Beth Mroz
mrozelizabeth.bsky.social
Beth Mroz
@mrozelizabeth.bsky.social
NERC Panorama student @ Uni of Leeds, interested in all things floods, climate change, and access to healthcare. Lover of FME and QGis.
Computer companies: I don't want a slim laptop if it means I can't have an ethernet port! Got terabytes to upload and it's a pain without...
May 27, 2025 at 9:42 AM
Woke up nice and early for a productive PhD morn. Instead, spent it destroying the bathroom cabinets in my new house because this young starling fledgling was trapped! Carpe diem, little dude!
May 14, 2025 at 9:40 AM
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𝗣𝘂𝘁𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗵𝗲𝗮𝗹𝘁𝗵 𝗳𝗮𝗰𝗶𝗹𝗶𝘁𝗶𝗲𝘀 𝗼𝗻 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗺𝗮𝗽 𝗶𝗻 𝘀𝘂𝗯-𝗦𝗮𝗵𝗮𝗿𝗮𝗻 𝗔𝗳𝗿𝗶𝗰𝗮

A (renewed) call to create geolocated, comprehensive, updated, openly licensed dataset of health facilities in SSA.

In #BMCMedicine! bmcmedicine.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....

#GISchat #GeoSky #GeoHealth, @itmantwerp.bsky.social
Putting health facilities on the map: a renewed call to create geolocated, comprehensive, updated, openly licensed dataset of health facilities in sub-Saharan African countries - BMC Medicine
Background Healthcare service provision, planning, and management depend on the availability of a geolocated, up-to-date, comprehensive health facility database (HFDB) to adequately meet a population’...
bmcmedicine.biomedcentral.com
April 8, 2025 at 6:17 AM
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It's #WorldHealthDay
Since 2000, maternal deaths globally declined by 40%! 💙

BUT—progress is slowing, and aid funding cuts mean major threats to lifesaving maternity services in many parts of the world. ❌
April 7, 2025 at 6:56 AM
I amused an undergrad yesterday when I commented the end of PhD has driven me crazy enough to be writing rough drafts of work on a typewriter first before moving to a computer. This is genuinely my desk!
March 19, 2025 at 11:42 AM
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Zambia has experienced bad recent droughts: our new paper @mrozelizabeth.bsky.social shows future climate will change annual Barotse flooding. Reds = decreasing flood duration and, well, there are no blues. Impacts already seen with Kuomboka ceremony shifting later/cancelled tinyurl.com/yc5u48ej
March 7, 2025 at 2:26 PM
Took the train today rather than drive so that I could work. Rewarded by @tpexpress.bsky.social with a free book for World Book Day! Nice!
March 6, 2025 at 10:29 AM
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After all the years of bullshitting us about their green plans, even turning their logo into a flower, BP turns out to be as crap as we always suspected.

And BP shareholders, equally crap. Yes, equally crap.
BP to slash renewables investment and ramp up gas and oil production.
The energy giant will announce its strategy later after rivals also rowed back on green energy plans.
www.bbc.com
February 26, 2025 at 1:49 AM
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Professor Mark Smith (@geomorphmark.bsky.social) comments on the impacts of climate change on the UK, following the record-breaking temperatures of 2024.

yorkshirebylines.co.uk/news/world/2...
2024 confirmed as hottest year on record globally
Global temperatures are rising beyond what modern humans have ever experienced, with 2024 the warmest year on record
yorkshirebylines.co.uk
January 13, 2025 at 9:40 AM
Forgot how much I hate managing terabytes of raster data outputs from modelling codes that weren't optimised for data storage...
a man sitting at a desk with a dell computer monitor
ALT: a man sitting at a desk with a dell computer monitor
media.tenor.com
January 8, 2025 at 4:53 PM
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What are the requirements to #GiveBlood?

Many people don’t know that they are eligible to give blood. You can give blood if you are in good health. Other criteria you need to fulfil to quality as a donor:

🩸You are aged between 18 and 65
🩸You weigh at least 50 kg
January 7, 2025 at 8:30 AM