Human Geography Teaching Fellow job opp at @sotongeogenviron.bsky.social - it’s a friendly school with lovely colleagues

we’re back here again

Mine are older, but last week I was looking at their toddler pictures - fondly reminiscing. I completely forgot about the mixing and the stuffing of random stuff phase: spoons in dvd players, tea towels under sofas, biscuits in places you never thought someone could squish a biscuit!

Study finds ChatGPT Health did not recommend a hospital visit when medically necessary in more than half of cases. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

I continue to be fascinated by the phenomenon whereby an expert engages with any of the LLMs on their field of expertise and is instantly horrified by the wrong answers, and then goes on to use it for things they are not experts in as though it won’t be just as bad for those.

Criminally funny, but also I'm crying inside Norway comes for the #TechBros www.forbrukerradet.no/breakingfree vimeo.com/1168468796?f...

I work on climate adaptation - which means I believe we can innovate and prepare for some amount of anthropogenic climate change. However i also assume we rapidly reduce our emissions and sequester huge amounts of GHGs. Lower temp tipping points 1-2C) terrify me. We are unprepared

Petrochemicals for plastic are, says Beth Gardiner, “expected to be the largest single driver of oil demand in the decades to come." Oil companies understand that the shift away from fossil fuels is a threat to their profitable business model. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

As someone who works on the impacts of climate change I am embarrassed to my core to admit that prior to reading this article I had not made the link between #GHG emissions and plastic use. Plastic production = 3.3% of total CO2 emissions. ourworldindata.org/ghg-emission...

I tried to take a photo of a grasshopper on my windshield, but now it looks like a gigantic bug destroying the town.

excellent thread on research paper reviewing knowledge of risks of #AMOC weakening by 2100. AMOC collapse has global impacts and cd cause extreme cooling in Europe, and accelerated sea-level rise along the US Atlantic coast. Spoiler: AMOC weakening is likely under all SSPs

Yesterday it was cows using tools, today its penguins using satellite imagery.

Brilliant article about our lovely London and why some UK politicians (and American ones) are engaged in a fake smear campaign

Fast-forward to 2025 and Sir Stephen Fry is supporting our appeal to safeguard the Giant’s lair. Your donation today will help us raise the funds we need to rise to the occasion: buff.ly/j1w0Mbn

Ah thank you for this beauty to make me smile!

After 9 straight years with a landfalling hurricane—and a record 5 straight (2020-2024) with a major hurricane landfall—the U.S. escaped any hurricane landfalls in 2025. With the unprecedented disarray affecting FEMA and NOAA, we were extremely fortunate not to be tested by a major hurricane!

If you’d like to hear Ben Santer talking about this “arc of history” from the IPCC’s discernible influence finding 30 years ago to the present, then his talk at CRU’s 50th anniversary is a nice intro to climate fingerprinting youtu.be/ZinW-m2GDvU?...

A wonderful and extremely personal review of the state of climate science 30 years on by one of the world's leading #climate scientists. thebulletin.org/2025/11/a-cl...

From Copernicus: This shows how the expected date for breaching 1.5C has been creeping ever closer in recent years. The orange date shows the baseline for the extrapolation; the red date shows when 1.5C is breached based on the trend...

Excited to share #PhD in @unisouthampton.bsky.social with www.findaphd.com/phds/project... on “The Volcanic Mind” using volcanic risk reduction lessons to explore how resilience emerges from the interplay between emotional trust and deliberative confidence in times of crisis

Surreal but excellent video about how we interact with nature. I’d have loved a sci-fi ending where killer bacteria lead the next transformation…

❄️ We’ve issued an amber warning for snow, with further warnings for snow and ice across parts of the UK. Stay safe with our #WeatherReady tips www.metoffice.gov.uk/blog/2025/me...

GCSE students from three local schools came onto campus to learn about the flood risks affecting Southampton. They took part in interactive workshops with the More Than Maps team, learning about the models and methods used to assess and adapt to flood risks. southampton.ac.uk/geography/ne...

@climatecentral.org hired the NOAA scientist who was in charge of maintaining the billion dollar weather disaster data set and is going to continue it! Here is the new home of the Billion Dollar Disaster's data set: www.climatecentral.org/climate-serv...

Today, the U.S. faces one billion+ dollar climate/weather disaster on average every 2w. That's a massive increase from one every 4m in the 1980s. This is 'global weirding' and people are taking notice! The government told NOAA to stop tracking these events: but @climatecentral.org is on the job.

Exciting #PhD with @vickydominguez.bsky.social @sotongeogenviron.bsky.social "Flood-driven habitat change and the spread of aquatic invasive species at University of Southampton" www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

Exciting ecology #PhD opportunity with @vickydominguez.bsky.social at @sotongeogenviron.bsky.social using stable isotopes, #remotesensing and #ecologicalmodelling to find out more about the #biodiversity of afrotropical river systems. www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

We've got some fantastic nature news to brighten your day 🎉 Wicken Fen has become the first UK nature reserve to record an incredible 10,000 species. A moth that imitates a wasp was the 10,000th species to be recorded. This work is possible thanks to a major grant from The Nature Recovery Project.

Bluesky feed is like ------------------ we're doomed ------------------ we're doomed ------------------ we're doomed ------------------ cute kitty! ------------------ we're doomed ------------------ we're doomed ------------------ [adult content] ------------------ we're doomed ------------------

#Rydercup - why am i watching someone warm up? I haven’t seen any shots from Lowry, Hatton or Macintyre - are they still playing @skysportspl.bsky.social

#Rydercup fails by @skysportspl.bsky.social 1. Endless shots of fans, players walking, landscape or so-mo of players staring - missing the golf. 2. SOOO many adverts - missing the golf. 3. Split screen of 2 simultaneously shots - why? Who can watch both? @bbc or @itv pls take back #rydercup

@skysportpl.bsky.social worst #RyderCup ever due to TOO MANY ADVERTS so missing a lot of golf and horrible braying mob creating miserable viewing.

Our new season of urban stargazing events starts on Tuesday 16th September at 6.30pm. Introduction to Urban Stargazing including an exclusive walk into the reserve to identify constellations (weather permitting - we’ll still go out but be wary of cloud cover). www.wildlondon.org.uk/events/2025-...

If you were a user or admirer of NOAA’s amazing climate.gov website - which has had all the good stuff (e.g., actual data and climate monitoring indices) removed by government - some web and data gurus/guerrillas are about to launch a recreation at climate.us. Follow @climate.us for launch updates.

Like I've said before, if you have any doubts about climate change, just go to a super-boring insurance conference and listen to the super-boring panels where they dryly talk about the growing threat of disasters so catastrophic and unpredictable in scope they simply cannot be insured at any price.

"These changes result in significant declines in suitable habitats for important calcifying species, including 43% reduction in habitat for tropical and subtropical coral reefs, up to 61% for polar pteropods, and 13% for coastal bivalves" onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Thank you @michaelrosenyes.bsky.social for this poem in @theguardian.com. I work with amazing people from all over the world. Spain, Ireland, Philippines, India, Iraq, Syria, Poland and many other countries. Labour's language around immigration is so disappointing.

🛰️ Summer School in Geospatial & AI 📍 hosted by Southampton Geospatial @unisouthampton.bsky.social 📅 14–18 July 2025 🔗 go.soton.ac.uk/h4y ⏳ Deadline: 30 June 2025 Course explores AI & deep learning methods and real-world geospatial data challenges

Y'all wished you looked this good at 135 years old, but the wisteria at Greys Court in Oxfordshire has you beat. Photo: Hugh Mothersole

with @emilycwilkinson.bsky.social thinking about how to turn #sargassum into an opportunity theconversation.com/how-a-toxic-... in @theconversation.com

For all climate adaptation and hazard resilience people this is a wonderful opportunity

Folks in the Southhampton UK area, seats still available for Wednesday's #ScienceUnderSiege lecture @unisouthampton.bsky.social, based on my forthcoming book (via @publicaffairs1796.bsky.social & @scribepub.bsky.social) w/ the great @peterhotezmdphd.bsky.social

Join me at @unisouthampton.bsky.social for “Beyond the Hockey Stick: Climate Lessons from The Common Era” lecture organized by Southampton Marine & Maritime Institute on Tuesday, May 6 from 2:30-4:30PM GMT at National Oceanography Center Southampton: michaelmann.net/events/beyon...

Excited to hear about #climatechange and what’s happening in the USA from @michaelemann.bsky.social who’s visiting @unisouthampton.bsky.social on 6/7 April.

Completely love this 👇 . Mine wd be bold Armageddon feature (I teach climate adaptation) shot in a single take from a drone (ceiling mounted camera) for wide angle perspective

Rebranding my lecture recordings as bold innovative drama shot continuously in a single take.

Link to pre formatted letter of complaint to Meta here actionnetwork.org/letters/auth...

Re META pirated book use. Clear guidance here on what to do if your work was stolen societyofauthors.org/2025/03/21/t... 1 . formally write to meta to complain. 2. Write to your MP. 3. Tell your publisher and add “no AI training” notice on copyright page of your work …

Re META pirated book use. Clear guidance here on what to do if your work was stolen societyofauthors.org/2025/03/21/t... 1 . formally write to meta to complain. 2. Write to your MP. 3. Tell your publisher and add “no AI training” notice on copyright page of your work …

Argh yes ! This 👇