Last week I uploaded full instructions to demo 'Ocean Acidification in a Test Tube' 🌊🌈🧪 to University Geoscience UK's new teaching resources portal: https://earth-science.org.uk/search-results/entry/311/

If you have Earth sciences teaching materials that might be useful for schoolteachers, do consider uploading and sharing here: https://earth-science.org.uk/teach-earth/.

#oceanacidification #climate #climatechange #carboncycle #oceans #geoscience #geology #earthscience #science #teaching #teachers #classroom

🚨NEW #preprint open for feedback🚨
“you just look at rocks, and have beards” Perceptions of geology from the UK: a qualitative analysis from an online survey."

How do people who have, and have not, studied #geology perceive the subject? TL;DR: What is geology? Geologists struggled to define the subject and outsiders think it's just boring rocks. Positives - interdisciplinarity, future-facing, transformational experiences - were sadly mentioned only by geology 'insiders'.

https://doi.org/10.31223/X5MD4N

https://itsairborne.com/intro-to-monitoring-co2-20f191dd8f60

CO2 monitoring is a powerful tool for assessing air quality and reducing covid exposure. I carry one of these monitors with me to make informed choices about the spaces I do (or do not) occupy and to improve the safety and accessibility of meetings and events I organise.

This detailed intro to CO2 monitoring explains:
- How to use it
- What it tells you
- What levels should be
- Limitations you need to be aware of
- Gauging risk for airborne disease transmission

"One in five students at Russell Group universities are considering dropping out because of the cost of living crisis, and A QUARTER ARE REGULARLY GOING WITHOUT FOOD AND OTHER ESSENTIALS." So what is the Russell Group chief executive's big urgent ask of the UK government? To increase student loans (and thus student debt). Truly inspired leadership.

https://www.theguardian.com/education/2023/mar/12/one-in-five-students-at-top-universities-consider-dropping-out-over-cost-of-living?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

WTAF?! 🤬
Disqualified from fieldwork based on medical conditions that their doctors did not consider risks. Required to undergo medical procedures that their doctors said were not needed. Banned on the basis of a mental health condition with which they had never been diagnosed.
#nsf #disability #fieldwork #ableism

https://www.eenews.net/articles/how-nsf-uses-absurd-health-reasons-to-block-scientists-from-polar-missions/