Anson Mackay 🏳️🌈
@UCLGeography: climate change, environment, palaeoecology, freshwaters, botany. Also Higher Ed., Lake Baikal, running. he/him/they
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Springer Nature journals unify their policy to encourage preprint sharing
Recognizing the benefits, we move from merely supporting the use of preprint servers to promoting it.
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Anson Mackay 🏳️🌈
Cool! @SpringerNature journals unify their policy to encourage preprint sharing! Especially important for earth scientists, climate scientists and paleontologists, to know that @EarthArXiv & @paleorxiv preprint servers are there for you :-)
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Xenophobia masquerading as environmentalism How politics, money, and racism turned Irkutsk against a Chinese bottling factory at Lake Baikal
The construction of a bottling facility in the Lake Baikal area has been suspended, and the project’s Chinese investors might lose their lease on land that’s now home to a half-finished factory. For the past two months, the Irkutsk region and Moscow...
Anson Mackay 🏳️🌈
Xenophobia masquerading as environmentalism How politics, money, and racism turned Irkutsk against a Chinese bottling factory at Lake #Baikal
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Winter Limnology in a Changing World - AGUChapmanConference
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Anson Mackay 🏳️🌈
This promises to be a great conference: Winter Limnology in a Changing World. An @theAGU Chapman Conference, 14-18th Oct 2019 (Montana). Now calling for abstracts.
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Ten Hot Topics around Scholarly Publishing
The changing world of scholarly communication and the emerging new wave of ‘Open Science’ or ‘Open Research’ has brought to light a number of controversial and hotly debated topics. Evidence-based rational debate is regularly drowned out by...
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Anson Mackay 🏳️🌈
Ten Hot Topics around Scholarly Publishing. Great new paper by @Protohedgehog et al.
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Calvin Cheung Photography
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Calvin Cheung // 07575641722 // [email protected] Calvin Cheung is a London-based events and commercial photographer and videographer with a strong digital marketing & brand development...
Anson Mackay 🏳️🌈
52 going on 12 😂. Goofing around in East London.
Photo taken by Calvin, ex @UCLgeography tutee, turned brilliant photographer ccheungphotography.com pic.twitter.com/i2zf6PRaAB
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Manifesto: Table of Contents
Click for printable PDF (in production, available soon) Table of Contents 1. FOREWORD 1.1 A manifesto for a modern education union 1.2 An affordable strategy that holds managers to account 1.3 No s…
Why the Guardian is changing the language it uses about the environment | Environment | The Guardian
From now, house style guide recommends terms such as ‘climate crisis’ and ‘global heating’
Anson Mackay 🏳️🌈
Climate crisis I can live with. Global heating I’m fully on board with. Now let’s just get ‘biodiversity crisis’ on the agenda.
>> Why the Guardian is changing the language it uses about the environment.
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Biodiversity centre stage
The IPBES global assessment has brought biodiversity prominently to the attention of policymakers and the public, and researchers should seize this critical opportunity to engender change towards sustainability.
Microscopy Gender Equality Resource
The RMS is dedicated to supporting equality in the field of microscopy, specifically for speakers invited to attend events internationally. In collaboration with Sian Culley at University College London, we have created this resource to demonstrate...
Taiwan legalises same-sex marriage in first for Asia
Congratulations, Taiwan!
Anson Mackay 🏳️🌈
On International Day Against Homophobia, Transphobia and Biphobia on Friday, Taiwan has become the first country in Asia to legalise same-sex marriage. ❤️🖤💜 #lgbtq #IDAHOBIT
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Wakeling, P. and and Hampden-Thompson, G. (2013)Transition to higher degrees across the UK: an analysis of national, institutional and individual differences, York: Higher Education Academy | Postgraduate Experience Project
The Kingston University led project is one of 20 projects funded by the HEFCE Postgraduate Support Scheme which is a £25 million publicly-funded programme.
Anson Mackay
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Y'all know I'm a huge fan of blogging as a form of assessment. Here's an interview I did with @ucl_teaching, extolling its virtues :-)
youtube.com/watch?time_con… @UCLgeography
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Using selfies to challenge public stereotypes of scientists
In an online Qualtrics panel survey experiment (N = 1620), we found that scientists posting self-portraits (“selfies”) to Instagram from the science lab/field were perceived as significantly warmer and more trustworthy, and no less competent, than...
Inequality brokered
Factors that increase or decrease social inequalities rarely occur in isolation. Unless checked, these factors mutually reinforce each other across human life spans, sustain unjust hierarchies across historical time, and spill over from their...
The first new university in the UK for 40 years is taking a very different approach to education
Out with subjects, in with complex challenges - from tackling knife crime to tracking palm oil in supply chains.
Anson Mackay 🏳️🌈
A new UK university is turning learning on its head to tackle the world's most complex problems. Say hello to The London Interdisciplinary School @weareLIS weforum.org/agenda/2019/05… via @wef
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Higher education is about making lives better. That’s why we need better well-being metrics and yes, maybe even a well-being league table.
It is mental health awareness week so – quite rightly – your newsfeeds will be full of articles about mental health. At HEPI we’ve written about these issues at length before. But that is not what this blog is about. As our own Rachel Hewitt pointed...
Mental Health Awareness Week
Good mental health for all. Dedicated to finding and addressing the sources of mental health problems.