Gavin Foster

Ocean heatwaves are breaking Earth’s hidden climate engine Marine heatwaves can jam the ocean’s natural carbon conveyor belt, preventing carbon from reaching the deep sea. Researchers studying two major heatwaves in the Gulf of Alaska found that plankton shif...

Ocean heatwaves are breaking Earth’s hidden climate engine

Marine heatwaves are clogging the ocean’s carbon pump, threatening its power to fight climate change.

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Jenrick could have visited Handsworth to listen to residents – he chose to pass through and make a judgement based on the colour of their skin. Instead of getting to know our nation of neighbours, he chose racism.

The Tories, Reform and Labour want to divide us.

The Greens say enough is enough.

Recent and early 20th century destabilization of the subpolar North Atlantic recorded in bivalves Clams reveal North Atlantic destabilization in the early 20th century and at present.

Clam shells as indicators of Atlantic Ocean stability: Very interesting study using growth increment width and isotopic composition in long-living shells to document changes in the AMOC and North Atlantic circulation over the last 150 years. doi.org/10.1126/scia...

A color image of Earth taken by NASA’s Earth Polychromatic Imaging Camera (EPIC), a four megapixel CCD camera and telescope.

🪐 On this Day of Action to Save #NASA Science, we’re highlighting how space and Earth sciences go hand-in-hand. Scripps Oceanography researchers partner with NASA to study how our planet is changing from sea to space. Here’s an out-of-this-world roundup of some recent projects. 🧵⬇️

Wiley set to earn $44m from AI rights deals, confirms “no opt-out" for authors The US publisher is the latest to capitalise on deals to give tech firms access to its authors’ content to train their Large Language Models (LLMs).

Everybody makes money out of academic authors except the authors...News.

Wiley is the latest academic publisher to reach a multi-million deal to allow access to its content to AI developers, with no opt out, let alone payment, for the authors who created that content.

YouTube video by Green Party of England & Wales Let's Make Hope Normal Again - Green Party Political Broadcast

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Leicester UCU will be on strike from Monday 29 September until Friday 17 October.

Tomorrow's teach out: meet the Modern Languages Team at 1.15 in SBB for their modern languages showcase.
Note the change in picket times!

Week 2, day 1: pickets in George Davies Centre, Dan Stewart's teach out on Ancient Greek and Roman strikes, and more picket dogs!

@leicesterucu.bsky.social Our students deserve a big thanks for supporting us at the picket line every day, now in week 2. It means a lot to have the students backing for fighting the looming job cuts at University of Leicester in 6 schools

Flawless 10/10

New! Cassetteboy vs Keir Starmer.

This took absolutely ages, so if you'd like to buy us a coffee at ko-fi.com/cassetteboy we'd really appreciate it. Thanks!

Recent and early 20th century destabilization of the subpolar North Atlantic recorded in bivalves Clams reveal North Atlantic destabilization in the early 20th century and at present.

Recent and early 20th century destabilization of the subpolar North Atlantic recorded in bivalves

www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

How the Southern Ocean controlled climate and atmospheric carbon dioxide during the lukewarm interglacials Earth's climate has fluctuated between cold and warm periods for millions of years. During the so-called "lukewarm interglacials"—warm phases between 800,000 and 430,000 years ago—atmospheric CO2 conc...

🌊 How the Southern Ocean controlled climate and atmospheric carbon dioxide during the lukewarm interglacials

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Enhanced deep Southern Ocean stratification during the lukewarm interglacials - Nature Communications Lead (Pb) isotopes from a ferromanganese crust reveal that during lukewarm interglacials before the Mid-Brunhes Event, stronger deep Southern Ocean stratification limited CO2 release, helping keep atmospheric CO2 levels lower.

Enhanced deep Southern Ocean stratification during the lukewarm interglacials

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Former Google CEO Will Fund Boat Drones to Explore Rough Antarctic Waters Scientists have a lot of questions about our planet’s most important carbon sink—and a new project could help answer them.

"Former Google CEO Will Fund Boat Drones to Explore Rough Antarctic Waters

Scientists have a lot of questions about our planet’s most important carbon sink—and a new project could help answer them."

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I enjoyed the taste when I ate it.

Comparison of neutron computed tomography (NCT) scans (a–c) with traditional X-Ray CT image (d) of the modern unaltered Porites sample from One Tree Reef. 3-D voxels measure 0.0395 mm3, sample thickness ca. 1 cm (a) 3-D NCT scan showing full neutron count range 0–65,535, (b) 3-D filter applied showing aragonite data range exclusive of porosity (ca. 12,000–65,535 NC). Histogram shows two distinct peaks representing porosity and aragonite ranges. (c) Cross sections V-V′ and XZ-XZ’ are 2-D slices of the 3-D NCT slab data (39.5 μm resolution) of V (vertical) and XZ (x axis and depth) profiles, respectively. Their positions are indicated by white lines in (a). (d) X-Ray CT image of the same slab used for photos (a, b) showing density variations and blurry low resolution coral morphology.

Let's start with the base fact that Neutron Tomography is a really cool thing. Fossils are also very cool (even if they're corals). Combining the two gives a very interesting way to look at diagenesis (or screen for it, if you're boring). 🧪⚒️

Link: agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

Seems like a poor reason to me…

This is absolutely staggering.

We are excited about the "Meeting & Status Seminar 2025" of the @dfg.de #SPP2299 Priority Programme "Tropical Climate Variability & Coral Reefs", which starts Monday at @unibremen.bsky.social. 55 researchers, from 15 German institutions and international guests, will discuss latest research results

The party is louder and more left wing than ever.

Bolder. Effective.And surging!

Come on @greenparty.org.uk team.

Let's go!

Join.greenparty.org.uk

Before and after images show glaciers vanishing before our eyes - BBC News They are melting like never seen before, changing landscapes around the world beyond recognition.

The before and after images showing glaciers vanishing before our eyes

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Pallavi Singh Lab is looking for two Postdocs to join our team studying how plants balance carbon, water, and resilience in a changing climate.

PlantPlug PDRA: vacancies.essex.ac.uk/tlive_webrec...

REVOLUTION PDRA: vacancies.essex.ac.uk/tlive_webrec...

Deadline: October 15.

Persistent eastern equatorial Pacific Ocean upwelling since the warm Pliocene Upwelling generates a nutrient-rich “cold tongue” in the eastern equatorial Pacific Ocean (EEP), with impacts on global climate, oceanic biological productivity, and the carbon cycle. The cold tongue ...

🌊 New study overturns the “permanent El Niño” idea for the warm Pliocene

Upwelling in the eastern equatorial Pacific has persisted for 5 million years, even under ~3°C warmer climates

Future upwelling may be more resilient than feared…

www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

I always wondered about this - being vegetarian is so easy now. I have been vegetarian for >30 yrs & i still can’t understand why more people don’t see 1. The suffering of animals in the food industry and 2. Its climate impacts and not give it up. What’s so good about eating a dead animal?

The climate movement’s biggest weakness What the climate movement is getting dead wrong.

Meat is a blind spot for people who care about climate. When I used to have dinner with my colleague Wally Broecker, the climate scientist who coined the term “global warming”, he would always order a steak.

You.
Are.
Allowed.
To.
Insult.
The.
Police.

It’s a core First Amendment principle. This is utterly lawless behavior, for which there will be no (short-term) consequences.

That he does it so casually, as they are walking away, in front of cameras.

Rightly confident in his impunity.

Migration is Britain’s superpower. Our future depends on embracing that truth, not denying it | Zack Polanski Labour has lost its nerve. At our party conference this weekend, we’re gathering to set things right, says Green party leader Zack Polanski

"I'm here to talk about what others won’t. To tell the truth about what makes our country great and what makes it not so great. While others thrive on creating scapegoats, I am here to tell you a different story."

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