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Yale Program on Climate Change Communication @yaleclimatecomm.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Germany’s Climate Computing Center is preparing to store 5 petabytes of U.S. climate data. That’s equivalent to roughly 1 billion high-resolution images. This move will help preserve U.S. climate datasets amid growing questions about their long-term availability.

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Adam Terry @adamterryfgf.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

We're hiring! @futuregovforum.bsky.social is seeking a new Head of Advocacy & Engagement. We're looking for someone to build networks, spot + secure new opportunities, + advocate for our work to maximise its impact. If that sounds like you, please apply: www.futuregovernanceforum.co.uk/vacancies/

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Jobs at Future Governance Forum

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Yale Program on Climate Change Communication @yaleclimatecomm.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

TOOL UPDATE: The CCAM (Climate Change in the American Mind) Explorer allows users to investigate hundreds of unique insights, trends, and crosstabs that aren’t included in our reports. Find it here:

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Explore Climate Change in the American Mind - Yale Program on Climate Change Communication

Explore Americans’ climate change beliefs, risk perceptions, policy preferences, and behavior.

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Dan Streible 💃🏻🌲🔔 @orphanfilm.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

tisch.nyu.edu/cinema-studi... Please share! NYU Cinema Studies invites applications to a tenure-track assistant professor position in global media industries. Apply by October 23. (Soon!) @scmstudies.bsky.social @jcmsjournal.bsky.social @modernlanguage.bsky.social @dh-researchhub.bsky.social

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Kit Marie Rackley @geogramblings.com · 30/09/2026

This is my third #PeoplesEmergencyBriefing, and the second I’ve been on the panel. If you are in the UK, I cannot urge you enough to check the @nebriefing.bsky.social screening map and sign up to one near you. www.nebriefing.org/screening-map #ClimateChange #Community

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Thank you for being here. This film brings together leading evidence on the dimate and nature crisis, and what it means for the UK. It is designed to be watched together in communities like this one, creating space for honest conversation and constructive civic engagement.
Across the UK, people are now coming together to ensure these risks are property understood, openly discussed, and responded to with the seriousness they require.
A growing national effort
The National Emergency Briefing is building support for a government-backed televised emergency briefing to the nation on the climate and nature crisis.
The initative began at Westminster Central Hall, where more than 1,200 MPs, peers and leaders from across UK society heard directly from senior experts about the scale of the risks facing the UK and the response now required.
This film extends that work into communities and businesses across the country, where people are now inviting MPs to screenings, calling for politicians to support a Parliamentary Call for a televised briefing, and helping bring the film to new audiences.
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Open your camera and point it at the QR code to begin:
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Find out how to host a screening in your area, workplace or organisation.
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Nick Johnston @nifjnick.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

A couple of screenings coming up at Belfast City Hall at the end of next month (27th October)

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Dave Vetter @davidrvetter.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Breaking: Defra to buy 10,000 copies of The Very Hungry Caterpillar to improve advice to farmers.

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

So you know previous waves of technological fabulism the tech companies threw a little loose change at social behavioral research and user interface experience. whats interesting about AI interesting is that they aren’t even pretending to care about how people use the technology.

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EU Science, Research & Innovation @scienceinnovation.ec.europa.eu · 30/09/2026

Kinda chic, making democracy feel closer. When science helps shape better decisions, everyone benefits. Evidence matters. Trust matters. Democracy matters. More: link.europa.eu/3ccggY #SciComm 🧪

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Social Policy Association @socialpolicyuk.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

📣 Conference announcement! The SPA annual conference in 2027 will be held at Ulster University, Belfast Campus, from 28-30 June. Further announcements about the conference will follow very soon 📅 In the meantime, please do save these dates in your diary. social-policy.org.uk/what-we-do/c...

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Nick Johnston @nifjnick.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

This is the way the world ends, Not with a bang but with an ideologically crazed orange coloured simpleton at the wheel of a global 1966 Ford Thunderbird convertible

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Jacob Öberg @profjacob.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

🚨🚨 @coe.int of Europe said yesterday that the #US formally notified it that it would leave the Group of States against Corruption, or #GRECO. Only two other countries have left GRECO before — #Russia and #Belarus. The fall of the #US on the world scene is striking. apnews.com/article/trum...

apnews.com

US withdraws from European anti-corruption panel in latest shift away from global groups

The Trump administration has withdrawn the United States from a top European anti-corruption watchdog.

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Nick Johnston @nifjnick.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Let's face it, when the f-bomb is one of your keywords, you've got to know it's going to be really good!

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Nick Johnston @nifjnick.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

cat update: this isn't good for my productivity

Wilma is very brave and has climbed on my desk. No ideal when I'm trying to work...

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Katharine Hayhoe @katharinehayhoe.com · 28/09/2026

If you're in LA or at UCLA, a reminder that this event is tonight! Would love to see you there. I'm also meeting informally with Scripps colleagues tomorrow morning + packing in another big talk and two more meetings.

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Dr Katie Twomey @k2mey.eurosky.social · 28/09/2026

This is quite cool. My university is the first organisation in the world to force Microsoft to allow us to turn off copilot summaries in Word 365, after a backlash against it from staff (including, very vocally, me). That cannot have been easy for our heroic IT people so hats very much off to them!

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Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ @olivia.science · 28/09/2026

are we finally going to accept it's all a scam, a "mechanical turk", it's all humans?

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Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ @olivia.science · 25/09/2026

Thanks so much to my wonderful colleagues Marieke & @marentierra.bsky.social for setting up at @samiraibnelkaid.bsky.social's amazing festival: reject AI instead reclaim the future! 🫚 💞 💥 Posters are here: zenodo.org/records/1736... & you can read more here: olivia.science/ai about our work.

a photo of this poster: https://zenodo.org/records/17111928

photo of some cool orange lighting, a fluorescent green frame with this poster in it: https://zenodo.org/records/17367323

a very blue frame with a poster from here in it: https://zenodo.org/records/17367323 which says Have you considered not using AI?

a room with a black table and a blue frame with a poster that says AI is evil: https://zenodo.org/records/17367323

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Ursula von der Leyen @vonderleyen.ec.europa.eu · 25/09/2026

The agreement to release €6.6 billion from the European Peace Facility for Ukraine is excellent news. It means more support, from training to equipment. It complements what we are doing through our Ukraine support packages – for the state and for defence. More is coming from our side. Very soon.

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European Commission @ec.europa.eu · 25/09/2026

Together with UN Women, we're launching the Surging Women's Employment Initiative. Our goal is to create 500,000 jobs for women and increase women's employment by 5% by 2030 across the Middle East and North Africa. 🔗 link.europa.eu/tnktQ4

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Nick Johnston @nifjnick.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

"...when we stop talking about climate change like it’s a political issue and start talking about it as a shared challenge that we all need to work together to solve, that’s when we’ll finally be able to start talking about saving ourselves." Essential and inspiring reading!

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Dr Iain Staffell @iain-staffell.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Time to retire the old line that “EVs don’t last” We analysed 12 million British vehicles. New battery electric cars are driven more than petrol (10k miles per year vs 7.5k), and models bought since 2022 will beat conventional lifetimes (100k+ miles) www.nature.com/articles/s41...

nature.com

Real-world mileage and survival of electric vehicles in Britain and implications for lifecycle emissions - Nature Communications

Analysis of Britain’s entire vehicle fleet finds electric cars now match petrol and diesel cars in mileage and lifespan and produce less than half the lifetime greenhouse gas emissions of conventional...

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Jo Wolff @jowolff.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

I’ve heard UK academics say that complex degree programmes involving cooperation between departments are targeted for cuts because they are more costly to run. Disastrous if true and goes against intellectual trends of interdisciplinary thought. Very shortsighted.

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The Centre for Climate Change and Social Transformations (CAST) @cast-centre.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Reminder: There are just six days left to apply for this exciting new opportunity to join us as an Impact and Communications Associate at CAST, based at our centre hub, the University of Bath (@uniofbath.bsky.social). 📣 Deadline: Tuesday 29 September 2026 Apply now: cast.ac.uk/cast-careers/

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Nick Johnston @nifjnick.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

"the first as tragedy, then as farce"

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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 24/09/2026

Funny coincidence: this estimate of China's cleantech avoided emissions is about the same as the potential *added* emissions if all planned data centre gas plants go ahead ketanjoshi.co/2026/09/16/n...

Almost a third of the avoided emissions identified by the analysis came from solar exports to South Asia, where Pakistan is in the ‌midst of ⁠a boom that has given it one of the highest shares of solar power generation in the world.

"Current growth of solar and EVs, particularly in emerging countries, was not on anyone's radar five years ago before China's cleantech manufacturing boom," said Myllyvirta.
"Just as the manufacturing boom ⁠led to increased supply and falling prices, the world experienced two fossil fuel price shocks in the past five years, giving adopti

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Joanne Harris @joannechocolat.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Unsolicited writing advice, no. 333: If one project is flagging, try working on another. It may just give you the momentum to need to get the first one off the ground…

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Prof. Eliot Jacobson @climatecasino.net · 22/09/2026

Your 'bonus moment of doom' for today: "The latest science confirms that we have breached, that we've transgressed seven of the nine planetary boundaries that regulate the health of the entire planet." www.youtube.com/watch?v=LnpE...

youtube.com

Official Planetary Health Check 2026 with Johan Rockström

YouTube video by Planetary Boundaries Science

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EU Science, Research & Innovation @scienceinnovation.ec.europa.eu · 22/09/2026

What starts with a question can lead to discovery, collaboration or even change how we see the world. Join us to celebrate 30 years of MSCA & explore how curiosity drives research & innovation in Europe. 1 Oct 11:00-17:30 CEST (online) Register: link.europa.eu/XD4jY8 #SciComm 🧪

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Nick Johnston @nifjnick.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

If JD Vance is against it, I'm all for it! Interesting preprint referenced in here too (#26) suggesting that mainstream politicians' comments do more to erode norms of tolerance than comments from the far-right?

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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Lots of talk of growth ahead of the Budget, as if it were a baroque puzzle. Our problem is basic. It's that we no longer support the things which facilitate growth: Europe, immigration, higher education, tax simplification, policy stability. These are all choices and could stop making them anytime.

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Academy of Social Sciences @acadsocsciences.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Spaces are limited. Join the Campaign for Social Science, in conjunction with @ulsteruni.bsky.social and @arinsproject.bsky.social, on 23 October for Rebooting the Public Sector live and in-person in Belfast. Register➡️ buff.ly/FRABzsR

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Rebooting the public sector:

How can the next Stormont Executive deliver positive public service transformation without damaging its political and public mandate?

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Iris van Rooij 💭 @irisvanrooij.bsky.social · 28/02/2026

📚 And some more advice from Mary E. Boole (1909, p. 33) which oddly reads as highly relevant for AI today … 👀 21/🧵

Take care not to become a parasite; do not lazily appropriate the results of other people’s labour, but learn and labour truly to get your own living. Take care that everything you possess, whether physical, mental, or spiritual, shall be the result of your own toil as well as other people’s; and remember that you are bound to pay, in some shape or way, everyone who helps you.

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Nick Johnston @nifjnick.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Looks like a tragic reboot of the 3 Stooges franchise

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Philip Gourevitch @pgourevitch.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

found it (or some of it) — in mac OS 27.0, seems Apple hides the kill switch for Apple Intelligence in the Siri menu in System Settings & when you click it (screen shot on left) you get a menu of all your apps & you have to go one by one & flip AI learning off (screen shot on right) - the bastards

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Nick Johnston @nifjnick.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Sometimes things come to you in a random way at just the right time. This book feels like that already, and I'm only through the introduction. (no Alt Text, sorry)

ecopy from my library won't let me include the text - sorry

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Ayana Elizabeth Johnson @ayanaeliza.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

What If We Get It Right? turns two today. 🎂 Happy Birthday baby! If you, like me, are feeling overwhelmed (wtf, America?!), perhaps this book will be as bolstering for you to read as it was for me to write. And there are a bunch of resources at getitright.earth.

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Nick Johnston @nifjnick.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

I wish the world would just take a break and stop throwing up trash origin stories every freaking day... "Power is a former leftwing academic who has written in publications including the Guardian about feminism." www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

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Reform donor Ben Delo loaned £350k to academic found to have engaged in online bullying

Judge said Nina Power and her friend’s social media posts had ‘the whiff of threat and antisemitism’

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Nick Johnston @nifjnick.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

There will be a competion for who they will put at the front of the latest addition: The [insert idiot here] National Academy of Dunces

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John Barry @profjohnbarry.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

'Store food for climate shocks'-UK Environment Secretary ...up there with UK PM Burnham's response to the UK wildfires...ban disposal barbeques...both exacerbated by the climate crisis, but this government is not addressing root causes of these crises theecologist.org/2026/sep/10/...

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'Store food for climate shocks'

Environment secretary warns people in Britain to store food for weather emergencies.

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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 18/09/2026

This is why I hate "just a tool" so so so much. You can make a calculator without access to every calculation. You can make photoshop without access to all photos. Someone show me a genai tool that didn't require all of our labour in its production. It's plagiarism software.

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Per M. Kommandantvold @mscancp.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Do you have a brilliant idea and strong CV, and are between 5 to 15 years after your PhD? ERC Consolidator Grant may be your arena! Webinar for CoG applicants with 🇳🇴 host institutions on the 21. October. Register now! www.forskningsradet.no/en/events/20...

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Are you going to apply for an ERC Consolidator Grant in January 2027?

This webinar is open only to researchers and EU advisers affiliated with Norwegian institutions. It is intended for those planning to submit an application to the ERC Consolidator Grant call in Januar...

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