Session two of today's #criticalgeograpiesofdisasters2023 started by Sophie Blackburn on Scale and Social Contracts - feeling the state, feeling the social contacts and the evolution of individuals as political beings. UoR - Geography and Environmental Science #DisasterManagement #Disaster #socialcontracts

❤️ new paper - Intersectionality as a Forward-Thinking Approach in Disaster Research - “the evolving nature & fluidity of intersectionality mean there is unbounded opportunity for its future in disaster scholarship and practice” doi.org/10.1093/acrefo… (free)

🧵Since it is becoming hard to track, here is a thread of the simply astounding weather records planet Earth has started shattering in recent weeks: 1. Dramatic flood events have begun striking various countries around the world simultaneously this week. x.com/Rishusharma26/…

🌡️☀️Europe is experiencing some of the hottest conditions of summer 2023 so far, with some areas seeing temperatures above 45°C. Our latest blog explores some of the causes & impacts of this #heatwave & what we expect to happen during the rest of summer.➡️ ecmwf.int/en/about/media…

July 2023: our planet’s hottest month on record, hottest global sea surface temperatures on record & largest July anomalies in ERA5, extreme heatwaves, highest no. days with extreme heat stress, severe marine heatwaves… this month’s articles are a tough but important read ⬇️📈🌡️

Session 1B at the UCL Warning Research Centre #UCLWRC23 conference. Mirianna Budimir and Lisa Robinson from Practical Action and BBC Media Action looking at building better risk communication & multidisciplinary understanding of risk. SHEAR #RiskManagement #naturalhazards #riskcommunication

Day two of UCL Warning Research Centre #UCLWRF2023 conference Ilan Kelman introduces the first session of the day. Keynote panel discussing integration of different approaches. Catalina Jaime. @catalinajaime.bsky.social Climate Centre, Valerie Risk Everbridge, Lord Toby Harris UK Parliament, and John Harding @CREWSinitiative.

Warning, a long thread about the flood disaster in the Derna region, Libya, where thousands lost their lives. Based on what can be found in open sources, the city of Derna had 90,000 people living in it and on its Wadi Derna River, there were 2 dams. eos.org/thelandslidebl… 1/n

"Is #ClimateChange increasing #disasters?" UCL Events seminar, 17 Oct, 1300-1400. ucl.ac.uk/events/events/… It will be recorded and made available. #DisastersAreNotNatural #NoNaturalDisasters #CCA #DRR #DRRTwitter #ClimateTwitter #EMGTwitter #DisasterTwitter #climate #adaptation

10 years ago today, IPCC published it's 5th Assessment Report on the physical basis of climate change. A younger me was live on BBC News (UK) discussing the overwhelming evidence for mankind's responsibility for climate change. And, today we are issuing new oil licenses in the UK.

🌊📢New Paper 🌧️🌏 A decision-led evaluation approach for flood forecasting system developments #GloFAS #Bangladesh Led by Dr Sazzad Hossain ⤵️ doi.org/10.1111/jfr3.1…

Scientific institutions must create--and sustain--new kinds of roles so that researchers can provide the deep public engagement necessary to respond effectively to the escalating impacts of #climate change. The status quo isn't working. [Thread: 1/n] nature.com/articles/d4158…

🚨#MachineLearning #AI Job alert Uni of Reading ECMWF Want to revolutionise land surface hydrology in Earth System models? 🌍 5 year postdoc position - apply by 19 Feb 2024 Advancing the Frontiers of Earth System Prediction research programme #AFESP ⤵️ jobs.ac.uk/job/DFM942/pos…

A lovely day Sussex Global🏳️‍🌈✊🏽✊🏾✊🏿 Sussex Geography🏳️‍🌈✊🏽✊🏾✊🏿 doing an interview for their Geography, Climate Change and Society lectureship. Wonderful interview panel with some great questions. Couldn't resist a quick swim in the sea afterwards! #climatechange #globalstudies #seaswimming #lecturing

How well can global ensemble forecasts predict #TropicalCyclones in the southwest Indian Ocean? We evaluated 10 years of forecasts from ECMWF and Met Office to find out, and you can read more in our new paper: rmets.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.10… Head to the link to find out: 🧵

After eleven years, it's time to update my London Underground concentric-circles-and-spokes map. Completely redrawn from centre to edges, it's so much better than before, and more geographically accurate than the official map.