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🎓What are ECRs in enviro politics studying? How do they study it? Why do they study it? And what professional/ intellectual supports have they found valuable along the way? If you’re a MA or PhD/recent grad studying enviro ptx we want to hear from you! Survey will take >10m: bit.ly/ECR_GEP_survey

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Columbia Journalism Review tested eight generative AI search tools and found their answers were wrong 60% of the time, and the paid ones actually fared worse than the free ones. Meanwhile, millions of people trust the way they present total bullshit with confident language.

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My latest: Generative AI is enabling a brute force attack against the algorithms that control reality. AI slop is taking over every algorithmically controlled social media platform and search platform, and the tech platforms are helping: www.404media.co/ai-slop-is-a...

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Holy shit. I don’t think I’m exaggerating when I say they’re trying to kill us all. “The Environmental Protection Agency plans to eliminate its scientific research arm, firing as many as 1,155 chemists, biologists, toxicologists and other scientists”

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“…we should shed the idea that AI is a technological artifact with political features and recognize it as a political artifact through and through. AI is an ideological project to shift authority and autonomy away from individuals, towards centralized structures of power.”

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Shame on US multinationals pandering to climate denying politicians by excising mentions of climate change from their websites... www.ft.com/content/f100...

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Canada needs to expand the scope of its trade retaliation to target American services, intellectual property and technology – especially those tied to the “tech bros” who have thrown their weight behind Trump www.theglobeandmail.com/business/com...

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Dear US colleagues, In response to the Trump administration, my university @univ-amu.fr is setting up a new program dedicated to welcoming American scientists wishing to pursue their work in France. There are several M$ in the budget. www.univ-amu.fr/en/public/ac...

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FU#$ the CBC! youtu.be/UFJ4YL6yRro?...

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AI summaries still going extremely well: www.404media.co/google-amazo...

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UMaine is hiring TWO faculty at the Assistant or Associate level in Political Science and International Affairs. One is the new Dan and Betty Churchill Professorship in Climate Policy. Please share widely! fa-ewca-saasfaprod1.fa.ocs.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid...

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Hey #ISA2025, ever wonder how our growing dependence on the internet is impacting the environment? We have answers: Implications of Digitalization for Environmental Governance. Today, 1:45-3:30, in Conference Room 5H, Chicago Hilton. Come for the panel, stay for the collective hatred of Elon Musk.

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In 2021, the president of El Salvador Nayib Bukele announced that the country would adopt Bitcoin as legal tender. This was justified to promote ﬁnancial inclusion, increasing remittance flows, and enhancing development. How did this turn out? 🧵 journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

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AI chatbots distort and mislead when asked about current affairs, BBC study finds #AI www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

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Around 35% of SpaceX’s revenue comes directly from the federal govt. Less than 1% of NPR’s budget comes from the federal govt.

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DOGE is accessing vast troves of data, shutting down gov websites, and promising to replace countless jobs with an "AI-first" strategy. There's a reason Musk is aiming to automate the government—it's all about concentrating power and exercising control. www.bloodinthemachine.com/p/government...

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So pleased to be able to follow @gepjournal.bsky.social on this platform. Looking forward to sharing and discussing new research from this great journal! direct.mit.edu/glep

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How about because nobody fucking wants you to, you 🤡

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LLMs are great at greenwash. Surprise. Surprise. www.globalwitness.org/en/campaigns...

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This 👉: "But perhaps the greatest of these sins is convincing ourselves that posting is a form of political activism, when it is at best a coping mechanism—an individualist solution to problems that can only be solved by collective action." www.404media.co/you-cant-pos...

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Thanks to @sarahdeweerdt.bsky.social for this excellent write-up of our recent research on AI bias and the environment in @anthropocenemag.bsky.social. www.anthropocenemagazine.org/2025/02/how-...

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"The term 'environmental justice' is absent from nearly all chatbot responses." #UBCForestry's @profhvdv.bsky.social explores AI's environmental impact, highlighting its high energy use and role in shaping biased views on environmental issues. bit.ly/4hFHJn0

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Retaliatory tariffs are all right and good but if Canada, Mexico and the EU want to get this over with sanctioning the hell out of Trump’s oligarchs seems like a force multiplier.

submitted 49 days ago • 99 comments

My new piece in The Conversation on the bias in Chatbot descriptions of environmental challenges: theconversation.com/ai-is-bad-fo...

submitted 53 days ago • 2 comments

Huzzah! @ubcforestry.bsky.social has arrived on BlueSky. Give them a follow

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1/12. Lots of engagement with this Walmart research post. I wanted to follow up on one of the themes I noticed in reactions. This will be a longer thread than I usually write, but I want to weave together a few related points on science (and communication about it), public engagement, and policy.

submitted 69 days ago • 6 comments

I would absolutely read a 5,000-word deep-dive on whatever high-powered PR agency is charging Mark Zuckerberg tens of millions of dollars to shape his public image as a bootlicking scrub

submitted 70 days ago • 1745 comments

(Bloomberg) - Canada is drawing up plans for extensive tariffs against US products if Donald Trump follows through on his threat to put 25% levies on Canadian goods, according to people familiar with the matter. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

submitted 72 days ago • 32 comments

Useful chart from Bloomberg. Trump says bilateral deficit with Canada means we're subsidizing them. But more than all the imbalance is energy. This means they send us oil & gas, we send them IOUs. This is a subsidy?

submitted 72 days ago • 55 comments

Pleased to see this report finally out in the world: unctad.org/publication/.... It was great to collaborate on this with my UNFSS colleagues.

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New study finds that frequent use of AI tools encourages offloading cognitive tasks and reduces critical thinking. Higher AI usage correlated with lower critical thinking skills, especially in younger users. www.mdpi.com/2075-4698/15...

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This interesting new paper models some of the dilemmas of defossilising petrochemicals and plastics around biomass as feedstock and the associated land use change. The overlap of decarbonisation and defossilisation puts nature under further pressure without degrowth. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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New paper: in which Twitter takes on Big Butter and accomplishes....nothing. doi.org/10.3390/app1...

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This was always the goal: remove human teachers from classrooms in schools and universities, except for the very rich who will be able to afford human instruction. This is why I have only contempt for teachers in higher ed who use AI in their courses--this is what you are actively escalating.

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AI may get smarter than us by making everyone stupider

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Paris to Replace Parking Spaces With Trees By 2030, Paris will have removed 60,000 parking spaces and replaced them with trees. That’s one of the goals outlined in the French capital’s new 2024-2030 Climate Plan, which was released last week. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

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