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It's so great to see everyone joyful on here today. I know Mamdani benign NYC mayor doesn't affect most of us but it's so good to have hope.

The deadline is fast approaching! We are looking for an Assistant Professor in Plant #Biodiversity and #Conservation universityvacancies.com/trinity-coll... Deadline: November 14th.

Cheating with an LLM is the easiest thing in the world for a student to do, but it creates a massive, laborious headache for a prof, if you intend to take it seriously. There’s meetings, emails, discussions, moral dilemmas. It’s just incredibly burdensome, on top of everything else right now.

Here is your periodic reminder that every fraction of a degree matters and our next target is not 2C, it's 1.50000001

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This article is full of digs against horseshoe bats, planners & says “environmental goals have created stasis”. The @dublininquirer.com have already looked into the Collison backed Progress Ireland & identified links with US libertarian & Peter Thiel backed groups. We need independent journalism!

Good governance is the same. Complex multi-facited challenges often require complex solutions & trade-offs. Anyone selling “common sense” fixes to systemic problems is usually a grifter with an agenda, not a leader with a plan.

@newphyt.bsky.social calendar just arrived I'm the post! My desk has been looking so empty

This is happening today! Join us as we discuss climate action.

I've been thinking about this thread all week, about how we live with the knowledge of climate change, genocide, racism, sexism. How we wake up every morning with this knowledge and yet endeavour to be happy in our own small ways because how can we live otherwise?

Oh, sorry, I thought mitigating climate change was too costly for people so we couldn't do it

Victims of Typhoon Odette in the Philippines have filed the first-ever civil case to directly link oil and gas-fueled climate change to deaths and personal injuries in the Global South. drilled.media/news/odette-...

I'm thinking about all the westerners marvelling at the "house of the people" monstrosity in Bucharest that Ceausescu, the Romanian dictoator, built and I think none of you really undrrstood

Please pass along, I’m recruiting PhD students to join our Macroecology Lab @uofa-eeb.bsky.social We study phys ecology, macroecology, biodiversity - spanning scaling, trait-based ecology, theory, comparative biology & ecoinformatics. Several avenues for funding. Please reach out if interested🧪🌐🌾

I need this in my life

Join us for an online panel on climate action next Friday 24th of October 1 pm GMT. More information here www.tcd.ie/e3/news/e3-t...

I have the most amazing research group. For my 40th birthday the made me a Cluedo gane with a custom board, hand drawn cards of all of us and a knitted cover with our group name.

The 'What If' outdoor exhibition from STAND comes to Grangegorman this week for #ClimateActionWeek. It invites us to reimagine how we live, learn, govern, care, and create by exploring bold scenarios for a more just and sustainable world. Check out what's on display: www.tudublin.ie/explore/abou...

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There's a whole essay by David Graeber about why things like giant puppets work in non-violent protest davidgraeber.org/articles/on-...

"“I met prime minister Keir Starmer and, over a pint, we were discussing among ourselves, how have we landed ourselves in a situation where we tied ourselves up in knots so we can't get anything done? " I guess the knots are in the strings being pulled by the fossil fuel and farming lobbies?

Fuck right off

It is indeed autumn

And maybe also "hard to abate but we don't need this industry at this size and intensity". See for example meat production.

Has anyone else been dealing with some serious headline whiplash recently? Even for those of us who follow #climate and #energy matters closely, it can be hard to know what the hell is going on! So here's a thread to help climate communicators get a grip on how to deal with this 🧵

I think this is an excellent example of why behaviour change needs legislative/regulatory support, and a cautionary tale for anyone in areas like climate change and active travel hoping that voluntary behaviour change programmes are going to help them achieve the ambitious targets they've been set.

UMass Amherst Biology is recruiting a tenure-track Assistant Professor in the area of Plant Physiology. Deadline Nov 1. Please spread the word and apply! careers.massachusetts.edu/mob/en-us/jo...

One of my greatest culture shocks when moving from ex-Communist Romania to the UK in the early 2000s was attitudes to women in employment

A short history of destructive Irish storms 🌧️ We can learn from the impacts of past storms to better adapt to the destructive effects of future storms, writes Dr Carla Mateus of ICARUS and the Department of Geography. www.maynoothuniversity.ie/research/spo...

The climate scientist's dilemma: I know it's been a dry year and water resources are depleted so rain is good. But, like, it's really wet outside? #StormAmy

“We are the most intellectual species to walk the planet, but we’re not intelligent. If you’re intelligent you don’t destroy your only home.” Dr. Jane Goodall

Butbutbut think of the car parking businesses, they're people too

"In a new report, Future Economy Scotland (FES) said relying on investors such as banks, pension funds and asset managers was wasteful and counterproductive, because their primary concern was making a profit, not tackling the climate or nature emergencies"

Come work with us - The School of Natural Sciences at Trinity College Dublin is looking for a tenure track assistant professor in plant biodiversity and conservation 🧪🌏🌾 my.corehr.com/pls/trrecrui... Drop me a message if you want to chat about what it's like to work here or live in Ireland.

New PhD position in tree ecophysiology at BiFoR-FACE (Uni of Birmingham) 🌳 Looking at tree carbon and water dynamics under elevated CO2 and warming 🌡️ Start Jan 2026. See more info here: euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/376950

We do need to have the difficult conversations about food production and its impacts

I just can't academia today

A friend was asking if mentoring is actually useful and I've just realised the best way to explain it is that mentoring is training for smashing the patriarchy. #academia

So exhausting..

Something you might note about this Nobel Prize article is there's a side bar on women and the Nobel Prize: www.snexplores.org/article/nobe... Noting how few women have won science prizes. My editor asked me hey: what are the stats for Black scientists? There is no sidebar....

What if the rapture did happen yesterday but The Good Place was right and no one went up

UPDATE: The 2025-2026 list of faculty and postdoc positions in ecology and evolutionary biology is out! Be sure to check out this active and helpful community run resources! docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

Listening to a lot of talk about impact and pulling engagement at a nesting this week and I'm becoming convinced we can't solve the climate crisis from within the system. Something more fundamental has to change.

Yep, it was the norm to get cat-called when passing building sites when I was a teen in late 90s/early 2000s Bucharest

I wrote a book called "Stories Are Weapons" which is a history of psychological war in the United States. In it, I describe how the US military came to a simple definition of rhetoric used for destructive purposes in war (so-called psyops) vs. for democratic debate. Want to know what it is? (1/3)

You get higher uncertainty in regions where there's no data abd to fix that you need to change your cost function? People doing Earth System data assimilation could've told you that 15 years ago

North Cork Creameries is a member of Bord Bia's 'Origin Green' greenwashing programme despite 125 non-compliance notices since 2020 and listing on the EPA's top polluter watchlist 🙈 www.irishtimes.com/environment/...

Recalling this bit of history — When the shooting of a German diplomat in 1938 was used by the Nazis as a pretext for Kristallnacht. Individual violence doesn’t justify state bigotry and oppression, ever. www.history.com/articles/kri...

Surprisingly hard to find this information but the sett;emtns refers only to books that have an ISBN and have registered copyright in the US. So this could cover science books, do check! 🧪 #academia authorsguild.org/news/what-au...