Accessibility and inclusivity at EGU

Allyship is a choice: A letter from small town Brazil to the world on how my allyship is action

Fernanda Matos June 17, 2026

Photo by Norbu GYACHUNG. Source: Unsplash

I thought a lot about how to write this piece because it is not easy to think of myself as an ally to my queer friends. This is only because it is, to me, completely unfathomable that we, in this century, in 2026, still need to be allies. Honestly, there is convenience in moving on with our lives, turning a blind eye to injustice, and even questioning the mere existence of campaigns like the pride ...[Read More]

Pride month in the era of DEI rollbacks: Reflections on resilience, and why pride was a riot after all

Asmae Ourkiya June 12, 2026

Photo by Nik. Source: Unsplash

Pride month arrives this year against a backdrop of institutional irony. In the United States, federal research funding has been thoroughly weaponised and forced a massive scientific brain drain across the Atlantic. In Europe, a multi-million-euro effort to capture that exiled talent is underway, even as Europe’s own domestic politics fracture along the exact same ideological fault lines. Fo ...[Read More]

AI in science: the ethical experiment we didn’t design

Lucia Perez-Diaz May 8, 2026

Credit: Drew Hemment (distributed via imaggeo.egu.eu)

Artificial Intelligence, and its rapid incursion into the (geo)sciences, was already impossible to ignore at last year’s EGU General Assembly. (you can read my reflections then in this blog post) This year, unsurprisingly, it felt equally present. On Thursday, I attended the Great Debate on “The ethics of using AI in Geosciences: opportunities and risks”, a discussion spanning everything from scie ...[Read More]

Invite yourself to the table – Science Policy at EGU26

Manuela Gialanella May 5, 2026

Despite the perfect timing, we are not talking about lunch. Policymakers often sit together and have crucial discussions that would greatly benefit by being scientifically informed. Scientists are sometimes invited to join those conversations but are starting to tune in on their own initiative as well. Field camps and labs are where us scientists usually feel the most at home. Being surrounded by ...[Read More]