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Thammy Evans

@thammyevans.bsky.social
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Systems dynamics, military strategy, measuring conflict prevention, human security. Leave the world a fairer place. - Fellow @RSA - Assoc Snr Researcher @CCIP Alumni: @NATO @RMI @DCAF @RCDS Reservist.

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Thammy Evans @thammyevans.bsky.social · 12h
Tenzin Seldon (of Gross Domestic Regeneration fame) on food security related changes fortune.com/2026/06/21/g...
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Tenzin Seldon: The GLP-1 boom is the biggest climate story no one is pricing in | Fortune
Tens of millions of Americans are eating less meat and sugar on GLP-1s. The climate math behind that shift is bigger than most investors realize.
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Christian Odendahl @codendahl.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Around the world in 80 charges is a great slogan.
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Better than Mars then...
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Carbon Brief @carbonbrief.org · 24/09/2026
NEW – Analysis: EVs are now nine times cheaper than petrol or diesel to drive in the UK ✍️ Written by @mollylempriere.carbonbrief.org 📊 Data analysis by Ho Woo Nam Read here: buff.ly/VpxOLE5
EVs are now up to nine times cheaper per mile than diesel cars. Pence per mile. A chart shows diesel highest at around 21p, petrol at 20p, EV at price cap at 7p, and EV off peak lowest at under 2.5p. Source: Carbon Brief analysis, DESNZ, Ofgem, Zapmap. - (alt text generated by Google Gemini)
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Science Magazine @science.org · 25/09/2026
A devastating and mysterious algal bloom that hit the coast of South Australia last year, killing more than 600 different kinds of marine life, inflicted such severe damage that a famed population of the giant Australian cuttlefish might not recover. Learn more: scim.ag/4rrVhbz
One of nature’s greatest marine wonders may be about to vanish
An algal bloom has almost wiped out a unique population of giant cuttlefish—and their stunning mating swarms
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Stop Ecocide International @stopecocide.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
"#EcocideLaw prevents the destruction of our only home” - Ed Sayers, Director of the new film Super Nature, is supporting the growing global movement to recognise #ecocide as a serious crime. About the film: www.supernature-film... #StopEcocide
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Ursula von der Leyen @vonderleyen.ec.europa.eu · 17/09/2026
I just had a phone call with President Zelenskyy. Tomorrow we will disburse €3.3 billion for missile and drones in Ukraine. Full read-out ↓ link.europa.eu/Qrd6KX
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Read-out by President von der Leyen following her call with President Zelenskyy
I just had a phone call with President Zelenskyy.\nRussia is relentlessly targeting Kyiv, trying to make daily life impossible for its inhabitants.\nWe stand with them. And with all Ukrainians.\nTomor...
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ChrisO_wiki @chriso-wiki.bsky.social · 26/04/2026
5/ While many commentators have suggested that Russia might attack across the Suwałki Gap to link Belarus to Kaliningrad, Two Majors rejects this and says that Russia would invade on a broad front across the Baltic states.
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The Insider @theins.press · 23/07/2026
German military engineers deployed to help Poland build defenses in Suwałki Gap against possible Russian attack The narrow land corridor is often described as one of NATO's most vulnerable geographic points.
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German military engineers deployed to help Poland build defenses in Suwałki Gap against possible Russian attack
Bundeswehr military engineers and Polish sappers have begun building defensive fortifications along Poland’s border with Belarus and Russia’s exclave of…
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Euromaidan Press @euromaidanpress.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Belarus is drilling around the Suwałki Gap, NATO’s only land bridge to the Baltics. This round includes tank and mechanized battalions—forces for conventional war. Minsk calls the drills defensive but withholds troop numbers. euromaidanpress.com/2026/09/17/b...
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Belarus holds military drills around the Suwalki Gap, NATO’s only land link to the Baltics
Minsk says troops are guarding infrastructure, manning checkpoints, and practicing against saboteurs and drones. It has not disclosed the total number of personnel involved.
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Thammy Evans @thammyevans.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Comment l'armée joue un rôle positif dans la protection de l'environnement - chef de l’État malgache requiert une politique de protection des forêts. www.lexpress.mg/2026/08/envi...
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ENVIRONNEMENT - Le chef de l’État requiert une politique de protection des forêts
Trois grandes figures de la recherche et de la protection de la biodiversité malgache ont été élevées au rang de dignitaires de l’Ordre nati...
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Thammy Evans @thammyevans.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
❤️ trains and geopolitics. Got both here. And logistics. @jsargentr.bsky.social www.transportandlogisticsme.com/smart-transp...
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Middle East Bets on Rail to Future-Proof Supply Chains
Middle East Bets on Rail to Future-Proof Supply Chains
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Forbes @forbes.com · 19/05/2026
New Evidence Data Centers May Cause Hotter Weather
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Data Centers May Cause Hotter Weather, New Study Suggests
Is waste heat from data centers affecting the weather? A new study says they are making their local environment hotter.
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Gretchen Goldman, PhD @gretchentg.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
No matter where you live and what you do, you can be certain that your life has been made better by a foreign-born scientist in more ways than you’ll ever know. My new post on science and immigration and the administration’s attacks on our international colleagues. blog.ucs.org/gretchen-gol...
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Science and Immigration Are Interconnected: On Higher Education, ICE, and the Assault on DEI
One day in graduate school, I confessed to my fellow students that I had never been outside of the United States. They hailed from all over the world, so I was embarrassed to admit it. “You don’t need...
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Steve and Dave's @steveanddaves1.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
Photographer Daniel Kramer (born today in 1932) had something everyone wanted in 1965 & 1966 – near-total access to Bob Dylan. Starting on Aug. 27, 1965, Kramer spent the next 366 days photographing Dylan – creating a startling visual record of a cultural phenomenon in his prime. Kramer died in 2024
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Thammy Evans @thammyevans.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
This is an important point about norms, large scale group dynamics, and the power of information. Not sure if the Federal government has effectively rolled back though...not when you look at certain outcomes of the war against Iran.
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Todd Woody @toddwoody.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
New: Berkeley is the first US city to require home sellers and buyers to replace gas furnaces/water heaters with heat pumps or make other green upgrades as a condition of sale. It's changing the local real estate market as sellers tout electrification. Free link. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
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To Sell a Home in This California City, It Must Be Climate Friendly
Berkeley is requiring home sellers to make green upgrades as a condition of sale.
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Thammy Evans @thammyevans.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
The 2026 @iom.int World Migration Report is out. Even more interactive this year, it's a treasure trove on how we increasingly move around the world. Interesting to see who gets to move freely around the world, and who does not. Who decides who decides? worldmigrationreport.iom.int/msite/wmr-20...
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Jill Sargent Russell, PhD @jsargentr.bsky.social · 16/05/2026
All the men who can now see victory in Ukraine still cannot offer a strategy that explains it beyond, muh, drone warfare! The drones are not why or how, but simply the tail of a larger effort. I have enumerated Ukraine's twin strategies and their combined and corresponding theory of victory.
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Thammy Evans @thammyevans.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
And 🇺🇸 has been extricating itself from its reliance on 🇹🇼 (again for those at the back of the room - US reliance on Taiwan) for semi-conductor chips, by building its own state of the art plants. 🇺🇸 is much less likely to defend 🇹🇼 if 1) it no longer has mil stocks to do so, 2) it doesn't need...
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Thammy Evans @thammyevans.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
@coveringclimatenow.org @reporterre.net @akshatrathi.bsky.social @assaadrazzouk.bsky.social
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Arthur Asseraf @arthurasseraf.bsky.social · 14/01/2026
Thank you so much to @tombhamilton.bsky.social and @eldrclaire.bsky.social for all their work putting this together, and to @brettrushforth.bsky.social @rosetande.bsky.social @singaravelou.bsky.social @guillaumblanc.bsky.social @editionsduseuil.bsky.social
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Tom Hamilton (@tombhamilton.bsky.social)
Historian of early modern France and Europe; crime, justice, gender, Wars of Religion; co-editor of French History; structuralish 📖📚 ⚖️🌳🏃🇫🇷🇩🇪🇪🇺
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Le Club de Mediapart @mediapartblogs.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
C’est à un voyage passionnant auquel nous convient Guillaume Blanc et Antonin Plarier. Leur ambition : « renouveler la compréhension des territoires impériaux » et « donner à voir comment l’histoire des empires peut s’écrire d’un point de vue environnemental ». Par Christophe Patillon
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Dominer la nature au nom de l'Empire
C’est à un voyage passionnant auquel nous convient Guillaume Blanc et Antonin Plarier. Leur ambition : « renouveler la compréhension des territoires impériaux » et « donner à voir comment l’histoire des empires peut s’écrire d’un point de vue environnemental ».
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Thammy Evans @thammyevans.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
Important research available for those interested in this area
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Thammy Evans @thammyevans.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
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Thammy Evans @thammyevans.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
Why do I get the impression this article has identified a problem and then committed the classic category error of doubling down on the symptoms rather than the causes? @graceblakeley.substack.com @thomaspiketty.bsky.social A Keynesian solution to global imbalances share.google/ORqCk1x5NWdP...
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A Keynesian solution to global imbalances
Economists have been proposing fixes to structural problems created by an international reserve currency since the 1940s
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Thammy Evans @thammyevans.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
Wellbeing economics is not much of a thing in the US of A methinks... From 'Good Economics for Hard Times' by nobel prize winners Abhijit Banerjee amd Esther Duflo 👇
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Tom Cox @dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
The publishing industry views Bluesky as some tiny unimportant island out somewhere in a far-off ocean. It's not worthy of their attention like Amazon Algoland or The Republic Of Instagram Influencer Collaborativepost is. What they don't realise is just how much the island's inhabitants love books.
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Thammy Evans @thammyevans.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
Important economic points in this article, with useful hyperlinks to background. Excessive flow of money out of a community/country is degenerative... What everyone is missing about Mamdani’s plan to tax Ken Griffin’s $238 million penthouse | CNN Business share.google/gxkRyLXYHhfN...
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What everyone is missing about Mamdani’s plan to tax Ken Griffin’s $238 million penthouse | CNN Business
New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani stood outside a luxury skyscraper in Manhattan for a video on Tax Day to deliver on his trademark plan: “We’re taxing the rich.”
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Island Press @islandpress.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
Now through June 9th, save 50% on Standing for Nature: Legal Strategies for Environmental Justice. This book offers advocates a blueprint for creating, implementing, and safeguarding rights of Nature laws. Use code SPRING50 at checkout: press.princeton.edu/books/paperb...
Standing for Nature: Legal Strategies for Environmental Justice by Dana Zartner, Fabian Cardenas, and Mohammad Golam Sarwar
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Transparency International UK @transparencyuk.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
📅 EVENT: How can we improve trust & transparency in public decision-making? 📍 2pm | 18 May OGP is an international initiative that brings government & civil society together to promote trust, and integrity. Join UKACC & Open Data Manchester for an online session to shape this work. Details ⤵️
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Register – UK Open Government NAP7 - Call for Evidence Coordination Workshop – Zoom
UK Open Government NAP7 - Call for Evidence Coordination Workshop – Zoom, Mon 18 May 2026 - Open Data Manchester, Transparency International UK an...
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Ukrainska Pravda 🇺🇦 @pravda.ua · 06/05/2026
‼️ Hungary returns stolen Oschadbank funds and gold to Ukraine
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Hungary returns seized Oschadbank funds and gold to Ukraine
Hungary has fully returned Oschadbank funds and valuables seized by Hungarian special services in March 2026.
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World Radio Switzerland @worldradio.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
Switzerland’s Federal Intelligence Service is reversing course and will allow limited access to its file on Nazi doctor Josef Mengele, currently held at the Federal Archives. www.worldradio.ch/news/bitesiz...
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Thammy Evans @thammyevans.bsky.social · 04/05/2026
Pourquoi faut-il cultiver son jardin @rfi.fr? Pour faire chacun son petite contribution à attenuer la crise de sécurité alimentaire qui se produit à cause de la guerre avec Iran. Quand on pousse ou ramasse la nourriture de la nature, ça baisse un peu la stresse de la marché qui... rfi.my/CdT2
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Questions d'environnement - Santé et biodiversité: pourquoi faut-il cultiver son jardin?
Cette chronique est une invitation à mettre la main à la terre. Le jardinage a des effets bénéfiques sur le corps humain et sur l'ensemble du vivant. Un simple petit bout de nature chez soi permet d'a...
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Thammy Evans @thammyevans.bsky.social · 04/05/2026
Poland prepares...
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Henning Hermes @henninghermes.com · 28/01/2026
📣 Thrilled to announce our 5th Workshop on Field Experiments in Economics and Business, 7-8 Sept 2026, @tum.de, Campus Heilbronn. Keynotes: @peterbergman.bsky.social (University of Texas at Austin) & Esther Duflo (@mit.edu, University of Zurich) 🫶🏻 Submission deadline May 15, 2026 🚨 #EconSky
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Thammy Evans @thammyevans.bsky.social · 04/05/2026
There's never a lack of opportunity to point out that conflict prevention & de-escalation are a thing. Conflict & violence occur in many ways, often lingering longest below the radar where cycles of conflict pass on through families, societies & states... Behind every aggressor is a world of pain.
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Steve and Dave's @steveanddaves1.bsky.social · 04/05/2026
The Kent State Massacre unfolded on this date in 1970 in the vicinity of Taylor Hall on the Kent State University campus. The Ohio National Guard wounded 29 students – & killed four unarmed Americans: Allison Krause, Jeffrey Glenn Miller, Sandra Lee Scheuer, & William Knox Schroeder.
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Mar Hicks @histoftech.bsky.social · 03/05/2026
Chinese researchers have created a bamboo-based plastic as strong as petroleum-based plastics, which can fully biodegrade in soil in just 2 months phys.org/news/2025-10...
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Bamboo-based plastic can be made to biodegrade quickly, but still holds up in tough conditions
A new method to produce strong, biodegradable plastic from bamboo is reported in Nature Communications this week. The bioplastic resembles oil-based plastics in strength, shapability, and thermal stab...
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Thammy Evans @thammyevans.bsky.social · 24/04/2026
Alienation of any kind is dangerous - but with great power (and money) comes responsibility... they also need help.
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Thomas Piketty @thomaspiketty.bsky.social · 10/12/2025
Today, we are publishing our World Inequality Report, which reviews the most recent #inequalitydata and exposes the magnitude of #inequality across time, space and all its dimensions. 👇Share this thread, share the report! www.youtube.com/watch?v=R67u...
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World Inequality Report 2026
YouTube video by World Inequality Lab
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Thammy Evans @thammyevans.bsky.social · 24/04/2026
This is one of the best geopolitical political economic analyses I've heard for a while of why populism is rising around the world and we are digging ourselves into polycrises. A lot of economic and political analysis suffers a major category error, something that requires a bold correction.
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Thammy Evans @thammyevans.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
Happy Earth Day 🌍🌎🌏 We need more community wealth building for a common-good wellbeing economy. Good for people and planet. Congratulations Scotland on passing the world's first c9mmunity wealth building bill. @weallscotland.bsky.social
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David Zipper @davidzipper.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
Transportation historian Peter Norton doesn't buy into the robotaxi hullabaloo: "What robot cars are promising is the next generation of car dependency." In @bloomberg.com, my lengthy conversation with @norton.bsky.social
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Why Cities Shouldn’t Fall For the Robotaxi Hype
Transportation historian Peter Norton sees a pattern in the promises that autonomous vehicle companies make as they push self-driving cars into cities.
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Thammy Evans @thammyevans.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
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Mariana Mazzucato @mazzucatom.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
Read our paper on a mission-aligned World Bank with @laramerling.bsky.social ➡️ www.ucl.ac.uk/bartlett/pub...
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Thammy Evans @thammyevans.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
Always fascinating to see how 'countries' engage on the partnership- domination spectrum - one-to-one, in blocs, and in regional contexts. Magyar wants to put the Austro-Hungarian Empire back on the map – POLITICO share.google/XAMD7ldGhIRb...
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Magyar wants to put the Austro-Hungarian Empire back on the map
Hungary’s incoming prime minister wants to forge closer ties with Austria and other Central European nations to wield greater power in Brussels.
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IPES-Food @ipes-food.org · 21/04/2026
We cannot stabilise food prices without getting fossil fuels out of food systems. A stark warning from the FT: a new global food crisis is unfolding. "We need to loosen the grip of hydrocarbons on our food system… More sustainable farming is both possible & necessary" 👉 www.ft.com/content/3634...
Financial Times. The coming global food crisis. Hunger and even famine are foreseeable consequences of the war on Iran. Now the world must act to shield the poorest from effects that will continue long after the fighting stops.
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Simon Evans @drsimevans.carbonbrief.org · 21/04/2026
NEW: How is the UK govt aiming to "break the link between gas and electricity prices" – and will it work? While headlines “suggest a decisive shift", says Aurora's Marc Hedin, "the reality is more incremental” + comments from UKERC, Regen & more www.carbonbrief.org/...
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