Karis Welch
@kariswelch.bsky.social
Research communicator, specialising in interdisciplinarity.
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Bookish, writer, feminist, left. She/Her
Fiction work at https://bsky.app/profile/karisdowsell.bsky.social
Most of these views belong to someone else.
Bookish, writer, feminist, left. She/Her
Fiction work at https://bsky.app/profile/karisdowsell.bsky.social
This is a stunning location, and the hotel is gorgeous. Privileged to be included in the delivery team for this.
Today we’re starting our in-person Global Crucible lab, bringing researchers together from the Universities of Ghana, Leeds and Wits for a day of interdisciplinary collaboration.
Thrilled to be able to do so in this stunning location in Muldersdrift, SA
Thrilled to be able to do so in this stunning location in Muldersdrift, SA
November 25, 2025 at 9:51 AM
This is a stunning location, and the hotel is gorgeous. Privileged to be included in the delivery team for this.
Interesting discovery this morning - BBC website has ads outside of the UK. At least I know where to go for premium festive treats in Johannesburg now...
November 25, 2025 at 6:40 AM
Interesting discovery this morning - BBC website has ads outside of the UK. At least I know where to go for premium festive treats in Johannesburg now...
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Quite the correction by the Telegraph. The publication in question is @freemovement.bsky.social
November 21, 2025 at 5:27 PM
Quite the correction by the Telegraph. The publication in question is @freemovement.bsky.social
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Next week we're hosting our final in-person Global Crucible lab, in Johannesburg, South Africa.
The in-person part of the programme is always an exciting opportunity to spark ideas and make connections.
Last year, we captured this for participants to share their thoughts - take a look 👇
The in-person part of the programme is always an exciting opportunity to spark ideas and make connections.
Last year, we captured this for participants to share their thoughts - take a look 👇
Crucible Programme Diary Room
YouTube video by Horizons Institute
youtu.be
November 21, 2025 at 12:38 PM
Next week we're hosting our final in-person Global Crucible lab, in Johannesburg, South Africa.
The in-person part of the programme is always an exciting opportunity to spark ideas and make connections.
Last year, we captured this for participants to share their thoughts - take a look 👇
The in-person part of the programme is always an exciting opportunity to spark ideas and make connections.
Last year, we captured this for participants to share their thoughts - take a look 👇
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Reform's former Leader in Wales, Nathan Gill, a 10.5 year jail term for taking bribes from the Kremlin.
Cosied up to authoritarian powers & traded principles for payoffs. Reform's leadership laughably claimed they barely knew Gill.
Will all this be on tomorrow's front pages?
Cosied up to authoritarian powers & traded principles for payoffs. Reform's leadership laughably claimed they barely knew Gill.
Will all this be on tomorrow's front pages?
November 21, 2025 at 1:33 PM
Reform's former Leader in Wales, Nathan Gill, a 10.5 year jail term for taking bribes from the Kremlin.
Cosied up to authoritarian powers & traded principles for payoffs. Reform's leadership laughably claimed they barely knew Gill.
Will all this be on tomorrow's front pages?
Cosied up to authoritarian powers & traded principles for payoffs. Reform's leadership laughably claimed they barely knew Gill.
Will all this be on tomorrow's front pages?
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🚨 BREAKING 🚨
The Green Party has now reached over 170,000 members!
Membership growth, polling surges, by-election wins and defections, the Green Party is making hope normal again.
Join today to be part of it ⤵️
The Green Party has now reached over 170,000 members!
Membership growth, polling surges, by-election wins and defections, the Green Party is making hope normal again.
Join today to be part of it ⤵️
November 21, 2025 at 4:30 PM
🚨 BREAKING 🚨
The Green Party has now reached over 170,000 members!
Membership growth, polling surges, by-election wins and defections, the Green Party is making hope normal again.
Join today to be part of it ⤵️
The Green Party has now reached over 170,000 members!
Membership growth, polling surges, by-election wins and defections, the Green Party is making hope normal again.
Join today to be part of it ⤵️
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💼 Ahead of the Budget, the Green Party is calling for:
✅️ Immediate cost of living measures to cut bills by hundreds of pounds.
✅️ Fair taxes on wealth to raise over £30 billion a year.
➡️ Cut Bills. Tax Billionaires.
✅️ Immediate cost of living measures to cut bills by hundreds of pounds.
✅️ Fair taxes on wealth to raise over £30 billion a year.
➡️ Cut Bills. Tax Billionaires.
November 20, 2025 at 7:44 AM
💼 Ahead of the Budget, the Green Party is calling for:
✅️ Immediate cost of living measures to cut bills by hundreds of pounds.
✅️ Fair taxes on wealth to raise over £30 billion a year.
➡️ Cut Bills. Tax Billionaires.
✅️ Immediate cost of living measures to cut bills by hundreds of pounds.
✅️ Fair taxes on wealth to raise over £30 billion a year.
➡️ Cut Bills. Tax Billionaires.
In a world where people are literally dying of starvation.
Ripley's revealed as buyer of $12m golden toilet
The first edition of Maurizio Cattelan's work was stolen from Blenheim Palace in 2019.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 20, 2025 at 9:55 AM
In a world where people are literally dying of starvation.
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Pass the phone… to the 40,000 Young Greens! 📲 💚
We now have the largest youth and student movement in UK politics - AND the biggest Young Greens group in Europe 🥳
This is the generation that’s done waiting. Join us. ⤵️
We now have the largest youth and student movement in UK politics - AND the biggest Young Greens group in Europe 🥳
This is the generation that’s done waiting. Join us. ⤵️
November 18, 2025 at 8:01 AM
Pass the phone… to the 40,000 Young Greens! 📲 💚
We now have the largest youth and student movement in UK politics - AND the biggest Young Greens group in Europe 🥳
This is the generation that’s done waiting. Join us. ⤵️
We now have the largest youth and student movement in UK politics - AND the biggest Young Greens group in Europe 🥳
This is the generation that’s done waiting. Join us. ⤵️
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Support for the Green Party in Calderdale is surging. We’re working hard to run candidates in three target wards in next year’s Local Authority elections, but we need your help! Please donate to our crowdfunder if you can: crowdfunder.co.uk/p/local-elec...
November 16, 2025 at 5:24 PM
Support for the Green Party in Calderdale is surging. We’re working hard to run candidates in three target wards in next year’s Local Authority elections, but we need your help! Please donate to our crowdfunder if you can: crowdfunder.co.uk/p/local-elec...
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Thank you to everyone who joined us for the Wainhouse Action Day today 💚
November 16, 2025 at 10:13 PM
Thank you to everyone who joined us for the Wainhouse Action Day today 💚
This was one of my favourite Insight Series sessions this year.
Paul shared some really candid insights into some of the challenges facing interdisciplinary teams, and offered some tangible advice on how to overcome these.
Well worth a read/watch 👇
Paul shared some really candid insights into some of the challenges facing interdisciplinary teams, and offered some tangible advice on how to overcome these.
Well worth a read/watch 👇
When you've got your interdisciplinary research project funded, how do you go about keeping everyone in the team on board?
Read some excellent advice from Prof Paul Vickers in this blog post from earlier this year 👇
Read some excellent advice from Prof Paul Vickers in this blog post from earlier this year 👇
Designing harmony into interdisciplinary teams
Sonic Intangibles is an interdisciplinary hub for innovation in sound and meaning which draws expertise from researchers across the…
medium.com
November 14, 2025 at 11:43 AM
This was one of my favourite Insight Series sessions this year.
Paul shared some really candid insights into some of the challenges facing interdisciplinary teams, and offered some tangible advice on how to overcome these.
Well worth a read/watch 👇
Paul shared some really candid insights into some of the challenges facing interdisciplinary teams, and offered some tangible advice on how to overcome these.
Well worth a read/watch 👇
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Day 5 of #COP30 🌎 Part 1
Today’s aim: Systems transformation to support the global push to triple renewable energy, double energy efficiency, and transition away from fossil fuels in a just, orderly, and equitable manner.
Its a busy day for our delegates, with our members involved in six sessions!
Today’s aim: Systems transformation to support the global push to triple renewable energy, double energy efficiency, and transition away from fossil fuels in a just, orderly, and equitable manner.
Its a busy day for our delegates, with our members involved in six sessions!
November 14, 2025 at 10:47 AM
Day 5 of #COP30 🌎 Part 1
Today’s aim: Systems transformation to support the global push to triple renewable energy, double energy efficiency, and transition away from fossil fuels in a just, orderly, and equitable manner.
Its a busy day for our delegates, with our members involved in six sessions!
Today’s aim: Systems transformation to support the global push to triple renewable energy, double energy efficiency, and transition away from fossil fuels in a just, orderly, and equitable manner.
Its a busy day for our delegates, with our members involved in six sessions!
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On ITV LastOrders tonight I will be raising this very issue for Leeds, another site of deployment of this demonstrably discriminatory technology
@leedsgreenparty.bsky.social
@leedsgreenparty.bsky.social
Outrageous that Live Facial Recognition is being used on local people in Crawley today.
I have warned ministers that police are acting unlawfully by deploying this intrusive technology with no approval from Parliament.
I have warned ministers that police are acting unlawfully by deploying this intrusive technology with no approval from Parliament.
November 13, 2025 at 4:41 PM
On ITV LastOrders tonight I will be raising this very issue for Leeds, another site of deployment of this demonstrably discriminatory technology
@leedsgreenparty.bsky.social
@leedsgreenparty.bsky.social
Can anyone help with some popular #science #BookRecommendations?
I had a very good run of books a while back, with The Good Virus, Entangled Life, Blue Machine, and Seven Brief Lessons on Physics, but all of my recent recommendations are a bit too 'self-help' for my liking.
I had a very good run of books a while back, with The Good Virus, Entangled Life, Blue Machine, and Seven Brief Lessons on Physics, but all of my recent recommendations are a bit too 'self-help' for my liking.
November 13, 2025 at 2:43 PM
Can anyone help with some popular #science #BookRecommendations?
I had a very good run of books a while back, with The Good Virus, Entangled Life, Blue Machine, and Seven Brief Lessons on Physics, but all of my recent recommendations are a bit too 'self-help' for my liking.
I had a very good run of books a while back, with The Good Virus, Entangled Life, Blue Machine, and Seven Brief Lessons on Physics, but all of my recent recommendations are a bit too 'self-help' for my liking.
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Trying to keep up with everything going on at #COP30?
Follow @priestleycentre.bsky.social for daily updates on how @universityofleeds.bsky.social researchers are contributing, as well as lots of insights from the latest in climate research 👇
Follow @priestleycentre.bsky.social for daily updates on how @universityofleeds.bsky.social researchers are contributing, as well as lots of insights from the latest in climate research 👇
Day 4 of #COP30
The conference continues to focus on equity and moral responsibility in climate governance, and Leeds’ contributions to food systems transformation and youth engagement take a spotlight.
➡️ Stay tuned for more updates.
#FoodSystems #ClimateAction #UniversityOfLeeds
The conference continues to focus on equity and moral responsibility in climate governance, and Leeds’ contributions to food systems transformation and youth engagement take a spotlight.
➡️ Stay tuned for more updates.
#FoodSystems #ClimateAction #UniversityOfLeeds
November 13, 2025 at 12:35 PM
Trying to keep up with everything going on at #COP30?
Follow @priestleycentre.bsky.social for daily updates on how @universityofleeds.bsky.social researchers are contributing, as well as lots of insights from the latest in climate research 👇
Follow @priestleycentre.bsky.social for daily updates on how @universityofleeds.bsky.social researchers are contributing, as well as lots of insights from the latest in climate research 👇
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Nice one, Zadie Smith.
November 12, 2025 at 9:34 AM
Nice one, Zadie Smith.
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September 2, 2025 at 11:08 AM
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Child poverty across the UK is at a record high of 31%. Scrapping the two-child benefit cap would lift 630,000 children out of absolute poverty. Green councillor Martin Hey speaks to the Calderdale Lead, urging an end to the ‘cruel’ policy: calderdale.thelead.uk/i/178399372/...
November 11, 2025 at 8:06 PM
Child poverty across the UK is at a record high of 31%. Scrapping the two-child benefit cap would lift 630,000 children out of absolute poverty. Green councillor Martin Hey speaks to the Calderdale Lead, urging an end to the ‘cruel’ policy: calderdale.thelead.uk/i/178399372/...
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Congratulations to Horizons Platform and Global Crucible participant Prof Philippe Gradidge ahead of his inaugural professorial lecture tomorrow!
For more information on how to attend or watch, please visit the Wits website: www.wits.ac.za/events-archi...
For more information on how to attend or watch, please visit the Wits website: www.wits.ac.za/events-archi...
November 11, 2025 at 10:40 AM
Congratulations to Horizons Platform and Global Crucible participant Prof Philippe Gradidge ahead of his inaugural professorial lecture tomorrow!
For more information on how to attend or watch, please visit the Wits website: www.wits.ac.za/events-archi...
For more information on how to attend or watch, please visit the Wits website: www.wits.ac.za/events-archi...
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Wainhouse will be a new ward in the Calderdale Local Elections this coming May. Join us for Wainhouse Action Day Sunday, 16 November @ 11am in Crow Wood Park (from 1pm @ Wainhouse Tavern). It's a great chance to meet local Green Party campaigners while helping new Green candidates get elected! 🌱 💚
November 10, 2025 at 1:21 PM
Wainhouse will be a new ward in the Calderdale Local Elections this coming May. Join us for Wainhouse Action Day Sunday, 16 November @ 11am in Crow Wood Park (from 1pm @ Wainhouse Tavern). It's a great chance to meet local Green Party campaigners while helping new Green candidates get elected! 🌱 💚
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I have absolutely zero doubt that Reform UK's plan for small business will basically consist of "supply-side reforms" that end up deregulating employees into having lower pay and fewer rights. That's a guarantee.
November 10, 2025 at 11:56 AM
I have absolutely zero doubt that Reform UK's plan for small business will basically consist of "supply-side reforms" that end up deregulating employees into having lower pay and fewer rights. That's a guarantee.
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In 2024, the Supreme Court ruled that climate impacts must be considered in planning decisions.
Yet councils are allowing mega farms to conceal their emissions.
Thirty-five developments have routinely ignored or downplayed the industry’s carbon footprint.
Yet councils are allowing mega farms to conceal their emissions.
Thirty-five developments have routinely ignored or downplayed the industry’s carbon footprint.
November 10, 2025 at 10:50 AM
In 2024, the Supreme Court ruled that climate impacts must be considered in planning decisions.
Yet councils are allowing mega farms to conceal their emissions.
Thirty-five developments have routinely ignored or downplayed the industry’s carbon footprint.
Yet councils are allowing mega farms to conceal their emissions.
Thirty-five developments have routinely ignored or downplayed the industry’s carbon footprint.
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Every personal attack.
Every attempt to distract or to divide.
It energises, strengthens and empowers our movement.
Lower bills. Tax billionaires. Join us.
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Every attempt to distract or to divide.
It energises, strengthens and empowers our movement.
Lower bills. Tax billionaires. Join us.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
The right can mock my teeth all it wants – it shows the Greens have struck a nerve | Zack Polanski
As a politician, I expect opposition and debate. But when it centres on personal insults, not policies, something else is going on, says the leader of the Green party, Zack Polanski
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November 10, 2025 at 11:57 AM
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