Ruth Moore (she/her)

MSc Geophys @UBCEOAS|Researching Arctic climate change|BSc Astrophys @UCD_physics|founder @womeninstem_ucd|@GMooreScholars|🇮🇪in🇨🇦|🏳‍🌈|outdoor enthusiast

[nature @Nature]

Researchers in Canada got most of what they were hoping for in the country’s 2024 federal budget, with a big boost in postgraduate pay and more funding for research and scientific infrastructure https://t.co/bdqHWm4Nh2

[Sarah Laframboise @SLaframboise14]

#GradStudent scholarships and #Postdoc fellowships got a raise today for the first time in 21 years🙌

Immensely grateful to all those who have been pushing for this. It truly takes a village!

Still processing and will have more thoughts soon! But overall this👇 is great news!

[Brent Toderian @BrentToderian]

It’s REALLY important that #Vancouver’s Downtown Business Association, who were originally AGAINST downtown bike-lanes, later became one of their most vigourous supporters, because of EVIDENCE that bike-lanes are better for downtown business than any street parking they replace.

[Mike Hudema @MikeHudema]

When we let nature be nature amazing things can happen.

Protect nature in all its forms. #ActOnClimate

#ClimateAction #climate #energy #nature #rewilding

[Minorities in Polar Research @PolarImpact]

Dr. Maya Bhatia, biogeochemist, climate researcher and Associate Professor @UAlberta has died while doing fieldwork in Grise Fiord (Aujuittuq), Nunavut, Canada. Our deepest sympathy is extended to her family, friends and colleagues. https://t.co/gka9B2D2M5

[Dr Charlie Gardner (also on the blue place) @CharlieJGardner]

Happy 111th birthday to this little one

[Chris Bataille @bataille_chris]

I lived in the region when this was installed. People thought it was an insane waste of money (if I remember correctly a couple of million at the time). It probably saved that in human trauma and auto damages in the first year.

[Simon Donner @simondonner]

Since the sweltering day 35 years ago that James Hansen sat in front of the US Congress and announced that global warming "is here", we keep making the mistake of thinking this will be the heat wave, the storm, or the flood that forces the world to take climate action. (1/3)

[Ruth Moore (she/her) @ruth_moore_]

It was also wonderful to get to meet so many other graduate students who care about their research and making the world a better place through science communication! Thank you again to the organizers for their amazing work. https://t.co/utq7366tjo

[ComSciConCAN @ComSciConCAN]

Sending so much gratitude to all of the attendees, experts, and sponsors who made the amazing 2023 ComSciConCAN possible! We are still reflecting on how wonderful it was to spend the weekend with you all. Keep in touch and please always send us your #SciComm!

-#CSCC23 Organizers

[Ruth Moore (she/her) @ruth_moore_]

I had a wonderful time presenting our work developing a new graduate course in Science Communication and Outreach (SCI-LEnS) at @ComSciConCAN 2023 at @McMasterU ! It was great to get feedback on our project and to meet other grad students who are passionate about Sci Comm!

[Ruth Moore (she/her) @ruth_moore_]

My main takeaway from this conference was the importance of authenticity in both your science and communication. We have shared 6 c's during this panel - communication, collaboration, curiosity, calm, compassion and courage.
https://t.co/JhkkzRfgDa

[georgiahadjis @georgiahadjis]

“Before people care what you believe, they have to believe that you care”

Incredible panel by @AnthonyMxSE @ShawnHercules @edavy87 on staying playful and curious in academia, promoting science, and talking to people with different perspectives. So inspiring!🔥@ComSciConCAN

[Dr Raul Pacheco-Vega @raulpacheco]

Academic friends: it’s August 1st.

[Mike Hudema @MikeHudema]

India is lining their canals with #solarpower. It provides #cleanenergy and stops water evaporation at the same time.

We have so many solutions. Implement them. #ActOnClimate

#ClimateCrisis #ClimateAction #renewables #solar #GreenNewDeal #IPCC

[hostile uterus @Dannyxbobbyx]

To think this money could have instead been used for endometriosis research or interstitial cystitis research or female sexual dysfunction research or free paps or free mammograms or free birth control or universal prenatal care or access to pelvic floor physical therapy or

[Tashi Dhendup 🐾 @_tashidhendup]

We made it officially public today. Bhutan has an estimated 131 tigers, which is about a 27% increase from our previous estimate in 2015. Happy that the country continues to lead at the conservation front! There are less than 5000 tigers in the wild today.

[Brian Cox @ProfBrianCox]

A few more thoughts on the possibility of life beyond Earth. All these thoughts are guesses. The lack of firm evidence for alien intelligence (so far) is sometimes called the Fermi Paradox, and it is a paradox. Put simply, there has been over 10 billion years and there are many millions of worlds in the Milky Way on which a civilisation could have arisen as far as we know. At first sight, one might therefore expect that there should be many civilisations in the galaxy far in advance of us, and we might have expected to see them. Why don’t we (or, let’s be careful, why is the evidence not bloody obvious!)?

One answer might be that civilisations never develop interstellar travel. I don’t see any reason why interstellar travel is impossible, and I think we’ll develop it if we survive into the 22nd century.

Related - perhaps civilisations don’t ever solve the problems posed by industrialisation and the discovery of nuclear weapons and never make it to the stars. Topical - see Oppenheimer!Maybe just ‘getting along’ as a global civilisation is harder than science.

Maybe (see UFO hearings) they are here but we haven’t discovered them or somebody knows but has managed to keep it a secret? Maybe. But if this is the case then at least I can say that the alien civilisations aren’t making their presence very obvious, otherwise my Astronomy colleagues who spend their time gazing at the sky and listening for signals would surely have spotted them! But let’s not rule out the possibility that we just haven’t detected them (or there is evidence but only a few people know about it) but they are indeed here.

My guess is that the average number of civilisations in a typical galaxy is low - perhaps less than 1. That’s a guess, based on what we know about the evolution of complex life on Earth. Put simply, it took the best part of 4 billion years here to go from cell to civilisation, and that’s a third of the age of the Universe. I think this MAY imply that, if this is typical (lots of ifs) then the Milky Way may be filled with microbes but not complex living things at our level of intelligence. This would be my guess.

BUT make no mistake, I wouldn’t be in the least bit surprised if a UFO landed in Oldham town centre tomorrow morning and the captain said ‘Take me to the leader of Oldham Metropolitan Borough Council’. In that case the Fermi Paradox would no longer be a paradox, I’d have learnt a lot about biology and I could get back to tweeting about other interesting stuff. I’d also ask them why gravity is so weak relative to the other forces of Nature.

[ComSciConCAN @ComSciConCAN]

We are so THRILLED to welcome everyone to ComSciConCAN 2023 THIS FRIDAY, and want to send a huge thank you in advance to all our funders and sponsors who make running this program and supporting excellence in Canadian science communication possible. #CSCC23

🎉THANK YOU!🎉

[Ruth Moore (she/her) @ruth_moore_]

Ireland has ... left the chat

[David W Hogg @davidwhogg]

Check out the cursed mesh that ocean scientists use to represent data and models: It has THREE poles (two visible here and one in Antarctica):

[Simon Donner @simondonner]

This is being misconstrued, for which I'm sorry. Climate change is dangerous, and requires our full throated attention!! I am merely worried that doomsday talk is contributing to many folks I meet having deep, paralysing anxiety, rather than the energy needed to inspire change.