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Bar chart showing percentage of women graduating in STEM fields across EU countries in 2021. Romania leads at 42%, while Belgium has lowest at 27%. EU average shown in teal at 32%. Small illustration of woman with laptop in top right. Eurostat source and International Women's Day hashtag at bottom.

Despite global challenges for women in STEM, there are local wins to celebrate.

Across the EU, women made up 42.5% of STEM graduates in 2021, with even higher representation in countries like Romania and Poland. 🇪🇺

Let's keep empowering #WomenInScience! 👩‍💻

📊 Eurostat

YouTube video by Cleaning Up Podcast The Truth About Renewables, EVs & Lab-Grown Meat | Ep223: Hannah Ritchie

This week on @cleaninguppod.bsky.social I was joined for a 2nd time by @hannahritchie.bsky.social. She's got a new book called Clearing the Air. 50 common questions about climate solutions? 50 little misinformation demons laid to rest! Hannah's is such a valuable voice. youtu.be/voLbbuPEWY4?...

I’ve spent a good chunk of my career relying on American science and engineering to keep me alive. Yesterday, RFK Jr. testified at the U.S. Senate Finance Committee. It was sad to see him try to destroy the life’s work of so many American scientists. He shouldn’t be in this job.

There’s enough known lithium reserves today to make over 2 billion EVs — more than the world’s total passenger cars.

The challenge isn’t running out of lithium. It’s mining and refining sustainably.

New work on @sustainableenergy.bsky.social for healthcare in @africa.theconversation.com from our @johnshopkinssais.bsky.social @ucberkeleyofficial.bsky.social @dukepress.bsky.social and #DRCongo based offgridbox.com and www.rcha-rdc.org

Download here:
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Stanley Whittingham speaking at Helmholtz on batteries today!

Spent batteries in UK EVs will be worth roughly $1 billion per year in 2030 to 2040.

Why are battery and auto manufacturers not being made to design them for recycling already?

The huge tech news from Octopus and BYD that the tech media ignored Something big happened in tech yesterday, and NONE of the tech press reported it. So here I am, breaking some news (again).

Yesterday’s huge tech news that the tech media totally ignored:

www.linkedin.com/pulse/huge-t...

I have the chance to get a Raman spectrometer for my group since the colleague who was responsible for Raman has left for industry.

Is there a good book or ressource to learn some details (also about TERS), since I only have very limited knowledge in that area so far?
#ChemSky #MaterialsSky 🔋🧑‍🔬 ⚒️

How did you start it? I was just talking about making one.

What if no one bought a new car this year?

Very good question.

How much better off would we all be, in different ways?

Zero-solution Starmer..

Talk, talk and more talk.

Like Johnson.

Thank you! Still listen to you most days anyway 😊

ULEZ’ impact on pollution in London is extraordinary 👇

Spectacular!
Saturn, Mars, Venus, Jupiter and crescent moon just before sunrise.

📸 Ren Theelen

Curious how so many are egging on the cut to foreign aid from 0.5% to 0.3% saying we need to invest in defence

But so few are calling to rejoin the EU where we could recover 4-5% in GDP and use some of that to fund defence

Fábrica de baterias em Sines terá até €350 milhões em apoio público: conheça um dos maiores projetos industriais do país em 5 números-chave <p>A chinesa CALB apresentará publicamente esta segunda-feira o seu projeto para investir mais de 2 mil milhões de euros numa fábrica de baterias em Sines, um dos maiores investimentos industriais em ...

The battery factory in Sines is set to receive up to €350 million in public support. China's CALB will publicly unveil its project to invest over €2 billion in this factory on Monday, marking it as one of the largest industrial investments in Portugal since Autoeuropa. expresso.pt/economia/eco...

Please share links/profiles that have natural resource job postings. I have been getting some but have little ability to compile and vet.

#NaturalResourceJobs

Really want to come to your London gig - but is it suitable for a 10 yr old?!

A youth mobility scheme with Europe The MP for Lewes and Lib Dem Spokesperson on Europe explains his proposed Ten Minute Rule Bill on youth mobility

“Few would have imagined that in post-Brexit Britain, a young person could take a job in Japan for two years but be unable to do the same in France. Yet here we are”

sussexbylines.co.uk/world/europe...

At what point does an unrealistic target become the wrong market signal?

The industry knows they can’t meet it.

If the UK and EU don’t scale up the clean tech industry now, they’ll never compete with China in the next 50
Years.

This is why we HAVE to continue - but drop the unrealistic 2030 goal 👇

Baltic nations cut ties to Russian power grid, prepare to link with EU The three Baltic states disconnected their electricity systems from Russia's power grid on Saturday, the region's operators said, part of a plan designed to integrate the countries more closely with the European Union and boost security.

Seeing the light ... Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania (all former Soviet republics, now in the EU & NATO) just cut all ties with the Russian electricity grid — in an endeavour to block Russia's ability to geopolitically blackmail them via the electricity system.

www.reuters.com/world/europe...

Long running poll shows 65% think Brexit was wrong and only 35% think it's right. (268 polls by YouGov, also sometimes asked by other pollsters). www.whatukthinks.org/eu/questions...

UK forecasts small role for green airline fuel by 2040 despite Reeves’ claims Government’s models suggest Sustainable Aviation Fuel will take years to make significant impact

Fossil fuels will account for more than three-quarters of fuel used by airlines beyond 2040 — according to the British government’s own projections — undermining Rachel Reeves’ claims that new technologies will turn aviation green

www.ft.com/content/78c3...

Graphics fill of statistics on the efficiency or in efficiency of cars

A typical European car is parked 92% of the time. It spends 1/5th of its driving time looking for parking. Its 5 seats only move 1.5 people. 86% of its fuel never reaches the wheels, and most of the energy that does, moves the car, not the people.

Sound efficient?

HT @ellenmacarthurfdn.bsky.social

Before and after of Paris street, space that used to have cars now has people walking, on bikes, eating etc.

Think about all the things that can fit when we just stop surrendering most of our urban space to cars.

Not just other ways of getting around. That’s just the tip of the iceberg.

Urban life can fit.

Before & after street pedestrianization of Rue Rambuteau in Paris. HT to @emmanuelspv.bsky.social

The evolution of lithium-ion battery recycling - Nature Reviews Clean Technology Recycling techniques are essential to addressing the challenge of resource sustainability associated with the rising demand for lithium-ion batteries. This Review discusses industrial and developing t...

Proud to have contributed to this paper "The evolution of lithium-ion battery recycling" led by Yan Wang's group at WPI that appears in the first issue of Nature Clean Energy Reviews. www.nature.com/articles/s44... The group brought together a really great range of perspectives.

I'm looking for online sources for purchasing #sustainable products. Things like household products to start. With coming uncertainty I want to invest more in things that will last and reduce my pollution impact.
#ZeroWaste #PlasticFree

That sounds Very stressful for both of you. But especially her! I hope she sails through.