Profile avatar
philipward.bsky.social
It's me, hi 👋 Professor of Global Risk Dynamics at IVM - VU Amsterdam Senior Expert Disaster Risk Reduction and Climate Change Adaptation at Deltares Coordinator of MYRIAD-EU project
12 posts 472 followers 313 following
Regular Contributor
Posts 11 Comments 5

Question to my US friends and colleagues: do you have a sense of any kind of mass protest movement forming? It seems eerily quiet from over here, given that Trump, Musk, and Putin are openly conspiring to overthrow your democracy. With full support of a spineless congress. Very scary times.

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

bigthink.com/the-present/...

submitted 4 days ago • 12 comments

As AirBnB co-founder also joins the DOGE team in Trump's neofascist regime, time to leave the greedy platform? www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...

submitted 4 days ago • 1 comment

Inspired by my good friend Joseph Dodds, here are my top 5 albums of 2024. Happy to hear yours so I can check them out! 1. TTPD: The Anthology-Taylor Swift 2. Filthy Underneath-Nadine Shah 3. This Could Be Texas-English Teacher 4. Heimwee-Eefje de Visser 5. The Greatest Love-London Grammar

submitted 62 days ago • 0 comments

Correctie: dit zijn dus nu ook wél jullie plannen. Onfatsoenlijk om een ander de schuld te geven. Jullie stemmen hiervoor. Dus jullie zijn net zo verantwoordelijkheid als het kabinet. Alles om de CEOs en grote bedrijven rijk te houden: wat is hier Christelijks aan?

submitted 73 days ago • 0 comments

The end of an Era('s tour) in Vancouver tonight. Remembering 2 perfect nights in Edinburgh and Warsaw this summer 😊. Looking forward to the next Era!

submitted 76 days ago • 0 comments

Today 20,000 of us protested in The Hague against the government's shortsighted plans. They plan to gut science and deny education for young people. Good to see some supporters of the current coalition partners in the crowd...even their own voters are saying #DoeHetNiet

submitted 89 days ago • 0 comments

I tried to prepare a starter pack on climate, weather and hydrological extremes. Please let me know if you would like to be added, the more the merrier! go.bsky.app/86zAwyH

submitted 102 days ago • 21 comments

Sophie Buijs and I are looking for business owners, managers, or senior employees to fill out our survey on business recovery and resilience (~20 min). Open to participants from: NL, DE, AUS, and the Spanish Canary Islands. vuamsterdam.eu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...

submitted 91 days ago • 0 comments

Call for abstracts for large scale natural hazards risk session at #EGU25! With 2 great new conveners @dirkeilander.bsky.social and Zélie Stalhandske Info: meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/EGU25/sessio... Looking forward to receiving your abstracts and hope to see you in Vienna

submitted 96 days ago • 1 comment

Welcome to all the Bluesky newbies! We've created a starter pack of compound events and multi hazard researchers and groups. Please send through suggestions for who else to add to the list go.bsky.app/Cy8PZju

submitted 101 days ago • 14 comments