Valerio Lucarini

School history lessons minimise the role of women, report finds Campaigners say key stage 3 curriculum plays to misogny and teaches a ‘false version of the past’ The role of women in history goes far beyond Elizabeth I or Anne Boleyn, according to a campaign that seeks to add more female lives and achievements to the curriculum taught in England’s schools. Research by the group End Sexism in Schools found that women were largely absent from history taught in key stage 3, the first three years of secondary education in England. Monarchs were among only a handful of women mentioned by name alongside the suffragettes Emmeline Pankhurst and Emily Davison. Continue reading...

School history lessons minimise the role of women, report finds

Dundee staff ‘vindicated’ after report blames bosses for crisis Union members call for new democratic management structure as interim vice-chancellor appointed to lead Scottish institution

Staff at the University of Dundee have spoken of their “elation” at the release of a “damning” report that blamed management failures for its financial crisis, reports @julietterowsell.bsky.social
#AcademicSky

Great piece in today's NYTimes on the recent acceleration of global warming (and its impacts), featuring comments from Kate Marvel, Daniel Swain, Cecilia Bitz, and me: www.nytimes.com/2025...

Former Dundee University principal says he was 'incompetent' Prof Iain Gillespie, former principal of the University of Dundee, is accused of creating a financial crisis and walking away.

one of the many horrors of UK academia

www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/c1...

Is it hot right now? New interactive website launched to explore real-time UK temperatures

Blog discussing how the website shows hour-by-hour temperatures relative to 'normal' across the UK:

climatelabbook.substack.com/p/is-it-hot-...

Enough is enough. Israel is committing war crimes | Opinion ***

Criticism of Israeli war crimes isn't anti-semitism. This essay on Israel's war crimes was penned by, let me see, oh, Israel's former Prime Minister.

www.haaretz.com/opinion/2025...

Studying Tipping Points and Noise-Induced Transitions in the Climate System with rare event simulation techniques at University of Leicester on FindAPhD.com PhD Project - Studying Tipping Points and Noise-Induced Transitions in the Climate System with rare event simulation techniques at University of Leicester, listed on FindAPhD.com

A great PhD opportunity on the mathematics of tipping points within the ARIA project AdvanTIP - Deadline: June 30th 2025

www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

Feel free to get in touch for further info on the project

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Metastability, critical transitions, and long transients: general mathematical framework and relevance for our changing planet - Isaac Newton Institute Metastability is a ubiquitous phenomenon in many natural, engineered, and social systems. It can be described as the existence of multiple coexisting distinct...

I. Newton Institute's Scientific Program "Metastability, critical transitions, and long transients" is now online - it will take place in August 2026
www.newton.ac.uk/event/fcp/

UK risks becoming ‘island of strangers’ without more immigration curbs, Starmer says PM unveils policies to ‘significantly’ drive down net migration including English tests and degree requirements

Way to the right of Marine Le Pen, congratulations Sir MAGA Starmer...

Almost 30 deg in London, today, May 1st. Beautiful but very scary.

It’s the anti net-zero, anti-woke Tony Blair – how was this man ever considered a progressive? | Zoe Williams The former PM has form when it comes to pushing corporate interests and meeting populists halfway, writes Guardian columnist Zoe Williams

Blair, a man with no knowledge, no credibility, and incredible arrogance

NASA Is Terminating The GISS Lease In Five Weeks This was just sent to all NASA Goddard and GISS employees by Makenzie Lystrup

GISS literally changed my life and it is very painful to read what is going on.

nasawatch.com/personnel-ne...

Tragedy, horror, disbelief

www.nesdis.noaa.gov/about/docume...

Record 4.5m children living in poverty, UK data shows Government urged to scrap two-child benefit cap after chancellor announces welfare cuts in spring statement

Abhorrent

www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

A fun and instructive tutorial on the Physics and Mathematics for the Climate Crisis (personally dedicated to our NOAA and NASA colleagues!)

First day at summit.aps.org - enjoying our tutorial on the physics of climate:

summit.aps.org/events/MAR-9T

A species’ response to spatial climatic variation does not predict its response to climate change | PNAS The dominant paradigm for assessing ecological responses to climate change assumes that future states of individuals and populations can be predict...

Fascinating result:

www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Introduction: (Almost) everything you wanted to know about tipping points, but were too afraid to ask The evidence is mounting that vast changes are not only possible, but increasingly likely as the Earth warms. But how close the world is to crossing so-called “tipping points” is a matter of vigorous ...

I'm delighted to say that the issue of the @thebulletin.org magazine that my colleague Dan Drollette and I have been working on for months, all about tipping points, is out today. My introduction to the issue is here: thebulletin.org/premium/2025...

One of those quirky weather extremes - intense hailstorm in London today - deep convection with 3 deg surface temperature…

Amazon rainforest cut down to build highway for COP climate summit The infrastructure required to host climate talks in Belém is undermining the cause, campaigners say.

This some amazing news

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

The UK’s gamble on solar geoengineering is like using aspirin for cancer Injecting pollutants into the atmosphere to reflect the sun would be extremely dangerous, but the UK is funding field trials

„Aspirin for cancer“

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Scary news Gavin - my love and support to GISS

IPCC 7th Assessment Report (AR7): call for authors The UK has been invited to nominate experts for participation in the IPCC’s Seventh Assessment Report (AR7).

IPCC AR7 open call!

The NASA office of technology, policy and strategy as well as the office of the chief scientist are both being shut down, and its overall science budget may be slashed by as much as 50%.

We strongly denounce the Trump Administration’s latest round of NASA firings and office closures, which will undermine the agency’s ability to carry out its missions to advance scientific knowledge and benefit humanity.

Workshop "Statistical Mechanics of Climate and Ecosystems', July 1-3 2025 - Leicester (UK)
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NASA to eliminate chief scientist position Long-running advisory role cut along with two dozen others in agencywide reduction

Some extraordinarily bad news

www.science.org/content/arti...

AGU urges the Trump administration to immediately renew U.S. federal commitment to climate science. The U.S. must restore critical climate science leadership for a secure, prosperous future for the country and the world.

Read AGU’s statement here: news.agu.org/press-releas...

Watch angry exchange between Trump and Zelensky at White House The US president accused the Ukrainian leader of being disrespectful in a tense meeting in the Oval Office.

A brutal ambush

www.bbc.com/news/videos/...

Unravelling the evolution of the Panama Isthmus Geologists explore this influential landmass whose creation affected both evolution and climate.

Let‘s change the narrative - something amazing about Panama

www.cardiff.ac.uk/news/view/23...