Reposted by Dr Michelle Cain Nature @nature.com · 31/07/2025This surprisingly relaxing footage is from SIX MILES under the ocean – and it’s the deepest ecosystem yet discovered 426140863394
Reposted by Dr Michelle Cain Kate Marvel @drkatemarvel.bsky.social · 30/07/2025Claim: "Water vapor is a greenhouse gas!" Reality: Yes, and there's more of it in a warmer atmosphere -"CO2 is plant food!" -pretty hard to eat when you're on fire -"Climate has changed before!" -We know, we told you that -"Scientists don't know everything!" - doesn't mean we know *nothing* 351230299
Reposted by Dr Michelle Cain Ed Hawkins @edhawkins.org · 20/06/2025It's already #ShowYourStripes day in many places like New Zealand, Australia, Japan and Papua New Guinea. All these countries are warming rapidly. Visit www.ShowYourStripes.info to find your warming stripes with 4 different designs. Start a climate conversation online or with friends and family? 7333165
Reposted by Dr Michelle Cain Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 04/06/2025Possibly the best thing I've read about ChatGPT yet. h/t @melaniemitchell.bsky.social amandaguinzburg.substack.com/p/diabolus-e...amandaguinzburg.substack.comDiabolus Ex MachinaThis Is Not An Essay 541022378
Reposted by Dr Michelle Cain Jocelyn Leitzinger @jocelynl.bsky.social · 02/06/2025This past semester was the most stressful of my academic career. I had 180 students and about half cheated at some point in the semester They submit weekly reflections where the questions are opinion-based, graded only on effort, don't care about grammar SO MANY students submitted ChatGPT essays 792350746
Dr Michelle Cain @civiltalker.bsky.social · 29/05/2025I'm sorry, but WHAT are the photos illustrating this article supposed to illustrate? They are completely unhinged. Send help. www.timeshighereducation.com/depth/are-pr...timeshighereducation.comAre private colleges dragging down the reputation of UK HE?The OfS’ recent imposition of its first fines over franchised provision highlighted what some regard as the dark underbelly of UK higher education. But is there really a significant problem in the for... 120
Reposted by Dr Michelle Cain Dr Ella Hawkins @ellamchawk.bsky.social · 29/05/2025Today is National Biscuit Day, and it’s about time that I populated this account with biscuit (cookie) sets from the past few years. Here are some of my favourites. 🧵 First up, a set inspired by the delicious designs of William Morris and John Henry Dearle. 33884401885
Reposted by Dr Michelle Cain Prof Christina Pagel @chrischirp.bsky.social · 14/04/2025🧵DISMANTLING DEMOCRACY I've been keeping track of Trump actions - now up to 192. Here, I dig into 69 actions specifically targeted at undermining democracy, rule of law & suppressing dissent. It's been 12 weeks of assaults on democracy. based on christinapagel.substack.com/p/a-republic... 1/18 791484808
Reposted by Dr Michelle Cain Paul Voosen @voosen.me · 11/04/2025BREAKING from @science.org: The Trump admin is seeking to kill nearly all climate research at NOAA, its climate science agency. Its near-final budget proposal would end all NOAA research labs, academic institutes, and regional climate centers. And it wants to fully end the NOAA Research division.science.orgTrump seeks to end climate research at premier U.S. climate agencyWhite House aims to end NOAA’s research office; NASA also targeted 11621341653
Dr Michelle Cain @civiltalker.bsky.social · 31/03/2025Geologists, what are your top tips for visiting Skye? For people who like looking at rocks and fossils? 000
Reposted by Dr Michelle Cain Tom Clark @tom-clark.bsky.social · 27/03/2025🧵 1. The new official poverty stats came out at 930 Astonishingly bad numbers confirm the UK is in the grip of a building crisis of penury www.gov.uk/government/s...gov.ukHouseholds Below Average Income: an analysis of the UK income distribution: FYE 1995 to FYE 2024 7179137
Reposted by Dr Michelle Cain Prof Christina Pagel @chrischirp.bsky.social · 26/03/2025Glad that the Guardian picked up our report on diversity in science for a shorter oped :) www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...theguardian.comDonald Trump’s ‘war on woke’ is fast becoming a war on science. That’s incredibly dangerous | Christina PagelContrary to claims by the US president, we have found that diversity initiatives result in better scientists and greater progress, says Christina Pagel, a member of Independent Sage 323884
Reposted by Dr Michelle Cain Andrew Urquhart @wolfeagle1989.bsky.social · 14/03/2025Fitness doesn’t prevent Long COVID: 10% Long COVID rate in elite aquatic athletes: Juhász et al, "Retrospective study of COVID-19 experiences in elite multinational aquatic athletes", Scientific Reports (2023), www.nature.com/articles/s41... 22/33nature.comRetrospective study of COVID-19 experiences in elite multinational aquatic athletes - Scientific ReportsScientific Reports - Retrospective study of COVID-19 experiences in elite multinational aquatic athletes 23315
Reposted by Dr Michelle Cain Prof Christina Pagel @chrischirp.bsky.social · 27/03/2025Important data when people trot out the line that young people were not at risk from Covid infection. Especially in that 1st year, when everyone was meeting the virus for the first time without vax, Long Covid rates were very high. Imperial REACT study estimated 23% of all infections in 2020. 6217118
Reposted by Dr Michelle Cain angels4peace.bsky.social @angels4peace.bsky.social · 20/03/2025The proposals will decimate the lives of people who are unable to work EVER because of illness/ disability. I am medically retired and on PIP Enhanced Both. My pensions are sht because I was young when I became disabled. They are ‘topped up’ with benefits. I could lose 10K a year. 24411
Dr Michelle Cain @civiltalker.bsky.social · 20/03/2025Hi @kemibadenochmp.bsky.social not sure if you saw this article, but it might help you up-skill regarding net zero. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...theguardian.comFactcheck: Kemi Badenoch’s claim that net zero is ‘impossible’ by 2050Tory leader provides no evidence to support position that flies in face of expert reports and her own words 030
Reposted by Dr Michelle Cain Helen Czerski @helenczerski.bsky.social · 19/03/2025Anyone met a scientist who isn’t critical of the huge cuts to US science? “French scientist was denied entry to the US this month after immigration officers… searched his phone and found messages in which he had expressed criticism of the Trump administration.” www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...theguardian.comFrench scientist denied US entry after phone messages critical of Trump foundFrance’s research minister said the scientist was traveling to Houston for a conference when his phone was searched 817349
Reposted by Dr Michelle Cain Hannah Ritchie @hannahritchie.bsky.social · 20/03/2025The 10 largest contributors to historical CO2 emissions* *fossil emissions only, not including land use. From one of our data insights this week: ourworldindata.org/data-insight... 22327116
Reposted by Dr Michelle Cain Armando Iannucci @aiannucci.bsky.social · 19/03/2025 “There is this terrible misconception that disabled people just take, but actually by taking from us, you prevent us from being able to give – we want to be able to participate in life equally the same as anyone else, and that includes going to work.” Disability campaigner Tanni Gray-Thompson 11050881433
Reposted by Dr Michelle Cain Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 13/03/2025The thing about scientific research is that it’s one of the few national investments that’s a clear public good even if you entirely discount the actual ostensible point of it. 4342501017
Reposted by Dr Michelle Cain Prof Sheena Cruickshank @sheencr.bsky.social · 11/03/2025The USA are going backwards on academic freedom, vaccine policy and reopening needless research that has been done before on vaccines and autism - supporting vaccine uptake now is clearly not something they will enable www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...washingtonpost.comNIH to terminate or limit grants related to vaccine hesitancy and uptakeThe order covers more than 40 awards to researchers around the country seeking to understand why vaccine acceptance has declined. 813339
Reposted by Dr Michelle Cain Kit Yates @kityates.bsky.social · 08/03/2025“With one of the largest tuberculosis (TB) outbreaks in US history, Kansas has more to worry about than its Super Bowl defeat.” Sit up and take note. TB kills more people globally than any other infectious disease - the world’s longest enduring pandemic. theconversation.com/...theconversation.comWhy increasing rates of tuberculosis in the UK and US should concern everyoneEngland is at risk of losing its ‘low TB incidence’ status. 213468
Reposted by Dr Michelle Cain Kit Yates @kityates.bsky.social · 08/03/2025When people say science isn’t political, point them to this story. A clear example of political interference - directing money towards a study to which we already know the answer. There is no link. www.theguardian.com/...theguardian.comCDC to study potential links between vaccines and autism despite research showing no connectionIt’s unknown whether Robert F Kennedy Jr, who has promoted anti-vaccine views, is involved in study 817463
Reposted by Dr Michelle Cain Kit Yates @kityates.bsky.social · 04/03/2025Hugely unimpressed with the Royal Society. Sadly this decision massively undermines it's integrity if it can't even enforce it's own rules. More later. www.theguardian.com/...theguardian.comElon Musk survives as fellow of Royal Society despite anger among scientistsQuestions remain over whether further action will be taken after resignations and calls for the Tesla CEO to be expelled 28401128
Reposted by Dr Michelle Cain David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 03/03/2025NOAA is literally getting decimated: “The two rounds of departures together represent about 10 percent of NOAA’s roughly 13,000 employees.”nytimes.comHundreds Are Said to Resign From NOAA (Gift Article)The resignations came a day after a wave of firings at the agency, a world center of climate research. 21445175
Reposted by Dr Michelle Cain David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 03/03/2025Not just scientists. Where are the athletes and celebrities? 1014320
Reposted by Dr Michelle Cain Kit Yates @kityates.bsky.social · 28/02/2025The populist right is damaging US science. Here's what I think we should be doing to ensure that the UK does not suffer the same fate. 🧵 1/37 11325129
Reposted by Dr Michelle Cain Daniel Swain @weatherwest.bsky.social · 28/02/2025The mass firing of both new hires and recently promoted senior staff within #NOAA, including mission-critical and life-saving roles at the National Weather Service (#NWS), is profoundly alarming. 1/11 402029868
Reposted by Dr Michelle Cain Michael E. Mann @michaelemann.bsky.social · 28/02/2025I believe Hitler had a program like this www.salon.com/2025/02/27/m...salon.comMoms for Liberty, Education Department launch program to report teachers who promote diversityThe department has created a tip line for people to report schools accused of promoting DEI policies 57838256
Reposted by Dr Michelle Cain TABLE @tabledebates.bsky.social · 28/02/2025Can regenerative agriculture deliver a just & nutritious food system? 🌱 TABLE is conducting a survey to gather the views of those with experience and expertise in the UK in food and farming about what regenerative agriculture is & its potential implications. Survey closes 5 March: buff.ly/4ijPKyk 257
Reposted by Dr Michelle Cain James Murray @james-bg.bsky.social · 28/02/2025Lots more predictable attacks on net zero this week, but as @elpinchbeck.bsky.social pointed out today ditching decarbonisation would make voters poorer. And that would be just the start of the fall out. www.businessgreen.com/blog-post/44...businessgreen.com'Scrap net zero?' OK, but then what?Attacks on the net zero transition are ratcheting up, but what would happen if the critics of decarbonisation actually got what they wanted? 1218
Reposted by Dr Michelle Cain Elaine Cimino @ecimino.bsky.social · 25/02/2025Suzanne MoserPhD: If many, like me, have worked with or in any way depended on NOAA for data/models, tools, information, or funding support, then consider signing on to this letter. I have. NOAA has been the backbone of my career and my colleagues are my friends. #NOAA #climatescience #fedsupportsecure.ucsusa.orgScience at Risk: Protect NOAAScientists & experts: Add your name to this open letter calling on Congress and the Trump administration to ensure that NOAA and its sub-agencies remain fully funded and staffed, and that the independ... 1138
Reposted by Dr Michelle Cain Phil PlAIt @philplait.bsky.social · 27/02/2025This is a disaster, and will be particularly bad after a weather disaster. People will die and there will be vast economic costs from this. It's not about saving taxpayers' money. It's about disassembling the government. 271052311
Reposted by Dr Michelle Cain Kit Yates @kityates.bsky.social · 27/02/2025"the Agriculture Department is struggling to rehire key employees working on the virus outbreak who were fired as part of the administration’s sweeping purge of government workers." www.politico.com/new... 1/2politico.comTrump administration struggles to rehire fired bird flu employeesUSDA supervisors are being asked to justify rehires and some employees still haven’t gotten their laptops back. 1618094
Reposted by Dr Michelle Cain Peter Gleick @petergleick.bsky.social · 27/02/2025And there it is. The first death from measles in over a decade in the United States. In, of course, an unvaccinated child. This is the direct result of the anti-vaxx lies spread by people like RFK Jr. www.npr.org/sections/sho...npr.orgA child has died in the Texas measles outbreakIt's the first measles death in the U.S. since 2015. More than 130 people in west Texas and New Mexico have been sickened in the outbreak so far. 621160
Reposted by Dr Michelle Cain Lisa Lin Doh @lisalindo.bsky.social · 27/02/2025Our professional infectious disease prevention team internationally has been cut to 1/10 the size. They've been cut off from communicating with WHO. The spending freeze has stayed frozen. Period. USAID is gone. Permanently canceled. Gone institutionally. Period. 750 frontline workers gone. 20330146
Reposted by Dr Michelle Cain Patrick Galey @patrickgaley.bsky.social · 27/02/2025Murray Auchincloss’ big “reset” to even more planet wrecking oil and gas has just cost BP shareholders £1 billion, and I think that’s wonderful 519031
Reposted by Dr Michelle Cain Simon Evans @drsimevans.carbonbrief.org · 27/02/2025Times: "BP chief's big reset wipes nearly £1bn off the shares" 57027
Reposted by Dr Michelle Cain Tes magazine @tesmagazine.bsky.social · 27/02/2025🌍 Exclusive: Preparing young people for a future affected by climate change is one of the most critical tasks for the government’s curriculum review, say expertstes.comClimate change should be embedded across curriculum, DfE toldExperts say teachers want more professional development support to teach climate change and sustainability 42512
Reposted by Dr Michelle Cain Prof Chris Jackson @seismatters.bsky.social · 25/02/2025“The net zero sector is growing three times faster than the overall UK economy, analysis has found, providing high-wage jobs across the country while cutting climate-heating emissions and increasing energy security.” www.theguardian.com/environment/...theguardian.comBritain’s net zero economy is booming, CBI saysGreen sector growing at triple the rate of the UK economy, providing high-wage jobs and increasing energy security 15719
Reposted by Dr Michelle Cain YouGov @yougov.co.uk · 31/01/2025Five years on, few Britons think Brexit has been good for anything % saying Brexit has had a positive impact on... Control the UK has over its laws: 31% UK's ability to respond to COVID-19: 23% UK's level of international trade: 11% NHS: 6% Full list in chart 👇 yougov.co.uk/politics/art... 57880392
Reposted by Dr Michelle Cain Jemima Kelly @jemima.bsky.social · 30/01/2025🚨🚨🚨 (Don't usually do this kinda thing BUT) BLOOD STOCKS ARE CRITICALLY LOW. If you can, give blood. ❤️ www.blood.co.uk/news-and-cam...blood.co.ukBlood donor appealThere are spaces to donate blood at some of our city centre venues. 12132133
Reposted by Dr Michelle Cain David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 30/01/2025Global warming results from us abusing the global carbon cycle by releasing trillions of tonnes of CO₂ into the atmosphere. The only way to fix this is to stop burning fossil fuels. There is no other way. 📈: @edhawkins.org 18763201
Reposted by Dr Michelle Cain John Gallagher @earlymodernjohn.bsky.social · 28/01/2025This is a national scandal. When will the government wake up and realise they are presiding over the rapid implosion of the UK's world-renowned university sector?bbc.co.ukCardiff: University confirms plans to cut 400 jobsVice-chancellor Wendy Larner says 23582232
Reposted by Dr Michelle Cain George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 20/01/20251. There have been plenty of debates about whether or not Trump and his circle are fascists. In this column, I argue that the debate solves nothing. What we’re seeing is a reversion to the default state of politics in centralised societies: autocratic tyranny. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...theguardian.comTrump and Musk have launched a new class war. In the UK, we must prepare to defend ourselves | George MonbiotAcross the world, societies are reverting to oligarchies. How to resist? Fight for democracy with all we’ve got, writes Guardian columnist George Monbiot 411533567
Reposted by Dr Michelle Cain David K Smith @professor-dave.bsky.social · 20/01/2025Here it is – my new book. ‘Bluesky Recipes for Difficult Days’! Alongside >100 recipes in a simple social media format, guaranteed to deliver on flavour and comfort, the book is a survival guide for life, reflecting on adventures with my 11 year old son. www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1739967038 17415