Russia arrests Ukrainian biologist for backing curbs on Antarctic krill fishing ‘Trumped-up’ charges spark diplomatic row as scientists express fears for health of 70-year-old Leonid Pshenichnov

Awful:

Russia arrests Ukrainian biologist for backing curbs on Antarctic krill fishing @theguardian.com www.theguardian.com/environment/...

In Rome we were more than a million people demonstrating to #FreePalestine and in support of the #SumondFlotilla
Strongly condemning the genocide by Israel
And give us back all the flotilla crews including Greta Tunberg!!

@egu.eu this year you can use these lanyards to make the #EGU25 more inclusive

Queer Quarterly: What does queer visibility mean in academia? Queer Quarterly is the blog series of the EGU pride group, a LGBTQIA+ team of geoscientists engaged to uphold and improve the rights of the community in the EGU organization. This week’s post is dedic...

New queer quarterly is up!
Queer visibility in Academia by the @egu.eu Pride group!

blogs.egu.eu/divisions/ts...

A photo of IPCC working group leads and a statement that "Following the panel's agreement on the outlines of the three Working Group contributions to the Seventh Assessment Report, the IPCC is calling for nominations of experts to assess the body of scientific literature relating to climate change."

Heads up! The @ipcc.bsky.social is calling for nominations for Lead Authors and Review Editors for its 7th Assessment Report.

More about how to become an author or review editor here 👉 bit.ly/4krWMTu

More on the nomination process here 👉 bit.ly/AR7Nm

Submissions close Apr 17, 2025.

Prayers up for Myanmar, Bangkok and surrounding area. 7.7 earthquake, death and injury totals still unknown.

Myanmar Is in Ruins. And America Isn’t Coming. A 7.7-magnitude earthquake hit Myanmar on March 27. Buildings pancaked in Mandalay. Temples in Bagan shattered. Entire villages buried.

Our hearts are with Myanmar today. Also filled with tremendous sorrow and shame for our country that USAID isn't there to help.

At least 144 dead and more than 730 injured across Myanmar according to reports. Giant ruptures appeared in Myittha, Mandalay Region after the earthquake. #earthquake

Look around, are your walls a bit boring?

Until Sunday, 15% off all my geo-themed prints (no code needed, worldwide shipping). Grab yourself one (or two) > theflattype.etsy.com

(Now available in A3 and also a very nice A5 postcard format)
#SciArt #EarthScience #GeoAdventures

AOC: In every single stop that Bernie and I have had in the past couple of days… every single stop has completely blown out all attendance projections.

From @internazionale.it
@ec.europa.eu please start caring about all genocides including the genocide of Palestinian people and stop the land grabbing their territories
#FreePalestine #StopTheGenocide

UK researchers on the Joides Resolution.

Team UK on IODP Expedition 395! Good times. 😍

Universities’ financial crisis leaves women in the firing line - Research Professional News Structural inequities and neglect of career development threaten to turn back clock, says Hannah Roberts

“In 2011, I completed a PhD in...chemistry, with 10 papers to my name, five as first author. You might assume that was a foundation for academic success. Instead, I left #academia, becoming another statistic in the leaky pipeline, where 39% of chem PhD grads are women, yet only 9% are professors.”

Finally this paper is going to be published! 8 years in the making
We present a 150 ka subequatorial eastern Africa paleomagnetic data from Lake Chala

Scientific research is facing unprecedented threats in the United States.

This affects our scientific community in many ways:

*job layoffs—impacting #ECS and #EDI
*data erased or made inaccessible
*word censorship
*research funding cuts

These are the reasons why I #standupforscience2025

Elon Musk is a proven danger to good science, but the Royal Society won’t say so. That’s why I resigned | Kit Yates It is vital to act, and I urge colleagues to do so. How can we stand by and laud this man while he undermines scientific integrity? asks academic and author Kit Yates

🚨I promised I'd say more on the Royal Society and Elon Musk, so here it is. 🚨

I've resigned my position as Associate Editor at Royal Society's journal Open Science in protest at their lack of action over Elon Musk.

My op-ed in @theguardian.com
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

AGU has joined a lawsuit challenging the firing of probationary employees at federal agencies.

These actions weaken science, harm public health & the environment, and threaten national security. 🧵 #StandWithScience

FORCINN: First‐Order Reversal Curve Inversion of Magnetite Using Neural Networks We have developed a neural network model for analyzing FORC data, which converges quickly to a high accuracy during the training The trained FORCINN model can accurately invert the grain-size and...

Latest paper. #NMGIC

agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/...

I want to see the American Geophysical Union (AGU) continue its awesome work on justice, equity, diversity, and inclusion. This thread is a call to AGU and AGU members. 1/

This is a great thread and resources on inclusive fieldwork for LGBTQ+ researchers 🏳️‍⚧️ 🏳️‍🌈

A few years ago, with input from @thelabandfield.bsky.social, @bmatb.expmicromech.com, and others, I wrote a short piece on this for @geolsoc.bsky.social focused on #geoscience www.geolsoc.org.uk/Geoscientist...

The U.S. has two tsunami warning centers, both operated by NOAA. Employees were terminated from these centers today. The Pacific Tsunami Warning Center covers Hawaiʻi, and now it is less safe to be near the beach.

www.tsunami.gov

Two intense days in Ismaning with #EGU #ECS Reps, shaping our community’s future—toward&beyond #EGU25.

Big thanks to @eurogeosciences.bsky.social for an inspiring leadership workshop.

Takeaways:

🔥 Leadership has no single definition.
⚡ Overused strengths become weaknesses.
💡 Kindness is key.

A cat 2 cyclone (hurricane) heading for an Australian capital city with 2.4M people 😳. Even as it looses energy crossing the coast, as the last floods were only a few years ago, the capacity for direct and cumulative impact is large. My heart goes out to the people + ecosystems of sth QLD & Nth NSW🫂

AOC has raised over $90,000 in the past 24 hours for those impacted by the LA wildfires.

Thanks to everyone who has chipped in so far. If you're able to support, here's a link that goes 100% to organizations on the ground:
secure.actblue.com/donate/aoc-la

AOC: Trans girls are girls. And for all the folks that are so concerned, thank you for your concern for women for the first time. I don't know who has been to gym class, I’ve played co-ed sports all the time

Climate Change A Factor In Unprecedented LA Fires

New UCLA rapid attribution study: “Climate change may be linked to roughly a quarter of the extreme fuel moisture deficit when the fires began.
The fires would still have been extreme without climate change, but probably somewhat smaller and less intense.”

sustainablela.ucla.edu/2025lawildfi...

It has been a pleasure to work with @statesofprecarity.bsky.social on posters looking at the impact of fixed term contracts (FTC) in Geography (and beyond).

🔵Poster 1 - the challenges of FTC
🔵Poster 2 - How to support colleagues on FTC
🔵Poster 3 - Identity and difference and the impact of FTC

How to delete your Facebook account and take your data with you If you want to know how to delete your Facebook account, follow these steps to get rid of it, and also save anything you want to keep.

If you are so inclined, here's "How to delete your Facebook account and take your data with you. Meta has buried account deletion and deactivation within your Facebook settings, but we found them." www.popsci.com/diy/how-to-d...

Wait for it.
NASA animation.
It’s not coincidence, it’s climate change.