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Martha van Bakel

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Doctoral Fellow at Freie Uni Berlin - Mediators in Haiti 1804-1825 she/her, sie/ihr 🌹

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Zeke Hausfather @zekehausfather.com · 23/09/2026
Updated version of the impacts map that incorporates the latest runs from 13 dynamical models to refine the areas affected by this year's event:
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Carbon Brief @carbonbrief.org · 16/09/2026
NEW – CCC: Heathrow expansion could push flights to ‘80% of UK emissions by 2050’ | By @joshgabbatiss.bsky.social Read here: buff.ly/SBtfvG3
Aviation is on track to reach 80% of UK CO2 emissions by 2050 with Heathrow expansion, says CCC. Residual CO2 emissions in 2050 under the CCC balanced net-zero pathway, with the impact of a proposed Heathrow expansion, MtCO2. Horizontal bar chart showing aviation far exceeding all other sectors. Source: Climate Change Committee - (alt text generated by Google Gemini)
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Alex von Tunzelmann @alexvont.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Many enslaved people were also branded with “DY” (Duke of York, cursed title), for James, later James II, as the piece says the most important English slave trader of C17th. There is a statue of him in Trafalgar Square. I’ve often said it should be taken down www.theguardian.com/uk-news/ng-i...
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The royal crown branded on enslaved Africans: Britain’s monarchy and the slave trade
From Elizabeth I’s backing of early voyages to royal investment in trafficking companies, generations of monarchs were central to Britain’s slave trade
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David DeWitt @daviddewitt.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Haitians living in Springfield, Ohio are being required to wear ankle monitors and turn their passports over to United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement. ohiocapitaljournal.com/2026/08/14/h...
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Haitians in Springfield are required to report to Ohio's ICE offices and wear ankle monitors • Ohio Capital Journal
Haitians living in Springfield, Ohio are being required to wear ankle monitors and turn their passports over to United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
Very weird to be living for weeks through what has so far been the worst UK drought since records began and for the Prime Minister to have still said absolutely nothing about it
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Alberto Alemanno @alemanno.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
EU Ministers discuss Schengen this week over a crisis that never threatened Europe's free-movement area: no one leaves Ceuta without a border check. Instead, the EPP & far-right allies use this manufactured crisis whose price was paid by real lives to attack Spain's different stance to migration.
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Doctora Malka Older @older.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
More about this horrible, horrible decision of ending TPS, from a Haitian perspective, here: globalvoices.org/2026/07/04/w...
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What the ending of the U.S.’ Temporary Protection Status could mean for Haiti
“Haiti remains gripped by armed violence [...] and a profound humanitarian crisis [and] the Supreme Court has given a green light to treat hundreds of thousands of Haitian families as disposable.”
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Martha van Bakel @mvanbakel.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
Only Cape Verde had the cahoonas to try something else
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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
As wildfires rage, Andy Burnham still won't rule out airport expansion. He still hasn't commited to ending new oil and gas drilling in the North Sea. The incoming Prime Minister can't say the climate crisis is an emergency whilst backing policies that make it worse.
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Martha van Bakel @mvanbakel.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
There must be some kind of universal, astrological archive law that on your very last day the database will spit out an entire series of very relevant papers that you don't have time to view
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Martha van Bakel @mvanbakel.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
bit of an L for Sadiq. "Around one in six (16%) are currently using at least one AI technology and only 5% have plans to adopt AI in the future." Maybe because it's not that good?
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Katharine Hayhoe @katharinehayhoe.com · 08/07/2026
For decades, coastal mangrove forests have been decimated by development. But just this past week, forty years of satellite data confirmed something remarkable... Read more in this week's edition of Talking Climate.
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Mangrove forests are proof that protecting nature works | Talking Climate with Katharine Hayhoe
Mangroves recover, the cost of biodiversity loss, and a new way to visualize heat For decades, the world’s coastal mangrove forests were dis
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Pedro Fresco @pedrofresco.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
Cuba instala su primer parque de baterías: 50 MW www.ess-news.com/2026/07/06/c...
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Cuba commissions first 50 MW battery energy storage system - Energy Storage
Cuba has brought its first 50 MW battery energy storage system (BESS) online as part of a broader plan to deploy 200 MW of storage to support grid stability and the integration of new solar capacity.
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Martha van Bakel @mvanbakel.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
In thrilling news I have secured one of the new desks at the National Archives in Kew - it's so roomy 😍
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Lauri Myllyvirta @laurimyllyvirta.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
Where's Germany in these charts? Nowhere, for two reasons. The nuclear phase-out, obviously, but the country also failed to build renewables at scale, as we keep highlighting. Germany's status in people's (incl. many Germans') minds as renewables champion is a decade out of date.
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Asher Elbein @asherelbein.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
This is NOT what the FIFA World Cup is about. The FIFA World Cup is about *opens history book* uh oh *Frantically starts flipping though pages* uh oh. oh no. no no no. uh oh
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Martha van Bakel @mvanbakel.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
One data center needs the same amount of power as 800,000 homes!
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Revealed: landmark Scottish AI project has no prospect of meeting renewables promise
Exclusive: Government and developers privately acknowledged Lanarkshire datacentre site had power provision ‘issue’
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Martha van Bakel @mvanbakel.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
Cabo Verde making me feel a type, a flavour of joy I have not felt before
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
I am - with great, world historical reluctance - officially handing it to Harry Kane
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Martha van Bakel @mvanbakel.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
I never thought it would happen to me, but now that I'm 30 I think I might be into podcasts 😭
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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 30/06/2026
Today's newsletter is about how the AI industry is losing - its economics don't work, its leaders can only sell its product through swindling and egregious forward-looking statements, and the largest financial institutions in the world are wising up. www.wheresyoured.at/the-ai-industry-is-losing/
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The AI Industry Is Losing
If you liked this piece, you should subscribe to my premium newsletter. It’s $70 a year, or $7 a month, and in return you get a weekly newsletter that’s usually anywhere from 5,000 to 18,000 words, in...
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
This is a moment of extreme hazard, for the right to free speech, freedom of assembly and freedom to protest. But because the great majority of the media is either in favour or scarcely interested, we have failed to grasp the enormity of the situation. We could lose it all before we've woken up.
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Martha van Bakel @mvanbakel.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
It was great to be in Maynooth this weekend for @frenchcolonial.bsky.social 2026. Got to hear from so many 17/18/19th century experts and also find out more about 15th century Ireland at Maynooth Castle (and beat the London heatwave for a while 🥵)
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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
It's officially the hottest June day ever. We know who is to blame. Fossil fuel firms. The billionaire media. Weak politicians. We know what we must do. Rapid decarbonisation & adaptation for a healthier, wealthier country safe for future generations.
June temperature record broken as 35.7c recorded
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Abbey @abbeyarletto.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
When reality surpasses fiction! Top: fictional forecast for August 2050, broadcast by French TV in 2014 to warn about the consequences of global warming. Bottom: Real French forecast for yesterday, June 22, 2026.
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Stop Rosebank @stopcambo.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
Not so gentle reminder that people sweltering in the heat in the UK want climate action and affordable energy with homegrown renewables Pouring more fuel on the fire by approving new oil and gas fields like Rosebank is indefensible.
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Zack Labe @zacklabe.com · 22/06/2026
Dangerous and potentially historic extreme heat is forecast to impact parts of western Europe this week. We already know that these temperatures are made at least 5x more likely due to human-caused climate change. Stay safe! Explore the attribution data at csi.climatecentral.org/climate-shif...
Graphic showing the Climate Shift Index for June 24, 2026 across parts of Europe. Graphic is from Climate Central. Many areas see a change in likelihood of 5.
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Gabby HC @scriblit.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
Starmer in 24: my government will let you just get on with your lives, promise Starmer in 26: IS THAT A PRO PALESTINE BIT OF CARD I SEE??? DO I SENSE A TRANS PERSON HAVING A WEE SOMEWHERE??? WHY IS YOUR 17YO NOT TUCKED UP IN BED WITH LIGHTS OUT AT 8.30, CITIZEN?????
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Nils C. Kumkar @nilskumkar.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
FIFA not wanting to offend slave-owners is very much on brand.
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Progressive International @progintl.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
Britain’s Information Research Department targeted the left-wing movements and anti-colonial leaders such as Egypt’s Nasser, Indonesia’s Sukarno, and Ghana’s Nkrumah, aiming to incite violence, foment tensions, and protect British interests.
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Britain’s Secret ‘Black Propaganda’ Operations
Files reveal that the UK government’s covert propaganda unit, the IRD’s Special Editorial Unit, ran fake news agencies, forged documents, and manipulated journalists globally to undermine the Soviet…
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
There quickly comes a point at which reasonable investigation of a candidate or party leader on the left tips into deranged obsession. Their real crime is to challenge power. They must be demonised and neutralised at all costs. Armies of journalists are deployed to unearth whatever they can.
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
The media forensically dissects the pasts of people who challenge the status quo, such as Polanski and Corbyn. Fair enough, up to a point: we should know about our representatives. But it's far less inquisitive about those who defend power, however great their misdeeds, such as Nigel Farage.🧵
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The Green Party of England & Wales @greenparty.org.uk · 28/04/2026
BP has more than doubled its profits as a result of the Iran war. Those already struggling with the cost of living are paying the price for Trump's warmongering while oil giants rake in even more cash. Now is the time for a permanent windfall tax and rapid shift to renewables.
SAY IT WITH US
bp ARE PROFITING FROM WAR
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Promoted by Chris Williams on behalf of The Green Party, both at PO Box 78066, London SE16 9GQ
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Leona @editor.scot · 12/03/2026
It was blindingly obvious that this was going to happen. All the woolly language around ‘limited use’ and ‘defensive purposes’ was just stalling. It always is.
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Martha van Bakel @mvanbakel.bsky.social · 09/03/2026
I am generally an AI sceptic but decided to try a free trial of a translation service for a paper I have left too late to pay a proofreader for. My god am I paying the price spiritually. This thing keeps adding completely unnecessary information that I did NOT include in my original
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Shiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist @nameshiv.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
they double bombed an elementary school for girls
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Hanno Hauenstein @hahauenstein.bsky.social · 15/02/2026
At the Berlinale, Art Is Political. Except on Palestine. My Latest on Substack hannohauenstein.substack.com/p/the-most-p...
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At the Berlinale, Art Is Political. Except on Palestine.
How the Berlinale Jury’s Turn to “Neutrality” Exposed the Limits of Solidarity in Germany’s Cultural Sphere
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Zack Labe @zacklabe.com · 14/01/2026
We continue to receive warning signs for our future. The data is in, and last year was the 3rd hottest on record for our planet... + Full report by @copernicusecmwf.bsky.social at climate.copernicus.eu/sites/defaul...
Bar graph time series showing global mean surface temperature anomalies from 1850 to 2025 for ERA5 compared to other datasets. 2025 was the third warmest year on record. Graphic produced by Copernicus ECMWF. There is a long-term warming trend.
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Progressive International @progintl.bsky.social · 06/01/2026
BREAKING 🇵🇸 Israeli regime forces have stormed Birzeit University campus in the Occupied West Bank, injuring 41 students, including 9 with live bullets.
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innes mck @innes.bsky.social · 03/01/2026
"international law must be followed" is european for "thoughts and prayers"
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Jürgen Zimmerer @juergenzimmerer.bsky.social · 03/01/2026
Der sog "Westen" verspielt gerade sein letztes Bisschen an Glaubwürdigkeit. Das ist brandgefählich. Wie kann man Putin noch glaubhaft kritisieren? Entscheidend, wie nun Europa reagiert. Die intl. Nachkriegsordnung liegt vollständig in Trümmern. www.spiegel.de/ausland/vene...
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Explosionen in Caracas: US-Beamte bestätigen Militäreinsatz in Venezuela – Liveblog
Weißes Haus und Pentagon schweigen noch, aber US-Medien zitieren Beamte, die von einem Angriff auf Ziele in Caracas sprechen. Videos zeigen Explosionen und tief fliegende Helikopter. Alle Entwicklunge...
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Martha van Bakel @mvanbakel.bsky.social · 10/12/2025
Is contributing to wikipedia articles a thing that serious historians spend time doing? Or to rephrase, a thing worth doing? I keep seeing articles related to my field that are crying out for more information and better citations...
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Jan Rosenow @janrosenow.bsky.social · 10/12/2025
In Germany the only source of electricity that keeps growing and growing: renewable energy. Solar and wind keep expanding and even though nuclear is no more coal generation has already shrunk significantly and keeps falling.
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 10/12/2025
How many times do we need to point this out? By appeasing the far right, you do not weaken it. You strengthen it. While weakening your own position. There's a vast amount of academic research showing this. But Labour will not listen. www.theguardian.com/law/2025/dec...
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Starmer urges Europe’s leaders to curb ECHR to halt rise of far right
Exclusive: PM calls for members of European convention on human rights to allow tougher action to protect borders
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Martha van Bakel @mvanbakel.bsky.social · 20/11/2025
Crazy how much writing time I lose chasing down the intricacies of the Chicago Manual of Style
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 16/11/2025
reminded of eric williams's observation about britain's relationship to its history with slavery. "British historians wrote almost as if Britain had introduced Negro slavery solely for the satisfaction of abolishing it."
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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 17/11/2025
Just wilful performative cruelty that is entirely out of step with the majority of British people. How many Labour MPs got into politics in order to vote for stealing jewellery off of people seeking refuge from war and persecution?
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Progressive International @progintl.bsky.social · 14/11/2025
Six prisoners for Palestine have begun a hunger strike in the UK.
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Martha van Bakel @mvanbakel.bsky.social · 14/11/2025
Have seen/heard some discussion lately about deforestation in Haiti, in the Guardian today as well as in context of the 1825 indemnity and mahogany trade. This article answers common myths that have - like many others about Haiti - been repeated uncritically booksandideas.net/The-Real-Sto...
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The Real Story of Haiti's Forests
Deforestation and charcoal production are often seen as the principal culprits for the endemic poverty in Haiti. This essay calls for a new narrative. Not only is this picture of Haiti incomplete and ...
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