🧪⚒️ <1 wk left to sign up for the EQUATOR 2.0 Mentoring Network, which is ringfenced for Black, Asian and minority ethnic students in Geography, Earth, & Environmental Sciences in the UK. Professionals and/or academic mentors especially needed! equatorresearchgroup.wordpress.com/mentoring-ne...

Mentoring Network 2.0

We are delighted to announce the EQUATOR 2.0 Mentoring Network, which will take place from January 2024 to May 2024. This mentoring programme is ringfenced for Black, Asian and minority ethnic student...

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..."in the end, the climate crisis is not about pledges, statistics, reports or activists. It’s about human suffering and ruined lives. It’s about death." #GreenSky #Climatecrisis 🧪⚒️ www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

At Cop28 it feels as if humanity’s shared lifeboat is sinking. There are only hours left to act | ...

Leaders and activists must fight to the end in Dubai to stop vested interests sabotaging progress on fossil fuel phase-out and adaptation, says climate activist Vanessa Nakate

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I'm not good at being off sick. Luckily, I have a companion who makes lounging look good.

"Rather than listening to reason or scientific fact, the UK government continues to hand out contracts for oil exploration in the name of false ‘energy security’ while steering the UK towards authoritarianism" 🧪⚒️ www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Actors and academics criticise UK over climate ‘madness’ and limits on protest

Letter says government pushing ahead with new fossil fuel projects while criminalising activists who raise alarm

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"We have to put class and the studies of inequality between social classes right at the centre of our analyses of environmental challenges in general" 🧪⚒️ amp.theguardian.com/environment/...

Your regular reminder that "Scaling CCS does not mean business-as-usual for the fossil fuel industry" ETC will be releasing a pre-COP28 report on Fossil Fuels in Transition this week, but for now they published a blog post: www.energy-transitions.org/bitesize/car...

"..the Anishinaabe people have been monitoring anthropogenic climate change long before it was a regular topic of public discussion" Native Science is real Science. www.bbc.com/future/artic... 🧪⚒️ #GreenSky

Climate scientists are working with indigenous tribes

Native peoples have long collected environmental data. Now scientists are cataloguing these observations and learning how they're affecting indigenous communities globally.

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Feel so privileged to work with students from a range of backgrounds, all with different ideas, different experiences, different hope and dreams. Every day, no matter what is happening in academia, it is the teaching that challenges, that satisfies, that lifts me up. #AcademicSky ⚒️🧪

Taking Geographers to a classic geology field location and having great conversations about rocks and what they tell us about paleoenvironments and landscape evolution makes me very happy 😍 🧪⚒️ Very positive way to end the week! #LoveGeoscience

When you go past your field site for the day on the train into work, and all looks beautiful and calm in the morning light... but you know full well that the weather forecast says it will rain cats and dogs on you and your coachload of geography students when you return later today 🤩🫣🤔😫 🧪⚒️

Thanks to the contributors to this piece, which was sparked by an interview with a professor who reflected that her role models had all been men. Now, UK geosci undergrad recruitment is balanced between men & women- but these perspectives show we still have a long way to go 👩🏽‍🔬🧪⚒️ #AcademicSky

Geoscience for the Future@geoforthefuture.bsky.social · 3y ago

Did this *really* happen?! New blog alert- This month, we are discussing sexism in Geoscience, through a series of anonymous perspectives and with reflections from the Did This Really Happen cartoon team 🙏 We hope the piece sparks conversations- we still have a long way to go. ⚒️🧪👩🏽‍🔬 bit.ly/3QFlK51

This is the kind of article that may get missed, but its very important. Council trials 4 day working week, with evidenced results of improved health, improved recruitment, improved retention, performance maintained or improved... Of course, they are told to stop it. www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-engl...

Government says council's four-day week should end - BBC News

Councils pursuing a four-day working week are "on notice", says the government.

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Nemi Walding@nemiwalding.bsky.social · 3y ago

My first paper is now out!! “Cohesional behaviours in Pyroclastic material and the implications for deposit architecture” 🌋 Thank you so much to my *incredible* supervisory team and the enthusiastic and thorough reviews from the Editor and 2 reviewers link.springer.com/article/10.1...

🧪⚒️"When African people get to choose, we choose renewables. But will rich countries finally allow us to determine our own future? They need to meet us halfway instead of tying our hands behind our back with gas pipelines" Excellent piece by Vanessa Nakate: www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Rich countries should stop pushing fossil fuels on Africa – don’t we deserve a renewable future ...

Those who caused the climate crisis should help Africa harness its wind and sun, says Vanessa Nakate, a UN Unicef goodwill ambassador climate activist

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After a long period of being devastated by the news, and feeling completely helpless at the scale of political horror and turmoil around the world, this morning in the UK I woke up to a glimpse of hope... a glimpse of change... and many of us are so, so ready for it 🌟 www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/uk...

Mid Bedfordshire and Tamworth latest: Labour overturns majorities in by-election wins - BBC News

Sir Keir Starmer hails victories in Tamworth and Mid Bedfordshire, saying people "want change".

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This week, I'm running the first teaching labs on our new flume here at SHU!🤩 Hope the students enjoy exploring the world of analogue pyroclastic density current modelling, and having a go at designing an experiment! #TeamCatastrophicFlows @volcanologist.bsky.social @pyroclasticpete.bsky.social 🧪⚒️

When you listen back to a live interview in relief that you managed not to massively mess up... 🤣 promoting our undergraduate degree was exhilarating! We are SO passionate about our new course - Climate, Sustainability and Environmental Management! This photo shows nervous pre-interview smiles! 🌱⚒️🌍🧪

Listening to Sufjan Stevens on way to first open day of the year, trying to get into a zen frame of mind... Recruitment feels like an existential crisis in UK #AcademiaSky at the moment. We want to teach, inspire, innovate, but spend a lot of time worrying about numbers & future of our courses 🧪⚒️

From writer Simon Heywood 🌱⚒️🌱🌳

Please sign this important letter. So many people are doing amazing work to make science equitable and accessible for all. The UK government's increasingly worrying rhetoric is very harmful, not just to marginalised groups in science, but to science & society more broadly 👇👇🧪⚒️

Prof Chris Jackson@seismatters.bsky.social · 3y ago

✉️ Some science 🧪 buddies and I have written an open letter to the UK government, strongly opposing their “kicking woke ideology out of science” sentiments, which stand to damage the UK’s scientific standing and ability to deliver for public good. Please read and consider signing ✍🏻 t.co/H7rNzb0wGh

✉️ Some science 🧪 buddies and I have written an open letter to the UK government, strongly opposing their “kicking woke ideology out of science” sentiments, which stand to damage the UK’s scientific standing and ability to deliver for public good. Please read and consider signing ✍🏻 t.co/H7rNzb0wGh

Letter to Secretary of State re EDI in science

Online survey BOS

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After an intense 2 weeks of student admin and teaching, have just had an awesome research afternoon, first of all in discussions around a 🌋paper that I'm so glad is finally being written up, and then on volcanoes, poetry, myth and music, with an awesome new collaborative team. Very exciting! 🧪⚒️🌋🎶

The second life of wind turbines 🔌💡 www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scot...

I love this blog so much, not only because I love volcanoes and am super interested in all things related to disaster risk reduction, but also because of the community-centred, international partnership approach of this project 🤝🌋🧪⚒️

Geoscience for the Future@geoforthefuture.bsky.social · 3y ago

Check out our latest blog! 🧪⚒️🎮🌋 Agnessa Spanellis talks gaming and geohazards- Find out how universities in the UK & Indonesia worked together with local communities to create a disaster risk reduction game for those living in the shadow of Merapi! geoscienceforthefuture.com/gaming-and-g...

@geoforthefuture.bsky.social IS HERE!!! ⚒️🧪⚒️🧪⚒️🧪⚒️🧪⚒️ 💚🩵🌏💚🩵🌏💚🩵🌏 💡Follow them for awesome stories of Geoscience doing amazing things for a brighter world💡

Geoscience for the Future@geoforthefuture.bsky.social · 3y ago

We are so excited to be here on Bluesky! Our mission is to (1) showcase stories of fantastic Geoscience for a better world (2) connect teachers with geos across the world to facilitate ⚒️ outreach and (3) advocate for equity and inclusion in Geoscience, & showcase work of diverse geoscientists!

🚨Last week was 1.9C hotter than pre-industrial temperatures, the biggest anomaly ever recorded www.carbonbrief.org/debriefed-29...

Absolutely loved reading this article about Dr Jess Wade, who gives me hope for the future of academia! 🌟 #WomeninSTEM #AcademicSky 🧪 amp.theguardian.com/science/2023...

Just had a 🌟 weekend catching up with friends from my ⚒️ undergraduate 20 years ago. Me in HE, one in secondary teaching, one in a company. Three v.different experiences, but clear that secondary is toughest gig. Teachers leaving in droves, understaffed, undersupported. UK system seems broken #EduSky

Puffball mushrooms, like these I found on my walk today, are of the genus lycoperdon, which is a word composed of lyco- meaning wolf, and -perdon meaning fart. Wolf-fart mushrooms are their SCIENCE name. This factoid will nestle your brain until you repeat it to someone someday. You’re welcome

The Yellowstone landscape at dawn. Such an amazing place with areas where steam is constantly venting. It truly gives you a sense of traveling around on a giant volcano. 🧪🌿 Yellowstone National Park