Seb Breitenbach

Farage standing in front of petrol forecourt sign 25P OFF WITH FARAGE REFORM UK All this fawning over Donald Trump - where has it got Nigel Farage?

Today, he is back in the rainy old UK, standing on a petrol forecourt in his faux-toff outfit, whingeing about Rachel Reeves putting fuel duty up by a few pennies - a tax that has been frozen since 2011. Besides, his mate Donald has done more in the past week to put up the price of petrol, with his continued bombing of Iran, than the chancellor. Tell that to White Van Man, Nigel.

“Farage… helped fool everyone about Brexit - which he wants to renegotiate, naturally. Surely the British people can't take this absurd man seriously again? After all, even Trump doesn't.”

Beyond time to boot Farage and his stale band of Tories off the stage.
www.independent.co.uk/voices/nigel...

Maybe!? 😇

Yeap, and a great story it is! 🤩

You must be talking about migration across the English Channel, right?! 🤦

Sehr fein! Gratuliere! Und von unserer Seite darf ich stolz (wie Bolle) verkünden, dass Jade ihr Höhlen-Mikroklimapaper auch gerade publiziert hat 🤩🤗:

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This 🫵👇

Are you a young academic working on climate and feel ready for a move? We are recruiting two Assistant/Associate Professors @granthamicl.bsky.social at Imperial College London @imperialcollegeldn.bsky.social (1/6)

karst-aware Tower karst, China. Photo: Bärbel Vogel KARST-AWARE Management and Protection

Karst Alert for the next karst-aware event taking place tomorrow, Wednesday 11th of March: "Why the UN is talking about karst and why cavers should care".

Organised by the German Speleology Federation (VdHK)
2pm CET / 8 am EST / 8pm WIB
Online session - Live on Youtube

www.karst-aware.org

Yeah! 👍 absolutely concur! 🫵

Please read and share @ucunorthumbria.bsky.social's response to the news that @northumbriauni.bsky.social want to make £25million cuts: ucu-unn.org.uk/news/330-ucu.... @ucu.org.uk @ucea.bsky.social @timeshighered.bsky.social @chionwurah.bsky.social @georgeclarke.bsky.social @tucneyh.bsky.social

Geneva Convention 1977 Protocols:
“It is prohibited to attack, destroy, remove or render useless objects indispensable to the survival of the civilian population, such as... drinking #water installations & supplies and irrigation works... for any other motive.”

Not to forget @mariabox.bsky.social and
@scitobias.bsky.social

Мощность! 💪

This study was (partly) funded by @leverhulme.ac.uk #Isoperm project
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A strong speleological team, led by the Speleoclub ARABIKA Irkutsk, and amazing colleagues contributed their expertise, incl @pucicu.de @olakwiecien3.bsky.social and @drumbo.bsky.social

The cave ventilates only when the cave temperature is higher that surface temperature and the entrances are not blocked by snow - mainly in late spring and in autumn.
But read for yourself
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We show that thermal stability increases the further you are from the entrance.
the farthest passages are also warmer bc of thicker overburden; this likely explains why speleothems only grow in these distant areas while the passages closer to the entrances stopped growing millions of years ago

Paper alert ‼️ 🧪Our very own Dr Jade Margerum just published her 2nd PhD paper on International Women’s Day! 💐🌻🌹🌷
15 years of monitoring of #Botovskaya Cave in #Siberia!
Kudos to our women & an amazing team!
@olakwiecien3.bsky.social @annabelwolf.bsky.social

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Image description: Collage photo of 4 researchers in various fieldwork activities. Text reads:''Happy International Women's Day!''

Happy International Women's Day to all women in geoscience🤍✨ !

At #EGU, we celebrate and recognise your dedication as researchers, educators, volunteers, leaders, and more.

Keep up the great work🙌!

📸: By Sebastian Breitenbach, Gabriel Sigmund, Filippo Dallosso, Ole Zeising on imaggeo.egu.eu

It used to be football clubs that got bought 🤷

Absolutely insupportable. Labour have a massive majority. It’s a hugely popular issue. To fail to act would be a dereliction of historic proportions, and utterly inexplicable.

Me is already dreaming about the pastures full of fresh scents and fun - mice’n stuff 🤩😝
Luv, Pebble

@ucunorthumbria.bsky.social members are on strike today in the fight for pay and pensions justice @northumbriauni.bsky.social - but taking time to recuperate and re-energise away from the picket lines, for the struggles ahead! Make the most of it, everyone. ✊✊✊🫶🫶🫶

Billionaire brothers who backed Tories give Reform £100k Oliver Wright Extracts Britain's second-richest family have begun giving money to Reform UK after years of supporting the Conservatives. A company linked to the property tycoons David and Simon Reuben donated £100,000 to Nigel Farage's party the first time the brothers have given to any party other than the Tories. Reform has also received £3 million from Christopher Harborne, 63, an entrepreneur who now lives in Thai-land, adding to the ty million he gave in August. At the time, that was the biggest single donation to a UK political party by a living donor. In the last quarter of last year, Reform received more than £5.4 million in do-nations, the Conservatives were given £2.4 million and Labour received £1.9 million. The Reuben brothers - David, 87, and Simon, 84, who own property including Millbank Tower and Admiralty Arch in London — have donated almost El million to the Conservative Party since 2008. They also supported Boris Johnson after he left No 10, giving him office space worth £85,000. Their family wealth was put at £26.87 billion in The Sunday Times Rich List last year. Reform UK has its headquarters in Millbank Tower, but it is not known whether the brothers donation linked to reduced rent payments. Other Reform donors include David John Grainger, the co-founder of a biotech firm, and Gary Dutton, a double glazing entrepreneur, who both gave the party £250,000. Reform also received £100,000 from Isabel Goldsmith, sister of the former Tory minister Lord Goldsmith of Richmond Park. Her father, Sir James Gold-smith, was seen as the godfather of British Euroscepticism. For the second quarter in a row Lord Bamford, the chairman of JCB, gave £200,000 each to the Conservatives and Reform. At the time of his first do-nation, the company said he was "sup-portive of pro-business political parties that create the conditions for these businesses to grow and prosper".

More billionaire cash bankrolling Reform.
JCB’s chairman, Bamford, said he was “supportive of pro-business political parties that create conditions for these businesses to grow and prosper."

Reform wants to repeal the Equality Act.
Prosperity for them means loss of rights and pay for us.
(Times)

@theguardian.com nailed it!
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Another @ucunorthumbria.bsky.social picket line @northumbriauni.bsky.social yesterday. We're loud and proud in our fight for pay and pensions justice! @ucu.org.uk @chionwurah.bsky.social @chroniclelive.co.uk @timeshighered.bsky.social @bylinesnetwork.co.uk

Take on tomorrow with pay freeze or reduced pension?
@northumbriauni.bsky.social
Thanks, but no thanks!
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We want fair pay and fair pensions!

@ucunorthumbria.bsky.social
@ucu.org.uk

Why are we here? Because managers want our pensions! Stop the steal! 😡
Together we are strong!

@ucunorthumbria.bsky.social
@ucu.org.uk
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Northumbria pics

Another day out and proud on the picket lines today at Northumbria University.

Staff are fighting to defend the Teachers’ Pension Scheme and stop management’s attempt to force them out through pay freezes.

This is about dignity, security and refusing to let pensions be stripped away.

Please share widely! Another day, another amazing message of support from a @northumbriauni.bsky.social student - an international student nurse💉, no less! - for @ucunorthumbria.bsky.social's fight for pay and pensions justice ✊💙💚🧡💜💛. ucu-unn.org.uk/blogucu/329-...

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