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Bhamini

@bhamini.bsky.social
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Socio-ecogical equity in the pluriverse Interdisciplinary research-practitioner cz I can’t be a cat napping in the sun 🐋 A they-by. Systems thinker figuring: Food | Climate | Development-Economic Alternatives | Health | Queerness, Community and Art

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Bhamini @bhamini.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
Soil health, seed health and human health are intimately and inextricably linked
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Amber Woods @amberspeaks.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
I refuse to believe that people are meant to spend their entire lives surviving systems that keep wounding them faster than they can heal.
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Dreamcatcher @dreamcatcher01.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
For when you need to breathe...
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ContempraInn 🌹 @contemprainn.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
The otherwordly landscape of Patagonia
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Bhamini @bhamini.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
In 2021-22 I tracked the food x fuel x finance crisis. In 2026 we’re heading there again. Every food crisis (2008 etc) we see similar patterns repeat. It’s a lot…the hungriest and most vulnerable are left hostage as profits & plunder continue for a few. newsletter.rajpatel.org/p/how-the-wa...
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How the war makes food more expensive
The industrial food system depends on fossil fuels for fertilizer. Shutting down the Strait of Hormuz just before the spring planting will raise food prices.
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Reuters @reuters.com · 04/03/2026
Indian rupee hits record low as Mideast war rattles markets, stokes economic risks reut.rs/3MJunMK
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Indian rupee hits record low as Mideast war rattles markets, stokes economic risks
The Indian rupee fell to a record low against the ​dollar on Wednesday as a sharp ‌rise in oil prices and a rush out of risk assets piled pressure on the ​emerging market currency that analysts ​say could continue until conflict in ⁠the Middle East ebbs.
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Bhamini @bhamini.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
Wow I’d love one !
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Rest of World @restofworld.org · 28/02/2026
India's push for EV buses shows a deadly blind spot: scaling faster than driver training can keep up, putting public transport safety at risk restofworld.org/2026/india-electric…
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India’s electric bus push has a deadly blind spot
Fatal accidents are mounting as cities add buses faster than they can train drivers.
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charles-spillane.bsky.social @charles-spillane.bsky.social · 27/02/2026
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Social limits to adaptation in the context of intangible cultural heritage
Amid mounting evidence of limited progress in adapting to climate change, scholarship on the limits to adaptation is gaining renewed momentum. Neverth…
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Bhamini @bhamini.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
Oh wow this fills such an important gap in our discourse study and policymaking for that matter! Thanks for sharing this
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Carl Zimmer @carlzimmer.com · 27/02/2026
Study finds ChatGPT Health did not recommend a hospital visit when medically necessary in more than half of cases. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
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‘Unbelievably dangerous’: experts sound alarm after ChatGPT Health fails to recognise medical emergencies
Study finds ChatGPT Health did not recommend a hospital visit when medically necessary in more than half of cases
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Bhamini @bhamini.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
I’ve so many questions. But I’d assumed you can drop them in a bowl with water and get a full soup. Wild!
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Bhamini @bhamini.bsky.social · 23/02/2026
Care is not simply labor, but “a principle of life and an ethic of solidarity.” Food, festival, ritual, gathering, culture, and leisure sit centrally here. As Neha puts it, “culture, like care, is inseparable from wellbeing.”
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Bhamini @bhamini.bsky.social · 23/02/2026
“care is not just about children or the elderly,” or reproductive labor alone. It includes tc of each other in crisis, neighbors, & the non-human world. … “in the South, individualism is not always an option; survival is tied to interdependence,” flagging the visibility of this interdependence.
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Bhamini @bhamini.bsky.social · 23/02/2026
Neha and Gisela aptly center pluriversality and intersectionality--multiple ways of being existing at the same time, while recognising that identities shape access & creation. Dalit & Indigenous women face double and triple burdens, often compounded for persons with disabilities or queer persons.
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Bhamini @bhamini.bsky.social · 23/02/2026
As the article states, “to reclaim the commons is to reclaim collective wellbeing.” Wellbeing here is no private property: Whether water bodies, community halls, or streets where people can gather without harassment, these spaces remind us that “joy, safety, and care are meant to be shared.”
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Bhamini @bhamini.bsky.social · 23/02/2026
Think self-care routines. While good & important, these are limited when embedded in systems that produce alienation, remain inaccessible to most & limit wellbeing. From a femme decolonial lens, articulating reclaiming the commons as reclaiming collective wellbeing makes this tangible.
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Bhamini @bhamini.bsky.social · 23/02/2026
This article/conversation speaks directly to that. It sits within growing work that questions the hyper-individualistic & hyper-consumerist version of “modern,” “Western,” or “capitalist” wellbeing served. radicalecologicaldemocracy.org/wellbeing-an...
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Wellbeing and care, a view from India
Gisela Ruiseco and Neha Saigal A conversation between Neha Saigal and Gisela Ruiseco on the relationship between wellbeing and care, reimagining wellbeing from a decolonial feminine lens, and recla…
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Bhamini @bhamini.bsky.social · 23/02/2026
Embedding care, wellbeing, & relationality works off the notion that systemic socio-ecological transformations require a diff organizing principle. The current one functions exactly as designed, perpetuating inequalities that limit a person’s (& a community’s) scope to thrive, not just survive.
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Bhamini @bhamini.bsky.social · 23/02/2026
We’ll never sell a transition if it continues to add to farmers’ burdens, and does not respond to their joys and fulfillment. Also if we continue to focus on micro-level-individual behaviors, as opposed to the systems that keep them in place, and make any imageries of “alternatives” difficult.
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Bhamini @bhamini.bsky.social · 23/02/2026
With the rise in vulnerability and precarity for livelihoods and wellbeing, stronger social protection mechanisms that aren’t static just end-points, but a continuum—as this article posits—can be transformational. Our fieldwork signals the same. Agrarian economy/farmers are already overburdened.
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Bhamini @bhamini.bsky.social · 23/02/2026
Bringing back a fav—as we think of what gets a food systems moving by tracing what got it to move in the past This food crisis is different: COVID-19 & the fragility of the neoliberal food security order www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1... @jennifer-clapp.bsky.social @williamgmoseley.bsky.social
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This food crisis is different: COVID-19 and the fragility of the neoliberal food security order
Our analysis situates the current COVID-19 induced food crisis within a longer-term historical perspective on policy responses to past food crises. We argue that the legacies left by these past pol...
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Scroll @scroll.in · 07/02/2026
The state government also termed the incident that occured on Thursday morning at Mynsyngat, Thangsko a ‘dynamite explosion’. scroll.in/latest/10905...
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Scroll @scroll.in · 16/01/2026
In 2021, the Modi government unveiled its plan to build a mega infrastructural project on the Great Nicobar. Soon, corals that hugged its coastline disappeared on the map. In EP 02 of True Story, Supriya Sharma speaks to Vaishnavi Rathore about how she broke the story and why it is significant.
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How we found the disappearing corals of the Great Nicobar | True Story
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Ahhhhh @nerdjpg.com · 01/01/2026
“In almost all regions of the world, the top 1% of the population is richer than the combined 90%” according to the new UN report on inequality “the bottom 50% of the world’s population holds just 2% of all wealth” peoplesdispatch.org/2025/12/18/h...
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Half of the world’s population owns just 2% of global wealth, UN report finds : Peoples Dispatch
Rising inequality is reinforced by the global financial system, which privileges the wealthier countries and compels the poorer nations to transfer a substantial part of their national income to them.
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Scroll @scroll.in · 23/12/2025
Cleanliness is usually described as a matter of civic sense: people, it is said, must behave better, litter less and keep public spaces clean. But civic behaviour is shaped by the society they live in. scroll.in/article/1089... Mohit Nirmender ✍️
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Scroll @scroll.in · 18/12/2025
The Modi government’s new VB-G RAM G Bill, 2025 seeks to replace MGNREGA, a move economist Jean Dreze says could “destroy” the scheme. This comes despite a 2020 panel recommending expanding MGNREGA to include more farm work, Shreegireesh Jalihal reports. scroll.in/article/1089...
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James Dyke @jamesgdyke.info · 16/12/2025
Polluters should pay for the damage they have produced. drilled.media/news/odette-...
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“We Don’t Deserve This”: Survivors of Super Typhoon Odette File Claims Against Shell
Last week the survivors of Super Typhoon Odette that struck the Philippines in 2021 filed what may be the most ambitious climate lawsuit to date against global oil giant Shell.
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Stockholm Environment Institute @sei.org · 15/12/2025
📢 #JobAlert We seek an experienced and highly motivated Senior Researcher to shape global practice, influence policy, and advance equitable, people-centred #ClimateAction. 📍 Location: SEI Oxford (Hybrid) 📅 Start date: May 2026 or earlier ⏳ Apply by 7 Jan 2026 🔗 www.sei.org/people/jobs/...
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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 25/11/2025
"As Mumbai sees increased energy demand from new datacentres, particularly from Amazon, the filthiest neighbourhood in one of India’s largest cities must keep its major coal plants" www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
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‘It’s hell for us here’: Mumbai families suffer as datacentres keep the city hooked on coal
As Mumbai sees increased energy demand from new datacenters, particularly from Amazon, the filthiest neighbourhood in one of India’s largest cities must keep its major coal plants
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Bhamini @bhamini.bsky.social · 24/11/2025
Hmm THE COP OUT?
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Ayesha Tandon @ayeshatandon.carbonbrief.org · 11/11/2025
UPDATE: We have revamped the Global South Climate Database 🎉 I'm super excited to announce this huge update, which makes the database even quicker and easier to use. (Also prettier ✨) Please check it out to find brilliant climate experts from the global south 🌏 🔗 bit.ly/GSClimateDatabase 1/4
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Dana R. Fisher (aka the Apocalyptic Optimist) @fisherdanar.bsky.social · 14/11/2025
The problem with the climate regime in one article: With fewer people attending COP30 "one in every 25 participants at this year’s UN climate summit is a fossil fuel lobbyist." It is "the largest concentration of fossil fuel lobbyists at COP" and up 12% from COP29 www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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Fossil fuel lobbyists outnumber all Cop30 delegations except Brazil, report says
One in every 25 participants at 2025 UN climate summit is a fossil fuel lobbyist, according to Kick Big Polluters Out
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Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ @olivia.science · 24/10/2025
“The solution certainly won’t come from AI; on the contrary, this only magnifies the problem. Moreover, correcting the errors of AI will cost us loads of time and effort. But once the cat’s out of the bag…” apache.be/2025/10/24/b...
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Belgian AI scientists resist the use of AI in academia
Several AI scientists have published an open letter calling for a ban on AI use by students.
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Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ @olivia.science · 24/10/2025
I am close to tears; they listened and made an english version apache.be/2025/10/24/b... @apache.be you rule 🖤
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Belgian AI scientists resist the use of AI in academia
Several AI scientists have published an open letter calling for a ban on AI use by students.
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Bhamini @bhamini.bsky.social · 02/11/2025
Great way to look at cognitive offloading not just to tech, but to other humans. Important to assess the productivity and creative slug it often pushes. Here workslop is: “AI generated work content that masquerades as good work, but lacks the substance to meaningfully advance a given task.”
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Stanford Tech Impact and Policy Center @techimpactpolicy.bsky.social · 24/10/2025
One week left! Submit your abstract for the #JOTS special issue on Digital Intersectionality and Marginalization in the #MajorityWorld. 🗓️ Deadline: October 31, 2025 🔗 Learn more: bit.ly/4mZDjtb #TrustAndSafety
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High Level Panel of Experts on Food Security and Nutrition @hlpe-fsn.bsky.social · 04/09/2025
🧵🔴Why are our food systems, their people and environments so vulnerable? How can they become more resilient and help reduce future shocks? 📺Watch the HLPE-FSN report Resilient food systems launch live: www.fao.org/webcast/home...
Launch of the HLPE-FSN report on “building resilient food systems”
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samuel mehr @mehr.nz · 27/08/2025
There's a lawsuit about AI stealing your work. It's the same lawyers taking on Elsevier et al in a separate case. Academics: 1. Check if your work is in LibGen at www.theatlantic.com/technology/a... 2. If so, let the lawyers know at www.lieffcabraser.com/anthropic-au...
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Prof. Stefan Rahmstorf @rahmstorf.bsky.social · 28/08/2025
I was shocked when I first saw these results from standard climate models used in IPCC reports: for high emissions, the Atlantic overturning circulation #AMOC shuts down in all 9 models that ran past 2100, and is well on the way to shutdown by 2100. Our paper on that is out today.🧵
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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 02/09/2024
All the Ways Heat Is Terrible for Your Health
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All the Ways Heat Is Terrible for Your Health
From kidney disease to mental health to deaths, more research is necessary to grapple with extreme heat worsened by climate change.
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Yung En Chee @yungenchee.bsky.social · 24/06/2025
"In India’s financial capital – where 73% of all offices & commercial establishments are within 500m of a flood hotspot & 69% of all employees experience “hindered access” [..] trying to get to or leave work – forecasting the monsoon is fraught, essential & getting trickier with climate change."
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Jason Hickel @jasonhickel.bsky.social · 24/06/2025
I'm excited to announce this new paper we have in The Lancet Planetary Health. We show that the world is not moving towards a just and ecological future for all.
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Jason Hickel @jasonhickel.bsky.social · 24/06/2025
I'm excited to announce this new paper with @haugejostein . It establishes a progressive industrial policy framework to scale down harmful industries, organise production around public benefit, and achieve global ecological justice. Link in the next tweet, open access!
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Scroll @scroll.in · 11/05/2025
“When you sweat so much, there is cellular dehydration and electrolyte imbalance. We must pay attention to the humidity factor in our approach to extreme heat,” said Vidhya Venugopal, whose research area is extreme heat and health. scroll.in/article/1082... By Tanvi Deshpande via India Spend
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Will Quinn @willquinnart.bsky.social · 11/05/2025
Daily bunny no.2951 gotcha!
A bunny throws a bug-catching net over an unsuspecting frog. They are at a muddy pond. There is also a jar next to the bunny.
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article-14.com @article-14.com · 07/05/2025
PM Modi inaugurated the Ken-Betwa River Link in Khajuraho on 25 Dec 2024. In April, Priyanka Bhadani visited 9 villages where residents are in the process of being displaced under the project—some without clarity, others without compensation article-14.com/post/as-modi...
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As Modi Govt Fast-Tracks Controversial Project To Link Rivers, Thousands Of Anxious, Angry Adivasis Set To Lose Homes
After Prime Minister Narendra Modi laid the foundation stone in December 2024 for a dam that will destroy over 4 million trees in a key tiger reserve and displace thousands, mostly Adivasis, anger spr...
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Bhamini @bhamini.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
Ugh there’s this great paper taking this but within the climate x carbon space!!!
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Ryan Katz-Rosene, PhD @ryankatzrosene.bsky.social · 28/04/2025
Swiss Re documenting changes in the IPCC’s language around the urgency and certainty of human-caused global warming:
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Bhamini @bhamini.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
“The study found with a high level of confidence that the global economy would be $28 trillion richer were it not for the extreme heat caused by the emissions from the 111 carbon majors.” Have folks brewed their thoughts and takes on this study yet?
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