Fire at #COP30 we think it was in the arts and culture pavilion behind the African pavilion. It got worse when it hit the roof. I was down the other end by the green zone.

In case you're wondering just how far corporate lobbyists have gone to get into COP30 to push the idea that AI will solve climate change (and never you mind about all the energy it guzzles)....

@yorkshiretea.bsky.social can you please do a partnership with the UK pavilion at the Climate COP next year? Had to bring my own teabags - would be really cool given the impacts of #climate on tea production.

Made it to #COP30 excited to be helping the pearl @uniofreading.bsky.social with their COPCAS studio and attending events or colleagues and collaborators. Be great to connect - if you have recommendations please let me know! Also so happy to help with anything.

Was stubbornly optimistic at the BBC's #climatecreatives 2025 with @rgsibg.bsky.social. I learnt so much about storytelling and changing narratives. And that the @nhm.org has a pond! Which I'm interested in for urban cooling research. Met so many interesting people.

📢 Just had the most amazing experience communicating heat and compound hazards impacts on BBC breakfast. Thank you to @richardabetts.bsky.social for suggesting me and everyone at the BBC who were so lovely! #scicomm #scisky

Thanks to @eciu.net for providing a summary of my independent article! So useful see below👇 #scicomm #scisky

I did an interview with @skynewsrss.bsky.social this morning on the likelihood of the driest and sunniest summer on record. Then I listed impacts - this combo really affects food systems! Beyond summer. Like the potato. Which is important because personally I like food. #scicomm #scisky

Wrote an article this week for the independent, which was a lot of fun and a great opportunity. Key takeaways: really exciting weather pattern, rain mid-UK heatwave. There is a Broccoli shortage it is a temperate plant. More #climateaction! #scicomm #scisky www.independent.co.uk/news/world/e...

A clip from BBC 5 live ended up on @bbcradio2bot.bsky.social news at 8pm (thanks to @simonleewx.com for the spot). And then my brain clocked with the world service - I told millions of people about heatwaves 😅. I was a kid who made fake radio shows so a nice overlap moment 😊.

Contributed a comment and talked through this piece a while back. Great to see it out. Important findings for England mirroring what we see in other countries and raising questions on vulnerability. I really like writing and helping contribute to work like this. #scicomm #scisky #heatwaves

Busy day talking about all sorts of things. Thank you to BBC 5-live and BBC news for having me talk about heat, drought and wildfires. I want to mention the below on the BBC world service on water and energy usage of data centers: www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/... #scicomm #scisky #heatwave

NEW – Analysis: England’s most ethnically diverse areas are 15 times more likely to face extreme heat | @joshgabbatiss.bsky.social @vernerviisas.bsky.social w/ comment from @profangelhsu.bsky.social @charleshsimpson.bsky.social Emma Howard Boyd @chlobrim.bsky.social Read here: buff.ly/boWI6M1

Thunderstorms mid-heatwave - there's this band on the radar in the South West. I don't remember in the UK - like in central Europe common. @simonleewx.com?

💧 New co-author paper. Thank you to Dr Cheng He for the opportunity to contribute. Rainfall variability and under-five child mortality in 59 low- and middle-income countries ⬇️ www.nature.com/articles/s44... #rainfall #child #climatechange #scisky @1verofilippi.bsky.social

🚒 Heat, Wildfire, Drought - Summer 2025. We've seen the worst wildfire since 1949 this past week in France. I spoke to @skynewsrss.bsky.social about the impacts of individual hazards and combined ahead of the 4th UK heatwave. My dream is a heat docu series and book 😁!? #ClimateChange #SciComm

3 years ago today I submitted my PhD thesis. I was lucky at the time I had my dream job lined up. Fast-forward now with lots of flip-flops, I am taking a year out of academia to decide what I want to do, at @rmets.org in a diverse cover. If you have any advice, please share.

You can see my France 24 interview from over the weekend below. Was really great to talk about compound hazards and #climatechange youtu.be/bf-DbYF-I9I?...

🥵 It's a #heatwave ... A tropical heatwave. Been a busy day today discussing the heatwave (also drought and wildfires) in the UK and Europe. I spoke about the impacts of mostly the heatwaves but also explaining compound hazards. Thanks to BBC 5 live, LBC news, France 24 and Sky news. #scicomm

🌦️🌂 Had a fantastic first week of my new job, helping out with the @rmets.org early career and student and annual weather and climate conferences in Manchester Metropolitan, Dalton Building. Hope to see everyone and new faces next year!

📜 Reached a personal publishing goal today of h-index 10 and h-index10 at 10, a year earlier than I thought! Which was unexpected.

@rmets.org day 3 of the early career and student conference and annual weather and climate. And my third day working for them! Been super great so far. Amazing research and cake! Even won a mug. 😊 Looking forward to the next 2 days.

Got this lovely comment on my LinkedIn yesterday. Another day today started off talking to @bbc5live.bsky.social about the European heatwaves, what people get confused about and how prepared the UK is! Still "Woefully unprepared!"

To clarify the influence of heat on maternal health focuses mostly on the baby. There's not much UK research published for either group at all. But globally a 2023 study by former colleagues found we don't even appear to know how breast milk changes during heat.

Concerning about Carrie Johnson. But poses an important question - how many other breastfeeding women in the UK go through similar during high heat? We should have a better plan and messages to protect this group. #scicomm #heatwave uk.news.yahoo.com/carrie-johns...

😎 #heatwave in Europe. I just spoke to BBC news about linking heat to #climatechange and the pressure on aspects of society. The presenter said I was very clear and thanked me for my expertise! Which was very nice of them ☺️. So important to communicate! #scicomm

⛅ I have a new job I am doing the maternity cover of the science engagement manager role at @rmets.org. Thank you to them for the opportunity, excited to see what happens over the next 18 months ☺️.

The meme is back. Also, seen some new content this year. Lots of moaning as well. Interesting to see the response.

Got shared heat stress illness at Royal Ascot - very concerning. Also shows why it is so important that we communicate the risk of heat to everyone and ensure everyone (and race horses of course in this case) stay cool. share.google/Gux16pGUK25y... #scicomm #heat

I remember once talking about the COP process and surprising myself because we were trying to get a logo through a consortium vote at the same time and it was so tricky. I saw so many similarities with acting on climate. It's in all systems.

3 years till no more 1.5C We had the right trajectory for a reduction in emissions during the pandemic. Technology will not solve all the problems (AI adds to it!) But, the solutions are there, like nature, behaviour etc. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

🌡️ It's year 5 for me of communicating heatwaves. It's important to explain the link to climate change, keep people safe and discuss adaptation and mitigation. Here's a podcast I did with The Standard: open.spotify.com/episode/1VR3... #scicomm #heatwave

🌡️First UK #heathealth alert of the year from the 12th till the 15th June. 🌡️And just to be confusing there's 3 types of heat warning in the UK so this isn't a heatwave or a extreme heat weather warning. Just a heat health alert! ukhsa-dashboard.data.gov.uk/weather-heal...

🌡️New Publication led by Alexandra Czerniewska on maternal, newborn and child health in #heathealth adaptation plans. 🌡️"informing, education, and awareness raising" (77%) was the focus of most plans. But monitoring mechanism fall short. We suggest the development of an operational framework.

Graz top of BBC news for all the wrong reasons. I hope everyone is ok. So shocked, it's a very peaceful lovely city 😞. www.bbc.com/news/live/ce...

🏔️BBC Radio 5 Live interview about the glacier collapse in Blatten Switzerland. And what we can say about #ClimateChange - we cannot tie individual events (without climate event attribution but even then there is uncertainty) but alpine hanging valley glaciers are in decline. #scicomm

#EGU25 I am presenting in the heat session in rm 1.31(?) on Tuesday at 11:25am, then at the EGU booth as I am part of the outreach committee at 11:30. Mostly at EGU Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday. Would love to catch up and see what is possible?

Warm Spell in the UK and over Europe. Whilst it doesn't meet a Met definition of #heatwave - we can be concerned about a rise in hospitalisation, raised hayfever, wildfire risk (it's also been really dry), this also affects our crops and wildlife. www.bbc.com/weather/arti... #scisky #scicomm

Based in the UK? - consider signing this letter on ensuring Young Women's rights in the workplace: action.youngwomenstrust.org/page/166619/... In 2024, sadly over half (53%) of young women aged 18–30 reported experiencing some form of workplace discrimination this is a rise from 42% in 2022.

Just no - no we shouldn't pump things into the air to see if it lowers radiant heat, pumping things in the air got us into the mess 🤦‍♀️. We need 50 million in other research areas that got cut, quite strange strategic funding. www.ladbible.com/news/science... #scisky #scicomm #climatechange

"A single day of heatwave across India leads to an estimated 3,400 excess deaths nationally" Every heatwave is being made more intense / more likely by the #climatecrisis www.downtoearth.org.in/climate-chan...

Seeing potential pronatalist policy from the Trump Government latest thing, history repeating: www.nytimes.com/2025/04/21/u... . It does raise the question we are yet to fully answer what has caused the long term decline in fertility rates and I guess how to reverse that.

Pope Francis was a Jesuit what I have found inspiring about that order is their devotion to research see here how Jesuit's contributed to meteorology and gathering weather observations: journals.ametsoc.org/view/journal.... Sad news women cannot be Jesuits apparently.

A potentially game-changing climate story has been hiding in plain sight — until now. Today marks the launch of #The89Percent Project, a yearlong global journalistic effort to highlight the vast majority of people who care about climate change and want their governments to do something about it.

"Almost all #rice contains #arsenic... Arsenic levels in...rice increased as carbon dioxide... levels in the atmosphere and temperatures rise... Increases in arsenic levels in rice could contribute approximately 19.3 million more cancer cases in China alone." #ClimateSky www.bbc.com/future/artic...

This is one of my favourite but worrying side effects of climate change Arsenic in Rice! Great to see a whole BBC report on this important but underreported threat to global food security. www.bbc.co.uk/future/artic... #scicomm #climatechange

💬 Spoke to BBC 5 Live about the European State of the Climate report and the amazing positives coming out of European cities on climate adaptation. And my lived #climate experience from Graz last year. #scicomm climate.copernicus.eu/esotc/2024

I got invited to a film premier! 😎 Oceans with David Attenborough. When we were doing our PhDs we all used to say how much we were inspired by David. My friend as a wedding present got my other friend a signed book. This is amazing and not something I ever expected.

I'm going to say something I'm increasingly getting very frustrated in my work and day to day life of facing ageism. It's really not something that is spoken about enough. I think the best approach is to assume you know nothing about experience and be willing to learn from everyone.

Maternal health in Africa: there’s progress, but challenges remain 🚨 The region bears a disproportionate burden of maternal mortality, counting for 70% of global maternal deaths in 2023. bit.ly/42cK1VT