Charlotte Weatherill

Some thoughts on what the Gorton and Denton byelection means for pursuing climate action in the contemporary UK political landscape. www.just.ac.uk/news/2026/03...

Recruiting researchers in Animal Studies (humanities and social sciences) Last year, ‘Multispecies Mutualisms’ was successfully awarded a Wellcome Trust grant of £1.6 million. We are now recruiting four new Post Doctoral Research Associates to join the team.

Incredible opportunity for *4* #postdocs, *3 years each* to work with @rosaleenduffy.bsky.social, @evahaifa.bsky.social, Alasdair Cochrane and Bob McKay on their wonderful new "#multispecies #mutualisms" project at the University of of Sheffield #EnvHumanities
sheffield.ac.uk/spir/news/re...

I went to uni as a mature student with no A Levels, I needed maximum loans to be able to afford to go. This changed my life, and I'm now a lecturer.

This would be yet another example of how the ladder is being burned down behind me.

This appalling fat cat wants to shut the door on all my mature students, many of whom left school after GCSE and give up a lot to go to university. I can tell him that they’re the hungriest for education and far from being unable to graduate, they regularly get the highest grades. Hateful man.

A lot of people say AI isn't very good for the world and its outputs are routinely unreliable, but these haters fail to see how it's revolutionizing how we incinerate schoolchildren.

Multispecies Mutualisms - Join Our Research Team! We’re hiring 4 Postdoctoral Research Associates (PDRAs) In this video, members of the team share insights into four exciting PDRA opportunities currently available. If you are ready to take the next s...

1/ Calling all ECRS - we have 4x 3 year post docs on Multispecies Mutualisms working with us at Sheffield. Don't want to read through all the stuff to work out if its right for you? Here is a short video explainer 🎥
digitalmedia.sheffield.ac.uk/media/Multis...

Close-up of a transparent hourglass with white sand flowing from the upper to the lower chamber against a dark background.

🚨 The registration deadline for #BISA2026 is MONDAY 🚨

'Is International Studies ready for what comes next? New thinking, new directions': looking ahead to the next 50 years 🌟

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Spotlight on: Margarida Gama- Environment and Climate Politics | BISA - Environment and Climate Politics Working Group

New Spotlight blog is up on the site! Hear from PhD researcher Margarida Gama about her work on water weaponisation 💧

Check it out here: www.bisa.ac.uk/members/work...

There's no money for anything else, but: 'UKRI committed a record £1.6 billion of funding directly targeted at the AI sector over the next four years. This is UKRI’s biggest single investment area for 2026 to 2030.' Growth, growth, growth, nothing about flourishing or a liveable society. Pathetic.

Oh cool heres a contract to do stuff to the NHS, cool

Photo of University of Manchester quad, with an old building in the background, and a tree in the foreground. It is bare of leaves, but decorated with Chinese lanterns in recognition of Chinese new year.

Campus.

Possible from London, but not from where I am. Could obviously stop in London and then do the rest in one day, but that's a very expensive hotel.

I've done it a couple of times before. It's not pretty, but I'm used to the fight at least!

If you have any tips, please do share. I've never used it before - I think I'd looked and though it didn't work out cheaper, but that was a long while ago, and I was going to Sweden so it was a really long complicated trip... Also uni booking systems are a nightmare but that's a bridge for later!

Thank you for this amazing breakdown! This guy is just a treasure isn't he.

Unfortunately I'm 4.5 hours from London (by train) so I think I will need a stop over. Great website though, thank you!

Ah, good reminder. I think I'm doing that for a Germany trip in summer, so I should get my head around it asap.

Anybody going to @pollenetwork.bsky.social #POLLEN2026 got tips for getting to Barcelona by train (from the UK)? Looks simple enough, but budgeting tips maybe, or a good place to stop half way? OR can it be done in a day..?

‘Daunting but doable’: Europe urged to prepare for 3C of global heating Advisory board member says adapting is ‘not rocket science’ but Europe already paying price for lack of preparation

Yes it's necessary to prepare, but there's no adapting to a 3C world

This is such a dangerous message

a man in armor with the words so it begins Alt: Theoden with the words so it begins... Manchester Piccadilly is closed all week, this is going to be a nightmare

Not to be dramatic, but starting my journey into Manchester today feels like this.

try spending a day entirely offline to see what you can actually do, what books you can read, what games you can play, who you can actually talk to, what you can buy from the shops without ordering it and adjust your life accordingly

Breaking: on two counts, the High Court has ruled that the Labour government's proscription of the campaign group Palestine Action was unlawful – a win for its co-founder Huda Ammori, who sought a judicial review of the ban

I visual poem titled 'rain' by Lemn Sissay is printed on the wall of Dilworth Street, above a restaurant called Mr Egg.

Also saw this today which feels extremely fitting.

Large photo entitled Fonofono o le Nuanua: Patches of the rainbow (after Gauguin)

Prosthetics used to create Darwin in drag

wide view of half of the room, showing different parts of the exhibition including a screen playing the Darwin I Drag film

Entrance for the exhibition, title Darwin in Paradise Camp, by Yuki Kihara

So good.

Exhibition poster for Yuki Kihara's 'Darwin in Paradise Camp', currently on at the Whitworth in Manchester.

Excited for this. A completely unexpected pleasure to realise this was happening five minutes from my office.

‘To live a normal life again, it’s a dream come true’: UK’s first climate evacuees can cast off their homes and trauma Forty-odd residents of Clydach Terrace in Ynysybwl, south Wales, relieved by council buyout after years in fear of fast flooding

The UK's first, but definitely not last, climate evacuees 👇

The Guardians Of Living Matter The Guardians of Living Matter is an interdisciplinary exhibition by artists John-Paul Brown and Sophy King that imagines an alternative and radical future.

Manchester UK pals - as respite from the rain, check out this fantastic exhibition at The Lowry - an imagining of an alternative and radical future, where humanity has a second chance as custodians of planetary care.
#climatechange #morethanhuman #hope #mycellium
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Have a read of this blogpost by one of our recent authors @ckweatherill.bsky.social ⬇️

Satellite view of a large cyclone with a distinct eye forming over a cluster of islands in the ocean.

In what ways does the framing of climate change’s origins influence understandings of its causes and proposed solutions? 🌍

Charlotte Weatherill (The University of Manchester) discusses this in a new Geography Directions blog post. Check it out here 👇
https://ow.ly/CGRi50Y4KUL

Conference flyer detailing the RGS/IBG Annual Conference on climate justice and inequalities in London, September 2026. Looking for abstracts in the theme of Climate Apartheid: meanings, contexts, politics, legitimacy.

What they are looking for: In-depth written content on climate apartheid, addressing its socio-political context, environmental impacts, and academic submission guidelines. Information about how to submit: please submit abstracts (max 250 words) including full details for all authors (names, titles, institutional affiliations, emails, presenting/not presenting) by 20 February 2026 to Charlotte Lemanski (cll52@cam.ac.uk) and Andrew Baldwin (w.a.baldwin@durham.ac.uk) This CFP will be submitted for Research Group Sponsorship (either Climate Change RG or Political Geography RG). We anticipate that this will be an in-person paper session, but please indicate if you intend to attend the RGS online and we can request a hybrid session and/or would prefer a different presentation format.

Scholarly references and URLs on climate apartheid and justice narratives in a research paper format.

Royal Geographical Society (with IBG) are looking for papers‼️

On the theme 'Climate Apartheid: meanings, contexts, politics, legitimacy' for their 1-4 September conference entitled 'Geographies of Inequalities: Toward Just Places' 🌍

All info attached on the PDF's below - submit now! 🌟