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Dr (of rocks) Marcus Badger

@climatebadger.bsky.social
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Organic Geochemist, palaeoclimate scientist, UM-user, railfan, he/him, Senior Lecturer in Earth Sciences at The Open University. For The Mug!

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
There was a time when the Tories, however hypocritically, claimed to want to protect our natural heritage. Now they're just a party of vandals, ripping down the few protections the living world has for the sake of their rich chums. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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Tories to pledge to scrap Environment Agency and Natural England
Shadow chancellor will also promise to scrap affordable homes regulations as part of strategy to refocus on growth
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Prof. Eliot Jacobson @climatecasino.net · 01/10/2026
Records come and records go. But this is one for the ages. The preliminary Nino 3.4 sea-surface temperature anomaly is now at a record 3.23°C above the 1991-2020 baseline. This crushes the previous daily record set in 1982 by over 1.14°C. The Climate 8-ball is looking up.
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Prof Ian Hall @ianhall.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
There’s something encouraging about the idea of ‘positive tipping points’. We’ve seen clean energy go from niche to mainstream surprisingly fast. The question really is whether we can push those changes quickly enough to stay ahead of climate change damage. www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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Climate solutions most likely to reach ‘positive tipping points’ revealed by scientists
Global shift towards clean electricity could trigger ‘cascade’ of progress, helping reduce air pollution, cut waste and revive oceans
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Carbon Brief @carbonbrief.org · 01/09/2026
NEW – Explainer: The CMIP7 emissions scenarios – and how they explore future climate change ✍️ Written by @zekehausfather.com Read here: buff.ly/t2daZcD
Median warming relative to 1850-1900 for the seven CMIP7 scenarios, with observations to 2025 (black) and the 5-95% ensemble range shaded for the medium and low scenarios. Dashed lines show warming between 2100 and 2150. Chart by Carbon Brief.
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Dr (of rocks) Marcus Badger @climatebadger.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Progress! www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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‘Breakthrough’ as Turkmenistan starts fixing ‘mindboggling’ methane mega-leaks
Secretive state begins repairs on ageing facilities after being revealed as worst country for leaks of potent greenhouse gas
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Prof Ian Hall @ianhall.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Nepal‑Tibet disaster linked to climate change – a glaciologist explains theconversation.com/nepal-tibet-...
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Nepal-Tibet disaster linked to climate change – a glaciologist explains
Glacier melt is partly responsible for the disaster along the border with Tibet and Nepal. An expert explains why this is a growing issue for the world.
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Dr (of rocks) Marcus Badger @climatebadger.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Excited that you can now buy plug-in solar in the UK? Me too! (although I already have a full fat 3.9 KWp array) Check the details here first: bylinetimes.com/2026/08/27/t... (via @oubucu.bsky.social)
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The Small Print Ministers Left Out of the Plug-In Solar Announcement
A single company currently holds a monopoly on compliant devices, and planning restrictions, renter protections and grid registration rules have barely been mentioned
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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
Absolutely brilliant Shostakovich Ten at the Proms tonight:
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Listen live to Radio 3 on BBC Sounds
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ClimateDynamics @climatedynamics.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
We just published a new paper on differential impacts of heat stress on age groups in @thelancetplanet.bsky.social "Exceeding Human Heat Tolerance: Global Projections for a Warming, Aging World" www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Ailbhe Rea @pronouncedalva.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
"One news bulletin described him as “the Black professor accused of plagiarism”: as if the most important thing was not the plagiarism, but the temerity to be simultaneously Black." Brilliant as ever from my old boss @stephenkb.bsky.social on Jason Arday giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...
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The difficult truth about Jason Arday
From the beginning, investigations were accompanied by a cloud of excessive references to his race
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Prof Ian Hall @ianhall.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
A striking climate-model result suggests AMOC may have a rate-induced tipping point. 👉 Slow CO₂ increase: AMOC stable to +5.5°C 👉 Faster increase: collapse around +2°C Same climate system. Very different outcome. The rate of warming matters. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Failure to track a stable AMOC state under rapid climate change - Nature Climate Change
Climate change is expected to alter oceanic circulation, with the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC) at risk of collapse. This work shows that the stability of the AMOC is dependent on...
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Simon Evans @drsimevans.carbonbrief.org · 24/07/2026
Renewables are now the world's largest source of electricity – and the main source of new supplies
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Virginia Gewin @virginiagewin.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
Scientists--if your funding was cut over the last year (for research on climate, global health, DEI, LGBTQ or womens health, etc) but you managed to keep the research going, I want to talk to you for an upcoming article! Plz contact me: gewin at me dot com. Re-posts appreciated!
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Dr (of rocks) Marcus Badger @climatebadger.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
There comes a point in every scientists life when they have to completely rewrite the cobbled together but working unholy combination of MATLAB, R, excel and GMT that they put together 12 years ago.
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Ed Hawkins @edhawkins.org · 02/07/2026
Comparing the UK heatwaves of June 1976 and June 2026... Daytime maximum & night minimum temperatures were much hotter in 2026. Details: maxima over 21st-30th June in both years. Uses provisional 2026 HadUK-Grid data from Met Office NCIC. Note the difference scale is larger for night minimums.
Comparing peak temperatures during June 1976 and June 2026Comparing night-time temperatures during June 1976 and June 2026
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Kate Littler @palaeoclimate.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
🚨Great opportunity to get involved with an IODP3 expedition to the North Sea in 2027! We’re especially looking for folks who do: -glacial sedimentology -macrofossils (esp molluscs) -OSL Those from 🇬🇧 🇫🇷 🇩🇪 🇳🇴 are particularly welcome to apply. Great opportunity! ⚒️🌍🧪 iodp3.org/special-call...
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Special Call to Participate: Expedition 507: Late Cenozoic Glaciers, Landscapes, Climates, and Ecosystems of the North Sea - International Ocean Drilling Programme
Special Call to Participate in IODP3 Expedition 507: Late Cenozoic Glaciers, Landscapes, Climates, and Ecosystems of the North Sea now open! International Ocean Drilling Programme (IODP3) Expedition G...
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Dr (of rocks) Marcus Badger @climatebadger.bsky.social · 28/06/2026
Steady as she goes! Yes we've done the easy bit. Yes policies are not in place to do the rest, but the UK has been doing ok at getting to Net Zero and we should talk about that more.
A graph showing territorial and consumption based UK CO_2 emissions from 2000 to 2026. Both lines show reductions. A trend line forecasts forward the territorial emissions hitting a 100 % reduction between 2045 and 2050.
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Jan Rosenow @janrosenow.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
The jaws of the energy transition are closing. In 2005 fossil fuels made two-thirds of the world's electricity. Today it's 57.4%, with clean power (renewables + nuclear) at 42.6%. Fossil share peaked around 2012 and keeps falling. More in Sunday's Substack: janrosenow.substack.com
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Dr (of rocks) Marcus Badger @climatebadger.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
📢 New Paper 📢 And because apparently I publish like buses we have another new paper out this week: UK37' is unaffected by IODP repository conditions doi.org/10.1016/j.or...
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Kate Littler @palaeoclimate.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
UK Higher Education is a slow motion disaster movie. And no one is coming to save us (or our students) from the decimation. We will look back on this period of destruction in the same way we look back at the Brexit vote. Oooops! I’m so done with this sector 😡 www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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University of Exeter in talks to cut about 150 members of staff
The university says it is consulting with colleagues over "limited and specific potential changes".
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Dr (of rocks) Marcus Badger @climatebadger.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
"Please note that the University position is that it is not normally prepared to fund air conditioning of office spaces in alignment with the strategic objectives of financial sustainability and carbon management" @oubucu.bsky.social
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Dr (of rocks) Marcus Badger @climatebadger.bsky.social · 21/06/2026
📢 New Paper!📢 I was away at BOGS last week so did not notice this came out: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Enhanced marine burial of terrestrial organic carbon through the Palaeocene–Eocene Thermal Maximum - Nature Geoscience
The burial of terrestrially derived organic carbon in coastal marine sediments greatly increased during the Palaeocene–Eocene Thermal Maximum, probably helping to draw down a large portion of carbon r...
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Kirsty Grainger @handle.invalid · 10/06/2026
OOOOH this is a great job. I know I know people who would be amazing at this. And lots of people who know someone who would be amazing at this. Send it to them! Exec Director of Science at the Natural Environment Research Council (part of @ukri.org). fa-evzn-.fa.ocs.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid...
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Executive Director of Science
Executive Director of Science | NERC | Band X
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MetJam @metjam.co.uk · 27/05/2026
Oxford, the longest running continuous weather station in UK history, with temperature observations stretching back to 1815, has preliminarily broken its maximum temperature record for May yesterday by OVER 3ºC with a temperature of 33.7ºC. Unprecedented in its 211-year history.
Spaghetti chart showing Oxford Radcliffe Observatory daily maximum temperatures for every day of the year from 1815 to 2026. 211 years of historical data are shown as very faint grey lines tracing a seasonal cycle from around 5°C in winter to a summer peak of roughly 25–30°C in July and August. A blue smoothed 30-day mean line highlights the average annual temperature cycle. The 2026 line is shown in bold red, running from January through to late May before spiking sharply upward to reach 33.7°C on 26 May, well above the entire historical grey envelope for that time of year. A single dashed red reference line marks the previous May record of 30.6°C set on 29 May 1944. The 2026 reading exceeds this by 3.1°C and, in statistical terms, is the 6th most anomalous maximum temperature in Oxford's 211-year record, ranking as the most anomalous May maximum ever observed and coming within 0.6°C of the all-time June record of 34.3°C set in 1976.
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Kirsty Grainger @handle.invalid · 20/05/2026
Over the last few days @ukri.org have published/amended three calls that go against their own and sector EDI guidelines (that UKRI colleagues inputted into). I've vented about this on LinkedIn. www.linkedin.com/posts/activi...
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Last month EPSRC launched a new EDI action plan. It states "Where feasible we commit to using funding opportunity pre-announcements or a published look ahead at funding opportunities coming up ...
Last month EPSRC launched a new EDI action plan. It states "Where feasible we commit to using funding opportunity pre-announcements or a published look ahead at funding opportunities coming up in th...
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Carbon Brief @carbonbrief.org · 12/05/2026
🚨Internship opportunity 🚨 Do you have: 🌡️ an interest in climate change? ✍️ some experience of writing on a technical topic for a general audience? 🎙️ an interest in journalism and a commitment to the integrity of journalism? Apply for Carbon Brief’s internship here ⬇️ buff.ly/HbRlgbQ
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Vacancy: Three-week summer journalism internship at Carbon Brief - Carbon Brief
Carbon Brief is offering an exciting opportunity for students, or recent graduates, to work with the team for three weeks this summer.
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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 10/05/2026
A good cautionary tale for when someone claims that trusting data analysis done with an LLM is good because it’s “objective.” In this example, Copilot apparently decided to ignore the data it was given and just run with all the subconscious biases its (human-made) training data inevitably gave it.
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Professor Anjali Goswami FRS @evoswami.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
Job alert: Director of Science @ Defra! Join my team in a critical science leadership role to ensure robust evidence underpins decisions on nature, climate, pollution, food & more. Apply if you enjoy solving big, complex challenges & want to make a real difference! www.linkedin.com/jobs/view/44...
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Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs hiring Director of Science in England, United Kingdom | LinkedIn
Posted 1:55:56 PM. LocationThis role can be based at any Defra Group policy hub location which includes Bristol…See this and similar jobs on LinkedIn.
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Dr. Evan J. Gowan @evangowan.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
Can we use bird puke to reconstruct past ice sheets? Yes! #Paleoclimate #IceSheets #geology www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Novel rock luminescence dating of snow petrel stomach-oil deposits from East Antarctica
The discovery of long-term accumulations of snow petrel stomach-oil deposits in Antarctica have provided an excellent opportunity to reconstruct chang…
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
Political donations make a mockery of democracy, and the government's solutions are hopeless. Here's a really simple means of fixing it. This week's column. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Political donations are poison to our democracy – but there’s an easy antidote to that | George Monbiot
As revelations about Reform UK’s donors emerge, it’s clear that increasingly complex forms of patronage can’t be regulated effectively. We need a clean sweep, says columnist George Monbiot
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Chris Baraniuk @chrisbaraniuk.com · 24/04/2026
Great Britain's electricity grid hit 98.8% zero carbon during a 30-minute period on the afternoon of 22 April, @neso-energy.bsky.social says. Solar generation may (they're still checking) have hit a record 15 GW between 1200 and 1300 on 23 April, also.
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Dr (of rocks) Marcus Badger @climatebadger.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
It's a sunny+windy day in the UK and so the grid is running with only 1.5 % gas! grid.iamkate.com
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Oxford Earth Sciences @oxuniearthsci.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
The Department of Earth Sciences are seeking to appoint a Postdoctoral Research Assistant in Carbonate Mineralisation to join our thriving academic community 🌏 More details and apply now: www.earth.ox.ac.uk/vacancies
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C20 Society @c20society.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
📍Heritage in High Places: Happy 90th to the beloved British Trig Point! C20 has submitted listing applications for the two most historically important examples: the first, at Cold Ashby in Nottinghamshire (1936) and the last, at Thorny Gale in Cumbria (1962). ➡️ c20society.org.uk/news/heritag...
The Trig Pillar at Thorny Gale, Cumbria, site of the last observations in the Retriangulation of Great Britain, on 4 June 1962
Image credit: C20 SocietyThe Trig Pillar plaque at Cold Ashby, Northamptonshire, site of the first observations in the Retriangulation of Great Britain, on 18 April 1936
Image credit: McCoy Wynne Photography (from the Triangulation project)
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Josh Luke Davis 🏳️‍🌈 @joshlukedavis.com · 19/03/2026
'The length of the path isn't really the point. What makes it so special, says [Neil Constable, who led the project for Natural England], is that you can walk to the coast anywhere in England, turn left or right, and walk beside the sea for as long as you like.' www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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World's longest coastal path opens in England to the public
The King Charles coastal path will allow walkers right of access to the entire coast for the first time.
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Kirsty Grainger @handle.invalid · 05/03/2026
New video just dropped from Ian Chapman @ukri.org youtu.be/Z1OcZl224qo
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UKRI opportunities update from Professor Sir Ian Chapman
YouTube video by UK Research and Innovation
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Dr (of rocks) Marcus Badger @climatebadger.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
Three buckets. 🪣🪣🪣 www.linkedin.com/posts/uk-res...
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Today we're sharing an update from our Chief Executive, Professor Sir Ian Chapman, about our 2026-30 budget. The new approach sets out a clear direction for how we will deliver our mission… | UK ...
Today we're sharing an update from our Chief Executive, Professor Sir Ian Chapman, about our 2026-30 budget. The new approach sets out a clear direction for how we will deliver our mission to: 🔹Adva...
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Dr (of rocks) Marcus Badger @climatebadger.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
It's always a priviledge to process at Open University graduations at the Barbican. Delighted to see the future of this brutalist masterpiece is secure.
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Dr (of rocks) Marcus Badger @climatebadger.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
Good to have hard data confirming that this winter has been bleak as fuck in the midlands.
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Guy Shrubsole @guyshrubsole.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
Very cool map of historic floodplain meadows by @floodplainmead.bsky.social - giving insights into lost habitats and places that will need restoring if we're to become more climate resilient: floodplainmeadows.org.uk/discover/lea...
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Joe Hingley @joehingley.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
New paper out in Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology: We used Cenozoic-spanning marine sediments to determine whether archived grain-size sorted sediments can be resurrected for biomarker analysis. Great to see my first piece of PhD work published, available #openaccess: doi.org/10.1029/2025...
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Evaluating the Reliability of Grain‐Size Sorting for Organic Biomarker Analysis
We investigate the potential of using grain-size sorted marine sediments for biomarker analysis GDGT distributions are consistent regardless of grain-size sorting, and fine-grained sediment fract...
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Taka @taka-does-stuff.bsky.social · 14/02/2026
The #BM100 sheet has a 2026 tab now! - Not a primary source, and neither are most of its sources, WILL contain misinformation - Don't share screenshots, share the link, so people see corrections - Refresh the page manually even if it says it can do it automatically docs.google.com/spreadsheets...
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Barkley Results
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Keith @keithdunn.bsky.social · 14/02/2026
The conch was blown at 5:00am. The 2026 Barkley Marathons begins in one hour. #BM100
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Our World in Data @ourworldindata.org · 11/02/2026
It’s possible to reduce emissions while growing the economy. Many countries have decoupled economic growth from CO₂ emissions, even if we take offshored production into account. You can see this in the chart for a selection of large economies.
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Dr (of rocks) Marcus Badger @climatebadger.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
As a geologist, as it comes up as a debate on our student forums quite often, I have searched "what is a rock?" more than you might think.
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 10/02/2026
Brutal but beautiful: Southbank Centre’s Grade II listing is the cherry on a concrete cake
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Brutal but beautiful: Southbank Centre’s Grade II listing is the cherry on a concrete cake
As one of the longest running battles in British heritage comes to an end, the listing of the London arts complex vindicates the audacity of this sensational droogs’ paradise
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Dr (of rocks) Marcus Badger @climatebadger.bsky.social · 21/12/2025
I'm a scientist. It's Sunday, so today I went sailing and cooked a smoked haddock and kipper tart.
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Richard Butler @richardjbutler.bsky.social · 14/10/2025
Back in June we were back on the Oxfordshire “dinosaur highway”, excavating more dinosaur tracks with our teams from the Universities of Birmingham, Oxford & Liverpool John Moores. The BBC have a story out today about our work at the site: www.bbc.co.uk/news/resourc...
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In the footsteps of giants - BBC News
One of the longest sets of dinosaur footprints in the world has been discovered in a limestone quary near Bicester, in Oxfordshire, England.
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Dr (of rocks) Marcus Badger @climatebadger.bsky.social · 04/10/2025
Still time to apply:
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Dr (of rocks) Marcus Badger @climatebadger.bsky.social · 04/10/2025
Storm Amy getting the UK to only 9.3 % fossil fuel in our electricity right now! grid.iamkate.com
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