“Almost half of UK vice-chancellors expect their university to run at a loss this year.” Finally a piece on higher ed in a major media outlet by someone — ⁦Hannah Rose Woods⁩ — who actually understands what they are talking about!! newstatesman.com/comment/2024/0…

Field trip yesterday on healthcare resilience following extreme weather events diverted due to extreme weather (90 minute downpour). Video from Ngabu Rural Hospital, Malawi. 1200 households displaced.
UEA Research UEA School of Environmental Sciences MED UEA UEA Physiotherapy Development UEA 🌍 NIHR Research

Pt 3 of our 'Eruption Stories' series continues. These shorts shares key messages Vincentians shared after the 2020/2021 La Soufriere eruption. Let us know what you think. youtube.com/shorts/iYidw1C…

Do you know a researcher who’s into #science AND into #history ? Share this new vacancy with them! rigb.org/about-us/work-…

Dear anyone who cares (inc Jonny D on #r4today ).
It's #Higgs BOZE-on, not BOCE-un.
The name celebrates two physicists, Peter Higgs, and Satyendra Nath Bose who 100 years ago (June 1924) who conceived a whole class of particles, and was ignored till Einstein took up his case.

Following on from the item yesterday, Catherine Owens Catherine Owen, has a fascinating insight on an important but often over-looked, issue - toilets in the field.
5 minute read - geogmum.wordpress.com/2022/01/03/how…

#FieldWork In today's @Guardian, Steve Brace discusses how young people can be supported to get into nature at a local level:

theguardian.com/environment/20…

Geographical Association #GeographyTeacher

Rob Nevitt (Robert Nevitt) and I started shooting our documentary on THREADS and Sheffield yesterday. If you’re a local who appeared in or worked on the film in any capacity, one last call to give us a shout at [email protected]. ☢️

Real footage of the solar eclipse

Food and aid are used as a weapon of war. Except this isn't war. This is genocide. And the world looks on and does nothing. 💔

Swimmers at beaches in England are being exposed to soaring levels of sewage according to a new analysis of official figures.

It found that waste was discharged in bathing waters 31,000 times last year, an average of 86 times a day.

2019: Theresa May, 'After Brexit our environmental standards will not fall'

2024: Oxford rower Leonard Jenkins, 'A few guys got e.coli.. I was throwing up this morning.. It would have been ideal not to have so much poo in the water'

World famous #TheBoatRace2024 The Boat Race…

Just fantastic introduction to the joys of field geology on 1st yr field course to Arran University of Bristol Earth Sciences

What an utterly brilliant way to present the 2023 sewage dumping data. Just enter you postcode. 👋👋👋

Deserving of an award me thinks.

theguardian.com/environment/ng…

As always, many people asking us about #bumblebees at the moment - WHY THEY’RE SEEING THEM ON THE GROUND - so here’s a thread to explain what they’re up to.
Please #retweet .
Every #queen that survives means a new colony that gets to exist & produce new queen #bees for next year!…

1/3 Right now this Isle of Man scallop dredger is legally ploughing up and down in the sound of Jura. It and two others are at it day and night, filling their boots before the seasonal closure starts on the 1st of April. The damage they cause can take decades to recover.

Important ⁦The BMJ⁩ Opinion: ‘Investing in the public’s health is not a cost but an investment in a more productive society. However, fixing public health also means reforming our broken political & public policy system.’ ⁦Martin McKee 🇺🇦⁩ bmj.com/content/384/bm…

📢Please consider submitting to our new special collection🚨 Community voices and volcanic risk reduction: co-production, participatory research, and community-led approaches to risk 👥🌋🏘️

Read more here 👇
biomedcentral.com/collections/CV…

I think academics tend to frame this too much as a story about universities specifically. If you view it as a story about destruction of AN INDUSTRY, the chronology of UK university policy is absolutely amazing. Successive Govts have:

Your kindness can kill a bumblebee 💔

📢 Please share! Bumblebee queens are starting to emerge from hibernation. British weather isn’t always ideal and people with the best intentions can cause more harm good. Let’s change that.

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