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Gavin Foster

@thefosterlab.bsky.social

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Palaeoclimatologist and isotope geochemist at the University of Southampton. Love/hate relationship with mass spectrometers. Researcher of climate science, coral reefs, biomineralisation, laser ablation, isotopes and geology. Views my own .. more

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Gavin Foster @thefosterlab.bsky.social · 17d

Fully funded PhD projects available in my group (Please share with interested parties, details here: www.thefosterlab.org/blog/2025/11...):

PhD Topics - Entry September 2026 — The Foster Lab

This year we are involved in 3 fully funded PhD projects via IGNITE our NERC DLA. The deadline is Thursday Jan 8th 2026 .  1.      Is the world already 1.5 C warmer?...

www.thefosterlab.org

Reposted by Gavin L. Foster, Steve Peers, Tim Bale , and 3 more Gavin L. Foster, Steve Peers, Tim Bale, Peter Cook, Paul Nightingale, Jon Dean

Emma Monk @monkemma.bsky.social · 2h

Wow - this guy must be really, REALLY bad with money if an extra £208 per month will “ruin” his retirement.

Let’s take a look at his situation based on what he told the @Telegraph

Because this does NOT add up!

No, this is not a “poor pensioner” scrabbling around for pennies…

🧵1/9

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Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 19h

🚨Now on 86,000 signatures! Let’s get it to 90,000 tonight!

If a petition is what it’s going to take let’s get this done!

petition.parliament.uk/petitions/74...

Gavin Foster @thefosterlab.bsky.social · 1d

Agreed - but surely it’s not one or the other? We should do both. The U.K. is one of the richest countries in the world after all

Gavin Foster @thefosterlab.bsky.social · 1d

Yes but is it really the environmental red tape that stops us building enough houses or is it developers ensuring a limited supply to market so as to maximise their profit?

Reposted by Nicola J. Cooper, Gavin L. Foster, Mark Priestley

Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 1d

🚨WOW! The Petition calling for a public inquiry into Russian influence on UK politics & democracy has now rocketed past 75,000 signatures! 🙏

LET’S KEEP GOING!

If a petition is what it’s going to take let’s get this done!
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/74...

Reposted by Gavin L. Foster, Alison Phipps, Aurélien Mondon

Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 1d

The country wants a wealth tax on assets.

They're panicking because "won't the rich just leave" has been utterly debunked.

They've got no actual argument.

Join.greenparty.org.uk

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Dale Vince @dalevince.com · 1d

The Times are suffering confirmation bias - the Green economy is motoring on, it’s the only game in town actually - the new industrial revolution…..and Britain can be 100% powered by the wind and sun - and have lower bills.

buff.ly/N5Py9wG

Reposted by Gavin L. Foster, Mónica Medina, Gareth J. Williams

Noam Vogt-Vincent @nvogtvincent.co.uk · 1d

Climate change postdoctoral fellowship (JRF, 3Y) opportunity at Oxford! 🌍 Brilliant opportunity for anybody with <2 years postdoc experience by October 2026. Would be great to get coral people - there's a strong cluster of coral reef/climate change people here. 🪸
www.queens.ox.ac.uk/vacancies/ju...

Reposted by Gavin L. Foster, David Burrows, Alison Phipps

Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 3d

The 50 wealthiest families own more wealth than the bottom 50% of the population.

How can this Labour Government say this is a "cost of living" budget and refuse to tax the rich?

They care about protecting power and wealth. And cost of living is a buzz phrase for them. Dire.

Reposted by Gavin L. Foster, Marcus Grant

Mike Galsworthy @mikegalsworthy.bsky.social · 3d

🔥 Rachel Reeves says there’s a “hole” in the public finances.

A new decade-long Brexit study quantifies it:

A 6–8% hit to GDP

That's £180bn-£240bn a year

It means less tax revenue and so less money for everything.

Brexit made Britain MUCH poorer.

New: Boris Johnson’s ‘Brexit Titanic success’ was half right

Nearly ten years on, the first full assessment of Brexit confirms what millions warned: Britain made itself poorer

eastangliabylines.co.uk

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Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 3d

🚨BOOM!! The Petition calling for a public inquiry into Russian influence on UK politics & democracy has now rocketed past 50,000 signatures! Let’s get it to 100,000. If a petition is what it’s going to take let’s get this done!

petition.parliament.uk/petitions/74...

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Paul Byrne @theplanetaryguy.bsky.social · 4d

This is an incredible image of comet 3I/ATLAS, taken by Satoru Murata ICQ Comet Observations group on 16 November 2025 from western New Mexico.

Structure within the major dust tail from the comet is clearly visible, together with two smaller jets trailing the nucleus and maybe even an anti-tail.

A bright, greeny–white splotch in the centre of the image is the nucleus and coma of comet 3I/ATLAS. To the upper right streams the major dust tail. The background comprises distant stars against a black background, with the NGC 4691 galaxy at upper left.

Reposted by Gavin L. Foster, Alan Lester

Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 4d

Asked again and again whether he ever racially abused his fellow pupils, as 20 people at his old school have now said he did, Nigel Farage will only say that he never did so in a "hurtful way" or "with intent"

Reposted by Gavin L. Foster, Lesley A. Hall

Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 4d

This petition calling for a public inquiry into Russian influence on UK politics & democracy already has over 26,000 signatures. Let’s get it to 100,000 this week.

Please sign and share 🙏

petition.parliament.uk/petitions/74...

Petition: Call a public inquiry into Russian influence on UK politics & democracy

We are concerned about reported efforts from Russia to influence democracy in the US, UK, Europe and elsewhere. We believe we must establish the depth and breadth of possible Russian influence campaig...

petition.parliament.uk

Reposted by Gavin L. Foster, Tim Bale, Elizabeth Stokoe

Alice Roberts @profaliceroberts.bsky.social · 6d

“Have they given up? Are they just deciding to build up herd immunity by watching us die? The government has given up, hasn’t it? They are throwing us into the slaughterhouse.”
It’s not hindsight - we knew this at the time @drrachelclarke.com writes:
observer.co.uk/news/nationa...

I’ll never forget the horror of the Covid wards | The Observer

observer.co.uk

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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 6d

Boris Johnson didn't apologise to Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe, even when she told him in person the lasting impact his comments about her had on her detention in Iran, her husband tells the BBC

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Ian Hall @ianhall.bsky.social · 6d

COP30 showed who’s really steering climate policy: not the EU, not the US — but a coalition of fossil states on one side and a solar-powered China on the other

Reposted by Peter Thorne, Gavin L. Foster, John McLaren , and 1 more Peter Thorne, Gavin L. Foster, John McLaren, Christopher Peters

Climate Dad @climatedad.bsky.social · 6d

Two billion kids would REALLY appreciate it if we did more about this than just make a few non-binding promises every year & then instantly forget about them.
#COP30

Reposted by Gavin L. Foster, Du Toit, Patrick A. Jansen , and 2 more Gavin L. Foster, Du Toit, Patrick A. Jansen, Jussi T. Eronen, Rosaleen Duffy

James Dyke @jamesgdyke.info · 7d

"Warming is going to exceed 1.5°C. We are heading into “overshoot” within the next few years. The world is going to become more turbulent and more dangerous. So, what comes after failure?" Some thoughts from Johan Rockstrom & me 10 years after Paris Agreement.

theconversation.com/the-world-lo...

The world lost the climate gamble. Now it faces a dangerous new reality

The world bet on collective but voluntary action to keep global warming at a safe level.

theconversation.com

Reposted by Oliver L. Phillips, Gavin L. Foster, David N. Thomas , and 1 more Oliver L. Phillips, Gavin L. Foster, David N. Thomas, Tim Stephens

The Keeling Curve @keelingcurve.bsky.social · 7d

425.82 parts per million (ppm) CO2 in air 20-Nov-2025
keelingcurve.ucsd.edu

The Keeling Curve

The Keeling Curve is a daily record of global atmospheric carbon dioxide concentration maintained by Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego.

keelingcurve.ucsd.edu

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John Andrew Higgins @blueicedude.bsky.social · 8d

⛺️ up! Drill down! Just another day in paradise looking for Earth’s oldest ice.

Reposted by Gavin L. Foster, Du Toit, Tuomas Mattila

Glen Peters @glenpeters.bsky.social · 8d

Where are global CO2 emissions heading?

Middle-of-the-road? But just because we have followed the SSP2-45, SSP4-60 path for 10 years, does not mean we follow it for the next 70 years.

Policy & technology have pushed the world away from the high-end, but 2.7C in 2100 & rising is not a good outcome!

Reposted by Gavin L. Foster, Andrew Scott

James O’Brien @mrjamesob.bsky.social · 8d

It's always the ones you most expect...
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Cryptocurrency backed by Farage donor is used for Russian war effort, investigators say

Tether tokens found to facilitate scheme that enables sanctions evasion and launders money for the Kremlin

www.theguardian.com

Reposted by Ben H. Ansell, Gavin L. Foster

Election Maps UK @electionmaps.uk · 8d

Macclesfield Central (Cheshire East) Council By-Election Result:

🌍 GRN: 41.8% (+19.7)
🌹 LAB: 28.6% (-25.7)
➡️ RFM: 15.8% (New)
🌳 CON: 9.1% (-4.5)
⚖️ EQU: 2.5% (New)
🔶 LDM: 2.2% (-7.7)

Green GAIN from Labour.
Changes w/ 2023.

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Mike Galsworthy @mikegalsworthy.bsky.social · 8d

"Yorkshire Water was privatised in 1989 under the Water Act, launched debt-free and promoted as the start of a new, efficient era.

Today, the company carries almost £7bn in debt...."

Yorkshire Water: it’s time to end the rip-off

Handing the company back to local people would return both control and value to those who need it most

yorkshirebylines.co.uk

Gavin Foster @thefosterlab.bsky.social · 8d

Tragic news. That’s Fools Gold on repeat in my house for the evening then. Stone Roses and Primal Scream bassist Mani dies at 63 www.bbc.com/news/article...

Gary 'Mani' Mounfield: Stone Roses and Primal Scream bassist dies aged 63

Gary Mounfield's playing was an integral part of the Stone Roses' sound, and he was in Primal Scream for 15 years.

www.bbc.com

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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 8d

I might have failed at my assignment from @fisherdanar.bsky.social to say what makes me hopeful about climate, but I think @frediotto.bsky.social and her team's work that would enable us to hold polluters responsible should be a source of hope.

Tune in to Episode 4 of the #COPOut Podcast tomorrow!