Neil R. Edwards
@neil-r-edwards.bsky.social
Earth System Modeller, #climate and #sustainability researcher,
Director for Sustainability Research,
Open Societal Challenges Programme, The Open University, UK
Director for Sustainability Research,
Open Societal Challenges Programme, The Open University, UK
Giving up on the Amazon is giving up on Planet #Earth
UK opts out of flagship fund to protect Amazon and other threatened tropical forests
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
UK opts out of flagship fund to protect Amazon and other threatened tropical forests
Decision is bitter blow to Brazil ahead of fund’s launch at Cop30 – and an embarrassment to Prince William
www.theguardian.com
November 6, 2025 at 12:52 AM
Giving up on the Amazon is giving up on Planet #Earth
Info day on the world-leading @ilesla.bsky.social #PhD programme on 26th Nov. iles.web.ox.ac.uk/open-day-2025 fantastic opportunity to do a PhD with us here at Open University and take full advantage of the ILESLA training at Oxford at the same time
@palaeosingh.bsky.social
@palaeosingh.bsky.social
Open Events 2025/26
iles.web.ox.ac.uk
November 5, 2025 at 7:06 PM
Info day on the world-leading @ilesla.bsky.social #PhD programme on 26th Nov. iles.web.ox.ac.uk/open-day-2025 fantastic opportunity to do a PhD with us here at Open University and take full advantage of the ILESLA training at Oxford at the same time
@palaeosingh.bsky.social
@palaeosingh.bsky.social
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🌿 Fully funded #PhD alert! Are you curious about how species shape each other’s evolution? 🦋🌸
We’re looking for a student to study the co-evolution of insects & angiosperms in the Amazon using a multi-species mechanistic model.
🔗 centa.ac.uk/studentship/...
#Evolution #Biodiversity #NERC #CENTA
We’re looking for a student to study the co-evolution of insects & angiosperms in the Amazon using a multi-species mechanistic model.
🔗 centa.ac.uk/studentship/...
#Evolution #Biodiversity #NERC #CENTA
2026-OU06 Co-evolution of insects and angiosperms – CENTA
centa.ac.uk
October 21, 2025 at 4:32 PM
🌿 Fully funded #PhD alert! Are you curious about how species shape each other’s evolution? 🦋🌸
We’re looking for a student to study the co-evolution of insects & angiosperms in the Amazon using a multi-species mechanistic model.
🔗 centa.ac.uk/studentship/...
#Evolution #Biodiversity #NERC #CENTA
We’re looking for a student to study the co-evolution of insects & angiosperms in the Amazon using a multi-species mechanistic model.
🔗 centa.ac.uk/studentship/...
#Evolution #Biodiversity #NERC #CENTA
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Climate change is a human rights crisis.
Join @ox.ac.uk, UN Human Rights, IUCA, and unis across the world for the Right Here, Right Now Global Climate Summit on climate change and human rights. #RHRNClimate
Global plenary: 4 & 5 June
Oxford Local Programme: 2 - 8 June
www.ox.ac.uk/news-and-eve...
Join @ox.ac.uk, UN Human Rights, IUCA, and unis across the world for the Right Here, Right Now Global Climate Summit on climate change and human rights. #RHRNClimate
Global plenary: 4 & 5 June
Oxford Local Programme: 2 - 8 June
www.ox.ac.uk/news-and-eve...
May 13, 2025 at 10:33 AM
Climate change is a human rights crisis.
Join @ox.ac.uk, UN Human Rights, IUCA, and unis across the world for the Right Here, Right Now Global Climate Summit on climate change and human rights. #RHRNClimate
Global plenary: 4 & 5 June
Oxford Local Programme: 2 - 8 June
www.ox.ac.uk/news-and-eve...
Join @ox.ac.uk, UN Human Rights, IUCA, and unis across the world for the Right Here, Right Now Global Climate Summit on climate change and human rights. #RHRNClimate
Global plenary: 4 & 5 June
Oxford Local Programme: 2 - 8 June
www.ox.ac.uk/news-and-eve...
Link to an open petition to end UK tax breaks on oil majors (currently £2.7bn p.a.) and spend the funds ensuring workers they are laying off find green jobs with a future: you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/en...
End tax breaks on oil and gas
Sign the petition to stop the giveaway and demand a fair jobs plan needs major people power right now.
you.38degrees.org.uk
November 3, 2025 at 6:58 PM
Link to an open petition to end UK tax breaks on oil majors (currently £2.7bn p.a.) and spend the funds ensuring workers they are laying off find green jobs with a future: you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/en...
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Tool reveals how your dinner affects risk of 30,875 species land-dwelling animals going extinct
"If everyone in the UK switched to a vegetarian diet overnight, we could halve our biodiversity impact."
phys.org/news/2025-10...
"If everyone in the UK switched to a vegetarian diet overnight, we could halve our biodiversity impact."
phys.org/news/2025-10...
Tool reveals how your dinner affects risk of 30,875 species land-dwelling animals going extinct
University of Cambridge researchers have developed a new way to measure the impact of our food production on other species' survival around the world.
phys.org
October 31, 2025 at 7:15 AM
Tool reveals how your dinner affects risk of 30,875 species land-dwelling animals going extinct
"If everyone in the UK switched to a vegetarian diet overnight, we could halve our biodiversity impact."
phys.org/news/2025-10...
"If everyone in the UK switched to a vegetarian diet overnight, we could halve our biodiversity impact."
phys.org/news/2025-10...
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Today Leeds followed our forebears who kicked Oswald Moseley and his Facists out of the city at the Battle of Holbeck Moor and stood up to racism, the far right and said loud and clear”Refugees are welcome here”. This is Leeds
October 11, 2025 at 5:08 PM
Today Leeds followed our forebears who kicked Oswald Moseley and his Facists out of the city at the Battle of Holbeck Moor and stood up to racism, the far right and said loud and clear”Refugees are welcome here”. This is Leeds
And just time for a last trip to the fossiliferous Lyme Regis beach for #FossilFriday
October 10, 2025 at 4:59 PM
And just time for a last trip to the fossiliferous Lyme Regis beach for #FossilFriday
Last day on the Jurassic Coast, Europe’s longest continuous Jurassic exposure #fossilfriday
October 10, 2025 at 11:37 AM
Last day on the Jurassic Coast, Europe’s longest continuous Jurassic exposure #fossilfriday
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Its discovery shed new light on the evolution of hyper-specialised, megapredatory tyrannosaurids 🦖 Lythronax captures the early evolution of the Tyrannosaurus-style predatory ecology ~20 million years before T. rex.
🧵 End.
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October 3, 2025 at 1:36 PM
Its discovery shed new light on the evolution of hyper-specialised, megapredatory tyrannosaurids 🦖 Lythronax captures the early evolution of the Tyrannosaurus-style predatory ecology ~20 million years before T. rex.
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German media seems to be taking more seriously than ours the fact a leading light in the party UK press keeps saying will be next government took bribes from Russia to spout their lies. Maybe it’s because they put NEWS ahead of propaganda
September 28, 2025 at 2:29 PM
German media seems to be taking more seriously than ours the fact a leading light in the party UK press keeps saying will be next government took bribes from Russia to spout their lies. Maybe it’s because they put NEWS ahead of propaganda
Black and British already in 7th century - get over it theconversation.com/two-seventh-...
Two seventh-century people found with west African ancestry – a story of diversity and integration in early Anglo-Saxon society
We should not be surprised that there are west Africans in early medieval Britain, the clues were there.
theconversation.com
September 10, 2025 at 11:55 PM
Black and British already in 7th century - get over it theconversation.com/two-seventh-...
New paper from @climatesamwell.bsky.social on #paleoclimate modelling and niche #evolution across the end Cretaceous mass extinction doi.org/10.1017/pab....
Global climate model comparisons of niche evolution in turritelline gastropods across the Cretaceous–Paleogene mass extinction | Paleobiology | Cambridge Core
Global climate model comparisons of niche evolution in turritelline gastropods across the Cretaceous–Paleogene mass extinction
doi.org
September 3, 2025 at 2:24 PM
New paper from @climatesamwell.bsky.social on #paleoclimate modelling and niche #evolution across the end Cretaceous mass extinction doi.org/10.1017/pab....
Most votes in UK have zero effect. Hard to overstate the gravity of the threat to #society and #civilisation + by extension, #climate #environment #biodiversity posed by crumbling global #democracy and hence importance of this initiative to create real democracy and political engagement in UK
🚨 NEW: Cross-party MPs publish ‘ready to go’ blueprint for electoral reform commission
— FPTP “threatens to undermine the resilience and stability of our democratic system”, @appgfairelections.bsky.social MPs say
— The group is calling on ministers to greenlight its plan
Exclusive story 👇
— FPTP “threatens to undermine the resilience and stability of our democratic system”, @appgfairelections.bsky.social MPs say
— The group is calling on ministers to greenlight its plan
Exclusive story 👇
Cross-party MPs publish ‘ready to go’ blueprint for electoral reform commission - Politics.co.uk
A group of cross-party MPs have set out a “ready to go” blueprint for an independent review of the UK’s first past the post (FPTP) electoral system. The all-party parliamentary group (APPG) for fair e...
www.politics.co.uk
September 1, 2025 at 4:45 PM
Most votes in UK have zero effect. Hard to overstate the gravity of the threat to #society and #civilisation + by extension, #climate #environment #biodiversity posed by crumbling global #democracy and hence importance of this initiative to create real democracy and political engagement in UK
Not to be missed - great start on our @leverhulme.ac.uk funded SABER project at @openuniversity.bsky.social by @palaeosingh.bsky.social if you like old crocs and #fossils you'll love this @drtlstubbs.bsky.social
Excited to present some of my new research since joining @openuniversity.bsky.social at this year’s meeting of the Society of Vertebrate Paleontology!
Stop by if you’re interested in the ecology & #macroevolution of #crocodilians in South America during the #Cenozoic 🐊
#2025SVP #Paleontology
Stop by if you’re interested in the ecology & #macroevolution of #crocodilians in South America during the #Cenozoic 🐊
#2025SVP #Paleontology
August 21, 2025 at 3:07 PM
Not to be missed - great start on our @leverhulme.ac.uk funded SABER project at @openuniversity.bsky.social by @palaeosingh.bsky.social if you like old crocs and #fossils you'll love this @drtlstubbs.bsky.social
Important message on effect of record #fossil-fuel profits on #inequality not via cost-of-living but excessively unequal 'redistribution' of profits to shareholders. Thanks @gregorsemieniuk.bsky.social and friends at @openuniversity.bsky.social & elsewhere www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Best of times, worst of times: record fossil-fuel profits, inflation and inequality
The 2022 oil and gas crisis resulted in record fossil-fuel profits globally that rehabilitated the oil and gas industry, obstructed the energy transit…
www.sciencedirect.com
August 21, 2025 at 2:30 PM
Important message on effect of record #fossil-fuel profits on #inequality not via cost-of-living but excessively unequal 'redistribution' of profits to shareholders. Thanks @gregorsemieniuk.bsky.social and friends at @openuniversity.bsky.social & elsewhere www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
One to three species of invertebrates going extinct in Australia per week according to new paper - nice talk here in Cambridge PRISMS series: cassyni.com/s/cambridge-...
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August 5, 2025 at 12:36 PM
One to three species of invertebrates going extinct in Australia per week according to new paper - nice talk here in Cambridge PRISMS series: cassyni.com/s/cambridge-...
Fascinating and important development in green #computing and #ai from consortium including @ethz.ch ai.ethz.ch
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July 30, 2025 at 12:05 AM
Fascinating and important development in green #computing and #ai from consortium including @ethz.ch ai.ethz.ch
Fossils found in 1930s push origins of feathers back to middle Triassic c 247 Ma
theconversation.com/mysterious-f...
theconversation.com/mysterious-f...
Mysterious fossil may rewrite story of skin and feather evolution in reptiles
The fossil creature has outgrowths on its back that are neither hair nor feathers.
theconversation.com
July 24, 2025 at 12:45 AM
Fossils found in 1930s push origins of feathers back to middle Triassic c 247 Ma
theconversation.com/mysterious-f...
theconversation.com/mysterious-f...
A shout for our paper modelling ancient climates with @sabinzahirovic.bsky.social and a big HELLO to @bryonyblades.bsky.social started today working with me, @palaeosingh.bsky.social and team on our @leverhulme.ac.uk funded Amazon #biodiversity modelling project SABER www.nature.com/articles/s43...
July 14, 2025 at 4:56 PM
A shout for our paper modelling ancient climates with @sabinzahirovic.bsky.social and a big HELLO to @bryonyblades.bsky.social started today working with me, @palaeosingh.bsky.social and team on our @leverhulme.ac.uk funded Amazon #biodiversity modelling project SABER www.nature.com/articles/s43...
Nice paper shows two major shifts in ecosystem structure over last 60 Ma based on big fossil database www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Two major ecological shifts shaped 60 million years of ungulate faunal evolution - Nature Communications
Here, the authors analyze a fossil dataset spanning 60 million years to investigate ecological stability. Their network analysis identifies prolonged stability interrupted by two major functional tran...
www.nature.com
June 11, 2025 at 2:58 PM
Nice paper shows two major shifts in ecosystem structure over last 60 Ma based on big fossil database www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Maximising the effectiveness of conservation - seminar this evening
This week's Grand Challenge Seminar on Thursday 22nd looks at how we can maximise the effectiveness of conservation efforts. Join us at Jesus College Conference Centre. Registration is free envres.web.ox.ac.uk/what-makes-e...
What makes effective conservation? Overcoming barriers to conservation success in the 21st century
envres.web.ox.ac.uk
May 22, 2025 at 9:28 AM
Maximising the effectiveness of conservation - seminar this evening
Great day today at at OU Open Societal Challenges Sustainability Research Fest hearing about some amazing OSC research from villages in Guyana to green roofs in Milton Keynes with @richard-holliman.bsky.social @palaeosingh.bsky.social
April 30, 2025 at 9:49 PM
Great day today at at OU Open Societal Challenges Sustainability Research Fest hearing about some amazing OSC research from villages in Guyana to green roofs in Milton Keynes with @richard-holliman.bsky.social @palaeosingh.bsky.social
Great to see this fantastic @ou-eees.bsky.social Open Societal Challenge green roof research project getting some exposure today (not to mention the sunshine it’s getting) bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cx25xq6wxldo
Green roof studied on Milton Keynes Open University building
The Open University is the latest building in Milton Keynes to get a green roof.
bbc.co.uk
April 29, 2025 at 7:55 AM
Great to see this fantastic @ou-eees.bsky.social Open Societal Challenge green roof research project getting some exposure today (not to mention the sunshine it’s getting) bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cx25xq6wxldo