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Ross Woods @rosswoodskiwi.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Few of my followers will know much about New Zealand politics. But if you do, this is just glorious 😁

Ross Woods @rosswoodskiwi.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away... I had a wild idea for a hydrology measurement. Today I got a little reminder that, yes, it was a cool idea! The paper is now a little old and dusty, but I'm happy it exists. Happy to see it fondly remembered in this 40@40 list doi.org/10.1002/hyp....

Title of an editorial in the scientific journal Hydrological Processes
"40@40: 40 Key papers from the first 40 years of Hydrological Processes"

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Ross Woods @rosswoodskiwi.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

"The race to stop England running out of water" An article about water shortages in the UK, including a couple of quotes from yours truly. @cabot-institute.bsky.social @bristoluni.bsky.social www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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The race to stop England running out of water

Who is to blame for the summer drought, and can England future-proof its water supplies?

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Ross Woods @rosswoodskiwi.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

🌊 New publication alert! "Spatiotemporal Drivers of Runoff Event Timescales: An Event-Based Clustering Approach Applied to 388 Catchments in the Contiguous United States" Congrats to @adrianehoevel.bsky.social on getting this paper out 1/6

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Ross Woods @rosswoodskiwi.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

Standing waves in the wild! Bruce Bay, New Zealand

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Lina Stein @liinastein.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

What a great idea!

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Anil Dash @anildash.com · 10/06/2026

If you need a script for getting your company off Twitter, I WROTE YOU ONE. Multiple people have used it, successfully, to explain the legal liability your company incurs by forcing employees to be on a platform with child sexual abuse material. I will help you use it. anildash.com/2026/02/23/t...

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Taking action against AI harms - Anil Dash

A blog about making culture. Since 1999.

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Ross Woods @rosswoodskiwi.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

For any followers of mine who are gamers, Michael Brough is back! (no I'm not a gamer, I know Michael by another route)

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LIQUIDICE @eu-liquidice.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

Thanks to everyone who joined today's LIQUIDICE webinar and the great discussion with Dr. Ekaterina Rets! We explored how climate-driven changes in snow cover and runoff are creating new challenges for water management and hydropower in Norway. Missed it? Watch the recording: youtu.be/UKGF1paKYNc

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LIQUIDICE webinar Ekaterina Rets

YouTube video by Instytut Geofizyki PAN

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AGU Catchment Hydrology Technical Committee @agucatchhydro.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

🌍 The #AGU Catchment Hydrology TC Student Competition is now open! Open to undergrads, grad students & postdocs! 🎓 Share a seminal paper from the hydrology literature published before the year 2000. Submit your <100-word entry here: 📌 padlet.com/agucatchment... #HydrologyCommunity #EarlyCareer

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2026 TC Competition: Favorite seminal hydrology papers

Tell us about a seminal paper from the hydrology literature (published before the year 2000). This competition is open to undergraduate and graduate students as well as postdoctoral scholars. To be en...

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LIQUIDICE @eu-liquidice.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

🔹 Have you already registered for the first LIQUIDICE open webinar with Katja Rets on 2nd June? Join us to explore sustainable innovation & circular solutions for water management in Norway Register here: eu-liquidice.eu/1-liquidice-...

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1. LIQUIDICE webinar - IGF Liquidice

Presentation and discussion by Ekaterina Rets: Climate change driven structural changes in river runoff bringing about new challenges to water management in Norway

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Ross Woods @rosswoodskiwi.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

Another reason to love living in Bristol! Random street art on post boxes 😍

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Will cycles slower than you 🇿🇦🇬🇧🏳️‍⚧️ @williamnb.eurosky.social · 02/05/2026

Again, if you are involved with a small charity, ideally in the south west of England, I have 3 volunteer days per year to use, and I would be happy to look at your IT. I can do some immediate fixes, if needed, and can make longer-term suggestions. For free. All YOU need to do is ask me.

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Ross Woods @rosswoodskiwi.bsky.social · 20/04/2026

Always a pleasure to spend time in the snow with glorious weather. Thanks again to Josh Larsen and the team from University of Birmingham for organising everything and letting me tag along :)

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Julie Johnston @queermsfrizzle.bsky.social · 15/04/2026

Hampshire College just announced our closure. I've only been here <2 years but absolutely love being here. I don't know if I am staying until the final closing in Dec 26 or this June 26. If you need a random wastewater/enviro engineer/bioinformatics person I am unexpectedly back on the job market!

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Katharine Hayhoe @katharinehayhoe.com · 11/04/2026

A 1200+ year climate record is at risk. Do you know know anyone in Japan who could help? See below.

A message from Tuna Acisu asking for help maintaining cherry blossom record in Kyoto Japan.

A figure showing the cherry tree record since 812 from world in data.

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Ross Woods @rosswoodskiwi.bsky.social · 26/03/2026

Another great field trip to Fiesch in Switzerland with Josh Larsen and Benedetta Dini and 40 2nd year Geography students from Univ of Birmingham. This was my 3rd time on the trip. Weather was brilliant, students did a great job! I also got a chance to talk about snow as a water resource 😁

university students in a small classroom setting, listening to a speaker, Ross Woods

Outdoor mountain scene, with ten people standing on snow, and snowy mountains in the background

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LIQUIDICE @eu-liquidice.bsky.social · 27/02/2026

WP1 Anniversary update from LIQUIDICE: • gathering information on 210 datasets, out of which 73% were previously unavailable • New field campaigns completed • New instruments deployed • Data processed and shared for cross-project use Watch video with Andreas Peter Alhstron from GEUS 🚀 #OpenScience

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LIQUIDICE @eu-liquidice.bsky.social · 26/02/2026

Final day of the LIQUIDICE General Assembly in Venice 🇮🇹 Reporting ✔️ Exploitation activities ✔️ Cross-WP discussions ✔️ Strong alignment, vivid discussions, and hands-on activities. A productive and forward-looking closing with great alignment across partners. Excited for the next phase! 🚀

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UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology (UKCEH) @ukceh.bsky.social · 23/02/2026

📢 Applications open soon for a FREE online course on Data-driven Approaches to Hydrological Science. Running in July, this is for postgrad students, ECRs and professionals in consultancies, monitoring agencies & related industries seeking to strengthen skills. 🧪 hydro-jules.org/data-driven-...

Rainfall graph imposed over raindrops plus text Online summer school Data-driven approaches to hydrological science

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Matt Fry @mattfry-ukceh.bsky.social · 20/02/2026

👀 We have some great 💰 paid 💰 summer internships coming up @ukceh.bsky.social, including one working with FDRI datasets ("How do UK floods happen?")

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University of Bristol Biological Sciences @bristolbiosci.bsky.social · 12/02/2026

JOB ALERT! We are excited to announce that we are recruiting three new academics at lecturer level! Click the link below for more info on how to apply, and don’t forget to explore our research themes too! We look forward to receiving your applications! www.bristol.ac.uk/jobs/find/de...

JOB ALERT!

Lecturer in Biological Sciences

Come and join us in the world class Life Sciences Building at the University of Bristol!

Closing date: Sunday 8 March

JOB ALERT!

Lecturer in Biological Sciences

Interested in our research areas? Click the link in our bio to discover more!

Closing date: Sunday 8 March

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LIQUIDICE @eu-liquidice.bsky.social · 09/02/2026

🚨 New LIQUIDICE data deliverable now available! It presents collection of 210 published, available online and unpublished data sets of: 👉 Surface mass balance 👉 Snow cover 👉 Meteorology 👉 Catchment discharge 👉 Subsurface state Covers sites in the Alps, Norway, Greenland, Svalbard & Ladakh.

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Ross Woods @rosswoodskiwi.bsky.social · 23/01/2026

I’m happy to say that @zeqiang.bsky.social passed his PhD viva yesterday! Congratulations Zeqiang! Many thanks to co-supervisors @nicholashowden.bsky.social and @wberghuijs.bsky.social for their input, advice and support, and to Markus Hrachowitz and @cosmohydrologist.bsky.social for examining. 1/4

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Nature Water @natwater.nature.com · 14/01/2026

A new Analysis in Nature Water by Daniele Penna @danielepenna.bsky.social performs a comprehensive study of 691 forested catchments worldwide examines the interplay of biotic and abiotic factors in runoff generation. www.nature.com/articles/s44...

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Client Challenge

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Ross Woods @rosswoodskiwi.bsky.social · 12/01/2026

One final reminder! Bettina Schaefli and I warmly invite you to submit abstracts to a new EGU session A strong focus on theory in times of big data HS2.2.5 New Developments in Hydrological Synthesis Abstract submission: www.egu26.eu/session/55911

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Nick Barber 🌋 @volcannick.bsky.social · 10/01/2026

I appreciate this from @us.theconversation.com by Jonathan Paul. However, I think it’s making a mistake I commonly hear geologists make with regards to current events. I have a hunch that this mistake is one of the reasons geology programs are struggling 🧵🛠️🪨🧪 theconversation.com/greenland-is...

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Greenland is rich in natural resources – a geologist explains why

Greenland’s rare earth element deposits may be among the world’s largest by volume.

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Ross Woods @rosswoodskiwi.bsky.social · 27/12/2025

Amazing view from Stockhorn in Switzerland 😋

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John Hammond @hydrohammond.bsky.social · 18/12/2025

@rarakihydro.bsky.social leads an exiting new preprint that maps dominant hydrologic processes across >14k US watersheds using streamflow signatures + ML. It’s been such fun following Ryoko and Hilary’s leadership alongside Admin, Anne and Gemma. egusphere.copernicus.org/preprints/20...

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Ross Woods @rosswoodskiwi.bsky.social · 10/12/2025

Bettina Schaefli and I warmly invite you to submit abstracts to a new EGU session HS2.2.5 New Developments in Hydrological Synthesis Abstract submission: www.egu26.eu/session/55911 1/6

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Session HS2.2.5

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Ross Woods @rosswoodskiwi.bsky.social · 10/12/2025

Bettina Schaefli and I warmly invite you to submit abstracts to a new EGU session HS2.2.5 New Developments in Hydrological Synthesis Abstract submission: www.egu26.eu/session/55911 1/6

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Session HS2.2.5

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HydrologyNL @hydrology.nl · 08/12/2025

Vacancy for Assistant or Associate Professor (Research and Education) in Water Science - School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of Birmingham, Edgbaston, Birmingham UK edzz.fa.em3.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid...

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Ross Woods @rosswoodskiwi.bsky.social · 05/12/2025

New paper alert: "Diverging Impacts of Snow Fraction and Soil Drainage on Seasonal and Annual Water Balances Across Snow-Influenced Catchments" Led by Zeqiang Wang. A synthesis of some controls on spatial variations in snow-influenced hydrology across the USA. doi.org/10.1029/2025...

Diagram to illustrate synthesis of between-region and within-region water balance differences and their drivers across the snow-influenced US.

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WSL Institute for Snow and Avalanche Research SLF @slfdavos.bsky.social · 01/12/2025

#Job at #SLF in #Davos: We are looking for a #Postdoc in #climate impacts on hydrological extreme events. More information and application: apply.refline.ch/273855/1810/... @hyclimm.bsky.social @manuelaibrunner.bsky.social

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Gareth Watkins @garethwatkins.bsky.social · 24/11/2025

Do I know anyone on here who went to a British boys boarding school -preferably the elite kind- within the last 20 years? If that doesn't describe you then retweet this until somebody it does describe sees this.

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GFZ Helmholtz-Zentrum für Geoforschung @gfz.bsky.social · 21/11/2025

Come and join us for a #PhD 👇🏻

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Larisa Tarasova @lytarasova.bsky.social · 14/11/2025

Still some time to apply for a PhD position in my group @ufz.de in my group with the focus on streams, hydrometric and isotopic signatures and ML: recruitingapp-5128.de.umantis.com/Vacancies/32... Looking forward for your applications 🤩

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PhD Researcher (f/m/x): Hydrometric and isotopic event signatures to evaluate functional resilience of diverse hydrological systems to global change

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Mark A. Hanson @hansonmark.bsky.social · 11/11/2025

We wrote the Strain on scientific publishing to highlight the problems of time & trust. With a fantastic group of co-authors, we present The Drain of Scientific Publishing: a 🧵 1/n Drain: arxiv.org/abs/2511.04820 Strain: direct.mit.edu/qss/article/... Oligopoly: direct.mit.edu/qss/article/...

A table showing profit margins of major publishers. A snippet of text related to this table is below.

1. The four-fold drain
1.1 Money
Currently, academic publishing is dominated by profit-oriented, multinational companies for
whom scientific knowledge is a commodity to be sold back to the academic community who
created it. The dominant four are Elsevier, Springer Nature, Wiley and Taylor & Francis,
which collectively generated over US$7.1 billion in revenue from journal publishing in 2024
alone, and over US$12 billion in profits between 2019 and 2024 (Table 1A). Their profit
margins have always been over 30% in the last five years, and for the largest publisher
(Elsevier) always over 37%.
Against many comparators, across many sectors, scientific publishing is one of the most
consistently profitable industries (Table S1). These financial arrangements make a substantial
difference to science budgets. In 2024, 46% of Elsevier revenues and 53% of Taylor &
Francis revenues were generated in North America, meaning that North American
researchers were charged over US$2.27 billion by just two for-profit publishers. The
Canadian research councils and the US National Science Foundation were allocated US$9.3
billion in that year.

A figure detailing the drain on researcher time.

1. The four-fold drain

1.2 Time
The number of papers published each year is growing faster than the scientific workforce,
with the number of papers per researcher almost doubling between 1996 and 2022 (Figure
1A). This reflects the fact that publishers’ commercial desire to publish (sell) more material
has aligned well with the competitive prestige culture in which publications help secure jobs,
grants, promotions, and awards. To the extent that this growth is driven by a pressure for
profit, rather than scholarly imperatives, it distorts the way researchers spend their time.
The publishing system depends on unpaid reviewer labour, estimated to be over 130 million
unpaid hours annually in 2020 alone (9). Researchers have complained about the demands of
peer-review for decades, but the scale of the problem is now worse, with editors reporting
widespread difficulties recruiting reviewers. The growth in publications involves not only the
authors’ time, but that of academic editors and reviewers who are dealing with so many
review demands.
Even more seriously, the imperative to produce ever more articles reshapes the nature of
scientific inquiry. Evidence across multiple fields shows that more papers result in
‘ossification’, not new ideas (10). It may seem paradoxical that more papers can slow
progress until one considers how it affects researchers’ time. While rewards remain tied to
volume, prestige, and impact of publications, researchers will be nudged away from riskier,
local, interdisciplinary, and long-term work. The result is a treadmill of constant activity with
limited progress whereas core scholarly practices – such as reading, reflecting and engaging
with others’ contributions – is de-prioritized. What looks like productivity often masks
intellectual exhaustion built on a demoralizing, narrowing scientific vision.

A table of profit margins across industries. The section of text related to this table is below:

1. The four-fold drain
1.1 Money
Currently, academic publishing is dominated by profit-oriented, multinational companies for
whom scientific knowledge is a commodity to be sold back to the academic community who
created it. The dominant four are Elsevier, Springer Nature, Wiley and Taylor & Francis,
which collectively generated over US$7.1 billion in revenue from journal publishing in 2024
alone, and over US$12 billion in profits between 2019 and 2024 (Table 1A). Their profit
margins have always been over 30% in the last five years, and for the largest publisher
(Elsevier) always over 37%.
Against many comparators, across many sectors, scientific publishing is one of the most
consistently profitable industries (Table S1). These financial arrangements make a substantial
difference to science budgets. In 2024, 46% of Elsevier revenues and 53% of Taylor &
Francis revenues were generated in North America, meaning that North American
researchers were charged over US$2.27 billion by just two for-profit publishers. The
Canadian research councils and the US National Science Foundation were allocated US$9.3
billion in that year.

The costs of inaction are plain: wasted public funds, lost researcher time, compromised
scientific integrity and eroded public trust. Today, the system rewards commercial publishers
first, and science second. Without bold action from the funders we risk continuing to pour
resources into a system that prioritizes profit over the advancement of scientific knowledge.

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Larisa Tarasova @lytarasova.bsky.social · 29/10/2025

We are looking for 2 PhDs in our @dfg.de #HydroSIGNs project with @sub-heterogenty.bsky.social to study resilience of hydrological systems to #global change. Interested in merging large-sample analysis and field work to study these beautiful springs and the streams they feed? Apply via links below ⬇️

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Andreas Hartmann @sub-heterogenty.bsky.social · 02/11/2025

Two exciting PhD positions available in a common project between my group @tudresden.bsky.social and @lytarasova.bsky.social group @ufz.de

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UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology (UKCEH) @ukceh.bsky.social · 23/10/2025

🎥 Our new webinar introduces UK-Flow15 and CAMELS-GB v2 and shares what’s next for FDRI data. Watch here 👉 youtu.be/JMZYzlLA_h8 Thanks to all the partners and the community effort making these datasets possible 👏🏼 #FDRI #Hydrology #EnvironmentalScience

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FDRI: Large-sample hydrology data webinar

YouTube video by UKCEH

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LIQUIDICE @eu-liquidice.bsky.social · 21/10/2025

Proud to present LIQUIDICE at the Arctic Circle Assembly 2025 — one of the world’s key fora on the Arctic, climate, and sustainable innovation. Representatives of 3 LIQUIDICE partners joined global discussions on how science and technology can shape a resilient future of the Arctic. ❄️💧

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LIQUIDICE @eu-liquidice.bsky.social · 16/10/2025

LIQUIDICE is hiring a Postdoc to research green transition, glacier melt & climate adaptation in Kalaallit Nunaat (Greenland). 📍 University of Copenhagen (GAS group), ToRS 🕒 22-month contract starting ~ Feb 2026 🗓️ Deadline: 1 Dec 2025, 23:59 CET Info: jobportal.ku.dk/videnskabeli...

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Postdoctoral position: green transition, melting glaciers and climate adaptation in Kalaallit Nunaat (Greenland)

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UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology (UKCEH) @ukceh.bsky.social · 23/10/2025

📣 Great news for UK hydrology! The UK Floods and Droughts Research Infrastructure (FDRI) has announced release of two new datasets: UK-Flow15 and CAMELS-GB v2. They provide access to sub-daily river flow and hydrometeorological data across 100s of UK catchments 🔗 fdri.org.uk/news/new-hyd... 1/ 🧪

Map of UK with dots indicating river flow stations and colours indicating number of years data available in UK-Flow15

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Izzy Jayasinghe @ijayas.bsky.social · 12/10/2025

🤖 If you use LinkedIn, please be aware that they automatically use your profile to train their GenAI. To turn off, go to Settings > Data Privacy > Data for Gen AI improvements.

Screenshot of LinkedIn’s menu: “How LinkedIn uses your data”. Near the bottom, is the option to turn off “Data for Generative AI improvement”, shown with a red arrow.

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EGU Hydrological Sciences Division @hs.egu.eu · 12/09/2025

Mentors matter—especially in challenging times. The latest #EGU special issue Women in #Hydrology shines a light on women who’ve broken ground in hydrological sciences, & the mentees following their path. Essential reads on equity, inclusion, & resilience. Check 👇 blogs.egu.eu/divisions/hs...

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Women in Hydrology – The Story of a Special Issue

It was 2021, and we were not feeling good. COVID-19 was in full force. Personally we were experiencing lockdown conditions, disruptions to our work, schooling and childcare arrangements. Our social...

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