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Kevin Blanchard (he/him)
@drrdynamics.bsky.social
Working to contribute to a truly inclusive disaster risk reduction
system = my raison d'etre.

Plus politics (UK, EU & USA), travel & my own (amateur) photography

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Find my latest publications here. Offering my own research and resources on #DRR, resilience, and inclusive approaches to tackling today's most pressing challenges.

(Hopefully) Useful reading for #DRR and #resilience professionals! 📖➡️ drrdynamics.com/publications

#NoNaturalDisasters
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drrdynamics.com
It is bad enough that peer review is not treated as work worthy of payment. Now @emeraldpublishing.bsky.social has emailed to say that even the small token they offered is being withdrawn. 😒

Needless to say, peer reviewing has somehow become even stingier.

#AcademicSky #EduSky
February 10, 2026 at 12:23 PM
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We won't let this go. The UK cracked down on access to gender affirming care and trans youth suicides then the government covered it up. This also came amidst a massive push for anti trans policies more broadly among British political parties.

www.erininthemorning.com/p/trans-yout...
Trans Youth Suicides Skyrocketed In UK After Care Drawdown; Government Covers It Up
A Freedom of Information request to the National Child Mortality Database reveals that 22 trans children under 18 died by suicide in England in 2021-22 alone.
www.erininthemorning.com
February 9, 2026 at 6:40 PM
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Operational Outage, Ignition and Wildfire Risk Modeling at PG&E Webinar, Feb 6 https://ow.ly/pb7j50Y7lcf
February 2, 2026 at 7:45 PM
Hospitals in the UK currently have long waiting times. Don’t be a dick to the staff about it. It’s really not their fault

#ProtectTheNHS
February 2, 2026 at 1:04 PM
7 years ago today we saw a masterclass in how not to demonstrate gender equality.

#Gender #InclusiveDRR
January 28, 2026 at 8:49 AM
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January 27, 2026 at 12:55 AM
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You know Alex Pretti & Renee Good—the 2 white people ICE killed.

ICE has also killed Keith Porter, a Black man, Parady La, a Cambodian man, & 5 Latinos—Heber Sanchaz Domínguez, Victor Manuel Diaz, Luis Beltran Yanez-Cruz, Luis Gustavo Nunez Caceres, and Geraldo Lunas Campos.

9 TOTAL.

ABOLISH ICE.
January 26, 2026 at 2:32 AM
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As a Philly native & political violence researcher: Philly has a unique historical experience of state violence. Read up on the MOVE bombing. Read up on Frank Rizzo. All jokes/facts a/b Santa & battery throwing aside, that history, along w/ the sports fandom, will feed huge mobilization against ICE.
imgaine getting sent packing with your ass in your own two hands by some of the nicest people in the world and then showing up in a city that is famous for booing santa claus
January 26, 2026 at 6:55 AM
Glorious London sunset this evening
January 23, 2026 at 9:16 PM
There were some really interesting points in @mark-carney.bsky.social speech at #Davos2026 that felt relevant to #InclusiveDRR and international development more broadly.

So I wrote a short piece on it, that can be found here - bit.ly/45n2oIG

Maybe a smaller multilateralism is the way forward?
January 22, 2026 at 9:26 AM
How are we going to explain January 2026 to our grandchildren?

"The US President was throwing a tantrum about not winning a certificate and a medal, so he invaded a country"

#Trump
Not the sort of letter committed to paper by a well man. "Considering your Country decided not to give me the Nobel Peace Prize for having stopped 8 Wars PLUS, I no longer feel an obligation to think purely of Peace"
January 19, 2026 at 7:06 PM
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I have met toddlers more capable of emotional regulation
January 19, 2026 at 1:30 PM
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Dr. Gladys West, the pioneering mathematician whose work laid the foundation for modern GPS technology, has died. She was 95.
Dr. Gladys West, Mathematician Whose Work Made GPS Possible, Dies at 95
ALEXANDRIA, VA — Dr. Gladys West, the pioneering mathematician whose work laid the foundation for modern GPS technology, has died. She passed away
thezebra.org
January 19, 2026 at 6:00 PM
Fuck this world 💔

#Gaza
January 18, 2026 at 8:09 AM
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This Sunday's #disasters & #LGBTQIA+ reading suggestion;

Toward equitable coastal community resilience: Incorporating principles of equity and justice in coastal hazard adaptation (2023) by Natasha Fox, Jenna H. Tilt, Peter Ruggiero, Katie Stanton and John Bolte.

Link bit.ly/3YKRCs4

#InclusiveDRR
January 18, 2026 at 8:03 AM
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'Both Labour and Tories "broke Britain"'

- Robert Jenrick

No, No, No!!!!!!

Your new leader's Brexit broke Britain.
January 15, 2026 at 4:54 PM
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67% of Reform MPs have previously been elected as representatives of the Conservative Party. They broke the country last time; do you trust them to fix it?
January 15, 2026 at 6:07 PM
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This Sunday's #disasters & #LGBTQIA+ reading suggestion is;

The Text Before All Things (2025) by Leah R. Kimber

Link - bristoluniversitypressdigital.com/monochap-oa/...

#InclusiveDRR
January 11, 2026 at 10:39 AM
Dear 77.3million citizens of the USA who voted Republican at the 2024 election - is this what you voted for?

#Trump
January 9, 2026 at 9:22 AM
Anyone know?
January 8, 2026 at 6:07 PM
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Do Americans ever ever have a moment when they realize that they themselves have been one of the most destabilizing forces in geopolitics? That the violence and harm they’ve caused has destroyed generations? Or no?
Tom Emmer: "Donald Trump is the president of peace and what he's doing is stabilizing the region"
January 5, 2026 at 1:24 PM
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Super excited to announce a new Kyrgyz translation for our #NoNaturalDisasters factsheet:

bit.ly/NND_Kyrgyz
January 4, 2026 at 9:05 AM
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"What about cruises?"

Whole-ass article about vacations being disrupted. Because that's what matters to the NYT & its readers. They probably put a reporter on this the minute they saw the news that they chose to not share.

archive.is/202601040349...
January 4, 2026 at 7:01 AM
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The casualties already coming in. Grandmothers in their apartments….
January 3, 2026 at 7:21 PM