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This THREAD is essential for all of my colleagues in the academy. PLEASE READ.

submitted 4 hours ago • 16 comments

Nobelpristagare demonstrerar, Nobelpristagare har fått nog! Nyhet från Kiev: Hela 131 Nobelpristagare protesterar mot Ryssland och mot omvärldens passivitet. De kräver: frusna ryska tillgångar ska ges till Ukraina. Herta Müller är med, och svenske Torsten Wiesel, 100 år. www.dn.se/varlden/131-...

submitted 3 days ago • 5 comments

Gäller även universiteten

submitted 2 days ago • 1 comment

#StandUpForScience. Message from France in solidarity with scientists and academics working in the United States, Argentina, and all countries where academic freedom is under threat. @standupforscience.bsky.social @sufs-paris-rp.bsky.social @standupforscibe.bsky.social

submitted 2 days ago • 1 comment

Standing up in support of science and scientists in the US and everywhere

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

America is more than any one president. Although the Trump administration is abandoning Ukraine, the American people are not. American citizens in Sweden are demonstrating outside the U.S. Embassy to demand the immediate resumption of economic, humanitarian, and military aid to Ukraine. Join us!

submitted 3 days ago • 4 comments

Turning off air pollution monitors at U.S. embassies doesn't compare to depriving Ukrainian civilians of defences against Russia's missiles in cruelty, but it is an astonishingly pointless act of sabotage. U.S. monitoring in Beijing played a central role in turning China's air pollution...

submitted 3 days ago • 1 comment

Trump is not just betraying the brave people of Ukraine and our European allies--although he is certainly doing that. He is also betraying the people of the United States and his oath of office. Defending Ukraine and repulsing Russian aggression is critical to US interests.

submitted 5 days ago • 15 comments

Ukraine needs support = money

submitted 7 days ago • 0 comments

Den här är inte ny, men har kanske förnyad relevans. Man kan välja om ens bidrag ska öronmärkas för försvar, minröjning, vård eller återuppbyggnad. war.ukraine.ua/donate/

submitted 7 days ago • 0 comments

Tänk om hela fakulteter på MIT och Stanford etc bara drog och flyttade in hos fakulteter i Berlin, London, Paris, Stockholm, Amsterdam… Sätt upp fonder eller nåt för forskares löner och bostäder, ge dom forskningspengar för 5-10 år och fixa lite brain aspiration till Europa!

submitted 8 days ago • 1 comment

"Europe continues to spend billions of euros more on Russian oil and gas than it sends to Ukraine in aid". Worth bearing in mind when you notice who is campaigning against heat pumps, wind farms, or cycle infrastructure.

submitted 8 days ago • 3 comments

My take on effective vs ineffective tactics on boycotts, protests, etc: Maybe due to working with students, or living in conservative area, I'm reluctant to dismiss most political action as ineffective or performative because if it means something to that person then it means something.

submitted 9 days ago • 2 comments

Great to see the Climate Change Committee (CCC) calling for public figures to “lead by example” on climate change, citing our research. CCC says leading by example increases public buy-in and behaviour change @thecccuk.bsky.social 🚨So, we've made this new infographic showing how it works... 🧵

submitted 11 days ago • 7 comments

I think the Army Choir had a message for the Trumpists. www.youtube.com/watch?v=pIQh...

submitted 12 days ago • 25 comments

Another dataset I like is from the National Atmospheric Deposition Program, which has maps of the US that show we fixed the acid rain problem by implementing stricter emission controls on power plants. nadp.slh.wisc.edu/maps-data/nt...

submitted 15 days ago • 93 comments

As a factual observation, I told my students today that on Friday every school and university in the country received a letter from the DOE that instructed each school to remove any and all references to race in activities and programming, within 14 days, or lose federal funding. They didn't know.

submitted 19 days ago • 1 comment

🧵Who is opposing the Trump administration? I analysed 76 actions of the administration since inauguration and then searched for meaningful opposition to each. I grouped the types of opposition and considered what we can learn from both them & actions where opposition has been lacking 1/24

submitted 19 days ago • 93 comments

That article is here: thecorrespondent.com/5696/were-he...

submitted 22 days ago • 22 comments

The 2% of the planet representing the conterminous United States was quite chilly in January. The rest of the world, not so much! berkeleyearth.org/ja...

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submitted 26 days ago • 1 comment

“We are in the midst of a constitutional crisis right now. There have been so many unconstitutional and illegal actions in the first 18 days of the Trump presidency. We never have seen anything like this.” —Erwin Chemerinsky, dean of University of California, Berkeley law school. Time to stand up:

submitted 26 days ago • 49 comments

Land of the free

submitted 26 days ago • 1 comment

Som vanligt mycket bra text av @bjornwiman.bsky.social. Det pågår en statskupp i USA. Viktigt att sätta de rätta orden på det som händer. www.dn.se/kultur/bjorn...

submitted 28 days ago • 3 comments

Vi är 163 universitetsanställda som ställer sig bakom studenters krav att påskynda förändringen av högre utbildning så att studenterna som medborgare och i sina framtida yrkesliv ska kunna bidra till en samhällsomställning för hållbarhet. www.aftonbladet.se/debatt/a/bm6...

submitted 30 days ago • 1 comment

Current status

submitted 32 days ago • 0 comments

So along with tariffs that will disproportionately impact the US economy, we are also going to give China the global influence we are reliquishing by closing USAID and withdrawing from WHO as well as scientific innovation. Make America non-dominant again, I guess.

submitted 32 days ago • 6 comments

Historically, we call this fascism.

submitted 33 days ago • 0 comments

More carrot, less stick: how meat-loving Danes were sold a plant-led world first - Agreement between farmers, politicians and environmental groups led to a €170m action fund for plant-based food Story by me www.theguardian.com/environment/...

submitted 37 days ago • 4 comments

Swiss farmers are suing their gov't to act on #climatechange before their farms become unviable, citing losses of 10–40% over the past 3 years Case was initially rejected & plaintiffs are still awaiting the outcome of an appeal But it marks a significant shift in farmers' attitudes on the issue:

submitted 38 days ago • 7 comments

I honestly believe our most powerful position in a toxic time that feeds on cynicism, apathy,& despair is to genuinely care and act for a better world. Cynicism is our enemy. We should check it, incl. on the left. It’s not intellectually superior. It’s the virus they’re trying to infect us with. NO

submitted 36 days ago • 4414 comments