Thread by @Dr_Gilbz

1/ 2021 was a train wreck for my personal life, but it was pretty great for me professionally - so in the spirit of optimism, here’s a little thread of the highlights.

2/ @c2kittel and I wrote a neat little GRL paper about the fate of #Antarctic ice shelves at various levels of warming

agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/20…

3/ It was widely reported in the media and we also wrote some articles in @CarbonBrief: carbonbrief.org/guest-post-the…

… and @ConversationUK : theconversation.com/antarcticas-ic…

4/ I became a regular guest on @SkyNews #DailyClimateShow, and made my first live TV studio appearance since the start of the pandemic on the Great Debate

5/ There was lots of coverage of the IPCC report that came out in August, and I chipped in to explain some of the most important points

6/ I worked with friends old & new on some exciting collaborations (shout outs to @c2kittel, @AntarcticGlacie and @ClimateAdam), including this fun video about #SeaLevelRise that I made with Climate Adam:

7/ I wrote up the final parts of my PhD work into 2 papers - part 1 is accepted and available as a pre-print here: essoar.org/doi/10.1002/es…

8/ The @SEEMONSTER22 project launched! I've been working on this with an amazing creative and scientific team. It will reimagine an oil rig into a positive vision of the future in 2022

9/ I had the enormous pleasure of writing an @OpenUniversity #microcredential course about #polar #ClimateChange with @icey_mark @MickyLachmann @EstherESpring. Sign up here: futurelearn.com/microcredentia…

10/ Ensuring young people have an excellent #climate #education is a SO important - and I was honoured to contribute to @uniofreading’s #ClimateEdu summit along with @ed_hawkins @CharltonPerez & @UniRdg_IoE as well as a #ClimateChange course for 16-18 yo futurelearn.com/courses/our-ch…

11/ I’ve had some incredible mentors over the years, and this year I started repaying the favour, for instance becoming a @girlsgearingup mentor - more to come in 2022!

12/ I was thrilled to be asked to give an invited talk at #AGU21 - and it was excellent to hear from & share ideas with friends and colleagues from across the world - including @tridatta @highlatitude @bricepynoel @_tslater

13/ My final scholarly act this year was to write another @ConversationUK piece about the latest research on the #Thwaites glacier
theconversation.com/antarcticas-do…

14/ BUT! Also featuring in 2021 were some top fails, inc. many rejections, including not even getting an interview for a postdoc I thought I was pretty qualified for and returning to the drawing board for my book

15/ More to learn and more to come in 2022 - Happy New Year folks!