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Deva Woodly @devawo.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Meanwhile the real miraculous future tech is solar & mRNA vaccines: preserving the planet and curing cancer. But we’re supposed to hand everything over to malevolent peeping toms and resource oubliettes for an ill defined ‘pay no attention to the man behind the curtain’ progress. It isn’t rational.

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Prof. Eliot Jacobson @climatecasino.net · 20/09/2026

Breaking News! Code FUBAR!!! Yesterday's Nino 3.4 sea-surface temperature anomaly (preliminary) was a record 3.047°C above the 1991-2020 baseline, beating the previous record of 3.034°C set on November 19, 2015. It will take about 2 weeks to verify. Stay tuned!

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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

NSF has reduced the research budget for all atmospheric, ocean, and earth sciences by ~80%. 80%! A lot of us will not be conducting new research or training new students for the foreseeable future.

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Rachel Salvidge @rachelsalvidge.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Revealed! How companies ‘secretly’ use billions of litres of public water in drought-hit England. Companies use 2.6 billion litres of public water a day, many not required to report or cut their use. Less than 1% use same amount of water as 10 million people. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

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Revealed: how companies ‘secretly’ use billions of litres of public water in drought-hit England

Exclusive: As millions of people face hosepipe bans, many companies are not required to report, let alone cut, use of public supply

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Gurgîn Bakircioglu @gurgin.se · 13/09/2026

Du behöver inte älska politik idag. Du behöver bara välja vilket Sverige du vill vakna upp till imorgon. Klimatomställning eller klimatbroms. Solidaritet med invandrare eller mer rasism. Och om tolv SD-ministrar känns som en rimlig måndagsöverraskning. Yallah, vänner. Vallokalen stänger 20.00.

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Jeff Berardelli @weatherprof.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Ocean anomalies up to +14°F! While El Niño drives global weather patterns, its biggest impacts are arguably local in #Peru, #Ecuador and the #Galápagos Islands. The extreme warmth along the coast is disrupting one of the most productive ocean ecosystems on Earth. 1/

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Fredrik Albritton Jonsson @fredrikjonsson.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Major critique of how AI operates by leading mathematicians: ”solving problems is only a tool and proxy for achieving the primary goal of conceptual understanding and insight. Forgetting this in the world of AI may turn the tool against the primary goal.”

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Aarne Granlund @aarnegranlund.eurosky.social · 11/08/2026

The last old forests are being destroyed for money in Finland. I'm glad to have seen these places. That is also why I support Sámi rights in the north. These places will be gone if no one pays attention to them.

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Asheesh Kapur Siddique @asheeshks.org · 06/09/2026

We keep discussing ”strategies” for teaching in the age of AI to avoid talking about resources. It’s so boring!! The strategy is invest $ to hire people, lower class size, support research-engaged learning & stop measuring the worth of disciplines in relation to # of enrollments and majors.

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Ryan Goodman @rgoodlaw.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

This may be one of the most important legal openings to combat government corruption and DOJ abuse. • Power of grand juries to investigate corruption - even if prosecutors oppose • Model Grand Jury Charges for judges to instruct jurors of their powers • more By team at Yale Law School.

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Sword of the People: The Power of Grand Juries to Investigate Administration Corruption

The untold power of regular grand juries and special grand juries to conduct investigations and issue reports when federal prosecutors won't.

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Pieter T. L. Beck @ptrbck.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

My approach: I don't need it in my teaching and think it would actually be counter-productive pedagogically. It's up to the AI-hype-sters to identify a pedagogical need and give an argument why only GenAI can provide the solution and whether it's worth the deskilling and nonskilling /2

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Dr Dave Hitchcock @davehitchcock.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

I'm writing a thing about history education and "AI". Myself and another came up with some 'considerations' and I was wondering what people make of them in their current form. All critique appreciated, I'm trying to get to durable and defensible positions.

"Considerations for Large Language Models and the Teaching of History
1. Education is a process, not an event. And a history education is an active process through which we seek to understand our pasts and presents. We encounter history experientially through our senses and by using our memories, and we learn to do history iteratively, through the process of producing it ourselves in various formats.
2. Generative AI models cannot ‘replace’ historical thinking so much as generate a simulacrum of thought. Their use seems to offer shortcuts to a particular outcome. These shortcuts risk the acquisition of historical skills, because they subvert or replace the core processes of ‘doing history’.
3. LLMs potentially save users time by undertaking tasks like tabulating large datasets, surfacing patterns, and computing information, so long as results are carefully checked. But such tasks are to historical research like calculations are to accounting: they might support the practice but cannot inspire critical insight or reflective thought, which are the primary aims of historical scholarship.
4. Therefore, classrooms should first train history students to locate, identify, and describe sources of information and only then to learn the skills to reflect on the selection, organisation, and mining of datasets used by LLMs. "

"5. History teaching should privilege the value of quoting accurately, citing work correctly, paraphrasing sources honestly, and marshalling arguments carefully and specifically. LLM prompt responses do not yet reliably do these things, and may never do so.
6. Unless history students can assess the selection, organisation, and algorithms that power a given LLM, they should treat its outputs as sources of uncertain provenance.
7. Use of LLMs in a history classroom should always be subject to ethical and critical scrutiny, just as with any other source of information.
8. Most widely available large-language models are commercial systems, and administrator control of their parameters, tone, capabilities, acceptable answers, and programming resides with commercial firms. Their use entails significant energy expenditure and environmental degradation. These facts place significant limits on their use and on our ability to undertake the required ethical scrutiny."

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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 18/08/2026

We've tried nothing and we're all out of ideas

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Zack Labe @zacklabe.com · 10/08/2026

We have very unfortunate news to share today... 😢 I've been an author for this report since 2020, and we just celebrated our 20th anniversary edition last year.

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Sarah Pickman @sarahmpicks.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

"The microbial discovery has implications for the resilience of complex cells under extreme environmental conditions, and for the mechanisms by which microbial life adapted to climate change in the distant past."

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Red marks the spot: Network of complex microbes discovered at mysterious Blood Falls

A research team co-led by a Yale scientist has identified complex organisms near the Blood Falls area of the Taylor Glacier in Antarctica — a discovery that offers new implications for how microbial l...

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Lucy Delap @lucydelap.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

Great discussion at the 'crisis in UK history' meeting hosted by @ihr.bsky.social, @royalhistsoc.org, @histassoc.bsky.social and History UK. Horror stories of closures and redundancies, balanced by new resources. Check out for ex. the new Independent Historians Network independenthistorians.org

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Independent Historians Network

The place for independent and freelance historians to connect

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Neil Pederson @yellowbuckeye.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

Widespread carbon accumulation in mature forests remains underestimated by satellite observations "Satellite estimates indicate near-neutral biomass changes over recent decades, whereas forest inventories estimate an increase of 102 TgC yr−1" www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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Widespread carbon accumulation in mature forests remains underestimated by satellite observations - Nature Ecology & Evolution

The authors combine satellites, repeat airborne lidar, dynamic global vegetation models and field plot monitoring across the conterminous USA to show widespread continued carbon accumulation in mature...

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Zeke Hausfather @zekehausfather.com · 02/08/2026

I'm not sure folks have realized just how crazy the second half of 2026 and 2027 will be for global temperatures – on the back of a record-smashing El Niño event. Here is my latest estimate of where both years will end up compared to global temperatures since 1850.

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Leo Hickman @leohickman.carbonbrief.org · 30/07/2026

++BREAKING++ The UK and Spanish governments have issued a joint statement overnight: "[We] agreed that this summer’s wildfires demonstrated that climate change was now a national security emergency facing Europe and threatening our way of life." www.gov.uk/government/n...

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Fredrik Albritton Jonsson @fredrikjonsson.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

Astonished by the naiveté of colleagues who seem to think AI is a politically neutral project

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Past and Present @pastpresentsoc.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

From the current issue: "Canoes in the Early English Caribbean: The Role of an Indigenous Technology in Making Mercantilism Work" by Nuala Zahedieh (‪@camhistory.bsky.social) #OpenAccess doi.org/10.1093/past...

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Canoes in the Early English Caribbean: The Role of an Indigenous Technology in Making Mercantilism Work*

Abstract. The Caribbean, with its focus on cash crop production, played a major role in the rise of England’s Atlantic trading system and the making of mod

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Bright Saver | Plug-In Solar @brightsaver.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

There's a lot of different ways to highlight the accessibility of plug-in solar. @billmckibben.bsky.social nailed it in his mention with @canarymedia.com "The solar revolution is the great sunny hope of our time, now everyone can participate." www.canarymedia.com/articles/sol...

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A new deal on balcony solar just dropped in the US

Plug-in panels can lower your bills. To boost the American market for the tech, nonprofit Bright Saver is selling kits with no markup, starting at around…

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Marianna Dudley @dudleymarianna.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

The Oxford Intersection on Environmental Change and Human Experience is seeking submissions across its different sections. I am editing 'Water' and would love to see more articles on -Rivers/freshwater More-than-human perspectives Militaries & water Trade & transport academic.oup.com/oxford-inter...

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Current Calls for Papers

Oxford Intersections reflects the critical role that peer-reviewed interdisciplinary research plays in helping policy- and decision-makers tackle the world

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Dr. Jonathan Foley @globalecoguy.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

I especially love this diagram.

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Fredrik Albritton Jonsson @fredrikjonsson.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

Fascinating work on the environmental consequences of Brexit

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Alondra Nelson @alondra.bsky.social · 21/06/2026

Given the growing evidence on cognitive offloading and skills erosion, this may be very prudent policy. And it will make for an informative social experiment, with much of the US serving as an counterexample

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Fredrik Albritton Jonsson @fredrikjonsson.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

In this powerful blending of environmental and labor history, @robertsuits.bsky.social rediscovers the American hobo as a climate migrant. Joe Hill would surely approve. #environment #history

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Kathryn Cramer 📚🎨 @kathryncramer.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

Small AI-capable boxes are getting better & models are getting more efficient. The great unplugging from cloud LLMs may be just a year or two off. Whatever would Silicon Valley do if people could just implement their ideas without the VC class? At home, on their own box, without the cloud? /2

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Jacquelyn Gill @jacquelyngill.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

Under the proposed rules, peer review will be advisory only; proposals will be required to align with "Gold Standard Science" which is never explicitly defined. Peer review is the foundation of our entire federal funding system, dating back to the establishment of federal agencies after WWII. 6/n

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Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

UC Berkeley Law creates new AI policy that bans AI for "conceptualizing, outlining, drafting, revising, translating, or editing any work submitted for credit" or exams because "thinking remains the sine qua non of good lawyering (and of a quality legal education)." That's what I'm talking about.

Rule:
The use of AI is prohibited for aid in conceptualizing, outlining, drafting, revising,
translating, or editing any work submitted for credit. AI use is prohibited for any use for
any purpose in any exam situation. Students may not upload course
materials—including assignments, readings, slides, class recordings, or other class
content—into generative AI systems. AI can be used for research on papers ONLY for the
limited purpose of identifying sources, such as cases, statutes, or secondary sources.
Students are responsible for the accuracy of their research and all other aspects of their
submitted work. Citations to sources that do not exist will raise a presumption of
prohibited AI use

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Jan Rosenow @janrosenow.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

Pakistan: solar just overtook coal as the largest single source of electricity. 21% of power from solar in 2025. Up from 2% in 2019. Coal peaked at 20% in 2020. Want to read more about one of the fastest solar transitions anywhere in the world? Sign up to my Substack janrosenow.substack.com

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Colette Delawalla, PhD @cdelawalla.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

GET IN, DORKS! It's a watershed moment and we need YOUR HELP. 1/x @standupforscience.net was asked by independent members of the National Academies to support their letter to Congress calling for the reinstatement of the National Science Board. #saveNSB 🔗 www.standupforscience.net/nasem-letter...

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NASEM Open Letter to Congress demanding the restoration of the NSB — STAND UP FOR SCIENCE

Support NASEM's open letter to Congress by signing your endorsement now!

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Erik Nordman @eriknordman.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

📖 Looking to learn more about the inspiring life and groundbreaking work of Elinor Ostrom? My book, The Uncommon Knowledge of Elinor Ostrom, is on sale! She was the 1st woman to win the Nobel Prize in economics for her work on collaborative environmental governance. It's an easy intro to her work.

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The Uncommon Knowledge of Elinor Ostrom

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Albert Pinto @70sbachchan.bsky.social · 20/04/2026

Found it strange that ppl push back on my argument that sales of Solar, batteries, EVs are going to accelerate now with Iran War, coz LINE GO UP for a decade now Well...numbers are in for first month of war A massive surge of consumers's de-risking from fossil fuels. tinyurl.com/PolycrisisWe...

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Adam Schwarz @adamjschwarz.bsky.social · 09/05/2026

Hungary’s parliament sings “Ode to Joy” — the anthem of Europe — after Péter Magyar is sworn in as prime minister. Hungary is once again a proud member of the European Union.

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Guy Shrubsole @guyshrubsole.bsky.social · 02/05/2026

Momentum building for Scottish-style access rights in England, says film OUR LAND, an amazing new film that interviews both landowners & members of the @righttoroam.bsky.social campaign, is out in cinemas from 8th May. Be sure to see it - and tell your MP to go! www.theguardian.com/environment/...

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Momentum building for Scottish-style land access rights in England, says film

Documentary makers seek to start ‘informed conversation’ in country where public is allowed on just 8% of land

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American Historical Association @historians.org · 29/04/2026

The AHA has released a statement opposing the new Texas Tech University Course Content Guidelines, which prohibit content related to sexual orientation & gender identity in undergraduate courses, without defining these terms. Students deserve full and accurate histories. Read the statement:

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AHA Opposes Restrictions on Teaching and Learning at Texas Tech University - AHA

The AHA has released a statement strongly opposing the new Texas Tech University Course Content Guidelines. The guidelines impose a “strict prohibition” on content related to “Sexual Orientation and G...

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Prof. Stefan Rahmstorf @rahmstorf.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

Confused by media reports about the tipping point of the Atlantic Ocean's overturning circulation #AMOC? Carbon Brief has an excellent explainer about a serious risk which might strongly impact your future: 🌊 interactive.carbonbrief.org/amoc-explain...

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AMOC: Is global warming tipping key Atlantic ocean currents towards ‘collapse’?

The AMOC is under threat from human-caused climate change, as warming seas, melting ice and increased rainfall upset the temperature and salt balance of the North Atlantic.

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Prof. Stefan Rahmstorf @rahmstorf.bsky.social · 27/04/2026

A reminder of where we stand. Source: ed-hawkins.github.io/climate-visu...

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