How did we get to this point? The impossible situation we find ourselves in now at @UCSanDiego and other @UofCalifornia campuses has a complex history. Here is a thread of some of it, with some relevant links: 🧵

https://twitter.com/drvasshe/status/1799548704682381783

🕰️ Unionisation efforts at @UofCalifornia began in the 1980s. In 1989, UC Berkeley students petitioned the Public Employment Relations Board (PERB) to be recognised as employees. #UC #HigherEd

It's Valentine's Day ❤️and you know what that means for @NASA @NASAEarth science: ROSES (Research Opportunities In Space & Earth Sciences) comes out.

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As we did last year, let's dive in and take a look!

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https://x.com/helenafricker/status/1626016064181252096?s=20

Given inflation, and salaries increasing, and the shear importance of the topic, the total amount must be higher this year...Am I right? 2/5

Here is a little story about what we are dealing with in the US with funding for working out how quickly Earth's ice is melting, leading to sea level rise (ice sheets and glaciers) and amplifying climate change through the ice-albedo feedback (sea ice)

A sad but true 🧵 1/9 @NASAEarth's ROSES call comes out on Valentine's Day every year. This is a big opportunity for funding for ice research. So let's take a look at what is on offer this year 👀 Exciting! 🥁 2/9

These three little penguins have no idea what an adventure they are about to have! Follow me to follow them. #Antarctica All aboard the flight to Santiago on the way to Punta Arenas and then on to #Antarctica #headingsouth

In August @NSF released a report they commissioned on sexual harassment in Antarctica: tinyurl.com/yhcam5xd which revealed that it is widespread, and has been occurring for a long time. 🧵 1/14 Since then, we have heard nothing from NSF about prevention plans for the imminent field season to help people now. The trouble is, doing nothing does harm. ourwatch.org.au 2/14

@NSF Office of Polar Programs released the report on the Results from the U.S. Antarctic Program’s Sexual Assault and Harassment Needs Assessment. And it is shocking. tinyurl.com/2zwbb7e6 Sit tight. Finding: Sexual Assault, Sexual Harassment, and Stalking Are Problems in the USAP Community

There have been three iceberg calving events from East Antarctica during March. This animation by @CapComCatWalk shows one dramatic style of calving: the collapse of Conger Ice Shelf around 15th March 1/6

https://twitter.com/CapComCatWalk/status/1507138158822973441

... And this one is a more gentle calving event from Totten Glacier 8th-20th March, a bit further east (clockwise), as reported by @icy_pete

https://twitter.com/icy_pete/status/1506646093257449474?s=20&t=x6ywyIVJ2G4zuvqt04CDXQ

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Sad news from Tasmania: legendary glaciologist Bill Budd has died. Bill was a pioneer in understanding how Antarctica will change in response to climate change, and made key contributions to field data collection and ice sheet modelling. 1/6
themercury.com.au/tributes/notic… When I was a PhD student I remember Bill at lunch sitting daily in the tea room at @UTAS_ IASOS, reading a scientific paper, sometimes @themercurycomau, or having a science discussion with someone. He would often ask me about my own work and was fascinated by satellite data. 2/6

In May 2006 I found a system of active subglacial lakes under the West Antarctic ice streams in @NASA_ICE's #ICESat laser altimetry, from my office at @Scripps_Ocean. ICESat showed the ice sheet surface going up and down by up to 10m (30ft) as water moved in and out of the lakes. What followed was 15 years of $NSF-funded fieldwork in Antarctica to better understand the lakes and their influence on the overlying ice sheet. This involved some tough and long fieldwork, and I am forever grateful to @grumplesiggy for taking this on for @Scripps_Ocean.

My name is Dr. Helen Fricker and I am a Professor of Geophysics at @Scripps_Ocean, @UCSanDiego. I am also a parent of two children currently in the @sdschools system, and a third who is a freshman at @uc Davis. 1/16 Through my profession I know the importance of trusting science when it comes to making decisions that affect the public. 2/16

In the late 1990s, Greenland and Antarctica were thought of as enormous but slow-changing freshwater reservoirs. We knew their waxing/waning during glacial cycles had caused sea level to rise/fall by 400 ft, but this had happened over 10s of 1000s of years.

A long icy🧵. 1/24 A big wake-up call came in the early 2000s, when Antarctica’s Larsen B Ice Shelf collapsed in 2002 in a matter of weeks, and huge outlet glaciers in southeast and west Greenland, such as Jakobshavn, Helheim and Kangerlussuaq glaciers lost their floating tongues. 2/24

This is what this means to me: as most of you know, I am British, and always will be. But, in February 2017, we became US citizens, after nearly 18 years here. For me it was bittersweet, I just could not get into it, it all felt wrong; I felt I was selling part of my soul. 1/6 When we came out after the ceremony, there was a cardboard cut-out of President Obama and Michelle Obama by the Democratic party booth, and I had my photo taken next to them as I registered to vote. 2/6