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Carina Fearnley
@carinafearnley.bsky.social
Professor of Warnings & Science Communication @STSUCL, Director of @UCLWRC. Researcher of warnings, risk & uncertainty, art/sci collaborations, & volcanoes 🌋
https://profiles.ucl.ac.uk/24010-carina-fearnley
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Just 2 weeks to go until our next event!
Join us online as we launch Santiago Zabala's latest book 'Signs from the Future: A philosophy of warnings'.

📅 26 November, 3.00PM GMT
💻 Online/Zoom - join from wherever you are in the world!
✏️ Book your free place now: www.ucl.ac.uk/mathematical...
Book launch: Signs from the Future. A Philosophy of Warnings by Santiago Zabala
Join the UCL Warning Research Centre as we host the launch of the latest book by Prof Santiago Zabala, ICREA Research Professor at Pompeu Fabra University, Barcelona Spain.
www.ucl.ac.uk
November 14, 2025 at 12:53 PM
Delighted to see two pieces in @NatureGeosci as part of the '40 years after the Armero tragedy’ special edition: Lessons from 40 years of communicating volcanic risk during crises lnkd.in/erQ5Tkkf & Towards effective institutional hazard management Q&A lnkd.in/e7MFKZMX @stsucl.bsky.social
November 11, 2025 at 2:02 PM
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📢New issue of TIBG📢

Transactions' September Issue features two interventions on environmental crisis & geographies of creativity, 21 papers, and two commentaries on the war in Ukraine.

22/25 pieces are #OpenAccess and available to read here⬇️

rgs-ibg.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/14755661...
October 1, 2025 at 2:33 PM
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New paper by @carinafearnley.bsky.social @ilankelman.bsky.social "From multi-hazard early warning systems (MHEWS) to all-vulnerability warning systems (AVWS)" in ‪@cp-iscience.bsky.social‬ free to download: www.cell.com/iscience/ful... @wmo-global.bsky.social @crews-initiative.bsky.social @ifrc.org
From multi-hazard early warning systems (MHEWS) to all-vulnerability warning systems (AVWS)
Earth sciences; Human geography; Social sciences
www.cell.com
July 25, 2025 at 9:24 PM
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DRR Summer School, June 9 - 11, 2025, in Geneva, focused on 'CREATIVE RISK COMMUNICATION: CARRYING FORWARD THE LEGACY OF PABLO SUAREZ'. Come learn how to creatively & effectively communicate risk with a fantastic line up of speakers. Book now www.drrsummerschool.com 📢 🗣️ 🛜💡
DRR Summer School
www.drrsummerschool.com
March 19, 2025 at 10:49 PM
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If you missed it earlier, I decided to launch the rebooted Eruptions a little early thanks to all the unrest near Santorini. Check out the preview newsletter (for free) and if you like it, subscribe! eruptions.beehiiv.com/p/eruptions-...
Eruptions Newsletter, Preview Edition: February 15, 2025
Things are busy in the Mediterranean.
eruptions.beehiiv.com
February 15, 2025 at 11:19 PM
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I'm rebooting Eruptions in a little over two weeks. This time it will be a weekly newsletter full of volcano news and views. I'll also have occasional updates if an eruption or unrest is getting attention between newsletters. Sign up now! Here are more of the details: eruptions.beehiiv.com/subscribe
Eruptions: Where It's Always Volcano Day
All about volcanoes ... and a whole of other stuff. Written by volcanologist and science writer Dr. Erik Klemetti Gonzalez.
eruptions.beehiiv.com
February 13, 2025 at 3:38 PM
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New paper 'Multi‑Hazard Early Warning Systems in the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction: Achievements, Gaps, and Future Directions' by Maryam Rokhideh @carinafearnley.bsky.social Mirianna Budimir in International Journal of Disaster Risk Science link.springer.com/article/10.1... #EW4All
Multi-Hazard Early Warning Systems in the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction: Achievements, Gaps, and Future Directions - International Journal of Disaster Risk Science
Bringing together global efforts to enhance the implementation of warnings in managing vulnerabilities, hazards, risks, and disasters is essential to saving lives and for long-term vulnerability reduc...
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February 5, 2025 at 11:59 AM
Wishing all my wonderful Chinese colleagues and students a very happy new year, and prosperity for the year of the snake 🐍🌷
January 29, 2025 at 8:34 PM
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Day 20! 🎄🎄🎄 Prof @carinafearnley.bsky.social is reading the latest book by Ian Scoones on ’Navigating Uncertainty’ that "highlights how we need to change our modernist, controlling views on risk, and instead develop alternative approaches. Will experiment on 2025…!"
December 20, 2024 at 8:00 AM
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We have a new undergraduate brochure 🤓🤓🤓!! The brochure provides an overview of the field of STS and everything you need to know about our BSc Sociology & Politics of Science and BSc History & Philosophy of Science (alongside lots of other info about our department). www.ucl.ac.uk/sts/sites/st...
December 4, 2024 at 11:11 AM
Brilliant! Thanks Molly Urquhart! Enjoy and you can download for free from alongside the other 1.18million downloads: link.springer.com/book/10.1007...
December 13, 2024 at 8:53 PM
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For the opportunity to present at this celebration and have Professors Steven Shapin and Simon Schaffer respond to their work in conversation with Professor John Tresch, early career scholars are invited to send abstracts of max. 200 words. For more details go to: www.ucl.ac.uk/sts/news/202...
December 13, 2024 at 11:59 AM
Interested in a PhD @uclwrc.bsky.social on 'Integrating weather & climate data to design effective, people-centred wildfire early warning systems in Latin America'? Apply at the Understanding Uncertainty to Reduce Climate Risks NERC Centre for Doctoral Training (UNRISK) unrisk-cdt.ac.uk #warnings
December 11, 2024 at 10:28 PM

Calling abstracts for the @EuroGeosciences session: Novel Approaches for Early Warning Systems: from AI to trans-disciplinary approaches. Deadline 15th Jan 2025 13:00 CET, see more info at meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/EGU25/sessio... #EGU #Warnings #EW4All @uclrdr.bsky.social
December 11, 2024 at 9:50 PM
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💻 Join us for our upcoming webinar on 18 December at 10AM GMT as we commemorate 20 years since the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami. Book your free place to reflect on lessons identified and learned, while considering what future challenges remain.
Register now: t.co/ECHA1yFNyG
https://www.ucl.ac.uk/sts/events/2024/dec/commemorating-20-years-2004-indian-ocean-tsunami-warnings-past-and-present
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December 5, 2024 at 7:29 AM
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So, the Tampa Bay Rays might be moving out of Tampa. This might seem like a baseball problem, but it is actually directly connected to global climate change. I explore how we get here, starting with warm ocean surface temperatures in the Gulf of Mexico: www.discovermagazine.com/planet-earth...
How the Very Warm Temperature of the Gulf of Mexico Might Lead to the Tampa Bay Rays Moving Out of Town
It might seem like an odd connection, but the plight of the Tampa Bay Rays baseball team is directly connected to climate change.
www.discovermagazine.com
November 29, 2024 at 3:13 PM
Really going to miss Zoe Ball on @bbcradio2bot.bsky.social breakfast show, she has been absolutely phenomenal and always a giggle to make mornings fun. Thanks for an amazing 6 years @zoetheball.bsky.social - enjoy the lie ins ❤️
November 19, 2024 at 11:32 AM
Volcanoes once erupted on the far side of the moon www.bbc.com/news/article...
Moon's far side once had erupting volcanoes, scientists find
Volcanic rock, dating back billions of years, has been detected in the first samples collected from the mysterious "dark side".
www.bbc.com
November 17, 2024 at 12:07 AM
So delighted & honoured to be in today’s paper edition @EveningStandard
as one of the 100 people shaping London as part of my work
@uclwrc.bsky.social @stsucl.bsky.social #warningsmatter #EW4All
November 16, 2024 at 5:31 PM