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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Giant ice rings on lakes and field observations of lens‐like eddies in the Middle Baikal (2016–2017)
Giant ice rings (diameter 5–7 km) detected on lakes Baikal (Russia) and Hovsgol (Mongolia) are a surface manifestation of intrathermocline lens‐like eddies under ice cover. By analyzing satellite ima...
Anson Mackay 🦠🔬🏃🏼♂️🏳️🌈🐯
Ice-rings on Lake #Baikal are fascinating. This new paper provides more detail on how they form, linked to under-ice eddies. The photos show just how dangerous fieldwork on the frozen lake can be. Thankfully everyone was rescued from the UAZ vehicle
aslopubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.10… pic.twitter.com/Yhn9a3uj5P
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Anson Mackay 🦠🔬🏃🏼♂️🏳️🌈🐯
Wow @TrinityHallCamb, this statement is pretty egregious. How is anyone able to respect your values if you continue to support Peter Hutchinson more than your students?
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UCL divests from fossil fuels as it launches bold new sustainability strategy
UCL has announced it will divest from fossil fuels by the end of 2019, as the university today launches its bold new sustainability strategy.
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Anson Mackay 🦠🔬🏃🏼♂️🏳️🌈🐯
Wow, this is brilliant news! @UCL divests from fossil fuels as it launches bold new sustainability strategy... This position has taken a long, but welcome time in coming.
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What artificial languages can tell us about ourselves
From Game of Thrones' Dothraki to Hildegard von Bingen's Lingua Ignota, people love to construct their own languages. These 'conlangs' can reveal the special place that language holds in our brains.
Extinction Rebellion activists disrupt London Underground
Police attend incidents at Shadwell, Stratford and Canning Town during morning rush hour
Anson Mackay 🦠🔬🏃🏼♂️🏳️🌈🐯
Hmm. Mixed feelings about this. Disrupting electrically-powered commuting routes used by 10s of 1000s of low income workers is probably not the most effective type of protest...
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Olympic gold medalist comes out as gay with a powerful and inspirational message
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Olympic champion Kerron Clement came out as gay on National Coming Out Day (October 11) because he said he was "tired of loving in the dark".
We Can Improve Your Body Wholesale Tickets - London
A brainy and bodily panel discussion about gender and sexuality in science-fiction and fantasy literature. Our experts and writers will debate the theme wherever it appears: from Jeanette Winterson’s recent novel Frankissstein, about transcending...
Anson Mackay 🦠🔬🏃🏼♂️🏳️🌈🐯
Cool, just ordered tickets with @davidadger to "We Can Improve Your Body Wholesale" at @outsavvy. Maybe see you there @AdamZmith
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Review clears gender dysphoria treatment study
But questions remain over the use of puberty blockers, say Newsnight's Deb Cohen and Hannah Barnes.
Anson Mackay 🦠🔬🏃🏼♂️🏳️🌈🐯
.@BBCNews I've corrected your headline for you:
"An official review by the NHS's HRA into the conduct of the study, has cleared the researchers of any wrongdoing. It also found that researchers in some areas were "ahead of normal practice at the time".
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UK universities' BME staff less likely to hold top jobs
Study shows minority ethnic staff paid on average £7,000 less than white colleagues
Justice for UCL Workers - End Outsourcing
JUSTICE FOR UCL WORKERS - END OUTSOURCING AT UCL Outsourced workers at UCL are fighting for equality. Security officers, cleaners and porters across UCL are united and determined to fight to end the scourge of outsourcing and win justice, equality...
Anson Mackay 🦠🔬🏃🏼♂️🏳️🌈🐯
I just signed a @theactionnet petition: Justice for UCL Workers - End Outsourcing. Sign here
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Tricky: ‘I’ve lost people before and bounced back. This is different’
The pioneering musician was raised among gangsters and has battled with anxiety, as documented in his new memoir. But nothing could prepare him for the grief of losing his daughter this year
Anson Mackay 🦠🔬🏃🏼♂️🏳️🌈🐯
This interview is heart-breaking. I can’t imagine his loss. Tricky: ‘I’ve lost people before and bounced back. This is different’
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Language Unlimited: The Science Behind Our Most Creative Power, David Adger - Review
Before starting my PhD I took some time out from study and had an
office job. Like many people who study linguistics in their
undergraduate program, after 4 years of learning cool things about
language every semester I desperately missed it. Over...
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Anson Mackay 🦠🔬🏃🏼♂️🏳️🌈🐯
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Uganda plans bill imposing death penalty for gay sex
NAIROBI (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Uganda announced plans on Thursday for a ...
Anson Mackay 🦠🔬🏃🏼♂️🏳️🌈🐯
FFS - Uganda plans bill imposing death penalty for gay sex, and this time through lobbying of legislators ahead of its introduction, support may well be high enough to pass the bill. 🤬 reuters.com/article/us-uga…. We should watch out for this @UCLout
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The Oxbridge problem: is it time to shake up University Challenge?
For decades, Oxford and Cambridge have been allowed to dominate the quiz by entering individual colleges. Here’s why we need to end this unfair advantage
Anson Mackay 🦠🔬🏃🏼♂️🏳️🌈🐯
😬 “implicit in that defence is an arrogant and snobbish view that people who go to Oxbridge are simply smarter, something only a cursory glance at the Conservative Party Conference swiftly disproves”
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Gender, Race and Power: An Evening with Angela Saini
An evening with award-winning author Angela Saini, whose recent books on flawed gender and race "science" inspired a global conversation
Banish hunger on university campuses
For World Food Day, Esther Ngumbi calls on institutions of higher education to help students know where their next meal is coming from.
Anson Mackay 🦠🔬🏃🏼♂️🏳️🌈🐯
Banish hunger on university campuses: for World Food Day, @EstherNgumbi calls on institutions of higher education to help students know where their next meal is coming from.
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