Neil R. Edwards

Wealth #inequality is possibly the biggest social evil we face - it has to be tackled before it tears the world to pieces

Final call - #PhD info session 19:00 (uk) today 3/12/25

Final call - #PhD info session 19:00 (uk) today 3/12/25

Nice paper @foradamifera.bsky.social and even better that you’re going to be joining us at @ou-eees.bsky.social looking forward to talking all things #paleoclimate

NB if you missed today’s info session on the ILESLA #phd programme but are interested in joining us at @ou-eees.bsky.social or @ox.ac.uk there’s a 7 pm session (UK time) on 3rd December
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Anyone considering doing a #PhD with us at the OU in life science or #environment ILESLA is a fantastic opportunity to take part in a world class PhD training programme, find out more this Wednesday

Image of 3 students looking at whiteboard. Text on screen, upper left corner ILESLA, Interdisciplinary Life and Environmental Science Landscape award. Text on screen, lower right corner Virtual Open Day 26 November 2025 13:00 - 16:00

Thinking about a research degree in life or environmental sciences? We offer 4-year PhD studentships that cover your course fees, provide a tax-free living stipend, and include additional funding for project costs and travel. Find out more and register for our virtual open day. www.ilesla.ox.ac.uk

Excellent presentation at annual international development lecture at OU #outalks by Prof Olivier de Schutter on The #Poverty of #Growth get the open access book to read the full story - strongly recommended

Giving up on the Amazon is giving up on Planet #Earth

Open Events 2025/26

Info day on the world-leading @ilesla.bsky.social #PhD programme on 26th Nov. iles.web.ox.ac.uk/open-day-2025 fantastic opportunity to do a PhD with us here at Open University and take full advantage of the ILESLA training at Oxford at the same time
@palaeosingh.bsky.social

🌿 Fully funded #PhD alert! Are you curious about how species shape each other’s evolution? 🦋🌸

We’re looking for a student to study the co-evolution of insects & angiosperms in the Amazon using a multi-species mechanistic model.

🔗 centa.ac.uk/studentship/...

#Evolution #Biodiversity #NERC #CENTA

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Climate change is a human rights crisis.

Join @ox.ac.uk, UN Human Rights, IUCA, and unis across the world for the Right Here, Right Now Global Climate Summit on climate change and human rights. #RHRNClimate

Global plenary: 4 & 5 June
Oxford Local Programme: 2 - 8 June

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End tax breaks on oil and gas Sign the petition to stop the giveaway and demand a fair jobs plan needs major people power right now.

Link to an open petition to end UK tax breaks on oil majors (currently £2.7bn p.a.) and spend the funds ensuring workers they are laying off find green jobs with a future: you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/en...

Tool reveals how your dinner affects risk of 30,875 species land-dwelling animals going extinct University of Cambridge researchers have developed a new way to measure the impact of our food production on other species' survival around the world.

Tool reveals how your dinner affects risk of 30,875 species land-dwelling animals going extinct

"If everyone in the UK switched to a vegetarian diet overnight, we could halve our biodiversity impact."

phys.org/news/2025-10...

Today Leeds followed our forebears who kicked Oswald Moseley and his Facists out of the city at the Battle of Holbeck Moor and stood up to racism, the far right and said loud and clear”Refugees are welcome here”. This is Leeds

And just time for a last trip to the fossiliferous Lyme Regis beach for #FossilFriday

Last day on the Jurassic Coast, Europe’s longest continuous Jurassic exposure #fossilfriday

Its discovery shed new light on the evolution of hyper-specialised, megapredatory tyrannosaurids 🦖 Lythronax captures the early evolution of the Tyrannosaurus-style predatory ecology ~20 million years before T. rex.

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German media seems to be taking more seriously than ours the fact a leading light in the party UK press keeps saying will be next government took bribes from Russia to spout their lies. Maybe it’s because they put NEWS ahead of propaganda

Huge congratulations @soniaseneviratne.bsky.social keep up the great work

Two seventh-century people found with west African ancestry – a story of diversity and integration in early Anglo-Saxon society We should not be surprised that there are west Africans in early medieval Britain, the clues were there.

Black and British already in 7th century - get over it theconversation.com/two-seventh-...

New paper from @climatesamwell.bsky.social on #paleoclimate modelling and niche #evolution across the end Cretaceous mass extinction doi.org/10.1017/pab....

Most votes in UK have zero effect. Hard to overstate the gravity of the threat to #society and #civilisation + by extension, #climate #environment #biodiversity posed by crumbling global #democracy and hence importance of this initiative to create real democracy and political engagement in UK

Not to be missed - great start on our @leverhulme.ac.uk funded SABER project at @openuniversity.bsky.social by @palaeosingh.bsky.social if you like old crocs and #fossils you'll love this @drtlstubbs.bsky.social

Best of times, worst of times: record fossil-fuel profits, inflation and inequality The 2022 oil and gas crisis resulted in record fossil-fuel profits globally that rehabilitated the oil and gas industry, obstructed the energy transit…

Important message on effect of record #fossil-fuel profits on #inequality not via cost-of-living but excessively unequal 'redistribution' of profits to shareholders. Thanks @gregorsemieniuk.bsky.social and friends at @openuniversity.bsky.social & elsewhere www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

One to three species of invertebrates going extinct in Australia per week according to new paper - nice talk here in Cambridge PRISMS series: cassyni.com/s/cambridge-...

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Fascinating and important development in green #computing and #ai from consortium including @ethz.ch ai.ethz.ch

Mysterious fossil may rewrite story of skin and feather evolution in reptiles The fossil creature has outgrowths on its back that are neither hair nor feathers.

Fossils found in 1930s push origins of feathers back to middle Triassic c 247 Ma
theconversation.com/mysterious-f...

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A shout for our paper modelling ancient climates with @sabinzahirovic.bsky.social and a big HELLO to @bryonyblades.bsky.social started today working with me, @palaeosingh.bsky.social and team on our @leverhulme.ac.uk funded Amazon #biodiversity modelling project SABER www.nature.com/articles/s43...