Anson Mackay 🦠🔬🏃🏼♂️🏳️🌈🐯
@UCLGeography: climate, environment, palaeoecology, freshwaters, botany. Also Higher Ed., Lake Baikal, running & all things EDI. he/him/his Insta: AnsonMackay
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LGBT Falklands veteran to have medal returned
Joe Ousalice was discharged in 1993 when there was a ban on LGBT people in the armed forces.
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Anson Mackay 🦠🔬🏃🏼♂️🏳️🌈🐯
@UCLgeography And a 3rd lecturer/AP position (!) in Social & Cultural #Geography, and especially from people working on migration; gender; and geographies of religion.
Again, women and people from ethnic minorities are particularly invited to apply. Please retweet :-)
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Wakenhyrst
1906: A large manor house, Wake's End, sits on the edge of a bleak Fen, just outside the town of Wakenhyrst. It is the home of Edmund Ste...
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Anson Mackay 🦠🔬🏃🏼♂️🏳️🌈🐯
@UCLgeography And a 2nd position: Lecturer/AP in Environment, Politics & Society! Applicants with interests in environmental & geopolitics; environmental policy & justice; climate change & energy; toxicity & hazards; economy & environment, welcome #ecrchat
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Anson Mackay 🦠🔬🏃🏼♂️🏳️🌈🐯
Come work with us @UCLgeography: we have a permanent position, suitable for those doing physical geography, environmental science or geoscience, and who have expertise in climate or environmental change, and their impacts in the Anthropocene. #ecrchat
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Abandon Statistical Significance
(2019). Abandon Statistical Significance. The American Statistician: Vol. 73, Statistical Inference in the 21st Century: A World Beyond p < 0.05, pp. 235-245.
Diversity in Science
This presentation was given at the Royal Society Research Fellows Induction Event in November 2019. In this presentation I talk about the importance of diversity in science, share resources (in slides and notes), and suggest to get involved.
Merriam-Webster's Words of the Year 2019
They, plus quid pro quo, crawdad, exculpate, and 7 more of our top lookups of 2019
Anson Mackay 🦠🔬🏃🏼♂️🏳️🌈🐯
"they" : the surprise, gender-neutral singular pronoun, hit of the year :-) And a word to get all the "gender criticals" frothing at the mouth. Brilliant.
merriam-webster.com/words-at-play/… #they #nonbinary
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Is grade inflation running wild?
Mark Corver presents a new way of thinking about the grade inflation debate which questions the government's claim that too many students are getting good degrees
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Is grade inflation running wild?
Here's different way of thinking about the grade inflation debate which questions the government's claim that too many students are getting good degrees. If anything we are under-estimating their abilities
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Why you should plant trees in square holes | James Wong
Change the way you dig and you’ll grow better, stronger trees, says James Wong
Anson Mackay 🦠🔬🏃🏼♂️🏳️🌈🐯
Great advice here from @Botanygeek; growing roots do not grow round corners 👍🏼
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About Walt Westman – NOGLSTP
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Anson Mackay 🦠🔬🏃🏼♂️🏳️🌈🐯
I've just learned of a new LGBTQ role model in ecology, Walt Westman, who sadly died from AIDs in 1991. His research and activism is incredible #lgbtq
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How to eat: a crisp sandwich
This month, How to Eat is munching on a complex dish rarely discussed in polite society. Do you use butter or mayo? Is white bread essential? Do Wotsits work?
Anson Mackay 🦠🔬🏃🏼♂️🏳️🌈🐯
A Scottish staple: pan (white, natch) bread & salt n vinegar crisps is my favourite 😍
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Climate models have accurately predicted global heating, study finds
Findings confirm reliability of projections of temperature changes over last 50 years
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There is no doubt: “We found that climate models – even those published back in the 1970s – did remarkably well, with 14 out of the 17 model projections indistinguishable from what actually occurred,” #globalwarming #agw
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A Linguist on What Baby Yoda’s First Words Might Be
Even if Baby Yoda lived with other Yoda-style speakers in the past, it’s still doubtful that he would have typical Yoda syntax.
Number of BAME board members falls in past years says Green Park research.
At this rate of change it will take until 2039 before all FTSE 100 boards and executive committees have ethnic minority representation.