Thanks to various tweets last month by e.g. Julia Steinberger Aashis Joshi 🍉🍉 Prof Lisa Schipper 🌎 ✊ I got The Nutmeg's Curse by Amitav Ghosh - just finished reading it & there is so much to digest & much inspiration. I use e.g. the Gaia concept and there's much more in the book to help guide us

NEW: Climate-driven migration mini-series 👣

After 2+ years of research and writing, I am SO excited to share this work!

1️⃣In-depth Q&A:
bit.ly/migration-clim…

2️⃣Climate-driven migration in rural Thailand:

Article bit.ly/migration-Thai…

Video youtu.be/SQ2NytrueUQ?si…

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I'm looking to hire a short-term, part-time, UK based Research Assistant over the next 10 months to work with me on some research on London's response to extreme heat.
Deadline is 24th April.
See below for further details and how to apply. Grantham LSE PCAN (Place-based Climate Action Network) Climate Change Research Group

Somewhat kicking myself for agreeing to give a talk in Spanish on climate change and human rights next week, but also very impressed with this training programme set up by IDHC - Institut de Drets Humans de Catalunya. This is how we need to approach thinking about climate change idhc.org/es/formacion/4…

How do scientists engage with climate change beyond research? What barriers to engagement do they perceive?

We just updated our preprint, adding several cool new analyses :) I'll also be presenting this work at #EGU24 on Monday! Maien Sachisthal jonas haslbeck osf.io/preprints/psya…

This shows what we have known for a long time. Getting in, through and staying in #academia is so much harder if you are not a #native English speaker. The Conversation - Australia + New Zealand

I choose to interpret this as a critique of capitalism and consumerism.

This is just the latest example of using deadline rhetoric in the climate debate. You may remember the 'we have only 12 years' catchphrase following the release of IPCC SR15 in 2018. The problem is such rhetoric is both ineffective & self-defeating.

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Scroll.in is producing an election series 'View from the Margins' show how the margiinalised have fared in the last decade.
I spoke with the vibrant Mayalmit Lepcha from Sikkim's indigenous Lepcha tribe about how they witnessed development --
scroll.in/article/106604…

My new mantra - love this article. Thanks to Climate Risk Economics for finding this piece of brilliance.
ryanmurdock.com/2021/01/german…

Universities in the Netherlands to curb internationalisation. I find this distressing for many reasons, although wonder: could it encourage more internationalisation in Germany as a result? thepienews.com/news/dutch-uni…

Come work with me in beautiful Basel! I am recruiting for a postdoc position (2+4 years!) in the governance of sustainable agri-food systems, focusing on the implementation of mandatory sustainability legislation in tropical agri-food commodity chains. Ideal start date: 01.08.24

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If drivers need a reminder to look out for cyclists, they should no longer be sitting behind the wheel of any motorised vehicle at all.

The world is full of so many painful, real problems I can barely read the news.

Chechnya: let’s ban techno dazeddigital.com/music/article/…

Delighted to join Scientist Rebellion Scientist Rebellion on Wednesday April 17th for this online talk.
Zoom registration details are below.