@cabot-institute.bsky.social
Interdisciplinary environmental research and education community at the University of Bristol. Food security, water, low carbon energy, city futures, environmental change, natural hazards & disaster risk, climate change & health. www.bristol.ac.uk/cabot
We're sold out for our Annual Lecture next week! Thank you to all those who got tickets, we're looking forward to seeing you and discussing food and nutrition!
You can drop-in to our Research Showcase 3:30 pm to 5:30 pm on Wednesday 8 October at We The Curious.
www.bristol.ac.uk/cabot/events...
In this week's Cabot Mail:
🌧️ Climate change is supercharging Europe’s biggest hail
🌳 Amazon rainforest trees are getting bigger due to climate crisis
🍫 Chocolate and climate change video
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- Professor Jeff Brunstrom, nutrition and behaviour expert at the Cabot Institute for the Environment.
Get your ticket before it's too late! www.tickettailor.com/events/cabot...
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- Professor Pete Falloon, Professor of Climate Resilient Food Systems and Science Lead for Food Security at the Met Office (chair).
- Sophie Healy-Thow, co-founder of Act4Food Act4Change and Global Youth Campaigns Coordinator for the Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition (GAIN)
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We're delighted to host the following thoughtleaders on food and nutrition:
- Kath Dalmeny, Chief Executive of Sustain (keynote speaker)
- Rose Ndulu Ndolo, Global Head of Food Security at Blue Ventures
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Only 50 tickets left!
If you haven't got your ticket for our Annual Lecture on rethinking food and nutrition for the planet, you might want to gets yours asap! [1/4]
We have a new paper in Cities:
"Health consideration in UK urban development: Systems mapping insights for interventions"
It details systems mapping that informed the design & implementation of 7 joined-up interventions to improve the consideration of health in urban development decision making.
So errrr....give us a follow...?!
@educatedguesspod.bsky.social
#Psychology #edpsychs
Royal Fort House on top of a hill
Highlights from our latest newsletter:
📔 Trustworthy (artificial) intelligence only comes with real understanding of language
🍎 @cabot-institute.bsky.social showcase & annual lecture
👩💻 Trust Everything Everywhere - ARIA Programme Discovery Workshop
Read more here: tinyurl.com/52ppuks3
Image advertising Day 2 of the UK GGR Event. Day 2: Impact #UKGGR2025
🚨 Reminder: Impact Day is just 2 weeks away! Join us for Day 2 of the UK GGR Event on 30 September to explore the impact of our research & what comes next for greenhouse gas removal in the UK. Read more & sign up here: co2re.org/events/the-u... #UKGGR2025
16.09.2025 14:31 — 👍 6 🔁 4 💬 1 📌 0
In this week's Cabot Mail:
💰 Bristol academics land prestigious European Research Council grants totalling €10 million
🐟 A blueprint for marine recovery
🏞️ Ancient river folklore
🧊 Polar geoengineering is dangerous and far too costly, say scientists
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Check out the upcoming seminar on 'Interlinked: temperature, species, and health' co-organised by @cabot-institute.bsky.social & @ebibristol.bsky.social
📆 17 September
⏰ 13:30 -14:30
📍 35 Berkeley Square, for UoB students and staff / Online for externals
Find out more: lnkd.in/epqmzwss
Image advertising Day 3 of the UK Greenhouse Gas Removal Event. Day 3: Innovate #UKGGR2025
👉 UK GGR startups: you have 4 days left to apply to pitch at Innovation Day on 1 October! Successful applicants will pitch for the chance to join the UK's 1st dedicated CO2 removal accelerator, supported by @undaunted-hq.bsky.social & @innovateuk.bsky.social. More info: airtable.com/appbsB2aWP1H...
08.09.2025 13:55 — 👍 4 🔁 4 💬 1 📌 0
An image of a Causal Loop Diagram showing the interaction between some aspects of urban development decision making and health.
If #health is everyone’s responsibility in #urban development...why is it often nobody’s priority?
We mapped the system using interviews with 132 decision-makers.
It shows
- Where health slips through the cracks
- How 7 interventions could shift the whole system
doi.org/10.1016/j.ci...
I'm at KTH in Stockholm this week. On Thursday I'll be giving a book talk for @anthropocenekth.bsky.social on what energy history, and wind energy specifically, have to offer understandings of the Anthropocene and where we might go from here. More info here: www.kth.se/anthropocene...
08.09.2025 09:46 — 👍 11 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0
New paper (first work from Bristol!)
'Sulfoxaflor impairs bumblebee memory across moderate and extreme temperatures'
@bristolbiosci.bsky.social
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
What have been the best/most effective/meaningful environmental changes in 20thC Britain, in your view? I'm writing a new unit & have lots of disasters, decline, and conflicts; but I don't think it's been all bad. Some egs. of positive changes - intro of National Parks; rise of green politics...
05.09.2025 09:03 — 👍 17 🔁 15 💬 25 📌 3
Global distribution of forest landscapes covered by airborne LiDAR
Only a pre-print for now, but after 4 years of hard work I couldn't resist sharing this!
The Global Canopy Atlas: analysis-ready maps of 3D structure for the world's woody ecosystems
📜: doi.org/10.1101/2025...
Huge team effort led by the brilliant Fabian Fischer!
Come and see Carlos at our Research Showcase on food and nutrition on Wednesday 8 October, 3:30 pm to 5:30 pm at We The Curious. No booking needed, just turn up. If you're lucky, you might get to try some of his amazing chocolate! More info on our website
bristol.ac.uk/cabot/events...
In the UK we eat over 500,000 tonnes of 🍫chocolate🍫 every year which is vulnerable to the effects of climate change. Chocolatier and Caboteer Carlos Ayala is working with farmers and chocolate makers to help make our chocolate consumption more sustainable.
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The Cabot Institute for the Environment has welcomed Chris Kaye to chair its Strategic Advisory Board. Chris served the United Nations (UN) for 32 years and brings extensive knowledge around food security, disasters, water, cities, environmental change and energy.
bristol.ac.uk/cabot/news/2...
Busy reading today, in preparation for chairing a discussion with climate scientist Tim Lenton about his new book Positive Tipping Points (OUP) - @bookhaus.bsky.social in Bristol on Wednesday. www.headfirstbristol.co.uk/whats-on/boo...
01.09.2025 10:44 — 👍 7 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
Electric Wind talks and events in autumn 2025 (arranged by date)
Electric Wind talks in autumn 2025 arranged by place
Six weeks from publication! Forgive a little book promo. I’ve got some talks lined up this autumn if you want to hear more about Electric Wind. Feel free to message me for more details.
02.09.2025 07:13 — 👍 56 🔁 25 💬 4 📌 2
In this week's Cabot Mail:
🌀 Hurricane forecasting 20 years on from Katrina
🏢 Urbanization and inequality podcast
🌊 Flood relief for devastated Nepalese region
☢️ Making vital nuclear ingredients without using a big nuclear fission reactor
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In the wake of devastating floods that struck the Kathmandu region of Nepal in September 2024, University of Bristol student Ivan Lewis has launched a community resilience project in Bethanchowk, a rural municipality severely impacted by the disaster.
bristol.ac.uk/news/2025/au...
What has changed 20 years on from Hurricane Katrina?
Cabot Institute's Dr Leanne Archer provides expert comment in this BBC Weather news article.
www.bbc.co.uk/weather/arti...
James McDonald snd Matt McCormack extracting mesocosms from frames
Native aquatic snails collected 4 days after introduction to jars with 15N13C labelled biofilms and bryophytes.
Matt and Boyi transferring heated mesocosms to the bank for eDNA and eRNA extraction, led by Martin Genner
Leave no trace! Site returned to its original state after decommissioning. With many thanks to Bannau Brycheiniog National Park Authority for permission to work on the land.
And that's the final @erc.europa.eu @ercrefresh.bsky.social stream isotope experiment of our 2025 field season complete. With many thanks to @bristoluni.bsky.social PhD students Matt McCormack and Boyi Li for their help with eDNA sampling and completing site decommissioning before the rain arrived 🧪
27.08.2025 10:46 — 👍 8 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 1
Really enjoyed taking part in this conversation with Divya Gupta & Gregory Randolph on #urbanization and #inequality in India on the In Common Podcast: www.incommonpodcast.org/podcast/136-...
27.08.2025 11:11 — 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 1
An algal bloom on a nutrient enriched lake encroaches into the Nymphaea alba and Chara hispida beds, causing plant dieback. Your work will develop a novel, targeted analytical method to allow us to rapidly screen samples to determine the molecular composition of the dissolved organic nutrients in these and other waters. These provide a critically important but overlooked nutrient resource driving ecosystem damage and biodiversity decline in waterbodies. We currently lack a unified technique that can rapidly screen samples in a targeted manner. You'll likely be highly motivated, enjoy both field and laboratory work, and be a good analytical chemist with attention to detail who is keen to make your mark through novel method development. Give Ian a ring or send him an e.mail (ian.d.bull@bristol.ac.uk), or contact me here or via my e.mail penny.johnes@bristol.ac.uk. We have a large team on the ERC REFRESH programme that you will be joining, along with two other PhD students due to start at the same time. Great team and learning opportunities.
Great opportunity: full @ukri.org funded PhD Studentship with 4 years fees, stipend (£19237 pa) and full Research Training Support Grant, working with Prof Ian Bull, Director of the National Environmental Isotope Facility and my
@ercrefresh.bsky.social team! Starts 10/2025 shorturl.at/AJREj 🧪
Find out more about our #food and nutrition research at our Annual Lecture and Research Showcase on 8 October. Get your ticket now! www.bristol.ac.uk/cabot/events...
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