Assoc Prof Robyn Pickering

For Africa, climate change is not about the future. It's about now. Our crops failing, our lakes shrinking, our people displaced — while boardrooms thousands of miles away count record profits. We don't have a climate problem. We have a justice problem. #ClimateJustice

Listen to @pickeringrobyn.bsky.social and @drpeechiwara.bsky.social in conversation with CapeTalk’s Pippa Hudson about the team’s recent @nrf.bsky.social Science Team Award and our track record of African research excellence. 🎙️ www.heriuct.co.za/news-content...

this feels so familiar-it's almost painful: in addition to research...women of color often perform large amounts of...service that is not rewarded formally, but can negatively impact their evals if they say no....Men can...be bad departmental citizens as long as their research is valued-women can’t

Proposing analog to,”racism can explain every weird thing in America” is, “women are busy working for money is the secret reason everything we miss about a society is now dying.”

Found the best rocks on the beach today 🪨💙🤍 These are actually beautiful examples of the famous Seapoint contact: granite intruding into shale producing spotted hornfels 😍👌🏽

Universities have the research capacity, the educational mission and the moral obligation to lead on menopause education. It is time for men in academia to step up, drive the conversation and share the burden, writes Mark Butterick: https://ow.ly/W4Jm50ZUwmV #Menopauseawareness

My kids say this all the time! Last year was all 6-7… Now this.

#MinCup26 FINALS!!! We have a pair of geometric beauties as deep red #Cuprite is against versatile #Quartz. VOTE: www.mineralcup.org/2026/vote-re... RESULTS: www.mineralcup.org/2026/vote-re...

Yes every woman has been harassed, many assaulted. But every woman has also experienced invisible loss from moments she avoided harassment. She felt a space becoming unsafe, so she left, while men stayed on. And in leaving, she lost: opportunities, experiences, learning, promotions, even simply fun.

“There is a certain threshold when there is no more stopping the total breakdown of the AMOC.” PIK’s @rahmstorf.bsky.social explains how global warming could weaken the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation AMOC by adding more freshwater to the North Atlantic. www.youtube.com/watch?v=sNOS...

We're publishing new guidance to support trans people who do fieldwork (any work outside the office)! Now we need your help to get them seen so please share! inclusivefieldwork.leeds.ac.uk/trans/

Gran Paradiso Aug. 1980 | Sept. 2026 Incredible repeat photography of the Gran Paradiso glaciers 46 years apart, showing the magnitude of man-made glacial collapse in the Alps - which will never be white again! 🧊🔥 📷 Antonio and Riccardo Bussano 🙏

After the Trump administration cut funding for the next U.S. National Climate Assessment and dismissed its authors, the science didn’t stop. AMS and AGU launched the U.S. Climate Collection. Now its first paper is published. Science first. Evidence matters. 👏 headlines.ametsoc.org/2026/09/22/f...

I'm seeking to fill a #PhD position in my #structuralgeology group @uni-jena.de on deep #geothermal resources in central Germany. The post is ideal for #geoscience students with interest in brittle deformation, #tectonic stress analysis and #fieldwork. www.chemgeo.uni-jena.de/en/72369/ope...

Super proud of my now former student Dr Rivoningo Khosa who graduated with her #PhD yesterday ❤️🙌🏽🥳 My first UCT PhD graduate 💫 So a big moment for us both 😊

Big graduation day!! Super super proud of my first UCT PhD graduate 😊💫🙌🏽 Dr Khosa worked hard for this moment 💪🏽 Congratulations 🥳

🏆 HERI is proud to last night receive the NRF Science Team Award! It recognises contributions to research excellence and key members @pickeringrobyn.bsky.social, Rebecca Ackermann, @drpeechiwara.bsky.social, Wendy Black, Lauren Schroder & Palesa Madupe. 🎉 www.heriuct.co.za/news-content...

Wondering about what brilliant science we have published during August with the #EGUJournals? Check out the latest GeoRoundup, with all the #OpenAccess highlights on the #EGUblogs! 👉Discover more here: egu.eu/0QDBJ2

Literally.

The World: WTF are those planes doing flying so low?!? The whole stadium could have been kaput! South Africans: Lekker bru! Fly lower next time, though, ja?

Dolly Parton was an advocate for vaccines, public health, literacy and marginalized communities go.nature.com/4gwB0wA

This is partly tied in with a long-term lack of recognition for collectors, field hands, preparators, database managers, collections managers, volunteers, etc. That's getting somewhat better, but still there is much to do. <7/n>

I inadvertently deleted the thread w/ the link to the published version of this paper in Bio&Phil (🤦‍♀️): here it is! 🏺🦣🧪💀 It’s not OA, but the publisher’s full text is available on ResearchGate. Or, more simply... drop me a line! 📩 link.springer.com/article/10.1... #evosky #philbio #philsky

It's doing its best!

#sadchairsofacademia This is a beauty

Nature honors Dolly Parton's scientific legacy. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

First Dolly and now Tim Curry?! Folks, check in on the theater kids in your life.

✨kinda chic to be a Boulder icon designed by I.M. Pei (and go really overboard on this trend 🤭)

here is the thing. if you tell me that you believe that race is a biological category and that it is a guide to the objective superiority and inferiority of groups of people, i am not calling you a racist to *insult* you, i am calling you a racist because it best describes your beliefs.

I had not some across this before, but if you want an example Nathan Cofnas’ scholarship, this is a doozy. Again I say, being sacked is not the problem; being recruited in the first place is what deserves scrutiny.

Optimist: The cup is half full Pessimist: The cup is half empty Geologist: the water in the cup is a geopetal structure which allows us to tell you that the glass is right way up.

📚 Whose voices shape our past? Drawing on her SAJS review of the book The Untold History and Prehistory of African Indigenous Palaeontology, @drpeechiwara.bsky.social reflects on representation, Indigenous knowledge, and the stories we tell about Africa's past. 🔗 www.heriuct.co.za/news-content...

As a woman, who isn’t feminine, won’t perform middle-class identity, who doesn’t aspire to class and status, an unashamed northerner, who won’t hide the accent, English academia is about the fight. You fight to get in, you fight to be taken seriously by male colleagues, and you fight to stay.

I wonder why the media didn't pursue THIS plagiarist so harshly? I can't qwhite put my finger on it 🤔

"The internet itself is not filled with uniformly reliable sources, and ChatGPT, with no notion of a world outside its language tokens and their relationships, simply does not have the kinds of knowledge needed to distinguish reliable sources from unreliable ones"

If someone near you is secretly recording with glasses, yell “META stop recording!” It works even if you’re not the owner. (This is more effective than the Disney trick, since there are AI tools to remove background music.)

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