I am a mom and scientist begging everyone to look closer at the muck. We’ve been conditioned to see wetlands as wastelands. But three decades of research, I see a fiercely defiant wilderness. The boreal mire is a dynamic carbon-trapping vault that in some places has outlasted ice ages. 1/

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We are told to ignore the racism of Hegel, Kant, Locke etc because they were just "men of their time". So what do we do with the racism of current academics? Are they too just "men of their time"? What is this "time" that seems to make racists of men?

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It has been a productive few weeks here in the Oxford Tephra Lab. We have been blasting through the sample preparation, ready for geochemical analysis. 💥🌋 @elowilkinsonrowe.bsky.social @danmclean.bsky.social & Louis Chambers @unioxarchaeology.bsky.social

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Kilauea erupted again yesterday in a fierce display. In only the 2nd time in 40 years, park officials closed the area due to the intensity. Fountains were officially recorded at 500 m high, grapefruit size tephra were being ejected, and tephra fall was measured up to 20 miles away. #volcano #hawaii

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Huge congratulations to Shashank for successfully defending his PhD on Monday! 🥳 We are so proud of you and everything you’ve achieved in your research here in Geography @uomseed.bsky.social With many thanks to Ann Rowan and Pete Ryan for examining and to Angela Harris as external chair.

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