Kerry Leith

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In a new #SRL paper, scientists use a new and more complete catalog of earthquakes spanning 14 years to explore the relationship between geodetically observed slow slip events and seismicity in the Hikurangi subduction zone in Aotearoa, New Zealand. ⚒️

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.. for now. Its been great having you here!

The 5p Solution: How clean air is transforming attendance and learning in one Hampshire school Generations of pupils have learned in stuffy classrooms filled with recycled air, but a Hampshire school is now breathing new life into the way lessons are taught.

Across 3 consecutive autumn terms, installing HEPA air filters helped this Hampshire school achieve:

🔥21% fewer illness absences

🔥4,500 extra pupil-days in school

🔥Clear benefits for
SEND | SEMH | FSM

#EvidenceInAction #SafeAirSchools

www.portsmouth.co.uk/education/th...

Sorry to hear - sounds like you were in the right place at the right time though

The 16th Euroconference on Rock Physics and Rock Mechanics is now over! What a week! Great science, great people, great location! Best conference ever? 😆

Witness describes 'water and debris everywhere' as slip engulfs Hicks Bay Motor Lodge

📢 Georgina Taiapa said two feet of deep silt, water and debris surrounded the motel after a large slip crashed into the property.

Early news about the 22 January 2026 landslide at Mount Maunganui in New Zealand - Eos On 22 January 2026, a landslide was triggered by heavy rainfall at Mount Maunganui in New Zealand. Six people are missing.

On 22 January 2026, a landslide was triggered by heavy rainfall at Mount Maunganui in New Zealand. Six people are missing. Two more people are confirmed to have been killed by a landslide at Papamoa.
eos.org/thelandslide... #landslide #mountmaunganui

Our paper about phreatic explosions at Whakaari is the featured paper on the Communications Earth & Environment homepage! 🌋
Check out our open-access paper here 👇
www.nature.com/articles/s43...

Rock avalanche below Mt King George triggered by the 6 December 2025 Hubbard Glacier Earthquake. The runout distance is 1.4 km.

A sensational guest post by Derek Cronmiller, Theron Finley Panya Lipovsky and Jan Dettmer of the Yukon Geological Survey: Photos and Preliminary Observations from an Overview Flight of the 6 December 2025 Hubbard Glacier Earthquake, Yukon Territory, Canada.
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The graph shows Govt (pink) running near continous deficits - with a break in the early 2000s when Aussie households (blue) plunged deep into debt as they bid up the price of houses (partners in crime with NZ, Canada, UK, etc). Remember: Govts can only run budget surpluses if the country as a whole is running surpluses with the rest of the world (yellow) and/or the domestic private sector is piling deeper into debt (red/blue). Since 2008, the Aussie Govt has run large deficits and, in the first few cvid years, Aussie deficits were WAY bigger than NZ. Those Govt deficits, along with strong mineral exports (2019 - 2024), have given the Aussie economy a big boost. That's why our kids live there now. Those Govt deficits through the 2010s are why Aussie cities have nicer things. Meanwhile, in NZ, our dumbass commentariat are still fawning over the potential date for aGovt surplus. The UK, USA, Japan and loads of other advanced economies haven't run surpluses for 20+ years. All I want for Christmas is a sensible discussion about the *whole* economy - how we invest in our resilience, reduce our addiction to dirty fossil fuel imports, stop exporting the products of rampant ecocide. A discussion about we balance our economy with the rest of the world, with nature, and, restore the societal balance that we know will be better for all of us (and yet...).

Like many kiwis with grownup kids, I'm in Australia today! So, Happy Christmas to everyone who understands this graph!
An explanation / Christmas message in the ALT text x

Phreatic eruptions at Whakaari Volcano driven by hydrothermal mineralisation and magmatic gas input - Communications Earth & Environment Phreatic eruptions at Whakaari volcano are influenced by subsurface pressurisation magnitudes and timescales, which are significantly influenced by hydrothermal mineralisation and magmatic gas input rates, according to 3-dimensional numerical modelling of volcanic hydrothermal systems.

🌋Phreatic eruptions at Whakaari volcano are influenced by subsurface pressurisation magnitudes and timescales, which in turn are significantly influenced by hydrothermal mineralisation and magmatic gas input rates.

👉Read more here:
www.nature.com/articles/s43...

Consider submitting your #EGU26 abstract in the broad theme of #Landslides to our session of #NH3.6. We are among the continuous major landslide sessions during the meeting, and will continuously try to give more opportunities to #ECS researchers.

🧐 AI is good in preparing infographics by the way.

What's really going on with Canterbury's water

📢 Luis Arevalo fears his grandson will never be able to drink water straight from the tap because of the nitrate in the local water supply.

👉 Bot to check Bluesky account creation dates

My dad texted me that he ran into a now-retired professor in the department today, one of my favorite instructors. I can't stop thinking about how this must feel for someone like that, seeing the community you spent a whole career building get dissolved by administrators using faulty data.

Masters scholarship on the impacts of extreme climate events Applications are invited for a masters scholarship at the University of Canterbury on the impacts of extreme climate events for coastal systems and communities.

🚨 Scholarship alert! 🚨 Join us on a masters scholarship to work on the impacts of extreme climate events for coastal systems and communities → www.tepunahamatatini.ac.nz/posts/master...

Heartbreaking. The University of Nebraska will terminate its entire Earth science department.

One of the country's most successful and respected geology & climate programs: gone.

When ideologues & politicians are threatened by the very act of studying climate change, I wonder: who of us is next?

‘I love my country. I don’t want to leave’: readers reflect on the exodus from New Zealand As people continue to move away in record numbers, readers share their reasons for leaving and contemplate life in New Zealand

I never imagined this could be the case, but I identify with many of these sentiments. The until very recently "no. 8 wire, fix anything, she'll be right" country has made so many journalists redundant we now outsource local reporting to a foreign newspaper.

www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...

It still feels so unreal! Yesterday, we were awarded the "Nobel Prize" of Supercomputing, the ACM Gordon Bell Prize at #SC25 for our paper “Real-Time Bayesian Inference at Extreme Scale: A Digital Twin for Tsunami Early Warning Applied to the Cascadia Subduction Zone”: dl.acm.org/doi/full/10....

Expressions of Interest close on Friday! Make sure you get your applications in to join our PhD training course. A great way to meet other new PhD students in the field of geomorphology 🌍❄️💧🌊🌴

Water causes #rock to shift on the #Matterhorn: #SLF research on the Matterhorn shows how meltwater in #permafrost can lead to rock slope instability – a consequence of #climatechange.

More: www.slf.ch/en/news/wate...

📷️ Samuel Weber / SLF

📢We are hiring!

🌍 We currently have two open positions in #geoinformatics and #remotesensing - from fundamental PhD research to applied data science work. Details & application:
1.) karriere.plus.ac.at/en/jobs/9dae...
2.) karriere.plus.ac.at/de/jobs/d3a9...

#geomorphology #earthobservation #InSAR

The aftermath of the 25 October 2025 landslide at Kukas in PNG. Still from a video posted to Facebook by Ben Mcpitu.

On 31 October 2025, a landslide occurred at Kukas in Enga Province, Papua New Guinea, triggered by heavy rainfall at about 2 am. Reports indicate that at least 22 people were killed. This image, from Facebook, suggests that it occurred in a steep gully.
eos.org/thelandslide...

UTTERLY SURREAL LOW ANGLE GLACIER SLIDE!! 😮😱

On Saturday at 11:00 am, a 2 km-long, 25 m-high, and 150-200 m in width section detached off the Ismoil Somoni Glacier (Tajikistan) and slid down the gorge! 🧊🌊

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📽️ via @volcaholic1

Comic. [two connected spacecraft hovering in space above the Earth] Houston, the view is superb. We can see the continents spread out below us, right where they’ve been since the Earth formed. [caption] I still can’t believe we developed spaceflight before we figured out that the continents moved.

Continents

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New Zealand guts climate policy it bragged about on the world stage The law was once held up internationally as a model of transparency. The government just weakened it.

You know, there’s this pervasive view that people don’t care about climate change / are bored of it / find it overwhelming but I wrote this story this week and social media went crazy over it. People care!!!! They really care are they need a way to channel it www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...

CLaSH is seeking an Assistant Director to help lead an ambitious, interdisciplinary effort to transform the science of and advance community resilience for hazards like landslides and flooding. Apply by November 15th. See also csdms.colorado.edu/wiki/Jobs

We all know that squashing a rock makes it stiffer, but did you know water makes it softer?

We wondered what happens underground, where rock is both squashed AND wet?

TLDR: moisture dominates sandstone to >400m depth, and granite to >1000m depth!

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How over- and underrepresented are different causes of death in the media?

Another way to visualize this data is to measure how over- or underrepresented each cause is.

To do this, we calculate the ratio between a cause’s share of deaths and its share of news articles.

Scientists Finally Reveal Biological Basis of Long COVID Brain Fog Researchers employed a specialized brain imaging technique to identify a potential biomarker and therapeutic target for Long COVID. More than four years after the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, scien...

An example of how *not* to do a research findings article headline. By using "Scientists finally reveal", it sounds like scientists were holding back from telling the public something. I can't think of anything further from the truth.