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Leicester UCU @leicesterucu.bsky.social · 5h

Two solidarity speeches tomorrow!
Francesco Sani, De Montfort University
David Conway, University of Northampton

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Leicester UCU @leicesterucu.bsky.social · 7h

Thank you to everyone who came to our vigil. It was an incredible display of support.
Thank you also to City of Leicester UNISON and York St John UCU, the latest of many Union branches to donate and send messages of solidarity.

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Dundee UCU @ducuuo.bsky.social · 14h

How do we defend the UK university sector?

Join us at this online rally tonight at 6:30pm with our colleagues from Leicester, London Region and Newcastle UCU, and national negotiators.

Register at tinyurl.com/UCU-UniteThe...

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Leicester UCU @leicesterucu.bsky.social · 2d

On today's pickets, Leicester and District Trade Union Council representatives!
Thank you LDTUC for your continued support for our strike and writing to the VC.

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Leicester UCU @leicesterucu.bsky.social · 2d

11.45 - GGE showcase (Victoria Park picket): Come to find out why the university - and the planet - need Geography, Geology and Environment.
13.45: Alice Samson (outside the library): We hear the history behind the naming of the Kathleen Kenyon Building for the School of Heritage and Culture.

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Ed Hollox @edhollox.bsky.social · 1d

Ridiculous that Geography Geology and Environment at Leicester is under threat. @leicesterucu.bsky.social @ucu.org.uk . In the shadow of where David Attenborough grew up (house at the back), we are on strike to protest against this threat. #climatechange #attenborough

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Leicester UCU @leicesterucu.bsky.social · 1d

Week 3, day 3: GGE showcase, learning the history behind the naming of the Kathleen Kenyon Building with Alice Samson, and more picket animals!

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Leicester UCU @leicesterucu.bsky.social · 1d

The GGE showcase made us ask ourselves what the loss of GGE and its many connections in the University will mean for the ecosystem and sustainability agenda at the University.

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Leicester UCU @leicesterucu.bsky.social · 1d

Wear black and join us tomorrow at 1.30 outside Fielding Johnson Building ahead of the important Council meeting at 2pm.

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Leicester UCU @leicesterucu.bsky.social · 1d

Leicester are co-hosting this rally to discuss how we defend education locally and nationally. Hear from local and national negotiators and join in the conversation.
More details and registration here: ucl.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

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coralmannie.bsky.social @coralmannie.bsky.social · 2d

Coral reefs and many other critical ecosystems that support the habiltability of our Planet are approaching thresholds threatening their important functions. Earth scientists, ecologists and economists raising alarm bells www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Planet’s first catastrophic climate tipping point reached, report says, with coral reefs facing ‘widespread dieback’

Unless global heating is reduced to 1.2C ‘as fast as possible’, warm water coral reefs will not remain ‘at any meaningful scale’, a report by 160 scientists from 23 countries warns

www.theguardian.com

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Gavin Foster @thefosterlab.bsky.social · 2d

Urgent action needed: www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Planet’s first catastrophic climate tipping point reached, report says, with coral reefs facing ‘widespread dieback’

Unless global heating is reduced to 1.2C ‘as fast as possible’, warm water coral reefs will not remain ‘at any meaningful scale’, a report by 160 scientists from 23 countries warns

www.theguardian.com

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Ian Hall @ianhall.bsky.social · 2d

Climate tipping points sound scary, especially for ice sheets and oceans – here’s why there’s still room for optimism

theconversation.com/climate-tipp...

Climate tipping points sound scary, especially for ice sheets and oceans – here’s why there’s still room for optimism

A report warns that coral reefs may have reached their tipping point, and ice sheets, ocean currents and the Amazon are at growing risk. But, what does that actually mean?

theconversation.com

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Ian Hall @ianhall.bsky.social · 2d

🌊 Planet’s first catastrophic climate tipping point reached, report says, with coral reefs facing ‘widespread dieback’

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Planet’s first catastrophic climate tipping point reached, report says, with coral reefs facing ‘widespread dieback’

Unless global heating is reduced to 1.2C ‘as fast as possible’, warm water coral reefs will not remain ‘at any meaningful scale’, a report by 160 scientists from 23 countries warns

www.theguardian.com

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Leicester UCU @leicesterucu.bsky.social · 2d

Week 3, day 1: Alan Barker (University of Nottingham)'s supportive and impactful solidarity speech and picket frogs!

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Leicester UCU @leicesterucu.bsky.social · 3d

Week 3 picket activities.
Note the change in some of the times!

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Caren Frosch @froschlein.bsky.social · 4d

Staff and students came together early on a Friday morning to send us into negotiations. Our @leicesterucu.bsky.social community is amazing! Shame our managers were not willing to actually negotiate. At least they listened and they certainly heard the crowd behind us! The strike continues.

Leicester UCU @leicesterucu.bsky.social · 5d

Heading to negotiations on day ten of our strike action.

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Ian Hall @ianhall.bsky.social · 4d

New modelling study suggests the deglacial radiocarbon seesaw was driven by weaker Antarctic overturning + lower Southern Ocean reservoir age — not stronger circulation.

Both poles had sluggish deep water flow.

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Reduced Antarctic Bottom Water overturning rate during the early last deglaciation inferred from radiocarbon records - Nature Communications

Reconstructed radiocarbon ventilation seesaw and reduced Southern Ocean surface reservoir age imply reduced Antarctic Bottom Water overturning parallel to the weakened North Atlantic Deep Water overturning during the early deglaciation.

www.nature.com

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Ian Hall @ianhall.bsky.social · 4d

They’re smaller than dust, but crucial for Earth’s climate

www.sciencedaily.com/releases/202...

They’re smaller than dust, but crucial for Earth’s climate

Coccolithophores, tiny planktonic architects of Earth’s climate, capture carbon, produce oxygen, and leave behind geological records that chronicle our planet’s history. European scientists are unitin...

www.sciencedaily.com

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coralmannie.bsky.social @coralmannie.bsky.social · 5d

@leicesterucu.bsky.social Week 2 of our strike action is over, finishing with a big turnout to send our negotiators into the final talks since July 2nd. Appalling that it took Uni Management that long to have a conversation with staff and UCU

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Leicester UCU @leicesterucu.bsky.social · 6d

EGM tomorrow:

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Ian Hall @ianhall.bsky.social · 6d

The Amazon is in crisis: In 2024, forest disturbances ⬆️ 152% to a 20-yr high (6.6M ha), with fire-driven degradation ⬆️ 400%, far exceeding deforestation

CO₂ emissions from fires hit 791 Mt, 7x ⬆️ than past years

Climate & land use are pushing it to a tipping point

bg.copernicus.org/articles/22/...

Extensive fire-driven degradation in 2024 marks worst Amazon forest disturbance in over 2 decades

Abstract. The Amazon rainforest, historically fire-resistant, is experiencing an alarming increase in wildfires due to climate extremes and human activity. The 2023–2024 drought, surpassing previous r...

bg.copernicus.org

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Leicester UCU @leicesterucu.bsky.social · 6d

Week 2, day 4: empowering speech from Matt Clement from UNITE community, Aleks Palanac's teach-out for workplace day of action for Palestine, and more picket dogs!

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Leicester UCU @leicesterucu.bsky.social · 7d

Week 2, day 3:
- more pickets!
- councillor Patrick Kitterick spoke in solidarity with staff raising key points about the importance of staff and the marketisation of education
- Bernard's teach out started an important discussion about the challenges for migrant workers.

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PaleoSynthesis @paleosynth.bsky.social · 7d

We are opening the last call for workshop proposals in 2025! Deadline is December 15, 2025. Visit the website with the necessary information before preparing a proposal. Questions? Contact Danijela Dimitrijevic (science) or Barbara Seuß (logistics) Info: www.paleosynthesis.nat.fau.de/index.php/sc...

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