Clair Barnes

Cosmic UCL poster with Jon Butterworth, Mark Miodownik, Maggie Aderin, Helen Czerski, Kevin Fong, Adam Rutherford

London ppl... University College London is 200 this year & so we have a fabulous evening of science & creativity for you on May 6th. All the UCL-based usual suspects will be there (in the SAME event!), & more to be announced. Join us & bring your friends!

www.bloomsburytheatre.com/event/2026/0...

"How fleeting are all human passions, compared with the massive continuity of ducks." - Dorothy L Sayers (applies to many water fowl, I think)

you know I would say her matching pink phone case really makes this, gives Goodwin a huge "sad loser man at the end of Legally Blonde" vibe

this is exactly the correct answer to "who do we be mad at when two groups' rights' are in conflict", the answer is "whoever tf is putting them in conflict", which in this case is "the assholes at the BBC"

These things simply can’t deal with anything that really exists. My friend tried to use one to find summer camp options for her kids and it returned 100% nonexistent camps.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=HfAF...

“They would have been obliterated in court,” @andrewdessler.com told me. "This is the gold standard of climate skepticism and if this is the best they can do, then they’ve proven how robust climate science actually is."

Over on threads someone just use ai;dr and we all need to adopt that right quick

We found strikingly clear evidence that climate change is increasing the risk of fire-prone conditions in Chile and Patagonia, making blazes like these much more likely than they would have been without fossil fuel emissions. Read the full report from @wwattribution.bsky.social here: buff.ly/QxaOMBg

Gladys Mae West obituary: mathematician who pioneered GPS technology She made key contributions to US cold-war science despite facing huge barriers as a Black woman.

No joke: I got angry hate mail today for writing an obituary of a Black woman scientist—because the person felt she did didn’t deserve the recognition.

Which just makes me want to share it again: www.nature.com/articles/d41...

A Secret Panel to Question Climate Science Was Unlawful, Judge Rules

Oh! “A federal judge on Friday ruled the Energy Department violated the law when Secretary Chris Wright handpicked five researchers who reject the scientific consensus on climate change to work in secret on a sweeping government report on global warming.”

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Let's all take a moment to stop and drink a toast to the wonderfulness and luminosity of Catherine O'Hara. Here's to her.

A real coming of age for the project. Kudos to @clairebergin.bsky.social @lionel-swan.bsky.social and met Éireann colleagues. And as ever would not be possible without help of @wwattribution.bsky.social colleagues

🚨 NEW STUDY: As Australia prepares for another heatwave, our latest study found the early January heatwave which hit SE Australia was made 5x more likely due to climate change. What was once a relatively rare 1-in-25-year event is now expected about every 5 years. 🧵 1/6

Half of world’s CO2 emissions come from just 32 fossil fuel firms, study shows Critics accuse leading firms of sabotaging climate action but say data increasingly being used to hold them to account

Half of world’s CO2 emissions come from just 32 fossil fuel firms, study shows

- Critics accuse leading firms of sabotaging climate action but say data increasingly being used to hold them to account

@influencemap.bsky.social
#climatecrisis
Story by me
www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Highly, highly recommended for persons interested in Bayesian methods and for persons not interested in Bayesian methods who should be.

For some reason that I cannot compute, "every tenth of a degree matters" has become a catch-cry for ending climate targets, dismissing the Paris Agreement as outdated and moving climate discourse centre-right.

This is so wild to me. We set targets *SPECIFICALLY BECAUSE THE INCREMENTS MATTER*

The Cardiff Lions do an annual Drag Rugby charity match for children’s charities and it’s as beautiful as you imagined

Some important new government policy that Native Americans might be interested in:

bbc graphic showing heavy weather hitting a good chunk of England and Wales, except London for some reason.

This is what we call "Facebook weather" because it's too scared to go to London, for zero logical reason.

An email from Martin Peterson to university administrators.

Martin Peterson's creative response to being banned from teaching Plato (shared with his permission).

Private sector revives the climate disaster database Trump tried to squash | CNN In the US last year there were 23 separate billion-dollar weather and climate disasters, adding up to a total of $115 billion in damages. The database that tracks these costs used to be maintained by ...

Nature, or rather, climate experts, always find a way. The billion dollar disasters report that the Trump admin tried to squash is now out via Climate Central. www.cnn.com/2026/01/08/c...

Just had a discussion with my aunt about her orange cat:
AUNT: Well, you know, he was born with a condition.
ME: Orange?
AUNT: He was born with two conditions—

a graphic showing the slower emissions reductions cause more greenhouse gas emissions over time

This isn't a debate about policy design or differing paths to the same goal

One is a plan to allow more emissions (and therefore, more harm / death), and one is a plan to *at least try* to reduce that harm.

The 'debate' is about whether we should let fossil fuels kill people, or try to stop that

The sun rising over the London skyline this morning, only it’s a very cloudy sky and the sun is visible only as an orange streak of fire that coincidentally seems to be emanating from the spire on the top of St Paul’s dome

Rare footage of St Paul’s Cathedral testing its giant flamethrower

Collage of three images of gingerbread replicas of pubs. Text overlay reads "Gingerbread pubs of St Albans 2025 Edition (Year 4 of the project--there are a lot of pubs in St Albans!)"

It's time for this year's installment of the Gingerbread Pubs of St Albans! This is the fourth year I've been recreating the iconic, historic pubs of St Albans, England in gingerbread, and giving them as a gift to the pubs. Read on for lots of pictures and details! 🧵 #stalbans #gingerbread

Generations from now, when historians study this period where we have perfect understanding of the problem, and brilliant, readily available solutions with all the resources necessary to implement them, they'll study cases like this to try to figure out why we kept drilling holes in our lifeboat.

Well now that's upsetting.

“Climate change isn’t everything“ is becoming a go-to justification for delaying action.

This is - deliberately or inadvertently - a misframing of the issue. The point isn’t CC is everything, it’s that it’s essential to deal with.

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