Karis Welch
@kariswelch.bsky.social
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Research communicator, specialising in interdisciplinarity. Most of these views belong to someone else. Bookish, writer, feminist, left. She/Her Fiction work at https://bsky.app/profile/karisdowsell.bsky.social
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🎉 110,000 Green Party members!

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zackpolanski.bsky.social
This surge is now absolutely phenomenal.

110,000 members.

That's +5000 in the last 24 hours alone!

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kariswelch.bsky.social
At the beginning of the year, @victoriahood89.bsky.social and I started hosting drop-in sessions for interdisciplinary researchers across @universityofleeds.bsky.social.

Hopefully helpful for those who've attended, but it has definitely a good learning experience for us 👇
Providing responsive communications advice for interdisciplinary researchers
Throughout 2025, the Interdisciplinary Research Communications Group (IDRC) have provided online monthly drop-in sessions for Leeds…
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horizonsinstitute.bsky.social
Join the Polycrisis Network for their seminar tomorrow: Aflatoxin’s Cartographies: The politics of uncertainty, extraction, and carcinogenic exposure in Senegal

🕛 12 - 1pm
🌐 @universityofleeds.bsky.social campus or online

For more information and to book your place 👇

🧪 #SocialScience #Polycrisis
Polycrisis Network Seminar Series: Aflatoxin’s Cartographies
Seminar series from the Polycrisis Network covering different aspects of researching and living in an era of multiple overlapping crises
www.eventbrite.co.uk
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We've just passed 100,000 members!

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greenpeace.eu
"It is the first time scientists have declared that Earth has likely reached a so-called "tipping point": a shift that could trigger massive and often permanent changes in the natural world."

Politicians' inaction in the face of the climate crisis is undermining our planet's ability to support life
World's coral reefs crossing survival limit - experts
The world's tropical coral reefs have almost certainly crossed a point of no return as oceans warm beyond a level most can survive, a major scientific report announced.
www.rte.ie
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horizonsinstitute.bsky.social
Thank you to everyone who came to yesterday's Insight Series Session.

If you'd like to attend the next one, Kelly Cumberland, Heiko Wurdak and Sabrina Samuel will be discussing the science-art dialogue at the heart of their collaboration.

📅 Weds 5 November
🕙 10 - 11am
🌐 Online

Register 👇
Insight Series: A Science-Art Dialogue
Creatively Reimagining observation techniques for medical research, with Kelly Cumberland, Dr Heiko Wurdak and Dr Sabrina Samuel
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kariswelch.bsky.social
Shows how much we've all lost faith in global systems when so many of us thought there was event a remote chance that *Trump* would be awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.

I just hope people don't get hurt when he starts throwing his toys out of the pram.
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Join the tens of thousands of people who find our bold and positive messages brings them hope for a fairer future for everyone.
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“You can’t blame austerity on one hand, but then say it’s the immigrants. The immigrants haven’t caused austerity.”

Zack Polanski takes on Reform’s Zia Yusuf over spreading of misinformation on #BBCQT
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greenparty.org.uk
We can't keep up...

Yesterday we reached 90,000 members. Today we're at 95,000.

Be part of the Green surge. Join the Green Party today ⤵️
kariswelch.bsky.social
First time watching Question Time for a good, long while, and I’ve already started shouting at the TV.
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willhaycardiff.bsky.social
This is on display in Caerphilly as part of the by-election.

Worth bearing in mind that the council proposing the closure of the libraries in controlled by Labour...
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nickhartleygreen.bsky.social
Here we go!

@zackpolanski.bsky.social is on Question Time #BBCQT

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climatenews.bsky.social
On this October 7th, it is a timely moment for this deep reflection from American artist Andrew Burt (aka Virgin_X) about the ongoing situation in Palestine and Israel.

Please watch and share:
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horizonsinstitute.bsky.social
What are the challenges that interdisciplinary researchers face in communicating their work, and how can they find support in finding solutions to these?

In this new blog post, @victoriahood89.bsky.social and @kariswelch.bsky.social share insights from nine months of comms drop-in surgeries 👇
Providing responsive communications advice for interdisciplinary researchers
Throughout 2025, the Interdisciplinary Research Communications Group (IDRC) have provided online monthly drop-in sessions for Leeds…
medium.com
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georgemonbiot.bsky.social
I'm very concerned about all the #GlobalSumudFlotilla detainees, but especially Hannah Schafer, who seems likely to be held in extended detention in Israel. Israeli armed forces have committed grave and multiple breaches of international law in attacking the flotilla and mistreating its crew.
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horizonsinstitute.bsky.social
There is near universal agreement that energy should be transitioning away from fossil fuels, but what does this look like in regions where access to power supplies is already very low?

Take a look at this new video from the research team behind the Political Economy of Energy Transition project 👇
PEET Project
YouTube video by Horizons Institute
www.youtube.com
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samfr.bsky.social
Grateful for these responses collated by Sunder.
sundersays.bsky.social
Manchester Council of Mosques have issued this statement in sadness, shock and solidarity with the Jewish community about this attack at the synagogue in Manchester
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bbcnewsnight.bsky.social
"I'm all for people giving him a good kicking... but the danger is if you give him too much free publicity you turn him into a bigger figure than he is."

Former Labour MP, Diane Abbott on the focus on Nigel Farage during Labour Party conference.

#Newsnight
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horizonsinstitute.bsky.social
We’re at the @reimagineageing.bsky.social International Day of Older Persons event today. Fantastic to see such a brilliant turnout, both in the room and online.

Looking forward to some insightful presentations and conversations!
Prof Sarah Astill presents at today’s Reimagine Ageing event
kariswelch.bsky.social
Also to note: I'm not an academic. I'm in professional services. And yet, here it is. All of it accessible through my work email account.
kariswelch.bsky.social
This morning I find myself marvelling at the privilege of working in a university, and all the access that affords me to things I would otherwise not have at my disposal.

Journals? No problem. Out of print book? Yeah, go get it from this shelf. Audiobook for entertainment? Aye, Libby it.

Amazing.
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zackpolanski.bsky.social
Who does this government serve? You? Or big business?