Andy Morse
@andymorse.bsky.social
Academic - developing health sector and humanitarian agency tailored climate forecasts mostly at seasonal scales. Avoiding communication hoopla & wack-a-doodle.
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Connecting planetary boundaries and planetary health: a resilient and stable Earth system is crucial for human health - The Lancet www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
Connecting planetary boundaries and planetary health: a resilient and stable Earth system is crucial for human health
Earth system scientists developed the planetary boundaries framework for measuring
and tracking the stability and resilience of the Earth system.1 The framework quantifies
safe boundary levels for nin...
www.thelancet.com
July 15, 2025 at 10:51 PM
Connecting planetary boundaries and planetary health: a resilient and stable Earth system is crucial for human health - The Lancet www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
This is certainly worth a read.
www.thelancet.com/journals/lan.... Priority needs to increase the validity, utility, and policy relevance of climate and health models include multinational centers of excellence, scenario elaboration, model inter comparisons, assessing adaptation effectiveness, strengthening research capacity.
Priority climate and health modelling needs
Climate and health modelling is necessary for improving understanding of the current
and future distribution and timing of climate-related health risks. However, underinvestment
in this area has limit...
www.thelancet.com
September 29, 2025 at 5:55 AM
This is certainly worth a read.
UCU has declared an academic boycott of Brunel University in response to the threat of mass redundancies and the university’s refusal to engage constructively with staff.
“This is not a decision we take lightly,” said Jo Grady.
bit.ly/4cw02JM
“This is not a decision we take lightly,” said Jo Grady.
bit.ly/4cw02JM
UCU declares academic boycott of Brunel University over mass redundancies
UCU declares academic boycott of Brunel University over mass redundancies
bit.ly
April 15, 2025 at 10:57 PM
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Department of Energy is indeed sending out notices to universities cancelling all of our grants unless the university agrees to a 15% rate cap.
April 15, 2025 at 10:36 PM
Department of Energy is indeed sending out notices to universities cancelling all of our grants unless the university agrees to a 15% rate cap.
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🌍 We're now on Bluesky!
This is the official account of the Health Knowledge-Action Network (Health KAN), part of Future Earth.
We welcome researchers, practitioners, and anyone interested in planetary health to share ideas using #HealthKAN 🧠🌱
This is the official account of the Health Knowledge-Action Network (Health KAN), part of Future Earth.
We welcome researchers, practitioners, and anyone interested in planetary health to share ideas using #HealthKAN 🧠🌱
March 29, 2025 at 4:06 AM
🌍 We're now on Bluesky!
This is the official account of the Health Knowledge-Action Network (Health KAN), part of Future Earth.
We welcome researchers, practitioners, and anyone interested in planetary health to share ideas using #HealthKAN 🧠🌱
This is the official account of the Health Knowledge-Action Network (Health KAN), part of Future Earth.
We welcome researchers, practitioners, and anyone interested in planetary health to share ideas using #HealthKAN 🧠🌱
Eggs … Egg shortage in the US forces search for European suppliers www.msn.com/en-gb/news/n...
MSN
www.msn.com
March 28, 2025 at 5:45 PM
Eggs … Egg shortage in the US forces search for European suppliers www.msn.com/en-gb/news/n...
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💥⚡ 🧪 So amazing and beautiful !!
I'm super happy that our story is now published!
📖 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
But what changed compared to the original preprint?
Also, I feel i should post Movie 1 🎥, that inspired the cover. Back when I did the original bluesky thread, movies were not available.
📖 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
But what changed compared to the original preprint?
Also, I feel i should post Movie 1 🎥, that inspired the cover. Back when I did the original bluesky thread, movies were not available.
March 21, 2025 at 4:30 PM
💥⚡ 🧪 So amazing and beautiful !!
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NEW: The NIH has begun terminating grants for active projects studying gender identity, DEI, environmental justice, climate change, among other topics.
At least 16 termination letters have already been sent — and hundreds more are coming, people inside NIH tell me.
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
At least 16 termination letters have already been sent — and hundreds more are coming, people inside NIH tell me.
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Exclusive: NIH to terminate hundreds of active research grants
Studies that touch on LGBT+ health, gender identity and DEI in the biomedical workforce could be terminated, according to documents obtained by Nature.
www.nature.com
March 6, 2025 at 2:17 AM
NEW: The NIH has begun terminating grants for active projects studying gender identity, DEI, environmental justice, climate change, among other topics.
At least 16 termination letters have already been sent — and hundreds more are coming, people inside NIH tell me.
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
At least 16 termination letters have already been sent — and hundreds more are coming, people inside NIH tell me.
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Has anyone tried to unwrap a pack of polos (lifesavers) in the dark? Use of teeth is prohibited.
March 3, 2025 at 9:51 PM
Has anyone tried to unwrap a pack of polos (lifesavers) in the dark? Use of teeth is prohibited.
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I'm excited to #StandUpForScience in DC on Friday! Can you join us?
🧪🔬🔭🧬🌱
There are lots of events at state capitols and campuses around the country, even a few international locations.
🌎🌍🌏
Find an event near you: standupforscience2025.org/local-event-... 🗽
🧪🔬🔭🧬🌱
There are lots of events at state capitols and campuses around the country, even a few international locations.
🌎🌍🌏
Find an event near you: standupforscience2025.org/local-event-... 🗽
WHERE WILL YOU BE IN 4 DAYS?
Stand Up for Science with us on March 7th, in DC & Nationwide!
☀️🌎🧪
Stand Up for Science with us on March 7th, in DC & Nationwide!
☀️🌎🧪
March 3, 2025 at 9:25 PM
I'm excited to #StandUpForScience in DC on Friday! Can you join us?
🧪🔬🔭🧬🌱
There are lots of events at state capitols and campuses around the country, even a few international locations.
🌎🌍🌏
Find an event near you: standupforscience2025.org/local-event-... 🗽
🧪🔬🔭🧬🌱
There are lots of events at state capitols and campuses around the country, even a few international locations.
🌎🌍🌏
Find an event near you: standupforscience2025.org/local-event-... 🗽
@northernheckler.bsky.social So pleased you have turned up. We need a bit of heckling …
March 3, 2025 at 9:43 PM
@northernheckler.bsky.social So pleased you have turned up. We need a bit of heckling …
One way of keeping the riff raff out!
February 22, 2025 at 12:18 PM
One way of keeping the riff raff out!
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This is criminal. They are dismantling U.S. science, making our country and world less safe. 🧪
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Trump’s siege of science: how the first 30 days unfolded and what’s next
The breakneck pace and devastating impact of the administration’s policy changes has shocked researchers.
www.nature.com
February 20, 2025 at 9:22 PM
This is criminal. They are dismantling U.S. science, making our country and world less safe. 🧪
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Gravy stains down your shirt are not a source of embarrassment; they are a badge of honour
Jay Rayner www.theguardian.com/food/2025/fe...
I can only agree ….
Jay Rayner www.theguardian.com/food/2025/fe...
I can only agree ….
This is my final OFM column. Here’s what I’ve learned about buffets, ‘clean eating’ and what not to serve food on | Jay Rayner
Much has changed in the food world but there are a few truths that still hold
www.theguardian.com
February 20, 2025 at 6:12 PM
Gravy stains down your shirt are not a source of embarrassment; they are a badge of honour
Jay Rayner www.theguardian.com/food/2025/fe...
I can only agree ….
Jay Rayner www.theguardian.com/food/2025/fe...
I can only agree ….
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Good reporting from @justinling.ca
Great anonymous quote here:
“They’re just going to completely decimate science & our understanding of the world - our ability to fight pandemics, hurricanes, earthquakes, fires, & all the rest of it....which is dumb as a rock.”
www.wired.com/story/reveng...
Great anonymous quote here:
“They’re just going to completely decimate science & our understanding of the world - our ability to fight pandemics, hurricanes, earthquakes, fires, & all the rest of it....which is dumb as a rock.”
www.wired.com/story/reveng...
Revenge of the Covid Conspiracy Theorists
After years of GOP attacks on US health agencies, Trump appointees are poised to bring Covid-19 conspiracies to their leadership of US agencies. Federal workers are scared of what comes next.
www.wired.com
February 13, 2025 at 7:40 PM
Good reporting from @justinling.ca
Great anonymous quote here:
“They’re just going to completely decimate science & our understanding of the world - our ability to fight pandemics, hurricanes, earthquakes, fires, & all the rest of it....which is dumb as a rock.”
www.wired.com/story/reveng...
Great anonymous quote here:
“They’re just going to completely decimate science & our understanding of the world - our ability to fight pandemics, hurricanes, earthquakes, fires, & all the rest of it....which is dumb as a rock.”
www.wired.com/story/reveng...
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Important new research identities a natural bat coronavirus HKU5 that uses the ACE-2 receptor to enter cells & can infect human cells this way. VERY similar mechanism to SarsCoV2 (covid-19) and reinforces research showing origins of Covid 19 likely was NATURAL 🧪
Bat-infecting merbecovirus HKU5-CoV lineage 2 can use human ACE2 as a cell entry receptor
Coronaviruses of the merbecovirus family have been thought to enter cells by using
the host cell receptor DPP4. This study identifies a merbecovirus from Pipistrellus
bats that is capable of entering ...
www.cell.com
February 20, 2025 at 6:38 AM
Important new research identities a natural bat coronavirus HKU5 that uses the ACE-2 receptor to enter cells & can infect human cells this way. VERY similar mechanism to SarsCoV2 (covid-19) and reinforces research showing origins of Covid 19 likely was NATURAL 🧪
Warming through the night. weather.liv.ac.uk
February 20, 2025 at 7:13 AM
Warming through the night. weather.liv.ac.uk
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Freezing rain is one of the rarest and most dangerous weather phenomena in the UK, but what is it? 🤔
Find out here 👇
www.youtube.com/watch?v=WisQ...
Find out here 👇
www.youtube.com/watch?v=WisQ...
13/02/25 - What is freezing rain? - Met Office explains - UK Weather
YouTube video by Met Office - UK Weather
www.youtube.com
February 14, 2025 at 1:06 PM
Freezing rain is one of the rarest and most dangerous weather phenomena in the UK, but what is it? 🤔
Find out here 👇
www.youtube.com/watch?v=WisQ...
Find out here 👇
www.youtube.com/watch?v=WisQ...
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UK weather: temperatures could hit 14C this week after ‘anticyclonic gloom’
UK weather: temperatures could hit 14C this week after ‘anticyclonic gloom’
Met Office says snowfall may continue briefly in parts of UK before milder conditions well above February average
The UK will have warmer weather this week and sunshine in a number of areas on Monday, forecasters have said.
After snow and torrential…
www.theguardian.com
February 16, 2025 at 6:38 PM
UK weather: temperatures could hit 14C this week after ‘anticyclonic gloom’
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New in @naturemedicine.bsky.social, Professor Andy Morse analyses new research into how different flood events affect direct and indirect causes of mortality, providing useful insights for future disaster response and preparedness.
➡️ www.nature.com/articles/s41...
➡️ www.nature.com/articles/s41...
February 12, 2025 at 11:39 AM
New in @naturemedicine.bsky.social, Professor Andy Morse analyses new research into how different flood events affect direct and indirect causes of mortality, providing useful insights for future disaster response and preparedness.
➡️ www.nature.com/articles/s41...
➡️ www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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7 Dec 2024
03-14 UTC
Total Precipitation [11 hrs]
Estimates from weather radar.
The heaviest of the rain in Wales seems to have been further W than the AMBER warning area so far, with >80 mm over Snowdonia.
#ukweather #stormdarragh
03-14 UTC
Total Precipitation [11 hrs]
Estimates from weather radar.
The heaviest of the rain in Wales seems to have been further W than the AMBER warning area so far, with >80 mm over Snowdonia.
#ukweather #stormdarragh
December 7, 2024 at 2:39 PM
7 Dec 2024
03-14 UTC
Total Precipitation [11 hrs]
Estimates from weather radar.
The heaviest of the rain in Wales seems to have been further W than the AMBER warning area so far, with >80 mm over Snowdonia.
#ukweather #stormdarragh
03-14 UTC
Total Precipitation [11 hrs]
Estimates from weather radar.
The heaviest of the rain in Wales seems to have been further W than the AMBER warning area so far, with >80 mm over Snowdonia.
#ukweather #stormdarragh
@timmcnulty.bsky.social Hello, Hooe you are well. You depsrted the X of 'nole' ... I been here a while but not been very active. Did read a bit this morning on the CP/M demise ... only as a distraction.
December 2, 2024 at 5:03 PM
@timmcnulty.bsky.social Hello, Hooe you are well. You depsrted the X of 'nole' ... I been here a while but not been very active. Did read a bit this morning on the CP/M demise ... only as a distraction.
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Day 2 of #ClimateAdvent
Today we start at the beginning. From a physics pov.
For now we'll ignore humans, we'll even ignore the atmosphere and just have a look at an earth sized sphere that perfectly absorbs all of the energy from the sun and emits it again perfectly. 🧵
#ClimateSky
#ClimateChange
Today we start at the beginning. From a physics pov.
For now we'll ignore humans, we'll even ignore the atmosphere and just have a look at an earth sized sphere that perfectly absorbs all of the energy from the sun and emits it again perfectly. 🧵
#ClimateSky
#ClimateChange
December 2, 2024 at 8:13 AM
Day 2 of #ClimateAdvent
Today we start at the beginning. From a physics pov.
For now we'll ignore humans, we'll even ignore the atmosphere and just have a look at an earth sized sphere that perfectly absorbs all of the energy from the sun and emits it again perfectly. 🧵
#ClimateSky
#ClimateChange
Today we start at the beginning. From a physics pov.
For now we'll ignore humans, we'll even ignore the atmosphere and just have a look at an earth sized sphere that perfectly absorbs all of the energy from the sun and emits it again perfectly. 🧵
#ClimateSky
#ClimateChange
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A reminder about our vacancy for a postdoctoral research associate (DEADLINE NEXT WEEK) - the successful applicant will start January 2025 and work with University of Oxford for the European Space Agency - ESA on #Biodiversity, #NatureFinance, and #EarthObservation!
Apply here: lnkd.in/eEvJun5a
Apply here: lnkd.in/eEvJun5a
November 30, 2024 at 6:22 AM
A reminder about our vacancy for a postdoctoral research associate (DEADLINE NEXT WEEK) - the successful applicant will start January 2025 and work with University of Oxford for the European Space Agency - ESA on #Biodiversity, #NatureFinance, and #EarthObservation!
Apply here: lnkd.in/eEvJun5a
Apply here: lnkd.in/eEvJun5a
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Welcome. To #ClimateAdvent.
Over the next 25 days, we'll be on a journey through all of #ClimateScience.
We'll cover the natural variability and why we know it's not that, but us causing this current change. We'll dive into the inequalities surrounding #ClimateChange and what to do about all of it.🧵
Over the next 25 days, we'll be on a journey through all of #ClimateScience.
We'll cover the natural variability and why we know it's not that, but us causing this current change. We'll dive into the inequalities surrounding #ClimateChange and what to do about all of it.🧵
December 1, 2024 at 8:28 AM
Welcome. To #ClimateAdvent.
Over the next 25 days, we'll be on a journey through all of #ClimateScience.
We'll cover the natural variability and why we know it's not that, but us causing this current change. We'll dive into the inequalities surrounding #ClimateChange and what to do about all of it.🧵
Over the next 25 days, we'll be on a journey through all of #ClimateScience.
We'll cover the natural variability and why we know it's not that, but us causing this current change. We'll dive into the inequalities surrounding #ClimateChange and what to do about all of it.🧵