Historian, researching science, the media & environment. Asst Prof in Science Communication, McMaster University. Editor @HistMeteorology Journal
Hamilton/Manchester
Joined September 2011
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Its out!๐คฉ Mine & @WillMasonWilkes new edited collection 'Most Adaptable to Change: Evolution and Religion in Global Popular Media' is now available now. DM me w/any accessibility Qs and/or a discount code. upittpress.org/books/9780822โฆ #scicomm #histSTM #envhist #twitterstorians
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look at this chart. really look at it.
Despite a possible plateau in global greenhouse-gas emissions last year, average temperatures are set to hurtle past 2โยฐC
go.nature.com/4ByihdU
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We just published the 2026 State of the Climate Report. Of 16 planetary vital signs spanning greenhouse gas concentrations, temperatures, the oceans, ice, energy balance, and wildfire, 7 (44%) are currently at record extremes. Read report here: doi.org/10.1093/biosci/biag1โฆ
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Regarding whether, as @ZackPolanski said, climate change is a World War 2 level threat, every single political, journalist, broadcaster and citizen, needs to listen to this interview with Prof Kevin Anderson @KevinClimate
youtu.be/mBFos_T7cT0?is=OYjiโฆ
Professor Kevin Anderson is Professor of Energy and Climate Change at the University of Manchester, with additional appointments at Uppsala University and the University of Bergen. Formerly Deputy Director and Director of the Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research, he is one of the UKโs leading experts on climate mitigation, carbon budgets and energy policy, and has advised governments and the European Commission on climate change.
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Why does the city of Toronto have 15,000 km of dangling overhead wires?
Why is Alexander Graham Bell an honorary chief of the Mohawk tribe?
What's the story with those green Super Mario-looking pipes in the city?
Come find out Saturday July 18th at 10am, on this summer's final run of The Signal and the Noise, a walking tour of a single intersection.
For three hours we will dissect Dundas & McCaul in full: electricity, streetcar, TV, telephone, traffic, lighting, bikeshare, water, gas, sewage.
You will never look at a city block the same away again.
Doctorow is such a welcome addition to the Nerve's growing team. Interesting opening column - a little more techno-optimism than I'd have gone for personally - but the central thesis is important, its in these disrupted times that the post-fossil fuel future is being forged!
6/ And hot off the press, here's Cory Doctorow's debut tech column on his new green energy hero, Donald Trump...
thenerve.news/p/cory-doctoroโฆ
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Sci-Hub is an evil website that pirated 85M+ research papers and made them freely available
And now they've added AI to their database to make Sci-Bot.
It answers your questions using latest, full-text articles.
But DO NOT use it. We should all try to make billion-dollar academic publishers richer.
I'm putting the link below so you know how to avoid it.
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Our 2025 State of the Climate Report was just published in BioScience by scientists from around the world with an alarming message. This video (2 minutes) shows the key highlights: doi.org/10.1093/biosci/biaf1โฆ
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The @LancetCountdown ๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐ฉ๐จ๐ซ๐ญ shows that:
๐๐ฅ๐ข๐ฆ๐๐ญ๐ ๐๐ก๐๐ง๐ ๐ ๐ข๐ง๐๐๐ญ๐ข๐จ๐ง ๐ข๐ฌ ๐๐จ๐ฌ๐ญ๐ข๐ง๐ ๐ฅ๐ข๐ฏ๐๐ฌ, ๐ก๐๐ซ๐ฆ๐ข๐ง๐ ๐ฅ๐ข๐ฏ๐๐ฅ๐ข๐ก๐จ๐จ๐๐ฌ ๐๐ง๐ ๐ญ๐ก๐ ๐๐๐จ๐ง๐จ๐ฆ๐ฒ
#ClimateAction ๐จ๐๐๐๐ซ๐ฌ ๐ ๐ฅ๐ข๐๐๐ฅ๐ข๐ง๐ and keeps people healthy.
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The application portal for September 2026 admission to the Indigenous Studies MA program is now open!
Join us on October 15th for a virtual info session
Register at this link: bit.ly/ISDInfoOct15
Alongside the fab Dr Sarah Qidwai, you can hear my northern tones on the latest episode of the @Science_Belief podcast: Where is the global in the history of science? scienceandbeliefinsociety.orโฆ
NEW BOOK! ๐จ๐ขSuper excited to see, Contending International Perspectives on Science, Culture, & Belief: From Complexity to Globality, edited by Prof. Fern Elsdon-Baker, Dr Stephen Jones, and Dr @JamesIRiley, out in the world! (Open-access)
taylorfrancis.com/books/oa-eโฆ
We advocate for more engagement between social scientists & historians, we contend that social scientists can enhance their own study designs w/insights from historians, like an understanding of how scientific terms have been used to serve specific imperialist agendas.
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The fact this graph (from University of Reading) is not widely seen or understood by the public shows humanity is failing and unfit for purpose.
Even before these new changes, accessing the UK's citizen funded public broadcaster's written records was opaque & lacking accessibility for the average person. Join me in signing this open letter.
Calling historians and researchers! The BBC Written Archives Centre has changed its access rules without consultation, bringing to an end proper independent research into the BBC's rich history. 178 have already signed the open letter. Join us: tinyurl.com/bbcwaccampaign
ALT A view of the shelving at BBC Written Archives Centre. A file pokes out labelled "Kemp - Kennedy".
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BREAKING: The Trump administration proposes revoking a scientific finding that has long been the central basis for U.S. action to fight climate change. apnews.com/article/trump-cliโฆ
