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Please sign the Petition to stop the job cuts to Geology and Palaeontology degrees in Leicester www.change.org/p/save-geolo...

Week 5 picket activities programme.

Picket times:
Monday, Wednesday, Friday: 9am
Tuesday, Thursday: 11am

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More photos from our demo!
We want to thank all the students for their continuous support, for joining our demo and rally, and for some incredible and impactful speeches.

Fantastic news!!

Unions do make a difference - maybe join one today if you are not already a member

@leicesterucu.bsky.social

$170,000 a minute: why Saudi Arabia is the biggest blocker of climate action Desert kingdom depends on oil dollars but its people already face a climate ‘at the verge of livability’. What’s going on?

170,000 reasons a minute: why Saudi Arabia is the biggest blocker of climate action

www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...

After a truly awesome demo, acknowledgments are in order.
First, thanks to the @uclucu.bsky.social branch, Chris Pritchard (one of our NEC reps), the Leicester District Trades Union, the DMU UCU branch @ucudmu.bsky.social, and UoN UCU branch for their solidarity.
When we fight, we don't fight alone.

Warming overpowers low-frequency North Pacific climate variability - Nature Climate Change The Pacific Decadal Oscillation describes the most important pattern of low-frequency climate variability in the North Pacific. An analysis of sea surface temperatures reveals that, since 2014, the Pa...

Warming overpowers low-frequency North Pacific climate variability

The PDO is the primary pattern of long-term climate variability in the North Pacific. Since 2014, basin-wide warming has overshadowed its influence, causing concerning ecological impacts...

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

A century of change in the California Current: upwelling system amplifies acidification - Nature Communications Boron isotopes in cold-water corals reveal that acidification in the California Current and Salish Sea has outpaced atmospheric CO2 over the industrial era, posing a threat to ecosystems of ecological...

A century of change in the California Current: upwelling system amplifies acidification

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

📢 November news is out!

Did you know that PAGES has a monthly newsletter for the global #paleoscience community, featuring upcoming deadlines, opportunities, events, and other updates?

Catch up on everything in our latest newsletter: pastglobalchanges.org/news/138741

IMPORTANT: no pickets tomorrow!

See you all at the EGM online

@leicesterucu.bsky.social fantastic Tshirts at the picket line today for the second strike period to fight the job cuts across Schools

Huge interest for our Palaeobiology and Palaeoclimate research and degree within Geology with Palaeontology #University Leicester at Open Day by our visitors, thanks for coming and talking to us

Coral Sr/Ca-SST reconstruction from Fiji extending to ~1370 CE reveals insights into the Interdecadal Pacific Oscillation Coral temperature reconstruction from the southwestern tropical Pacific extends knowledge of climate dynamics back to 1370.

in line with this paper www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... which also shows an increasingly similar warming across the equatorial and southern poles of the IPO

Pan-basin warming now overshadows robust Pacific Decadal Oscillation - Nature Climate Change Natural patterns of climate variability, such as the Pacific Decadal Oscillation (PDO), strongly influence regional climate. This study shows that anthropogenic warming now has greater influence than ...

🌊The Pacific Decadal Oscillation (PDO) remains robust, but it’s no longer the main mode of SST variability

A new study identifies a pan-basin warming pattern dominating the North Pacific, potentially redefining how we interpret decadal variability & ecosystem impacts

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Excited to share our work using #aDNA to reconstruct #Symbiodiniaceae dynamics from #coral cores. Led by José Grillo, @jessireichert.bsky.social, @nessatir.bsky.social part of #TaraPacific expedition & supported by #SPP2299 @climatereefs.bsky.social

doi.org/10.1111/gcb....

Current and projected effects of climate change in cryosphere microbial ecosystems - Nature Reviews Microbiology The cryosphere remains one of the least-understood microbial ecosystems on Earth, but as climate change accelerates, cryosphere microbial communities will have an increasingly prominent role in Earth’...

The world’s coldest microbes are waking up.

Warming across the cryosphere — from melting glaciers to thawing permafrost — is accelerating microbial activity, reshaping carbon and nutrient fluxes, and amplifying climate feedbacks

(review)
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Dozens of staff stood up and displayed these signs at the beginning of today’s address by the VC to demonstrate their lack of confidence in him and his ability to impose such devastating staff cuts across the university.

On the Gates climate memo There is a lot of things I agree with in Bill Gates’ new memo on climate change, but I think it fundamentally sets up a false dichotomy.

There are a lot of things I agree with in Bill Gates' new climate memo, but I think it sets up a false dichotomy between reducing emissions and helping the world's poorest. I've put together a piece with my thoughts over at TCB:

UK opts out of flagship fund to protect Amazon and other threatened tropical forests Decision is bitter blow to Brazil ahead of fund’s launch at Cop30 – and an embarrassment to Prince William

UK opts out of flagship fund to protect Amazon and other threatened tropical forests

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

One week to go for the national demonstration called by UCU (@ucu.org.uk) against the planned redundancies at the University of Leicester.
Please come and march alongside us in Leicester on 12 November.
All welcome!

EGM tomorrow, 1pm!

This is extended data figure 1, which shows photographs of different families of scleractinians.

Some ancient stony corals were able to survive extreme environmental changes, which suggests that some modern species could possess some resilience to the effects of climate change, according to research in Nature. go.nature.com/4hrpLpi 🌊 🧪

EU considers weakening 2040 climate goal over forest CO2 absorption, draft shows The European Union is considering a brake clause to weaken its 2040 climate target in the future, if it becomes clear countries' forests are not absorbing enough CO2 emissions to meet the goal, a draft EU compromise proposal showed.

If your climate plan depends on trees doing the heavy lifting, maybe it’s time to lift more yourself

The EU shouldn’t weaken its 2040 target because forests can't keep up…

www.reuters.com/sustainabili...

China intimidated UK university to ditch human rights research, documents show Sheffield Hallam University apologises to Professor Laura Murphy for restricting her academic freedom.

www.bbc.com/news/article...

Let me excerpt the concluding paragraph:

Plants have a secret language that scientists are only now starting to decipher Signals from the plant cell wall help to orchestrate growth, reproduction and immune function. Can harnessing this molecular cross talk help in creating better crops?

Signals from the plant cell wall help to orchestrate growth, reproduction and immune function. A feature in Nature explores how harnessing this molecular cross talk could help create better crops. #plantscience 🧪

UCU (@ucu.org.uk) has called a national demonstration against the planned redundancies at the University of Leicester.
Please come and march alongside us in Leicester on 12 November.
All welcome!

We warmly congratulate Wolfgang Kießling on his outstanding achievement in the Ranking of the Stanford List 2025. Wolfgang is ranked among the top 50 in his field!
This year’s ranking takes into account a total of 236,313 researchers. Visit: www.fau.eu/2025/09/news... for more details.