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Dr Catherine Bradshaw @ClimateCb

Climate scientist working on the interesting combination of Miocene climate, and crop pests and diseases. Met Office and University of Exeter. Views are my own.

Joined September 2020
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PhD opportunity with Dan Bebber, Ben Youngman, @PeteFalloon and I to make a difference in the world for food security. Please share with your networks!
Pete Falloon@PeteFalloon
21 Nov 2024
New PhD project just advertised looking at climate change and food security,(GW4 DTP). Co-supervised by Dan Bebber, Ben Youngman, @PeteFalloon @ClimateCb @BristolBioSci @MetOffice_Sci @GSI_Exeter @cabotinstitute Sep 2025 entry Closing date 13/01/25 exeter.ac.uk/study/funding/a…
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Nahel Belgherze
@WxNB_
31 Oct 2024
No country in the world has recorded as many lightning strikes as Spain in recent days.
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Met Office Science@MetOffice_Sci
22 Apr 2024
Do you work in the UK food or #agriculture sector? We're interested hearing your perceptions of #climate change adaptation in the UK food system in order to build resilience to weather and climate extremes. Complete our short survey 👇 forms.office.com/e/FTJxhT0rk…
Graphic used for our climate change adaptation in the UK food system survey uses icons to illustrate how climate change will impact the UK food system supply chain. E.g. how extreme heat could lead to water shortages and drought or how heavy rainfall can lead to severe flooding, both extremes could have negative impacts on crop growth, harvesting, transportation or storage.

ALT Graphic used for our climate change adaptation in the UK food system survey uses icons to illustrate how climate change will impact the UK food system supply chain. E.g. how extreme heat could lead to water shortages and drought or how heavy rainfall can lead to severe flooding, both extremes could have negative impacts on crop growth, harvesting, transportation or storage.

Pete Falloon@PeteFalloon
18 Mar 2024
As part of the @MetOffice_Sci Academic Partnership, with @UKRI_News @DefraGovUK and @foodgov we are conducting a survey on Climate Adaptation in the UK Food System - please share and take part - it should take less than 10 minutes to complete. Thanks! forms.office.com/e/FTJxhT0rk…
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Frédéric Suffert@wheatpath
15 May 2024
The recovery/phenotyping process of #Puccinia graminis aecidiospores from #Berberis leaves on a set of wild grasses & cultivated cereals has just started @INRAE_Bioger 🤗. This aims to provide info on the potential primary host (and f. sp.) and collect isolates in uredinial form.
Frédéric Suffert@wheatpath
5 May 2024
A microscopic examination of the aecia sampled this week from the #Berberis plants indicates that all - even the severely affected plant below 🫡 - yield small aeciospores with a thickened wall at their apex, a characteristic feature of #Puccinia graminis.
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EPPO OEPP@EPPOnews
12 May 2024
The paper from Rosace et al. 'Including climate change in pest risk assessment: Current practices and perspectives for future implementation' is now Open Access in the EPPO Bulletin. It provides detailed guidance for those considering this new challenge. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/…
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Pete Falloon@PeteFalloon
9 May 2024
NERC GW4 DTP PhD CASE studentship Improved extreme climate indices for food security risk analysis. Supervision team: Ben Youngman, Dan Bebber, Lina Mercado, @ClimateCb (@UniofExeter ), @PeteFalloon (@BristolUni /@metoffice ). Deadline 31/05/24: exeter.ac.uk/study/funding/a…
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Will Thurston@imthursty
7 May 2024
Latest qualitative risk assessment for bluetongue estimates a "very high" probability of a BTV-3 infection in livestock via windborne midge incursion to GB from the continent in 2024 bbc.co.uk/news/science-envir…

Bluetongue farm virus warning for sheep and cattle as midges blown into UK

Midges blown from northern Europe could spread a serious virus across farms in England, experts warn.

bbc.co.uk
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AAB @aabiologists.bsky.social@AABiologists
29 Apr 2024
🚨 SAVE-the-DATE 🚨 2024 AAB IPM meeting 'Biocontrol and IPM in Uncertain Climatic and Economic Environments' 📅 Nov 12-13 in Leicester - @RobertFinger1 - Catherine Bradshaw @ClimateCb - @tomallenstevens @bofinfarmers Abstract submission is OPEN! 🕸️ cvent.me/zQAWxw
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Pestinfo Wiki@PestinfoW
12 Apr 2024
#Pest risk assessments in a region are constrained by the uncertainties of #climate change - review in the EPPO Bulletin (@EPPOnews) of climate change scenarios and how they affect pest risk analyses, by @ClimateCb and others - doi.org/10.1111/epp.12985 🔓
Cover image of EPPO Bulletin Volume 54, Issue S1 (March 2024) - Special Issue on Climate Change and Pest Risk Analysis. World map showing different climate zones.

ALT Cover image of EPPO Bulletin Volume 54, Issue S1 (March 2024) - Special Issue on Climate Change and Pest Risk Analysis. World map showing different climate zones.
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Neal Agarwal
@nealagarwal
27 Jun 2023
The password game is out now! Good luck 👹 > neal.fun/password-game/
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Will Petty 🌳🌳@Microlambert
14 Dec 2022
Not very seasonal, but I finally got round to making a map of UK train stations walkable campsites. Shows campsites that are <3km from stations (i.e. basically next door), and 10-20km away (i.e. very roughly a day's walk). Useful? felt.com/map/Rail-Hike-Camp-…
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Agatha de Boer@Agatha_deBoer
16 Nov 2022
I am please to announce a 3-year climate modelling postdoc in my group (Stockholm University) to investigate the ocean evolution and climate transitions through geologic time, deadline 15 January 2023. For more info and how to apply email me or check, su.se/english/about-the-univ…
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New paper! Irrigation can cause new green bridges for wheat stem rust. doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/ac…. With co-authors @imthursty @JWillockSmith @monatamas @cam_plantepi @CIMMYT @MetOffice_Sci
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AFRICAP@gcrfafricap
9 Aug 2021
Our top takeaways from the recent @IOPPublishing paper by researchers @SEELeeds and @GSI_Exeter on climate change and soil erosion in #EastAfrica: 👇👇👇
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10.5 years after starting work on this project, I am so excited to finally see it in print!! Big thanks to my co-authors @Agatha_deBoer @CarolineLear @sindiarocks @ClimateSamwell @HelenCoxall and Petra Langebroek (who I don’t think is on Twitter)
Nature Geoscience@NatureGeosci
13 May 2021
NGeo: Middle Miocene deep ocean temperatures were linked to Antarctic Ice Sheet extent, not volume, due to distinct vegetation-climate feedbacks nature.com/articles/s41561-0…
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The comments 😂
Sir Michael@Michael1979
18 Mar 2021
Here's an interesting graph to illustrate how horses and pelicans compare since 1990
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I had to go to the optician yesterday, in the centre of town. First time since last summer. I was expecting a ghost town, but what I wasn’t expecting to see were quite so many shops boarded up nor the completely empty shops for those that I thought were just on furlough
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All the stock gone! Made me wonder what the future holds for our town centres? Are they ever going to recover from this? Or are they going to have to change completely in purpose?
Me last week: can you please check your school shoes still fit ok My daughter last week: yes, they are fine My daughter today: my school shoes have given me blisters
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