Dr Lori-Ann Foley
@lafoley.bsky.social
PhD from Open University School of Planetary Sciences researching Mars's climate, focusing on Lyot Crater, after my Physics BSc. Previously did 3 degrees in Roman archaeology, one in languages and a law degree. Multinational upbringing. 🇯🇪🇨🇦🇩🇪
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The Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences at ETH Zurich invites applications for the position of Assistant Professor (Tenure Track) of Earth and Planetary Evolution.
ethz.ch/en/the-eth-z...
Please apply online. The closing date for applications is 15 December 2026.
ethz.ch/en/the-eth-z...
Please apply online. The closing date for applications is 15 December 2026.
Assistant Professor (Tenure Track) of Earth and Planetary Evolution
The Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences (www.eaps.ethz.ch) at ETH Zurich invites applications for the above-mentioned position.
ethz.ch
September 22, 2026 at 9:32 AM
The Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences at ETH Zurich invites applications for the position of Assistant Professor (Tenure Track) of Earth and Planetary Evolution.
ethz.ch/en/the-eth-z...
Please apply online. The closing date for applications is 15 December 2026.
ethz.ch/en/the-eth-z...
Please apply online. The closing date for applications is 15 December 2026.
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This is very good framing, and a good counterpoint to doomism. "Overshooting 1.5C is not a reason to give up"
Overshooting 1.5°C is not a reason to give up.
On the contrary, it’s a reason to act faster, because the higher the temperature rise and the longer it stays there, the greater the damage.
Here’s what “overshoot” means and why every fraction of a degree matters.
On the contrary, it’s a reason to act faster, because the higher the temperature rise and the longer it stays there, the greater the damage.
Here’s what “overshoot” means and why every fraction of a degree matters.
September 22, 2026 at 10:02 AM
This is very good framing, and a good counterpoint to doomism. "Overshooting 1.5C is not a reason to give up"
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Interested by ISOs like 3I/ATLAS? PhD opportunity in interstellar object observations, here in New Zealand. Join our Ōtautahi-Oxford group & the NZ Gravity collaboration. Start by March 1. ☄️🔭
PhD Scholarships – Statistics, Astrophysics, Cosmology and Gravitational Wave Astronomy | New Zealand Gravity
About us The NZ Astrostatistics and General Relativity Group (NZ Gravity) is a cross-institutional research team spanning astrophysics, cosmology, ma...
www.gravity.ac.nz
September 21, 2026 at 4:50 AM
Interested by ISOs like 3I/ATLAS? PhD opportunity in interstellar object observations, here in New Zealand. Join our Ōtautahi-Oxford group & the NZ Gravity collaboration. Start by March 1. ☄️🔭
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Normal? Not at all.
Birdsong fades. Summer temperatures soar.
The danger is we simply adjust – but we shouldn’t.
We cannot allow the climate crisis to rewrite our idea of what's normal.
Birdsong fades. Summer temperatures soar.
The danger is we simply adjust – but we shouldn’t.
We cannot allow the climate crisis to rewrite our idea of what's normal.
September 20, 2026 at 3:06 PM
Normal? Not at all.
Birdsong fades. Summer temperatures soar.
The danger is we simply adjust – but we shouldn’t.
We cannot allow the climate crisis to rewrite our idea of what's normal.
Birdsong fades. Summer temperatures soar.
The danger is we simply adjust – but we shouldn’t.
We cannot allow the climate crisis to rewrite our idea of what's normal.
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If you’d like to read more indie books this is an amazing place to start.
If you want to follow an amazing indie champion, start with @bookspotlight.bsky.social
If you want to follow an amazing indie champion, start with @bookspotlight.bsky.social
Here are some* of the many, many indie books I have thoroughly enjoyed which you should totally read!
I have reviews for all of them, so if one looks intriguing to you and you want to read my review, please don't hesitate to ask! Check them out! 🧵⬇️
*I know I forgot some favs. Forgive me!! 🩷
I have reviews for all of them, so if one looks intriguing to you and you want to read my review, please don't hesitate to ask! Check them out! 🧵⬇️
*I know I forgot some favs. Forgive me!! 🩷
The Sword In The Stone: Merlin's Magic
Alt: The Sword In The Stone: Merlin magically putting books into his bag
static.klipy.com
September 20, 2026 at 8:02 AM
If you’d like to read more indie books this is an amazing place to start.
If you want to follow an amazing indie champion, start with @bookspotlight.bsky.social
If you want to follow an amazing indie champion, start with @bookspotlight.bsky.social
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Somehow this bluesky post now has a date of transmission (29th October) and official artwork.
September 20, 2026 at 6:21 AM
Somehow this bluesky post now has a date of transmission (29th October) and official artwork.
Visited the Sedlec Ossuary in Kutna Hora outside Prague this morning and feel it would be a good place to snuggle down and read @cstross.bsky.social ‘s The Laundry Files books. 😀
September 18, 2026 at 5:30 PM
Visited the Sedlec Ossuary in Kutna Hora outside Prague this morning and feel it would be a good place to snuggle down and read @cstross.bsky.social ‘s The Laundry Files books. 😀
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We are not screwed.
We can still stop the worst impacts of climate change and build a better future – if we act soon and act at scale.
drawdown.org/insights/wer...
We can still stop the worst impacts of climate change and build a better future – if we act soon and act at scale.
drawdown.org/insights/wer...
We’re going to miss the 1.5 °C climate target. Now what?
The United Nations Environment Program released a report earlier this month saying the world – which is already experiencing roughly 1.3˚C of warming – will miss the 1.5˚C climate change target set by...
drawdown.org
September 18, 2026 at 1:53 AM
We are not screwed.
We can still stop the worst impacts of climate change and build a better future – if we act soon and act at scale.
drawdown.org/insights/wer...
We can still stop the worst impacts of climate change and build a better future – if we act soon and act at scale.
drawdown.org/insights/wer...
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If David Attenborough had guns. Big guns ⤵️
🚨OUT NOW!
A wild planet. An invading force.
Don’t be surprised if natures bites back.
'WILD SKIES' is book 3 in the Star Runners series
It’s star-crew SciFi with explosive pace, an emotional heart, and blasts of weapons-grade humour
Buy here ➡️ mybook.to/WildSkies
💙📚🪐 #BookSky #SciFi #newbook
A wild planet. An invading force.
Don’t be surprised if natures bites back.
'WILD SKIES' is book 3 in the Star Runners series
It’s star-crew SciFi with explosive pace, an emotional heart, and blasts of weapons-grade humour
Buy here ➡️ mybook.to/WildSkies
💙📚🪐 #BookSky #SciFi #newbook
September 16, 2026 at 5:40 PM
If David Attenborough had guns. Big guns ⤵️
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Use the power of positive thinking.
You are NOT "trapped in an oubliette".
You ARE "having an extended experience in THE PARTY CYLINDER".
You are NOT "trapped in an oubliette".
You ARE "having an extended experience in THE PARTY CYLINDER".
September 14, 2026 at 6:17 PM
Use the power of positive thinking.
You are NOT "trapped in an oubliette".
You ARE "having an extended experience in THE PARTY CYLINDER".
You are NOT "trapped in an oubliette".
You ARE "having an extended experience in THE PARTY CYLINDER".
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Stop saying “politics” when you mean “morality.”
Right and wrong is not political.
Right and wrong is not political.
September 15, 2026 at 11:19 PM
Stop saying “politics” when you mean “morality.”
Right and wrong is not political.
Right and wrong is not political.
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🚨OUT NOW!
A wild planet. An invading force.
Don’t be surprised if natures bites back.
'WILD SKIES' is book 3 in the Star Runners series
It’s star-crew SciFi with explosive pace, an emotional heart, and blasts of weapons-grade humour
Buy here ➡️ mybook.to/WildSkies
💙📚🪐 #BookSky #SciFi #newbook
A wild planet. An invading force.
Don’t be surprised if natures bites back.
'WILD SKIES' is book 3 in the Star Runners series
It’s star-crew SciFi with explosive pace, an emotional heart, and blasts of weapons-grade humour
Buy here ➡️ mybook.to/WildSkies
💙📚🪐 #BookSky #SciFi #newbook
September 15, 2026 at 4:28 PM
I second this. As well as the books being well written and unputdownable in their own right, I always say that anyone who likes Becky Chambers and @scalzi.com should like these books. I’ve read the Odyssey Earth trilogy and have just started the Star Runners trilogy and was drawn straight in. 😀
So I just got this reaction from a reader, and now I think I am very much going to dance in the kitchen for a bit. Please feel free to join me
September 15, 2026 at 5:34 PM
I second this. As well as the books being well written and unputdownable in their own right, I always say that anyone who likes Becky Chambers and @scalzi.com should like these books. I’ve read the Odyssey Earth trilogy and have just started the Star Runners trilogy and was drawn straight in. 😀
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🎥
We must limit #Globalwarming to 1.5 degrees to avoid the worst of the #ClimateCrisis
Time for #ClimateAction!
What you’re gonna do?!
PL RP this🎵 #video🩷💚💙
Full 3-min video ▶️ www.youtube.com/watch?v=xHCv...
#Endfossilfuels #ClimateChange #climate #Klima #ClimateDisaster
We must limit #Globalwarming to 1.5 degrees to avoid the worst of the #ClimateCrisis
Time for #ClimateAction!
What you’re gonna do?!
PL RP this🎵 #video🩷💚💙
Full 3-min video ▶️ www.youtube.com/watch?v=xHCv...
#Endfossilfuels #ClimateChange #climate #Klima #ClimateDisaster
August 31, 2026 at 6:15 AM
🎥
We must limit #Globalwarming to 1.5 degrees to avoid the worst of the #ClimateCrisis
Time for #ClimateAction!
What you’re gonna do?!
PL RP this🎵 #video🩷💚💙
Full 3-min video ▶️ www.youtube.com/watch?v=xHCv...
#Endfossilfuels #ClimateChange #climate #Klima #ClimateDisaster
We must limit #Globalwarming to 1.5 degrees to avoid the worst of the #ClimateCrisis
Time for #ClimateAction!
What you’re gonna do?!
PL RP this🎵 #video🩷💚💙
Full 3-min video ▶️ www.youtube.com/watch?v=xHCv...
#Endfossilfuels #ClimateChange #climate #Klima #ClimateDisaster
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I was on Channel 4 News podcast last week making this exact point. The supposed future taxpayers that politicians don't want to burden by borrowing to stop climate change are me and my children. Maybe just ask us.
This is a critical point that’s repeatedly ignored. If you’re under 45 there’s a good chance you’re still working in 2050 when we should be at net zero. If you’re under 25 there’s a good chance you’re alive in 2100 when current trends suggest we’ll be at 3C of warming and all that comes with it.
“a few years” is not the metric anyway
my kid, if he’s lucky, will still be alive in 2100, when the climate will have broken down completely if the world doesn’t halt global heating
the whole century lives in our families already
my kid, if he’s lucky, will still be alive in 2100, when the climate will have broken down completely if the world doesn’t halt global heating
the whole century lives in our families already
September 13, 2026 at 9:55 PM
I was on Channel 4 News podcast last week making this exact point. The supposed future taxpayers that politicians don't want to burden by borrowing to stop climate change are me and my children. Maybe just ask us.
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Rewild clothing supports native woodland restoration! Woop Woop!
September 13, 2026 at 5:17 PM
Rewild clothing supports native woodland restoration! Woop Woop!
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Hey American friends, help spread the word: Canada has an immigration stream for HC workers.
"For Tyson, the targeted recruitment worked. It took him just 3 months to get his B.C. nursing licence through a fast-track process, and 8 days to receive a provincial nomination for permanent residence."
"For Tyson, the targeted recruitment worked. It took him just 3 months to get his B.C. nursing licence through a fast-track process, and 8 days to receive a provincial nomination for permanent residence."
September 13, 2026 at 2:28 PM
Hey American friends, help spread the word: Canada has an immigration stream for HC workers.
"For Tyson, the targeted recruitment worked. It took him just 3 months to get his B.C. nursing licence through a fast-track process, and 8 days to receive a provincial nomination for permanent residence."
"For Tyson, the targeted recruitment worked. It took him just 3 months to get his B.C. nursing licence through a fast-track process, and 8 days to receive a provincial nomination for permanent residence."
A highlight of my day seeing the sights in Munich was enjoying the fluid dynamics of the standing wave in the English Garden. Looked fun from straight on; looked more intimidating from the side 😳
September 13, 2026 at 1:30 PM
A highlight of my day seeing the sights in Munich was enjoying the fluid dynamics of the standing wave in the English Garden. Looked fun from straight on; looked more intimidating from the side 😳
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If anyone has contacts at Valve who can help expedite this, we certainly wouldn't say no to the help. In the meantime, I'll be here swimming in cortisol.
We are aware that Steam has classified Nighthawks as an adult game and has excluded it from searches (and delisted it entirely in certain countries). We are working on it. Valve is under the impression that this game is way sexier than it actually is.
September 13, 2026 at 11:20 AM
If anyone has contacts at Valve who can help expedite this, we certainly wouldn't say no to the help. In the meantime, I'll be here swimming in cortisol.
Canadians looking for a little taste of home can pop into the Frittenwerk restaurants for a poutine. I love that they even do two different ones — a classic Québécois one and a Montreal-style one. 😋
September 12, 2026 at 4:14 PM
Canadians looking for a little taste of home can pop into the Frittenwerk restaurants for a poutine. I love that they even do two different ones — a classic Québécois one and a Montreal-style one. 😋
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Numerous “good” tipping point are happening — and could help propel us into a better world.
But we have to make wise choices.
www.euronews.com/2026/09/12/r...
But we have to make wise choices.
www.euronews.com/2026/09/12/r...
The 5 positive tipping points that could ‘rapidly’ heal the world
“For too long a sense has prevailed that solutions to the climate and nature are out of reach. This new research explodes that myth once and for all.”
www.euronews.com
September 12, 2026 at 1:42 PM
Numerous “good” tipping point are happening — and could help propel us into a better world.
But we have to make wise choices.
www.euronews.com/2026/09/12/r...
But we have to make wise choices.
www.euronews.com/2026/09/12/r...
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It seems to me that "AI may be misaligned with human values and do things we can't predict or understand" and "AI is a shitty, unpredictable tool that provides wrong answers all the time" is fundamentally a difference about whether you think LLMs are conscious beings.
They are not.
They are not.
September 12, 2026 at 3:00 PM
It seems to me that "AI may be misaligned with human values and do things we can't predict or understand" and "AI is a shitty, unpredictable tool that provides wrong answers all the time" is fundamentally a difference about whether you think LLMs are conscious beings.
They are not.
They are not.
Look what I found in a bookshop in Stuttgart, Germany — the first and the latest German-language versions of @benaaronovitch.bsky.social ‘s Rivers of London novels. Ideal for helping me brush up on my German. 😀
September 12, 2026 at 11:23 AM
Look what I found in a bookshop in Stuttgart, Germany — the first and the latest German-language versions of @benaaronovitch.bsky.social ‘s Rivers of London novels. Ideal for helping me brush up on my German. 😀
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The idea that "regenerative" grazing is a climate solution has really taken hold in some quarters.
But the science is clear: It doesn't work. Methane and land-use emissions just overwhelm any soil carbon benefits.
Here's a great piece by @nicholasdcarter.bsky.social
drawdown.org/insights/eig...
But the science is clear: It doesn't work. Methane and land-use emissions just overwhelm any soil carbon benefits.
Here's a great piece by @nicholasdcarter.bsky.social
drawdown.org/insights/eig...
Eight reasons regenerative grazing can’t make beef climate-friendly
An influential regenerative grazing movement continues to grow. But here's why the science doesn't back up the purported climate benefits.
drawdown.org
September 11, 2026 at 6:13 PM
The idea that "regenerative" grazing is a climate solution has really taken hold in some quarters.
But the science is clear: It doesn't work. Methane and land-use emissions just overwhelm any soil carbon benefits.
Here's a great piece by @nicholasdcarter.bsky.social
drawdown.org/insights/eig...
But the science is clear: It doesn't work. Methane and land-use emissions just overwhelm any soil carbon benefits.
Here's a great piece by @nicholasdcarter.bsky.social
drawdown.org/insights/eig...
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I spent 120 hours on this so I'm going to repost it quite a few times.
September 11, 2026 at 12:08 AM
I spent 120 hours on this so I'm going to repost it quite a few times.