Week 5 picket activities programme. Picket times: Monday, Wednesday, Friday: 9am Tuesday, Thursday: 11am

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More photos from our demo! We want to thank all the students for their continuous support, for joining our demo and rally, and for some incredible and impactful speeches.

Fantastic news!! Unions do make a difference - maybe join one today if you are not already a member @leicesterucu.bsky.social

170,000 reasons a minute: why Saudi Arabia is the biggest blocker of climate action www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...

After a truly awesome demo, acknowledgments are in order. First, thanks to the @uclucu.bsky.social branch, Chris Pritchard (one of our NEC reps), the Leicester District Trades Union, the DMU UCU branch @ucudmu.bsky.social, and UoN UCU branch for their solidarity. When we fight, we don't fight alone.

Warming overpowers low-frequency North Pacific climate variability The PDO is the primary pattern of long-term climate variability in the North Pacific. Since 2014, basin-wide warming has overshadowed its influence, causing concerning ecological impacts... www.nature.com/articles/s41...

A century of change in the California Current: upwelling system amplifies acidification www.nature.com/articles/s41...

📢 November news is out! Did you know that PAGES has a monthly newsletter for the global #paleoscience community, featuring upcoming deadlines, opportunities, events, and other updates? Catch up on everything in our latest newsletter: pastglobalchanges.org/news/138741

IMPORTANT: no pickets tomorrow! See you all at the EGM online

@leicesterucu.bsky.social fantastic Tshirts at the picket line today for the second strike period to fight the job cuts across Schools

Huge interest for our Palaeobiology and Palaeoclimate research and degree within Geology with Palaeontology #University Leicester at Open Day by our visitors, thanks for coming and talking to us

🌊The Pacific Decadal Oscillation (PDO) remains robust, but it’s no longer the main mode of SST variability A new study identifies a pan-basin warming pattern dominating the North Pacific, potentially redefining how we interpret decadal variability & ecosystem impacts www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Excited to share our work using #aDNA to reconstruct #Symbiodiniaceae dynamics from #coral cores. Led by José Grillo, @jessireichert.bsky.social, @nessatir.bsky.social part of #TaraPacific expedition & supported by #SPP2299 @climatereefs.bsky.social doi.org/10.1111/gcb....

The world’s coldest microbes are waking up. Warming across the cryosphere — from melting glaciers to thawing permafrost — is accelerating microbial activity, reshaping carbon and nutrient fluxes, and amplifying climate feedbacks (review) www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Dozens of staff stood up and displayed these signs at the beginning of today’s address by the VC to demonstrate their lack of confidence in him and his ability to impose such devastating staff cuts across the university.

There are a lot of things I agree with in Bill Gates' new climate memo, but I think it sets up a false dichotomy between reducing emissions and helping the world's poorest. I've put together a piece with my thoughts over at TCB:

UK opts out of flagship fund to protect Amazon and other threatened tropical forests www.theguardian.com/environment/...

One week to go for the national demonstration called by UCU (@ucu.org.uk) against the planned redundancies at the University of Leicester. Please come and march alongside us in Leicester on 12 November. All welcome!

EGM tomorrow, 1pm!

Some ancient stony corals were able to survive extreme environmental changes, which suggests that some modern species could possess some resilience to the effects of climate change, according to research in Nature. go.nature.com/4hrpLpi 🌊 🧪

If your climate plan depends on trees doing the heavy lifting, maybe it’s time to lift more yourself The EU shouldn’t weaken its 2040 target because forests can't keep up… www.reuters.com/sustainabili...

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Signals from the plant cell wall help to orchestrate growth, reproduction and immune function. A feature in Nature explores how harnessing this molecular cross talk could help create better crops. #plantscience 🧪

UCU (@ucu.org.uk) has called a national demonstration against the planned redundancies at the University of Leicester. Please come and march alongside us in Leicester on 12 November. All welcome!

We warmly congratulate Wolfgang Kießling on his outstanding achievement in the Ranking of the Stanford List 2025. Wolfgang is ranked among the top 50 in his field! This year’s ranking takes into account a total of 236,313 researchers. Visit: www.fau.eu/2025/09/news... for more details.

New research published in PLOS Climate by Sadavarte et al. suggests that the economic value of the damages attributable to internal combustion engine vehicles over their lifetime is currently 2 to 3.5 times that of lithium-ion battery EVs journals.plos.org/climate/arti...

@ucunorthumbria.bsky.social hosting a speaker from @leicesterucu.bsky.social next week, and voting to donate to their hardship fund. Solidarity.

Rush Solidarity to @leicesterucu.bsky.social. Together we can stop the cuts! Remember, Remember the 12th of November! UCU National Demo in Leicester @ucu.org.uk

Australia's protected marine habitats defenseless against climate change by 2040 phys.org/news/2025-10...

We need to combine our local fight @leicesterucu.bsky.social with our national fight @ucu.org.uk for maximum impact.

Yes! We love to see it. Get those votes in!

Air temps above mountain glaciers warm only ~0.83 °C per 1 °C of regional warming, evidence of local decoupling. But as glaciers retreat, this cooling buffer fades. By mid-century, glaciers will warm faster, melt quicker, as the lose their self-cooling microclimate. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Yoda’s got his ballot in! Have you? Make sure you vote and tell us about it! #WeAreTheUniversity

🥳 It's out! The latest PAGES Mag on "New Analytical Techniques in #Paleoscience" is online! 🌍 This issue highlights how novel imaging methods and machine-learning approaches are revolutionizing paleoscientific research and expanding our ability to decode past Earth’s history. 🔗 shorturl.at/LOJj5

🌊✊ Solidarity with Leonid Pshenichnov — the Ukrainian biologist arrested for backing curbs on Antarctic krill fishing. Protecting ecosystems isn’t treason. It’s good science, and it’s our future. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

🌊 Marine heatwave leaves critical Florida corals "functionally extinct" Following the record-breaking 2023 marine heatwave and the ninth mass coral bleaching, staghorn and elkhorn corals have dwindled to populations too small to reproduce oceanographicmagazine.com/news/marine-...

Climate disasters in first half of 2025 costliest ever on record, research shows LA wildfires and storms this year cost $101bn, new study by non-profit resurrecting work axed by Trump www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Enhanced Arctic sea-ice retreat due to pronounced pacificization effect in the Holocene Between 4.5–2.2 ka BP, stronger Bering Sea inflow brought ocean heat north, promoting melt Today’s La Niña-like trends could revive that “Pacificization” and speed Arctic ice loss www.nature.com/articles/s43...

This very neat study into stalagmite shapes provides insight into isotope fractionation due to changes in growth rate doi.org/10.1073/pnas...

A newly released Global Tipping Points report suggested that coral reefs have passed thresholds beyond which they can't bounce back. Our new study from Fiji shows just the opposite - astonishing, rapid recovery within 4 years of reefs pummeled by a category 5 cyclone. #ForCoral

New science by @wcs.org Director of Marine Science, Dr Tim McClanahan, gives further hope #ForCoral. His review of modelling studies show the outlook for reefs is not uniformly grim – with many reefs remaining stable or improving under the right conditions. newsroom.wcs.org/News-Release...

The PETM was a geologically rapid carbon pulse + warming. Tho there was a biodiversity crisis it was far from the scale of other carbon cycle perturbation mass extinctions despite its rapidity & magnitude. Wei et al. propose weathering diffs led to less ocean O2 loss: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

🗞️ New article in Biogeosciences #EGU by Yue Nan et al ⬇️ bg.copernicus.org/articles/22/...

24 years of satellite data reveal a dynamic, cyclic pattern of ice shelf damage across Antarctica. Damage, linked to flow acceleration, strain, and thinning, shows strong sensitivity to climate warming, suggesting current models may underestimate future retreat. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Southern Ocean evidence for recurring West Antarctic Ice Sheet destabilization during Marine Isotope Stage 11 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Each new year of climate data makes our future projections more accurate, without adding noise. New study shows observational updates sharpen climate forecasts and confirm human-caused warming is a stable, reliable metric. www.nature.com/articles/s41...