Highlights from our latest newsletter: 📔 Trustworthy (artificial) intelligence only comes with real understanding of language 🍎 @cabot-institute.bsky.social showcase & annual lecture 👩‍💻 Trust Everything Everywhere - ARIA Programme Discovery Workshop Read more here: tinyurl.com/52ppuks3

🚨 Reminder: Impact Day is just 2 weeks away! Join us for Day 2 of the UK GGR Event on 30 September to explore the impact of our research & what comes next for greenhouse gas removal in the UK. Read more & sign up here: co2re.org/events/the-u... #UKGGR2025

In this week's Cabot Mail: 💰 Bristol academics land prestigious European Research Council grants totalling €10 million 🐟 A blueprint for marine recovery 🏞️ Ancient river folklore 🧊 Polar geoengineering is dangerous and far too costly, say scientists mailchi.mp/bristol/cabo...

Check out the upcoming seminar on 'Interlinked: temperature, species, and health' co-organised by @cabot-institute.bsky.social & @ebibristol.bsky.social 📆 17 September ⏰ 13:30 -14:30 📍 35 Berkeley Square, for UoB students and staff / Online for externals Find out more: lnkd.in/epqmzwss

👉 UK GGR startups: you have 4 days left to apply to pitch at Innovation Day on 1 October! Successful applicants will pitch for the chance to join the UK's 1st dedicated CO2 removal accelerator, supported by @undaunted-hq.bsky.social & @innovateuk.bsky.social. More info: airtable.com/appbsB2aWP1H...

If #health is everyone’s responsibility in #urban development...why is it often nobody’s priority? We mapped the system using interviews with 132 decision-makers. It shows - Where health slips through the cracks - How 7 interventions could shift the whole system doi.org/10.1016/j.ci...

I'm at KTH in Stockholm this week. On Thursday I'll be giving a book talk for @anthropocenekth.bsky.social on what energy history, and wind energy specifically, have to offer understandings of the Anthropocene and where we might go from here. More info here: www.kth.se/anthropocene...

New paper (first work from Bristol!) 'Sulfoxaflor impairs bumblebee memory across moderate and extreme temperatures' @bristolbiosci.bsky.social onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

What have been the best/most effective/meaningful environmental changes in 20thC Britain, in your view? I'm writing a new unit & have lots of disasters, decline, and conflicts; but I don't think it's been all bad. Some egs. of positive changes - intro of National Parks; rise of green politics...

Only a pre-print for now, but after 4 years of hard work I couldn't resist sharing this! The Global Canopy Atlas: analysis-ready maps of 3D structure for the world's woody ecosystems 📜: doi.org/10.1101/2025... Huge team effort led by the brilliant Fabian Fischer!

In the UK we eat over 500,000 tonnes of 🍫chocolate🍫 every year which is vulnerable to the effects of climate change. Chocolatier and Caboteer Carlos Ayala is working with farmers and chocolate makers to help make our chocolate consumption more sustainable. youtube.com/shorts/ntVzR...

The Cabot Institute for the Environment has welcomed Chris Kaye to chair its Strategic Advisory Board. Chris served the United Nations (UN) for 32 years and brings extensive knowledge around food security, disasters, water, cities, environmental change and energy. bristol.ac.uk/cabot/news/2...

Busy reading today, in preparation for chairing a discussion with climate scientist Tim Lenton about his new book Positive Tipping Points (OUP) - @bookhaus.bsky.social in Bristol on Wednesday. www.headfirstbristol.co.uk/whats-on/boo...

Six weeks from publication! Forgive a little book promo. I’ve got some talks lined up this autumn if you want to hear more about Electric Wind. Feel free to message me for more details.

In this week's Cabot Mail: 🌀 Hurricane forecasting 20 years on from Katrina 🏢 Urbanization and inequality podcast 🌊 Flood relief for devastated Nepalese region ☢️ Making vital nuclear ingredients without using a big nuclear fission reactor mailchi.mp/bristol/cabo...

In the wake of devastating floods that struck the Kathmandu region of Nepal in September 2024, University of Bristol student Ivan Lewis has launched a community resilience project in Bethanchowk, a rural municipality severely impacted by the disaster. bristol.ac.uk/news/2025/au...

What has changed 20 years on from Hurricane Katrina? Cabot Institute's Dr Leanne Archer provides expert comment in this BBC Weather news article. www.bbc.co.uk/weather/arti...

And that's the final @erc.europa.eu @ercrefresh.bsky.social stream isotope experiment of our 2025 field season complete. With many thanks to @bristoluni.bsky.social PhD students Matt McCormack and Boyi Li for their help with eDNA sampling and completing site decommissioning before the rain arrived 🧪

Really enjoyed taking part in this conversation with Divya Gupta & Gregory Randolph on #urbanization and #inequality in India on the In Common Podcast: www.incommonpodcast.org/podcast/136-...

‪Great opportunity: full @ukri.org funded PhD Studentship with 4 years fees, stipend (£19237 pa) and full Research Training Support Grant, working with Prof Ian Bull, Director of the National Environmental Isotope Facility and my @ercrefresh.bsky.social team! Starts 10/2025 shorturl.at/AJREj 🧪

Cabot Institute funded research by Dr @Lauren Blake and colleagues has found that settler colonialism undermines food systems in crises. scienmag.com/settler-colo...

Professor Sabine Hauert from the Bristol Robotics Laboratory is working to understand how we can better cope with 🔥wildfires🔥 around the world to ultimately save lives and reduce harmful emissions...using robots! youtube.com/shorts/caurO...

Wrote this on how to respond to increasing criminalisation of climate activism

Brilliant and full first day of #ESEH2025. Stefania Barca’s key note on environmental history and the labour movement was inspiring. Our double panel on energy transition and energyscapes went really well. As usual my mind is whirring with all the ideas.

Visit to surface water evaporation and sap flow monitoring systems in the Atlantic forest, Bahia, Brazil. #UFRB

I remember how exciting this was when @cabot-institute.bsky.social colleagues showed this was feasible! Great to see how far it has come. Scientists create carbon-14 battery that lasts 5,700 years without recharging glassalmanac.com/scientists-c...

Interested in exploring how climate change impacts our health? 🌍 🌡️ Don't miss this seminar on the effects of rising temperatures on the health of humans and other species on 17 September. Open to all online, or in person for University of Bristol staff and students. @cabot-institute.bsky.social

Bristol ‘standout choice’ as it’s named Research University of the Year for ‘constantly pushing at the boundaries of human knowledge’. bristol.ac.uk/news/2025/au...

Many thanks to @leverhulme.ac.uk for funding this work! Keep your eyes peeled for a quantitative test of some of these ideas usign airborne LiDAR, which is coming soon! @bristolbiosci.bsky.social @cabot-institute.bsky.social

We have a #Tansley review out today @newphyt.bsky.social led by Becky Banbury Morgan in which we put forward a new framework that aims to explain how and why edge effects on forest structure vary across ecosystems and through time 📜 doi.org/10.1111/nph....

Thank you colleagues at the Ministry of Environment and UFMG for such great discussions!

Cabot Institute expert Professor Chris Preist will be joining a special panel discussion on considering the ethical and environmental impacts of AI and digital on 27 November at the #Communicate Conference in Bristol. Conference tickets available here: www.communicateconference.org.uk

Researchers discover tantalisingly ‘sneaky’ way to help diners make healthier, greener menu choices Read how they did it... www.bristol.ac.uk/cabot/news/2...

Nice to see this article highlight the early warning system that Bristol colleagues developed a few years ago. Jellyfish swarms clogging the water intake pipes that cool nuclear plants is not a one off curiosity but a long term threat. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...

Join us for this online seminar on the effects of rising temperatures on the health of humans and other species. The event will be of particular interest to those working at the intersection of climate change and health. More information: www.bristol.ac.uk/cabot/events...

Our @ukri.org funded @erc.europa.eu REFRESH programme is going well! Chalk stream isotope dosing expt. complete, clay expt. nearly complete with help from our first PhD student, @durham-university.bsky.social graduate Matt McCormack. Peat expt. set-up now underway @bannaubrycheiniog.bsky.social 🧪🐟🌿🐌

That's a wrap on our @erc.europa.eu @ukri.org @ercrefresh.bsky.social programme 2nd expt.. A very different environment than the chalk stream in our 1st expt. but nonetheless with wonderful biota: Beautiful Demoiselle damselflies fluttering around us, and freshwater limpets grazing our biofilms! 🧪

New research reveals ancient alliance between woody plants and microbes has potential to protect precious peatlands www.bristol.ac.uk/cabot/news/2...

Summer long balls? A health expert explains why hot weather can be tough on testicles 🍒 environment.blogs.bristol.ac.uk/2025/08/01/s...

In this week's Cabot Mail: 👩‍⚖️ Professor Folúkẹ́ Adébísí provides expert comment on the UN court's climate justice ruling 🐄 BBC Farming Today interviews Professor Penny Johnes on UK water quality monitoring 🐧 New blog on 'warm penguins' in Antarctica mailchi.mp/bristol/cabo...

Warm Penguins: Reflections on the latest Antarctic Treaty Consultative Meeting in Milan. New on our blog from Sustainable Futures PhD student Jordane Liebeaux. environment.blogs.bristol.ac.uk/2025/07/28/w...

Come and join us for our prestigious Annual Lecture and Research Showcase on 8 October where we will be rethinking food and nutrition for the planet. We've got a fantastic panel and keynote lined up and interactive research exhibits to explore. Get your ticket! www.tickettailor.com/events/cabot...

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Spoke on BBC Radio 4 Farming Today this morning on the implications of the Cunliffe Report for UK farmers and freshwaters, explaining some of the key findings from our @ukri.org funded QUANTUM programme on livestock impacts on www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/... 🧪

We demonstrate that our model simulates the space–time variability of IGF and closes the mass balance within the topographic catchment boundaries consistent with observations.

New paper alert: "Application of a parsimonious large-scale distributed groundwater flow model to quantify inter-catchment groundwater flow" Led by Shams Rahman, with contributions from Francesca Pianosi, Thorsten Wagener, @sub-heterogenty.bsky.social and me. doi.org/10.1016/j.jh...

In this week's Cabot Mail: 🦋 Rainforest researchers find tropical butterflies that look alike 🖥️ University of Bristol to lead a supercomputing partnership with France 🎓 Celebrating the success of our postgraduates 🍞 Tickets now available for #CabotLecture25 mailchi.mp/bristol/cabo...

💚 What a difference a year makes! 💚 From publications and successful Vivas to community engagement and showcasing their research all over the world. Read our latest blog celebrating the success of our brilliant Cabot Institute postgraduate students. environment.blogs.bristol.ac.uk/2025/07/21/w...

Horseflies and wasps and jellyfish – how to stay safe from stings and bites this summer. Read the new blog from Dr Dan Baumgardt... environment.blogs.bristol.ac.uk/2025/07/17/h...