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Rachel Dobbs @dobbs.bsky.social · 13/02/2026

Setting aside the insanity of a list including Ian McEwan, Peter Frankopan, the former head of MI6 and me - I am v jazzed to be part of the (gorgeous) literary festival on (gorgeous) Kardamyli in Greece in October. I’ll be speaking about climate + AI. kardamylifestival.com/programme/

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Rose Ruane @regretteruane.bsky.social · 07/07/2025

What is the charge? Walking a path? A succulent salt path?

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Rachel Dobbs @dobbs.bsky.social · 08/05/2025

After the cardinals are sequestered, are they emitted? Does that mean the abatement is reversible?

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Rachel Dobbs @dobbs.bsky.social · 26/03/2025

something something late stage capitalism

An old church with “ENTER, REST & PRAY” inscribed above the door, except it is now a WeWork.

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Rachel Dobbs @dobbs.bsky.social · 10/02/2025

LNER trains now have signs in the toilets informing people that period products are available, for free—just ask the staff for "a package for a friend". Which is excellent except that I can't think of anything more Austin-Powers-bananas to overhear someone saying to a conductor on a moving train.

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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

The most iconic figure in the environmental sciences is the Keeling Curve, the CO₂ record from Mauna Loa, Hawaii. @noaa.gov had a wonderful site where you could visualize and download these data, and now it's just gone. These data belong to us and we should not let this happen!

$A line graph showing atmospheric CO2 levels at Mauna Loa Observatory from 1955 to 2025. The y-axis represents CO2 mole fraction in parts per million (ppm), ranging from 320 to 420 ppm, while the x-axis is years.$

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Rachel Dobbs @dobbs.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

One Gen-Z girl to another in the cinema last night, having just been shown an add for Audible: "Imagine listening to Atomic Habits as an audiobook. You couldn't skip anything!" 💙

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Fionchadd @fionchadd.bsky.social · 16/01/2025

A friend of mine took this photo yesterday

A photo of the front of a bookshop. Above the shop windows, under the name of the shop is a quote attributed to Neil Gaiman. A man on a ladder is scraping Gaiman’s name off.

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Rachel Dobbs @dobbs.bsky.social · 02/12/2024

So I think Biden pardoning Hunter is broadly a bad move BUT also I really want someone to write a "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof" style play about how that decision got made over Thanksgiving in the Biden household

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Joe Lo @joeloclimate.bsky.social · 23/11/2024

Good morning from what India’s NDTV colourfully and correctly calls the “hog wash loop” of #COP29

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Rachel Dobbs @dobbs.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

9 days in—& w 2 official days left—latest draft suggests that #COP29 negotiators have agreed that new climate finance goal should be “USD X trillion” per year. On one hand: lol, I too could have guessed it would be X amount of money On the other: X *trillions* in the text feels significant (?)

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Brooke Jarvis @brookejarvis.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

Today in relatable science: Gulls making a mysterious daily trip that turned out to be to a potato chip factory

A map of flight paths emanating from breeding colony of gulls, with this caption: Early on, LifeWatch noticed something odd. Most gulls were making daily trips to Mouscron, a city on the French border 65 km away. They went to investigate and found the birds bingeing on discarded snacks at the Roger & Roger potato factory.

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Alex Selby-Boothroyd @alexselbyb.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

Day 18 #30DayMapChallenge I 3D-printed John Snow's 1854 cholera map of Soho. It took ages.

3D-printed map of Soho in 1854. Black marks on top of the buildings represent deaths from cholera caused by infected water from the Broad Street Pump (note the missing handle!). Top-down view.

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Alex Selby-Boothroyd @alexselbyb.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

The boss has arrived

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Duncan Weldon @duncanweldon.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

What a chart. www.economist.com/interactive/...

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Hannah Ritchie @hannahritchie.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

It's only right that my first post here is sharing Scotland's map of named ice gritters. You can follow where they all are in real-time. Some favourites this year: Sir David Attenbrrrrrr Stone Cold Steve Frostin Lord Coldemort You're a blizzard, Harry www.traffic.gov.scot/gritter-trac...

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Rachel Dobbs @dobbs.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

At every COP I end up playing one song on repeat. At Glasgow it was Radiohead’s “Karma Police”; in Sharm it was the Succession theme tune (lol); “No Children” by The Mountain Goats in Dubai; this year “Money” (Pink Floyd) & “Good Luck, Babe!” (Chappell Roan) are tied. Interpretations welcome.

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Rachel Dobbs @dobbs.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

"What does it feel like to be at COP29 in that giant circular stadium in Baku?", no one asked. It feels like being in one of these. (I'm the coin.)

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