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Sarah Greene @carbonatefan.bsky.social · Dec 11

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<1 wk left to sign up for the EQUATOR 2.0 Mentoring Network, which is ringfenced for Black, Asian and minority ethnic students in Geography, Earth, & Environmental Sciences in the UK.

Professionals and/or academic mentors especially needed!
equatorresearchgroup.wordpress.com/mentoring-ne...

Mentoring Network 2.0

We are delighted to announce the EQUATOR 2.0 Mentoring Network, which will take place from January 2024 to May 2024. This mentoring programme is ringfenced for Black, Asian and minority ethnic student...

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Dr Natasha Dowey @drnatashadowey.bsky.social · Dec 12

..."in the end, the climate crisis is not about pledges, statistics, reports or activists. It’s about human suffering and ruined lives. It’s about death."
#GreenSky #Climatecrisis 🧪⚒️

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

At Cop28 it feels as if humanity’s shared lifeboat is sinking. There are only hours left to act | ...

Leaders and activists must fight to the end in Dubai to stop vested interests sabotaging progress on fossil fuel phase-out and adaptation, says climate activist Vanessa Nakate

www.theguardian.com

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Dr Natasha Dowey @drnatashadowey.bsky.social · Nov 27

I'm not good at being off sick. Luckily, I have a companion who makes lounging look good.

A very fluffy black and white cat lies on a bed, paws in the air.

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Dr Natasha Dowey @drnatashadowey.bsky.social · Nov 24

"Rather than listening to reason or scientific fact, the UK government continues to hand out contracts for oil exploration in the name of false ‘energy security’ while steering the UK towards authoritarianism" 🧪⚒️

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Actors and academics criticise UK over climate ‘madness’ and limits on protest

Letter says government pushing ahead with new fossil fuel projects while criminalising activists who raise alarm

www.theguardian.com

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Dr Natasha Dowey @drnatashadowey.bsky.social · Nov 24

"We have to put class and the studies of inequality between social classes right at the centre of our analyses of environmental challenges in general"

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amp.theguardian.com/environment/...

Ban private jets to address climate crisis, says Thomas Piketty | Climate crisis | The Guardian

French economist says class inequality must be at centre of climate response and calls for progressive carbon taxes

amp.theguardian.com

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Andréas Louis @andreaslouis.bsky.social · Nov 13

Your regular reminder that "Scaling CCS does not mean business-as-usual for the fossil fuel industry"

ETC will be releasing a pre-COP28 report on Fossil Fuels in Transition this week, but for now they published a blog post: www.energy-transitions.org/bitesize/car...

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Dr Natasha Dowey @drnatashadowey.bsky.social · Nov 13

"..the Anishinaabe people have been monitoring anthropogenic climate change long before it was a regular topic of public discussion"

Native Science is real Science.

www.bbc.com/future/artic...

🧪⚒️ #GreenSky

Climate scientists are working with indigenous tribes

Native peoples have long collected environmental data. Now scientists are cataloguing these observations and learning how they're affecting indigenous communities globally.

www.bbc.com

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Dr Natasha Dowey @drnatashadowey.bsky.social · Nov 8

Feel so privileged to work with students from a range of backgrounds, all with different ideas, different experiences, different hope and dreams. Every day, no matter what is happening in academia, it is the teaching that challenges, that satisfies, that lifts me up. #AcademicSky ⚒️🧪

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Dr Natasha Dowey @drnatashadowey.bsky.social · Nov 4

Nowhere near as badly as it was meant to! Got lucky!

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Dr Natasha Dowey @drnatashadowey.bsky.social · Nov 3

Taking Geographers to a classic geology field location and having great conversations about rocks and what they tell us about paleoenvironments and landscape evolution makes me very happy 😍 🧪⚒️ Very positive way to end the week! #LoveGeoscience

Group of students stand in front of a grassy slope and grey rock cliff faces in a limestone valley, Cavedale in Castelton, Peak District

Students make observations of a limestone valley to try to reveal how it was formed. Students stand on green grass, with limestone cliffs and a stone castle in background

Students stand on tarmac track by gate, in front of bracken hummocky land of the Mam Tor landslide. A rainbow in the sky. Mam Tor escarpment in the background. Castleton, UK

Students stand on a tarmac road that has cracked, slipped and fallen downhill. Hummocky landforms in middle ground covered in bracken form oart of the same mass movement event. Flat bottom valley with agriculture and chimney of a cement factory in distance (Hope Valley, UK)

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Dr Natasha Dowey @drnatashadowey.bsky.social · Nov 3

When you go past your field site for the day on the train into work, and all looks beautiful and calm in the morning light... but you know full well that the weather forecast says it will rain cats and dogs on you and your coachload of geography students when you return later today 🤩🫣🤔😫

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Sunrise over Edale, Peak District. Clouds tinged with gold in a pale blue sky float above a grassy ridge, with fields in foreground

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Dr Natasha Dowey @drnatashadowey.bsky.social · Oct 31

Thanks to the contributors to this piece, which was sparked by an interview with a professor who reflected that her role models had all been men.

Now, UK geosci undergrad recruitment is balanced between men & women- but these perspectives show we still have a long way to go 👩🏽‍🔬🧪⚒️ #AcademicSky

Geoscience for the Future @geoforthefuture.bsky.social · Oct 31

Did this *really* happen?!

New blog alert- This month, we are discussing sexism in Geoscience, through a series of anonymous perspectives and with reflections from the Did This Really Happen cartoon team 🙏

We hope the piece sparks conversations- we still have a long way to go.

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bit.ly/3QFlK51

A comic from Did This Really Happen?! A woman gives a PhD presentation. After the talk, a man says "To be honest, I didn't listen to anything you said...I was too busy determining whether you would sleep with me". The woman is furious.

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Dr Natasha Dowey @drnatashadowey.bsky.social · Oct 28

This is the kind of article that may get missed, but its very important. Council trials 4 day working week, with evidenced results of improved health, improved recruitment, improved retention, performance maintained or improved...

Of course, they are told to stop it.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-engl...

Government says council's four-day week should end - BBC News

Councils pursuing a four-day working week are "on notice", says the government.

www.bbc.co.uk

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Dr Natasha Dowey @drnatashadowey.bsky.social · Oct 27

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Nemi Walding @nemiwalding.bsky.social · Oct 27

My first paper is now out!!
“Cohesional behaviours in Pyroclastic material and the implications for deposit architecture” 🌋

Thank you so much to my *incredible* supervisory team and the enthusiastic and thorough reviews from the Editor and 2 reviewers

link.springer.com/article/10.1...

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Dr Natasha Dowey @drnatashadowey.bsky.social · Oct 27

🧪⚒️"When African people get to choose, we choose renewables. But will rich countries finally allow us to determine our own future? They need to meet us halfway instead of tying our hands behind our back with gas pipelines"

Excellent piece by Vanessa Nakate:
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Rich countries should stop pushing fossil fuels on Africa – don’t we deserve a renewable future ...

Those who caused the climate crisis should help Africa harness its wind and sun, says Vanessa Nakate, a UN Unicef goodwill ambassador climate activist

www.theguardian.com

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Dr Natasha Dowey @drnatashadowey.bsky.social · Oct 20

After a long period of being devastated by the news, and feeling completely helpless at the scale of political horror and turmoil around the world, this morning in the UK I woke up to a glimpse of hope... a glimpse of change... and many of us are so, so ready for it 🌟 www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/uk...

Mid Bedfordshire and Tamworth latest: Labour overturns majorities in by-election wins - BBC News

Sir Keir Starmer hails victories in Tamworth and Mid Bedfordshire, saying people "want change".

www.bbc.co.uk

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Dr Natasha Dowey @drnatashadowey.bsky.social · Oct 19

It seems excessive...But we bought a loom. And the loom is lovely. The 5 year old loomed a coaster that she is very proud of. Scarves are next to be loomed. It's chunky and they can't break it or themselves. (So far!)

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Dr Natasha Dowey @drnatashadowey.bsky.social · Oct 15

This week, I'm running the first teaching labs on our new flume here at SHU!🤩 Hope the students enjoy exploring the world of analogue pyroclastic density current modelling, and having a go at designing an experiment! #TeamCatastrophicFlows @volcanologist.bsky.social @pyroclasticpete.bsky.social 🧪⚒️

A photo of a computer screen with the front page of a slide deck. It says "Exploring Hazard Modelling" next a photography of three scientists standing behind a experimental flume in a laboratory. The flume is made of a metal frame with a metal hopper and acrylic sides. A computer and camera are also in the image, in front of the flume.

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Dr Natasha Dowey @drnatashadowey.bsky.social · Oct 12

When you listen back to a live interview in relief that you managed not to massively mess up... 🤣 promoting our undergraduate degree was exhilarating! We are SO passionate about our new course - Climate, Sustainability and Environmental Management! This photo shows nervous pre-interview smiles! 🌱⚒️🌍🧪

A woman with long hair and. Pink scarf sits in front of a man with short hair and a black coat. Behind them is a purple background with "BBC Radio Sheffield" written on it. The two lecturers are smiling nervously at the camera.

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Dr Natasha Dowey @drnatashadowey.bsky.social · Oct 8

Listening to Sufjan Stevens on way to first open day of the year, trying to get into a zen frame of mind... Recruitment feels like an existential crisis in UK #AcademiaSky at the moment. We want to teach, inspire, innovate, but spend a lot of time worrying about numbers & future of our courses 🧪⚒️

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Dr Natasha Dowey @drnatashadowey.bsky.social · Oct 6

From writer Simon Heywood

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Poem above a silhouette of the tree at Sycamore Gap- poem reads "we curse the poor benighted chap who felled the Sycamore at the Gap, but tolerate those richer guys who burn whole forests, seas and skies"

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Dr Natasha Dowey @drnatashadowey.bsky.social · Oct 6

Please sign this important letter. So many people are doing amazing work to make science equitable and accessible for all. The UK government's increasingly worrying rhetoric is very harmful, not just to marginalised groups in science, but to science & society more broadly 👇👇🧪⚒️

Prof Chris Jackson @seismatters.bsky.social · Oct 6

✉️ Some science 🧪 buddies and I have written an open letter to the UK government, strongly opposing their “kicking woke ideology out of science” sentiments, which stand to damage the UK’s scientific standing and ability to deliver for public good.

Please read and consider signing ✍🏻

t.co/H7rNzb0wGh

Letter to Secretary of State re EDI in science

Online survey BOS

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Prof Chris Jackson @seismatters.bsky.social · Oct 6

✉️ Some science 🧪 buddies and I have written an open letter to the UK government, strongly opposing their “kicking woke ideology out of science” sentiments, which stand to damage the UK’s scientific standing and ability to deliver for public good.

Please read and consider signing ✍🏻

t.co/H7rNzb0wGh

Letter to Secretary of State re EDI in science

Online survey BOS

t.co

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Dr Natasha Dowey @drnatashadowey.bsky.social · Oct 6

After an intense 2 weeks of student admin and teaching, have just had an awesome research afternoon, first of all in discussions around a 🌋paper that I'm so glad is finally being written up, and then on volcanoes, poetry, myth and music, with an awesome new collaborative team. Very exciting! 🧪⚒️🌋🎶

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Paul Lehmann @plehmann.bsky.social · Oct 5

The second life of wind turbines 🔌💡 www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scot...

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