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Marc Jones

@marcehjones.bsky.social

Curator, fossil reptiles and amphibians, at Natural History Museum London UK. Honorary positions at UCL and University of Adelaide. #tuatara 🦎 #Cymraeg He/Him Orcid: 0000-0002-0146-9623

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Katharine Hayhoe@katharinehayhoe.com · 3w ago

Let's do some Canadian pipeline-wildfire math. The Canadian Energy Center says growing oil exports by 1.5M barrels/day **could** boost GDP by ~31B annually. Meanwhile, wildfire smoke health costs alone - just the health costs, nothing else - averaged 23B/year, past tense. And they're growing fast.

Ontario hardest hit as wildfires cost Canada billions | NOW Toronto

A new report estimates wildfire smoke has cost Canada $231 billion since 2014. See how much each province has spent.

nowtoronto.com

All Our Yesterdays@allouryesterdays.bsky.social · last mo.

July 7, 1979 – climate memo thwunks onto President Jimmy Carter’s desk "Release of Fossil CO2 and the Possibility of a Catastrophic Climate Change" allouryesterdays.info/2026/07/06/j...

July 7, 1979 - climate memo on Carter’s desk - All Our Yesterdays

Forty seven years ago, on this day, July  7th, 1979, a ,memo lands on President Jimmy Carter’s desk from his chief scientific adviser, Frank Press – https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/jun/14...

allouryesterdays.info

Jennifer C.A. Pistevos, Ph.D.@jennieacp.bsky.social · 3mo ago

This is a great project to be involved in, observing without disturbing. I will be soon heading to Crete to deploy our next and most southerly based system. Watch this space for more updates!

Bioboost+@bioboostplus.bsky.social · 3mo ago

New eyes under the sea in Alonissos Marine Park. The University of the Aegean BioBoost+ team, led by Prof. @skatsanevakis.bsky.social , has installed an underwater camera system & buoy at the Alonissos site. #MPA #MarineBiodiversity #MarineMonitoring #UnderwaterCamera #AegeanSea #MarineScience

Jennifer C.A. Pistevos, Ph.D.@jennieacp.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Great work from our BioBoost+ partners @azti.bsky.social This case study is a great example of where marine monitoring is heading: combining underwater imagery, AI tools, and expert ecological knowledge to make biodiversity assessments faster and more scalable. #MarineEcology

Bioboost+@bioboostplus.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Can AI help us monitor life on the seafloor? In this BioBoost+ case study, the AZTI team tested computer vision to detect and count benthic taxa from ROV videos in the south-eastern Bay of Biscay. #BioBoostPlus #AZTI @azti.bsky.social

Jennifer C.A. Pistevos, Ph.D.@jennieacp.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Seeing zooplankton sampling in a sub-Arctic fjord feels especially good on a hot summer day. Great work from our BioBoost+ partners at NORD & @ribas-deulofeu.bsky.social — another step forward in connecting long-term marine monitoring, new field sampling, digitisation, and AI-assisted analysis.

Bioboost+@bioboostplus.bsky.social · 2mo ago

NORD activity – Zooplankton sampling in Sub-Arctic Fjord (Mistfjorden). Earlier in the year there were perfect conditions for Dr. Ribas-Deulofeu @ribas-deulofeu.bsky.social to sample zooplankton in the sub-Arctic fjord Mistfjord (Norway). #MarineEcology #Bioboostplus #Biodiversa

All Our Yesterdays@allouryesterdays.bsky.social · 2mo ago

This from 1981 - "Whatever we do, it should be done fairly soon because these climate changes, once set in motion, are irreversible." Family Weekly was a very popular magazine, inserted into the Saturday editions of papers. The warnings were there. Oh well.

“For American farmers, the news is bad. They can expect hot, dry weather in the central and western states. The states of the farm belt will see year after year of sustained drought, with dust bowl conditions “According to the calculations of the climate experts, the temperature in the Antarctic will rise about eight to ten degrees F, which is enough to melt the West Antarctic ice sheet. The ice could raise the level of the world’s oceans by about 15 feet, flooding 25 percent of Louisiana and Florida and 10 percent of New Jersey. “...Only one-third of the man-made carbon dioxide in the atmosphere comes from America, but if we could control even that part, we would be able to postpone the heat catastrophe for a few decades - probably sufficient to find another technological fix. Whatever we do, it should be done fairly soon because these climate changes, once set in motion, are irreversible.
Union Jane@unionjane.bsky.social · 3mo ago

'The new plaque marks the site of the Battle of De Winton Field in Tonypandy, where on 11 June 1936 an estimated 6,000 anti-fascist demonstrators gathered to oppose a rally organised by representatives of Sir Oswald Mosley’s British Union of Fascists.' #Tonypandy #RhonddaCynonTaf #WelshHistory

NationCymru@nation.cymru · 3mo ago

A blue plaque is to be unveiled to commemorate a defining confrontation which helped halt the spread of fascism in Wales in the 1930s buff.ly/8ZrHDUe

Natalie Cooper@nhcooper123.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Excited to share our new paper in @methodsinecoevol.bsky.social on data and code archiving at @britishecologicalsociety.org journals. TL;DR: Data archiving rates are high, code archiving rates are low, documentation needs to be improved! besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.....

Data‐ and code‐archiving in the British Ecological Society journals: Present status and recommendations for future improvements

Data- and code-archiving are important components of open science, as both make research more transparent, reproducible, accountable and credible, allowing future researchers to build on previous ...

besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com

MetJam@metjam.co.uk · 3mo ago

34.8ºC at Kew Gardens breaks its May AND June records by OVER 4ºC for its May record set in 1922 and by 0.2ºC for its June record set in 1976. Unprecedented heat for the UK in late May, and likely to be bettered tomorrow. A rounded 35ºC temperature should not happen in May.

Spaghetti plot showing Kew and Kew Gardens temperatures since 1881 with May and June records highlighted at 30.3ºC in 1922 and 34.6ºC in 1976 respectively. 2026 is plotted as a thick red line that nearly exceeds 35ºC with a value of 34.8ºC.
Jan Rosenow@janrosenow.bsky.social · 2mo ago

JUST DROPPED: For years I thought industrial electrification potential was limited. How wrong I was. Engineering studies point to 90%+. Long term scenarios support this. Technology is much further ahead than we think. Question is whether policy keeps up. janrosenow.substack.com/p/industry-f...

Industry: from hard-to-abate to ready-to-electrify

How far can industry run on electricity?Much ffurther and faster than the 'hard-to-abate' label suggests.

janrosenow.substack.com

Yellow Dot Studios@yellowdotstudios.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Pew: Only 48% of Americans "believe" the scientific FACT that climate change is caused by human activity—a decline since 2019 & 2022 (as climate impacts have increased.) This is a massive indictment of news media, elected leaders, and the tech giants that facilitate the spread of disinformation.

Americans Are Still Skeptical Humans Are Causing Climate Change

Scientists have reached a consensus that human behavior is a big driver of climate change—but Americans aren't buying it.

forbes.com

Natural History Museum, London@nhm-london.bsky.social · 3mo ago

The palaeontologist Mary Anning was born on this day 227 years ago! In our Fossil Marine Reptiles Gallery, you’ll find some of Mary Anning's spectacular finds, including her ichthyosaur, plesiosaur and pterosaur. Much like they did two centuries ago, her discoveries continue to intrigue us today.🦴

An illustration of a woman with brown hair tied back, wearing a green overcoat and bonnet, with a dog sleeping next to her.