Dr. Marthe Wens
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Dr. Marthe Wens
@marthewens.bsky.social
Assistant Professor @Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam 🌍 Drought risk, societal impacts & adaptation modeller 🏜 Climate Justice activist @Scientist Rebellion ✊ Views my own 🚄 she/her
October 5, 2025 at 1:33 PM
June 12, 2025 at 8:53 AM
May 18, 2025 at 11:31 AM
May 18, 2025 at 11:30 AM
Today police arrested peaceful protesters on our @vuamsterdam.bsky.social campus.
The students demanded that the VU discloses all ties with lsrael, but their call for transparency was met with arrests.
#BDS #CutTheTies
April 9, 2025 at 7:00 PM
@femkehalsema.bsky.social ik wil je best een persoonlijk voorbeeld geven van ongewenst politie bezoek. Hoe contacteer ik je?
April 1, 2025 at 8:00 AM
March 8, 2025 at 4:56 PM
And now: #FeministMarch
Climate justice is gender justice. ✊💚
#IWD2025 #ForAllWomenAndGirls #ClimateJustice ##WomenMarch #StopFlyingBlue
March 8, 2025 at 2:45 PM
✈️ More flights=more emissions= more droughts=more hardship for women.

Therefore, I joined @xrnl.bsky.social and @scientistrebellion.nl to protest #KLMs Frequent Flyer Programme - rewarding polluting behaviour: While the wealthiest rack up air miles, women have to walk more miles.

#StopFlyingBlue
March 8, 2025 at 2:44 PM
🔥 Today, on #InternationalWomensDay, I took action for climate justice & gender justice.

At @schiphol.bsky.social , we stopped the escalators—a symbol of how every fraction of a degree of global warming forces women to walk further for drinking water due to increasing #droughts.
#IWD2025
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March 8, 2025 at 2:38 PM
March 8, 2025 at 2:26 PM
5️⃣ Transformative solutions, capacity development and unprecedented global collaboration are vital to building resilience.
February 12, 2025 at 9:43 AM
As we exceed the safe and just earth system boundaries for climate, land, biodiversity, and freshwater, it's crucial to rethink our water management and prospectively manage drought risks.
Our key takeaways for strengthening drought resilience:
February 12, 2025 at 9:40 AM
Droughts affect economies, ecosystems and societies, undermining our efforts in achieving the SDGs and our biodiversity and climate goals.
We observe that drought is a growing global threat yet mitigation efforts and adaptation actions are lagging behind.
February 12, 2025 at 9:39 AM
This was our first draft, after the @wmo-global.bsky.social #IDMP #DR10 conference, sketching the pathways in front of us, at the start of @unccd.bsky.social #COP16:
- BAU towards more drought #risks , or
- global cooperation and transformative actions towards drought #resilience

#behindthescenes
February 12, 2025 at 9:32 AM
Today we received the hard copy of the #WordDroughtAtlas ánd won the @vuamsterdam.bsky.social Bèta faculty Impact Award for it! 🎉

➡️Find it here: lnkd.in/e-ApVFF

@ec.europa.eu
@unccd.bsky.social

#IDRA
January 30, 2025 at 8:29 PM
Question: is our uni @vuamsterdam.bsky.social more or less sustainable after planting this banner in the mensa's?

#PlantBasedUniversity
January 27, 2025 at 11:52 AM
Voor zij die zeiden dat Trump beter zou zijn voor de Palestijnen...
'T is wel tenminste openlijk.
January 26, 2025 at 10:57 AM
Inderdaad!
January 11, 2025 at 8:04 PM
We're in a climate crisis, with only a handful of years left to stop global warming at 1.5degrees.
CO2-emitting behavior should be discouraged, not financially rewarded through programs like KLM 's 'Flying Blue'
@scientistrebellion.nl
December 14, 2024 at 12:16 PM
Interest in the atlas? worlddroughtatlas.org
December 9, 2024 at 11:46 AM
Happening NOW at #UNCCDCOP16 :
The side event dedicated to the #WorldDroughtAtlas #COP16Riyadh Blue Zone, Sect A, MET-07, #UNCCD Pavilion

together with
@ec.europa.eu #JRC
@vuamsterdam.bsky.social - IVM
#CIMA Research foundation
@ununiversity.bsky.social - EHS

#Drought #Resilience
December 9, 2024 at 10:40 AM
It's #InternationalDayInSolidarityWithPalestinianPeople !
Yesterday, staff started their weekly sit-in demanding the @vuamsterdam.bsky.social to cut ties with lsraeIi institutions, to improve the VU HR framework to include UN and ICJ, ICC resolutions and rulings to approve/stop collaborations.
November 29, 2024 at 6:52 AM
Working on #DroughtRisk #DroughtImpact #DroughtResilience #Drougth #DRR ?

➡️ Consider submitting an abstract to our #EGU25 NH9.4 session on "Innovative concepts, approaches and solutions to better understand & manage drought risks" : lnkd.in/e_i___Q5

@eurogeosciences.bsky.social
November 27, 2024 at 3:17 PM
November 27, 2024 at 8:23 AM