Adam Markham
@adammarkham.bsky.social
Climate change, natural & cultural heritage, zooarchaeology & human-bird history. Part-time UHI PhD student researching Viking/Norse birds. #climateheritage #archaeobirds @preservinglegacies @ICOMOS. ArsenalFC.
www.climateheritageadvisors.com
www.climateheritageadvisors.com
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Evacuating the Capital? Inside Iran’s Water Crisis and the Politics of Drought
Over the last decade, I’ve spent much of my time studying environmental change in the past and tracing what global warming means for our future.
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November 11, 2025 at 5:23 PM
For the implications and more open.substack.com/pub/peterfra...
Applications are now open for the 2026 Switzer Fellowships. It's a brilliant program with a strong alumni follow-up element, and open to graduate students in California or New England. Focus is on interdisciplinary environmental problem-solving and social equity. 🌎
Become a Fellow | Robert & Patricia Switzer Foundation
www.switzernetwork.org
November 11, 2025 at 5:24 PM
Applications are now open for the 2026 Switzer Fellowships. It's a brilliant program with a strong alumni follow-up element, and open to graduate students in California or New England. Focus is on interdisciplinary environmental problem-solving and social equity. 🌎
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Ahead of the #COP30 international climate negotiations in Brazil, I decided to imagine what a COP free from #fossilfuel industry influence would look like. #ClimateAccountability blog.ucs.org/kathy-mulvey...
Imagining a COP Free from Fossil Fuel Industry Influence
COP30 will be a pivotal moment in global efforts to limit the worst impacts of climate change and advance a just transition centering workers, communities, and Indigenous Peoples.
blog.ucs.org
November 7, 2025 at 2:20 PM
Ahead of the #COP30 international climate negotiations in Brazil, I decided to imagine what a COP free from #fossilfuel industry influence would look like. #ClimateAccountability blog.ucs.org/kathy-mulvey...
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STATEMENT: #COP30 is a moment to recognize nature, ecological integrity (or the health of ecosystems), and Indigenous leadership as critical parts of the climate agenda.
🌎 Read our statement: bit.ly/47L3BKg
🌎 Read our statement: bit.ly/47L3BKg
November 11, 2025 at 2:48 PM
STATEMENT: #COP30 is a moment to recognize nature, ecological integrity (or the health of ecosystems), and Indigenous leadership as critical parts of the climate agenda.
🌎 Read our statement: bit.ly/47L3BKg
🌎 Read our statement: bit.ly/47L3BKg
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Are you a journalist covering COP30 looking for new and diverse sources?
Check out the Global South Climate Database.
This publicly available, searchable database features 1,000+ climate scientists and experts from the global south.
🌍🔗 bit.ly/GSClimateDatabase
Check out the Global South Climate Database.
This publicly available, searchable database features 1,000+ climate scientists and experts from the global south.
🌍🔗 bit.ly/GSClimateDatabase
November 11, 2025 at 12:00 PM
Are you a journalist covering COP30 looking for new and diverse sources?
Check out the Global South Climate Database.
This publicly available, searchable database features 1,000+ climate scientists and experts from the global south.
🌍🔗 bit.ly/GSClimateDatabase
Check out the Global South Climate Database.
This publicly available, searchable database features 1,000+ climate scientists and experts from the global south.
🌍🔗 bit.ly/GSClimateDatabase
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It's the fiftieth anniversary of the Edmund Fitzgerald sinking, memorialized in Gordon Lightfoot's song. Here's the haunting bluegrass version by the Punch Brothers.
Punch Brothers cover Gordon Lightfoot "Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald" 3/3/22 Boston, MA
YouTube video by Less Than Face Productions
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November 10, 2025 at 10:05 PM
It's the fiftieth anniversary of the Edmund Fitzgerald sinking, memorialized in Gordon Lightfoot's song. Here's the haunting bluegrass version by the Punch Brothers.
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"the ICJ provided the boldest-ever language on fossil fuels, specifically spelling out the legal obligation by states to exercise “due diligence” in ending extraction, consumption, licences and subsidies...The duty extends to an obligation to regulate private businesses responsible for emission"
By me: ‘Existential and urgent’: what impact will/should the ICJ climate ruling have on Cop30?
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
‘Existential and urgent’: what impact will ICJ climate ruling have on Cop30?
Decision by international court of justice hailed as a gamechanger for climate justice and accountability
www.theguardian.com
November 9, 2025 at 9:20 PM
"the ICJ provided the boldest-ever language on fossil fuels, specifically spelling out the legal obligation by states to exercise “due diligence” in ending extraction, consumption, licences and subsidies...The duty extends to an obligation to regulate private businesses responsible for emission"
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With many thanks to William Dalrymple @willdalrymple.bsky.social for choosing Peacemaker as a “Book of the Year”. www.spectator.com.au/2025/11/book...
November 10, 2025 at 10:38 AM
With many thanks to William Dalrymple @willdalrymple.bsky.social for choosing Peacemaker as a “Book of the Year”. www.spectator.com.au/2025/11/book...
Letting the train take the strain.
November 9, 2025 at 2:36 PM
Letting the train take the strain.
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📢 Final Call for Abstracts!
Don't miss the chance to present your work at #SOTM2026
Deadline: November 10, 2025
Presentation formats:
✅ Oral Presentations
✅ Poster Presentations
Submit now! 🔗 www.speciesonthemove.com/abstract/inf...
Don't miss the chance to present your work at #SOTM2026
Deadline: November 10, 2025
Presentation formats:
✅ Oral Presentations
✅ Poster Presentations
Submit now! 🔗 www.speciesonthemove.com/abstract/inf...
November 9, 2025 at 2:19 PM
📢 Final Call for Abstracts!
Don't miss the chance to present your work at #SOTM2026
Deadline: November 10, 2025
Presentation formats:
✅ Oral Presentations
✅ Poster Presentations
Submit now! 🔗 www.speciesonthemove.com/abstract/inf...
Don't miss the chance to present your work at #SOTM2026
Deadline: November 10, 2025
Presentation formats:
✅ Oral Presentations
✅ Poster Presentations
Submit now! 🔗 www.speciesonthemove.com/abstract/inf...
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A very good Watson obit here, written, though obviously not published, years before he died.
A Sharon Begley byline, almost 5 years after her death.
Upon hearing the news James Watson had died, a STAT reporter said in our Slack, "I wish I could read what Sharon would have written."
Incredible news: Sharon in fact did pre-write a Watson obit. And it is masterful and excoriating.
🧪🧬🧫
Upon hearing the news James Watson had died, a STAT reporter said in our Slack, "I wish I could read what Sharon would have written."
Incredible news: Sharon in fact did pre-write a Watson obit. And it is masterful and excoriating.
🧪🧬🧫
James Watson, dead at 97, was a scientific legend and a pariah among his peers
James Watson, the co-discoverer of the structure of DNA who died Thursday at 97, was a scientific legend and a pariah among his peers.
www.statnews.com
November 9, 2025 at 1:52 PM
A very good Watson obit here, written, though obviously not published, years before he died.
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Ok - its #RomanSiteSaturday & a couple of weeks on I can finally sit down at do a thread on the Antonine Wall & all the Roman goodies around Glasgow
This is a massively underated set of sites & it was really exciting to explore! 🏴
🧵👇
This is a massively underated set of sites & it was really exciting to explore! 🏴
🧵👇
November 8, 2025 at 9:05 AM
Ok - its #RomanSiteSaturday & a couple of weeks on I can finally sit down at do a thread on the Antonine Wall & all the Roman goodies around Glasgow
This is a massively underated set of sites & it was really exciting to explore! 🏴
🧵👇
This is a massively underated set of sites & it was really exciting to explore! 🏴
🧵👇
I've just realized that an artist I really admire - @jamesrmccallum1.bsky.social - is on Bsky. And with details of a new exhibition.
🪶🦉 #birdart #wildlifeart
🪶🦉 #birdart #wildlifeart
November 9, 2025 at 11:11 AM
I've just realized that an artist I really admire - @jamesrmccallum1.bsky.social - is on Bsky. And with details of a new exhibition.
🪶🦉 #birdart #wildlifeart
🪶🦉 #birdart #wildlifeart
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This is such a great paper. We make endless small steps ahead in archaeology every week. I remember when I was starting out and the number of colleagues who told
me not to waste my time with satellite imagery analysis. Now, it's used by everyone. Tremendous use case here. 🏺
me not to waste my time with satellite imagery analysis. Now, it's used by everyone. Tremendous use case here. 🏺
These are chacus: funnel-shaped hunting traps used in the high altitudes of northern Chile to capture vicuña, a wild relative of the alpaca. Even after herding and agropastoralism was adopted, chacus continued to be used by persevering forager groups.
🆓 doi.org/10.15184/aqy...
🏺 #Archaeology
🆓 doi.org/10.15184/aqy...
🏺 #Archaeology
November 8, 2025 at 12:27 AM
This is such a great paper. We make endless small steps ahead in archaeology every week. I remember when I was starting out and the number of colleagues who told
me not to waste my time with satellite imagery analysis. Now, it's used by everyone. Tremendous use case here. 🏺
me not to waste my time with satellite imagery analysis. Now, it's used by everyone. Tremendous use case here. 🏺
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Understaffed FAA Recommends Pilots Just Go With Their Gut https://theonion.com/understaffed-faa-recommends-pilots-just-go-with-their-gut/
November 7, 2025 at 10:00 PM
Understaffed FAA Recommends Pilots Just Go With Their Gut https://theonion.com/understaffed-faa-recommends-pilots-just-go-with-their-gut/
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Hey folks, as news of Watson's demise spreads, please don't set aside his weighty legacy of misogyny and racism. He was truly among the worst of us. www.vox.com/2019/1/15/18...
DNA scientist James Watson has a remarkably long history of sexist, racist public comments
“People say it would be terrible if we made all girls pretty,” he said in 2003. “I think it would be great.”
www.vox.com
November 7, 2025 at 7:45 PM
Hey folks, as news of Watson's demise spreads, please don't set aside his weighty legacy of misogyny and racism. He was truly among the worst of us. www.vox.com/2019/1/15/18...
True indeed! But how many more COPs can we afford to say the same things over & over? Political complacency & opposition from fossil fuel interests & bad faith actors like US & China have to disappear. Good luck my friends!!
@kathymulvey.bsky.social, Rachel Cleetus, Delta Merner & all at @ucs.org 🌎
@kathymulvey.bsky.social, Rachel Cleetus, Delta Merner & all at @ucs.org 🌎
From Dr. Rachel Cleetus: "Humans still have agency over this dire problem we have caused... The choices our political leaders make now — including at #COP30 — will determine the future we leave to our children and grandchildren... Global cooperation is absolutely essential to solve this challenge."
Brazil Hosts COP30 Climate Talks, with the World in Danger of Breaching 1.5°C
Nations will soon be gathering in Belém, Brazil for the annual UN climate “conference of the parties”—COP30—against a backdrop of incredibly challenging geopolitical and climate realities. Grossly ins...
blog.ucs.org
November 7, 2025 at 9:38 PM
True indeed! But how many more COPs can we afford to say the same things over & over? Political complacency & opposition from fossil fuel interests & bad faith actors like US & China have to disappear. Good luck my friends!!
@kathymulvey.bsky.social, Rachel Cleetus, Delta Merner & all at @ucs.org 🌎
@kathymulvey.bsky.social, Rachel Cleetus, Delta Merner & all at @ucs.org 🌎
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Native Movement, a non-profit advocacy organization, is providing emergency grants of $500-$800 to Alaska Native households impacted by the suspension of SNAP
www.nativemovement.org/nm-blog/2025...
www.nativemovement.org/nm-blog/2025...
Supplementary SNAP Assistance Application — Native Movement
Applications are open! If your food assistance has been suspended, please apply. Native Movement seeks to provide single one-time grants of $500-$800 per qualifying household impacted by the suspensio...
www.nativemovement.org
November 7, 2025 at 8:16 PM
Native Movement, a non-profit advocacy organization, is providing emergency grants of $500-$800 to Alaska Native households impacted by the suspension of SNAP
www.nativemovement.org/nm-blog/2025...
www.nativemovement.org/nm-blog/2025...
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The government froze food aid. Tribes are thawing old traditions.
Decades of work to rebuild traditional food systems are paying off, but droughts and funding cuts threaten to unravel the progress.
grist.org/indigenous/t...
#Tribes #Food #Indigenous #Farming
Decades of work to rebuild traditional food systems are paying off, but droughts and funding cuts threaten to unravel the progress.
grist.org/indigenous/t...
#Tribes #Food #Indigenous #Farming
The government froze food aid. Tribes are thawing old traditions.
Decades of work to rebuild traditional food systems are paying off, but droughts and funding cuts threaten to unravel the progress.
grist.org
November 7, 2025 at 3:19 PM
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A nice story in @science.org this week about the collaboration between archaeologists and Kuikuro people in Brazil, which has been central to uncovering evidence of social complexity in the Amazon region more than 600 years ago.
www.science.org/content/arti...
www.science.org/content/arti...
To unearth their past, Amazonian people turn to ‘a language white men understand’
A model partnership between archaeologists and the Kuikuro people has helped rewrite the history of early Amazonian societies
www.science.org
November 7, 2025 at 3:27 PM
A nice story in @science.org this week about the collaboration between archaeologists and Kuikuro people in Brazil, which has been central to uncovering evidence of social complexity in the Amazon region more than 600 years ago.
www.science.org/content/arti...
www.science.org/content/arti...
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#BOU2026 | Birds and people | 31 March - 2 April 2026
University of Nottingham & Zoom & Bluesky
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#BOU2026 | Birds and people | 31 March - 2 April 2026
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November 7, 2025 at 2:42 PM
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University of Nottingham & Zoom & Bluesky
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#ornithology 🪶
#BOU2026 | Birds and people | 31 March - 2 April 2026
University of Nottingham & Zoom & Bluesky
Check out the programme and book your place today!
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#ornithology 🪶
This little bird survived a volcanic eruption!
Buried by volcanic ash from Mount Vesuvius in AD 79, this Roman fresco of a little bird pecking at fruit re-emerged looking as delightful as it did some 2,000 years ago!
Villa Poppaea, ancient Oplontis, Italy
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#FrescoFriday
#Archaeology
Buried by volcanic ash from Mount Vesuvius in AD 79, this Roman fresco of a little bird pecking at fruit re-emerged looking as delightful as it did some 2,000 years ago!
Villa Poppaea, ancient Oplontis, Italy
📷 by me
#FrescoFriday
#Archaeology
November 7, 2025 at 2:18 PM
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#FrescoFriday Heading from the Egyptian section to Braccio Nuovo of Musei Vaticani we passed through a narrow vaulted corridor which has bird painted fresco plates on its walls.
#archaeobirds
#archaeobirds
November 7, 2025 at 7:40 AM
#FrescoFriday Heading from the Egyptian section to Braccio Nuovo of Musei Vaticani we passed through a narrow vaulted corridor which has bird painted fresco plates on its walls.
#archaeobirds
#archaeobirds
How come nobody told me about the crane head shaped halberds of Bronze Age Ireland? A lot of speculation here I suppose, but thought-provoking from Galway community Heritage, and currently at @nmireland.bsky.social' Dead Zoo Lab in Dublin.
#archaeobirds 🪶🏺
#archaeobirds 🪶🏺
The Crane: A Bronze Age Icon
We have researched The Crane as part of “Our Irish Natural History,” a collaborative project with ICAN and the National ...
field-monuments.galwaycommunityheritage.org
November 7, 2025 at 1:12 PM
How come nobody told me about the crane head shaped halberds of Bronze Age Ireland? A lot of speculation here I suppose, but thought-provoking from Galway community Heritage, and currently at @nmireland.bsky.social' Dead Zoo Lab in Dublin.
#archaeobirds 🪶🏺
#archaeobirds 🪶🏺