Short-sighted, stupid cuts to the UKRI budget include shutting down Jodrell Bank, the icon of British astronomy. (Many other cuts too, including 20% to our brand new @vrubinobs.bsky.social). Interesting politically to shut down a major facility in...um..Manchester 🔭 www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Jodrell Bank's Lovell telescope faces axe in science cuts, BBC understands

Astronomers warn it would tear the heart out of UK science, and leave a generation untrained.

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Can commercial funding fill a hole of £42 million a year in the finances of some of the United Kingdom’s flagship science laboratories and facilities? go.nature.com/4bcxRjL

The existential choice facing UK physics facilities: commercialize or close

The national synchrotron source, a laser facility and a particle accelerator are under threat of closure unless cash is found.

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The 13 biggest myths about heatwaves – and how to bust them Every heatwave and every summer is hotter than it would otherwise have been without past greenhouse gas emissions, primarily from burning fossil fuels. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

The 13 biggest myths about heatwaves – and how to bust them

With some still unable to accept humanity’s role in climate chaos, we tackle common misconceptions and deceptions

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🔥 Call for abstracts: AGU26 GC057 — Fire Representations in Earth System Models and New Frontiers in Observations. We welcome work on fire processes, ESMs, land–atmosphere feedbacks, human dimensions, benchmarking, and observations. Submit: agu.confex.com/agu/agu26/pr...

++BREAKING++ Leading climate scientists in the UK have written to senior editors in broadcast media - and OFCOM and IPSO: "To express our concern about recent media coverage of extreme weather, climate change and net-zero and to urge you…to inform public audiences of the scientific links"

So, people of Reading, did you struggle to sleep last night? It was the warmest night on record for the town. The minimum (20.9°C) was warmer than typical June daytime maximum temperatures. Burning fossil fuels has made this heatwave hotter than it would have been without those emissions.

Remember kids - this is one of the coolest summers of the rest of your life.

One of the UK’s leading experts on weather and flooding, Professor Hannah Cloke OBE, has been appointed Regius Professor of Meteorology & Climate at the University of Reading. The title of Regius Professor was awarded to University of Reading by the Queen in 2013. www.reading.ac.uk/news/2026/Un...

Losing it and taping tinfoil to all my windows.

Heard about El Niño? Here's 6 things to know ⤵️

🌱 Tree roots are leaking carbon into the soil right now and we still don't fully understand why! 🚨 doi.org/10.1111/1365... New paper out in Functional Ecology. we measured root carbon exudation across 11 tree species. Some trees release twice as much carbon as others! 🍄🌲 👇

Spiralling global temperatures (1850-2026) It is exactly 10 years since I first put this animated graphic of changes in global temperature online. #ClimateSpiral It instantly went viral. People watched it over and over again. It still offers the power to shock a decade on.

🎉 What a timing! Right before the #AccelerateEU comm proposing an electrification target came out, our new study was published in Nature Communications, showing that electrification is not just an option—it’s at the core for the EU to meet its 2040 climate targets! www.nature.com/articles/s41...

2040 greenhouse gas reduction targets and energy transitions in line with the EU Green Deal - Nature Communications

This study explores the EU’s 2040 climate target. Analysis of over 300 scenarios shows that an 80–93% emissions cut by 2040 (central estimate 86%) is cost efficient, requiring rapid wind and solar exp...

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The world is warming. Every country is warming. www.ShowYourStripes.info #ShowYourStripes

Great to be partnering with National Garden Scheme on The Big British Garden Survey to reveal the wildlife thriving in our gardens 🦋🐞. Record what you see and help build a national picture of UK #biodiversity. Join in: ngs.org.uk/the-big-brit... 🧪 @abigaillowe.bsky.social

🌱Our partners from @ukceh.bsky.social and the National Garden Scheme invite citizens to discover and record the wildlife in their own gardens in the #BigBritishGardenSurvey Learn more 👉https://www.ceh.ac.uk/news-and-media/news/building-picture-wildlife-our-gardens

Building a picture of wildlife in our gardens

UKCEH scientists are working with the National Garden Scheme on the Big British Garden Survey. This project encourages everyone to discover and record the wildlife visiting their gardens using simple ...

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If you don't want GitHub Copilot trained on your code, you've been automatically opted in. You have until April 24th to opt out.

Working with hydrological data? We want to help improve access to hydrological datasets through the Floods and Droughts Research Infrastructure digital platform! Join our feedback session on notebook-based access to FDRI's gridded time series data with Python & R. 🧪 Sign up: tinyurl.com/4ya8xuj8

This should be the biggest weather and climate news on your radar today. You can send an email today to say why dismantling NCAR is a bad idea for everyone: NSF_NCAR@nsf.gov

Trump Administration Readies Plans to Dismantle Renowned Science Lab

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The decision by @ukri.org to scrap the UK's flying atmospheric laboratory (FAAM) after spending >£40M on an upgrade & with zero consultation, is short sighted. FAAM has saved the UK economy more than it costs through responding to disasters. 400 scientists respond: www.thetimes.com/article/406e...

Scientists up in arms as flying lab has its wings clipped

Faam, the airborne laboratory deployed after the eruption of an Icelandic volcano shut airspace in 2010, will be grounded after government funding was cut

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💦 Sign up for the National River Flow Archive's 2-part webinar series: Exploring the UK’s hydrological data archives and tools Learn about the data systems that underpin research, water resource management & environmental decision‑making across the country 🔗

Upcoming webinar series: Exploring the UK’s hydrological data archives and tools | National River Flow Archive

The Surface and Groundwater Archives (SAGA) Committee is pleased to announce a two-part webinar series  designed to showcase the UK’s most important hydrological data archives, monitoring programmes, and forecasting tools. Together, these sessions will offer valuable insight into the data systems...

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Great opportunity for students and professionals looking to strengthen their skills in hydroclimate data and science via hands-on training 👇 Applications are now open for the free online UKCEH Summer School (13–16 July 2026): hydro-jules.org/data-driven-... #Hydroclimate #DataScience #SummerSchool

Today I want to talk about Jess’ Rule and Martha’s Rule, two new initiatives across NHS England that I think are really important and you should know about. Tl;dr: if your symptoms are not improving or getting worse, at home or in hospital, you have the right and Drs the responsibility to review.

👇🏻What the far right say about Muslims, immigrants and asylum seekers, they said 100 years ago about my grandparents.

George Monbiot@georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 5mo ago

The precedent is eerily, chillingly precise. What the current Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood is doing to immigrants and refugees today is almost a carbon copy of what Sir William Joynson-Hicks was doing 100 years ago. And that's not a good thing. My column. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

I have to do Career Day at my kids' school, what's a good way to teach them about science? I was thinking of giving them a fun activity and then making them fill out a lot of paperwork before abruptly canceling it

NEW: A key finding about how intense thunderstorms develop could help improve the certainty about the location of upcoming storms on hot days 🌩️ #EarlyWarnings See our news: www.ceh.ac.uk/press/thunde... 🧪 1/

My poster is now up and will be there until Friday! I’ll be presenting Thursday 4-6pm, come and hear about how we can use seasonal forecasts to diagnose coupled climate model errors #OSM26

📢 Applications open soon for a FREE online course on Data-driven Approaches to Hydrological Science. Running in July, this is for postgrad students, ECRs and professionals in consultancies, monitoring agencies & related industries seeking to strengthen skills. 🧪 hydro-jules.org/data-driven-...

📣 2026 Student Summer Internships are OPEN for applications! We’re recruiting SEVEN interns across our National Capability programmes at our Bangor, Lancaster & Wallingford sites. Superb opportunity for hands-on experience in environmental science & applied research. Details ⬇️ 1/

🌍 @ukceh.bsky.social Summer Internships 2026 🌍 Fully funded six‑week internships running 22Jun – 31Jul. Learn more and apply: #NC-UK: www.ceh.ac.uk/our-science/... #Hydro-JULES: hydro-jules.org/hydro-jules-... Applications close 25 Mar 2026. #Internship #ECR #STEMCareers #EnvironmentalResearch