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Passionate about science, wilderness, and nature photography, love travel in wild places.

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Mongabay@mongabay.com · 8mo ago

Jeff Foott came from a generation that learned the outdoors through work, science and rescue rather than career ambition. Trained as a marine biologist, he turned to film and photography to show what was at risk. His images favored clarity over spectacle, letting the work speak for change.

Jeff Foott, chronicler of ice, rock, and change, has died, aged 80

For much of the second half of the 20th century, the American outdoors attracted a particular kind of devotee. They moved easily between disciplines, took seasonal work without much concern for…

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Sarah Murphy@13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 8mo ago

It’s exactly this kind of dismal, prejudiced bollox from the Daily Mail that’s got us into the ruinous Brexit mess we’re in. What a moronic response to us rejoining Erasmus and all the benefits that brings. If they’re really worried about cost, they should push to cancel Brexit altogether.

Daily Mail headline £6BN COST OF STARMER'S NEW BID TO SUCK UP TO BRUSSELSIndependent headline 25 November 2025 Brexit costing UK up to £90bn in lost tax revenue a year, new analysis shows Exclusive: Britons also up to £3,700 worse off, leading to calls for the Labour government to improve relations with the EU
Tim Nicholson@timnicholson.bsky.social · 2y ago

Nice review of the history of the peer review system It’s increasingly clear to me this has to change - experts should be paid by journals to do this key task that adds rigour & value to scientific publications Journals have exploited academics & universities to make massive profits for too long

Abhimanyu Mahajan@amahajanmd.bsky.social · 2y ago

History of the “peer review”: advisors, gatekeepers or neither? “..the “referee system” did not exist before the nineteenth century and the term “peer review” was a creation of the late twentieth century.” Credit for sharing @jbcarmody.bsky.social Link: ethos.lps.library.cmu.edu/article/19/g...

Yadvinder Malhi@ymalhi.bsky.social · 2y ago

There are many ways in which the potential marriage of the goals tackling climate change and restoring biodiversity is a good thing. But also real dangers of an abusive relationship if biodiversity is subordinated to an overpowering drive for carbon sequestration and biofuels.

The climate and biodiversity crises are entwined, but we risk pitting one against the other

In our race to cool the planet, we must not compromise the ecosystems on which we depend.

theconversation.com

Sarah Boon@snowhydro.bsky.social · 2y ago

My book, Meltdown: The Making and Breaking of a Field Scientist, comes out in June 2025! Pre-order here! watershednotes.ca/sarah_boon_b...

Forthcoming Book

Meltdown: The Making and Breaking of a Field Scientist tells the behind-the-scenes story of my field research adventures in snow and ice science, traversing gla

watershednotes.ca

David M. Perry@lollardfish.bsky.social · 2y ago

Welcome to Bluesky. If you're a writer, don't forget to TELL US ALL ABOUT YOUR BOOK!

Yadvinder Malhi@ymalhi.bsky.social · 2y ago

Good summary of the just released 2024 Global Carbon Budget, by @carbonbrief.org . Fossil fuel emissions still increasing slightly, land use change emissions decreasing steadily but big uptick from fires in the Americas. www.carbonbrief.org/analysis-glo...

Analysis: Global CO2 emissions will reach new high in 2024 despite slower growth - Carbon Brief

Carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions from fossil fuels and cement will rise around 0.8% in 2024, reaching a record 37.4bn tonnes of CO2 (GtCO2)

carbonbrief.org