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Adam Standring

@adamstandring.bsky.social
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Environmental sociologist with added politics and policy. currently ISEG, formerly DMU, ÖRU and FCSH.

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Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 5h
It's telling that men would rather try to invent tech to replace humans' role in caregiving than step up as equal partners in parenting. Telling, that is, in that it shows how financial capitalism and patriarchy work together to dissuade men from doing "unprofitable" labor, like the work of care.
X post from AI industry insider Alvin Sng :

My wife: Can you read our baby a book?
Me: I can just play an audiobook from my phone.
My wife: But then it won't be in your voice.
Me: I can train a voice model.
Parenting hits different when you work in Al.
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Butlerian Jihadist of House Dornick @shimminykricket.blacksky.app · 17h
Harvard just dropped a study AI productivity in software engineering and it found the average increase in productivity from using Claude code is.....zero and for exactly the reasons you'd think fion.ac/jellyfish.pdf
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Nature-based Solutions Initiative @naturebasedsols.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
📢 A new Comment in #NatureClimateChange by experts across climate, nature, health, national security, and financial risk calls on governments to reconcile how climate and nature risks are assessed. Read more ➡️ www.naturebasedsolutionsinitiative.org/news/experts... @oxmartinschool.bsky.social
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The Military Emissions Gap @militaryemissions.org · 07/10/2026
This means that military emissions reporting is getting worse while military spending rises and the climate crisis intensifies: more emissions, less data, a blind spot for #ClimateSecurity, and a black hole in global #ClimateAction. Read more ceobs.org/analysis-rev...
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Analysis reveals weakening emissions reporting amid rising military spending - CEOBS
New UNFCCC Military Emissions Gap data paints a grim picture of obstructive under reporting from countries ramping up their military spending.
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Matt Binder @mattbinder.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
can’t think of a better example of AI being mostly a solution to a problem that doesn’t exist also it can’t help when this is your user base
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@nic_carter
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this is about me and i'm not sorry! i don't have time
to autistically read forums and random team news
or whatever.
i'm sure spending hours and hours running your
fantasy team is a good ROI if you're unemployed but
some of us have jobs
also my team is stacked so that's another point in
the Al columnAndrew Weiner • @DickeyNate • 18h
What's the point if playing fantasy football if
you're just going to automate it

nic carter
@nic_carter • 17h
there's no point to fantasy football, it's grown ass
men pretending to draft NFL players

OpenWindowManiac @Cit_rusK •17h
Then just don't do it?

nic carter *
@nic_carter
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social obligation
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Adam Standring @adamstandring.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Rugby's not a big sport. Expansion is hampered by short sighted leadership at the international and national level. But it doesn't help when sports writers can't be bothered to write a para or two about the tier two countries. www.theguardian.com/sport/2026/o...
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Rugby union power rankings: how the teams stand a year from World Cup
There’s no ignoring the holders but what of the hosts, the All Blacks, France and even England? Here’s a rundown of all 24 teams taking part in Australia in October 2027
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Adam Standring @adamstandring.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Out of cite, out of mind.
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Adam Standring @adamstandring.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
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Adam Standring @adamstandring.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
What matters is what works* *to get us elected
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Adam Standring @adamstandring.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Tbh, I don't think anti-intellectualism in Britain is the preserve of the populists and Far Right. We don't have to go back many years to see how the centre sneered at the left
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Adam Standring @adamstandring.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
I thought Natasha Lennard's recent appearance on the Politics Theory Other podcast, talking about the idea of 'certainty in uncertain times', was very good on this. We're constantly asked to provide clear, finite and universal definitions when definitions themselves don't actually work like that.
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Sarah Andersen @sarahseeandersen.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
The image is of a four panel comic.
In the first panel we see Sarah, the protagonist, next to a stick figure labeled “AI”. The stick figure says, “my outputs look just like yours now.”
The second panel zooms in on Sarah’s face. Above her we see text reading “I think”.
The third panel zooms in closer on Sarah’s face. Text above her reads “you missed”.
The fourth panel shows Sarah drawing happily in a sunlit room. The text above her reads “the point”.
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Adam Standring @adamstandring.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
I was coming here to make this suggestion. We got one for my sister a couple of years ago and she loved it. gameplay.pt/en/board-gam...
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Exit: The Game - Advent Calendar: The Silent Storm
Difficulty (1-5): 2
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Dr Keren MacLennan @kerenmaclennan.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Take part in our study on live music experiences! Please complete this ~30min online survey: redcap-2.bath.ac.uk/surveys/?s=A... We would especially like more representation in our sample from: - Neurotypical people - People who are global majority #neurodiversity #music #inclusion
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Adam Standring @adamstandring.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
The one the reviewers and editors insist you add.
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Adam Standring @adamstandring.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Yet another symptom that academia is fundamentally broken. Even taking into account the AI slop flooding into applications, this represents a massive amount of person hours in the drafting and evaluating of these proposals. And to what end? A dysfunctional job market.
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Adam Standring @adamstandring.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Which is why I have an apparently hard-line and 'extreme' position on AI - never use it, zero tolerance for its use. It's increasingly difficult to maintain this position without serious pushback in academia.
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Adam Standring @adamstandring.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Ed Sheeran as a case of hyperpolitics. In this essay, I will....
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Adam Standring @adamstandring.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Penguin had this 'decades' series that collected new editions of books like this, Lucky Jim, Billy Liar, etc. They were relatively cheap editions to buy on import here in Portugal.
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Adam Standring @adamstandring.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
It's a long time since I read it but Cooper's Scenes from Provincial Life was an interesting read in a similar vein to C.P. Snow's Strangers and Brothers series. I might give this one ago.
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Adam Standring @adamstandring.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
If you wake up every morning hating your job, dreading going into the office, crippled by feelings of the absolute pointlessness of it all... remember that Lisa Nandy is feeling ten times worse
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Adam Standring @adamstandring.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
One of the reasons I hate the term TERF is that there is nothing radical nor feminist about the vast vast majority of transphobes. You scratch the surface of their views and it's just your plain old, boring conservative.
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Alex Winter @alexwinter.com · 08/09/2026
RT if you've never had a tab of ChatGPT open, period.
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Adam Standring @adamstandring.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
My personal favourite genre of UK political commentary is the very sensible commentator who absolutely acknowledges the need for radical social change and demands it right up to the point when there is a political figure or movement ready to supply it... and then it's just not sensible.
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Adam Standring @adamstandring.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Just another day in the normalisation of fascist hate speech. I'm browsing the magazine shelves in my local bookshop and spot The European Conservative. Inside the front cover is an advert for open race replacement conspiracy theory
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Adam Standring @adamstandring.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Dolly ❤️
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Adam Standring @adamstandring.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
John was feeling particularly honest here
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e.w. niedermeyer @niedermeyer.online · 23/08/2026
how odd that our gilded age would also see a dramatic rise in racism and eugenics, what a strange coincidence
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Adam Standring @adamstandring.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
John's brutally honest here
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Adam Standring @adamstandring.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
I stand by this. We (academics) are participants, complicit or otherwise, in a system which produces tragic conditions like this. The British media though... They can get in the bin.
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Adam Standring @adamstandring.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Trump's getting his steam room guys from Mar a Lago to reinstall the steam catapults
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Adam Standring @adamstandring.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
There are worse places to be listening to Adam Tooze on the sorry state of the world
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Adam Standring @adamstandring.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
We've been watching the series DTF St Louis so the algorithm believes I have some... specific interests...
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Adam Standring @adamstandring.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
I've applied to jobs in Portugal where you were expected to provide hard copies of all publications before your application is considered and nothing in the world will convince me this isn't designed to deter external candidates.
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Adam Standring @adamstandring.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
I don't have anything substantial to say about the current scandal rocking the academy other than we should abolish star professors.
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Adam Standring @adamstandring.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
Youngest son: "Dad, you spent two hours in the kitchen for this. ?!? Me: "I MADE THIS!!!"
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Adam Standring @adamstandring.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
I'll write a more detailed summary of our chapter when I get back to my desk in September but we attempt to set out a comprehensive account of current trends and topics in research on the IPCC from the social sciences If anyone is interested in the chapter but doesn't have access, please reach out.
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Adam Standring @adamstandring.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
It's relevant to anyone interested in the IPCC as an object of research as well as scholars looking more broadly at the social science of climate change and climate policy. It explicitly builds on and updates the work of Hulme and Mahoney, 2010. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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Sage Journals: Discover world-class research
Subscription and open access journals from Sage, the world's leading independent academic publisher.
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Adam Standring @adamstandring.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
Our new chapter, 'Stocktaking IPCC Studies: A Qualitative and Quantitative Mapping of Social Science and Humanities Literature on the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change' is now available here: academic.oup.com/edited-volum...
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Stocktaking IPCC Studies: A Qualitative and Quantitative Mapping of Social Science and Humanities Literature on the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
Abstract. Since its inception in 1988, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has established itself as the most authoritative expert body on
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Count Binface @countbinface.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
Can electoral lightning strike twice? #VoteBinface #Clacton
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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 03/06/2026
A reminder of Joshi's Workslop Postulate
JOSHI'S WORKSLOP POSTULATE
"l use Al all the time
but I always check
the outputs"
Daniel / David / James / Andrew / Robert etc
Either
LYING
Ridden with heaps
of catastrophic
errors
Definitely quicker
than doing actual
work I guess
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Or
FOOLISH
Checked and
corrected every single
error manually
Took longer to correct
errors than just doing
the work 101
"Always check the outputs for errors" = "please re
information pollution rather than plastic pollu
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Adam Standring @adamstandring.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
The Lisbon Ripper
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Adam Standring @adamstandring.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
Idea for a podcast: two failed politicians, who have spent decades telling us change is impossible, spend an hour each week smugly mocking any attempt to do politics differently.
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Adam Standring @adamstandring.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
The state lacks the resources (economic and epistemic) to do complex projects and the only option becomes the private sector. Even the idea that the state can or should be a primary provider of services becomes beyond the realm of sensible politics.
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Adam Standring @adamstandring.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
There is a strong belief among many of the ruling class and the public that the state cannot successfully implement necessary public services. As more and more services are peeled off to the private sector (the outsourcing state) this becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy.
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Adam Standring @adamstandring.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
Quite a few news items today: - Gatwick without water - Conspiracy theories about Burnham's premiership - the relative 'comfort' of prisons vs. secure hospitals There is a thread drawing these things together and that is the crisis of state competence.
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Adam Standring @adamstandring.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
Cheers from Flores (with Corvo in the background)
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RPG Maker Network @rpgmaker.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
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