Catherine Duigan

"When the birds abandon you, you are truly on your own."

Voices from the Women's Peace Appeal: Kathleen Carpenter, Aberystwyth (1891-1970) - Cymru Global By Catherine Duigan, Professor (Hon.) of Environmental Science, Department of Geography and Earth Science, Aberystwyth University.  February 2024. Address: Bronsiriol, Brynymor Road, Aberystwyth. Of c...

As the daughter of a German migrant to #England, World #War One shaped the life and identity of Dr. Kathleen Carpenter @aberuni.bsky.social #Wales who signed the Welsh Women's #Peace Petition.
#IWD2026
#Wales #Rights #Justice #Action #Migration #Cymru #diversity 🇩🇪 #WW1
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Survivors of Ireland’s mother and baby homes face benefit cuts in UK after accepting compensation Exclusive: Campaigners urge Keir Starmer to back ‘Philomena’s Law’ to protect payments for up to 13,000 survivors living in Britain Survivors of Ireland’s mother and baby homes have started to have benefits cut in Britain because they accepted compensation from the Irish government. The cuts to the means-tested benefits of survivors in Britain come as campaigners including the actors Siobhán McSweeney and Steve Coogan called on Keir Starmer to back a bill known as Philomena’s Law, which would ringfence survivors’ benefits. Continue reading...

Survivors of Ireland’s mother and baby homes face benefit cuts in UK after accepting compensation

This satellite footage shows the days in early 2023 when the ice literally disappeared from beneath the feet of thousands of emperor penguins.

And here's the issue: they were likely moulting at the time.

Welcome to Marie Bryd Land, Antarctica...

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Happy #IWD2026!

Water access — or lack thereof — greatly impacts women & girls' available time around the world 🌎

See how your support for clean water helps to uplift women & girls👇

#InternationalWomensDay #GiveToGain

Kathleen Carpenter: the mother of freshwater ecology In this guest post for International Women’s Day, Dr. Catherine Duigan draws from her research on Dr. Kathleen Carpenter (1891-1970), the ‘mother’ of freshwater ecology, to sugges…

"Passion helps to inspire the next generation." - imagined advice from #international #freshwater #ecologist Dr. Kathleen Carpenter @aberuni.bsky.social
#IWD2026 #Wales #USA #Canada #ecology #rivers

@freshwaterblog.bsky.social @freshwaterbio.bsky.social
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Simple sketch of 4 female figures with identical clothes

Happy International Women's Day!
#GwenJohn
#AmgueddfaCymru
#IWD2026

#Wales #Cymru
#WelshArt
#SundayMorning
#singing
@cerysmatthews.bsky.social

Keep doing brilliant things to uplift women but please know that GiveToGain is not this year's UN #IWD2026 theme. It is entirely made-up by a private corporation with a flashy .com site. It profits yet no charitable contributions on accounts for the past 10yrs

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"I am not generally interested in considering women's rights in relation to equality with men, or in a competition with men, but rather within their own rights"
-Shirin Neshat
Iranian artist
#InternationalWomensDay

Stack of books about freshwater ecology.

Write a book, describe your time, give your knowledge to future generations - in excellent company with all these good #freshwater women on #WorldBookDay.

#Ireland #Wales #USA #ecology #GiveToGain #IWD2026 #envhist #RiversOfWales #limnology #lakes #pollution #booksky 🔬

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

Stack of books about freshwater ecology.

Write a book, describe your time, give your knowledge to future generations - in excellent company with all these good #freshwater women on #WorldBookDay.

#Ireland #Wales #USA #ecology #GiveToGain #IWD2026 #envhist #RiversOfWales #limnology #lakes #pollution #booksky 🔬

Spindly tree growing surrounded by water in Kenfig Pool, South Wales; alongside quote about the dynamics of life by Kathleen Carpenter.

"We lose our life to save it...."

Life in Inland Waters by Kathleen Carpenter @aberdlsagb.bsky.social 1928 - full of cultural references, wise advice & pioneering insights - the first British #freshwater #textbook.
@freshwaterbio.bsky.social
#WorldBookDay #ecology #Wales #nature #water #booksky

It was wonderful to have been part of this great adventure!

Historic moment for Welsh beavers | North Wales Wildlife Trust The Wildlife Trusts in Wales and Beaver Trust warmly welcome new Welsh Government legislation recognising the Eurasian beaver (Castor fiber) as a native species and granting it protected status – a ma...

Great news! From today the Eurasian #beaver is a protected species & recognised as a native species in Wales! 💚

Thank you @huwirrancadaviesms.bsky.social & @joycewatson.org.uk, our Species Champion for Beavers, for helping this day to become a reality!
🎉 @beaverafanc.bsky.social

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Small rough stone shop building with wide door and multipane display window outlined in light green; slate roof; squat chimney.

The ancient market and mill town of #Dolgellau - with #houses of solid #stone, stout #doors and a great variety of #windows.

#WednesdayWindows #Wales #architecture #wool 🐑 #textiles #flannel #geology #shop #windowswednesday #photography #travel #envhist

Beaver showing its orange teeth by Nick Upton/Cornwall Wildlife Trust

Did you know that beavers have orange teeth? 🦫

And no, it’s not because they don’t brush them! The enamel in their teeth actually contains iron which they get from their food and this gives them the strength to gnaw through wood. 🪵

Learn more 👉
www.northwaleswildlifetrust.org.uk/.../mammals/beaver

Under Salt Marsh - Cymru noir for the #anthropocene with many recognisable locations in North Wales.

Thanks for the Kind Words from @cduigan.bsky.social

Dappled sunlight through very clear water on stony streambed.

Words, walking, water - Great to see the strong environmental focus in upcoming celebrations of #Aberystwyth Ceredigion’s recognition as Wales’s first Dinas Llên / City of #Literature - come join us!
#rivers #environment #landscape #ecology #art #poetry #UNESCO
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#wildflowerhour

Dydd Gŵyl Dewi Hapus! Happy St David’s Day!

In celebration of the feast day of the patron saint of Wales, please enjoy these photos of daffodils outside and inside some of our churches in Wales.

📷 St Mary's, Penllech, Gwynedd

British ambassador Kara Owen: ‘There is one particular part of Ireland I’d always go to. It is beautiful’ Kara Owen: The British ambassador to Ireland on her strongest childhood memory, her favourite Irish restaurant, and the actor she would like to play her in a biopic of her life

More Irish than the Irish themselves?

Kara Owen, the British Ambassador to #Ireland, sounds right at home. 🍵
#diplomacy #UK #Britain

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Painting featuring a green field full of purple crocus flowers and yellow daffodils

'Crocus & Daffodils' by UK contemporary painter Susan Entwistle #WomensArt
#spring #March

Old Irish Goat carries 3,000 years of Irish history

🐐🧬 New research has revealed that the Old Irish Goat shares a 3,000-year genetic link with goats living in Ireland during the Late Bronze Age.

The findings suggest the rare indigenous breed represents a continuous Irish lineage stretching back millennia.

@gingerhowley.bsky.social

Thousands of dead puffins are washing up on Europe’s beaches – why it’s been such a dangerous winter for seabirds Seabirds are washing up on Europe’s beaches in large numbers after weeks of bad weather.

Seabirds are washing up on Europe’s beaches in large numbers after weeks of bad weather.

Screenshot of a Facebook message about the book Lighthouses of Wales

Have you got your copy yet? Order a signed copy of my book Lighthouses of Wales direct from me at: lighthouses.wales/lighthouses-...

“Plan of the river at Conway in the county of Caernarvon"

Map yn dangos Conwy cyn i pont crog Thomas Telford chael ei hadeiladu. Ar y map gallwch weld ynys 'Claimed by Sir Roger Mostyn Bart.' lle adeiladwyd tŵr gogleddol y bont

Dyddiad: cyn 1796 Most/7289

Painting of two birds interacting while perched on a tree branch, one above the other, one colourful, the other white

Sarah Stone (c. 1759–1844), pioneering English natural history painter, best known for her detailed 18th-century watercolours of exotic birds - the first British female painter of birds and animals to gain professional recognition #womensart

A heavy and complex #heritage - Amazing example of close connection between #environment, natural resources, #pollution and colonial history in #Wales.
#envhist #pb #lead #metal #mining #Romans #geology #AmgueddfaCymru #archaeology #history #Ceredigion #ingot 🐖

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