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Yet another week of jaw-dropping #climate fuelled deadly weather events from around the world, as tracked by the good folks at @weareyellowdot.bsky.social www.youtube.com/shorts/mSCXa...

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They're called public records for a reason. Starting today, WIRED will stop paywalling articles that are primarily based on public records obtained through the Freedom of Information Act, becoming the first publication to partner with @freedom.press to offer this for our new coverage.

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Good to see the concept and practice of solidarity get some in-depth consideration at the NYT Magazine, including some reflections on the book I wrote with @lhh.bsky.social and lots of other thought-provoking stuff. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/15/m...

submitted 6 days ago • 1 comment

I spoke about science and activism with @elife.bsky.social, together with @clarekelly.bsky.social: elifesciences.org/interviews/1...

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1/ Why are so many scientists silent on the climate crisis? We interviewed neuroscientists @anne-urai.bsky.social & @clarekelly.bsky.social on their participatory workshops designed to stimulate scientists from awareness to activism. buff.ly/SSf99Q2

submitted 7 days ago • 1 comment

🛑 Why are cities banning ads for airlines, SUVs, and fossil fuels? A growing number of towns & cities worldwide are saying NO to high-carbon ads. Here’s why this movement is gaining momentum, from my latest piece in @theconversation.com🧵👇 theconversation.com/many-cities-...

submitted 11 days ago • 2 comments

The United States government just disappeared a lawful US resident because it didn't like his speech. You should care about this because it shouldn't happen to anyone, but you should also care because it could happen to you. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/09/n...

submitted 12 days ago • 41 comments

@masudhusain.bsky.social is not afraid to call out the neoliberal university for what is it - must read below. With @clarekelly.bsky.social I have suggested that these ills are also a root cause of our collective ability to address the great challenges of our time: elifesciences.org/articles/84991

submitted 15 days ago • 1 comment

Trump never had a peace plan for Ukraine. He had a plan for Ukraine's surrender, with a colonial resource grab. As Zelenskyy rightly refused it, or to cooperate in Trump's TV spectacular, the US has now cut Ukraine off. That's what blackmail looks like. That's what the world is up against.

submitted 17 days ago • 146 comments

“A colossal missed opportunity” - a clear message in a new report from from Ireland’s fiscal and climate advisory councils. Instead of taking action to cut emissions (making energy cleaner & more secure, & diversifying farming) we face €26 billion in compliance costs to meet EU targets

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Why are minerals so central to geopolitics? How green are electric cars? Why is anti-mining protest increasing? Can the inequalities of the global economy be transformed? I tackle these topics in my book EXTRACTION: The Frontiers of Green Capitalism 👀 September 2025 @wwnorton.bsky.social

submitted 18 days ago • 50 comments

Another great thread here on the importance of defending science, and how science is inherently political. If you value evidence-based decision making then it's time to #StandUpForScience

submitted 18 days ago • 1 comment

Looks like momentum for the @standupforscience.bsky.social day of action in DC and around the US is building...👇

submitted 18 days ago • 1 comment

Reminder: we are being trained not to care about other people. It underlines the attacks on migrants, on DEI, on trans youth, on so-called "wokeness." Sure there are legitimate critiques but this is not about critiques. It's about supercharging capitalism's culture of uncare.

submitted 20 days ago • 100 comments

chef's kiss

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Trump is a pig, has always been a pig, a bullying, nasty, authoritarian pig … Vance is even worse, an overly aggressive, lying, low down pigs lackey. Micheál Martin has no business going anywhere near that White House & #putinspuppets on behalf of the Irish State #stayhomeMicheál

submitted 21 days ago • 4 comments

"AI technology appears to outperform humans. But a closer look reveals that these games are rigged. The competitions do not actually ask machines to perform human tasks; it’s more accurate to say that they ask humans to behave in machine-like ways as they perform lifeless simulacra of human tasks."

submitted 22 days ago • 2 comments

As someone who has spent the last 25 years studying sex differences in brain function and behavior and the last 10 advocating (loudly) for SABV and working to help my colleagues implement the policy into their work, this is utterly heartbreaking.

submitted 24 days ago • 5 comments

The trial of an oil company SLAPP suit to literally destroy Greenpeace begins today in N. Dakota. Make no mistake this is the iron fist of petrofascism trying to crush our movements to defend water, climate & Native rights. We must all fight back. Action Link in post below. #ClimateSky

submitted 25 days ago • 5 comments

As promised, here are the slides I shared with students to convince them to NOT use chatGPT and other artificial stupidity. TL;DR? AI is evil, unsustainable and stupid, and I'd much rather they use their own brains, make their own mistakes, and actually learn something. 🪄

submitted 26 days ago • 230 comments

Sieg heil.

submitted 27 days ago • 5 comments

Universities that advertised their commitment to diversity in glossy brochures & fundraising campaigns now face a reckoning: was it real or just marketing? The admin bets they’ll stay silent to keep their funding. But the cost of inaction will be far greater. greencarelab.ucdavis.edu/how-universi...

submitted 27 days ago • 3 comments

It matters that scientists speak out against what is being done to US science. Staying silent is neither "objective" nor "staying out of politics". Silence now is political - it supports the status quo, says "nothing to worry about". We need to sound the alarm. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

submitted 28 days ago • 35 comments

"In an era where political forces seek to distort, suppress, or co-opt scientific knowledge for ideological purposes, the scientific community must recognise that staying silent in the face of these challenges is no longer an option." My latest substack kityates.substack.com/p/uk-and-oth...

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Sure, climate change is real, and we are facing an extinction crisis, but I'm getting richer and the earth looks greener from outer space. So says fossil fuel exec turned Energy Secretary, Chris Wright. @emorwee.bsky.social heated.world/p/trump-ener...

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Countries are over relying on tree planting to meet emission targets, meaning there may not be enough land to sustainably balance emissions from hard to decarbonise sectors, like aviation and steel production, a new study from Imperial's @joerirogelj.bsky.social warns ⬇️

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What would a TV ad promoting alternatives to driving look like? What if people who love cycling and progressive transportation reclaimed ideas like freedom, independence and even patriotism? We decided to give it a shot. Check out our new video, "America, It's Just Like Riding a Bike."

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Ireland's energy regulator today published a long-awaited policy governing the connection of new data centres. Astonishingly, the policy makes NO provision for regulating the GHG emissions arising from data centres - which all evidence points to is very substantial - and actually..

submitted 31 days ago • 5 comments

It’s still remarkable to me that the focus on generative AI has been writing essays – which is to say creative work – and not doing math problems. That poets will be replaced and not engineers. Hear an engineering professor wonders at how well the technology does on his exam. But /1

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"We can’t just keep producing 400 million tons of #plastic every year and expect better waste management to fix the problem,” he said. “We need to rethink plastic use at every stage, from material extraction to disposal.” (Richard Thompson, @scientistscoa.bsky.social) www.nature.com/articles/d44...

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This is so powerful and prescient

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I’m in Munich and people keep asking me to decode Vance’s speech. OK: In Vance English “free speech” means “Let Musk run your elections” and “democracy” means “let Russia run your elections.” Now move on. 2025 is about what Europeans do, not what Americans say.

submitted 34 days ago • 318 comments

Question for long-term organizers (only, please): Are there good resources on how to strategically balance ethics and impact while protecting at-risk groups?

submitted 34 days ago • 20 comments

One day, when it's safe, when there's no personal downside to calling a thing what it is, when it's too late to hold anyone accountable, everyone will have always been against this

submitted 36 days ago • 2 comments

😡 usa.streetsblog.org/2025/02/10/s...

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🧵"So this is how liberty dies..." Trump’s first 3 weeks have been a relentless flood of actions. It's incredibly hard to keep up. I’ve gone through 69 actions & mapped out the pattern - showing how they fall within 5 broad domains consistent with authoritarian states 1/9

submitted 36 days ago • 523 comments

Feels like we’re all trapped in an endless Black Mirror episode where the world’s worst human beings literally conspire to kill every last one of us.

submitted 36 days ago • 5 comments

The Gulf of Mexico will now appear as Gulf of America to U.S. users on Google Maps. Google gave $1 million to Trump’s inauguration fund as well as opting to end its diversity hiring targets. It also recently removed Black History Month and Pride Month from its calendar app.

submitted 38 days ago • 63 comments

"Somewhere, a thirty-four-year-old comedy writer is wearing a compression top and sipping a green tea. It’s anarchy. And it’s hurting the women, which is something that I definitely care about. Women should have at least three rights, I think."

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