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🎓The third graduate story is from Bright Aryee (@Brightaryee4) who is very passionate about the #Earth and its processes. He would like to remind everyone that it is vitally important to embrace every opportunity to learn.
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Here are some questions for you to answer:
1️⃣ How did your degree in #geoscience help you in your chosen #career?
2️⃣ What have you learnt since being employed?
3️⃣ What knowledge can you pass onto students currently in education?
4️⃣ What do you wish you’d have known?
✍️ Write us a blog! It only has to be 600 words, with as many photos as you like- we’ll help you edit it, and you’ll get some great outreach experience for your CV!
📧 Geoforthefuture@gmail.com
New Blog! Have you heard about @QUARTETnary, the new card game all about geological time?
Creator @iris_van_zelst tells us why she created this awesome game and how she collaborated with a chemist and an illustrator (@drlperezdiaz!) to make it happen!
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Our virtual French Geology Exchange is BACK!
We are looking for geoscientists to do a one-off online outreach interview in February/March 2024! If your expertise fits one/more themes below & you'd be keen to chat geoscience with a group of students studying English, get in touch!
ALT Take part in cross-cultural geoscience outreach! Our French Geology Exchange is back for a 4th year!
We’re looking for English-fluent geoscientists who can provide an online outreach interview to a group of French students in February/March 2024. If you’d like to be involved and your knowledge falls into one of the categories below, DM us @geoforthefuture or email us on geoforthefuture@gmail.com! 2024 themes: Disaster Risk Reduction- how can geoscientists keep us safe?
The Race to Net Zero - How are geoscientists responding to the climate crisis?
Marine geoscience- what can the oceans tell us about our planet?
Responsible resources- how can we sustainably resource the future?
The Energy Transition- how can geoscience power a clean future?
Equitable futures - How is geoscience evolving for a fairer world?
Digital geoscience- how do geoscientists work with big data?
Environmental management- how are geoscientists protecting our environments?
@GeoForTheFuture is 4 years old! 😯 This week we reflect on the fantastic stories our contributors shared in 2023 and the activities GftF was involved in- thanks all!
Here's to a 2024 full of more awesome and inspiring Geoscience! 🌏 Tash, Hazel & Jen 💚 geoscienceforthefuture.com/h…
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Our new blog is a story of the wonders of ice 🥶 and how we can explore the secret world beneath it! @rob_storrar explains the SLIDE project, which is contributing to our understanding of #climatechange by studying the fate of Greenland's hidden lakes
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ALT Pink sky at top of image with mountains in distance. The front of a pale blue cracked glacier is behind a lake. A rugged rocky landscape is in the foreground, with 3 smaller lakes. A collection of green, red and white tents are set up in a grassed area. Text reads "why are there hidden lakes under giant ice sheets?"
Did this *really* happen?!
New blog alert- This month, we are discussing sexism in Geoscience, through a series of anonymous perspectives and with reflections from @team_dtrh 🙏
We hope the piece sparks conversations - we still have a long way to go.
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ALT A comic from Did This Really Happen? A women gives a PhD presentation. Afterwards a man says "to be honest I didn't listen to anything you said... I was too busy determining whether you would sleep with me." The woman is furious and upset.
We here @GeoForTheFuture strongly believe that science is for everyone, everywhere.
Please read this letter to the UK government arguing that very point & consider signing 🙏
OK #Science twitter - do your thing! We have written an open letter to Conservatives strongly opposing 'kicking woke ideology out of science' rhetoric & show they do not represent science. Please distribute widely! Screen readable text signature form at hull.onlinesurveys.ac.uk/edi…
ALT "Sign our open letter to the UK Government and stand up for Equity Diversity and Inclusion in Science" superimposed on test tubes with coloured liquids
NEW BLOG! Agnessa Spanellis talks gaming and geohazards- Find out how universities in the UK & Indonesia worked together with local communities to create a disaster risk reduction game for those living in the shadow of Merapi 🌋
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ALT Photo of Merapi, a come shaped volcano with white smoke coming from its top. Screenshot of the computer game app on the bottom right of image. Text says Gaming and Geohazards- using games to improve risk communication at one of the world most dangerous volcanoes
"a fresh re-framing of the geoscience’s relationship to society would seem to be urgently needed."
We could not agree more. Let's all push into phase 3 folks. We can do it.
Check out this innovative new article about redrawing how we see, and move forward with, our discipline:
We're compiling perspectives for a blog about sexism in Geoscience- are things improving with time? We would love to hear from geoscientists from a range of backgrounds / identities who may like to contribute a quote or paragraph - if you're interested, get in touch 🙏
NEW BLOG: As the global climate emergency enters terrifying new heights this month, we speak to Prof. Dan Parsons @bedform about the climate crisis, flood risk and the future of geoscience.
How can we predict risk and understand hazard more effectively?
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ALT An image showing a traffic light road sign emerging from a flooding street. The text reads "Climate change, flood risk and the future of geoscience"