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📣 We're hiring a Professor of Physical Geography 📣 We’re looking for an outstanding physical geographer or environmental scientist who combines scholarly distinction with a collaborative, creative and ambitious approach. Closing date: 22/09/2026 Apply now: www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DSM837/p...

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If you can be fined £500 for a coffee cup, what’s the fine for spilling 1 billion nurdles in the River Tyne? www.theguardian.com/money/2026/a...

I was fined £500 after putting a coffee cup in a rubbish bag next to a full bin

Reader expresses consternation after enforcement officer issues penalty notice outside station in London

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I quit Amazon a while ago, and have to say, it's made zero difference to my life. Unlike when it was set up, many places now to fast, free delivery, or easy pick up - thanks Argos - and there's loads of rubbish on Amazon anyway. There's plenty of streaming TV and music on other subscriptions.

Movies Silently@moviessilently.bsky.social · yesterday

A reminder: If you absolutely cannot boycott Amazon, don’t. But can you make them NOT your default? If every Amazon customer cut their spending by just 10%, Bezos would burst his facelift sutures. This doesn’t have to be an all or nothing.

The Lead Authors working on sea-level and coastal content encourage sea-level scientists and coastal adaptation practitioners to sign up as expert reviewers and to review content that is relevant to them, both with respect to the scientific content and to how it is communicated. 1/2

IPCC@ipcc.bsky.social · yesterday

📣 Registration is now open for experts to review the First Order Draft of the Working Group I contribution to IPCC’s Seventh Assessment Report. Interested experts can register until 25 Sept 2026 🔗 https://bit.ly/4vi25cq The review starts 10 August until 2 October. More 🔗 https://bit.ly/WGI7Fod

Spent a couple of hours recently clearing up the nurdles spilled in the river Tyne. If you can spare even a few minutes to help, come down to the beach. Every nurdle swept up is one less in the marine environment!

🚨New article🚨 on AntarcticGlaciers: President Trump and the Quest for Greenland, by @klausdodds.bsky.social www.antarcticglaciers.org/glaciers-and...

President Donald Trump and the quest for Greenland - AntarcticGlaciers.org

Prof. Klaus Dodds writes about the current geopolitical situation between Greenland and the USA, and why Trump wants to buy Greenland.

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I considered the AntarcticGlaciers website a go-to mainstay when I was the science editor of NASA's Global Climate Change website.

If you're interesting in science blogging stats, or just want to have a nosey about my website statistics, the activity report for the year to July 2026 is now up on AntarcticGlaciers: www.antarcticglaciers.org/2026/07/webs... Many thanks to all who contributed to, visited or linked to the cite!

Website updates and metrics in year to July 2026 - AntarcticGlaciers.org

This is an activity report for AntarcticGlaciers.org in the 12 months to July 2026. This information may be useful for those thinking about online science communication websites. See also: Highlights ...

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I’ve had a peer reviewer state that the authors didn’t understand ‘basic glaciology’

Dr. Jessie Christiansen@aussiastronomer.bsky.social · last wk.

When my (now tenured, somewhat decorated, multiple-society-fellowed) husband was interviewing for faculty jobs, a senior astronomer at a prestigious institution told him ‘I just don’t think of what you do* as science.’ He didn’t get that offer. 😂🫠 *At that point, largely numerical simulations.

🚨New article🚨 by Dingyu Xuan on glacier-wetland hydrological connections in Peru. What happens to the wetlands when the glaciers disappear? www.antarcticglaciers.org/andes-water-...

How hydrological connections shape high-mountain wetlands - AntarcticGlaciers.org

By Dingyu Xuan Are glaciers the lifeline of high-mountain wetlands? High-mountain wetlands are essential yet vulnerable ecosystems. They support local communities, regulate water supplies, and sustain...

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Lots of exciting new content recently added to AntarcticGlaciers, written both by myself and by my talented guest contributors. Take a look at Newest Content to see if you've missed anything: www.antarcticglaciers.org/newest-conte...

Newest Content - AntarcticGlaciers.org

Jump to Site Map Most Recent Webpages Most Recent Blogposts Latest Comments

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Glaciers are beautiful, and important, and we should fight to keep them. www.antarcticglaciers.org/glaciers-and...

Why are glaciers important? - AntarcticGlaciers.org

Why are glaciers important? They provide many societally relevant services and their loss would negatively impact communities worldwide.

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If you'd like to write a post, perhaps about your favourite ice stream, then please get in touch.

Bethan Davies@iceybethan.bsky.social · 2w ago

A nice short new article on Greenland's outlet glaciers: www.antarcticglaciers.org/glaciers-and... #AntarcticGlaciers #GreenlandGlaciers #ChangingGlaciers

A nice short new article on Greenland's outlet glaciers: www.antarcticglaciers.org/glaciers-and... #AntarcticGlaciers #GreenlandGlaciers #ChangingGlaciers

Greenland’s outlet glaciers - AntarcticGlaciers.org

Greenland is drained by ~280 outlet glaciers, but ice discharge is dominated by a small number of very large outlet glaciers.

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Why must mandatory training mean watching videos where the narrator very slowly reads the text off a screen. I hate watching videos. It's so frustratingly slow. I read fast. I'd much rather read text and then answer the multiple choice questions.

Never before has a politician announced their intention to run for re-election on an explicitly pro-sleaze, anti-transparency ticket. Never before has a politician gloried in having enriched themselves by breaking the rules, and then demanded a mandate to continue doing so indefinitely

Nigel Farage’s 'Pro-Sleaze' By-Election Is A Sign Of Terminal Weakness

The Reform leader's desperate decision to call a back-me-or-sack-me by-election is a sign of a politician who knows he is finally being exposed for the man he really is, argues Adam Bienkov

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Nothing says 'man of the people' quite like a politician calling a by-election at public expense on the issue of whether or not he should have the right to secretly take donations from Thai-based crypto billionaires and a convicted fraudster

Microstructures, anisotropy, and ice flow. Mineralogy and the ductile part of structural geology, but with ice.

Bethan Davies@iceybethan.bsky.social · 4w ago

How does the ice in a glacier deform? 🚨 New article 🚨 on Antarctic Glaciers by Tamara Gerber: www.antarcticglaciers.org/glacier-proc...

How does the ice in a glacier deform? 🚨 New article 🚨 on Antarctic Glaciers by Tamara Gerber: www.antarcticglaciers.org/glacier-proc...

Anisotropy of Glaciers and Ice sheets - AntarcticGlaciers.org

How easily ice deforms depends on the arrangement of the ice crystals. When crystals become aligned, ice behaves differently depending on direction.

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We are nearly done with the first order draft of the IPCC AR7 report (working group 1). Register to review our work and provide feedback!

IPCC@ipcc.bsky.social · last mo.

📣 IPCC opens registration for experts to review the First Order Draft of Working Group I contribution to Seventh Assessment Report. The review runs from 10 August until 2 October. Interested experts can register until 25 Sept 2026: https://bit.ly/4vi25cq Read more 🔗 https://bit.ly/WGI7Fod

Registration is now open for the UK Antarctic Science meeting which will be hosted by Durham Geography in September. The deadline for registration and abstract submissions is Monday 27th July. Link for both processes are below. Conference link: lnkd.in/etW9fmMM

Unfortunately there are a number of people with vested / commercial / financial interests in planetary geoengineering who would be only too happy to use the weakening of emissions targets to justify the hugely expensive governmental contracts for geoengineering.

Andrew Hunter Murray@andrewhunterm.bsky.social · last mo.

Anyone suggesting the scrapping/weakening of emissions targets should be asked to present their alternative plan to stabilise the climate and stop things getting hotter. They won't have one.

Geoengineering won’t save our ice sheets and glaciers. Only swift action to reduce carbon emissions will be effective. www.antarcticglaciers.org/glaciers-and...

Can we ‘preserve’ glaciers with geoengineering? - AntarcticGlaciers.org

Glacier geoengineering can be effective at reducing melt at small, local scales, but has significant environmental, governance and financial costs

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Bethan Davies@iceybethan.bsky.social · last mo.

What on earth is an ‘Arctic ice cap’? And I would dispute that an ‘increasing number’ of scientists think we should deploy geoengineering. It’s still a minority view among climate scientists @theguardian.com www.theguardian.com/environment/...

What on earth is an ‘Arctic ice cap’? And I would dispute that an ‘increasing number’ of scientists think we should deploy geoengineering. It’s still a minority view among climate scientists @theguardian.com www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Bomb the Arctic, dam the Mediterranean and build a second moon: five outlandish plans to remodel our climate

Humans have long sought to geoengineer the Earth’s environment. Tim Flannery outlines a few of the wildest ideas from the 20th century

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On this hot fourth of July it is worth reminding folks that its not the sun that's causing global warming. Solar output (as measured by satellites) has been flat over the past 50 years when global temperatures have shot up. Its our emissions of CO2 and other greenhouse gases.

I used the newly (re)released Fable 5 release to give my Climate Dashboard a major design improvement – and add a bunch of new features in the process. Check it out at: dashboard.theclimate...

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Another plea to picture editors, though: the obligatory melting ice cream photo doesn't do climate communication any favours. It reinforces the misconception that climate change is simply about enjoying hotter summers, rather than its growing impacts on people, ecosystems and infrastructure.