Silvia Caldararu🌿

The deadline is fast approaching!
We are looking for an Assistant Professor in Plant #Biodiversity and #Conservation
universityvacancies.com/trinity-coll...
Deadline: November 14th.

Cheating with an LLM is the easiest thing in the world for a student to do, but it creates a massive, laborious headache for a prof, if you intend to take it seriously. There’s meetings, emails, discussions, moral dilemmas. It’s just incredibly burdensome, on top of everything else right now.

Here is your periodic reminder that every fraction of a degree matters and our next target is not 2C, it's 1.50000001

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This article is full of digs against horseshoe bats, planners & says “environmental goals have created stasis”. The @dublininquirer.com have already looked into the Collison backed Progress Ireland & identified links with US libertarian & Peter Thiel backed groups. We need independent journalism!

Good governance is the same. Complex multi-facited challenges often require complex solutions & trade-offs. Anyone selling “common sense” fixes to systemic problems is usually a grifter with an agenda, not a leader with a plan.

Photo of a desk calendar opened at the October page. The page is purple with a picture of a flower and the New Phytologist abd Plants, People, Planet journal logos at the bottom

@newphyt.bsky.social calendar just arrived I'm the post! My desk has been looking so empty

This is happening today! Join us as we discuss climate action.

I've been thinking about this thread all week, about how we live with the knowledge of climate change, genocide, racism, sexism. How we wake up every morning with this knowledge and yet endeavour to be happy in our own small ways because how can we live otherwise?

Oh, sorry, I thought mitigating climate change was too costly for people so we couldn't do it

Philippine Victims of Typhoon Odette File Landmark Legal Challenge Against Shell The case is the first to directly link oil and gas climate impacts to deaths and personal injuries that have already occurred in the Global South.

Victims of Typhoon Odette in the Philippines have filed the first-ever civil case to directly link oil and gas-fueled climate change to deaths and personal injuries in the Global South. drilled.media/news/odette-...

I'm thinking about all the westerners marvelling at the "house of the people" monstrosity in Bucharest that Ceausescu, the Romanian dictoator, built and I think none of you really undrrstood

Please pass along, I’m recruiting PhD students to join our Macroecology Lab @uofa-eeb.bsky.social We study phys ecology, macroecology, biodiversity - spanning scaling, trait-based ecology, theory, comparative biology & ecoinformatics. Several avenues for funding. Please reach out if interested🧪🌐🌾

I need this in my life

Event flyer showing pictures of four people Prof. Anna Davies and Dr. Silvia Caldararu from the School of Natural Sciences, Stephen Treacy from the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), Dr. Gemma Donnelly-Cox, Director of the Centre for Social Innovation. The title of the panel is "Panel discussion on International Climate Action Day"

Join us for an online panel on climate action next Friday 24th of October 1 pm GMT. More information here www.tcd.ie/e3/news/e3-t...

I have the most amazing research group. For my 40th birthday the made me a Cluedo gane with a custom board, hand drawn cards of all of us and a knitted cover with our group name.

one exhibition display on campus featuring black woman in green jumper doing the peace sign. her background is plants and flowers. the outdoor backdrop is the grangegorman campus with one building behind.

The 'What If' outdoor exhibition from STAND comes to Grangegorman this week for #ClimateActionWeek. It invites us to reimagine how we live, learn, govern, care, and create by exploring bold scenarios for a more just and sustainable world.
Check out what's on display: www.tudublin.ie/explore/abou...

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There's a whole essay by David Graeber about why things like giant puppets work in non-violent protest
davidgraeber.org/articles/on-...

"“I met prime minister Keir Starmer and, over a pint, we were discussing among ourselves, how have we landed ourselves in a situation where we tied ourselves up in knots so we can't get anything done? "

I guess the knots are in the strings being pulled by the fossil fuel and farming lobbies?

Fuck right off

It is indeed autumn

Just remembered I never replied ,sorry. Tried to DM but didn't seem to work. Feel free to drop me an email, address at website in bio

And maybe also "hard to abate but we don't need this industry at this size and intensity". See for example meat production.

Has anyone else been dealing with some serious headline whiplash recently?

Even for those of us who follow #climate and #energy matters closely, it can be hard to know what the hell is going on!

So here's a thread to help climate communicators get a grip on how to deal with this 🧵

I think this is an excellent example of why behaviour change needs legislative/regulatory support, and a cautionary tale for anyone in areas like climate change and active travel hoping that voluntary behaviour change programmes are going to help them achieve the ambitious targets they've been set.

UMass Amherst Biology is recruiting a tenure-track Assistant Professor in the area of Plant Physiology. Deadline Nov 1. Please spread the word and apply!

careers.massachusetts.edu/mob/en-us/jo...

One of my greatest culture shocks when moving from ex-Communist Romania to the UK in the early 2000s was attitudes to women in employment

A turbulent beach scene shows large waves crashing under a gray sky. Grassy sand dunes are blown by strong winds, with water partially flooding the area. A wooden railing stands in the foreground, partially submerged by rising tides.

A short history of destructive Irish storms 🌧️

We can learn from the impacts of past storms to better adapt to the destructive effects of future storms, writes Dr Carla Mateus of ICARUS and the Department of Geography.

www.maynoothuniversity.ie/research/spo...

The climate scientist's dilemma: I know it's been a dry year and water resources are depleted so rain is good. But, like, it's really wet outside? #StormAmy