thefosterlab.bsky.social - Profile | ThreadSky | a Reddit-style client for Bluesky

In Trump’s shadow, IPCC set to make key decision on timing of climate science review www.climatechangenews.com/2025/02/21/i...

submitted 11 hours ago • 0 comments

Using American technology is a national security risk

submitted 10 hours ago • 1 comment

Write up in @theguardian.com of a new book looking at humanities legacy in the geological record 🧪⚒️ www.theguardian.com/science/2025...

submitted 9 hours ago • 4 comments

Those were the days

submitted 23 hours ago • 2 comments

Governments are supposed to protect their people and tell the truth.

submitted 23 hours ago • 3 comments

Our UoS English experts, working with @uniofnottingham.bsky.social archaeologists, have been investigating the cruel 'sport' of bear baiting in Renaissance England - a practice banned in 1835. Find out more 👉 brnw.ch/21wQRO9

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

Job Alert! Permanent Lecturer in Physical Geography (Teaching & Research), specialising in peatland science. Come join our Department of Geography at The University of Manchester! Deadline 27 March 2025 www.jobs.manchester.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai...

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

Norfolk Broads are beautiful…who knew?

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

All I can say at this stage is… FINALLY! 💥

submitted 1 day ago • 208 comments

America is outnaziing the French nazis (National Rally) www.theguardian.com/world/live/2...

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

Putting a face to what you read in the news. Until last Friday, I served our nation working as a Research Ecologist with the US Geological Survey (USGS). As a federal scientist, I provided robust, defensible information to support good decisions in natural resource management.

submitted 2 days ago • 72 comments

Record marine heatwave smashing half of Western Australia's coastline, bleaching coral reefs www.abc.net.au/news/science...

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

Some nice corals within Galle Fort, Sri Lanka.

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

‼️The US-based @ipcc.bsky.social technical support unit (TSU) for Working Group 3 Co-Chairs has been terminated, and the US won’t be attending next week’s IPCC meeting where the AR7 chapter outlines will be approved. More by @afreedma.bsky.social here:

submitted 1 day ago • 44 comments

Is a new record low maximum for sea-ice extent going to happen in the Arctic this year? The Climate 8-Ball says "F&%kery ahead!" Yesterday's extent: 13,270,000 km² Previous record daily low: 13,440,000 km² (2018) Previous record low maximum: 13,878,000 km² (2017) Mean date for maximum: March 11

submitted 2 days ago • 5 comments

Sad to hear this. Having worked at the WGIII TSU in AR6, I know how vital our colleagues are to the process. This will disrupt AR7, hoping for a resolution that supports the team and the science (and I hear there are movements to do so swiftly)..

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

Evaluating animal consciousness Really exciting to live in times of a shifting paradigm regarding #animal #consciousness. A lot about how we use/treat animals in our societies will have to change in response... www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

That’s how you write a headline, people.

submitted 3 days ago • 568 comments

Scrap austerity – tax the super-rich instead. Britain can’t rebuild with more cuts – a wealth tax on the richest is the fair alternative to funding public services and growth.

submitted 3 days ago • 90 comments

After record heat stress and mass bleaching for more than two years globally, Australia's largest fringing reef - Ningaloo Reef - is now also in the midst of a severe bleaching event 💔

submitted 4 days ago • 0 comments

Join our webinar on "Tropical Climate Variability and Coral Reefs" organised by the CLIVAR Research Focus on Tropical Basin Interaction February 19, 2025 at 12:00 UTC (13:00 CET) www.clivar.org/events/tbi-w... @climatereefs.bsky.social @marumunibremen.bsky.social @kielunimarine.bsky.social

submitted 4 days ago • 0 comments

Fossil fuels make us poor and cold. In winter 22/23 alone the UK Gov wasted £40 billion helping pay energy bills, which soared because gas prices spiked. This wasn’t investment for the future. It was pouring money into Big Oil coffers. www.gov.uk/government/n...

submitted 5 days ago • 2 comments

How close are we to a dangerous North Atlantic tipping point? We’ve received £5m from @aria-research.bsky.social to find out by collecting data on ocean mixing. Read more 👉 brnw.ch/21wQKkT

submitted 5 days ago • 0 comments

Every word of this. "Drive your golf carts over the bones of the dead!" www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

submitted 6 days ago • 0 comments

No one alive will experience a better climate than today. But young people will experience a much more dangerous and chaotic world in the future, and the extent to which that happens will depend on our choices today. Trump doesn't care because he's old and a sociopath. www.ipcc.ch/report/ar6/s...

submitted 6 days ago • 18 comments

🌊🧪 The Chemical #Oceanography Gordon Research Conference will be held July 20-25, 2025. Check out the exciting Trace Elements and Isotopes session moderated by Tim Conway (University of South Florida, @marmite-usf.bsky.social) featuring invited lectures by Randelle Bundy (University of

submitted 6 days ago • 2 comments

Good news, it seems European Sleeper may have found a train path across France for their planned regular Amsterdam/Brussels<>Barcelona sleeper (I wasn't sure they would). But running it from Amsterdam is in doubt, may have to start from Brussels. nltimes.nl/2025/02/15/a...

submitted 6 days ago • 3 comments

Historical writings reveal how people weathered the Little Ice Age www.sciencenews.org/article/reco...

submitted 7 days ago • 0 comments

Delighted to share this piece of work by our team from @unisouthampton.bsky.social led by Dr James Parkin! Brake pad dust can be more toxic than exhaust emissions, study says www.theguardian.com/environment/...

submitted 8 days ago • 1 comment

Our researchers @jamesparkinsci.bsky.social @mattloxham.bsky.social UoS Medicine have shown tiny particles emitted by some commonly fitted brake pads can be more toxic than those in diesel exhaust. Read more 👉 brnw.ch/21wQHay

submitted 8 days ago • 1 comment

This Guardian article on brake pad dust misses some fairly important context EVs use friction brakes far less than internal combustion engine (ICE) cars, because of the magic of regenerative braking Meaning they produce less of this toxic dust A 🧵 www.theguardian.com/environment/...

submitted 8 days ago • 16 comments

Cu in brake dust is potentially more harmful than PM from the exhaust: theconversation.com/car-brake-du... 🧪

submitted 8 days ago • 2 comments

Watch bad actors draw entirely the wrong conclusion from this. The message is not "It's pointless switching to EV because they still produce brake dust." It's "Even if we switch to EV, there will still be SOME issues." Summary: (Brake dust + emissions) worse than (brake dust + zero emissions)

submitted 8 days ago • 25 comments

Great work by my colleagues @unisouthampton.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/environment/.... Brake dust can be more toxic than exhaust emissions!

submitted 8 days ago • 1 comment

If Earth's 4.51 billion years could be compressed into a single year, on this day the oldest parts of the Acasta intrusion form. With the first dated rocks known also the Hadean - Earth's hell eon - ends and the Archean - Earth's old eon - begins...

submitted 8 days ago • 2 comments

Who says geochemists don't have the best jobs: www.nature.com/articles/d41...

submitted 9 days ago • 0 comments

"If carbon capture is simply used to cling on to otherwise dirty technology then we are looking at a giant greenwashing scam, not a helpful solution."

submitted 9 days ago • 28 comments

As a reminder, I am looking for people to join my new group. Applications for this grant scheme are open to applicants from any country with (max 8 years since PhD awarded), and there are a few more funding options. ⚒️

submitted 10 days ago • 0 comments

Climate Change in the British Mind 86% of people believe climate change is occurring, and is connected to intensifying extreme weather. >66% think it should be a high or very high government priority. A majority also supports use of renewable energy. climatecommunication.yale.edu/publications...

submitted 9 days ago • 0 comments

🌊 🧪 If the process of nodule formation has reached steady state (as it must), then for each new nodule which nucleates, an old one must become buried in the sediment. The nodules so buried could either accumulate as plums in the sediment pudding, or be dissolved away.

submitted 9 days ago • 1 comment

With the threats being levied against NOAA, I felt it was time to download all the sediment core and paleoceanography data being stored on NOAA's NCEI, just in case. I have uploaded the script to Github, just in case anyone wants to do the same! 🧪 ⚒️ 🦣 🌊 github.com/evangowan/EJ...

submitted 9 days ago • 12 comments

⚒️ #histsci

submitted 10 days ago • 1 comment