era in global change impact research on vegetation
nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
(🧵 1/7) Moving from an experiment- to an observation-dominated era in global change impact research on vegetation
nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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Today @TheNewYorker released our short documentary “Rovina’s Choice” online.
It traces the ongoing effects of the sudden shutdown of US foreign aid through the story of one mother in Kenya as she seeks to save her daughter from sickness and starvation. 🎥 1/ www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...
It traces the ongoing effects of the sudden shutdown of US foreign aid through the story of one mother in Kenya as she seeks to save her daughter from sickness and starvation. 🎥 1/ www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...
The Shutdown of U.S.A.I.D. Has Already Killed Hundreds of Thousands
The short documentary “Rovina’s Choice” tells the story of what goes when aid goes.
www.newyorker.com
November 6, 2025 at 12:41 PM
Today @TheNewYorker released our short documentary “Rovina’s Choice” online.
It traces the ongoing effects of the sudden shutdown of US foreign aid through the story of one mother in Kenya as she seeks to save her daughter from sickness and starvation. 🎥 1/ www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...
It traces the ongoing effects of the sudden shutdown of US foreign aid through the story of one mother in Kenya as she seeks to save her daughter from sickness and starvation. 🎥 1/ www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...
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I helped make a film, out this week, called “Rovina’s Choice,” about the deaths this man without conscience or accountability has caused — already 600,000, ⅔ of them children.
November 6, 2025 at 10:34 PM
I helped make a film, out this week, called “Rovina’s Choice,” about the deaths this man without conscience or accountability has caused — already 600,000, ⅔ of them children.
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"The skin simply starts sloughing off and you become unable to maintain your body temperature, where you also get skin infection....They had not seen cases like that for two decades."
Thanks, Elon Musk! www.thebulwark.com/p/this-may-b...
Thanks, Elon Musk! www.thebulwark.com/p/this-may-b...
This May Be the Cruelest, Most Senseless Thing Trump Has Done
A conversation with Atul Gawande about the human toll of the dismantling of foreign aid.
www.thebulwark.com
November 17, 2025 at 9:30 PM
"The skin simply starts sloughing off and you become unable to maintain your body temperature, where you also get skin infection....They had not seen cases like that for two decades."
Thanks, Elon Musk! www.thebulwark.com/p/this-may-b...
Thanks, Elon Musk! www.thebulwark.com/p/this-may-b...
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Anti-Zionism is now winning politics.
@simonerzim.bsky.social discusses Zohran Mamdani’s groundbreaking victory, how it was decades in the making, and how it will change the political landscape in New York and the wider U.S. for years to come.
Watch Beyond Israelism exclusively on Zeteo.com.
@simonerzim.bsky.social discusses Zohran Mamdani’s groundbreaking victory, how it was decades in the making, and how it will change the political landscape in New York and the wider U.S. for years to come.
Watch Beyond Israelism exclusively on Zeteo.com.
November 16, 2025 at 2:00 PM
Anti-Zionism is now winning politics.
@simonerzim.bsky.social discusses Zohran Mamdani’s groundbreaking victory, how it was decades in the making, and how it will change the political landscape in New York and the wider U.S. for years to come.
Watch Beyond Israelism exclusively on Zeteo.com.
@simonerzim.bsky.social discusses Zohran Mamdani’s groundbreaking victory, how it was decades in the making, and how it will change the political landscape in New York and the wider U.S. for years to come.
Watch Beyond Israelism exclusively on Zeteo.com.
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A shared heritage - "The #Llangorse #crannóg is an unique example of an Irish monument type constructed in Wales."
Good to see this archaeological conservation work carried out. #Ireland #Wales #archaeology #LakesOfWales
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1...
Good to see this archaeological conservation work carried out. #Ireland #Wales #archaeology #LakesOfWales
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1...
November 14, 2025 at 10:33 PM
A shared heritage - "The #Llangorse #crannóg is an unique example of an Irish monument type constructed in Wales."
Good to see this archaeological conservation work carried out. #Ireland #Wales #archaeology #LakesOfWales
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1...
Good to see this archaeological conservation work carried out. #Ireland #Wales #archaeology #LakesOfWales
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1...
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Bohernabreena reservoir, Glenasmole, constructed in the 1880s - River Dodder tributaries were segregated into those with clear water feeding the upper reservoir for drinking water supply and those with peaty water which were diverted around it to the lower reservoir to supply mills downstream
November 9, 2025 at 10:30 PM
Bohernabreena reservoir, Glenasmole, constructed in the 1880s - River Dodder tributaries were segregated into those with clear water feeding the upper reservoir for drinking water supply and those with peaty water which were diverted around it to the lower reservoir to supply mills downstream
Loss and damage, #COP30. Most important negotiations in history — @eamonryan.bsky.social
Worth watching
Worth watching
🎬 With #COP30 just days away, we’re delighted to share our new film, Inside COP: Science, Politics and the Fight for Loss & Damage.
Told through the eyes of negotiators and scientists, it reveals the story behind the historic agreement to establish Loss and Damage Fund. 👇
youtu.be/IeA6ggnq6yk?...
Told through the eyes of negotiators and scientists, it reveals the story behind the historic agreement to establish Loss and Damage Fund. 👇
youtu.be/IeA6ggnq6yk?...
Inside COP: Science, Politics and the Fight for Loss and Damage
YouTube video by Grantham Institute, Imperial College London
youtu.be
November 5, 2025 at 12:53 PM
Loss and damage, #COP30. Most important negotiations in history — @eamonryan.bsky.social
Worth watching
Worth watching
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‘In the fifth century, Augustine complained that an unexpectedly large and “rather restless” horde had come to listen to him preach. Amid the commotion he had to read out a passage from the Gospels twice.’
Pablo Scheffer on the unpredictability of medieval crowds.
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Pablo Scheffer on the unpredictability of medieval crowds.
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Pablo Scheffer · Among the Rabble: Early Medieval Crowds
Along with their terminology, the Romans had passed down to early medieval Europe the belief that crowds were an...
www.lrb.co.uk
November 4, 2025 at 8:30 PM
‘In the fifth century, Augustine complained that an unexpectedly large and “rather restless” horde had come to listen to him preach. Amid the commotion he had to read out a passage from the Gospels twice.’
Pablo Scheffer on the unpredictability of medieval crowds.
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Pablo Scheffer on the unpredictability of medieval crowds.
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
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The Harvesters, 1565 by Pieter Bruegel the Elder (Met Museum)
October 30, 2025 at 12:34 PM
The Harvesters, 1565 by Pieter Bruegel the Elder (Met Museum)
Can we align with Wyoming lawmakers to agree that anthropogenic greenhouse gases are atmospheric contaminants, emitted by planes and other combustion sources with the effect of modifying the atmosphere, and ban them on those grounds?
wyofile.com/claims-chemt...
wyofile.com/claims-chemt...
Claims 'chemtrails' poison citizens spur Wyoming lawmakers to advance 'geoengineering' ban - WyoFile
Nano particles released from Department of War jets are sterilizing soils, blocking sun, lawmakers hear from Wyomingites and YouTuber before backing bill.
wyofile.com
October 29, 2025 at 4:43 PM
Can we align with Wyoming lawmakers to agree that anthropogenic greenhouse gases are atmospheric contaminants, emitted by planes and other combustion sources with the effect of modifying the atmosphere, and ban them on those grounds?
wyofile.com/claims-chemt...
wyofile.com/claims-chemt...
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“A tiger, an elephant, a giraffe…”
October 27, 2025 at 12:36 PM
“A tiger, an elephant, a giraffe…”
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Here's the Ronald Reagan ad from Canada that Trump calls "fake."
October 24, 2025 at 2:48 AM
Here's the Ronald Reagan ad from Canada that Trump calls "fake."
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Vertical cross-section of October temperature trends for all latitude bands. This graphic shows how temperatures are changing through the profile of the atmosphere.
See climate change indicators of tropospheric warming (doi.org/10.1126/scie...) and stratospheric cooling (doi.org/10.1073/pnas...).
See climate change indicators of tropospheric warming (doi.org/10.1126/scie...) and stratospheric cooling (doi.org/10.1073/pnas...).
October 26, 2025 at 1:20 PM
Vertical cross-section of October temperature trends for all latitude bands. This graphic shows how temperatures are changing through the profile of the atmosphere.
See climate change indicators of tropospheric warming (doi.org/10.1126/scie...) and stratospheric cooling (doi.org/10.1073/pnas...).
See climate change indicators of tropospheric warming (doi.org/10.1126/scie...) and stratospheric cooling (doi.org/10.1073/pnas...).
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We have reached the stage where legacy media simply ignores Trump's targeting of political opponents for prosecution. Meanwhile, commentators and pundits find ways to dismiss it or - in some cases - normalize it.
I will never accept it and neither should you. Watch and share. youtu.be/yZR90S5DUKE
I will never accept it and neither should you. Watch and share. youtu.be/yZR90S5DUKE
Why Smart People Keep Getting Trump's DOJ Scandal Wrong
YouTube video by Democracy Docket
youtu.be
October 25, 2025 at 8:40 PM
We have reached the stage where legacy media simply ignores Trump's targeting of political opponents for prosecution. Meanwhile, commentators and pundits find ways to dismiss it or - in some cases - normalize it.
I will never accept it and neither should you. Watch and share. youtu.be/yZR90S5DUKE
I will never accept it and neither should you. Watch and share. youtu.be/yZR90S5DUKE
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This week's UCD #CulturalHeritage blog post @kate-manning.bsky.social delves into the @ucdarchives.bsky.social papers of Eoin MacNeill & Liam S. Gógan and illustrates how a researcher can trace an issue across more than one collection.
Read at ucdculturalheritagecollections.com/2025/10/21/o...
Read at ucdculturalheritagecollections.com/2025/10/21/o...
October 21, 2025 at 12:25 PM
This week's UCD #CulturalHeritage blog post @kate-manning.bsky.social delves into the @ucdarchives.bsky.social papers of Eoin MacNeill & Liam S. Gógan and illustrates how a researcher can trace an issue across more than one collection.
Read at ucdculturalheritagecollections.com/2025/10/21/o...
Read at ucdculturalheritagecollections.com/2025/10/21/o...
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Good news for global health - Fiji has become the 26th country to eliminate trachoma, a neglected tropical disease and the world’s leading infectious cause of blindness.
A great example of the power of institutions and communities working together to advance public health for all.
A great example of the power of institutions and communities working together to advance public health for all.
Fiji becomes the 26th country to eliminate trachoma as a public health problem
In a landmark public health achievement, Fiji has been validated by the World Health Organization (WHO) for eliminating trachoma as a public health problem.
www.who.int
October 20, 2025 at 5:09 PM
Good news for global health - Fiji has become the 26th country to eliminate trachoma, a neglected tropical disease and the world’s leading infectious cause of blindness.
A great example of the power of institutions and communities working together to advance public health for all.
A great example of the power of institutions and communities working together to advance public health for all.
Excellent exhibition, one last chance to see it.
Due to popular demand the "Words on the Wave" exhibition will extend it's run until Monday 27th Oct. Don't miss your last chance to see these unique early medieval treasures at the National Museum of Ireland, Kildare St.
www.museum.ie/en-IE/Museum...
www.museum.ie/en-IE/Museum...
Words on the Wave: Ireland and St. Gallen in Early Medieval Europe | Archaeology | National Museum of Ireland
Discover how science, art, archaeology and the study of script help reveal the links between Ireland and Europe
www.museum.ie
October 20, 2025 at 6:39 PM
Excellent exhibition, one last chance to see it.
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“Oh my god… I have no words.”
Listen to the emotional moment this year’s laureate Maria Corina ( finds out she has been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.
Kristian Berg Harpviken, Director of the Norwegian Nobel Institute, shared the news.
NobelPrize #NobelPeacePrize
Listen to the emotional moment this year’s laureate Maria Corina ( finds out she has been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.
Kristian Berg Harpviken, Director of the Norwegian Nobel Institute, shared the news.
NobelPrize #NobelPeacePrize
October 10, 2025 at 12:22 PM
“Oh my god… I have no words.”
Listen to the emotional moment this year’s laureate Maria Corina ( finds out she has been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.
Kristian Berg Harpviken, Director of the Norwegian Nobel Institute, shared the news.
NobelPrize #NobelPeacePrize
Listen to the emotional moment this year’s laureate Maria Corina ( finds out she has been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.
Kristian Berg Harpviken, Director of the Norwegian Nobel Institute, shared the news.
NobelPrize #NobelPeacePrize