Tristan McCowan

One week left to submit to the Climate-U conference!
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Network Conference 2025 | Climate-Uni.com Climate-Uni.com | Network Conference 2025: Higher Education and the Climate Crisis | Transforming Universities for a Changing Climate. Network lead 2025 UFPA, Brazil.

Climate-U conference open for submissions!

5-8 Nov in Belém (Brazil) and online. Event is free of charge.

Submissions welcome on all aspects of HE and the climate crisis (individual paper, symposium, workshop or artistic)

www.climate-uni.com/network-conf...

Just arrived!

Universities and Climate Action: Book launch and debate | IOE - Faculty of Education and Society This seminar debates the pivotal role universities across the world have to play in addressing the climate crisis.

Universities can play a pivotal role in addressing the climate crisis – yet this potential is not always realised.

On 8 May, join @mccowan.bsky.social for the launch of Universities and Climate Action, which unravels the impact of universities on climate change.
www.ucl.ac.uk/ioe/events/202...

✅We’re extending abstracts deadline: 14 March 2025
✅We’ve interesting abstracts from Chile Columbia Brazil Spain Italy USA
✅We’d love more from these & other LA countries
✅Do share widely @mccowan.bsky.social @profgerber.bsky.social @rkshanks.bsky.social @suzanneegan.bsky.social
#EduSky #LawSky

YouTube video by Universitetet i Agder Nordic Perspectives on Human Rights Education

Nordic Perspectives on Human Rights Education
See what @beategold.bsky.social & I set out to do
www.youtube.com/watch?v=GC5G...

Exclusive: BP to ditch renewables goals and return focus to fossil fuels BP's chief executive will scrap a target to increase renewable generation 20-fold by 2030, returning the focus to fossil fuels, as part of a strategy shift announced on Wednesday to tackle investor concerns over earnings, two sources told Reuters.

Never forget that the oil industry is actively working to make planet Earth uninhabitable for the sake of profit.

#MakeOilHistory

Exclusive: BP to ditch renewables goals and return focus to fossil fuels
www.reuters.com/business/ene...

The climate crisis calls for a radical rethinking of education as a force for ecological and social renewal.

📢 Have insights? Share a short contribution by 28 Feb to help shape “Key Insights on Education for Planetary Futures”, launched at Climate Week NYC & COP30.

🔗 Submit here: lnkd.in/gMjkrMp4

As Editor, I’m really excited about this initiative, and really looking forward to working closely with Melina Porto & Leonel Pérez Expósito
Do share this opportunity with colleagues working on human rights-based education in the region

I'm running another webinar for anyone interested in studying a fully online PhD in Education and Social Justice within an international cohort @edreslancaster.bsky.social on Monday evening www.lancaster.ac.uk/events/phd-e.... You'll have an opportunity to hear about the PhD and ask questions.

No, I don't need a bloody copilot for this document, thank you.

Writing is, in no small part, a tool for thinking. If you outsource that element to a machine that cannot think, you shouldn't be surprised if, at the end of the process, neither you nor your reader are any the wiser.

The most depressing thing about the Trump administration has ended up being the spinelessness and capitulation of other world leaders

1. Ban on talking in saunas
2. No service for people pronouncing chorizo as ‘choritso’
3. Make salt n vinegar crisps blue again

Well those are the important ones anyway

What executive orders would you sign on your first day as president?

Join us for a collaborative roundtable discussion on ‘Key Insights on Education for Planetary Futures.’

Mon 20th Jan, 5-6pm (UTC) online

www.learning-planet.org/event/key-in...

Registration now open for the @cghe.bsky.social 2025 conference - at @oxforddeptofed.bsky.social and online on 3-4 April

Great programme of international speakers!

www.researchcghe.org/events/cghe-...

Our new open-access paper examines how international professional mobility contributes to professional expertise, intercultural competence, and career development, highlighting reintegration challenges & broader societal impacts. Explore the findings here: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

“The king?!” Said my three-year-old daughter this afternoon.
“There aren't kings and queens any more, only people”.
If only, if only.

Climate Models Can’t Explain What’s Happening to Earth Global warming is moving faster than the best models can keep a handle on.

www.theatlantic.com/science/arch...
Translation: It’s going to be bad. Really, really bad. It’s happening sooner, and faster, and more drastically than anyone thought. And science doesn’t care if you believe in climate change or not.
#Climate
#Environment
#Science
🧪🪐🌎🌍🌏

Mixed feelings after discovering that my new family nickname is not in fact ‘Iron Man’, but ‘Ironing Man’

Happy Solstice everyone!

This is what I keep telling students: you think AI is producing "good writing" and that it "thinks" because you have not actually learned what good writing and what critical thinking is, and if you want to survive in this hellscape, you have to learn these without AI.

Vacancy for a researcher working with @alinecourtois.bsky.social @sazanajayadeva.bsky.social and me on a new project on the 'Virtual Mobilities of International Students'. Based at @uniofbath.bsky.social

Deadline for applications: 5 Jan 2025

Please repost - thanks!

www.bath.ac.uk/jobs/Vacancy...

Apply by 9th Jan
drive.google.com/file/d/1wlVf...

Hundred years of solitude is one of my favourite books. But I always remember García Márquez vowed it should never go on screen. Does it feel like a bit of a betrayal to watch it now?

Join our upcoming CGHE webinar with @leerensimer.bsky.social and Mario Azevedo
Tues 10th Dec, 2-3pm GMT
www.researchcghe.org/events/brazi...

We just extended the deadline to January 31st! Open access special issue - please share and consider submitting! ⬇️

Cartoon which mimics The Great Wave off Kanagawa, but the wave is made of research papers and the boat is full of lab coated researchers

I'm sure this Science story on how systematic reviews are threatened by paper mills is good, but the illustration by Sara Gironi Carnevale is great

saragironicarnevale.com

Story: https://www.science.org/content/article/systematic-reviews-aim-extract-broad-conclusions-many-studies-are-peril

Clarivate’s highly cited researcher list just came out.
21 academic areas.
Of those, 17 in STEM.
And then “economics and business”, “psychiatry and psychology”, “social sciences” and “cross-field”.
Nothing on arts and humanities.
Something a bit skewed here?

Major carbon emissions come from flights of international students. Whose responsibility is it, universities or students?