TONIGHT: Q&A with three of the authors of Scientists On Survival at @thecommonpress.bsky.social in Shoreditch, London, 7pm @omarabooks.bsky.social

Tonight, London. @prideinstem.bsky.social

New date Q&A for our book Scientists on Survival Theme: “Taking action as an LGBTQ+ scientist” London The Common Press @thecommonpress.bsky.social Weds 17th September 19:00 118 Bethnal Green Road, E2 6DG More details: www.outsavvy.com/event/28776/... @omarabooks.bsky.social

As the world rapidly heads into #climate #overshoot I've noticed a disturbing pattern in journal articles recently. I'll summarize it quickly in this thread 🧵

What is more shocking? 1. Throwing soup on a glass protecting a Van Gogh’s painting 2. Destroying a Banksy mural 🤔 Destroying political art is on the slippery slope towards fascism. All of them have done it. They may be saying they need to protect judges, but this isn’t the way.

📢 Britain faces a climate & nature emergency. On 27 Nov, eight leading experts will brief 800+ leaders from politics, business, culture, faith & media. An unfiltered overview of the latest threats & solutions. Only by facing it can we rise to the challenge. www.nebriefing.org

I've set off to Bougainville,PNG, for another #NoFly journey. I want to complete my research there. Travelling the ~25,000km distance from Italy by🚢,🚅,&🚌,I'll emit ~10 times less than✈️ (computations to come).Here the long read on my motivations: gianlu777.substack.c...#NoFly1/🧵

As debates rage about where the Heathrow third runway will go, help us to remind the government that we shouldn't be expanding airports at all in a climate emergency: petition.parliament.uk/petitions/71... We need 2,000 more signatures for this to be sent to the government (deadline = 24th Sept)

The beauty of positive tipping points is that it only takes a small change to make a big difference.

After a summer of heatwaves, wildfires, droughts, genocide, the relentless rise of Reform, you know you want to do more; to try harder to stop this madness, in whatever way you can, however small. We are feeling like this too. Join our monthly call: Mon 8 Sep 7pm us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

So 10yrs after @arusbridger.bsky.social launched the #KeepItInTheGround campaign & 6yrs after @katharineviner.bsky.social's #climate pledge The @theguardian.com finance editor @nilspratley.bsky.social is still writing apologetics for the fossil fuel industry!!! Here's a short 🧵on how dumb this is!

This was said this in 1975... it could just as well have been said yesterday!!! 😬😮‍💨

Governments have pledged vast areas for new forests, but much of this land may be unsuitable.

I gave a speech in Wandsworth High Street about air pollution and the benefits of cycling Stay to the end to see a list of proposals to make the air cleaner and the community stronger @wandsworthcycling.bsky.social @wandsworthlabour.bsky.social @scientistsforxr.earth @londoncycling.bsky.social

One of our scientists has made a documentary about wildfires and the rise of the far right. It was made with minimal carbon and on a shoestring crowdfund. Would your local cinema show it? If you think so, send the name of the cinema in a reply to Pete’s post.

Pleased to announce that @tristramwyatt.bsky.social & I have a new article out in @uk.theconversation.com, based on work with colleagues from @scientistsforxr.earth We outline "How scientists can contribute to social movements and climate action" Here's a thread with some background & key points 🧵

We are deeply honoured that our publisher chose our book as their favourite over the past 40 years of publishing. 💚💚💚

Our book about scientists taking direct action on climate and nature is now available on audiobook! This means our international friends should now be able to access it @scientistrebellion.nl @scientistrebellion.bsky.social @srnyc.bsky.social @sr-sweden.bsky.social @ucs.org

‼️ AUTHOR EVENT DATE CHANGE ‼️ Join @scientistsforxr.earth for a Q&A session on climate justice and #ScientistsOnSurvival at @thecommonpress.bsky.social on Wednesday 17th September 2025 at 7:00 PM 🥼 Get your ticket here ➡️ buff.ly/UKjdnds #BookSky #ClimateAction

The audio book version of "Scientists on Survival" is now available. It's produced by @bolindaoriginals.bsky.social and you can get a preview including the foward by @chrisgpackham.bsky.social as well as introductory chapters by @abiperrin.bsky.social & @stucap.bsky.social youtu.be/Sc5yQoigxS4

The paper was written by a wonderful team of @scientistsforxr.earth members - @abiperrin.bsky.social, @stucap.bsky.social, @traceyelliott.bsky.social, @peteknapp.bsky.social, @thierryaaron.bsky.social, @tristramwyatt.bsky.social and me Please join us! www.scientistsforxr.earth/contact

Social movements play an essential role pushing for action on climate and nature, and it’s now widely recognised that support from scientists can make them more effective But not everyone can take to the streets or risk arrest That’s ok – there’s lots we can do in other ways 🧵1/

A date for your diary: Q&A with three scientists about direct action and alliances with the LGBTQ+ community At @thecommonpress.bsky.social in Shoreditch, London 17th Sept, 7-9pm www.outsavvy.com/event/28776/... Book published by @omarabooks.bsky.social

A date for your diary: Q&A with three scientists about direct action and alliances with the LGBTQ+ community At @thecommonpress.bsky.social in Shoreditch, London 17th Sept, 7-9pm www.outsavvy.com/event/28776/... Book published by @omarabooks.bsky.social

Imperial Zero Index is a “rigourous” new framework they have rolled out “to assess which companies have a strategic commitment to decarbonisation, and are taking concrete steps towards operationalising that commitment” Does this mean they will finally say no to toxic industries? 1/n

BREAKING: Scientists are occupying the Prudential Regulation Authority (PRA) in London. They are demanding capital requirements for fossil fuels to urgently address climate breakdown. 🧵1/10

Universities like @imperialcollegeldn.bsky.social defend working with Shell because they are aligned with these ‘Science-Based Targets’. Now they have abandoned them, these ‘science-based’ universities will try to find new ways to legitimise their working relationships with these companies, or not?

🧵Members of Health for XR are supporting the #HeatStrike campaign this week by holding outreach sessions on the threat to health of extreme heat outside St Thomas’ hospital in London and the Royal Albert Edward Hospital in Wigan - healthforxr.com?p=3824&previ...

Join @scientistsforxr.earth for a Q&A session on climate justice and #ScientistsOnSurvival at @thecommonpress.bsky.social on Thursday 31st July 2025 at 7:00 PM 🥼 Get your ticket here ➡️ buff.ly/rkMYZa5 #BookSky #ClimateAction

A quote from ‘Serving the Reich’ that is as pertinent today as it was in 1930s Germany: “The sense of helpless fatalism among the academic scientists seems not so much misjudged as calculatedly self-serving. The Hungarian physicist Leo Szilard, working at the University of Berlin in 1933 said…” 1/n

Reform UK’s Richard Tice says “We’re on the side of the British People, not the vested interests” … yet between 2019 and 2024, Reform received more than 90% of its funding, £2.3 million, from individuals and companies linked to polluting industries and climate science denial. From @desmog.com

Who actually thinks about what sea level rise means? Sea level, on average, has risen some 10cm in the last 30 years or so. It’s now rising at 3.9mm per year, compared to 10 years before that when it was 2.5mm per year. What are the implications for the average person?

🧵/ It's too hot this evening to be outside 🥵 so I decided to sit indoors in the cool & sort through some old papers from uni papers I'd been meaning to clear out. & I came across this clipping of an editorial from @newscientist.com from 2006! It makes for some grim reading...

Politicians should not be allowed to make bald faced lies & face no consequences for it. Democracy fares badly if the truth is neglected- just look at the US for evidence of that! Badenoch's flat wrong to say that emissions reductions are bankrupting us - the direct opposite is the case 🧵

Thread summarising "The petrochemical historical bloc: Exposing the extent and depth of opposition to a high ambition plastics treaty" @policyrelevant.bsky.social et al 1) >50% of the world's countries want to limit plastic production, 2024 negotiations blocked by Saudi Arabia, Russia, China, etc.

A great 2-part podcast on air pollution: the history, health impacts, ULEZ, wood burning, inequality, and importance of holistic views. Measuring, reporting, and leaving it to politicians doesn’t work. We must change what we do @drgaryfuller.bsky.social is interviewed: envirohealthpodcast.co.uk

Reason not to have plastic grass #243 It catches fire in a heatwave. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... @chrisgpackham.bsky.social

Q&A with three of our scientists in London on 31st July at the queer bookshop Common Press, talking about our book about queer scientist activism www.outsavvy.com/event/28776/... Pay what you can @gaylondonlife.bsky.social @thecommonpress.bsky.social @lgbtiqagreens.bsky.social

📢 Dr Stephanie Williamson, @scientistsforxr.earth: “I’ve come to lobby my MP—we asked him what’s happening with the #CANBill. If the Government is serious about addressing climate and nature in a coherent framework, we need priority action on that.” 🐝 zerohour.uk 💚 #ActNowChangeForever

About 1500 of the approx. 2300 people that will have lost their lives across 12 European cities last week would still live, if it wasn't for our burning of oil, coal and gas. If we care about the right to life, we need to stop burning fossil fuels. www.imperial.ac.uk/grantham/pub...

By sentimentalising the summer of 1976, we strip away its lessons.

Do you wonder what a radically abundant university could look like? And how could we get there? Then check out our paper "Degrowth and decolonisation in academia: Intersecting strategies towards transformation" Now out in the community-run #Degrowth Journal: www.degrowthjournal.org/publications...

Who are Patriots for Europe? They are a far-right supergroup with members from many far right parties in Europe. They are now in charge of negotiating the EU's next climate target. They call to “abandon” the European Green Deal, or climate neutrality by 2050. Why does this matter? 1/5

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“Too many people in power or with platforms have not yet understood that we’re in a war of language – and a war of the truth – about the climate. And too few of us are actively standing in the way of that.” Lobby your MP. Show your concern, your anger, your fear. Now. @scientistsforxr.earth

Frightening data. Extreme heat is deadly in its own right, as well as increasing wildfire risk, air pollution & the spread of disease. “#ClimateChange is making heatwaves more frequent, more intense, & impacting larger geographical areas”

"Under a 1.5 °C pathway, 52% of people born in 2020 will experience unprecedented lifetime exposure to heatwaves. If global warming reaches 3.5 °C by 2100, this fraction rises to 92% for heatwaves, 29% for crop failures and 14% for river floods" www.nature.com/articles/s41...

👏 📨 Great to see campaigners in South Cambridgeshire, Beckenham and Penge, and Vauxhall and Camberwell Green posting their constituency’s open letter to Keir Starmer—calling on him to give the Climate and Nature Bill an emergency debate and vote! 🐝 action.zerohour.uk #CANBill

👏 📮 In Cambridge, South West Norfolk, Derby South and Wells and Mendip Hills, campaigners posted their constituency’s open letter to Keir Starmer—calling on him to give the Climate and Nature Bill an emergency debate and vote! 🐝 action.zerohour.uk #CANBill @scientistsforxr.earth