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Drew Pendergrass @drewpendergrass.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Ich bin ganz aus dem Häuschen, dass unser Buch "Die halbe Erde: Ein ökosozialistischer Plan zur Rettung von Klima, Artenvielfalt und Demokratie" heute mit der Post gekommen ist! Sie können es jetzt vorbestellen (7. Oktober). Vielen Dank, @tatjanasoeding.bsky.social, für deine Übersetzungshilfe!

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Drew Pendergrass @drewpendergrass.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

Saw the new Odyssey movie and enjoyed it (I liked that he went with Dante's ending) but I mostly left happy that Nolan is heroically keeping middlebrow alive.

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Tatjana Söding @tatjanasoeding.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

"Half Earth Socialism" kommt bei @oekom.de in Kürze auf Deutsch raus, und mit den Autoren @drewpendergrass.bsky.social und Troy Vettese habe ich ein neues Vorwort geschrieben: Über dt. Klimapolitik, int. Faschisierungstendenzen und der Notwendigkeit von Utopien und Plänen @versobooks.bsky.social

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Drew Pendergrass @drewpendergrass.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

The German edition of Half-Earth Socialism is out in October, so Troy Vettese and I joined @tatjanasoeding.bsky.social to discuss developments in the German climate movement, left politics, and anti-fascist organizing. You can read the essay (in English) here: www.versobooks.com/blogs/news/d...

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Dreaming in Defeat, not Defeated Dreams

Why is it that defeat acts as a powerful soporific for utopian dreaming? In the ur-Utopia, published in 1516, Thomas More imagined an ideal society in contrast to the brutality that surrounded him, wh...

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Drew Pendergrass @drewpendergrass.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

At an atmospheric science conference, where the schedule comes off as a threat

A screen reading Fires will begin at 9am CDT

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John Merrick @johnmerrick.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

This, from the great @drewpendergrass.bsky.social, is my favourite essay from our new issue of The BREAK–DOWN –– a brilliant and wide-ranging meditation on the history and politics of the idea of complexity www.break-down.org/chaos-in-the...

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Chaos in the Air

Against Friedrich Hayek’s market mysticism, complexity science points toward the need for collective intelligence and planning.

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Drew Pendergrass @drewpendergrass.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

Everyone from the Black Panthers to the neoliberals praises complex systems thinking (and hates on Descartes, binaries, etc). In this essay, I ask if we’re all talking about this same thing, tracing how "complexity" in atmospheric science mutated through its popularization into a sort of mysticism.

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Drew Pendergrass @drewpendergrass.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

I'll be starting as an Assistant Professor of Environmental Studies and Sciences at Oberlin College in July! My lab will continue my work using satellite observations to infer emissions of greenhouse gases and air pollutants, illuminating social and ecological drivers of change. 🧵

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Solveig Degen @solveigdegen.bsky.social · 24/04/2026

The more unstable the present becomes, the more necessary it is to plan for the future. But what does it mean to plan? Read our 11 theses on planning to find out!

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Drew Pendergrass @drewpendergrass.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

New headache in climate data cleaning unlocked

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Drew Pendergrass @drewpendergrass.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

I’m in this issue, with a piece on the politics of “complexity.” Everybody — from the Black Panthers to the neoliberals — praises complex systems thinking, an idea rooted in the physical sciences, and I try to figure out if we’re all really talking about this same thing. You can pre-order now!

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Drew Pendergrass @drewpendergrass.bsky.social · 15/04/2026

Talking to AI for science people is like talking to Bertrand Russell circa 1910. Their bottleneck is verifying truth claims generated at scale. How to do this? Well, by formalizing all knowledge of course!

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Drew Pendergrass @drewpendergrass.bsky.social · 30/03/2026

Walter Benjamin’s emergency brake at the UNEP conference

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Drew Pendergrass @drewpendergrass.bsky.social · 28/03/2026

From the GKN factory occupation in Florence to Rewilding Apennines in Abruzzo, it's been a pleasure to speak with and learn from social, labor, and environmental struggles across Italy. You can find the Italian translation of Half-Earth Socialism online here: www.mimesisedizioni.it/libro/979122...

Audience at Rewilding Appenines seated in a castle

Three people (two translators of the book, and the author) selfie at GKN driveline sign

Photo of a slideshow that says Half-Earth Socialism in a warehouse at the GKN factory

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Drew Pendergrass @drewpendergrass.bsky.social · 18/03/2026

Something very important happened 250 years ago this year. That's right: Alessandro Volta discovered methane! I'll be in Ispra March 30 through April 2 for the Methane250 UNEP conference (www.methane250.org) presenting some of my recent work on methane trends (doi.org/10.5194/acp-...).

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Drew Pendergrass @drewpendergrass.bsky.social · 03/02/2026

I'll be in Berlin next week celebrating Bertolt Brecht. The sessions look amazing! I'll be on some panels covering (1) resonances between Brecht and scientific modeling, and (2) Brecht on "being useless" (but in a good way).

A photo of a harvester, with the text: Brecht-Tage 2026 - Die Erde, »die große Nährerin«. Brechts grüne Revolution

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daniela russ @ueberdruss.bsky.social · 02/02/2026

love the wild mix of people and topics at the Brecht Tage next week, centering around the Brecht's 'green revolution' and featuring Thomas Turnbull, Hanna Hamel, @simschaupp.bsky.social, Troy Vettese and Drew Pendergrass lfbrecht.de/projekte/bre...

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Brecht-Tage 2026 | Literaturforum im Brecht-Haus

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Drew Pendergrass @drewpendergrass.bsky.social · 18/12/2025

I called all my reps -- it's hard to overstate how important NCAR is to global weather and climate research

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Drew Pendergrass @drewpendergrass.bsky.social · 10/12/2025

🧵 New paper thread! 🧵 We considered a strange case in South Korea where a major air pollutant — fine particulate matter, or PM2.5 — got worse, even as the pollutant emissions which drive PM2.5 formation fell substantially due to new regulations. (1/4)

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Drew Pendergrass @drewpendergrass.bsky.social · 25/11/2025

Love to see the start of a Verso to city administration pipeline

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Virginia Magnaghi @virginiamagnaghi.bsky.social · 15/10/2025

Half-Earth Socialism, by @drewpendergrass.bsky.social and Troy Vettese, is now out in Italian thanks to Mimesis. Here one of the authors answered our questions about ecosocialism, planning, vegetarian and vegan diets, social and environmental justice. Thanks to @jacobinitalia.bsky.social!

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Gregor Semieniuk @gregorsemieniuk.bsky.social · 08/10/2025

🚨NEW PAPER🚨 We all know the 2022 energy price shock fueled the cost of living crisis. It also caused a profit bonanza for the very rich. We show the US reaped the largest profits ($377bn) of any country. 50% went to the richest 1%, only 1% to the bottom 50%. A🧵 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

River or sankey diagram showing the allocation of profits from global oil and gas companies to quantiles of the US wealth size distribution via financial system intermediaries, such as asset managers, and categories of ultimate beneficiaries, such as business owners, pension funds and shareholders in listed companies. The scale is hundreds of billions of US dollars, and ultimately 50.4% of profits reaching the US personal wealth distribution go to the richest 1% of households.

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Naomi Klein @naomiaklein.bsky.social · 01/10/2025

Israel has just arrested Greta Thunberg and many others. Statement from the Global Sumud Flotilla: “People of conscience have been abducted. The flotilla broke no laws. What is illegal is Israel’s genocide, Israel’s illegal blockade of Gaza, and Israel’s use of starvation as a weapon.” 1/3

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Drew Pendergrass @drewpendergrass.bsky.social · 14/08/2025

Nice paper, but disagree a bit on framing. “Our estimate of 96.9 Gt carbon sequestration potential…amounts to 17.6% of the 640 Gt of carbon emissions since 1750.” This may be smaller than other estimates but that’s still a lot of carbon!!! Much more than I’d expect from DAC this century!

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Giovanni Tonolo @giotonolo.bsky.social · 02/08/2025

La traduzione italiana mia e di @virginiamagnaghi.bsky.social di Half-Earth Socialism è uscita ieri! @drewpendergrass.bsky.social @versobooks.bsky.social

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Drew Pendergrass @drewpendergrass.bsky.social · 27/06/2025

Our candles post Boston heat wave lol; so dramatic

Candle drooping dramatically after it partially melted in a heat wave

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Adam Wickberg @adamwickberg.bsky.social · 20/06/2025

VENICE: Exciting event happening on Monday and Tuesday 23-24th of June: www.unive.it/data/33113/2... 3rd HEPM workshop with a great line up of speakers including @drewpendergrass.bsky.social @beatricecointe.bsky.social @edouardmorena.bsky.social @geoffmann.bsky.social @julianordblad.bsky.social

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WORKSHOP | Historical Epistemologies of Planetary Modelling III - Unive

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Drew Pendergrass @drewpendergrass.bsky.social · 12/06/2025

Folks in Hamburg: I'll be giving a talk on the economist János Kornai at the New Institute on Tuesday 18 June at 12pm. All are welcome! thenew.institute/en/media/a-c...

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"A Curious Natural Selection": János Kornai’s Evolutionary Theory of Socialist Institutions THE NEW INSTITUTE - THE NEW INSTITUTE

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Kevin Bird @stairwaytokevin.bsky.social · 10/06/2025

Based on some quick math, this alone could fund the NSF Plant Genome Research Program for ~4 years; the NSF Postdoctoral Research Fellowship in Biology, which was totally axed in the NSF budget request, for ~9 years; and ~ half the total NSF GRFP budget

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Drew Pendergrass @drewpendergrass.bsky.social · 10/06/2025

I'll be doing a mini book tour for our Swedish translation, starting in Stockholm tomorrow with @holgersen.bsky.social! Will be in Umeå on 13 June (www.facebook.com/events/68492...) to do my northernmost event yet (sun rises at 2:20am). All are welcome to talk green left politics!

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Författarsamtal: Halvjordssocialism

Event in Umeå, Sweden by Tidskriften Röda rummet and Verbal förlag on Friday, June 13 2025

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Per Sicking @persicking.bsky.social · 10/06/2025

Hur bygger vi en ekonomi som tillgodoser människors behov inom ekologiska gränser? Missa inte samtalet imorgon med @holgersen.bsky.social och Drew Pendergrass. facebook.com/events/s/sa-...

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Rita Parai @ritaparai.bsky.social · 30/05/2025

I need to actually get to my gate in time, but am stuck processing this particular table:

A screenshot from the proposed NSF budget request showing the number of people involved in NSF activities dropping from 330,100 in FY2024 to 90,000 in FY2026.

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Delphine Farmer @chemdelphine.bsky.social · 30/05/2025

A closer look to figure out what this means for atmos chemists: -GEO is cut by 45%, but includes a 75.1% cut to research (buffered by smaller cuts to infrastructure) -NCAR gets a 39.7% cut with focus moving to ‘weather & earth system models’ and research to better understand wildfire evolution

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Tom Di Liberto @tdiliberto.bsky.social · 30/05/2025

Trump's Budget is out. For NOAA, it's exactly what the previous passback document showed. Trump administration eliminations NOAA's Office of Oceanic and Atmospheric Research in its ongoing fight against science and reality. www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/...

Table showing FY26 budget numbers for NOAA from the Trump Administration.

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Dan Garisto @dangaristo.bsky.social · 30/05/2025

Presidential budget is out. Here's NSF. Biggest cut, by amount, is $1 billion, or 66.8%, from MPS (Physics & Math directorate). nsf-gov-resources.nsf.gov/files/00-NSF...

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Alexandra Witze @alexwitze.bsky.social · 30/05/2025

We have NASA's proposed budget for FY26, and it is brutal to science. Earth science would be cut by more than half. Astrophysics (like JWST, Hubble) by nearly two-thirds. Full details at www.nasa.gov/fy-2026-budg...

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Ståle Holgersen @holgersen.bsky.social · 26/05/2025

I'm having a conversation with @drewpendergrass.bsky.social on June 11 in Stockholm about the truly fascinating book Half-Earth Socialism – now available in Swedish!! The conversation will be in English. Join us! @versobooks.bsky.social @verbalforlag.se

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Julia Carrie Wong @joolia.bsky.social · 11/05/2025

“Like other Palestinian fathers, I was separated from you by racist regimes and distant prisons. Babies are born every day without their fathers – not because their fathers chose to leave, but because they are taken by war, by bombs, by prison cells and by the cold machinery of occupation.”

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To my newborn son: I am absent not out of apathy, but conviction | Mahmoud Khalil

Deen, the grief I feel being apart from you is one drop in a sea of sorrow Palestinian families have drowned in for generations

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Randall Munroe @xkcd.com · 25/04/2025

PhD Timeline xkcd.com/3081

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Ståle Holgersen @holgersen.bsky.social · 22/04/2025

Against the Crisis, alongside great titles from @zetkincollective.bsky.social, @drewpendergrass.bsky.social, @wimcarton.bsky.social, and @taddelay.bsky.social, is now 30% off!

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William Callison @williamcallison.bsky.social · 14/04/2025

🚨 Holgersen at Harvard! For those nearby: Come see @holgersen.bsky.social talk about his new book with me and others interested in economic and ecological crises!

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Politics Theory Other @poltheoryother.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

From the latest episode - @quinnslobodian.com on how all too often the far right has been mistakenly portrayed as the enemy of neoliberalism - and even capitalism in toto:

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Congresswoman Ayanna Pressley @pressley.house.gov · 26/03/2025

This is a horrifying violation of Rumeysa's constitutional rights to due process and free speech. She must be immediately released. And we won't stand by while the Trump Administration continues to abduct students with legal status and attack our fundamental freedoms.

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Jameel Jaffer @jameeljaffer.bsky.social · 14/03/2025

I’m told this is a real letter. It basically says, “We’ll destroy Columbia unless you destroy it first.”

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