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.
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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!
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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No country in the world has recorded as many lightning strikes as Spain in recent days.
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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 👇
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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.
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!
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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.
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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.
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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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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
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2024 AAB IPM meeting 'Biocontrol and IPM in Uncertain Climatic and Economic Environments'
📅 Nov 12-13 in Leicester
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- Catherine Bradshaw @ClimateCb
- @tomallenstevens @bofinfarmers
Abstract submission is OPEN!
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#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 🔓
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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The password game is out now! Good luck 👹
> neal.fun/password-game/
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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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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…
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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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)
NGeo: Middle Miocene deep ocean temperatures were linked to Antarctic Ice Sheet extent, not volume, due to distinct vegetation-climate feedbacks
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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