Prof Helen Bostock

Every time a woman runs for president I hear that she’s too emotional and unstable to make wartime decisions, unlike the men in charge who make really reasonable decisions like bombing kids to death, starting water wars, and poisoning the entire planet

These attacks are focused on eliminating human life - the US is bombing schools and Israel is destroying desalination plants. It is raining oil-soaked acid rain in Tehran

This is why so many have been screaming for years that the climate movement should be paying attention to Gaza

One and a half million people are killed by animals every year. Almost one million by other animals, and more than half a million from direct conflict among ourselves.

Almost all of these deaths from other animals are caused by just two types: mosquitoes and snakes.

Vegetarian diet lowers risk of cancer, Oxford study finds The new study - led by University of Oxford researchers - is the largest ever of its kind.

Reading and acting on this post could well save your life.
www.bbc.com/news/article...

For International Women's Day and Women's History Month, here's the list of Earth science pioneers I've written about so far (compiled in approximate alphabetical order). Page link: https://www.geological-digressions.com/how-to-do-field-tasks/pioneering-women-in-earth-science/

For International Women's Day and Women's History Month, here's the list of Earth science pioneers I've written about so far (compiled in approximate alphabetical order).
Page link: www.geological-digressions.com/how-to-do-fi...
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Our tooth fairy has had to write IOUs before. But also at a certain point when 4 fell out in a week I just waited…. Might have said the tooth fairy was on strike because they knew more were coming. I think that was when she finally twigged!

Are gender gaps due to evaluations of the applicant or the science? A natural experiment at a national funding agency Gender gaps in grant funding are attributable to less favourable assessments of women as principal investigators, not of the quality of their proposed research. We discuss reasons less favourable asse...

It's crucial to confront the systemic barriers women face in research. This study shows that gender gaps in grant funding persist not because of research quality, but because women receive less favourable assessments as PIs. We can and must change this.
🔗 www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
#IWD2026

High-resolution mapping and terrain classification of Halimeda bioherms in the northern Great Barrier Reef Halimeda is a prolific marine calcifying green alga that forms vast green meadows at mesophotic water depths (20–50 m) on tropical continental shelves…

New paper alert. Lead by PhD student Zsanett Szilagyi. Geomorphology of mesophotic Halimeda bioherms - which cover large areas (>6000km2) of the northern Great Barrier Reef and form very distinct honeycomb shapes. Why? Still working on that.

Worldwide, women hold just 64% of the legal rights enjoyed by men.
#IWD2926 UN Secretary-General António Guterres has stressed, “When we are not equal under the law, we are not equal,” adding, “It is time to make justice a reality for women and girls, everywhere.”

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Agency. Equality under the law. Opportunities.

This is the foundation of a gender-equal, sustainable future.

For #InternationalWomensDay I answered a few quick questions from the @unep.org team. My advice? Don’t be intimidated. Make your voice heard.

What advice would you share? Who inspires you?

#IWD2026 Rights. Justice. Action.
We have come a long way - but in no country do women have equal rights to men. #womensrights=humanrights - thinking about all the women who have no rights to dress how they want, to access education, to work, to own property, to control their own bodies.

Check out our #100PolarWomen project where we highlight one amazing woman's stories at a time - and please participate!

womeninpolarscience.org/100polarwomen/

Science powers our country, protects our environment, saves lives, and protects our communities.
The money spent on one bomb could fund a lab. The money spent on one day of war could save thousands of lives.
#StandUpForScience #StandUpForSciencePhilly

In partnership with DCCEEW, Little Rocket produced a groundbreaking six-part documentary series that places Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander knowledges and leadership at the centre of climate change conversations. First shown at COP in Brazil.

This Equatorial Pacific Ocean heat is about to surface:

The Keeling Curve The Keeling Curve is a daily record of global atmospheric carbon dioxide concentration maintained by Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego.

429.01 parts per million (ppm) CO2 in air 04-Mar-2026
keelingcurve.ucsd.edu

Drawdown® Explorer We know what we need to do: stop climate change as quickly as possible. Now, with the Drawdown Explorer, we know how to do it.

6 months since the launch of Drawdown Explorer and the numbers speak for themselves!

📊 500K+ views online
✅ 90 solutions published
📋 158 solutions on our master list - and growing

And we're just getting started!

www.drawdown.org/explorer

#climatesolutions

Four new international Working Groups launched by the Past Global Changes (PAGES) bring together global expertise in paleoclimate science. 🌍

Read an article about these working groups and where some of the leaders come from.

Read article 👉 pastglobalchanges.org/news/138887

Over 40% of global shipping by volume exists to move fossil fuels from one place to another.

A huge share of the world's maritime infrastructure has been built around a system that is going to change dramatically as renewable energy and electrification displace fossil fuels.

Visualizing Climate Change: A Step-by-Step Guide to Reproduce Climate Stripes with Python | Towards Data Science A quick Matplotlib tutorial to build a remarkable visualization

Nice tutorial on re-creating @edhawkins.org Warming Stripes in Python & Matplotlib:

towardsdatascience.com/visualizing-...

My husbands cousin worked as a teacher in Arizona and then at GAP on the weekend to get by. She switched careers because it was not sustainable. What a crazy country where they don’t value teachers. An important job teaching and inspiring our next generation.

Opinion | To Save Life on Earth, Bring Back Taxonomy (Published 2024)

Quote: "We need to be able to interpret genetic data in a way that humans can understand and use. That's taxonomy's job. And if we want to save what's left of the vast diversity of life on Earth, we'll have to reinvest in this science."
www.nytimes.com/2024/07/07/o...

UVs from last week’s sample! Harpacticoida, Cirripedia nauplius (with Asterionellopsis glacialis next to it), Pseudocalanus (with Trieres mobiliensis/regia), not sure - Harpacticoida or Cyclopoida (what do you think?).

#marineplankton 🦑

➡️ careers.noc.ac.uk ⬅️ Full details here!

🚨 A new month rolls around which means our careers highlight is here!

We have some fantastic opportunities to join the National Oceanography Centre at our Southampton and Liverpool sites!

(More in thread!)
#careers #oceanscience #hiring #job #southampton #liverpool #nowhiring #jobsinscience

Call for Applications - Max Planck Postdoc Program, apply now!

The Max Planck #PostdocProgram offers top emerging talents a range of attractive measures and opportunities. The current call for applications is open from March 1st until April 13th, 2026. Please share or consider applying! 🙏
www.mpg.de/en/max-planc... #careerinscience #sciencecareer

Putting the spotlight on corals. We're pleased to share our new film "Cold Water Corals" with expert Dr Erik Cordes is out today. The film features imagery from the recent South Sandwich Islands expedition with @schmidtocean.bsky.social.

Watch the short film: youtu.be/Ur1Fhn7Ox1k?...

Like clockwork, fossil fuel companies will profit from war.

Economists love to point to insurance as the market-based solution for adaptation - allow premiums to reflect risk and adaptation will follow.

In the real world there are limits to the effectiveness of this approach.

Nice commentary by Jo Weil and Jesse Gourevitch:
www.nature.com/articles/s41...