Application deadline: February 18th, 2024, PhD Start: September/October 2024. @drgeorgeadamson.bsky.social @ckweatherill.bsky.social @warrenpearce.bsky.social @estherturnhout.bsky.social @fpvantaggiato.bsky.social maybe of interest to some people in your networks? Feel free to circulate 🙏

New Open Access commentary in The GJ: 'Problems of past anticipations of the future: The case of medical manpower' by Clare Herrick This piece explores the historical difficulties of projecting the future in planning for healthcare systems doi.org/10.1111/geoj... #geosky #geo

New blog on El Nino and extreme temperatures. TL/DR: don't blame El Nino - blame anthropogenic greenhouse emissions. www.kcl.ac.uk/el-nino-not-... #greensky #climatesky #geosky

Not to make light of the alarming surface warming we’re seeing at the moment, but every El Niño observed since 1998 has been ‘weird’

A 'weird' El Nino: some good coverage of the exceptional warmth in 2023 and potential drivers over at the BBC: www.bbc.com/news/science...

Cancel culture www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Strong stench of desperation wafting up the Thames from Westminster today

This made me lol. (Thanks to @washingtonpost.com Climate 202 for pointing it out. OG here www.instagram.com/p/Cy0XHUYtJ2S)

Twitter now is like walking into a party you know you should never have gone to. 'Oh George I hear you're into climate change? You should really hear what my friend Julia Hartley Brewer thinks about it.'

Do young people not use subscript for the '2' in CO2 any more? Has anyone else come across this? It's a 100% failure rate in the essays I'm marking at the moment. #geosky

Goddamnit America

There is this common wisdom among policymakers that getting the energy transition right means understanding the hard sciences. While that’s obviously necessary, it should be now clear that what climate politics needs is a desperate and thorough grasp of history and social studies.

Jeez www.theguardian.com/news/2023/oc...

You know your platform's gone to pot when you're advertising crypto scams

The energy transition won't be successful if it is perceived as something that is happening "to" people. It must be “with” people. Giving communities authentic agency, a stake in the planning process, and a share in revenue when appropriate is the best way to expand the coalition for climate action.

THREAD Rishi Sunak's UK climate policy U-turns "made meeting future targets harder" says @theCCCuk Sunak's cranked up risks to emissions cuts in buildings, transport & electricity Contrary to Sunak, CCC says rollbacks "likely to incr…energy bills & motoring costs for hholds"

idea: bluesky, but without twitter screenshots

Almost exactly a year after the death of Bruno Latour, I now discover Amartya Sen has passed away. A huge loss.

I feel like this site will really come into its own when people stop using it to post about stuff happening on Twitter

So my survey got attacked by some bots, and now I've lost 50% of my data. Please help me get to 1,000 real humans who actually meet my survey criteria? This sad PhD candidate thanks you in advance.

Who or what exactly is a ‘motorist’?