So excited to finally be able to announce ✨ MY FIRST BOOK DEAL✨!!!!
It will be a book about climate change and sports (shocker!) and will be published ahead of the
#Paris2024
Olympics by
@BloomsburyBooks
👯♂️🤓📚 grateful to
@PerryLiterary
for championing the project 🙏🏻
We're moving to LONDON! 🇬🇧I'll be joining the Institute of Sports Business at
@lborolondon
and developing some exciting new offerings in
#sportecology
+
#sustainability
. 🌿⚽️🎾❄️☔️
Truly a dream job. Excited to get started & grateful for the opportunity.
Over the 🌙 to announce that after 15 years away, I’m finally coming home to Toronto in a new assistant prof role at
@UofT
💙🍁
Catch
@DanielSailofsky
and I at
@UofTKPE
this Fall! 👩🏫🧑🏫
Dear students,
We need to talk about grades.
Your grade does not start at 100, and get docked points for every mistake. Instead, it starts at 0, and you earn your way up.
Pro tip: If you're surprised by a grade, ask "how can I do better?", not "why didn't I get 100?" 📚✏️💻
Waking up to this news on Twitter was a bit crazy but I'm so grateful for all the love and support! Sending it all right back at you all.
Let's keep up the good work putting women, LGBTQ2S+ & BIPOC into sports jobs, and greening the sector. 🌱🏀🌍🔥🎾
#Forbes30Under30
I got to marry my best friend this past weekend in a small ceremony in Old Montreal. There was a lot of crying and laughing involved. Still in a total state of bliss ✨💍
@DanielSailofsky
👩🏫👩💻New year, new gig. Today is *officially* my first day at
@UBCFOM
as a research fellow. I’ll examine which internal & external factors contribute to successful (and proactive!)
#climate
adaptation across sectors. I’ll start for real on Monday cause...holiday + weekend.✌️
I just resigned from the Editorial Board of a journal that requires authors to pay to publish.
I value open-access, but not at the expense of researchers who already do the labor of creating the IP and reviewing. There's got to be a better way.
#PhDchat
#AcademicTwitter
Spoke with ESPN about wildfires in the West and how they are impacting sports. Make no mistake: this is climate change. Fires & poor air will be an ongoing challenge. Policy & protocols are needed.
#wildfires2020
🔥🏈
@watanabe2k
is also quoted!
I keep hearing people in the sport sector talking about 'going back' to normal? I was pushing for that for a while, too.
But 'normal' wasn't good for a lot of people. 'Normal' was not effective climate-wise. 'Normal' was not resilient. Let's focus on 'going forward' instead.
Olympian in judo, Margaux Pinot, was assaulted by her partner and coach, Alain Schmitt on Saturday night.
The court decided to let him go because there's "not enough proof".
WHEN WILL WE START LISTENING TO WOMEN? WHY IS A HOSPITAL REPORT, POLICE FILE, AND PICTURES NOT ENOUGH?
Thanking Twitter for suspending Trump’s account in the last 2 weeks is like applauding the International Olympic Committee for committing to equal opportunities for women 130 years after the event started.
It’s good but it’s late, and it’s the bare minimum. No gold ⭐️s from me.
The customs agent at Pearson just held up the whole line to ask me about extreme heat because his family is in FL🇺🇸 and he’s worried about his nephews playing football this summer. 🏈☀️Then he googled the book and preordered it in front of me! ☺️Great way to start the tour 📕🛫
📢Recruiting not 1, not 2, but FIVE Vice Chancellor's PhD Scholarships to work with us at
@lborouniversity
on the complex, bi-directional relationship btwn sport & natural enviro
#sportecology
💚⚽️🏈🏆🏀I'm supervising 2 on the London campus! Plz share!
📣📣📣
I'm hiring a postdoc starting Sept 1. Great opp to dig into sport ecology research and collab with some cool people on grant-funded projects.
Must hold PhD in kin/sport soc/sport mgmt OR in enviro studies/related field. DM for more info or referrals & plz share!
2 pubs in 2 days, what a way to end 2022!
1) women underrepresented in sport mgmt academy
2) rescheduling might be a way to mitigate climate change-related issues in sport
Highlights below 🧵
Appreciate you
@DanielSailofsky
@DrLindseyDarvin
@jessicamurfree
@laurasivels
🙌🙌
First copies spotted in the wild!! 😍
Release date is a few days away but stores are getting them in and putting them out!! Montreal’s Indigo store has theirs! 👇👇👇
🚨 NEW PUB ON SPORT & CLIMATE 🚨
@WalkerJRoss
and I combined historical weather 🌦️❄️ & air quality data 🔥💨with IPCC report data to forecast potential climate hazards at the next 10yrs of mega-events
#Olympics
#FIFAWorldCup
#sportecology
DM one of us for a copy 👍
4 young football players of colour have died so far this month. Likely exertional heat stroke.
These are not tragedies. “Tragedy” implies unavoidable. Exertional heat stroke is preventable. This is scandalous.
My heart is with the families of the athletes.
We must do better.
I said what I said.
Great work by
@BBCSport
to map out flights ✈️ in pro football over the last two months.
An additional
#hottake
:
- Flying is more comfy & fancy, but there's no good argument that it's better for performance. Not when ground transport options only add 2-3hrs
‼️ In My Opinion: All short journeys to sporting events should be done using ground travel.
Dr Madeleine Orr is a sport ecologist at Loughborough University.
She says that switching to ground transport would help save the planet.
@BBCSounds
My book
#WarmingUp
will be available in US, Canada, and UK in a month!! 📕
Confirmed tour dates & locations are below. More are TBC (get in touch if you want me to visit your school/workplace/bookstore/library/etc!)
Details & reg:
📢New paper!
@TBKellison
,
@watanabe2k
and I argue that stadiums could be used as emergency response centres (ERCs) more often than they are now. 🏟️
With climate change and COVID, it's clear we need more field hospitals, vax sites, voting sites, and shelters than ever.🏥🗳️💉🦺
On this
#IWD2023
, I'm reflecting on how
#women
in the sport management academy...
- hold 42% of TT / tenured positions
- represent 33.2% of 1st authors, 31.9% of 2nd authors, & 30.1% of third+ authors in top journals (JSM, SMR, ESMQ)
- teach classrooms that are majority men.
This report is more than a year in the making. So excited to launch it with
@UNEP
@iocmedia
&
@IUCN
next week at Lord’s!
If you’re in London and want to attend, send me a DM! If you’re elsewhere and want to stream it, also send me a DM!
#SportsForNature
Thrilled to announce that I'll be joining the Sport Management Department at the State University of New York - College at Cortland next Fall as a tenure track professor. Grateful for the opportunity & excited to get to work.
Just got off stage at
@IWGWomenSport
where I spoke about the importance of the
#genderequity
and
#climate
movements joining forces. Imagine what we could accomplish if we took on exploitative systems together. ✊✊🏻✊🏼✊🏽✊🏾✊🏿 thx Aotearoa for hosting us 🇳🇿 and onto the UK in 2026 👏
Really enjoyed presenting
@IWGWomenSport
with
@DrSheilaNguyen
on climate change & sport!
Excited to take the main stage on Thursday for a 10min Ted-style talk “Green, clean, and just: Crafting sustainable futures for sport” 🎤
This is important!!
Scientists are notoriously conservative in their conclusions. Climate change could be contributing much more to extreme weather than the ongoing attribution studies show. More from
@MichaelEMann
et al.👇👇👇
the "real time attribution" studies you're reading about likely UNDERESTIMATE the impact climate change is having on summer weather extremes (see here: )
So when they report it e.g. doubled the likelihood of an event, it might have increased it much more.
Looking to bring on a
#funded
PhD or Master's student for Sept 2024. If you know any talented undergrads or master's students interested in
#climate
adaptation, disaster
#resilience
, and
#sustainability
in sport and physical activity, plz send them my way!
@AcademicChatter
For reporters telling the
#Habs
/
#Logan
Mailloux story, some context: pro leagues notoriously ignore allegations of violence/deviance by athletes, *IF* the athlete is talented enough. This is upsetting but not surprising.
@DanielSailofsky
has written a whole PhD thesis on it👇👇
I really wish my paper about Brendan Leipsic’s scandal was out already, because this Mailloux nonsense is both mind boggling and so easy to understand if you understand hockey’s culture and what teams really mean when they talk about “good guys in the room”
Still on a high from spending an inspiring weekend with
@TeamCanada
Olympians and Paralympians at the
@gameplandematch
summit. If these are Canada’s next leaders, we’re in good hands. 🇨🇦 🙌 thanks for having me!
New pub out today! On the potential impacts of climate change on baseball and xc skiing.
I’m working my way through different sports, translating
@IPCC_CH
reports for implications in sport.
#sportecology
#climatechange
⚾️🎿 DM me for a PDF!
@MSLJournal
2022: FIFA president hails “Green Card for the Planet” campaign “to highlight awareness on the protection of the environment” ⬇️
2024: FIFA president “delighted to welcome (world’s biggest oil exporter & Saudi energy giant) Aramco to FIFA’s family of global partners”
Japanese train lines are promoting the
#SDGs
!! Riders can learn about the goals on the hand holds and posters hanging in the railcars and on platforms. 10/10. Other cities, take note. 🇯🇵 🚆 💚
I see a lot of people falling into the trap of prioritizing
#climatechange
over other crises. We don't have to do that.
What if - and hear me out - we address climate change, health issues & systemic injustices at the same time. These crises intersect. Solutions should too.✊
Excited to finally share this project:
✨STUDENTS & SCHOLARS✨
A guide for reading academic articles, disguised as a card deck.
104 questions, incl. 52 easy, 52 hard. So many applications! Not discipline-specific. 50% of $ goes to
@SportEcoGroup
It was 36 degrees today and it was brutal out there but we took in some beach volleyball under the Eiffel 🏐🗼and women’s rugby 7s at Stade de France to see our 🇨🇦 women maul their way to silver 🥈
Ft lots of breaks in the shade ☂️ & water refills💧
Sports can be so fun! 🤩
Spending this last
#Olympics
morning on
@weatherchannel
breaking down how heat and water quality impact summer sports and explaining the implications of a shifting climate for future games! Thanks to the hosts and producers who had me on! 🙌☀️🌡️
This is ✨EXCITING✨ in so many ways:
1⃣ -
@SportPosLeagues
collect this data annually and share it publicly (transparency!)
2⃣ -
@premierleague
teams are stepping up to the challenge! (Congrats
@SpursOfficial
@LFC
!)
3⃣ - sport sustainability is getting major media coverage 👏👏
Out of office:
Thank you for your message. I am currently in Hobbiton, Middle Earth and may never return as this place is made to fit people like me, apparently 60-90% the height of the avg human adult.
Regards,
Today I'll miss the first deadline of my academic career. In 10 years, never a late assignment, conference abstract, or paper. I run close to deadlines, and sometimes scramble last-minute, but I get it done. Until today.
Honestly, it feels liberating. It can wait till Monday.
“Sport is fundamentally a spectacle of the achievement society, which is economically and psycho-politically unsustainable.” 🔥🔥🔥🔥 Samuel Clavenger with the most compelling presentation I’ve seen in years at
@NASSM
, on Degrowth pathways and opportunities in sport.
ITV created a studio for the morning at
@lborolondon
to shoot a documentary segment on climate change and sport 🎥
thx
@AntoineSpeaker
for hanging out this morning! 👊👊
When
@DrDarvin_SPMG
texts you a pic of your new office and informs you that we’ll be NEXT DOOR NEIGHBORS at
@CortlandSPMG
🙌🏻🙌🏻
... if that’s not the definition of girl power... 👩🏫👩🏼🏫
I challenge all journal reviewers to add 2 NICE COMMENTS to each review they do moving forward. It's hard to read feedback that's all negative and/or critical, even if it's helpful. Encouragement and positivity goes a long way. 😀
Planning a 💚GREEN💚 wedding has been so more much fun (and cheaper) than I thought. Local foods and wines, local & sustainably-minded vendors, e-invites, no disposables, no trash (just recycling & compost), car-pools, carbon offsets for energy/water use/transport emissions. 👰♀️🤵♂️
"Either you support women in all their entities or you don't. If that's too political then the IOC has certainly missed the mark on this one." -
@_shireenahmed_
is right on 🎯 with this one.
Sport managers may see this and be turned off from climate work. Now is not the time to step away from this, it’s the time to lean in. The lesson here is just to avoid making big claims about “carbon neutral” or “carbon positive” that can’t be backed up.
NEW: Slippery Slopes report warns of declining winter conditions in snow sports globally, and issues with artificial snow use at
#Olympics
.
Avail for download:
I don’t talk enough about how much I enjoy mentoring & advising. We have awesome students at
@lborolondon
and I was stoked to have a few join Dr Russell Seymour and I at Wembley for
@SportPosSummit
these last two days! 🌱🏆
Canada has banned all single use plastics effective in 2021!!! 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
#ClimateAction
no more plastic bags, cutlery, straws, ziplocks, plastic wrap for food, etc.
We’re moving forward with our plan to reduce plastic pollution - we’ll ban plastic bags, stir sticks, cutlery, straws, and more. And we’ll invest in innovative solutions to improve how we recover and recycle plastic. More on our announcement ⤵️
Work hard, read hard. Loved the 2020
#ReadingChallenge
(to read only books by women authors)! Made it to 70! Highly recommend this as a resolution. Don’t put a number on it, just be resolved to diversify your bookshelf.
#BookTwitter
The tour started with an amazing night in NYC yesterday!! The next two stops are now SOLD OUT (there’s a waitlist if you want to come and haven’t registered yet). There are still spots in Edinburgh 🏴, Paris 🇫🇷, and at the Hay Festival 🏴,
@sportsalliance
🇺🇸, and in Montreal 🇨🇦
COMING GREEN SPORTS DAY! Season 3 of Climate Champions ft. brilliant guests. "The Listening Sessions" is a deep dive into sport sustainability from an intersectional lens: how to address gender inequity, racial injustice, and enviro problems at the same time?
#ClimateChampions
Sisters at
#COP15
✌️🇨🇦
So great to work in the same space as my sister and get to work together at COP on greening sport & other sectors!
@onetreeplanted
.
@_shireenahmed_
sharing powerful stories from her career as one of very few Muslim women in sports journalism.
Take aways: Journalism is in trouble (layoffs, lack of diversity, issues with access, & sport broadcast in bed with big sport) but worth protecting/saving.
We met at 7am in a hotel breakfast room ahead of a full-day training for our summer jobs at a teen travel company. He was hungover, I was jet-lagged. We bonded over the mediocre coffee. He made me laugh.
❤️
@DanielSailofsky
PLEASE ADVISE:
what is the correct term for a group of academics?
A gaggle of academics? A herd of academics? A school of academics? An unkindness of academics?
My job takes me to some pretty incredible places and I get to hang out with some of the kindest, most passionate people. This week it’s been Budapest for
@WorldAthletics
champs, to share insights on climate adaptation & support athletes to speak up on issues they care about. ✊💚
"What worries me most about conditions at these games isn’t the plight of competitors. It is that of young, impressionable athletes around the world... who may watch Olympians continue in unsafe conditions and think it is OK to do the same" 🔥🌡️🥵