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Dr Maria Bastos

@minesbastos.bsky.social
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Feminist and Queer politics; foreign policy. Environmental security. Occasionally South Asia. Ageing woke person. 🌈🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🇵🇸

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Dr Maria Bastos @minesbastos.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Really inspiring and amazing conference #EISA #PECEISA26 !
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Dr Maria Bastos @minesbastos.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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We economists have done the maths: ‘growth’ is a doomed strategy – there is a better way | Olivier De Schutter and others
Our roadmap has been shaped by experts across the world. We call on political leaders at all levels to use it, says Olivier De Schutter and others
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Dr. Aaron Thierry @thierryaaron.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
"Of the approximately US$540 billion (£400 billion) annual subsidies to agriculture, the largest recipients are beef and milk producers. Many subsidies provide support to buy pesticides and fertilisers. Imagine if such funds were redirected to food production for human need and planetary health?"
theconversation.com
How a super El Niño could trigger global famine
Climate and geopolitical shocks – from El Niño, global heating or wars – hit a food system which already magnifies environmental and social vulnerabilities.
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 08/05/2026
Happy centenary, David! Attenborough’s 100 most spectacular TV moments
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Happy centenary, David! Attenborough’s 100 most spectacular TV moments
He has been besieged by birds, had 120m crabs try to crawl up his trouser leg and stayed cool beside an erupting Icelandic volcano. As David Attenborough turns 100, we celebrate his most extraordinary adventures
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Laleh Khalili @lalehkhalili.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
US and UAE basically formalising colonial extractive structures: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
bloomberg.com
Congo Plans Paramilitary Unit for Mines with US, UAE Funding
The Democratic Republic of Congo will create a paramilitary unit to police its mines with funding from the US and the United Arab Emirates, the country’s General Inspectorate of Mines said.
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University of Sussex @sussex.ac.uk · 29/04/2026
Today, the University of Sussex won a resounding victory against the Office for Students (OfS) in the High Court, successfully overturning a £585,000 fine. Read more: www.sussex.ac.uk/news/focus/f...
Vice-Chancellor and President, Professor Sasha Roseneil
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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
In case you missed it, Utrecht, Netherlands has begun building the largest Dutch “car-free” neighbourhood. 12K people 6K homes 1.8K social rental homes 1.5 mid-range rental & affordable owner-occupied homes 21.5K bike parking spaces 250 shared cars 2 parcel hubs Parking structures on the edge.
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Utrecht to start construction on largest car-free neighborhood in the country next week
Construction of a new neighborhood is set to begin in Utrecht next week. The neighborhood, called Merwede, is scheduled to be the largest car-free district in the Netherlands, with 6,000 homes. The ar...
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 01/04/2026
Say hello to the UK’s most successful growth industry: organised waste crime | George Monbiot
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Say hello to the UK’s most successful growth industry: organised waste crime | George Monbiot
Thanks to a sustained ideological assault on regulation, our country has been turned into a literal dump, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot
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Laleh Khalili @lalehkhalili.bsky.social · 27/03/2026
Ganji and Noorizadeh are brilliant. Their previous piece (Iran's Three-Body Problem) was equally imaginative and insightful.
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Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 25/03/2026
Resolution on transatlantic slavery supported by 123 countries, while three opposed it - including the US and Israel aje.news/rr32hx
Resolution on transatlantic slavery supported by 123 countries, while three opposed it - including the US and Israel
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Dr Maria Bastos @minesbastos.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
Indirect channels of communication are always good, specially when irrational behaviour dominates.
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Laleh Khalili @lalehkhalili.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
The irony of the automobile company set up by the Nazis providing weaponry to Israel: www.ft.com/content/1e41...
ft.com
VW to shift from cars to missile defence in deal with Israel’s Iron Dome maker
Venture between carmaker’s Osnabrück plant and Rafael Advanced Defence Systems part of plan to save 2,300 jobs
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Laleh Khalili @lalehkhalili.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
An utterly necessary collection of essays on the US/Israeli war on Iran, and its impact not only on Iran, but the wider region: www.merip.org/2026/03/war-...
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War Across Boundaries–Perspectives on Iran and a Region Under Siege
On February 28, 2026, the United States and Israel launched airstrikes on Iran, initiating a war with wide-ranging consequences for Iran and the broader region and devastating effects for their popula...
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Dr Maria Bastos @minesbastos.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
thewire.in/world/how-th...
thewire.in
How the Iran War Could Reshape Afghanistan-Pakistan Dynamics
Today’s open conflict between Pakistan and Afghanistan is of unprecedented intensity: never before have the two countries been at war with each other in this way.
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Laleh Khalili @lalehkhalili.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
On geopolitics around Iran, I trust no one's opinion more than I do Trita's
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Laleh Khalili @lalehkhalili.bsky.social · 09/03/2026
This is what Israel has wrought in Tehran.
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Laleh Khalili @lalehkhalili.bsky.social · 08/03/2026
"The reserve currently contains 415m bbl of oil, or ~ 20 days of US consumption, well below its 714m-bbl capacity. Drawing down too much of the oil too quickly could damage the salt caverns holding it. It would cost more than $20bn to refill." www.ft.com/content/d546...
ft.com
Depleted oil reserve leaves US exposed as Iran war pushes up prices
Donald Trump has not fulfilled a vow to refill the Strategic Petroleum Reserve that was drained by Joe Biden
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James Hansen @drjamesehansen.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
The presumed upcoming El Nino will help cement and quantify global warming acceleration, showing that 2C global warming is likely to be reached in the 2030s, not at midcentury. See Another El Nino Already? mailchi.mp/caa/another-... Also available on Substack: jimehansen.substack.com/p/another-el...
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Laleh Khalili @lalehkhalili.bsky.social · 07/03/2026
While strategic petroleum reserves can cushion against immediate impacts of the US/Israeli war against Iran, people really have not prepared for fertiliser shortages and what that may mean for food cycles in the coming year: (Source: Bloomberg newsletter 6 March)
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Laleh Khalili @lalehkhalili.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
As the Kurds who had depended on US support, were betrayed and massacred in their thousands in the 70s, Kissinger famously dismissed the deaths: "covert action should not be confused with missionary work."
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Laleh Khalili @lalehkhalili.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
"On Sunday, the Israeli Broadcasting Authority reported that an Iranian drone struck an apartment inhabited by Israelis in Abu Dhabi near the Israeli embassy." i.e. intel personnel. www.dropsitenews.com/p/iran-war-t...
dropsitenews.com
Iran Prepared for an Existential War. How Much Are Trump and Israel Willing to Gamble?
Iran is intensifying strikes across the region after Supreme Leader Khamenei's assassination, as Trump floats new talks and more bombing.
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Audie Klotz @audieklotz.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
Old enough to know that all wars start with wildly fanciful claims of quick success. Including the US civil war (I’m not *that* old but I do read history)
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Laleh Khalili @lalehkhalili.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
The Pentagon is putting the responsibility on Trump.
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Dr Maria Bastos @minesbastos.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
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Yes, Climate Still Matters. Here's How It Connects to Every Other Crisis in the World Today.
Lately I've been experiencing something I suspect a lot of other climate reporters—and really anyone who works on climate—has also been feeling: a big ol' case of the "who the fuck cares?" with a heap...
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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 01/03/2026
Really concerned to hear the Defence Secretary refuse to rule out UK's involvement in future strikes on Iran. Iraq lessons must be learned. Further escalation in the Middle East makes us all less safe. Starmer must rule out UK involvement immediately.
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Dr Maria Bastos @minesbastos.bsky.social · 22/02/2026
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Glacier grafting: How an Indigenous art is countering water scarcity
Residents in the northern part of Pakistan are creating artificial glaciers to tackle climate change.
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Dave Vetter @davidrvetter.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
One of the key problems with the coexistence of billionaires and a subservient media is that the ravings of mentally ill men are presented as headline news.
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Prof Ian Hall @ianhall.bsky.social · 03/02/2026
Preventable deaths in a warming world: how politics shapes who lives and who dies @thierryaaron.bsky.social argues vulnerability to climate change isn’t fate - it's a political choice. theconversation.com/preventable-...
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Preventable deaths in a warming world: how politics shapes who lives and who dies
Preventable suffering is both widespread and socially produced.
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Brian McHugh @brianmchugh.bsky.social · 02/02/2026
Climate displacement in Wales as Council spends over £2.5million to protect residents #Rhondda #ClimateChange #Wales climatewithbrian.com/2026/02/02/w...
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Welsh Council to spend over £2.5 million to protect residents from climate change
Homes at severe flood risk to be demolished by council Councillors for Rhondda Cynon Taf council have approved the acquisition of 16 homes in Ynysybwl, which have been described as at ‘severe flood…
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Dr. Aaron Thierry @thierryaaron.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
"The results also indicate that current #climate models underestimate the magnitude of the observed changes. This is caused most likely by a too simplistic representation of deep mixing processes in the ocean in numerical models" #AMOC #FasterThanExpected
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Ventilation of the North Atlantic is Weakening
20 January 2026 / Kiel. The renewal of deep waters in the North Atlantic has slowed markedly over the past three decades. This is shown by a new study from the GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Resear...
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Sam Levin @samtlevin.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
ICE detained a 5-year-old Minnesota boy coming home from school + took him and his dad to Texas, school officials say. The family has an active asylum case + entered the US at a port of entry. "They’re taking children. They're not violent criminals. They're little kids," the superintendent told me.
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ICE detains five-year-old Minnesota boy as he came home, say school officials
Superintendent says Liam Ramos and his father were taken into custody while in their driveway and sent to Texas
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Dr. Aaron Thierry @thierryaaron.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
"Every summer in Europe, now, is getting unbearably hotter...If you are using excess deaths as a tool for measuring heat mortality, you are looking back 3yrs to get your avg... what happens when those No.'s are elevated every yr? Excess deaths are baked into the background data &the baseline shifts”
med.wisc.edu
Why heat kills - School of Medicine and Public Health
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Naomi Klein @naomiaklein.bsky.social · 18/01/2026
Forced face scanning of a U.S. citizen with zero cause, just bald racial profiling. This is tech fascism.
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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 18/01/2026
Week by week - Laura Kuenssberg is interviewing the party leaders. When I agreed to come on the show, I was told Nigel Farage was also doing it. He's now pulled out - and they've sent the deputy instead. The same Nigel Farage who's refusing to debate me. A pattern emerging...
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Dr Maria Bastos @minesbastos.bsky.social · 10/01/2026
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What's the Iranian left saying about the mass protests?
They're backing mass protests while condemning US and Israeli intervention
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BDS movement @bdsmovement.bsky.social · 03/01/2026
From Palestine to Venezuela: We call for unity in the struggle for self-determination and for collective solidarity against the genocidal US-Israel axis. Read our full statement: loom.ly/0PcQonE
loom.ly
From Palestine to Venezuela
We call for unity in the struggle for self-determination and for collective solidarity against the genocidal US-Israel axis.
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Naomi Klein @naomiaklein.bsky.social · 03/01/2026
hey remember climate change? didn't it have something to do with... oil? I'm sure it can wait.
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Dr Maria Bastos @minesbastos.bsky.social · 03/01/2026
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An Empire of Closets
A killjoy new year message
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Sophia Babai @swingingstorm.bsky.social · 03/01/2026
Three million people live in Caracas, five million in the metro area. It's one of the densest cities in South America. Remember this in the morning when they try to spin this as anything other than a cold-blooded attack on a major civilian center.
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Simon Nixon @nixonsimon.bsky.social · 03/01/2026
A defining moment for Europe. If it endorses/fails to condemn this flagrant breach of international law, it will have surrendered its core justification for opposing Russia’s invasion of Ukraine
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 15/12/2025
The UK has 160 black professors (25% are women) out of a total of 22,885. UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) offers funding opportunities, 81% of awards go to white applicants, 1% to black. The statistics are likely to discourage black scholars from pursuing academic/science careers. Need action.
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Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 07/12/2025
Group of soldiers announce the removal of President Patrice Talon and all state institutions.
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Benin soldiers claim to have overthrown President Talon in apparent coup
Group of soldiers announce the removal of President Patrice Talon and all state institutions.
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Dr Maria Bastos @minesbastos.bsky.social · 24/11/2025
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Horror stories of a ‘feminised workplace’ mask the real crisis in male identity | Finn Mackay
Stereotypes that centre men’s worth in their work are strangling sensible debate, and letting down women too, says author Finn Mackay
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Dr Maria Bastos @minesbastos.bsky.social · 20/11/2025
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AI needs Fascism
And Fascism needs AI
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Dr Maria Bastos @minesbastos.bsky.social · 19/11/2025
So much for the years attempting to ‘decolonise the curriculum’ . With more and more people ‘sold’ to one of the biggest epistemological flops of all time, I wonder if this‘decolonise’ wasn’t but another white saviour mid-life crisis. This long read is a must.
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What AI doesn’t know: we could be creating a global ‘knowledge collapse’ | Deepak Varuvel Dennison
The long read: As GenAI becomes the primary way to find information, local and traditional wisdom is being lost. And we are only beginning to realise what we’re missing
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Josh Busby @busbyj2.bsky.social · 07/11/2025
Climate action is now mostly national implementation rather than international negotiations. The upcoming climate negotiations at least got China to put forward a new pledge (NDC); now let's see them implement. Can Brazil crowd in $ for forest conservation? We shall see.
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Charles Keener @charleskeener.bsky.social · 08/11/2025
www.dailykos.com/stories/2025...
dailykos.com
Black Kos, Week In Review - The American Maroons of Virginia and North Carolina
The American Maroons of Virginia � and � North Carolina By dopper0189, Black Kos Managing Editor The � Great Dismal Swamp Maroons � were African-...
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Gerard van der Schrier @gerardvdschrier.bsky.social · 07/11/2025
The Vietnamese Bach Ma Mountain Peak station recorded one-day rainfall of 1,739 mm - close to the global one-day record and perhaps a new record for the northern hemisphere. It is part of a deluge Viet Nam has seen in October, shattering 35 precip records. e.vnexpress.net/news/news/en...
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Vietnam sees 35 rainfall records broken in October - VnExpress International
Vietnam's northern and central regions saw a total of 35 rain records broken in October alone as two storms, Matmo and Fengshen, caused unprecedented downpours.
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Prof Ian Hall @ianhall.bsky.social · 26/10/2025
🌊 The Arctic is melting fast. A cargo ship just sailed from China to the UK via the Arctic for the first time, taking half the usual time. Of course, what looks like a shortcut is really a warning: climate change is redrawing our planet’s map. observer.co.uk/news/nationa...
observer.co.uk
Climate change clears northern route for first container ...
The melting ice sheet has opened up a north-east passage – which brings fresh political and environmental dangers along with it
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