Renewables are now the world's largest source of electricity – and the main source of new supplies

Scientists--if your funding was cut over the last year (for research on climate, global health, DEI, LGBTQ or womens health, etc) but you managed to keep the research going, I want to talk to you for an upcoming article! Plz contact me: gewin at me dot com. Re-posts appreciated!

There comes a point in every scientists life when they have to completely rewrite the cobbled together but working unholy combination of MATLAB, R, excel and GMT that they put together 12 years ago.

Comparing the UK heatwaves of June 1976 and June 2026... Daytime maximum & night minimum temperatures were much hotter in 2026. Details: maxima over 21st-30th June in both years. Uses provisional 2026 HadUK-Grid data from Met Office NCIC. Note the difference scale is larger for night minimums.

🚨Great opportunity to get involved with an IODP3 expedition to the North Sea in 2027! We’re especially looking for folks who do: -glacial sedimentology -macrofossils (esp molluscs) -OSL Those from 🇬🇧 🇫🇷 🇩🇪 🇳🇴 are particularly welcome to apply. Great opportunity! ⚒️🌍🧪 iodp3.org/special-call...

Special Call to Participate: Expedition 507: Late Cenozoic Glaciers, Landscapes, Climates, and Ecosystems of the North Sea - International Ocean Drilling Programme

Special Call to Participate in IODP3 Expedition 507: Late Cenozoic Glaciers, Landscapes, Climates, and Ecosystems of the North Sea now open! International Ocean Drilling Programme (IODP3) Expedition G...

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Steady as she goes! Yes we've done the easy bit. Yes policies are not in place to do the rest, but the UK has been doing ok at getting to Net Zero and we should talk about that more.

Josiah Mortimer@josiahmortimer.bsky.social · last mo.

Britain is more than halfway towards reaching Net Zero. Most people don't realise this, not least as the fossil-fuel fanatics want us to think achieving it is impossible. Via YouGov

The jaws of the energy transition are closing. In 2005 fossil fuels made two-thirds of the world's electricity. Today it's 57.4%, with clean power (renewables + nuclear) at 42.6%. Fossil share peaked around 2012 and keeps falling. More in Sunday's Substack: janrosenow.substack.com

📢 New Paper 📢 And because apparently I publish like buses we have another new paper out this week: UK37' is unaffected by IODP repository conditions doi.org/10.1016/j.or...

UK Higher Education is a slow motion disaster movie. And no one is coming to save us (or our students) from the decimation. We will look back on this period of destruction in the same way we look back at the Brexit vote. Oooops! I’m so done with this sector 😡 www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

University of Exeter in talks to cut about 150 members of staff

The university says it is consulting with colleagues over "limited and specific potential changes".

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"Please note that the University position is that it is not normally prepared to fund air conditioning of office spaces in alignment with the strategic objectives of financial sustainability and carbon management" @oubucu.bsky.social

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We need to see the law changed, so that employers and workers know when action must be taken to keep workers cooler and safer. Add your name. www.megaphone.org.uk/petitions/we...

📢 New Paper!📢 I was away at BOGS last week so did not notice this came out: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Enhanced marine burial of terrestrial organic carbon through the Palaeocene–Eocene Thermal Maximum - Nature Geoscience

The burial of terrestrially derived organic carbon in coastal marine sediments greatly increased during the Palaeocene–Eocene Thermal Maximum, probably helping to draw down a large portion of carbon r...

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OOOOH this is a great job. I know I know people who would be amazing at this. And lots of people who know someone who would be amazing at this. Send it to them! Exec Director of Science at the Natural Environment Research Council (part of @ukri.org). fa-evzn-.fa.ocs.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid...

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Executive Director of Science | NERC | Band X

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Oxford, the longest running continuous weather station in UK history, with temperature observations stretching back to 1815, has preliminarily broken its maximum temperature record for May yesterday by OVER 3ºC with a temperature of 33.7ºC. Unprecedented in its 211-year history.

Over the last few days @ukri.org have published/amended three calls that go against their own and sector EDI guidelines (that UKRI colleagues inputted into). I've vented about this on LinkedIn. www.linkedin.com/posts/activi...

Last month EPSRC launched a new EDI action plan. It states "Where feasible we commit to using funding opportunity pre-announcements or a published look ahead at funding opportunities coming up ...

Last month EPSRC launched a new EDI action plan. It states "Where feasible we commit to using funding opportunity pre-announcements or a published look ahead at funding opportunities coming up in th...

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🚨Internship opportunity 🚨 Do you have: 🌡️ an interest in climate change? ✍️ some experience of writing on a technical topic for a general audience? 🎙️ an interest in journalism and a commitment to the integrity of journalism? Apply for Carbon Brief’s internship here ⬇️ buff.ly/HbRlgbQ

Vacancy: Three-week summer journalism internship at Carbon Brief - Carbon Brief

Carbon Brief is offering an exciting opportunity for students, or recent graduates, to work with the team for three weeks this summer.

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A good cautionary tale for when someone claims that trusting data analysis done with an LLM is good because it’s “objective.” In this example, Copilot apparently decided to ignore the data it was given and just run with all the subconscious biases its (human-made) training data inevitably gave it.

Adam Kucharski@adamjkucharski.bsky.social · 3mo ago

"Based on the dataset you shared, US and UK responses differ mainly in tone, intensity, and wording style, even though they express similar emotional states" New post on what happened when I got Copilot to do some data analysis: kucharski.substack.com/p/real-signa...

Job alert: Director of Science @ Defra! Join my team in a critical science leadership role to ensure robust evidence underpins decisions on nature, climate, pollution, food & more. Apply if you enjoy solving big, complex challenges & want to make a real difference! www.linkedin.com/jobs/view/44...

Can we use bird puke to reconstruct past ice sheets? Yes! #Paleoclimate #IceSheets #geology www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Novel rock luminescence dating of snow petrel stomach-oil deposits from East Antarctica

The discovery of long-term accumulations of snow petrel stomach-oil deposits in Antarctica have provided an excellent opportunity to reconstruct chang…

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Political donations make a mockery of democracy, and the government's solutions are hopeless. Here's a really simple means of fixing it. This week's column. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Political donations are poison to our democracy – but there’s an easy antidote to that | George Monbiot

As revelations about Reform UK’s donors emerge, it’s clear that increasingly complex forms of patronage can’t be regulated effectively. We need a clean sweep, says columnist George Monbiot

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Great Britain's electricity grid hit 98.8% zero carbon during a 30-minute period on the afternoon of 22 April, @neso-energy.bsky.social says. Solar generation may (they're still checking) have hit a record 15 GW between 1200 and 1300 on 23 April, also.

It's a sunny+windy day in the UK and so the grid is running with only 1.5 % gas! grid.iamkate.com

The Department of Earth Sciences are seeking to appoint a Postdoctoral Research Assistant in Carbonate Mineralisation to join our thriving academic community 🌏 More details and apply now: www.earth.ox.ac.uk/vacancies

📍Heritage in High Places: Happy 90th to the beloved British Trig Point! C20 has submitted listing applications for the two most historically important examples: the first, at Cold Ashby in Nottinghamshire (1936) and the last, at Thorny Gale in Cumbria (1962). ➡️ c20society.org.uk/news/heritag...

'The length of the path isn't really the point. What makes it so special, says [Neil Constable, who led the project for Natural England], is that you can walk to the coast anywhere in England, turn left or right, and walk beside the sea for as long as you like.' www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

World's longest coastal path opens in England to the public

The King Charles coastal path will allow walkers right of access to the entire coast for the first time.

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New video just dropped from Ian Chapman @ukri.org youtu.be/Z1OcZl224qo

UKRI opportunities update from Professor Sir Ian Chapman

YouTube video by UK Research and Innovation

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Three buckets. 🪣🪣🪣 www.linkedin.com/posts/uk-res...

Today we're sharing an update from our Chief Executive, Professor Sir Ian Chapman, about our 2026-30 budget. The new approach sets out a clear direction for how we will deliver our mission… | UK ...

Today we're sharing an update from our Chief Executive, Professor Sir Ian Chapman, about our 2026-30 budget. The new approach sets out a clear direction for how we will deliver our mission to: 🔹Adva...

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It's always a priviledge to process at Open University graduations at the Barbican. Delighted to see the future of this brutalist masterpiece is secure.

C20 Society@c20society.bsky.social · 5mo ago

NEWS: Planning consent has just been granted for the £231 million Barbican Renewal Programme, following extensive consultation and the support of C20. The sensitive and conservation-led scheme will improve accessibility and reinstate key original design features. ➡️ c20society.org.uk/news/plans-a...

Good to have hard data confirming that this winter has been bleak as fuck in the midlands.

Met Office - weather and climate@metoffice.gov.uk · 5mo ago

Provisional Met Office stats show: Winter rainfall was among wettest on record (since 1836) - England = 8th wettest - Northern Ireland = 9th wettest - Southern England = 4th wettest - West Midlands, Cornwall & Leicestershire = wettest on record Details: www.metoffice.gov.uk/about-us/new...

Very cool map of historic floodplain meadows by @floodplainmead.bsky.social - giving insights into lost habitats and places that will need restoring if we're to become more climate resilient: floodplainmeadows.org.uk/discover/lea...

New paper out in Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology: We used Cenozoic-spanning marine sediments to determine whether archived grain-size sorted sediments can be resurrected for biomarker analysis. Great to see my first piece of PhD work published, available #openaccess: doi.org/10.1029/2025...

Evaluating the Reliability of Grain‐Size Sorting for Organic Biomarker Analysis

We investigate the potential of using grain-size sorted marine sediments for biomarker analysis GDGT distributions are consistent regardless of grain-size sorting, and fine-grained sediment fract...

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