Sometimes I write and present things other than terse scientific journal articles, including for media, outreach, and sci-comm. Here’s some examples:
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Blogs
Professional news – the blog on this site
Sci-Comm on climate tipping points & feedbacks – climatetippingpoints.info
Other occasional sci-comm posts – Medium
Informal thoughts on people, nature, & the Earth system – Gaia ex Machina
Media
Articles by me:
6/12/23 – Article by me and James Dyke for The Conversation (& syndicated): Climate tipping points are nearer than you think – our new report warns of catastrophic risk
10/7/23 – Article for The Conversation (& syndicated): What El Niño means for the world’s perilous climate tipping points
28/11/22 – Article for IPI Global Observatory: Tipping Points Research Makes Urgent Case for Limiting Global Temperature Rise to Lowest Possible
6/10/22 – Article for The Conversation (& syndicated): Climate tipping points could lock in unstoppable changes to the planet – how close are they?
Appearances:
30/10/25 – Interviewed on the Smart Cookies podcast, , covering climate change, denialism, doomism, tipping points, and geoengineering.
8/10/25 – Video summarising some of the results of the Global Tipping Points 2025, particularly on the Amazon Forest
19/8/25 – Comment for New Scientist on analysis of recent carbon sink weakening trends (see also my related explainer at climatetippingpoints.info)
22/7/25 – Comment for Supermiljöbloggen (på svenska) on SMOCreversalgate (see also my social media posts on this)
30/5/25 – Panelist for BBC Radio Scotland segment on “weather whiplash” – here’s my blogpost write-up
16/5/25 – Comment for Carbon Brief on a new study on the potential for future Amazon & Siberian forest dieback
12/3/25 – Comment & Interview for Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists for their special issue on tipping points
19/2/25 – Comment for New Scientist on a recent preprint on AMOC/Amazon interactions
17/1/25 – Interview with BBC Radio Scotland on 2024’s record CO2 increase (available for 30 days at BBC sounds here from 27:15 to 30:10, archive recording here)
6/11/24 – Letter to New Scientist critiquing their 28/9/24 editorial supporting Arctic geoengineering (archived pages 1 & 2)
24/9/24 – Background interview for Science Vs podcast on climate tipping points
1/8/24 – Comment for Carbon Brief on a new paper on tipping point risks during global warming overshoot by Möller et al. (full comment here)
11/6/24 – Comment for Le Figaro on a new permafrost tipping points assessment paper by Nitzbon et al. (full comment here)
4/4/24 – Comment for the Daily Maverick’s explainer on climate tipping points
6/12/23 – Comment for New Scientist on the publication of our Global Tipping Points Report 2023 (internet archive version)
27/10/23 – Profile by El País Semanal focusing on climate tipping points (open access English version)
25/10/23 – Comment for New Scientist on UN University’s ‘risk tipping points’ report (internet archive version)
31/7/23 – Comment for Washington Post on 2023’s climate records, and what they mean for tipping points (internet archive version)
20/7/23 – Comment for The Atlantic on climate tipping points and whether climate change is happening faster than expected (internet archive version)
12/7/23 – Interview with Steve Holden at LBC News discussing recent climate records and El Niño
12/6/23 – Interview with BBC Radio Somerset on the implications of the 2023-24 El Niño for climate change and the UK [N.B. BBC unfortunately deletes recordings after 30 days, so not currently available, but I wrote it up in a Medium post]
23/3/23 – Interview with BBC Radio Bristol discussing listener question on whether Britain is sinking [2h40m – N.B. BBC unfortunately deletes recordings after 30 days, so not currently available]
14/2/23 – Explaining permafrost tipping points to PBS Weathered:
5/10/22 – Interview with BBC Radio Bristol discussing listener question on whether the Earth is getting heavier [2h42m – N.B. BBC unfortunately deletes recordings after 30 days, so not currently available]
9-12/22 – Coverage of our paper on climate tipping points in Science:
Interviews – Carbon Brief, The Guardian, New Scientist, New York Times, Dagens Nyheter, Sveriges Radio, SVT Nyheter, TV4
Broadcasts – BBC World Service, Euronews, BBC Radio Ulster
Podcasts – RTÉ Hot Mess, Radio Ecoshock, Voice of America
Articles by me – Paper Explainer blogpost (climatetippingpoints.info), “Climate tipping points could lock in unstoppable changes to the planet – how close are they?” (The Conversation & syndicated), “Tipping Points Research Makes Urgent Case for Limiting Global Temperature Rise to Lowest Possible” (IPI Global Observatory)
Interview on EuroNews, 16/9/22
14/2/19 – Interview with Natur: Die Mächtige Moleküle – I was quoted along with my SRC colleague Ingo Fetzer on the natural history of carbon dioxide and climate in this German nature magazine. Not available online, unfortunately…
Older stuff:
2011-15 – Articles for The PG Chronicle – I regularly wrote for a monthly newsletter for PhD Students at the National Oceanography Centre Southampton; I mostly contributed ludicrous things and also edited many an issue. Classic articles included “Ducklingageddon”, the manifesto of the National Oceanography Centre Official Freedom Front (NOC-OFF), the introduction of fun licensing to prevent unsafe whimsy, and the NOC-MAN video game. This was not an entirely serious organ.
2009-2012 – Articles for The Dolphin’s Blowhole – I contributed some pieces for this Southampton student/activist alternative news blog (led by local legend Snorky MacDolphin).
2008-11 – Articles for The Wessex Scene – I wrote a few articles on environmental activism (such as “The Great Copenhagen Cop-out” after the Copenhagen 2009 climate talks) in the Politics section of Uni. Southampton’s official student newspaper Wessex Scene.
Outreach
2016-now – Climate Tipping Points: The Point of No Return? In 2016 the ReCoVER network supported me to do a science outreach project associated with my ReCoVER ECR PostDoc project in Southampton, which involved setting up and writing articles for climatetippingpoints.info, public speaking and conversations (at Southampton Researcher’s Cafe, The Science Room, & Winchester Cafe Scientifique), engaging with questions on social media, and commissioning & storyboarding an explainer animation posted on Youtube:
11/3/21 – Fact-check for Climate Feedback: Destruction of the Amazon forest very likely contributes to global warming, as accurately described in The National Geographic article
2019-20 – Researchers Desk & #ScientistsForFuture – Researchers Desk began as a stall held at #FridaysForFuture protests in Stockholm where youth strikers and members of the public can directly ask climate scientists questions about climate change. I have featured as one of the scientists taking questions, and helped recruit other scientists to come along as well. The first outing was at the May 2019 Global Climate Strike day in Kungsträdgården (for which I was interviewed beforehand about it by Swedish newspaper Dagens Nyheter), and there were more desks over the summer 2019 at Mynttorget, Sergels Torg, and the September strikes. I also gave a joint talk at PowerShift Sverige 2019 (“Reaching the Tipping Point: tip society, not the planet!”) and did a street lecture on climate tipping points for the FFF strikers outside the Swedish parliament. This is linked to my support of #ScientistsForFuture, including signing open letters to Science and Dagens Nyheter stating that the concerns and demands of the climate school strikers are justified.
23/6/20 – Podcast for Re.Think Talks: While all eyes are on COVID-19, the Amazon forest is burning – In 2020 I took part in a podcast with Stockholm Resilience Centre colleagues on the Amazon rainforest, covering the recent up-tick in forest fires and how close it may be to a tipping point:
2017 – Science-meets-Art project: Keystone Collapse – I helped run the website and stalls for a science-meets-art outreach project on lake ecosystem collapse centred on a sculpture by artist Chris Cudlip, which was led and commissioned by Dr. James Dyke and funded by the British Ecological Society.
Education
University Teaching
I teach on several undergraduate and postgraduate modules at Sussex University, including: ‘Skills and Concepts in Geography’ (including basic and quantitative/analytical skills) [UG], ‘Geographical Information Systems’ [UG], ‘The Science of Climate Change’ [MSc], ‘Climate change: Impacts and Adaptation’ [MSc], and ‘Critical Debates in Environment and Development’ [MSc] (see my uni. profile teaching page for current list).
Previously, I have taught on several Masters courses, including modules such as ‘Systems Thinking for Sustainability Challenges’ (2024), ‘Challenges of the Anthropocene’ (2018-20), ‘Field-based data collection for assessing sustainability’ (2016-17), & ‘Introduction to Sustainability’ (2017). I was also a Graduate Demonstrator for Undergraduate modules on ‘Palaeoclimate change’, ‘Biogeochemical cycles in the Earth system’, and ‘Geophysical field methods’ (2011-15), and have also worked as an Assistant Bushcraft Instructor (2011-12).
Seminars, Webinars, & Public Talks
Upcoming:
Autumn school talks [TBC]
Want to have me speak at your event? Get in touch, and we can discuss me giving a seminar, a public talk, or hiring me to speak!
Past:
30/6-3/7/25 – Co-convener “Earth Systems Tipping Points and Risks – Overview and Modelling“, Global Tipping Points Conference, Uni. Exeter
28/4/25 – Solicited speaker – EGU25 Session CL3.2.6, Earth resilience in the Anthropocene: tipping points, planetary boundaries and human-Earth system interactions: “Holocene stability: climate attractor, or lucky break?”
23/4/25 – Invited speaker – University of Southampton School of Ocean & Earth Sciences palaeoseminar: “Climate Tipping Points: what are they, and what can we do about them?“
10/2/25 – Invited speaker -University of Leicester Institute for Environmental Futures seminar series: “Climate Tipping Points: what are they, and what can we do about them?“
19/11/24 – Invited speaker – PBL Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency ‘Grey Swans’ seminar series: “Climate Tipping Points: some potential impacts & implications”.
12/11/24 – Invited speaker – Cardiff University School of Earth and Environmental Sciences Public Lecture Series 2024-2025: “Climate tipping points: how close are they and what to do about them?“ (X/twitter summary thread of talk from Dr. Aaron Thierry)
10/10/24 – Invited speaker – Sussex University Geography Department Seminar series: “Climate Tipping Points: what are they, and what can we do about them?” – introducing myself and some of my research area to new colleagues
9/7/24 – Invited speaker – Natural England Climate Change Network webinar series: “Climate tipping points: how close are they, and what can we do about them?”
3/7/24 – Invited speaker – Global Systems Institute conference, Uni. Exeter: “Earth system tipping points: an overview” (internal access recording)
29/4/24 – Invited speaker – Ma(th)ssX webinar series: “Tipping points during climate change and extinction events”
23/4/24 – Invited speaker – Sciences Po Master in Environmental Policy: “Climate Tipping Points: what are they, and what can we do about them?”
20/3/24 – Invited speaker & panellist – AIMES / Earth Commission / Future Earth / WCRP Tipping Points Discussion Series session on Communicating Tipping Points – thoughts on my experiences doing science communication on climate tipping points, particularly via climatetippingpoints.info
11/3/24 – Invited speaker – Earth Resilience 2024, KVA Sweden: “Tipping Points” – wrap-up event for the ‘Earth Resilience in the Anthropocene‘ project funded by the European Research Council, which I was a part of during my postdoc at Stockholm Resilience Centre.
22/2/24 – Invited speaker – Climate Engineering Gordon Research Conference: “Could Climate Tipping Points be Addressed through Climate Engineering?” – talks/discussions from GRCs are private as per GRC rules.
13/2/24 – Invited speaker – Euromarine Open Science Day & General Assembly 2024: “Tipping points in marine biosphere and circulation”, in Planetary Boundaries: Addressing the brink of the social-ecological & climatic tipping points of marine ecosystems
19/12/23 – Invited speaker – AIMES / Earth Commission / Future Earth / WCRP Tipping Points Discussion Series session on Global Tipping Points Report 2023: Discussion with Section Leads: “Earth system tipping points”
1/11/23 – Keynote speaker – The Dynamics of Climate and the Macroeconomy: A Workshop, National Academies: “Climate Impacts, Tipping Points, and Cascading Risks” (video)
21/9/23 – Invited speaker – Climate Stress Across the Biosphere Conference, Columbia University NY: “Climate tipping points and biosphere stress“
4/9/23 – Invited speaker (with Dr. Josh Buxton) – HEC Paris sustainability foundation course: “Climate extremes & tipping points“
31/5/23 – Invited speaker – Earth system boundaries for a just world on a safe planet: “Safe & Just Climate ESB” – launch of the Earth Commission paper introducing ‘Earth System Boundaries‘ at the Swedish Royal Academy (KVA) in Stockholm and broadcast by We Don’t Have Time (9/6/23)
8/6/23 – Invited speaker – Turing Institute Complex Social-Ecological Systems workshop: “Climate tipping points: how close are they, and can we increase social-ecological resilience to them?“
15/4/23 – Invited speaker – Eduqas Lecture at Geography Association conference: “Climate tipping points: how close are they, and what can we do about them?“
26/1/23 – Invited co-speaker – AIMES / Earth Commission / Future Earth / WCRP Tipping Points Discussion Series: “Climate Tipping Points: how to tip society, not the planet“
20/1/23 – Invited speaker – European Commission’s European School of Administration online talk: “Climate Tipping Points: How close are they, and what can we do about them?”
26/1/23 – Invited speaker – Researchers Desk: “Climate Tipping Points: How close are they, and what can we do about them? “
12/12/22 – Invited speaker – Cervest away day: “Climate Tipping Points: How close are they, and what can we do about them?“
12/11/22 – Invited speaker & panellist – COP27 European Union Side Event: What shipping and fishing must do to avert climate disaster, hosted by Seas at Risk: “Exceeding 1.5°C global warming could trigger multiple climate tipping points“
7/10/22 – Invited speaker – Corescam project seminar: “Exceeding 1.5°C global warming could trigger multiple climate tipping points“
25/3/22 – Invited speaker – ULB IGEOS seminar: “Climate Tipping Points and Arctic Methane: Is there a “Climate Time Bomb”? “
7/11/18 – Invited speaker – NOC Southampton Palaeo seminar: “Reduced carbon cycle resilience across the Palaeocene–Eocene Thermal Maximum”
3/16 – Invited speaker: University of Oslo CEED seminar
6/15 – Invited speaker: IUGG conference session on LIPS, Vents, & Volatiles
5/13 – Invited speaker: University of Bristol Oligocene Day
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