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submitted 8 hours ago • 9 comments

This is happening. Make it big. Stand up for Science marches in Washington and nationwide on March 7th. Some local information here: standupforscience2025.org/local-event-...

submitted 1 day ago • 5 comments

For The End Climate Silence newsletter this week, I thought about the concept of "resistance." To put it bluntly, I said that "resistance" is a terrible idea to organize on. 🧵

submitted 2 days ago • 12 comments

Your regular reminder that the US air & water pollution laws passed in the 60s & 70s -- and the elaborate federal bureaucracy created to administer them -- constitute one of the most successful gov't interventions in history. WILDLY successful. The envy of the world.

submitted 2 days ago • 210 comments

It's an honour for me to see the results of our 'Compensation for atmospheric appropriation' study featured as a core part of this important ActionAid campaign. May the African Union's declaration of 2025 as the Year of Reparations bring justice, reconciliation, and compensation so sorely deserved.

submitted 9 days ago • 1 comment

German state repression is spiralling out of control. A German climate activist has been banned from becoming a teacher. Here are some justifications from the Bavarian State Ministry of Science and the Arts—they are completely nuts: 1/7

submitted 15 days ago • 5 comments

La represión a los movimientos sociales es como los "principios" de Groucho Marx: Pedían 3 años y medio de cárcel a las 8 de Caixabank por coacciones y ocupación de sede jurídica. Ahora piden 12 meses de cárcel por allanamiento y coacciones.🤦🏽‍♀️ www.eldiario.es/castilla-la-...

submitted 15 days ago • 0 comments

Walking in to NASA’s JPL today as a woman in science leadership felt almost like a protest. They can take us off the webpages and the walls, but we will still be here, absolutely crushing it, and supporting our community while we do it. Happy International Day of Women in Science, everyone.

submitted 15 days ago • 26 comments

WARNING EVERYONE. BLUESKY IS TEAMING UP WITH A LARGE AI COMPANY. MAKE YOUR DISPLEASURE KNOWN. THEY ARE GOING TO TRY TO GO THE WAY OF TWITTER. GIVE THEM ZERO REST.

submitted 16 days ago • 40 comments

Microsoft's own research confirms something that was already pretty obvious: relying on a text generating machine to come up with answers erodes critical thinking, and is a method favoured by those who never liked doing critical thinking in the first place advait.org/files/lee_20...

submitted 17 days ago • 144 comments

Excited to announce this new article, a comprehensive review of recent research on post-growth — the science of wellbeing within planetary boundaries. Published in the Lancet Planetary Health with a brilliant team of authors. www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

submitted 35 days ago • 15 comments

Not true. Given growth hasn't been improving people's lives in the UK, and the utter lack of evidence that growth can be sufficiently decoupled from it's ecological impacts, another way forward is to promote a post-growth economy that prioritises wellbeing for all within planetary boundaries.

submitted 17 days ago • 0 comments

Top Scientist: We Can’t Adapt Our Way Out of This Climate Crisis “People do not understand the magnitude of what is going on,” says Katharine Hayhoe. www.motherjones.com/environment/...

submitted 17 days ago • 12 comments

Today’s #CrossBorderRail will involve Deutsche Bahn. Taking wagers on whether I will make it. I’m taking four trains and over 12 hours instead of a 1.5 hour flight to get there. 😇

submitted 17 days ago • 35 comments

I stand in solidarity and compassion with everyone at USAID, as well as all organizations and communities worldwide affected by the U.S. administration’s decision to freeze overseas aid. By abandoning them, the administration is abandoning the very spirit that makes the U.S. a great nation. 💔✊

submitted 18 days ago • 0 comments

Unquestionably, major policy changes, edicts and directives handed down by the new Trump administration will upend lives. But I've also been struck by the widespread efforts to erase/whitewash history. Stick with me for a pretty shocking series of events from just the past few weeks.

submitted 18 days ago • 79 comments

these aren’t the actions of people who are strong these are the actions of weak losers

submitted 18 days ago • 6 comments

Now is the time for all my academic colleagues whose identities and/or work are not directly in the crosshairs of this ridiculous administration to step up in solidarity and signal support for your colleagues who are. This pretty much means straight white men not in social sciences or humanities.

submitted 20 days ago • 3 comments

It's not a demolition site it's a mass grave. It's not a demolition site it's a crime scene. It's not a demolition site its a homeland. It's not a demolition site it's Palestine. It's not a demolition site it's a genocide.

submitted 21 days ago • 98 comments

Must-read new piece from Julia Steinberger (and a good excuse to (re)read some (or all) of her previous posts).

submitted 24 days ago • 0 comments

“I’ve written about climate refugees, and that this is going to happen. And now I am one." With a heavy heart, our latest story about climate scientists displaced by climate-related disasters. w @laurenthal.bsky.social 🎁🔗:

submitted 27 days ago • 4 comments

Short presentation (< 15mins) on just how vanishingly small are our remaining carbon budgets for 1.5 & 2°C - both globally & when downscaled to wealthy industrialised nations. In a handful of years our Paris 2°C commitment will go the way same way as has 1.5°C. climateuncensored.com/irelands-cli...

submitted 30 days ago • 6 comments

Hannah Arendt and Henry David Thoreau invoked in court by climate protesters #Climate

submitted 28 days ago • 0 comments

Who needs an otter in their feed? I sure as F*CK do

submitted 29 days ago • 0 comments

years have passed and google hasn’t still corrected pronunciation of Māori place names on google maps but the corporation is managing to implement change the on gulf of mexico within days maps are political www.renews.co.nz/why-google-m...

submitted 29 days ago • 12 comments

am I the only one following US news with considerable apprehension, while hopefully muttering 'checks and balances, right? right?'

submitted 29 days ago • 1 comment

I've reported on and written about many a social movement -- ex-Ulster Defence Force soldiers threatening Indigenous kids with violence, white nationalists, Anti-Poverty campaigners, XR, oil industry associations. I've never seen the possible range of action laid out so cleanly.

submitted 31 days ago • 5 comments

Fascists need made-up enemies to distract you from what they, and their super-rich funders/bosses, are taking from you. They want you constantly mad, scared and distracted. And they love picking enemies that could help teach you to reason and see through through fascist lies.

submitted 31 days ago • 13 comments

«Los gestos individuales de los científicos pueden tener mucho impacto» 🙏@actisandres.bsky.social por la larga entrevista en @climatica.coop donde pude explicar las razones de mi decisión de no tomar aviones y sus repercusiones. Lean👉 climatica.coop/entrevista-g...

submitted 32 days ago • 0 comments

"If the world adopted a plant-based diet, we would reduce global agricultural land use from 4 to 1 billion hectares" Imagine 3 billion more hectares for fully wild ecosystems. Diet is THE elephant in the room when it comes to reversing nature collapse. ourworldindata.org/land-use-diets

submitted 32 days ago • 46 comments

"We must grapple with the reality that the current models we have for philanthropy are not up to the task of incubating, developing and supporting strategy on the left." on the list of serious election post-mortems, highly worth your time to read www.thenation.com/article/soci...

submitted 34 days ago • 35 comments

I just deactivated my Twitter account !

submitted 34 days ago • 1 comment

Post-growth: the science of wellbeing within planetary boundaries—New paper by Giorgos Kallis, Jason Hickel, Daniel W O’Neill, Tim Jackson, Peter A Victor, Kate Raworth, Juliet B Schor, Julia K Steinberger, Diana Ürge-Vorsatz → cusp.ac.uk/themes/aetw/... cc #postgrowth #degrowth #wellbeingeconomy

submitted 35 days ago • 2 comments

1. The UK government’s pursuit of GDP growth at all costs is an assault on our natural wealth, which will impoverish us all. It might be able to massage the headline figures by converting the living world into money, but it does not improve our lives.🧵

submitted 34 days ago • 71 comments

I really hope everyone understands what is going on with Elon and Wikipedia. Wikipedia is one of our last remaining bastions of evidence-based consensus reality. The MAGA narrative is fundamentally threatened by evidence-based fact, and Wikipedia is a repository of evidence-based fact.

submitted 35 days ago • 51 comments

When the debate arose about debt cancellations for people in America, David Graeber wrote the article: After the Jubilee Here is an extract about debt from the article.

submitted 40 days ago • 2 comments

New paper to end the hottest year (so far): #NetZero is not enough In @bmj.com Global Health, Colin Sue-Chue-Lam, Anand Bhopal, Joshua Parker and I argue that NZ pledges are unfair, unreliable, and inherently flawed. So what next? 🧵 #climate #planetaryhealth #greensky gh.bmj.com/content/8/Su...

submitted 41 days ago • 1 comment

Misinformation isn't random - it's strategic. 🧵 In the first cross-national comparative study, we examine 32M tweets from politicians. We find that misinformation is not a general condition: it is driven by populist radical right parties. with @julianachueri.bsky.social doi.org/10.1177/1940...

submitted 43 days ago • 169 comments

🧵 THREAD: Our reporter spent the past year reporting inside the State Department, trying to answer the central question of Biden’s foreign policy: How did the U.S. let Israel get away with widespread horrors in Gaza?

submitted 42 days ago • 173 comments

"Equinor has retracted a claim that it stores about a million tonnes of carbon dioxide annually at its flagship carbon capture project after DeSmog obtained data showing the real figure was as little as a tenth of that amount" Wait what, fossil fuel companies aren't trustworthy?

submitted 42 days ago • 11 comments

These extraordinary photos of the LA fires have been shared widely on social media, often without crediting the photographer. These are all the work of Ethan Swope, an LA-based photojournalist working for AP. You can follow his remarkable reporting here👇 www.instagram.com/ethanswopeph...

submitted 48 days ago • 821 comments

Join our webinar on Shaping Provisioning Systems for Eco-Social Transformation! I’ll introduce the topic, followed by Ian Gough on production corridors, Halliki Kreinin & Doris Fuchs on structural barriers, and @colleenschneider.bsky.social on monetary systems. Register here: invt.io/1exbwyou6up

submitted 48 days ago • 2 comments

Hi pals. Today I wrote about the unsettling mismatches between what climate models say should be happening and what is actually happening. We're pushing the Earth past the limits of our physical understanding. This is a gift link: www.theatlantic.com/science/arch...

submitted 51 days ago • 42 comments

With Zuck now declaring content moderation and factchecking “censorship” in a truly stupendous example of bootlicking, will BlueSky be the only social platform with any guardrails at all on hate speech & disinfo?

submitted 50 days ago • 12 comments

These are the key facts everyone needs to know about climate change, according to @yaleclimatecomm.bsky.social. I shared this post across 7 different social media platforms, including FB, LI, Mastodon, Threads, X and Twitter both pre-and post-Musk. Here's how their engagement stacked up. 🧵

submitted 51 days ago • 32 comments