Claire Boardman

Insightful. This really shows how far we have drifted.

Could solar panels help strengthen global food security? - Positive News A Canadian study suggests solar farms could increase global crop yields by hundreds of billions of pounds, thanks to the protective microclimate created beneath their panels

Prepare for the worst while at the same time minimising its impact. I took part in an
interesting discussion re: the different traditions and sustainable development of urban farming recently. Personally, I'd be happy to see renewables and human food crops on greenbelt land: tinyurl.com/yunxhbrm

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#Standupforscience, the social science edition! It’s no surprise this administration’s assault is hitting hard the social sciences: hobbling work on society & culture stymies everything from green transformation to reversing biodiversity loss to public health. Take back the social sciences today!💪🏼

Could solar panels help strengthen global food security? - Positive News A Canadian study suggests solar farms could increase global crop yields by hundreds of billions of pounds, thanks to the protective microclimate created beneath their panels

Solar farms could increase global crop yields by hundreds of billions of pounds, thanks to the protective microclimate created beneath their panels.
www.positive.news/environment/...

Over on the other site, French army’s @TimLeberre reports that Blue Shield emblems have been placed on the roofs of cultural properties in Iran, including the Mausoleum of Baba Taher, in accordance with the 1954 Hague Convention for the Protection of Cultural Property in the Event of Armed conflict.

Wow and congratulations to the whole team. Looking forward to the launch event and diving in! 💪

Such a valuable, inspiring new resource. So much work! 🙏

"For more than a century, women’s grassroots organisations across Ireland and the UK have driven meaningful change, from equal pay and rural electrification, to environmental protection and tackling gender-based violence."

Water Security Atlas, adjusted to show parts of the world growing drier or wetter. Showing part of Greenland, the Arctic, Antarctic, Africa Europe, the Middle East, part of Asia.

Meanwhile, as climate change alters groundwater & rainfall, some parts of the world are growing drier, others wetter. You can explore changes in your part of the work, using our Water Security Atlas:

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Rebecca Solnit Says the Left’s Next Hero Is Already Here

"Maybe changing the world is more like caregiving than it is like war."

- @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social

Calling everyone in #Boston and #Massachusetts - today's the day! Come and join us at the National Day of Action Rally to #SaveScience, #ProtectHealth, and #DefendDemocracy. We need all of you there!
#March7Boston #StandUpForScience #SUFS #ScienceMatters #ResearchSky #AcademicSky

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Great work, Alastair - got me thinking!!

Event into at https://www.westminster-abbey.org/abbey-events/lectures-and-talks/2026/april/lunchtime-talk-english-history-through-poetry?_gl=1*1q1mnda*_up*MQ..*_gs*MQ..&gclid=CjwKCAiAtq_NBhA_EiwA78nNWIrv6VMjmtuc3Yh8lVcpBuRTscIhNFf5TU1kys-60-QCagTTJks54BoCNS4QAvD_BwE

A photo collage showing me in Poets' Corner, along with memorials for Tennyson, T S Eliot, Henry James, Lewis Carroll, Geoffrey Chaucer, Edward Thomas and others

I'm excited to be giving a #WestminsterAbbey Lunchtime Talk on Weds 15 April. Inspired by my book #AHistoryOfEnglandIn25Poems, discover how poetry can connect us with the past. We'll encounter familiar voices and forgotten stories. Who gets memorialised, and who does not? #PoetsCorner #history #talk

'I just love doing it': Meet the B.C. man winning international awards for his maps | CBC News When Jeff Clark sits down to create a map, he says his goal is clear: to tell people a story about the beauty of the landscape they are viewing.

Love seeing folks in our sector getting the attention they deserve. And of course a CaGIS award! You had me at maps. @rcgssgrc.bsky.social @rgs.org @geographers.bsky.social @cangeographers.bsky.social #cartography #gis #geography
( @deepseadawn.bsky.social SAG? :-) )

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Call for expressions of interest — Trans Cosmologies 2: Art, Ritual & Memory - 30 Apr–1 May 2026
Artists, researchers & activists from across Scotland are invited to contribute to this two-day multimedia gathering exploring memory, ritual, cosmology and resistance.
Contact Safet safet.hm@stir.ac.uk

Happy International Women's Day! I'm going to celebrate it by existing and calling for an end to mansplaining.

Great talk! So glad it was recorded. Thank you, Guy.

This was such a great talk. Well deserving of a re-watch.

An End-to-End View of AI Safety In this blog, Rachel Coldicutt OBE, Executive Director, Careful Industries discusses our newly published literature review on the safe adoption of artificial intelligence in engineered systems.

This is where we are with the findings on our foresight review www.lrfoundation.org.uk/news/an-end-... if you're working on sociotechnical assurance or safety by design am v keen to hear of best practice ...

It's hard to say no when there are so few other development/employment options in play.

I've been thinking the same thing recently.

Everyone who's been paying attention to the tech industry.

I woke up thinking about this today & a video posted by women academics supposedly in support of women/international women's day. I'm back thinking about how, depending on circumstances, someone can be the right or wrong kind of different. 🤔 I should just do a TED talk and get it out of my system!

Muna in the sunshine in front of her title slide for Wadi Gaze with the textures and histories of a river map.

Our third CISA seminar and the brilliance of Muna Dajani and how to speak of a river! Oh how she presenced that 9km of the Wadi in Gaza - people and heritage and ecologies!!
A big thank you to our amazing audience for their thoughtful questions and insightful discussion -

Thank you for this series, Matt. One of my go-to resources 🙌

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What can I say ... I get there in the end!! 😁

As the Joint Statement on Fairer Data Centres in Australia says, the 1st of 8 minimum requirements Data Centres should comply with is to "be powered by 100% additional renewables"

If inability to comply means no cloud services, I'm good with that

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