Lucy Houghton

Secondary Geography Teacher 👩🏼‍🏫 @RGS_IBG Scholar 19-20 🌍 / Alumni of @univofstandrews @_SMRU_ 🐋 and @LivUni 🌊 / Explorer🗺, scuba diver🤿, SUP🏄🏼‍♀️

[Dr Emma Kell FCCT @thosethatcan]

Nothing will change quickly, but I’m relishing the rare feeling of (cautious) optimism and looking forward to a new day and a new government tomorrow.

[VeryBritishProblems @SoVeryBritish]

I was just asked if I was “ready for Christmas”.

It is the 23rd of November. I’m not even ready for this afternoon.

[Lucy Houghton @geographylucy]

Job advert for #geographyteacher in Milton Keynes for anyone interested! Large secondary school with post-16 college. Loads of great facilities inc interactive boards in every classroom, fully resourced curriculum with amazing HoD & unlimited tea/coffee!

https://t.co/GiLVhXKNck

[Liam Dutton @liamdutton]

This @UK_CEH graphic for 31st October shows why a large swathe of Great Britain is prone to flooding at the moment.

Soils over many areas are very wet (blue) and are unable to soak up much water.

This means that even modest amounts of rainfall can potentially cause problems.

[Lucy Houghton @geographylucy]

My thoughts go out to any other teachers who are in a similar position 🤧🦠
I’m on day 4 on flu symptoms with no signs of it getting better yet, being ill in half term truly sucks 😭

[Ali A. Rizvi 🇨🇦 @aliamjadrizvi]

Right now, here’s the way to think about this.

You’re a kid in school and another kid with a legitimate grievance against your grandparents (that wasn’t your fault or his) is coming at you to beat you up. You manage to subdue him—you’re sitting on top of him now, your hands pinning his wrists to the ground. “Let me go!” he says. “I don’t want to fight,” you say. “If I let you go, do you promise not to hit me?” But he’s silent. If you let him go, he punches you out. But if you don’t let him go, you’re a bully forcing yourself on this younger, poorer kid. It’s hopelessly deadlocked.

[Ruth Swailes @SwailesRuth]

A really good question from a great headteacher I know. If a member of staff used the same language as the Home secretary used yesterday, would they be failing in their safeguarding duties if they didn't flag this up with Prevent as a person who has potentially been radicalised?

[Peter Garbutt #Sortition #UBI #GND @PeterG4NES2019]

@LouHaigh @jackalsbynight And, given the #ClimateEmergency roads are not what we need.
Rail electrification will help.
Investment in agriculture and industry closer to cities.
Making use of brownfield sites.
Retrofit homes.

[Alex Kealy @alexkealy]

Does feel sort of mad that a Prime Minister who wasn't even a full ranking cabinet minister at the time of the 2019 election & is 20 points behind in the polls just gets to cancel the country's largest infrastructure project, which his party's manifesto committed to completing

[Daniel Hugill @DanielHugill]

Actually, in the real world it is poverty.

[National Trust @nationaltrust]

After a summer of wildfire and floods, and records broken here in the UK, yesterday's announcement is barely fathomable. Future generations will ask why, after these stark signs, the government would put this country’s global leadership on climate change into reverse.

Fairness should absolutely be central to any change, but it is not fair that our children will have their future blighted by the poor decisions made today. It isn't fair that businesses that have invested heavily in pioneering green technologies and the jobs of tomorrow will have to put their plans on ice, nor that changes in policy endanger our much-loved cultural heritage and natural environment, undermining everything from food security to our health and wellbeing. And it isn't fair that the poorest in our society will lose out most in the future.

Progress towards Net Zero must be sustained, not kicked down the road for political expediency.

We urge the Prime Minister and his Government to rethink.

[Lucy Houghton @geographylucy]

@woollyvix @geographygem This was where I got engaged this summer! It’s beautiful 💚

[Jon Hutchinson @jon_hutchinson_]

If you’re going back tomorrow and feeling anxious, I’ll offer the same advice that I give every year.

Try and remember that nobody else knows what they’re doing either.

[Lucy Houghton @geographylucy]

It’s been a good summer holidays so far!… ⛰️💍 #peakdistrict #engaged

[Professor Mark Maslin 👋 𝕏 @ProfMarkMaslin]

Treating #beef like #coal 🪨 would make a big dent in greenhouse-gas emissions

Cattle are a surprisingly large producer of greenhouse gases - time to stop eating beef

34% of global greenhouse gases i from food production

#climatechange #vegetarian

https://t.co/UZrUPqxh4m

[Primary Geography @primary_geog]

Every year, I watch twitter fill up with laminated resources. As soon as you add plastic to paper, that resource will be round for thousands of years. Is that a legacy you want to leave? Is that the sustainability you wish to model to your pupils? Limit your laminating!

[Tomas Pueyo @tomaspueyo]

🌡️Heat+💧water+💩fertilizer➡️🌿crops➡️🧑‍🤝‍🧑ppl

I go into a lot more detail in the article below:

https://t.co/vFYHlQhwjN

[Jason Sawle (@gis4schools.bsky.social) @GIS4Schools]

If you are an educator and are teaching about the impacts of climate change, like this terrible coral bleaching event, the new National Geographic MapMaker has live data from @CoralReefWatch to assist you and help your students understand the impacts https://t.co/tHARZSHE6U

[BBC News (UK) @BBCNews]

Eating less meat is 'like taking eight million cars off road', new study suggests https://t.co/aBZrXoACbP

[James Loveridge Photography @JLP_Dorset]

A massive landslide on the Jurassic Coast east of Seatown Beach took place overnight!

It's the same location as the one in April 2021, which was described as 4,000 tonnes and the biggest landslide in the area for 60 years. This definitely breaks that record.

#rockfall #dorset