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Ed Carr @edwardrcarr.com · 12/04/2026

My kids turned my profile pic into a sticker and are beating me with it.

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Ed Carr @edwardrcarr.com · 01/04/2026

OK, fine, if you did not, the relevant passage...

Tom resumed his whitewashing, and answered carelessly:

"Well, maybe it is, and maybe it ain't. All I know, is, it suits Tom Sawyer."

"Oh come, now, you don't mean to let on that you LIKE it?"

The brush continued to move.

"Like it? Well, I don't see why I oughtn't to like it. Does a boy get a chance to whitewash a fence every day?"

That put the thing in a new light. Ben stopped nibbling his apple. Tom swept his brush daintily back and forth—stepped back to note the effect—added a touch here and there—criticised the effect again—Ben watching every move and getting more and more interested, more and more absorbed. Presently he said:

"Say, Tom, let ME whitewash a little."

Tom considered, was about to consent; but he altered his mind:

"No—no—I reckon it wouldn't hardly do, Ben. You see, Aunt Polly's awful particular about this fence—right here on the street, you know—but if it was the back fence I wouldn't mind and SHE wouldn't. Yes, she's awful particular about this fence; it's got to be done very careful; I reckon there ain't one boy in a thousand, maybe two thousand, that can do it the way it's got to be done."

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Ed Carr @edwardrcarr.com · 01/04/2026

My man, everyone has read Tom Sawyer.

Rant from Trump trying to convince other countries to help him reopen the Strait of Hormuz by saying the job is already done and they should get their own oil.

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Ed Carr @edwardrcarr.com · 13/03/2026

Dear @nytimes.com, you might want to clarify your definitions of “regime change” and “success” before running a headline like this. What exactly about the regime has changed, and how can that be measured against goals that were never really articulated?

NYTimes subhead says “Venezuela gave Trump a taste of success”

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Ed Carr @edwardrcarr.com · 27/01/2026

A little hope in Davos

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Ed Carr @edwardrcarr.com · 08/11/2025

I mean, if he wants to attack the Affordable Care Act from the left and go full single-payer…

Trump post: “NO MORE MONEY, HUNDREDS OF BILLIONS OF DOLLARS, TO THE DEMOCRAT SUPPORTED INSURANCE COMPANIES FOR REALLY BAD OBAMACARE. THE MONEY MUST NOW GO DIRECTLY TO THE PEOPLE, TAKING THE "FAT CAT" INSURANCE COMPANIES OUT OF THE CORRUPT SYSTEM OF HEALTHCARE. THE PEOPLE CAN BUY THEIR OWN, MUCH BETTER POLICY, FOR MUCH LESS MONEY, SAVING, FOR THEMSELVES, AN ABSOLUTE FORTUNE!!
PRESIDENT DJT

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Ed Carr @edwardrcarr.com · 05/11/2025

Once again, we have completely lost the thread on how a college education is supposed to work. It’s not major=>job, it’s major=>opportunity to learn critical thinking and expression=>job. Double majors do not produce double opportunities. www.washingtonpost.com/education/20...

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Ed Carr @edwardrcarr.com · 18/10/2025

The President lives and dies by the numbers. All his claims are about numbers. Suddenly, @nytimes.com is focused on content, not numbers? Seems like maybe the protest numbers are not things this administration wants us to hear. Sometimes you just have to report the numbers.

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Ed Carr @edwardrcarr.com · 23/09/2025

Colleague just sent me a shot of yesterday. It’s ok to dress ok. Not sure how to hashtag that one.

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Ed Carr @edwardrcarr.com · 23/09/2025

So @dave.bzky.team, how’s #nyclimateweek fit #2? (I’ll find a pic of fit #1 later)

Ed in a tonal outfit of cream and beige, with brown loafers

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Ed Carr @edwardrcarr.com · 17/09/2025

To meet climate goals, we need to produce less fossil fuel. The Production Gap Report, produced by a @sei.org-led consortium, measures the gap between what governments plan to produce & what’s compatible with limiting global warming to 1.5°C. Spoiler: The gap is wide. www.sei.org/events/produ...

Social media card with the Title "Production Gap Report 2025 Online Launch Event" featuring special guest Mary Robinson. 22 September, 9:30-10:45am Eastern Daylight Time on Zoom

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Ed Carr @edwardrcarr.com · 06/08/2025

Congrats to all the Chinese, Indian, and EU researchers who just received the gift of an entire transformational field. We’re doing just great.

The Simpson’s meme, but Bart saying “they’ve cancelled all the mRNA research” and Homer saying “they’ve cancelled all the mRNA research in the US”

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Ed Carr @edwardrcarr.com · 02/08/2025

U2: Zooropa It has everything: allusions to the breakup of the USSR, the cohering of the EU, the odd emerging new media, an embrace of poststructural spectacle.

The cover of U2s Zooropa. The spaceman at the center is a representation of the cosmonaut stranded in orbit when the USSR fell. The stars of the EU flag ring him, against a weird low-fi graphic background

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Ed Carr @edwardrcarr.com · 14/07/2025

Hot garbage from the @nytimes.com today. Running this hed with no reference to the fact Congress should be in charge of tariffs and is derelict in its duty to rein in the lawlessness here is an appalling normalization of our disastrous governance situation.

NY Time Headline: Bluffs and Bluster Aside, Trump's Tariffs Are Here to Stay

Subtitle: The president has earned a reputation for bluffing on tariffs. But he has steadily and dramatically raised U.S. tariffs, transforming global trade.

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Ed Carr @edwardrcarr.com · 28/05/2025

Look, I know it is all performative and this entire tweet could launch a dissertation to cover the inanity, but I can’t help myself. If Canada joined the US, its people would pay taxes and thus pay for Golden Dome. So it’s not ZERO DOLLARS. We live in the dumbest timeline.

Post from @realDonald Trump:
I told Canada, which very much wants to be part of our fabulous Golden Dome System, that it will cost $61 Billion Dollars if they remain a separate, but unequal, Nation, but will cost ZERO DOLLARS if they become our cherished 51st State. They are considering the offer!

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Ed Carr @edwardrcarr.com · 25/05/2025

While this is all pretty mendacious, the second bullet represents a 25-year-old view of higher ed. Today, most institutions engaged in significant research dream of the $$$ associated with the commercial adoption of their research and are hiring Deans/VPs of Research staff to make it happen.

@JDVance tweet:
There is an extraordinary "reproducibility crisis" in the sciences, particularly in biology, where most published papers fail to replicate.
Most universities have massive bureaucracies that inhibit the translation of basic research into commercial adoption.
The voting patterns of university professors are so one-sided that they look like the election results of North Korea.
And on top of all of this, many universities explicitly engage in racial discrimination (mostly against whites and asians) that violates the civil rights laws of this country.
Our universities could see the policies of the Trump administration as a necessary corrective to these problems, change their policies, and work with the administration to reform.
Or, they could yell "fascism" at basic democratic accountability and drift further into irrelevance.

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Ed Carr @edwardrcarr.com · 04/05/2025

For the record, I steeped my own mint for the syrup.

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Ed Carr @edwardrcarr.com · 03/05/2025

if u see this post ur getaway vehicle

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Ed Carr @edwardrcarr.com · 25/04/2025

Buddy, I will see your 220 pages and raise you 362 pages of this bad boy (which I am reading for a project)...admittedly, I am about 165 pages in already...

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Ed Carr @edwardrcarr.com · 12/04/2025

April 12. Worcester doing Worcester things.

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Ed Carr @edwardrcarr.com · 11/03/2025

I disagree with a host of things in this op-ed (including using one case to condemn a wide range of cases), but the author got one thing right: www.nytimes.com/2025/03/11/o...

You can see how performative many companies were in their imposition of D.E.I. policies simply by how quickly they have retreated from those policies. And their demise was well underway before the election. No one wanted to become the next
Bud Light.

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Ed Carr @edwardrcarr.com · 11/03/2025

I look forward to being charged for refusing to spend my money on a company whose values I do not share. If Rs were to listen to this, it would result in a hilarious continuation of the IRA as demand for rebates and charging infrastructure took off…

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Ed Carr @edwardrcarr.com · 26/02/2025

The cognitive dissonance is palpable…and the media needs to do a better job of pointing out that the government is what delivers needed/desired services, so you can’t square protecting those services with slashing the government.

Quote in NY Times: This is where the real fight actually begins to protect the services that I’ve been fighting for, while also delivering on the promise of slashing down the size of government

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Ed Carr @edwardrcarr.com · 30/01/2025

It would be nice if the lede writers would stop lending credence to administration “desires” regardless of their constitutionality.

Headline from WAPO saying the administration “makes it clear that it wants final say on government spending”

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Ed Carr @edwardrcarr.com · 11/01/2025

When it snows gently on a weekend morning, Worcester turns idyllic

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Ed Carr @edwardrcarr.com · 31/12/2024

The correct caption is “Roberts steals second!!!” www.theguardian.com/environment/...

A penguin, sliding on its belly with a wing outstretched as if stealing a base…

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Ed Carr @edwardrcarr.com · 24/12/2024

I, for one, welcome our insect beer-snack overlords (fried Mopane worms from last week in Namibia).

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Ed Carr @edwardrcarr.com · 21/12/2024

In sum, this figure captures an entire chapter - the work of a team of authors over nearly three years - to explain not only why transformative change is not happening, but to explain the challenges and barriers that stand in the way in a manner that allows us to overcome them!

The SPM figure drawn from Ch4 of the Transformative Change Assessment - it is a wheel, with the central views/structures/practices that need to be changed at the center, a ring of underlying causes of biodiversity loss and nature's decline around the center, another ring of five challenges to transformative change, and outside the 20 barriers that emerge from th

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Ed Carr @edwardrcarr.com · 21/12/2024

4a) Barriers are entry points to the challenges - transformation comes when we address a barrier in a manner that gets at the underlying challenge, which in turn creates opportunities to address other challenges and underlying causes by shifting views, structures, and practices.

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Ed Carr @edwardrcarr.com · 21/12/2024

Finally, we come to the barriers – the specific manifestations of the broad challenges. These will emerge in specific places, or take locally-specific forms. They are aligned with the barriers from which they emerge, and explained in greater detail in the table below.

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Ed Carr @edwardrcarr.com · 21/12/2024

Also note, the challenges loosely line up with the most salient underlying causes of biodiversity loss and nature’s decline.

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Ed Carr @edwardrcarr.com · 21/12/2024

As we go through the challenges, things become increasingly grounded, but these challenges inform one another and reinforce one another, leaving us with worldviews and institutions ill-equipped to identify new ways of being with and relating to nature.

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Ed Carr @edwardrcarr.com · 21/12/2024

3e) limited access to clean technologies and uncoordinated knowledge and innovation systems: global inequality means access to and knowledge about new technologies and approaches to nature means the ability to take on such opportunities is unevenly distributed.

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Ed Carr @edwardrcarr.com · 21/12/2024

3d) unsustainable consumption and production patterns including individual habits and practices: we are used to consuming in certain ways, and we often cannot see the distant environmental impacts of our consumption.

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Ed Carr @edwardrcarr.com · 21/12/2024

3c) inadequate policies and unfit institutions – the speed of nature’s decline often outstrips the speed of institutional decision-making and the geographies of decline rarely map to institutional sovereignty.

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Ed Carr @edwardrcarr.com · 21/12/2024

3b) economic and political inequalities; the current incentives of capitalism, the power relations embedded in the global financial system, the different voice that people have in political processes – all deeply intertwined.

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Ed Carr @edwardrcarr.com · 21/12/2024

3a) relations of #domination over nature and people, especially those that emerged and were propagated in colonial eras and that persist over time – we’re talking about the worldview that emerged when #modernity was inextricably mixed with #coloniality

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Ed Carr @edwardrcarr.com · 21/12/2024

3) Now we get to the content of Chapter 4, which is about challenges for transformative change – if we need it so badly, why isn’t it happening? Our chapter identified five broad, interconnected challenges that block efforts to transform our relationship with nature:

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Ed Carr @edwardrcarr.com · 21/12/2024

2) The grey ring represents the underlying causes of biodiversity loss+nature’s decline defined in the assessment: 1) disconnection from and domination over nature and people; 2) concentration of power and wealth; and 3) prioritization of short-term, individual and material gains.

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Ed Carr @edwardrcarr.com · 21/12/2024

1) At the core of the figure is a representation of the definition of #transformativechange laid out in Ch 1: fundamental, system-wide shifts in views, structures and practices.

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Ed Carr @edwardrcarr.com · 21/12/2024

Figure/Finding Explainer: I love the figure from our chapter that made it into the Summary for Policymakers of the IPBES #transformativechange assessment. It was a group effort that captures our entire chapter in a single image. Let me talk you through it: 🧵 SPM: ipbes.canto.de/pdfviewer/vi...

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Ed Carr @edwardrcarr.com · 20/12/2024

Almost home from #IPBES11. I've not come to grips with the fact the #transformativechange assessment is done. I am proud of what we did. I'm particularly proud of the chapter 4 team and the incredible figure that captured our whole chapter in one image. I'll miss this team, particularly my co-CLAs

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Ed Carr @edwardrcarr.com · 13/12/2024

We work all day here in Windhoek, so I get up early to get workouts in. Independence Stadium is a pretty great venue for sprint work!

A view of the stadium from the 200m start

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Ed Carr @edwardrcarr.com · 11/12/2024

And the plenary consideration of the @ipbes.bsky.social Transformative Change Assessment is underway. Here we go!

The IPBES Plenary platform with people seated

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