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Honest Government Ad about the upcoming Australian election. Very important as many people as possible know this. #auspol Thanks @thejuicemedia.bsky.social www.youtube.com/watch?v=1kYI...

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Amazing. Vive la France!! Parliamentarians have voted for a 2% wealth tax on the assets of the richest 0.01% of France’s citizens. It'd apply to around 4,000 people in France with assets of more than €100 million & could bring in between €15 and €25 billion per year www.euronews.com/business/202...

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In the years since the Boring Company was founded with enormous hype in the US, China has established nearly 20,000 kilometers of new high-speed rail system.

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Forty percent. “European glaciers have shrunk 40% since 2000, study says” on.ft.com/3Xe9j2W

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Brilliant news to plan new train routes from London to Europe. It’s stupid that we are made to go to an airport outside London or any midlands city to make this short journey. Does not make sense even from an economic or time savings point of view.

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More trains from Britain to continental Europe would be great, but they definitely need to improve St Pancras railway station.

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"Sorry, we can't make this technology that sucks and nobody wants and that uses enough power to blow up the moon unless we also steal people's shit to throw into our content woodchipper in order to produce mediocre digital particleboard out of the cumulative artbarf." futurism.com/the-byte/ope...

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Whatever will be the suggestions to overcome this problem may also apply to climate adaptation too, because don’t we struggle with the same issue of how to quantify the avoidance of loss and damage, and show that adaptation is important and necessary work?

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Government’s wins are often invisible: Systems that avoid plane crashes; alliances that avert war; surveillance that prevent pandemics. Government wins are often the avoidance of loss. So how do we tell the story of the destruction of government? The story of future losses not averted?

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What is the city but the people? Our paper, led by Judith Verstegen, argues that the social and behavioral dynamics of cities are missing from current Urban Digital Twins and that Agent-based Models could help. However, this integration comes with challenges. Open access: doi.org/10.1177/2399...

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We're running our first engagement event at Imago, the @sdruk.bsky.social Data Service for imagery, and we have some slots available. Grab one before they go!

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The ‘final’ evaluation report of the bus fare cap (covering 10 months of the £2 cap) is now out. Lots to digest here but key point is it did what it was meant to: “The evidence suggests… it has reduced the cost of living and has increased bus patronage, particularly for those on lower incomes.”

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Important report on the planning system from @msingerhobbs.bsky.social Too many homes are being built that lack good transport links and lock in costly car dependence. We need more and better planning to guide development and ensure homes and infrastructure are built in the right places.

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If I teach you people only ONE political lesson from pro wrestling, let it be this: Dishonesty and earnest stupidity are in no way mutually exclusive Someone can simultaneously tell a conscious lie AND believe in it Failure to recognize this basic human fact impairs all other political analysis

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Just to be clear, Reform MP Rupert Lowe is happy to benefit from cheaper solar energy but his party wants you to believe it's a con. Sure...

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#snowmobilities

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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...

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#CrossborderRail Stopped long distance conference travel post covid and shorter flights don’t make sense either. Taking first long distance European continental train journey to Zurich! ☕️ aboard EMR from Nottingham to London this am. Now on the Eurostar monopoly to Paris with a 🥐.

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Interesting approach to transition away from gas in NY. "The commission has two years to come up with a roadmap for an “orderly, affordable, and equitable right-sizing of the utility gas system” to support the state’s climate law."

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👋 @gijsw4.bsky.social and I are pleased to be welcoming submissions to our proposed @rgsibg.bsky.social session sponsored by @qmrg-rgs-ibg.bsky.social in collab w/ PopGeogRG! 🌏💫 We are excited to receive your work utilising innovative spatial methods or spatial data! Check out the details below 👇

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Digital tech is worsening visa apartheid. Applying for an EU visa for a non-white person, - VFS/TLS sites don’t work/cache issue - bot services popping up to notify appointment - not many appointments though - bots also auto book for those who can afford 💶💶 Any research/policy work on this?

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We've got 80 awesome geo women+ on this list now. I know there are more who should be on here! Please tag them or comment if you'd like to be added. go.bsky.app/Ay1iTTe #gischat

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Are you a young scholar working on cities and climate change? Maybe you want to be an @ipcc.bsky.social chapter scientist for the Special Report on cities. Check it out: www.ipcc.ch/2025/01/27/c...

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If you're interested in a job in the #AIpolicy domain, @aial.ie are currently hiring and have both #PostDoc and #PhD positions available 👇🏼 #jobopportunities

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🧡A huge moment for human rights🧡 The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) has ruled for the first time that country's governments failng to properly address environmental pollution is a violation of the human right to life. www.clientearth.org/latest/press... (1/4)

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Tomorrow is the final day to submit your GISRUK abstracts for April's conference in Bristol! 🎈 #GIS @levijohnwolf.bsky.social

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Breaking: Uplift welcomes a very sensible decision from the Court of Session invalidating the decision to approve the Rosebank oil field. Rosebank is a disaster for the climate & will do next to nothing to create the prosperity & stability that the UK needs. 🧵 www.theguardian.com/environment/...

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Huge win! And a huge thank you to all the tireless campaigners for making it happen

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And not on a technicality: the government's approval was overturned because it neglected carbon emissions.

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BREAKING 🚨: WE WON OUR CASE AGAINST ROSEBANK. The court has ruled the oil field UNLAWFUL and Rosebank’s approval has been overturned. This is a monumental victory in the fight for a liveable future for all.

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Have an idea for a postdoc on urban inequalities, democracy, politics, and/or critical approaches to health and within 4 years of your PhD? If you're interested in working with me, get in touch. Note Feb 21st closing date. www.jobs.manchester.ac.uk/internal/Job...

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Victoria Reyes’ book Academic Outsider is so deeply resonant of my own difficulties within academia - a very specific kind of selective pseudo-liberal institution. I can’t begin to write how I feel yet but I think it’s finally pushed me over to rethink my relationship with the academy. 😶‍🌫️

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As someone who has reported on AI for 7 years and covered China tech as well, I think the biggest lesson to be drawn from DeepSeek is the huge cracks it illustrates with the current dominant paradigm of AI development. A long thread. 1/

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Excellent to see Octopus's Greg Jackson weigh in on the CCS strategy, which in this instance is very specifically a plan to ensure that Britain keeps burning fossil gas for decades more.

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Here is a starter pack for the core social science team at Bristol Digital Futures Institute—and we will add more as our affiliates join us here ☺️ go.bsky.app/7rx3mpt

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Bristol Geography are looking for a permanent lecturer or senior lecturer in Global Development and Environment. I have found the department a brilliant place to be since I joined. Lovely colleagues and city 💛. Happy to answer questions. @seanurban.bsky.social www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DLL735/l...

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Big Tech passed the "net negative for humanity" threshold at some point in the aughts. The entire edifice, from AI to self-driving cars, now resembles one monumental Ponzi scheme designed to benefit a handful of guys at the expense of literally everyone else.

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How much will this cost the treasury? Shame on this govt for taking away pensioners' winter fuel payments while giving tax breaks to millionaires and billionaires - totally skewed priorities www.thetimes.com/business-mon...

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Lots of new followers thanks to Women in Urbanism starter pack by @aninehartmann.bsky.social & @cathytuttle.bsky.social I'm Harrie. I love cycling my adapted trikes with my dog Frida I research active travel with a focus upon disability and inclusion: orcid.org/0000-0003-06... go.bsky.app/QLxaTa4

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Why do women "hate"#highways? Our latest article explores how car-centric planning is inherently #gendered and excludes #women. Using the recent case of the highway expansion referendum in #Switzerland—which was rejected by a majority of women. open.substack.com/pub/urbancyc...

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