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Emma Tompkins

@eltompkins.bsky.social

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Prof of climate adaptation. Uni of Southampton. Options to reduce damaging weather and climate impacts. Side interest in holopelagic sargassum, nuisance seaweeds, space and cats. Mother of twins. New electric car owner. Swimmer. Image: Ed Hawkins 2025 .. more

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National Trust @nationaltrust.org.uk · 2d

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.

A close-up of a glow-worm with a black plated body and a bright green glowing tail clinging to a stem of grass in the dark

A dark grey moth with bright beige splodges on its wings. It sits of a bright green leaf against a black background

A small brown bird with a cream chest and darker brown tail feathers perches on a reed against a background of blurred brown and green reeds

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Comfortably Numb @numb.comfortab.ly · 8d

Bluesky feed is like

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Emma Tompkins @eltompkins.bsky.social · 11d

#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

Emma Tompkins @eltompkins.bsky.social · 11d

#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

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Emma Tompkins @eltompkins.bsky.social · 12d

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

Emma Tompkins @eltompkins.bsky.social · Sep 2

You ask where this is going … perhaps (1) Elon has realised that men should bear more responsibility for contraception and stop leaving this burden to women. Or (2) he will try to ban contraception to make women constantly pregnant! Who knows? Note: you don’t know me - my question is said with irony

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Michael Lomotey @michaellomotey.bsky.social · Sep 2

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-...

Stargazing at Walthamstow: An Introduction to Urban Astronomy | London Wildlife Trust

Join Stow Stargazers at Walthamstow to learn about and practice urban astronomy and enjoy the reserve after hours.

www.wildlondon.org.uk

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Andrew B. Watkins @windjunky.bsky.social · Aug 30

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.

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Emma Tompkins @eltompkins.bsky.social · Aug 25

Same happened to me. I reported it to the journal editor who is taking action, and our uni library services who are following up. we pay huge amounts for access to high quality journals - the journal publishers need to take action

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Emma Tompkins @eltompkins.bsky.social · Aug 9

Full moon?

Emma Tompkins @eltompkins.bsky.social · Jul 11

Thank you SO much for this - I laughed and laughed and laughed and then searched through my booze cabinet to see if there was any sherry at the back - I’m now making the custard!

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Kate Aronoff @katearonoff.bsky.social · Jun 18

Wild how the Fed chair saying that *entire regions of the United States* won’t be able to get a mortgage in the next decade barely registered as a news event

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Dr. Aaron Thierry @thierryaaron.bsky.social · Jun 11

"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/...

Ocean Acidification: Another Planetary Boundary Crossed

In this study, employing a detailed analysis of ocean carbonate system observations, models and biological assessments, we demonstrate that by year 2020, the average global ocean conditions had alrea...

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Peter Hampshire @peterunner.bsky.social · May 19

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.

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Emma Tompkins @eltompkins.bsky.social · May 19

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

How a toxic seaweed choking Caribbean beaches could become a valuable resource

The sargassum problem is just one of many creeping slow onset events that is being exacerbated by climate change.

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National Trust @nationaltrust.org.uk · May 19

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

A wisteria arch covered in purple flowers leading over a gravel pathway that is flanked either side by luscious floral borders.

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Emma Tompkins @eltompkins.bsky.social · May 14

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

Dr Chris Skinner FRGS @geoskinner.games · May 14

A UKRI Policy Fellowship is available with my employer, The Environment Agency. It is to look at applying social and behavioural science to increase natural hazard resilience in diverse communities.

Might be of interest to the #EGU25 science-policy community.

www.ukri.org/wp-content/u...

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Dr Chris Skinner FRGS @geoskinner.games · May 14

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Michael E. Mann @michaelemann.bsky.social · May 5

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

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Emma Tompkins @eltompkins.bsky.social · Apr 15

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.

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Michael E. Mann @michaelemann.bsky.social · Apr 15

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:

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Beyond the Hockey Stick: Climate Lessons from The Common Era (University of Southampton, UK) | Michael E. Mann

Professor Michael E. Mann will explore how paleoclimate records and climate models of the past two millennia provide key insights into human-caused climate change. Over two […]

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Emma Tompkins @eltompkins.bsky.social · Apr 1

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

Jonathan Birch @birchlse.bsky.social · Apr 1

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

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Jonathan Birch @birchlse.bsky.social · Apr 1

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

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Emma Tompkins @eltompkins.bsky.social · Mar 24

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

Emma Tompkins @eltompkins.bsky.social · Mar 24

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 …

The LibGen data set – what authors can do – The Society of AuthorsXFacebookInstagramVimeoApple PodcastsSearchShopping CartSearchToggle MenuToggle Menu CloseScroll to topScroll to topToggle Menu CloseS...

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Emma Tompkins @eltompkins.bsky.social · Mar 24

Argh yes ! This 👇

Dr Chris Skinner FRGS @geoskinner.games · Mar 24

Dear Journals - it is very irritating that I have to set up an account to turn down review requests. They are not part of my job. I will end up just not replying to your editors. Thank you.

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Dr Chris Skinner FRGS @geoskinner.games · Mar 24

Dear Journals - it is very irritating that I have to set up an account to turn down review requests. They are not part of my job. I will end up just not replying to your editors. Thank you.

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Julie Carpenter, PhD @handle.invalid · Mar 20

Meta used my latest book, along with several of my published articles, to train the AI it plans to profit from on a massive scale.

Authors, search for your name in LibGen "the pirated-books database that Meta used to train AI" here:

www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...

Screen shot of the LibGen search tool with results showing for Julie Carpenter (18 total), starting with my latest book that just came out, "The Naked Android: Synthetic Socialness and the Human Gaze."

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Emma Tompkins @eltompkins.bsky.social · Mar 18

A lovely exploration of the #sargassum issue affecting the tropical Atlantic and islands of the Gulf of Mexico

Matt Bishop @matthewlbishop.bsky.social · Mar 18

New "Small Islands Big Picture" podcast out!

This time, @emilycwilkinson.bsky.social and myself chat to Olivia Losbar from Radio Caraïbes International in Guadeloupe, @eltompkins.bsky.social from Southampton University, and Legena Henry from UWI Barbados about #sargassum

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Smelly seaweed: could Sargassum fuel the future?

The Caribbean has a seaweed problem - and it's just as worrying as it is stinky. Hear from experts on why we should all care about Sargassum, and how new renewable technologies developed by small isla...

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