To me this was a highlight of the @nebriefing.bsky.social A vital perspective from an "establishment source", traditionally listened to by the right-wing, from a sector that knows how to handle risks, threats and emergencies. Well worth a listen.

Look out!

I’ve become a professional professional and joined LinkedIn. I’ve no idea how it works or what I’m doing there. Please like, follow and subscribe 🤷‍♀️ www.linkedin.com/in/helen-mil...

Absolutely glorious thread on the Telegraph's "Whisper it" series. I would "whisper it", too, if I was putting out this much drivel...

God bless us, every one.

Take a journey through time down a new NSF COLDEX ice core borehole just completed by the team in #Antarctica! If you’re at #AGU25 stop by the COLDEX booth in the Exhibit Hall to talk to COLDEX team members from across the 15-institution center funded by NSF! @agu.org Follow us on IG @ coldex_stc

Meanwhile, in London

She was a girl from Birmingham She just had an abortion She was a case of insanity Her name was Pauline She lived in a tree.

Antarctica’s future beyond 2100: high emissions would drive major long-term ice loss, finds new PIK study. The West Antarctic Ice Sheet’s long-term collapse becomes virtually certain under high emissions; strong mitigation would limit sea-level rise contribution. www.pik-potsdam.de/en/news/late...

Advertising a fully-funded PhD studentship (3.75 years, inc. 3 month internship with S&T Norway) @cpom-uk.bsky.social, Northumbria, UK: "The Role of Landfast Sea Ice in Antarctic Ice Shelf Stability: Integrating Earth Observation with Low-Carbon AI Modelling" More details: tinyurl.com/yc7v3t5r 🧪❄️🛰️

Happy #AntarcticaDay 🇦🇶 If you're interested in learning more about the Antarctic Treaty, visit ASOC's website: www.asoc.org/learn/antarc...

Ben Santer writes. It's worth reading.

Tonight’s TOTP highlight was a dancing pantomime camel: youtu.be/5sIbqrJBZAA

How could I forget, here's the UK version

I'd like to see the response to this if the question added "if that that means universities have less money to spend on UK students".

Reflections on COP30 Global Mutirão final decision text:

Climate Diplomacy Brief - #COP30 day 12 **ENDGAME - MAKE IT END** The COP30 negotiations have been a mess, but we’ll always remember Belém and its wonderful people

On my way to London for some COP30 appropriate music #Radiohead youtu.be/FxlYPR8MEvY

The script writers of reality are a bit too on the nose today.

WHEN WILL COP30 END? The presidency says Friday. The schedule says Friday. Recent history says otherwise… PLACE YOUR BETS! Carbon Brief is running its annual sweepstake – enter here:

The livestream from the Cryosphere Pavilion at #COP30 is up and running. See the schedule here: iccinet.org/cop30-cryosp...

Antarctica – a land of penguins and polar ice caps! It's a vast polar desert largely covered in ice, and has been for over 30 million years. However, it's also one of the fastest changing places on Earth... (1/5)

We're living strong #climate adaptation messaging in the #COP30 press conf room... (either that or the last presser was exceptionally funny)

Here is a map view of the record high temperatures in October 2025 across the #Antarctic. Compare this blob of anomalies greater than 5°C with the Arctic from my earlier post. Yikes! Data from doi.org/10.24381/cds... using a 1981-2010 reference period.

As the United Nations marks the 2025 International Year of Glaciers’ Preservation and the opening of COP30 in Brazil, I'm happy to have been able to contribute a chapter to a new UK National Commission for UNESCO report on "Glaciers and Ice Sheets in a Warming World: Impacts and Outcomes". (1/2)

Here's a look at the extent of the "warmth" across the #Arctic in October. This map uses my normal anomaly scaling for each month, but it clearly doesn't work for something this extreme. Data from doi.org/10.24381/cds...

Come and study for a PhD with me @ncl-geography.bsky.social!

Hektoria Glacier in the news: www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

New study in Nature by Lin et al shows how the sea-level rise from the melting Ice Age ice (a total of 120 meters rise) ended thousands of years ago. Until our fossil fuel use started a new phase of rising seas. Graph shows the global mean rate of sea level rise. 🌊 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

If you need cheering up on this dark, rainy Friday evening, I recommend listening to Jarvis Cocker tell the story about the time he fell out of a window while trying to impress a girl: youtu.be/qK84-2u3t74

❄️ Calling all glaciology PhD students! ❄️ Applications are now open for next year’s Karthaus Summer School. It’s a great experience and you will be very well fed. Apply here: www.projects.science.uu.nl/iceclimate/k...

Alright let me tell you a story about a prominent scientist in my field and my first conference. This was in the days when most had adopted PowerPoint, but some of the older folks still showed up with actual physical slides to show on one of those old fashioned overhead projectors.

📣 We are advertising a range of glaciology/polar PhD projects at @geogdurham.bsky.social funded by @iapetusdtp.bsky.social. ❄️ For more information on these projects, and info on eligibility, support for under-represented groups, and how to apply, visit durhamglaciology.wordpress.com/opportunities/

Ahead of #COP30, a team of climate policy experts including PIK director Johan Rockström warn in a commentary in Nature that low-quality carbon offsets are undermining global decarbonisation efforts, calling for stronger standards, real removals and fewer excuses: www.pik-potsdam.de/en/news/late...

Our new Global Tipping Points report is out today: global-tipping-points.org Read the whole thing here: global-tipping-points.org/resources-gt... #GTPR2025 #COP30 @exeter.ac.uk @wwf.org.uk @gsiexeter.bsky.social @pik-potsdam.bsky.social @wwfbrasil.bsky.social

It’s a beautiful day to be bog coring on Dartmoor

It’s me.

Very sad that we’ve lost wonderful Jilly Cooper. I’ll be re-watching the brilliant Rivals tonight in her honour. youtu.be/VkiwhYkz20Q 💋 🐎 🍾

Always worth remembering that the actions of the Suffragettes were often not 'peaceful': sustained campaigns of arson, vandalism & in some instances assault. If anyone tried that today they would likely end up in prison for a very long time. @rogerhallam.com got 5 years for attending a Zoom call.

Inside the ice lab @bas.ac.uk where the oldest ice recovered from Antarctica (at least 1.2 million years old) is being analysed: www.bbc.co.uk/news/videos/...

One element for #COP30 trackers to keep an eye on... India has been virtually silent in climate-related fora since COP29 + no NDC to boot. Delhi was vocally annoyed post Baku + maybe this is the response. But raises question: what are they up to?

If I was a politician and didn’t know better, I’d think SSP5 - 8.5 sounds great. Economic and social development! Rapid technological progress! Investments in health and education! Maybe a more realistic definition would be helpful?

Not all tories have embraced the post-truth era the party leadership have descended into

mood

Polar scientists meeting at @royalsociety.org in London this week are issuing a stark warning: dramatic and extreme changes in Antarctica are happening faster than expected, with consequences that will affect everyone on the planet. www.bas.ac.uk/media-post/a...

Want to explain #polarClimate and why #Geoengineering doesn't belong there to kids? Try this excellent Frontiers for Young Minds piece by @helenmillman.bsky.social et al: kids.frontiersin.org/articles/10....

Just found out that we can request an armed guard to walk us to class. Yeah, things are going great on campus.

"I'm afraid I was very, very vulnerable in the night-time economy"