Cabot Institute for the Environment
@cabot-institute.bsky.social
Interdisciplinary environmental research and education community at the University of Bristol. Food security, water, low carbon energy, city futures, environmental change, natural hazards & disaster risk, climate change & health. www.bristol.ac.uk/cabot
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Excited to share my first PhD paper which was based on my fieldwork at @thebotanics.bsky.social and just published on @geoopenaccess.bsky.social yesterday! 🌺
PhD work by @mingcan-rong.bsky.social on the colonial legacy of cultivating scientific authority through the lens of Rhododendron @thebotanics.bsky.social
doi.org/10.1002/geo2...
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Cultivating Scientific Authority: A Vegetal Geography of Chinese Rhododendrons at the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh
The paper presents a vegetal geography of Chinese rhododendrons at the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh (RBGE), examining the mechanisms through which RBGE's scientific authority is established in the ....
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November 21, 2025 at 2:09 PM
Excited to share my first PhD paper which was based on my fieldwork at @thebotanics.bsky.social and just published on @geoopenaccess.bsky.social yesterday! 🌺
University of Bristol researchers have been contributing expertise on biodiversity and climate finance, and providing legal support, through a mix of in-person and virtual engagement at COP30 over the last two weeks. epigram.org.uk/bristol-acad...
Bristol academics join push for climate action at COP30 in Brazil
University of Bristol researchers have been contributing expertise on biodiversity and climate finance, and providing legal support, through a mix of in-person and virtual engagement.
epigram.org.uk
November 21, 2025 at 3:09 PM
University of Bristol researchers have been contributing expertise on biodiversity and climate finance, and providing legal support, through a mix of in-person and virtual engagement at COP30 over the last two weeks. epigram.org.uk/bristol-acad...
New paper from @alixdietzel.bsky.social - Negotiating Just Transition at the UNFCCC. Free to view at muse-jhu-edu.bris.idm.oclc.org/article/975603
November 21, 2025 at 12:07 PM
New paper from @alixdietzel.bsky.social - Negotiating Just Transition at the UNFCCC. Free to view at muse-jhu-edu.bris.idm.oclc.org/article/975603
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📢📢PhD position available!! 📢📢
"A unified approach to climate, sea-level, and coastal change projections in the UK"
For more info, and how to apply, see here:
www.bristol.ac.uk/geography/co...
The project is base at the University of Bristol, one of the most beautiful cities in the UK!
"A unified approach to climate, sea-level, and coastal change projections in the UK"
For more info, and how to apply, see here:
www.bristol.ac.uk/geography/co...
The project is base at the University of Bristol, one of the most beautiful cities in the UK!
November 21, 2025 at 11:02 AM
📢📢PhD position available!! 📢📢
"A unified approach to climate, sea-level, and coastal change projections in the UK"
For more info, and how to apply, see here:
www.bristol.ac.uk/geography/co...
The project is base at the University of Bristol, one of the most beautiful cities in the UK!
"A unified approach to climate, sea-level, and coastal change projections in the UK"
For more info, and how to apply, see here:
www.bristol.ac.uk/geography/co...
The project is base at the University of Bristol, one of the most beautiful cities in the UK!
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Climate change, activism and disability are all areas that are rarely thought of as joyful. Last night Emma Geen and Polly Meyrick discussed their experiences within their talk 'The Joy of Activism: Finding Flowers in the Sh*t'
📽️ youtu.be/OwXh7Pbqw-I
#COP30
@cabot-institute.bsky.social
📽️ youtu.be/OwXh7Pbqw-I
#COP30
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November 14, 2025 at 12:32 PM
Climate change, activism and disability are all areas that are rarely thought of as joyful. Last night Emma Geen and Polly Meyrick discussed their experiences within their talk 'The Joy of Activism: Finding Flowers in the Sh*t'
📽️ youtu.be/OwXh7Pbqw-I
#COP30
@cabot-institute.bsky.social
📽️ youtu.be/OwXh7Pbqw-I
#COP30
@cabot-institute.bsky.social
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Very happy to be part of this amazing team. Thank you @cabot-institute.bsky.social for supporting us!
A team of epidemiologists and hydrologists based in the UK and Brazil are developing a novel approach to preventing leptospirosis. This disease is expected to increase as climate change brings more rainfall and flooding.
Find out more in our new video: www.youtube.com/watch?v=kTAv...
#COP30
Find out more in our new video: www.youtube.com/watch?v=kTAv...
#COP30
Seedcorn Fund - Modelling Leptospira transmission
YouTube video by Cabot Institute for the Environment
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November 19, 2025 at 7:23 PM
Very happy to be part of this amazing team. Thank you @cabot-institute.bsky.social for supporting us!
Work in government or academia? Want to explore how we can accelerate the action that needs to be taken to adapt for a climate resilient future?
Join our free online event on accelerating climate adaptation after #COP30 on 29 January 2026.
Find out more 👇
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Join our free online event on accelerating climate adaptation after #COP30 on 29 January 2026.
Find out more 👇
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Register for this event – Accelerating climate adaptation after COP30 – Zoom
Accelerating climate adaptation after COP30 – Zoom, Thu 29 Jan 2026 - Our climate is changing rapidly and this is already impacting lives and livelihoods all over the planet, particularly through chan...
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November 20, 2025 at 11:23 AM
Work in government or academia? Want to explore how we can accelerate the action that needs to be taken to adapt for a climate resilient future?
Join our free online event on accelerating climate adaptation after #COP30 on 29 January 2026.
Find out more 👇
www.tickettailor.com/events/cabot...
Join our free online event on accelerating climate adaptation after #COP30 on 29 January 2026.
Find out more 👇
www.tickettailor.com/events/cabot...
A team of epidemiologists and hydrologists based in the UK and Brazil are developing a novel approach to preventing leptospirosis. This disease is expected to increase as climate change brings more rainfall and flooding.
Find out more in our new video: www.youtube.com/watch?v=kTAv...
#COP30
Find out more in our new video: www.youtube.com/watch?v=kTAv...
#COP30
Seedcorn Fund - Modelling Leptospira transmission
YouTube video by Cabot Institute for the Environment
www.youtube.com
November 19, 2025 at 3:58 PM
A team of epidemiologists and hydrologists based in the UK and Brazil are developing a novel approach to preventing leptospirosis. This disease is expected to increase as climate change brings more rainfall and flooding.
Find out more in our new video: www.youtube.com/watch?v=kTAv...
#COP30
Find out more in our new video: www.youtube.com/watch?v=kTAv...
#COP30
🌧️🌧️🌧️There's a LOT of rainfall and localised flooding today in the UK. Lizzie Kendon from @bristoluni.bsky.social and @metoffice.gov.uk shows how we're trying to improve prediction of flood risk and help save lives.🌧️🌧️🌧️
Watch the YouTube Short --> youtube.com/shorts/a3Q9M...
Watch the YouTube Short --> youtube.com/shorts/a3Q9M...
Flooding
YouTube video by Cabot Institute for the Environment
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November 14, 2025 at 12:18 PM
🌧️🌧️🌧️There's a LOT of rainfall and localised flooding today in the UK. Lizzie Kendon from @bristoluni.bsky.social and @metoffice.gov.uk shows how we're trying to improve prediction of flood risk and help save lives.🌧️🌧️🌧️
Watch the YouTube Short --> youtube.com/shorts/a3Q9M...
Watch the YouTube Short --> youtube.com/shorts/a3Q9M...
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Fabulous evening with #SophieLewis #WorldCetaceanAlliance, @tommustill.bsky.social & #LukeMcMillan @whalesorg.bsky.social exploring the past, present & HOPEFUL future for humpback whales (and their cousins!). Thanks to Rob Hutchins (@oceanographicmag.bsky.social) & #Finisterre for hosting
November 14, 2025 at 12:00 PM
Fabulous evening with #SophieLewis #WorldCetaceanAlliance, @tommustill.bsky.social & #LukeMcMillan @whalesorg.bsky.social exploring the past, present & HOPEFUL future for humpback whales (and their cousins!). Thanks to Rob Hutchins (@oceanographicmag.bsky.social) & #Finisterre for hosting
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Neocolonialism, Extraction and the Cracked Mirror of Capitalism
15 November, Watershed
Talks & a film that interrogate how capitalism & its colonial legacies continue to shape our relationship with the planet, technology & each other. brigstow-neocolonialism-extraction-capitalism.eventbrite.co.uk
15 November, Watershed
Talks & a film that interrogate how capitalism & its colonial legacies continue to shape our relationship with the planet, technology & each other. brigstow-neocolonialism-extraction-capitalism.eventbrite.co.uk
Neocolonialism, Extraction and the Cracked Mirror of Capitalism
A screening of 'We are Making a Film About Mark Fisher' and talks by Erika Teichert and Tim Kindberg
Brigstow-neocolonialism-extraction-capitalism.eventbrite.co.uk
October 24, 2025 at 12:43 PM
Neocolonialism, Extraction and the Cracked Mirror of Capitalism
15 November, Watershed
Talks & a film that interrogate how capitalism & its colonial legacies continue to shape our relationship with the planet, technology & each other. brigstow-neocolonialism-extraction-capitalism.eventbrite.co.uk
15 November, Watershed
Talks & a film that interrogate how capitalism & its colonial legacies continue to shape our relationship with the planet, technology & each other. brigstow-neocolonialism-extraction-capitalism.eventbrite.co.uk
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From the Personal to the Planetary: Bridging Racial and Climate Justice
16 November, Easton Community Centre
Join locals Natalie Hyacinth & Yaz Brien for a deep discussion about who benefits from climate denialism & community divisions. brigstow-bridging-racial-and-climate-justice.eventbrite.co.uk
16 November, Easton Community Centre
Join locals Natalie Hyacinth & Yaz Brien for a deep discussion about who benefits from climate denialism & community divisions. brigstow-bridging-racial-and-climate-justice.eventbrite.co.uk
From the Personal to the Planetary: Bridging Racial and Climate Justice
Join this Personal to the planetary event for talks by Natalie Hyacinth and Yaz Brien
Brigstow-bridging-racial-and-climate-justice.eventbrite.co.uk
October 24, 2025 at 12:45 PM
From the Personal to the Planetary: Bridging Racial and Climate Justice
16 November, Easton Community Centre
Join locals Natalie Hyacinth & Yaz Brien for a deep discussion about who benefits from climate denialism & community divisions. brigstow-bridging-racial-and-climate-justice.eventbrite.co.uk
16 November, Easton Community Centre
Join locals Natalie Hyacinth & Yaz Brien for a deep discussion about who benefits from climate denialism & community divisions. brigstow-bridging-racial-and-climate-justice.eventbrite.co.uk
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Materiality and Museum Extraction
19 November, Watershed
Join historian Zakiya McKenzie and scientist Kirill Vlasov for an insightful evening exploring Bristol’s colonial past and present through the lens of two co-created projects. brigstow-materiality-extraction.eventbrite.co.uk
19 November, Watershed
Join historian Zakiya McKenzie and scientist Kirill Vlasov for an insightful evening exploring Bristol’s colonial past and present through the lens of two co-created projects. brigstow-materiality-extraction.eventbrite.co.uk
Materiality and Museum Extraction
Bristol glass, taxidermy pangolin and disrupting colonial silences
Brigstow-materiality-extraction.eventbrite.co.uk
October 24, 2025 at 12:46 PM
Materiality and Museum Extraction
19 November, Watershed
Join historian Zakiya McKenzie and scientist Kirill Vlasov for an insightful evening exploring Bristol’s colonial past and present through the lens of two co-created projects. brigstow-materiality-extraction.eventbrite.co.uk
19 November, Watershed
Join historian Zakiya McKenzie and scientist Kirill Vlasov for an insightful evening exploring Bristol’s colonial past and present through the lens of two co-created projects. brigstow-materiality-extraction.eventbrite.co.uk
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Environmental justice and equity has to be for everyone, or it is for no one.
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www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Row over definition of ‘gender’ hangs over Cop30 plans to support women
Advocates say conservative states’ push to define gender as ‘biological sex’ would backslide on decade-old language within the UN
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November 13, 2025 at 7:04 PM
Environmental justice and equity has to be for everyone, or it is for no one.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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Excited (and nervous!) to be joining Holy Cross academies, in Coventry, for their mission day focusing on how we protect our planet for future generations.
Children and young people tell us loudly that this matters to them - great to be thinking today with over 400 teachers!
#edpsychs #climate
Children and young people tell us loudly that this matters to them - great to be thinking today with over 400 teachers!
#edpsychs #climate
November 14, 2025 at 7:48 AM
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You'll be working closely with a team of researchers @bristolbiosci.bsky.social and alogside some amazing partners at Forest Research @watts-km.bsky.social and a wider network of collabroators across Europe.
Do get in touch if you have questions about the role. Applications close on 27 November
Do get in touch if you have questions about the role. Applications close on 27 November
November 14, 2025 at 9:38 AM
You'll be working closely with a team of researchers @bristolbiosci.bsky.social and alogside some amazing partners at Forest Research @watts-km.bsky.social and a wider network of collabroators across Europe.
Do get in touch if you have questions about the role. Applications close on 27 November
Do get in touch if you have questions about the role. Applications close on 27 November
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🚨Job opportunity🚨
We are hiring a 3yr research technician. If you love fieldwork, are passionate about forests & mountains, and want to up-skill in remote sensing, sensor networks and running field experiments this could be the dream job for you!
🧪🌳⛰️🛰️🌡️🍄
www.bristol.ac.uk/jobs/find/de...
We are hiring a 3yr research technician. If you love fieldwork, are passionate about forests & mountains, and want to up-skill in remote sensing, sensor networks and running field experiments this could be the dream job for you!
🧪🌳⛰️🛰️🌡️🍄
www.bristol.ac.uk/jobs/find/de...
Details | Working at Bristol | University of Bristol
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November 14, 2025 at 9:38 AM
🚨Job opportunity🚨
We are hiring a 3yr research technician. If you love fieldwork, are passionate about forests & mountains, and want to up-skill in remote sensing, sensor networks and running field experiments this could be the dream job for you!
🧪🌳⛰️🛰️🌡️🍄
www.bristol.ac.uk/jobs/find/de...
We are hiring a 3yr research technician. If you love fieldwork, are passionate about forests & mountains, and want to up-skill in remote sensing, sensor networks and running field experiments this could be the dream job for you!
🧪🌳⛰️🛰️🌡️🍄
www.bristol.ac.uk/jobs/find/de...
Cabot's Professor Paul Bates is a co-author on the Congo Basin Forest Partnership Assessment Report 2025. The executive summary is going to be launched at #COP30 today. 12:30 pm BRT in the UNFF Forest Pavilion.
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November 13, 2025 at 1:51 PM
Cabot's Professor Paul Bates is a co-author on the Congo Basin Forest Partnership Assessment Report 2025. The executive summary is going to be launched at #COP30 today. 12:30 pm BRT in the UNFF Forest Pavilion.
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This is consistent with almost all of our work - increased methane production was not directly due to warming but increased rainfall. Understanding future feedbacks and tipping points requires a very strong understanding of not just the biotic response to warming but to changing hydrometeorology.
November 11, 2025 at 10:19 AM
This is consistent with almost all of our work - increased methane production was not directly due to warming but increased rainfall. Understanding future feedbacks and tipping points requires a very strong understanding of not just the biotic response to warming but to changing hydrometeorology.
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But there is another exciting finding in this work. There still is a methane response, and it appears to be associated with a freshening of the lake. The freshening could have diluted the terminal electron acceptors that compete with methanogenesis.
November 11, 2025 at 10:19 AM
But there is another exciting finding in this work. There still is a methane response, and it appears to be associated with a freshening of the lake. The freshening could have diluted the terminal electron acceptors that compete with methanogenesis.
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To explore that further, we investigated the response in a saline lake of the Jianghan Basin. As expected, the response is muted, almost certainly because high sulfate concentrations in the lake inhibited methanogenesis.
November 11, 2025 at 10:19 AM
To explore that further, we investigated the response in a saline lake of the Jianghan Basin. As expected, the response is muted, almost certainly because high sulfate concentrations in the lake inhibited methanogenesis.
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Again and again, we see enhanced methane cycling in peatlands and lakes and even the Arctic Ocean at the onset of warming 56 million years ago at the Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum, a likely positive feedback on global warming.
November 11, 2025 at 10:19 AM
Again and again, we see enhanced methane cycling in peatlands and lakes and even the Arctic Ocean at the onset of warming 56 million years ago at the Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum, a likely positive feedback on global warming.
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A particular interest of mine has been how Earth system processes, including terrestrial methane cycling, have been perturbed by past warming events. Our new paper, led by Wuhan colleagues, is another contribution to that understanding!
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November 11, 2025 at 10:19 AM
A particular interest of mine has been how Earth system processes, including terrestrial methane cycling, have been perturbed by past warming events. Our new paper, led by Wuhan colleagues, is another contribution to that understanding!
pubs.geoscienceworld.org/gsa/geology/...
pubs.geoscienceworld.org/gsa/geology/...
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Delighted to support the amazing #PratchayaPhinthong with his #PhuketBiennale2025 installation. Our collaboration took us to meet the Moken people, capture video and audio at degraded inshore and also pristine Surin Island reefs to bring to the installation, and build a restoration reef of hope!
November 11, 2025 at 8:33 PM
Delighted to support the amazing #PratchayaPhinthong with his #PhuketBiennale2025 installation. Our collaboration took us to meet the Moken people, capture video and audio at degraded inshore and also pristine Surin Island reefs to bring to the installation, and build a restoration reef of hope!
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Hola from the #Radiomineralogy Laboratory at Bristol University! 👋🏼☢️ The team is growing (9!) and we're having a whale of a time researching #nuclear #mineral and #material degradation in support of #radioactive waste storage and disposal. If you'd like to join us, please reach out! #nukesky
November 12, 2025 at 6:41 PM
Hola from the #Radiomineralogy Laboratory at Bristol University! 👋🏼☢️ The team is growing (9!) and we're having a whale of a time researching #nuclear #mineral and #material degradation in support of #radioactive waste storage and disposal. If you'd like to join us, please reach out! #nukesky