New @theconversation.com article with Rhiannon Hawkins on the need for 1.3 billion disabled people to have formal representation at policy talks held by the UN’s climate change body, given people with disabilities are 2-4 times more likely to die or be injured in climate-related emergencies

UCL Warning Research Centre@uclwrc.bsky.social · 2mo ago

🔥 Hot off the press: new blog @uk.theconversation.com 'Three ways climate action can be more inclusive for 1.3 billion disabled people' who have no formal @UNFCCC representation 🔗 theconversation.com/three-ways-c... 💬 @ucl.ac.uk @unep.org @uclrdr.bsky.social @stsucl.bsky.social

🔥 Hot off the press: new blog @uk.theconversation.com 'Three ways climate action can be more inclusive for 1.3 billion disabled people' who have no formal @UNFCCC representation 🔗 theconversation.com/three-ways-c... 💬 @ucl.ac.uk @unep.org @uclrdr.bsky.social @stsucl.bsky.social

Three ways climate action can be more inclusive for 1.3 billion disabled people

How to place disabled people, who are some of the most vulnerable, at the centre of climate change negotiations.

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🚀 If you missed the @uclwrc.bsky.social recent launch of the UCL Warning Database launch event, you can watch it again on our YouTube Channel: www.youtube.com/watch?v=s74m... 🔗You can access the database free here: ucl-wrc.github.io/ucl-warning-...

Brilliant episode that I encourage all employers to listen to to help get the best of all their employees, neurodivergent or not: www.hidden20.org/podcast/perf...

E102: Hester & Kelly Grainger (Perfectly Autistic) — The Hidden 20%

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Anyone using the F-word 🤬 when reacting to a warning? Explore more via our latest blog 'F Words for Warning Reactions' 🔗 blogs.ucl.ac.uk/warning-rese...

Free hybrid launch of the UCL Warning Database (if attending in-person, it is @UCL) 4 March 2026, 1500-1600 UK Register www.ucl.ac.uk/mathematical... Join the @UCLWRC to launch the world’s first publicly available warning database, with a demo followed by a question-and-answer session

Launch Event: UCL Warning Database Launch

Join the UCL Warning Research Centre to launch the world’s first publicly available warning database, with a demo followed by a Q&A.

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Just 2 weeks to go until our next event! Join us online as we launch Santiago Zabala's latest book 'Signs from the Future: A philosophy of warnings'. 📅 26 November, 3.00PM GMT 💻 Online/Zoom - join from wherever you are in the world! ✏️ Book your free place now: www.ucl.ac.uk/mathematical...

Book launch: Signs from the Future. A Philosophy of Warnings by Santiago Zabala

Join the UCL Warning Research Centre as we host the launch of the latest book by Prof Santiago Zabala, ICREA Research Professor at Pompeu Fabra University, Barcelona Spain.

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Delighted to see two pieces in @NatureGeosci as part of the '40 years after the Armero tragedy’ special edition: Lessons from 40 years of communicating volcanic risk during crises lnkd.in/erQ5Tkkf & Towards effective institutional hazard management Q&A lnkd.in/e7MFKZMX @stsucl.bsky.social

📢New issue of TIBG📢 Transactions' September Issue features two interventions on environmental crisis & geographies of creativity, 21 papers, and two commentaries on the war in Ukraine. 22/25 pieces are #OpenAccess and available to read here⬇️ rgs-ibg.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/14755661...

New paper by @carinafearnley.bsky.social @ilankelman.bsky.social "From multi-hazard early warning systems (MHEWS) to all-vulnerability warning systems (AVWS)" in ‪@cp-iscience.bsky.social‬ free to download: www.cell.com/iscience/ful... @wmo-global.bsky.social @crews-initiative.bsky.social @ifrc.org

From multi-hazard early warning systems (MHEWS) to all-vulnerability warning systems (AVWS)

Earth sciences; Human geography; Social sciences

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#OpenAccess in TIBG: 'Mining an Anthropocene in Japan: On the making and work of geological imaginaries' by Deborah Dixon, @carinafearnley.bsky.social & @markpendleton.bsky.social doi.org/10.1111/tran... #geosky

Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers | RGS Journal | Wiley Online Library

This article addresses how the lithic and the drift might be reworked as an Anthropocene material outside of a chronostratigraphy. Revisiting the finding of a floating fern fossil at the Hashima mine...

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DRR Summer School, June 9 - 11, 2025, in Geneva, focused on 'CREATIVE RISK COMMUNICATION: CARRYING FORWARD THE LEGACY OF PABLO SUAREZ'. Come learn how to creatively & effectively communicate risk with a fantastic line up of speakers. Book now www.drrsummerschool.com 📢 🗣️ 🛜💡

DRR Summer School

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If you missed it earlier, I decided to launch the rebooted Eruptions a little early thanks to all the unrest near Santorini. Check out the preview newsletter (for free) and if you like it, subscribe! eruptions.beehiiv.com/p/eruptions-...

Eruptions Newsletter, Preview Edition: February 15, 2025

Things are busy in the Mediterranean.

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I'm rebooting Eruptions in a little over two weeks. This time it will be a weekly newsletter full of volcano news and views. I'll also have occasional updates if an eruption or unrest is getting attention between newsletters. Sign up now! Here are more of the details: eruptions.beehiiv.com/subscribe

Eruptions: Where It's Always Volcano Day

All about volcanoes ... and a whole of other stuff. Written by volcanologist and science writer Dr. Erik Klemetti Gonzalez.

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New paper 'Multi‑Hazard Early Warning Systems in the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction: Achievements, Gaps, and Future Directions' by Maryam Rokhideh @carinafearnley.bsky.social Mirianna Budimir in International Journal of Disaster Risk Science link.springer.com/article/10.1... #EW4All

Multi-Hazard Early Warning Systems in the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction: Achievements, Gaps, and Future Directions - International Journal of Disaster Risk Science

Bringing together global efforts to enhance the implementation of warnings in managing vulnerabilities, hazards, risks, and disasters is essential to saving lives and for long-term vulnerability reduc...

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Wishing all my wonderful Chinese colleagues and students a very happy new year, and prosperity for the year of the snake 🐍🌷

Day 20! 🎄🎄🎄 Prof @carinafearnley.bsky.social is reading the latest book by Ian Scoones on ’Navigating Uncertainty’ that "highlights how we need to change our modernist, controlling views on risk, and instead develop alternative approaches. Will experiment on 2025…!"

We have a new undergraduate brochure 🤓🤓🤓!! The brochure provides an overview of the field of STS and everything you need to know about our BSc Sociology & Politics of Science and BSc History & Philosophy of Science (alongside lots of other info about our department). www.ucl.ac.uk/sts/sites/st...

Brilliant! Thanks Molly Urquhart! Enjoy and you can download for free from alongside the other 1.18million downloads: link.springer.com/book/10.1007...

Observing the Volcano World

This open access book provides a comprehensive overview of volcanic crisis research and shows how volcano crises are managed in practice

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UCL Science and Technology Studies (STS)@stsucl.bsky.social · 2y ago

Day 4 of our nerd’s Advent Calendar!!! 🎄🎄🎄 PhD student, Molly Urquhart, has been reading Observing the Volcano World (ed. by @carinafearnley.bsky.social & others) “which explores how science, culture, and communities come together to understand and manage volcanic risks and crises around the world”.

For the opportunity to present at this celebration and have Professors Steven Shapin and Simon Schaffer respond to their work in conversation with Professor John Tresch, early career scholars are invited to send abstracts of max. 200 words. For more details go to: www.ucl.ac.uk/sts/news/202...

Interested in a PhD @uclwrc.bsky.social on 'Integrating weather & climate data to design effective, people-centred wildfire early warning systems in Latin America'? Apply at the Understanding Uncertainty to Reduce Climate Risks NERC Centre for Doctoral Training (UNRISK) unrisk-cdt.ac.uk #warnings

Calling abstracts for the @EuroGeosciences session: Novel Approaches for Early Warning Systems: from AI to trans-disciplinary approaches. Deadline 15th Jan 2025 13:00 CET, see more info at meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/EGU25/sessio... #EGU #Warnings #EW4All @uclrdr.bsky.social

💻 Join us for our upcoming webinar on 18 December at 10AM GMT as we commemorate 20 years since the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami. Book your free place to reflect on lessons identified and learned, while considering what future challenges remain. Register now: t.co/ECHA1yFNyG

Land Body Ecologies, a research network which I am privileged to be part of, has just launched a book: 'Stories of #Solastalgia' www.waterstones.com/book/stories...   #LBEStories #LandBodyEcologies #SolastalgiaStories #ClimateGrief #ClimateHope #ClimateInspiration #EcoGrief #EcoHope #EcoInspiration

Stories of Solastalgia by Land Body Ecologies | Waterstones

Buy Stories of Solastalgia by Land Body Ecologies from Waterstones today! Click and Collect from your local Waterstones or get FREE UK delivery on orders over £25.

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So, the Tampa Bay Rays might be moving out of Tampa. This might seem like a baseball problem, but it is actually directly connected to global climate change. I explore how we get here, starting with warm ocean surface temperatures in the Gulf of Mexico: www.discovermagazine.com/planet-earth...

How the Very Warm Temperature of the Gulf of Mexico Might Lead to the Tampa Bay Rays Moving Out of Town

It might seem like an odd connection, but the plight of the Tampa Bay Rays baseball team is directly connected to climate change.

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Really going to miss Zoe Ball on @bbcradio2bot.bsky.social breakfast show, she has been absolutely phenomenal and always a giggle to make mornings fun. Thanks for an amazing 6 years @zoetheball.bsky.social - enjoy the lie ins ❤️

Volcanoes once erupted on the far side of the moon www.bbc.com/news/article...

Moon's far side once had erupting volcanoes, scientists find

Volcanic rock, dating back billions of years, has been detected in the first samples collected from the mysterious "dark side".

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So delighted & honoured to be in today’s paper edition @EveningStandard as one of the 100 people shaping London as part of my work @uclwrc.bsky.social @stsucl.bsky.social #warningsmatter #EW4All