Fred Vine FRS, a key player in the plate tectonics revolution of the 1960s, passed away on 24/6/2024. Fred’s passing is a sad event, but also a chance to reflect on just how recently dramatic leaps forward in our understanding of the Earth took place. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frederick…

🚨 3 year postdoctoral fellowship available at Univeristy of Oxford!🚨 Details can be found here: seh.ox.ac.uk/vacancies/earl… Please pass on to anyone who might be interested, and feel free to reach out to me to discuss further! St Edmund Hall Oxford Earth Sciences

Water companies now have to release live sewage spill data – here's why more transparency is the key to cleaner rivers theconversation.com/water-companie… by Alex Lipp Storm Overflows Data streamwaterdata.co.uk/pages/storm-ov… (England) #StormOverflows #SewageScandal #opendata (CC BY)

We welcome more transparency, but there is a lot more to it as explained in this piece by @conversationuk . pulse.ly/0fh94tdz4u

'We need to rebuild public trust in our river – and sewer – networks.' A new UK law is forcing water companies to make pollution data readily accessible to the general public - but it doesn’t go far enough, writes Alex Lipp ⬇️ theconversation.com/water-companie…

It's available to pre-order, so it's real: my first book, Convention and the Individual in Medieval English Romance, will be out later this year! With thanks to Caroline Palmer and Boydell & Brewer for help at every stage — and for the beautiful cover! boydellandbrewer.com/9781843846895/…

Still fancy a cold-water swim this morning? 🤢😡 sewagemap.co.uk now has national coverage, with data from all water-companies! 📈 Check out their map to help keep you informed of #sewagepollution at your local swim spot. #SewageScandal #EndSewagePollution

Great to see Channel 4 News & Maeve Campbell put together such an awesome explainer about Sewagemap, in the wider context of river pollution in the UK! Nice cameo from Ashley Smith at the end too!