Carina Fearnley

Anyone using the F-word 🤬 when reacting to a warning? Explore more via our latest blog 'F Words for Warning Reactions'
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Launch Event: UCL Warning Database Launch Join the UCL Warning Research Centre to launch the world’s first publicly available warning database, with a demo followed by a Q&A.

Free hybrid launch of the UCL Warning Database (if attending in-person, it is @UCL)
4 March 2026, 1500-1600 UK
Register www.ucl.ac.uk/mathematical...
Join the @UCLWRC to launch the world’s first publicly available warning database, with a demo followed by a question-and-answer session

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.

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...

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

A graphic showing the title page of Transactions on a read background with TIBG in large letters on the right hand page. On the left hand page are eight tiles with 2 interventions and 6 standard articles, with the names of papers in the issue. 1) 'On limit and love in times of environmental crises' by Ihnji Jon 2) 'Geographies of creativity/creative geographies' by Pat Noxolo 3) '‘My body was no longer a problem’: Electric mountain biking, disability, and the cultural politics of green exercise' by Jim Cherrington & James Brighton 4) '‘A wonderful day and a wonderful crossing!’: Internment (im)mobilities, ambivalence, and the residual tourist gaze in Second World War Britain' by Michael Holden & Peter Adey 5) '‘Smartness’ narratives: A critical discourse analysis of smart eldercare in urban China' by Yi Yu 6) 'Critique beyond relation: The stakes of working with the negative, the void and the abyss' by David Chandler & Jonathan Pugh 7) 'Poetics in the work of three urban photographers: Love for the chaotic city from the site of urban rooftops' by Paulina Nordstrom 8) 'Places as refrains: A non-constructive alternative to assemblage thinking' by Peter Merriman

A graphic showing the title page of Transactions on a read background with TIBG in large letters on the right hand page. On the left hand page are nine tiles with standard articles, with the names of papers in the issue. 1) Climate change, bodies and diplomacy: Performing watery futures in Tuvalu Liam Saddington 2) Digital animal deathscapes: The online circulation of animals killed for conservation Alexandra Palmer 3) The medium is the message: The geographies of cryptocurrency remittances to Venezuela Daniel Robins 4) ‘One school, two systems’: Navigating the geographies of alternative education in an elite primary school in China Zhenjie Yuan, Huiyu Xie, Hong Zhu 5) Translating India to India: Travelling translations, Patanjali Ayurveda, and the visual language of spiritual consumerism Raksha Pande, Alastair Bonnett 6) Urban political ecologies of sewage surveillance: Creating vital and valuable public health data from wastewater 7) Constructive (in)visibility and the trafficking industrial complex: Leveraging borders for exploitation Audrey Lumley-Sapanski, Katarina Schwarz 8) Translations, translocations, and pluralism: A transnational and multilingual analysis of the circulation of radical geographical knowledge Federico Ferretti 9) From biopower to affirmative biopolitics: A (bio)political ecology of becoming with wolves Valerio Donfrancesco, Chris Sandbrook

A graphic showing the title page of Transactions on a read background with TIBG in large letters on the right hand page. On the left hand page are eight tiles with 6 standard articles and 2 commentaries, with the names of papers in the issue. 1) Mining an Anthropocene in Japan: On the making and work of geological imaginaries Deborah P. Dixon, Carina J. Fearnley, Mark Pendleton 2) Uneven ambient futures: Intersecting heat and housing trajectories in England and Wales Caitlin Robinson, Lenka Hasova, Lin Zhang 3) Examining the ‘gendered’ places and spaces of UK doctoral education using multilevel modelling Laura Harriet Sheppard, Jonathan Reades, Richard P. J. Freeman 4) The (non-)performance of the financial frontier: Building investment pipelines for the Sustainable Development Goals in Ghana Abbie Yunita 5) Thinking through an ethnography of infrastructure: Commonsensical reasoning, road sharing, and everyday infrastructural settlements Alan Latham, Russell Hitchings, Michael Nattrass 6) (Re)wilding London: Fabric, politics, and aesthetics Jonathon Turnbull, Tom Fry, Jamie Lorimer 7) Resilient education: The role of digital technology in supporting geographical education in Ukraine Simon M. Hutchinson, Elizabeth R. Hurrell, Kateryna Borysenko, Vladyslav Popov, Dariia Kholiavchuk, Yana Popiuk 8) Imagining post-war futures amid cycles of destruction and efforts of reconstruction Constance Carr, Olga Kryvets

📢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...

From multi-hazard early warning systems (MHEWS) to all-vulnerability warning systems (AVWS) Earth sciences; Human geography; Social sciences

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

Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers | RGS Journal | Wiley Online Library This article addresses how the lithic and the drift might be reworked as an Anthropocene material outside of a chronostratigraphy. Revisiting the finding of a floating fern fossil at the Hashima mine...

#OpenAccess in TIBG:

'Mining an Anthropocene in Japan: On the making and work of geological imaginaries' by Deborah Dixon, @carinafearnley.bsky.social & @markpendleton.bsky.social

doi.org/10.1111/tran... #geosky

DRR Summer School

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 📢 🗣️ 🛜💡

Eruptions Newsletter, Preview Edition: February 15, 2025 Things are busy in the Mediterranean.

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: 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.

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

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...

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

Wishing all my wonderful Chinese colleagues and students a very happy new year, and prosperity for the year of the snake 🐍🌷

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…!"

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...

Brilliant! Thanks Molly Urquhart! Enjoy and you can download for free from alongside the other 1.18million downloads: link.springer.com/book/10.1007...

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...

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

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

💻 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

Stories of Solastalgia by Land Body Ecologies | Waterstones Buy Stories of Solastalgia by Land Body Ecologies from Waterstones today! Click and Collect from your local Waterstones or get FREE UK delivery on orders over £25.

Land Body Ecologies, a research network which I am privileged to be part of, has just launched a book: 'Stories of #Solastalgia' www.waterstones.com/book/stories...
 
#LBEStories #LandBodyEcologies #SolastalgiaStories #ClimateGrief #ClimateHope #ClimateInspiration #EcoGrief #EcoHope #EcoInspiration

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.

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...

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 ❤️

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".

Volcanoes once erupted on the far side of the moon www.bbc.com/news/article...

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