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Carlos Rocha 🇪🇺🇵🇹🇨🇮🇺🇦

@onebreathdoc.bsky.social
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Marine biogeochemist, academic, freediver. Professor in Environmental Change at Trinity College Dublin www.onebreathbiogeochemistry.com Opinions my own.

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Carlos Rocha 🇪🇺🇵🇹🇨🇮🇺🇦 @onebreathdoc.bsky.social · 06/08/2025
I blame this on the crowd that spouts scholarly stuff like 'many ways of knowing', 'truth is relative' and 'too sciency'. Post truth 'scholars' opened the door to absolute ignorance, lost lives and misery not known since the middle ages. We need to start calling all this stuff by name: #bullshit
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Carlos Rocha 🇪🇺🇵🇹🇨🇮🇺🇦 @onebreathdoc.bsky.social · 06/08/2025
'awww shit bro, you got polio?'
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Carlos Rocha 🇪🇺🇵🇹🇨🇮🇺🇦 @onebreathdoc.bsky.social · 06/08/2025
Let get this right, lads. 'known vaccine skeptic' is media speak for ignorant anti-science shill, the equivalent of a middle ages snake oil peddler, right?
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Carlos Rocha 🇪🇺🇵🇹🇨🇮🇺🇦 @onebreathdoc.bsky.social · 05/08/2025
A nuclear reactor on the moon. It's going to be a big beautiful pie in the sky. The Epstein files, plus all the fascist vibes, must be piling on the pressure. 🤡
bloomberg.com
NASA Acting Chief Duffy Issues Directive to Speed Up Moon Reactor Plans
NASA’s acting administrator Sean Duffy plans to accelerate the construction of a nuclear reactor that could be used on the moon and alter the way NASA will partner with industry to replace the aging I...
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James Fallows @jfallows.bsky.social · 05/08/2025
@kairyssdal.bsky.social has been setting an example for broadcasters (public and private) and mainstream reporters in his strict "let's the cut the BS" insistence on truth. All other broadcasters and (especially) headline writers: Follow his lead.
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🌎🐎John Hyphen🎮🤠 @johnhyphen.bsky.social · 05/08/2025
funnily enough for the journalist, the only thing artificial intelligence is really close to making obsolete is the need for a person to uncritically regurgitate incorrect nonsense
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Carlos Rocha 🇪🇺🇵🇹🇨🇮🇺🇦 @onebreathdoc.bsky.social · 05/08/2025
You could have knocked me over with a feather. Been going on for a while and massively accelerated during COVID, with another gear engaged with rampant AI abuse.
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Carlos Rocha 🇪🇺🇵🇹🇨🇮🇺🇦 @onebreathdoc.bsky.social · 04/08/2025
Numbers can tell inconvenient truths. This is why we should all know a bit of algebra, to be able to understand numbers and scaling, and make our own judgement on everyday news. I die a little inside every time I hear 'you teach that, but no math, no numbers. It's too complicated if you use math'.
economist.com
Donald Trump escalates his war on numbers
Another shocking assault on a non-partisan institution
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Elise Cutts @elisecutts.bsky.social · 04/08/2025
Where does complexity come from? Is the 2nd law of thermodynamics enough to explain what looks like an arrow of increasing of complexity through time? Mike has some very interesting thoughts about this, and you should listen to him yap about them. 🧪
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Carlos Rocha 🇪🇺🇵🇹🇨🇮🇺🇦 @onebreathdoc.bsky.social · 04/08/2025
What is a substantial minority, one wonders.
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Carlos Rocha 🇪🇺🇵🇹🇨🇮🇺🇦 @onebreathdoc.bsky.social · 04/08/2025
Enjoy your visit David. Good to see you this side of the pond.
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Carlos Rocha 🇪🇺🇵🇹🇨🇮🇺🇦 @onebreathdoc.bsky.social · 01/08/2025
Math and reality have a liberal bias.
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Kevin J. Kircher @kevinjkircher.com · 01/08/2025
Yes. I know the focus today is on Trumpists undermining trustworthy government data sources, as it should be, but I also think we'll look back on contributing to the "destruction of truth" as perhaps the most important (and insidious) impact of the recent advances in generative AI software.
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Carlos Rocha 🇪🇺🇵🇹🇨🇮🇺🇦 @onebreathdoc.bsky.social · 01/08/2025
I am so glad that my demonstration of this for an #ESD course for staff (two years ago) was criticized for having 'too much math' (i.e., a demo of exponential growth). Math has an obvious liberal bias nowadays....I should switch to reading tea leaves.
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Carlos Rocha 🇪🇺🇵🇹🇨🇮🇺🇦 @onebreathdoc.bsky.social · 01/08/2025
🚲 "It's the gardaí, the justice system, the DPP.' "There doesn't seem to be a will there anymore for road safety." I am sure a new campaign touting high viz for cyclists and pedestrians and blaming them for 'collisions with cars' is imminent by the RTA. Plus the whole shitload of excuses as usual.
rte.ie
'Devastated' - Road safety advocate's shock over report
A leading road safety advocate has expressed his shock and disappointment at the findings of a report on attitudes within An Garda Síochána to roads policing.
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Carlos Rocha 🇪🇺🇵🇹🇨🇮🇺🇦 @onebreathdoc.bsky.social · 01/08/2025
Yep. Good to see this in print.
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Carlos Rocha 🇪🇺🇵🇹🇨🇮🇺🇦 @onebreathdoc.bsky.social · 30/07/2025
We have overshot 6 out of 9 planetary boundaries. Doesn't seem urgent thought, does it lads? It didn't seem urgent to my students. Including staff. It's going to be an interesting decade.
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Carlos Rocha 🇪🇺🇵🇹🇨🇮🇺🇦 @onebreathdoc.bsky.social · 27/07/2025
We belong in the ocean, #freedivers
bbc.com
Record-breaking divers are pushing human limits and reshaping scientists' view of our species
Humans have a long history of diving to forage from the seabed and today elite freedivers are reaching greater depths than ever. Some researchers argue humans belong in the sea.
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Carlos Rocha 🇪🇺🇵🇹🇨🇮🇺🇦 @onebreathdoc.bsky.social · 26/07/2025
The US has lost all credible tether to reality and all attention to what they spout is now based on fear. Is anything linked to them worth considering now? No.
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Carlos Rocha 🇪🇺🇵🇹🇨🇮🇺🇦 @onebreathdoc.bsky.social · 26/07/2025
The death of knowledge has a face, lads. 🤡
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Yellow Dot Studios @yellowdotstudios.bsky.social · 22/07/2025
"The greatest threat to energy security today is in fossil fuels." THIS is why Trump and his big oil masters are gutting science and blocking clean energy. Their product SUCKS and can't compete without a lifeline (that is costing you yours.) www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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Carlos Rocha 🇪🇺🇵🇹🇨🇮🇺🇦 @onebreathdoc.bsky.social · 22/07/2025
'Often missing' = AI presented as a fait accompli. Tada....
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Carlos Rocha 🇪🇺🇵🇹🇨🇮🇺🇦 @onebreathdoc.bsky.social · 19/07/2025
Is anyone surprised?
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Carlos Rocha 🇪🇺🇵🇹🇨🇮🇺🇦 @onebreathdoc.bsky.social · 18/07/2025
The media has been choosing cowardice for at least two decades. Everywhere. It has been instrumental in normalizing evil and ignorance.
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Gordon Hodson @gordonhodsonphd.bsky.social · 16/07/2025
#AcademicSky What truly bugs me is that RESEARCH is what so many academics seemingly care about, often neglecting students & teaching. Yet they're not willing to DO the research & writing themselves? What is it that they care about? Prestige? Notches on CV?
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Carlos Rocha 🇪🇺🇵🇹🇨🇮🇺🇦 @onebreathdoc.bsky.social · 14/07/2025
#AI against #AI. Everyone loses. #AI rapidly evolved into a crutch for students, but Universities are to blame at least as much. You do not sell a dream to your clients and then create an environment where teaching them how to think is impossible. We are letting entire generations down. #Academicsky
theguardian.com
‘I’ve £90k in student debt – for what?’ Graduates share their job-hunting woes amid the AI fallout
AI isn’t just taking away entry-levels jobs, it’s helping thousands apply for the same job with almost the same CV
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Carlos Rocha 🇪🇺🇵🇹🇨🇮🇺🇦 @onebreathdoc.bsky.social · 10/07/2025
It took them a couple more months.
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Carlos Rocha 🇪🇺🇵🇹🇨🇮🇺🇦 @onebreathdoc.bsky.social · 10/07/2025
Most denouncing the #climate crisis have been 'too polite' for decades. I often wonder how committed all these polite warriors really are, or whether they only thrive in the caviar left Zeitgeist. How is it working for us?👀 We are going quietly into the night.
theguardian.com
Democrats and climate groups ‘too polite’ in fight against ‘malevolent’ fossil fuel giants, says key senator
Sheldon Whitehouse of Rhode Island gives 300th climate speech on the US Senate floor
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Carlos Rocha 🇪🇺🇵🇹🇨🇮🇺🇦 @onebreathdoc.bsky.social · 07/07/2025
Yep.
theguardian.com
Is the New York Times trying to wreck Zohran Mamdani’s mayoral bid? | Margaret Sullivan
With their made-up scandal, combined with the pre-election editorial, the Times looks like it’s on a crusade against Mamdani
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Carlos Rocha 🇪🇺🇵🇹🇨🇮🇺🇦 @onebreathdoc.bsky.social · 07/07/2025
Yep.
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Carlos Rocha 🇪🇺🇵🇹🇨🇮🇺🇦 @onebreathdoc.bsky.social · 06/07/2025
If you had a little bit more science, you wouldn't need all those thoughts and prayers.
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 06/07/2025
To people on this platform saying that those holding "I support Palestine Action" signs deserve to be arrested, because PA has been designated a terrorist group by the government: Remember that lickspittles and system justifiers have enabled every form of oppression, everywhere.
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UN Environment Programme @unep.org · 05/07/2025
A new UN data platform is tracking the health of millions of lakes, rivers and wetlands on Earth, revealing pollution hotspots, drought impacts and signs of recovery. Check out the Freshwater Ecosystems Explorer – a bird’s eye view of our planet’s freshwater ecosystems: www.unep.org/news-and-sto...
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Carlos Rocha 🇪🇺🇵🇹🇨🇮🇺🇦 @onebreathdoc.bsky.social · 05/07/2025
The circumpolar Southern Ocean circulation seems to have tipped and is in transition to a new state. Not good. 🌊🧪
pnas.org
Rising surface salinity and declining sea ice: A new Southern Ocean state revealed by satellites | PNAS
For decades, the surface of the polar Southern Ocean (south of 50°S) has been freshening—an expected response to a warming climate. This freshening...
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Eoghan Daltun 🌍 @irishrainforest.bsky.social · 03/07/2025
I emailed a letter to my local TD and Minister of State for Nature and Biodiversity, Christopher O'Sullivan on the government's plans to abandon Marine Protected Areas. Please write to your local government TDs asking them not to shaft our marine ecosystems and coastal communities like this!!!
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Charlie Richmond (Gyro Gearloose) 311.3ppm 🇨🇦🇬🇧☮️⚛️🇺🇦🌈🦋 @charlierichmond.bsky.social · 04/07/2025
“Interest has been record-breaking:" Ikea launches its own balcony solar kit - One Step Off The Grid onestepoffthegrid.com.au/interest-has...
onestepoffthegrid.com.au
“Interest has been record-breaking:" Ikea launches its own balcony solar kit - One Step Off The Grid
Iconic Swedish furniture retailer jumps aboard the balcony solar craze, launching its own range of "balkonkraftwerk" panel and battery kits in a booming European market.
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Carlos Rocha 🇪🇺🇵🇹🇨🇮🇺🇦 @onebreathdoc.bsky.social · 04/07/2025
"Despite stronger support for climate protection among young Europeans, just one in three said it should take priority over economic growth. The figure has slipped from 44% in 2021." 🤷👀
theguardian.com
Young Europeans losing faith in democracy, poll finds
Support is lowest in France, Spain and Poland, while 21% back authoritarian rule under certain circumstances
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UN Environment Programme @unep.org · 02/07/2025
As global temperatures rise, the demand for cooling increases, leading to higher emissions. The world needs sustainable solutions like green spaces and innovative urban design to break this cycle. Learn more about how we can achieve this: coolcoalition.org
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Prof. Stefan Rahmstorf @rahmstorf.bsky.social · 02/07/2025
The Gaia orchestra of scientists at the #GlobalTippingPoints2025 conference in Exeter.
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Carlos Rocha 🇪🇺🇵🇹🇨🇮🇺🇦 @onebreathdoc.bsky.social · 02/07/2025
18. The market gets its unflinching supporters. 19. Governments hail the success of education for 'jobs' 20: An #AI for an #AI landscape develops 21. Universities are now corporations... Oh, wait.....
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Carlos Rocha 🇪🇺🇵🇹🇨🇮🇺🇦 @onebreathdoc.bsky.social · 02/07/2025
15. #AI becomes a catalyst for (further) disengagement. From study, reflection, critical analysis, discipline, rigorous training of the mind. 16. More labor units come into the market. 17. Few will have the tools to distinguish the truth from what feels good.
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Carlos Rocha 🇪🇺🇵🇹🇨🇮🇺🇦 @onebreathdoc.bsky.social · 02/07/2025
13. Governments may punish Universities for deviating from the new progress directive: more labor units for growth, less ‘woke’ education, dissent is the new treason. 14. Large Language Models (#AI) are released into the landscape. This is seen as a gain in throughput efficiency for the system.
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Carlos Rocha 🇪🇺🇵🇹🇨🇮🇺🇦 @onebreathdoc.bsky.social · 02/07/2025
11. Disengaged, abandoned students, getting through the system to graduation as fast and efficiently as possible, seeking the best bang for the buck. 12. Lecturers largely keen on delivering 'training' as efficiently and fast as possible for a 'job market', hopefully with good reviews for service.
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Carlos Rocha 🇪🇺🇵🇹🇨🇮🇺🇦 @onebreathdoc.bsky.social · 02/07/2025
9. Most academics must abandon the time to be educators if they want promotion. 10. Because they must pay for the experience, students don’t have the time to actually be students (h/t to Elsie). In this universe, we would see:
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Carlos Rocha 🇪🇺🇵🇹🇨🇮🇺🇦 @onebreathdoc.bsky.social · 02/07/2025
As a result, 6. Academic careers depend on research revenue & ‘impact’ metrics, tools used by people that know nothing of research and care little for education. 7. There is no incentive to educate students. 8. In this modern university, there is a lot of teaching, but very little education.
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Carlos Rocha 🇪🇺🇵🇹🇨🇮🇺🇦 @onebreathdoc.bsky.social · 02/07/2025
5. Somehow, in this hypothetical universe, the role of the University became the production of labor for the ‘job market’ and the attention economy, rather than the education of citizens to engage with society with an ethical and critical mind.
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Carlos Rocha 🇪🇺🇵🇹🇨🇮🇺🇦 @onebreathdoc.bsky.social · 02/07/2025
In this universe, 1. Universities are now corporations. 2. The core business is selling an experience, rather than providing an education. 3. The greater the number of clients, the better for the bottom line. 4. The client is always right.
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Carlos Rocha 🇪🇺🇵🇹🇨🇮🇺🇦 @onebreathdoc.bsky.social · 02/07/2025
I read this piece by Elsie McDowell in the @theguardian.com recently. There are some (very good) points that should merit reflection. To this end, I wrote a totally hypothetical story, involving #Academia, #Education and #AI as a thought experiment:
theguardian.com
It’s true that my fellow students are embracing AI – but this is what the critics aren’t seeing | Elsie McDowell
Those turning to ChatGPT aren’t lazy. My generation has found itself stranded in a rapidly changing and, since Covid, badly mishandled education system, says student Elsie McDowell
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Eoghan Daltun 🌍 @irishrainforest.bsky.social · 02/07/2025
Will farmer orgs now get behind action to save the climate and nature? Or will they continue to betray the core interests of those they're supposed to represent? share.google/FUKJ9y8pmGy7...
share.google
More than 80% of UK farmers worried about climate crisis harming livelihood, study finds
Farmers warn of risk to Britain’s food supply as more than three-quarters take hit to income from extreme weather
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Carlos Rocha 🇪🇺🇵🇹🇨🇮🇺🇦 @onebreathdoc.bsky.social · 01/07/2025
Get over it. Get working to decarbonise. #Climate change is real. Its not 'just in your head' It is affecting everyone. You are not even close to being the hardest hit. The hardest are the poorest, and they are facing hell already. You dont know what hell is. Stop winging.
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