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Amy Jackson
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Evolutionary Biologist 🏝️🧬👩🏼‍💻

Likes island plants & crop sustainability
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Looking to do a PhD at Kew?
We partner with leading universities across the UK to tackle urgent questions in plant & fungal science – from AI-driven evolution to the effects of climate change 🌍

See what opportunities we have: kew.org/phd-opportunities

Some examples 🧵👇

#PlantScience #PhD
November 5, 2025 at 12:46 PM
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Jane Goodall was my first childhood hero, as I loved animals as a kid and was inspired by her story. I still remember the National Geographic specials about her. RIP.
October 1, 2025 at 8:05 PM
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At a time when we need more of her and less of the rest, it is our great loss.

Eternally grateful for the kindness with which she lived by example, her revolutionary study of chimpanzees that shifted scientific understanding of animals and nature, and decades of advocating for a humane world.
October 1, 2025 at 7:02 PM
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Rest in peace, Dr. Jane Goodall💚
October 1, 2025 at 6:22 PM
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Good morning with good news: Solar repays its upfront CO2 debt from manufacturing in 4 months and 57 times over its life!

Solar is 19x cleaner than coal per kWh.

Solar is 8x cleaner than gas per kWh.

Gas is dirty, not "clean!"
#energysky interactive.carbonbrief.org/factcheck/so...
August 31, 2025 at 12:36 PM
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“Your degree is useless,” they said.
August 31, 2025 at 10:04 PM
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Farmer confidence battered by climate change – new research

Over 80% of farmers are concerned about the impact of climate change on their ability to make a living, as more than four fifths say extreme weather has hit their productivity.
eciu.net/media/press...
Farmer confidence battered by climate change – new research
Over 80% of farmers are concerned about the impact of climate change on their ability to make a living, as more than four fifths say extreme weather has hit their productivity
eciu.net
July 8, 2025 at 8:30 AM
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Our new paper updating key metrics in the IPCC is now out, and the news is grim:

⬆️ Human induced warming now at 1.36C
⬆️ Rate of warming now 0.27C / decade
⬆️ Sharp increase in Earth's energy imbalance
⬇️ Remaining 1.5C carbon budget only 130 GtCO2

essd.copernicus.org/...
Indicators of Global Climate Change 2024: annual update of key indicators of the state of the climate system and human influence
Abstract. In a rapidly changing climate, evidence-based decision-making benefits from up-to-date and timely information. Here we compile monitoring datasets (published at https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.15639576; Smith et al., 2025a) to produce updated estimates for key indicators of the state of the climate system: net emissions of greenhouse gases and short-lived climate forcers, greenhouse gas concentrations, radiative forcing, the Earth's energy imbalance, surface temperature changes, warming attributed to human activities, the remaining carbon budget, and estimates of global temperature extremes. This year, we additionally include indicators for sea-level rise and land precipitation change. We follow methods as closely as possible to those used in the IPCC Sixth Assessment Report (AR6) Working Group One report. The indicators show that human activities are increasing the Earth's energy imbalance and driving faster sea-level rise compared to the AR6 assessment. For the 2015–2024 decade average, observed warming relative to 1850–1900 was 1.24 [1.11 to 1.35] °C, of which 1.22 [1.0 to 1.5] °C was human-induced. The 2024-observed best estimate of global surface temperature (1.52 °C) is well above the best estimate of human-caused warming (1.36 °C). However, the 2024 observed warming can still be regarded as a typical year, considering the human-induced warming level and the state of internal variability associated with the phase of El Niño and Atlantic variability. Human-induced warming has been increasing at a rate that is unprecedented in the instrumental record, reaching 0.27 [0.2–0.4] °C per decade over 2015–2024. This high rate of warming is caused by a combination of greenhouse gas emissions being at an all-time high of 53.6±5.2 Gt CO2e yr−1 over the last decade (2014–2023), as well as reductions in the strength of aerosol cooling. Despite this, there is evidence that the rate of increase in CO2 emissions over the last decade has slowed compared to the 2000s, and depending on societal choices, a continued series of these annual updates over the critical 2020s decade could track decreases or increases in the rate of the climatic changes presented here.
essd.copernicus.org
June 18, 2025 at 11:10 PM
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Woah! Such an important study published in Nature today! Quick thread with some of their key figures!
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June 19, 2025 at 3:10 AM
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Brilliant news! At last, confirmation that the Govt *will* go ahead with the #NaturalHistoryGCSE 🎉 We have to get to know our fellow travellers on this planet again. Young people who know & love nature are far more likely to protect & restore it - as well as enjoying better physical & mental health
Department for Education confirms launch of natural history GCSE
Campaigners have been calling for the qualification for years but plan stalled despite a curriculum being drawn up
www.theguardian.com
March 21, 2025 at 3:54 PM
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our biology greenhouse has two (!) devil’s tongue mini corpse flowers (amorphophallus konjac) in bloom right now! they’re so cute compared to the giant corpse flower that bloomed last year 🤩🤩
January 23, 2025 at 8:42 PM
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🌟 Throwback to my 2020 research published in @science.org 🌼🐝 We showed how bumble bees actively shape their environment—making plants flower earlier to meet their needs. Nature’s engineers in action! 🧪🌏
Sharing this for anyone who missed it—let’s dive in! [1/17] 👇
November 27, 2024 at 10:59 AM
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Spotted in the rock garden at work 🦊
November 20, 2024 at 10:38 AM
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ok ok I have tried to pull together a list of all the natural history museums and people who work at them!

Unsurprisingly this is very NHM London biased, so if you work at or know of other natural history museums on here then let me know! 👇
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November 10, 2024 at 1:42 PM
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Started a starter pack for botanist!

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November 10, 2024 at 4:15 PM