Prof Chris Jackson

Prof Chris Jackson

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Geoscientist (soon) at WSP👨🏾‍🔬 | Visiting Professor at Imperial College | Ex-Academic | 🏃🏾‍♂️🚴🏾‍♂️ | he/him | 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️| I do all my own stunts | Media enquiries: speak to my Mum | “Self-declared King of Geotwitter” (Palin, 2022) 🤭

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The moment Pogacar attacked and Vingegaard, rather than only pursuing, looked back, presumably to see where Evenepoal was, pretty much tells me the #TDF2024 is over as a real contest…

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Pretty wild to hear clips from the RNC about how crime is rampant (it's way down), our borders are open (crossing are down by half), LGBTQ rights are endangering our society (they don't), and guns keep us safe just literal days after their nominee was shot by a cis white dude

but, but… 💫prestige💫 and 💫service💫 💀

Elsevier,Wiley,Taylor&Francis,Springer Nature&SAGE revenues are in billions. Academics do almost all work: research, writing, refereeing & editing journals. Publishers don't pay us for work; they then sell journal access to the universities that fund the research & editorial labor @ exorbitant cost🧪

Academic journals are a lucrative scam – and we’re determined to change that | Arash Abizadehwww.theguardian.com Giant publishers are bleeding universities dry, with profit margins that rival Google’s. So we decided to start our own, says academic Arash Abizadeh

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My "Get In the Bin-O-Meter": Difference of taste: - I don't like tomatoes = Fine - I like Nickelback = Borderline Difference of fact: - Small state FTW! = Debateable-ish, fine-ish - Homeopathy FTW! = Untrue, borderline Difference of value: -"Those people aren't fully human LOL! = No. BIN!

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Starbucks is now a proud RNC sponsor, in case you still go there

This has been a recurring conversation over the last few weeks… “Oh, if my right-wing pal is casually racist and transphobic, I simply change the topic of conversation.” No way. Fuck that.

Of course I can be friends with people I disagree with. I have at least 3 friends who didn't like THE LAST JEDI and that's okay, I still love them even though they're wrong. But a disagreement over *fundamental human rights* is still a deal breaker.

I’m not racist…some of my best friends are black…🫠 #EverydayRacism: Footballers Edition www.bbc.co.uk/sport/footba...

Enzo Fernandez: Chelsea and Fifa begin action over alleged racist chant videowww.bbc.co.uk Chelsea begin disciplinary proceedings against midfielder Enzo Fernandez over a video on social media that the French FA said included a racist chant.

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"It’s worth remembering that the universities funded this research, paid the salaries of the academics who produced it and then had to pay millions of pounds to commercial publishers in order to access the end product." Das seltsamste System. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Academic journals are a lucrative scam – and we’re determined to change that | Arash Abizadehwww.theguardian.com Giant publishers are bleeding universities dry, with profit margins that rival Google’s. So we decided to start our own, says academic Arash Abizadeh

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Interested in collaboration, Earth observations, and wildfire monitoring? Please consider submitting to our awesome session B002 at #AGU2024! #EOChat This session will feature invited talks from Ane Alencar and Susan Prichard! More info: agu.confex.com/agu/agu24/pr...

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I spent a bit of time this afternoon helping my 9-year-old brainstorm names for Taylor Swift themed businesses. Taylor Ships: package delivery and/or boat building Taylor Slips: waterslide construction Taylor Crypts: burial services Taylor Snips: hair styling Taylor Flips: home renovation/sales

Having read about Musk’s latest antics…I’m moved to yet again ask, “what will make people stop using Twitter…or posting content from Twitter…?” 🧐

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I 'really enjoy' how much being an academic is basically being a middle manager in the research/admin endeavor.

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Hello Bluesky! We're the Open Research team at University of Aberdeen and we're here to connect with our OR colleagues around the world and provide expert advice, support, news, and occasional views on all things #OpenAccess, #OpenData, and #OpenResearch in general.

Ready for adventure 😎

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Anyone still posting to twitter. You need to stop. There is no good reason, and self-promotion is the worst of all reasons.

Dipping back into Twitter to lurk on assassination stuff and truly, from the bottom of my heart, unless you have massively curated lists, no one in media or politics should be microwaving their neurons on there.

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Musk really hates it when things are not about him...

A fantastic, although very busy, final week at work. The highlight? Maybe seeing these exquisite(ly deformed) rocks in the BGS core store.

😵‍💫 Still hungover from last night’s leaving drinks, but these absolutely amazing gifts are making things better… …fancy whisky, a stylist running cap, chocolate, and a hot cup (with a free coffee from the most-excellent ManCoCo thrown in) get a solid 10/10 👌🏾

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Please, please stop talking about parliament this way. This is not a matter of 'rebels' forcing the PMs hand, this is democracy. MPs representing their constituents interests, government policy changing as a result of the views and arguments presented in parliament.

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Wes Streeting is a disgrace to queer solidarity and to evidence-based policymaking. That he is Health Secretary will lead to more suicides among trans youth in the UK.

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Enjoying a deep dive into the varied world of #carbondioxideremoval while reading the #CDRPrimer. Lots of techniques for taking CO2 out of the atmosphere, with geology playing a role in many of them! ⚒️

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I’ve lost track now of when I removed my Twitter handle from my work email signature. Given my work and the community and connections I built there it was a sad but necessary day. Today I added my Bsky handle to it. Please don’t make me regret it 🫣

Biniam Girmay. Fuck. Me. 😮 #TDF2024

T-minus 2 hours

Last day at work tomorrow before a 5-week mini-retirement 😎

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nope nope nope nope nope. you do not need a truck to drive to your office job. outsized cars are a drain on this planet's finite resources

Bigger cars - SUVs and pickup trucks, which have 25-40 gallons gas tank - need bigger batteries to become full EVs and lead to range anxiety. So, make both the battery (60-80 kWh) and gas tank (15-20 gal) the size of sedans and fit them into a big car. Best of both worlds! 2/4

Holy shit England 🤯

Last day at work tomorrow before a 5-week mini-retirement 😎

I know they’ve been booted-out…but, honestly, fuck the Tories…

No refund for £270m Rwanda plan Kigali confirms as they label it a ‘UK problem’ www.lbc.co.uk/news/no-refu...

No refund for £270m Rwanda plan, Kigali confirms as they label it a ‘UK problem’www.lbc.co.uk Britain will not receive a refund for the £270 million the Tories paid for the Rwanda migrants plan.

Man caught smuggling 100 snakes in his trousers into China

Man caught smuggling 100 snakes in his trousers into Chinawww.bbc.com The traveller was caught with "living snakes in all kinds of shapes, sizes and colours", officials say.

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🤨 www.theguardian.com/politics/art...

Reform UK under pressure to prove all its candidates were real peoplewww.theguardian.com Doubt raised about election hopefuls who stood without providing photos, biographies or contact details