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Emma Tompkins
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Prof of climate adaptation. Uni of Southampton. Options to reduce damaging weather and climate impacts. Side interest in holopelagic sargassum, nuisance seaweeds, space and cats. Mother of twins. New electric car owner. Swimmer.

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School of Geography and Environmental Science @sotongeogenviron.bsky.social · 17d
GCSE students from three local schools came onto campus to learn about the flood risks affecting Southampton.

They took part in interactive workshops with
the More Than Maps team, learning about the models and methods used to assess and adapt to flood risks.

southampton.ac.uk/geography/ne...
Students draw flood-adapted homes as part of the workshop

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Emma Tompkins @eltompkins.bsky.social · 19d
Thank you SO MUCH for doing this. I use these graphics in an @sotongeogenviron.bsky.social 3rd year module on #climateadaptation. This year I lamented the absence of evidence with students and shared this screenshot instead. Hiding climate impact evidence does not stop climate change!

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Logan Mitchell PhD @loganemitchell.bsky.social · 19d
@climatecentral.org hired the NOAA scientist who was in charge of maintaining the billion dollar weather disaster data set and is going to continue it! Here is the new home of the Billion Dollar Disaster's data set: www.climatecentral.org/climate-serv...

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Katharine Hayhoe @katharinehayhoe.com · 19d
Today, the U.S. faces one billion+ dollar climate/weather disaster on average every 2w. That's a massive increase from one every 4m in the 1980s.

This is 'global weirding' and people are taking notice!

The government told NOAA to stop tracking these events: but @climatecentral.org is on the job.
U.S. Billion-Dollar Weather and Climate Disasters | Climate Central
Explore U.S. billion-dollar weather and climate disasters since 1980, including total costs, trends, and impacts.
www.climatecentral.org

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Emma Tompkins @eltompkins.bsky.social · 20d
Exciting #PhD with @vickydominguez.bsky.social @sotongeogenviron.bsky.social "Flood-driven habitat change and the spread of aquatic invasive species at University of Southampton" www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

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Emma Tompkins @eltompkins.bsky.social · 27d
Exciting ecology #PhD opportunity with @vickydominguez.bsky.social at @sotongeogenviron.bsky.social using stable isotopes, #remotesensing and #ecologicalmodelling to find out more about the #biodiversity of afrotropical river systems.

www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
PhD Programmes, Research Projects & Studentships in the UK & Europe
FindAPhD is a comprehensive guide to PhD studentships and postgraduate research degrees
FindAPhD.com

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National Trust @nationaltrust.org.uk · Oct 8
We've got some fantastic nature news to brighten your day 🎉

Wicken Fen has become the first UK nature reserve to record an incredible 10,000 species. A moth that imitates a wasp was the 10,000th species to be recorded. This work is possible thanks to a major grant from The Nature Recovery Project.
A close-up of a glow-worm with a black plated body and a bright green glowing tail clinging to a stem of grass in the dark The scaly brown and beige head of a lizard in side profile, its black eye seemingly staring at the camera A dark grey moth with bright beige splodges on its wings. It sits of a bright green leaf against a black background A small brown bird with a cream chest and darker brown tail feathers perches on a reed against a background of blurred brown and green reeds

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Comfortably Numb @numb.comfortab.ly · Oct 2
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cute kitty!
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Emma Tompkins @eltompkins.bsky.social · Sep 28
#Rydercup - why am i watching someone warm up? I haven’t seen any shots from Lowry, Hatton or Macintyre - are they still playing @skysportspl.bsky.social

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Emma Tompkins @eltompkins.bsky.social · Sep 28
#Rydercup fails by @skysportspl.bsky.social 1. Endless shots of fans, players walking, landscape or so-mo of players staring - missing the golf. 2. SOOO many adverts - missing the golf. 3. Split screen of 2 simultaneously shots - why? Who can watch both? @bbc or @itv pls take back #rydercup

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Emma Tompkins @eltompkins.bsky.social · Sep 27
@skysportpl.bsky.social worst #RyderCup ever due to TOO MANY ADVERTS so missing a lot of golf and horrible braying mob creating miserable viewing.

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Emma Tompkins @eltompkins.bsky.social · Sep 2
You ask where this is going … perhaps (1) Elon has realised that men should bear more responsibility for contraception and stop leaving this burden to women. Or (2) he will try to ban contraception to make women constantly pregnant! Who knows? Note: you don’t know me - my question is said with irony

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Michael Lomotey @michaellomotey.bsky.social · Sep 2
Our new season of urban stargazing events starts on Tuesday 16th September at 6.30pm. Introduction to Urban Stargazing including an exclusive walk into the reserve to identify constellations (weather permitting - we’ll still go out but be wary of cloud cover). www.wildlondon.org.uk/events/2025-...
Stargazing at Walthamstow: An Introduction to Urban Astronomy | London Wildlife Trust
Join Stow Stargazers at Walthamstow to learn about and practice urban astronomy and enjoy the reserve after hours.
www.wildlondon.org.uk

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Andrew B. Watkins @windjunky.bsky.social · Aug 30
If you were a user or admirer of NOAA’s amazing climate.gov website - which has had all the good stuff (e.g., actual data and climate monitoring indices) removed by government - some web and data gurus/guerrillas are about to launch a recreation at climate.us.
Follow @climate.us for launch updates.
Climate.us
climate.us

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Emma Tompkins @eltompkins.bsky.social · Aug 25
Same happened to me. I reported it to the journal editor who is taking action, and our uni library services who are following up. we pay huge amounts for access to high quality journals - the journal publishers need to take action

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Emma Tompkins @eltompkins.bsky.social · Aug 25
Same happened to me. I reported it to the journal editor who is taking action, and our uni library services who are following up. we pay huge amounts for access to high quality journals - the journal publishers need to take action

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Emma Tompkins @eltompkins.bsky.social · Aug 9
Full moon?

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Emma Tompkins @eltompkins.bsky.social · Jul 11
Thank you SO much for this - I laughed and laughed and laughed and then searched through my booze cabinet to see if there was any sherry at the back - I’m now making the custard!

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Kate Aronoff @katearonoff.bsky.social · Jun 18
Wild how the Fed chair saying that *entire regions of the United States* won’t be able to get a mortgage in the next decade barely registered as a news event

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Dr. Aaron Thierry @thierryaaron.bsky.social · Jun 11
"These changes result in significant declines in suitable habitats for important calcifying species, including 43% reduction in habitat for tropical and subtropical coral reefs, up to 61% for polar pteropods, and 13% for coastal bivalves"

onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Ocean Acidification: Another Planetary Boundary Crossed
In this study, employing a detailed analysis of ocean carbonate system observations, models and biological assessments, we demonstrate that by year 2020, the average global ocean conditions had alrea...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com

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Peter Hampshire @peterunner.bsky.social · May 19
Thank you @michaelrosenyes.bsky.social for this poem in @theguardian.com. I work with amazing people from all over the world. Spain, Ireland, Philippines, India, Iraq, Syria, Poland and many other countries. Labour's language around immigration is so disappointing.

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Emma Tompkins @eltompkins.bsky.social · May 19
with @emilycwilkinson.bsky.social thinking about how to turn #sargassum into an opportunity theconversation.com/how-a-toxic-... in @theconversation.com
How a toxic seaweed choking Caribbean beaches could become a valuable resource
The sargassum problem is just one of many creeping slow onset events that is being exacerbated by climate change.
theconversation.com

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National Trust @nationaltrust.org.uk · May 19
Y'all wished you looked this good at 135 years old, but the wisteria at Greys Court in Oxfordshire has you beat.

Photo: Hugh Mothersole
A wisteria arch covered in purple flowers leading over a gravel pathway that is flanked either side by luscious floral borders.

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Emma Tompkins @eltompkins.bsky.social · May 14
For all climate adaptation and hazard resilience people this is a wonderful opportunity
geoskinner.games Dr Chris Skinner FRGS @geoskinner.games · May 14
A UKRI Policy Fellowship is available with my employer, The Environment Agency. It is to look at applying social and behavioural science to increase natural hazard resilience in diverse communities.

Might be of interest to the #EGU25 science-policy community.

www.ukri.org/wp-content/u...
www.ukri.org

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Dr Chris Skinner FRGS @geoskinner.games · May 14
A UKRI Policy Fellowship is available with my employer, The Environment Agency. It is to look at applying social and behavioural science to increase natural hazard resilience in diverse communities.

Might be of interest to the #EGU25 science-policy community.

www.ukri.org/wp-content/u...
www.ukri.org

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Michael E. Mann @michaelemann.bsky.social · May 5
Folks in the Southhampton UK area, seats still available for Wednesday's #ScienceUnderSiege lecture @unisouthampton.bsky.social, based on my forthcoming book (via @publicaffairs1796.bsky.social & @scribepub.bsky.social) w/ the great @peterhotezmdphd.bsky.social
available seats for Wednesday lecture cover of "Science Under Siege"

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Emma Tompkins @eltompkins.bsky.social · Apr 15
Excited to hear about #climatechange and what’s happening in the USA from @michaelemann.bsky.social who’s visiting @unisouthampton.bsky.social on 6/7 April.

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Michael E. Mann @michaelemann.bsky.social · Apr 15
Join me at @unisouthampton.bsky.social for “Beyond the Hockey Stick: Climate Lessons from The Common Era” lecture organized by Southampton Marine & Maritime Institute on Tuesday, May 6 from 2:30-4:30PM GMT at National Oceanography Center Southampton:

michaelmann.net/events/beyon...
Beyond the Hockey Stick: Climate Lessons from The Common Era (University of Southampton, UK) | Michael E. Mann
Professor Michael E. Mann will explore how paleoclimate records and climate models of the past two millennia provide key insights into human-caused climate change. Over two […]
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Emma Tompkins @eltompkins.bsky.social · Apr 1
Completely love this 👇 . Mine wd be bold Armageddon feature (I teach climate adaptation) shot in a single take from a drone (ceiling mounted camera) for wide angle perspective
birchlse.bsky.social Jonathan Birch @birchlse.bsky.social · Apr 1
Rebranding my lecture recordings as bold innovative drama shot continuously in a single take.

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Jonathan Birch @birchlse.bsky.social · Apr 1
Rebranding my lecture recordings as bold innovative drama shot continuously in a single take.