Hot off the press! 🧑‍🔬🧪 "Making aquatic sciences more diverse, equitable, inclusive, and accessible: Perspectives on how individuals can take action in their professional practice" authors.elsevier.com/c/1lnYH1MRgT... 🧵1/5

Open Quaternary is looking for a new Editor in Chief! openquaternary.com/announcements If you have any questions about OQ, or the role, I am very happy to answer Qs >> [email protected]

Grim news for the Caspian Sea, with rates of decline unprecedented since instrumental records. Global warming is fast shrinking this world’s largest inland sea. Natural and societal impacts will be devasting - just look to the Aral to its east... #geosky theconversation.com/climate-chan...

If you are interested in contributing to the TREE series on Disability in Ecology and Evolution, email me at [email protected] We want hear from as many people as possible. December will be the last in the series, for this issue we will need contributions by c7 October. www.cell.com/trends/ecolo...

This post reminds me that a few of us (@davidadger.bsky.social, @thelabandfield.bsky.social, @gilespalaeo.bsky.social & @erinma.bsky.social) wrote a letter to @natecoevo.nature.com taking them to task for omitting his sexuality when celebrating the scientist 🧪 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Out for run today there are loads of red crossed painted on ppls houses and gates since yesterday’s far right march. Starmer & Cooper’s pandering to English flag sentiments has partially led to this 🤮 #bushwood #e11

There must be a Japanese or German word for the event where you dodge a down-pour, go out for a run, then get back seconds before the next deluge comes!! 😍 #planning

Absolutely this. I rarely listened to the Today Programme anymore, but when he’s on it’s an automatic switch-off due to his extreme partiality eg trans rights (for which he’s been censured but seems to not have an effect). I wonder how the other presenters cope with him…

Spent super interesting day observing grant proposal reviews for NIHR as final induction training in my new (volunteer) position of Public Committee Member. My brain is a bit dead now though

This is depressing. In my lectures on Freshwater Security @uclgeography.bsky.social, I used to teach about what should be learned about the Aral Sea, as water levels in lake Lake Urmia declined. To see another salt lake disappear is awful for impact on biodiveristy and human livlihoods. #geosky

🎙️ Honourable mention for @ucl.ac.uk Geography in BBC Radio 4’s Open Country on Norfolk pingos, pool frogs and pond restoration. Featuring the work of our very own Professor @carlsayer.bsky.social and partners at @norfolkponds.bsky.social 🌿🐸 🔗 Listen back 👇

Haircut day!

This was such a brilliant episode to end the series with. I definitely fall into the camp of 'everything you think you know about X is likely wrong...' #Podyssey is one of the few podcasts that every episode is worth listening to. Really looking forward to S2!

I had the wonderful opportunity to work with other members of Oracle Voices to write about the times when we were able to find positives in our cancer diagnoses. Please do take a look at some of these really inspiring stories of Finding Light.... #cansky oraclehnc.org.uk/finding-ligh...

"AI tool labels more than 1000 journals for ‘questionable,’ possibly shady practices" Key take home seems to be the exploitation of 'pay to publish' model by bad actors, while many limitations to AI detection tool evident still. It's a wildwest out there! 🧪 #pubsky www.science.org/content/arti...

This is terrifying. It's impossible to overstate what an immense threat to our human rights this Labour government poses.

We are gathering views on the current state of freshwater monitoring in the UK (scales, focal species & pressures). If you work in these areas, we'd love to capture your views: app.onlinesurveys.jisc.ac.uk/s/ceh-online... @ukceh.bsky.social #UKCEH_AquaEco #freshwater #monitoring #data #evidence

This is a really cool review paper, given check importance of ditches to human social evolution over millennia, and now their importance for biodiversity, ecosystem services etc 👏🏼 #geosky

we have a new listserv, and have just sent a very important campaign update to our members--sign up below with a non-institutional email address! geog4pal.org/join/

A great interview with rebeccadonkennedy.bsky.social about the rise of bigotry and hatred for trans people and how that is spreading to other groups. It appears to have annoyed a lot of transphobes, which is good.

Trans Legal Clinic need your support in funding this case. We all have a duty to do something, even sharing this will help, share it other platforms and to allies. If you can please donate to help fund this case, this is the most important part of the restoration of the our rights:

Won some premium bonds, treated myself to new #diatom flora on Lake Baikal endemics!

Definitely up there with one of the coolest things I’ve seen this month! I wonder if they’re an evolutionary anachronism, or really just very unique?!

My main takeaway is how the employee reports all her colleagues being supportive, it’s clear than transphobia is an orchestrated, top down assault on civil rights that doesn’t enjoy the support the media and politicians want you to believe

** The Official crowdfunder link for my case commenced in the European Court of Human Rights ** A legal first: trans and non-binary lawyers leading the case: Oscar Davies, Olivia Campbell-Cavendish and me as client. Trans Legal Clinic in partnership with W-Legal. www.translegalclinic.com/mccloud

This is a wonder reflection and testomy of the pioneering palaeoecology Margaret B. Davis, and her many contributions to global ecology through the lens of pollen analysis and #palaeoecology 🧪 🌿 #envhist #geosky www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/full/10....

Why I withdrew my book from an LGBTQ+ literary prize | Jason Okundaye

We need to big this up, a V important legal judgement; if it had gone against us it would have been all over the oligarch/transphobic media as a "Landmark" case. I suspect it may be very useful in preventing Universities from silencing trans people under the pretext of pandering to the OfS.

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⛈️New in Geo!⛈️ 'The window of opportunity: Linking climate history and storms' by A. Jardine, K.A. Selby & @davidhiggins.bsky.social This paper uses the Royal Charter storm of 1859 to explore the implementation of long-term risk reduction measures following disasters. doi.org/10.1002/geo2...

This 100%. @teamlabouruk.bsky.social owns this, and I've seen little that @labourlgbtq.bsky.social have done to stop a new wave of government-sanctioned segregation about to take hold in the UK #transrightsarehumanrights

1/🧵 Transphobia is Labour’s crime, not the EHRC’s. Regardless of what the EHRC does, or doesn’t do, with their Codes, the Secretary of State has the authority, under at least three statutory powers, either to overturn Scottish Ministers or to improve trans rights without needing to overturn it.

Interesting changes proposed for REF if true:PCE shrunk back to 20%, Impact still at 25% but like previous version in style & Outputs up to 55%, it seems. Also possibility of a 4*+ rating. I imagine much scrabbling to rethink strategy is taking place! www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-r...

Wow - really interesting trial for treating people with advanced head and neck cancer casued by #HPVcancer (like my own) - 'A cancer vaccine using mRNA technology will help the immune system recognise and kill cancer cells containing HPV proteins' #cansky 🧪 bit.ly/4m2LghH

Still doing the science thing! New preprint in review in ESSDD on persistent problem of old 14C ages for suface seds in Lake #Baikal. Nice thing about this study is the database that Sam built for every #radiocarbon date on Baikal seds and their 'quality' 🧪 essd.copernicus.org/preprints/es...

World Athletics says that "The SRY gene is a reliable proxy for determining biological sex." The guy who literally discovered the gene and has spent the last 35 years researching it says they're wrong. theconversation.com/world-athlet...

It's about time I announced a project that I've been working on in the last year... I wrote a book! 'Volcanoes: 10 things you should know' published by @orionbooks.bsky.social Seven Dials will be out in September. It's available to pre-order now. Links: linktr.ee/volcanologist

#fbf to only last Saturday, with official finishers photo for my 80km / 50 mile ultra in the Lake District #runsky

This is going to ruin so many cis women's lives. They had to end it in the 2000's because it resulted in women having their lives destroyed, partners leaving them, family disowning them etc. After some high profile suicides and attempts , they had to stop. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_o...

The fight for trans safety is a fight for everyone’s safety – MPs must have the chance to debate it | Freddy McConnell

Updated: Starmer’s Labour: The most anti-LGBT+ govt since Thatcher. A list of the awful things they've done and said regarding LGBT+ people, especially trans people.

Democratic Republic of the Congo, again, opens its forests and peatlands for auction for oil exploration. Shockingly reckless. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

The FDA has approved lenacapavir [brand name Yeztugo] – a capsid inhibitors, which provide almost 100% protection against #HIV infection. “Yeztugo could be the transformative #PrEP option we’ve been waiting for" newatlas.com/infectious-d...

Had an epic weekend in the Lake District, taking on the Lakeland50 (mile) #ultramarathon, with over 2800m elevation! My knee held up amazingly well, such as no pain just discomfort. Maybe I can get back to running long distances regularly rather than relying on the dreaded watt bike 😂 #runsky

Some great advice I’ll definitely be following as I tackle Lakeland’s 50 mile (80km) ultra tomorrow! I’m one of 4 non-binary runners this year, and can be tracked #runsky live.opentracking.co.uk/25lakeland50...

The new Sex and Relationships guidance issued by the Department of Education appears unaware that a) AIDS can’t be transmitted and b) the ‘S’ stands for syndrome and isn’t just a plural for AID. Educational guidance so ill-informed can’t be trusted. And it isn’t even the worst thing about it. 😡

🚨 Very, very big news. Today, a global coalition - including members of the IPCC, IPBES, and WHO expert advisors, as well as independent virologists, epidemiologists, and lawyers - started the process of creating an "IPCC for Pandemics." 🔓 www.thelancet.com/journals/lan... 🧵 Five things to know 👉

THREAD 🧵 of initial thoughts on the transphobic schools "guidance" produced by this deeply transphobic Labour government today. SECTION 28+ This morning the media coverage of the new RHSE guidance for schools led me to suggest it represents Labour’s Section 28. The real thing is, however... 1/11

Today is International Non-Binary People's Day and the first day of Non-Binary Awareness Week The day was first celebrated in 2012, started by Katje van Loon. The date was chosen for being precisely midway between International Women's Day and International Men's Day.

Today’s #run was a hot one 🥵