Anson Mackay 🦠🔬🏃🏼♂️🏳️🌈🐯
@UCLGeography: climate change, environment, palaeoecology, freshwaters, botany. Also Higher Ed., Lake Baikal, running. he/him/his Insta: AnsonMackay
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Can planting trees save our climate?
In recent weeks, a new study by researchers at ETH Zurich has hit the headlines worldwide (Bastin et al. 2019). It is about trees. The researchers asked themselves the question: how much carbon could we store if we planted trees everywhere in the...
Anson Mackay 🦠🔬🏃🏼♂️🏳️🌈🐯
Can planting trees save our climate? A reality check on the recent paper by Bastin et al....
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What are some reasons you didn't pursue postgraduate study?
[This survey is targeted at all Black people and People of Colour (PoC) who studied in the UK, regardless of age group, who currently reside in the UK. You don't have to be a British national to answer the questions. I am primarily looking for...
Top university split in row over erasing ‘racist’ science pioneers from the campus
University College London may rename buildings to cut links to promoters of eugenics
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Anson Mackay 🦠🔬🏃🏼♂️🏳️🌈🐯
Sigh. No one is erasing anything. The Pearson Building, where I work, was only named this relatively few decades ago. Would be great to see it renamed after a Geographer who did good in the world. Or just simply forgo named buildings altogether
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Aciiiiid! Rave's first 30 years – in pictures
From warehouse parties to the acid house explosion, new exhibition Sweet Harmony: Rave Today captures a dancefloor revolution. Warning: contains knitwear
Anson Mackay 🦠🔬🏃🏼♂️🏳️🌈🐯
Ah, happy days in the Hacienda... 😬😍 Aciiiiid! Rave's first 30 years – in pictures
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Lady Phyll: UK Black Pride is here in service of communities who deserve everything they’ve ever dreamed
Lady Phyll on UK Black Pride 2019, the team who makes it all happen and the communities who keep showing up to celebrate and to protest.
Is 'Race Science' Making A Comeback?
We talked to Angela Saini, author of the new book Superior: The Return of Race Science, about how race isn't real (but you know ... still is) and how race science crept its way into the 21st century.
The biologist overturning evolutionary doctrine
Cassandra Extavour has transformed understanding of animal development — while championing diversity, and nurturing a side career as a soprano.
Acceptance of gay sex in decline in UK for first time since Aids crisis
Number of people believing there is nothing wrong with gay sex has fallen, survey finds
Anson Mackay 🦠🔬🏃🏼♂️🏳️🌈🐯
Well this is shit 😡>>. Acceptance of gay sex in decline in UK for first time since Aids crisis
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A Massive Seaweed Bloom Now Stretches Across the Atlantic Ocean
Anson Mackay 🦠🔬🏃🏼♂️🏳️🌈🐯
The great Atlantic Sargassum belt: a massive seaweed bloom that stretches across the Atlantic Ocean, every year since 2011, fueled in part by nutrients and deforestation
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Government pledges £30m for new UCL/Moorfields eye health centre
UCL and Moorfields Eye Hospital’s plans for a new eye health centre have been bolstered by a £30 million grant from Research England.
Evaluating the prevalence and quality of conference codes of conduct
Academic conferences encourage collaboration and ignite ideas but can have negative impacts that disproportionately affect historically marginalized groups. Conference codes of conduct can help protect against abuses and foster diversity, but less...
Anson Mackay 🦠🔬🏃🏼♂️🏳️🌈🐯
Infographic summarizing data from academic biology conferences, codes of conduct. From new paper in @PNASNews pnas.org/content/early/… pic.twitter.com/VddxnD87hz
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Labour’s Dawn Butler: Handling of trans reforms is a ‘f**king disgrace’
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Labour's equalities chief Dawn Butler has slammed the government's handling of gender recognition reforms, branding it a "f**king disgrace."
NATURES SWITCH with CREDITS
A poem searching for the everyday moments in the life of plants triggered by light. From dusk to dawn across a city, an allotment, a field, a plant laboratory, an…
Urban Water, Health and Wellbeing: Scoping a London Water Network
Water is arguably Earth’s most vital resource, necessary for life, health and wellbeing. It is an essential component of both the natural environment and of the social, economic and physical fabric of society. However, population growth,...
Anson Mackay 🦠🔬🏃🏼♂️🏳️🌈🐯
This looks good - Urban Water, Health and Wellbeing: Scoping a London Water Network. Hosted by @Environ_Domain on Friday 19th July.
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Ethnicity pay gaps in Great Britain - Office for National Statistics
Ethnicity pay gap regression results for 2018 across different ethnicity breakdowns using the Annual Population Survey
BG - Wildfire overrides hydrological controls on boreal peatland methane emissions
Anson Mackay 🦠🔬🏃🏼♂️🏳️🌈🐯
Wildfire overrides hydrological controls on boreal peatland methane emissions. Great new paper from @ScootJD et al.
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Indication of ongoing amphipod speciation in Lake Baikal by genetic structures within endemic species
The ancient Lake Baikal is characterized by an outstanding diversity of endemic faunas with more than 350 amphipod species and subspecies. We determined the genetic diversity within the endemic littoral amphipod species Eulimnogammarus verrucosus,...
Anson Mackay 🦠🔬🏃🏼♂️🏳️🌈🐯
Indication of ongoing amphipod speciation in Lake #Baikal by genetic structures within endemic species
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