Sallie Burrough
@SLBurrough
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Adventures in past environments & African palaeo-science. National Geographic 'Explorer'. Wilderness addict. Science communicator learning to listen.
Oxford, England
Joined April 2011
Our latest paper (and last from my PhD) is out now in Quaternary Science Reviews! A thread... #geomorphology #Arabia #quaternary
https://t.co/6YXRtSOkNU
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Archaeological sites in the Makgadikgadi salt pans reveal how ancient humans used black silcrete formed from lake mud to make tools ⬇️Read more here⬇️ https://t.co/MaZT6HrVfC
@SLBurrough
#wild #africageographic #africageo #naturestories #wildlifestories #conservation
africageographic.com
Archaeological sites in the Makgadikgadi salt pans reveal how ancient humans used black silcrete formed from lake mud to make tools
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Great article from @SLBurrough about the importance of listening as part of the research process and science communication https://t.co/66EQxGP4Rb
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A year of failed fieldwork in Africa led @SLBurrough of @UniofOxford to ask questions about how #researchers interact with societies they work in. She shares five tips for transparent, inclusive #research practices https://t.co/WQaYh2TmR0 via @timeshighered #academictwitter
timeshighereducation.com
A year of failed fieldwork in Africa led Sallie Burrough to ask questions about how researchers interact with the societies they work in. Here, she shares five tips for transparent, inclusive...
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"Funding requirements to partner with local institutions are not enough. The partnership should be one driven by local priorities & equal participation." Important article from @SLBurrough on sharing scientific data with local communities https://t.co/UrKGWHoOYB
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Our paper is now out in Earth-Science Reviews! We bring together chronologies from fluvial sediments across southwestern Africa to assess evidence of late Quaternary hydrological change. @SLBurrough @kalaharidave
https://t.co/NCKzIPo1iS
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"You know what’s wrong with scientific power? It’s a form of inherited wealth. And you know what assholes congenitally rich people are." We're trying to do things differently in the Geosciences now. @SMothulatshipi @kalaharidave https://t.co/W41AynYAIX via @ConversationUK
theconversation.com
Scientists join their profession with the hope their research will benefit humanity. But many still inadvertently exploit local collaborators or communities as cheap labour.
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In this experiment Dr Rob Thompson of @UniRdg_Met shows just how long it takes water to soak into parched ground, illustrating why heavy rainfall after a #drought can be dangerous and might lead to flashfloods. @R0b1et @UniRdg_water
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First of 6 papers out in QSR, peeking into the lives of our ancestors who were lugging about silcrete on a salt-pan 75-thousand years ago in the #Makgadikgadi #Botswana. https://t.co/nEw7AMTuWR
@davidjnash @kalaharidave @SMothulatshipi @LeverhulmeTrust #archaeology #palaeoclimate
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It's great to see the new volume 'Landscapes and Landforms of Botswana' (edited by @fekarduct) now published. I really enjoyed writing my chapters on Kalahari dry valleys and calcrete/silcrete duricrusts, drawing together research developed since my PhD.
link.springer.com
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Mapped: How ‘proxy’ data reveals the climate of the Earth’s distant past | @rtmcswee @hausfath @tomoprater #archive ➡️ https://t.co/HxAp7rIp2h
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Life is better in #gweta. 2nd community information board outside the library. @oxfordgeography @kalaharidave @SMothulatshipi #archaeology #palaeoclimate #scicomm #makgadikgadi
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After 18 years of taking mud out of this old lake, finally giving something back. Community info board going in #nata @SMothulatshipi @davidjnash @kalaharidave @oxfordgeography #botswana #scicomm #archaeology #botswana
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Very happy that my first PhD paper is now out in #ESPL! We use luminescence dating, lithostratigraphy, and petrography to reconstruct the fluvial response of the Huab River, Namibia, to Holocene climates. @SLBurrough @kalaharidave
https://t.co/9Sl62Mxt4O
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I'm an author on the new #ipcc report and I study climate change impacts and adaptation options in #Africa. 🧵: How bad could it get? Who is most vulnerable? How can we adapt? Here's a report summary for Africa. full report https://t.co/dqudeKpzbF tldr https://t.co/BCSOHRQ4rW
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The Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (#AMOC) is a key component of #climate through its transport of heat in the North Atlantic This new Review by Jackson et al. explores the evolution of the AMOC since 1980 Free to read for two weeks! https://t.co/iqgAGNQWyG
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It's a question that I often get asked by new postdocs - the responses to this tweet might help those sizing up their working day.
So, it takes me on average 4-5 hours to complete a review for a journal article... Am I just slow or is this everyone else too? 🥲
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.@antonioguterres: 'As current events make all too clear, our continued reliance on fossil fuels makes the global economy and energy security vulnerable to geopolitical shocks & crises...Now is the time to accelerate the energy transition to a renewable energy future' #IPCCReport
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For humanities sake @pritipatel make this the moment you step up. Help these people… open our doors as we would hope they would for us if ever we need them… make it easier not harder.
It is totally immoral that the Home Office is still applying normal visa restrictions to those fleeing Ukraine. The Government must urgently provide a simple sanctuary route to the UK for all who need it. This is our moral duty.
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"scientists and those who communicate about their findings need to develop narratives that reflect the nature of scientific inquiry and its norms and practices as well as the practices it uses to detect and correct error as well as fraud" https://t.co/fwlbBTQgxQ
#sciencetrust
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