Today kicks off our #COP26xPolarimpact Takeover. Our latest lineup is 🔥! From Mongolia and New Zealand to Cambridge and Alaska, the Polar Experts and Explorers taking over our social media include:

Celebrating Polar Pride at SPRI today - come and make origamin penguins at the Museum :D

I was lucky enough recently to talk to Kat from St Catharine's College about some of the wonderful work done at Minorities in Polar Research and my time with Scott Polar Research Institute :) Thank you Cambridge University for this space and platform. Read all about it here: caths.cam.ac.uk/polar-impact

Such a surreal experience in my Cambridge classroom today to see Polar Impact being brought up on the slides and being able to discuss racism within polar research and the problems with gatekeeping what polar scientists do. Thank you @ikater63 for creating this discussion space.

Catz student Pearl Ayem has told us about her work with Minorities in Polar Research, an inclusive network founded in Cambridge in 2019 to connect & amplify the voices of Black, Asian, Indigenous & minority ethnic professionals & people of colour working in #PolarScience: caths.cam.ac.uk/polar-impact

So excited for this!! Can't wait to see it go around <3

The post project hooray video is up from the Minorities in Polar Research takeovers! I've learnt that 100% of them are extremely cool people (pun intended)

Set to depart in July, Noah Booth, Kyle Ereaux, Alex Traynor & Graham Ereaux aim to complete a 850 km canoe route from Great Slave Lake, NWT to Bathurst Inlet, NU. Their objective is to document the ecological and geological diversity of Canada’s Arctic Watershed

🚨🚨 We are SO excited to share - the Polar Impact #Mentorship Initiative is now accepting applications for mentee participants! If you're interested in this year-long pilot program, please complete this form by May 15. forms.gle/2YWQ2115cgRK3D… More details below 👇👇

Ah hello my fond childhood trauma of watching cobras float around my house during the Mumbai floods 🙋‍♀️

The C-CLEAR DTP is seeking to fill 5 NERC-funded Research Experience Placements for Summer 2022: nercdtp.esc.cam.ac.uk/programme/reps Apply by 27 May! Muhammad Tayyab Dept of Zoology Cambridge Earth Sciences British Antarctic Survey 🐧

A thread of the 'top' universities in #REF2021 ranked by their #GenderPayGap and #EthnicityPayGap. The UK university median gender pay gap is 14.7%; the UK university median ethnicity pay gap is 9%. #REFresults #REF

If only Texas lawmakers cared about children after they were born too. Them + NRA will deliver their ‘thoughts and 🙏🏼' at the country's largest convention in Houston in 3 days + promote new laws that require no permit to carry a hand gun now that 18yos can buy guns in Texas 🤡

After the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade on Friday, several companies have committed to helping their U.S. employees get access to reproductive care they may not be able to obtain in their state. nyti.ms/3ynEvjY