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Helen Millman @helenmillman.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

I was asked what I was doing this weekend and replied: “Oooh! The Health Security Agency collect ticks at Porton Down. They sent me some vials, so I’m going to take the dog out to get some ticks to send them.” Clearly unaware that such fun could be had, they said it wasn’t what they were expecting.

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Helen Millman @helenmillman.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

The position is full-time and fixed-term until January 2028, with a starting salary of £43,482. Based in Exeter, Devon (which is lovely) and starting ASAP. Applications close 14 October 2026.

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Helen Millman @helenmillman.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

You'd be working on two ESA-funded projects. 80% on PREDICT, looking for early warning signals of Amazon rainforest dieback and dryland vegetation collapse, and 20% on EO4TIPP, looking into satellite monitoring of the AMOC.

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Australian Centre for Excellence in Antarctic Science (ACEAS) @antarcticsciaus.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

❄️ Watch ACEAS Chief Investigator Prof Matt King @deformedearth.bsky.social and Prof Andrew Mackintosh @andrewmackintosh.bsky.social from @arcsaef.bsky.social talk about the need for a global research campaign to study the #WilkesSubglacialBasin in East #Antarctica. Via SBS World News Australia ⬇️

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Helen Millman @helenmillman.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

The Pulp film is on Mubi now and it’s really good. If you don’t blink too much, you might spot me too…

A large TV. Text on the screen says: “PULP: WHAT DO YOU DO FOR AN ENCORE?
GARTH JENNINGS UNITED KINGDOM 2026”
The text is over a photo of Jarvis Cocker on stage taken from behind him. He’s pointing towards a large crowd. To the right the word “Me” is handwritten in red, with an arrow pointing to me in the crowd.

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Helen Millman @helenmillman.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

If you get the chance, go and see Derek vs Derek. One Derek is a normal Devon farmer, the other Derek is a re-wilder who lives next door to him www.derekvsderek.com

Film poster for Derek vs Derek. Two older men standing in a field in the middle of the poster, a lightning bolt between them. One holds a shotgun, the other has a spade. A cow and sheep dog on the left hand side of the poster and a wild boar on the right.

Text reads: “Derek vs Derek. What happens when your neighbour goes completely wild?”

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UK Centre for Polar Observation and Modelling @cpom-uk.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

The June 2026 issue of environmental SCIENTIST focusing on climate tipping points is now openly available, and features an article by CPOM's Dr Inès Otosaka (@northumbriauni.bsky.social) on the risk of crossing ice sheet tipping points 👇 🔗 www.the-ies.org/resources/en...

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Robert Saunders @robertsaunders.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

"You can't be a successful dictator and design women's underclothing". "No, sir". "One or the other, not both". "Precisely, sir."

"The trouble with you, Spode, is that just because you have succeeded in inducing a handful of half-wits to disfigure the London scene by going about in black shorts, you think you're someone. You hear them shouting 'Heil, Spode!' and you imagine it is the Voice of the People. That is where you make your bloomer. What the Voice of the People is saying is: 'Look at that frightful ass Spode swanking about in footer bags! Did you ever in your puff see such a perfect perisher?"

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Australian Antarctic Program Partnership @antarctic.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

🚨 PhD project in Hobart @utas.edu.au 🌊 Using Deep Argo floats, investigate variability and change in #Antarctic Bottom Water and the deep overturning circulation in the Southern Ocean 🎓 Scholarships available ✍️ Applications close 1 October ▶️ More info at www.utas.edu.au/research/deg...

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Helen Millman @helenmillman.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

I didn’t know they’d stopped singing hymns in schools. I’ve never been to church, but I have fond memories of shouting the “NAKED” bit in “When I needed a neighbour?” at primary school. When did hymn singing stop? I left in 2005, which doesn’t seem that long ago…

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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

2) If you get the dreaded audience Q which is actually a lengthy and incoherent rant about their favourite bugbear cut it off superfast. Do not back down. Talk over them if they won't shut up. Nothing wins the audience to your side faster.

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INSTAAR @instaar.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

INSTAAR senior research associate Alton Byers on what happened in Nepal and what should happen now nepalitimes.com/this-is-by-f...

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"This is by far the most horrific flood I have ever seen"

Himalayan glacier expert Alton C Byers on what happened in Nepal and what should happen now

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Helen Millman @helenmillman.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

A helpful thread if you’re planning on writing a report for wide and general consumption ⬇️

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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

An estimated 15 million people around the world are threatened by floods from glacial lakes, and the danger is growing as Earth heats up due to our continued burning of fossil fuels. Check out this report from @rhersher.bsky.social and colleagues at @npr.org from a few years ago.

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Living in the shadow of a dangerous shrinking glacier

Melting glaciers are leaving behind large, unstable lakes around the world. Millions of people live downstream, in places increasingly threatened by deadly flash floods. What will it take to protect t...

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Bethan Davies @iceybethan.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

The devastating events in Nepal & Tibet originated from a glacier collapsing on the N side of Langtang-Lirung mountain. @gunjan87.bsky.social recent paper on Langtang glaciers shows that they are rapidly warming, and that the rate of recession is accelerating. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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Bob Kopp @bobkopp.net · 22/08/2026

Optimist: The cup is half full Pessimist: The cup is half empty Climate scientist: If you keep heating and adding ice to the cup, it is going to overflow.

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Helen Millman @helenmillman.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

The focus seems to be mitigation, rather than adaptation

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Helen Millman @helenmillman.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Are there any exceptions to this? Would a minister for climate adaptation and resilience not be a good idea? Why wouldn’t it work?

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Josh Gabbatiss @joshgabbatiss.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Myself @mollylempriere.carbonbrief.org and @drsimevans.carbonbrief.org combed through the new report that the Conservatives are using to justify their anti-net zero stance. With input from various experts, we identified the main flaws in the plan. www.carbonbrief.org/factcheck-10...

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Factcheck: 10 flaws in the Conservative report on ‘cheap power’ - Carbon Brief

In a new report, the opposition Conservatives argue that UK electricity prices are too high and that it would be…

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Helen Millman @helenmillman.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

I’m looking forward to the new Pulp film and spotted myself in the trailer 😂 This was better than Oasis and Radiohead last year: youtu.be/BPIyAvBd6a4?...

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PULP: WHAT DO YOU DO FOR AN ENCORE? | Official Trailer | In Cinemas from Sep 18 & on MUBI Sep 25

YouTube video by MUBI

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Helen Millman @helenmillman.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

If you'd like to read more, we have a pre-print on what is and isn't a permafrost tipping point: eartharxiv.org/repository/v... Hopefully coming soon to a journal near you...

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Permafrost degradation as a heterogeneous mosaic of tipping and non-tipping behaviour

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Helen Millman @helenmillman.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Thanks! It'd be interesting to know what lead time they're using. Assume there'd be a lot of other coastal defence projects happening at the same time, while also trying to cope with other climate impacts and associated breakdowns.

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Helen Millman @helenmillman.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Weirdly, sea level rise is not explicitly mentioned. Network Rail are using 1m SLR by 2100 as their “worst case scenario“. I hope the EA aren’t assuming the same for London.

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Helen Millman @helenmillman.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

“The Thames Barrier may need to be replaced up to two decades earlier than anticipated and could cost at least £20bn, according to senior government officials who warn that an increase in extreme weather has put the vital defence system under strain.” www.ft.com/content/0a2d...

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Thames Barrier may need £20bn replacement far sooner than expected

Extreme weather has put London’s flood defence under strain, senior government officials warn

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Russ Jones @russincheshire.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Thank god the British government has finally found the guts to stand up to Big Barbeque.

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British Antarctic Survey 🐧 @bas.ac.uk · 13/08/2026

Totality in Greenland on RRS Sir David Attenborough ☀️🌙 The GIANT expedition team were lucky enough to be in the path of the total eclipse in Greenland. It was a view so good we rang up our friends at RAL Space to share it with the 1000+ people at their eclipse event in the UK.

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Helen Millman @helenmillman.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Plymouth Hoe during the eclipse

Smeaton’s Tower, a red-and-white striped lighthouse on Plymouth Hoe, viewed from below with a large crowd gathered around its base. The lighthouse is in golden eclipse light. A stage and screen for the British Firework Championships 2026 are visible in the background.

Plymouth Hoe during a solar eclipse, with Smeaton’s Tower lighthouse silhouetted on the cliff to the right and the dimmed sun visible above Plymouth Sound. Below, Tinside Lido and the promenade line the waterfront, with boats on the water.

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Leo Hickman @leohickman.carbonbrief.org · 28/07/2026

Here's Nick Bridge – the UK's former special representative on climate change under last Tory govt – on Channel 4 News citing @carbonbrief.org analysis about the extreme and relentless anti-climate action campaigning by some UK newspapers "Some of the media is shocking on this..."

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Prof. Stefan Rahmstorf @rahmstorf.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

Holiday in the climate emergency. No that’s not AI or edited, just a snapshot I just took with my phone on Lacanau beach in France. What future will this boy grow up in? It is in our hands, but time is running out.

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Helen Millman @helenmillman.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

Glyndebourne. Cheaper than the cheapest ticket to see Muse at the O2.

An orange brick stately home, with an auditorium stuck on the side of it. Blue sky with a few light clouds. Posh people picnicking on the parched lawns in the foreground.

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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

Or much of a drop in public support. Fascinating example of elite consensus switching despite popular opinion.

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Peter Gibbs @petergibbs.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

I suspect we have no concept of how drastically the UK landscape will change as these 'hot droughts' become more frequent and more intense, especially in the south

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Helen Millman @helenmillman.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

Reference frames (geoid or local measurements) are ways of defining zero height for maps and engineering. Changing the reference does not change the measured SLR trend, although it does mean that more people are at risk from SLR than previously thought.

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Helen Millman @helenmillman.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

A photo can only capture one moment in one location. Instead, sea level is measured over decades from lots of different locations. Around the UK, long-term records come from over 40 tidal gauges. Globally, sea level has been measured by satellite altimeters since the 1990s.

Average UK sea level since 1900 from tidal gauges. UK sea level has risen by around 20cm since 1900.

Global sea level since 1993 from satellite data. Global sea level has increased by around 11cm since these measurements began.

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