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Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla.bsky.social · 24/11/2024

Why have the Guardian & Observer's journalists voted overwhelming to go on strike? I've attempted to summarise our concerns, the reports so far & why a Scott Trust board meeting tomorrow is a pivotal moment for press freedom & the future of journalism. open.substack.com/pub/broligar...

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How to Speak Truth to Power

...when that power is your own news organisation? I don't know. And I wish it was a question I didn't have to ask.

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Nesrine Malik @nesrinemalik.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

'The readiness to repudiate identity politics & group them under “bad woke” is less about policy and more about the fact that social justice never really found a home amongst liberals, who were happy to capture its energy but not its demands.' The week's column www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

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‘Woke’ didn’t lose the US election: the patrician class who hijacked identity politics did | Nesrine Malik

Why is this simple explanation being so widely embraced? Because it does not require a commitment to real, structural change, says Guardian columnist Nesrine Malik

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Amy Westervelt @amywestervelt.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

We also got to muck around in a favorite rabbit hole: the biases baked into supposedly objective economic models, which Ben Franta first got me thinking about with his great "Weaponizing Economics" paper a while back: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

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Weaponizing economics: Big Oil, economic consultants, and climate policy delay

The role of particular scientists in opposing policies to slow and halt global warming has been extensively documented. The role of economists, however, has received less attention. Here, I trace t...

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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 24/11/2024

A person on a bicycle is by far the most energy-efficient among animals and machines per distance traveled relative to body weight. The bicycle is magic. www.jstor.org/stable/24923...

A graph titled "Cost of Transport" showing the relationship between body weight (in kilograms) and energy consumption for distance traveled (calories per gram per kilometer) for various animals and machines. It highlights that a person on a bicycle ranks first in efficiency.

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Shannon Mattern @shannonmattern.bsky.social · 24/11/2024

Skimming through slide decks from my erstwhile "Data Infrastructure" class, I happened upon this treasure from the Old Place:

Neil deGrasse Tyson tweets: "In school, rarely do we learn how data become facts, how faces become knowledge, and how knowledge becomes wisdom." Matthew Gabriele quote tweets: "Literally, the Humanities."

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Natasha de Vere @ndevere.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

I could not find a starter pack for all the fantastic plants & pollinators people out there. I’ve made a start, but I’m new here so will have missed lots of people. Please let me know if you would like to be added.

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Dr. Carlie Trott @carlietrott.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

Starter pack of social scientists working on climate/environment with a focus on justice-driven policy, behavior, & systems change. *Inclusive of early career scholars.* Recommendations welcome @carlietrott.bsky.social [Collaboratively created; Additions ≠ endorsement.] go.bsky.app/6yrkE6C

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