clarekelly.bsky.social
Cognitive neuroscientist at Trinity College Dublin. Uses neuroimaging to study 🧠 development. Increasingly teaching, thinking, & advocating on the climate & ecological crisis 🌍
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3/ However despite such statements recognising both the scale and urgency of the changes that are necessary a 'cognitive-practice gap' persits within universities and we have not seen commensurate action
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However, we're not dealing with a totally free, rational, and efficient market. For as long as we fail to price in negative externalities, fail to address the distortion created by fossil fuel subsidies, or fail to break the hold that the industry has over politicians, capitalism cannot win here.
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Embracing political engagement allows scientists to fulfil their ethical responsibilities, defend the integrity of their work, and contribute meaningfully to addressing the complex challenges facing society today.
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my.uplift.ie/petitions/sh... and this petition has over 40k, I’d say it could get another couple of thousand
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A new contribution to this discussion comes from @marcomala.bsky.social arguing that the emerging ecological grief & established crisis approach can reinforce a loop of resignation where ecological decline is either passively accepted or inadvertently perpetuated. 👇 academic.oup.com/bioscience/a...
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I don’t care to become well-adjusted to this, whatever idiocy that is happening and the inevitable harms it will entrench. I can’t believe we’re still aping the same lifestyles as this time 5 out 10 years ago, instead of pulling a big red social emergency stop to fix our problems.
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8/ They are trying to reduce nature to a ‘cherry on top’ because, in difficult economic times, the cherry on top can be dispensed with
But nature is not the cherry on top, it is the baker.
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5/ The ’let’s do it for the newts and pandas’ message has failed
Worse, it massively, massively underplays the importance of nature
This is not about a bunch of newts or dolphins, we’re talking about our life support systems.
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This fails to mention that genAI is burning up the world at a faster rate than we were already doing & ignores the other huge ethical issues (like copyright theft) associated with genAI. Telling academics we need "to catch up" is more dangerous hype. Our "collective will" should be to resist.
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Arguments for #BigTeamScience