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Garry Peterson
@resiliencesci.bsky.social
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Director FinBio.org
Professor of Environmental Science
with focus on Resilience in Social-Ecological Systems
Stockholm Resilience Centre, Stockholm University stockholmresilience.org

projects:
regimeshifts.org
biospherefutures.net
goodanthropocenes.net .. more

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Garry Peterson @resiliencesci.bsky.social · Nov 4
Resilience Science Must-Knows

Nine essential insights from global resilience science to help decision-makers navigate a turbulent world.

Developed in dialogue with decision makers, and synthesised by an international team of resilience researchers

www.stockholmresilience.org/research/res...
Resilience Science Must-Knows
Nine things every decision maker should know about resilience
www.stockholmresilience.org

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Garry Peterson @resiliencesci.bsky.social · 2d
“The biggest driver of business interruption litigation today is climate volatility...Traditional perils like fire and thunderstorms, along with severe weather events... are disrupting operations at a scale we didn’t see a decade ago” -A Masarek, Lex Machina
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Please use the sharing tools found via the share button at the top or side of articles. Copying articles to share with others is a breach of FT.com T&Cs and Copyright Policy. Email licensing@ft.com to buy additional rights. Subscribers may share up to 10 or 20 articles per month using the gift article service. More information can be found at https://www.ft.com/tour. https://www.ft.com/content/657d2be9-dc94-4c74-986c-68ea164a8387 Lawsuits arising from climate-related disasters in the US are emerging as a rising cost for insurers and policyholders, more than doubling over the past decade as extreme weather damage increases.

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Garry Peterson @resiliencesci.bsky.social · 4d
Come work with us in Stockholm
and join our great group of PhD candidates
www.stockholmresilience.org/meet-our-tea...

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Garry Peterson @resiliencesci.bsky.social · 4d
4 PHD positions open at Stockholm Resilience Centre
www.stockholmresilience.org/about-us/car...

Critical cryosphere functions for Earth resilience
Fair Transformations to a Fossil Free Future
PLATE labs: developing and tested resilient meals
Debt & agricultural development

applications due Jan 25
Careers
There are currently no vacancies at the centre
www.stockholmresilience.org

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Garry Peterson @resiliencesci.bsky.social · 4d
Evidence of a cascading positive tipping point towards electric vehicles
Mercure+
doi.org/10.1038/s414...

"several European markets and China have begun tipping towards EV dominance, although this is not convincingly the case for the US"

+identify a loss of resilience of the ICE vehicle regime
Fig. 1 | Diagram illustrating the self-reinforcing S-curve and technological tipping points. a) Visual representation of the diffusion curve interacting with the learning curve at different stages of adoption. b) A visual representation of the system approaching a tipping point, moving from one state (high ICEV sales share) to another (low ICEV sales share). The ball-in-the-well representations (left) show the system losing resilience over time, from red, to purple, to blue, eventually tipping. The time series (right) shows the system approaching and just passing the tipping point. ICEV stands for Internal Combustion Engine Vehicle.

Reposted by Rob Marchant, Garry Peterson

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Earth Commission @theearthcommission.bsky.social · 4d
The risk of destabilizing Earth’s life-support systems is no longer abstract. It’s measurable & underway.

The Global Catastrophic Risks Report 2026, w/insights from co-Chairs Fatima Denton & Johan Rockström, shows how science & policy can help restore Earth stability.
globalchallenges.org/gcr-2026/

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Garry Peterson @resiliencesci.bsky.social · 5d
Language preservation in strangely familiar places: How traditional skills have helped preserve Shaetlan
Velupillai
doi.org/10.1515/9783...

"The language of Shetland knitting is a testimony to how the intimate setting of knowledge transmission can act as a language preserver"
Language preservation in strangely familiar places: How traditional skills have helped preserve Shaetlan
Language preservation in strangely familiar places: How traditional skills have helped preserve Shaetlan was published in Language in Strange and Familiar Places on page 39.
doi.org

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Garry Peterson @resiliencesci.bsky.social · 6d
In the USA
"A new study found that the court’s Republican appointees voted for the wealthier side in cases 70 percent of the time in 2022, up from 45 percent in 1953"
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/05/u...

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Garry Peterson @resiliencesci.bsky.social · 6d
Ruling for the Rich: the Supreme Court over Time
Prat+
www.nber.org/papers/w34643

"The results reveal a steady increase in polarization, mostly due to Republican appointees whose decisions rise from about 50% pro-rich share to a 70% pro-rich share over the course of 70 years."
Figure plots the probability of the median voter on the US supreme court voting with the rich of the median justice in each year. It illustrates three periods of drastic shift. Median vote probability is "pro-poor" until 70s, and becomes substantially and increasingly pro-rich from about 2005.

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Garry Peterson @resiliencesci.bsky.social · 6d
From the Masthead to the Map: an Experimental and Digital Approach to Viking Age Seafaring Itineraries
Jarrett
doi.org/10.1007/s108...

using experimental voyages to develop "practice-based criteria for evaluating which natural harbours and anchorages might have been favoured during this period."
From the Masthead to the Map: an Experimental and Digital Approach to Viking Age Seafaring Itineraries - Journal of Archaeological Method and Theory
The Viking Age (c. 800–c. 1050 ad) was characterised by a widespread rise in maritime mobility and interaction, as is made clear by an increasing range of evidence. However, this evidence provides lim...
doi.org

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Garry Peterson @resiliencesci.bsky.social · 6d
Impressive experimental archaeology PhD

The lore of the leið
Tracking Viking Age voyages through traditional seafaring
Jarrett, Greer
2025
lup.lub.lu.se/search/files...

"a practical, maritime perspective on Viking Age seafaring based on experimental voyages onboard traditional Norwegian boats"
The sailing voyages of the Viking Age were extraordinary feats of navigation which connected people, places, and things across four of the world’s seven continents. They had a truly global impact on our past and remain iconic in our present, but scholars have long struggled to understand how they were accomplished. Major uncertainties regarding Viking Age seafaring technologies, practices, and worldviews have hindered the study of these remarkable journeys, and prevented archaeologists form locating important sites across the Viking world. This thesis addresses these uncertainties by offering a practical, maritime perspective on Viking Age seafaring. This perspective has been attained through experimental voyages onboard traditional Norwegian boats, technological descendants of Viking Age vessels. The results of these experiments provide a revised understanding of the technical and logistical potentials of Viking Age ships and their crews, and extend the geographical range of this period’s voyages to include new encounters, new places, and new ideas. The Viking world was defined by maritime interaction andexchange; it can therefore only be understood by thinking from the sea.GREER JARRETT, Department of Archaeology and Ancient History, LundUniversity. The lore of the leið is his doctoral dissertation in Archaeology.

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Garry Peterson @resiliencesci.bsky.social · 6d
Culdesac in Tempe, AZ
USA's "first modern car-free neighbourhood built from scratch"

NYTimes
www.nytimes.com/2025/03/25/c...
BBC
www.bbc.com/travel/artic...
Dwell
www.dwell.com/article/culd...
PBS
www.pbs.org/newshour/sho...
Living Car-Free in Arizona, on Purpose and Happily
www.nytimes.com

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Garry Peterson @resiliencesci.bsky.social · 6d
"The dawn on the AI drone"

"Across the roughly 800-mile front and over the airspace of both nations, drones with newly developed autonomous features are now in daily combat use"

www.nytimes.com/2025/12/31/m...
In Ukraine, a New Arsenal of Killer A.I. Drones Is Being Born
www.nytimes.com

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Garry Peterson @resiliencesci.bsky.social · 6d
Södermalm Stockholm in January sun and snow
Street in Södermalm Stockholm in the sun and snow

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Garry Peterson @resiliencesci.bsky.social · 6d
Stockholm city hall in new years sun
Stockholm city hall in low winter sun

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Garry Peterson @resiliencesci.bsky.social · 6d
Old town and n Stockholm in snow and sun
Old town of Stockholm in snow and sun

Reposted by Erle C. Ellis, Garry Peterson, Jane K. Hill , and 3 more

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Markus Eichhorn @markuseichhorn.bsky.social · 6d
I often get asked about the Miyawaki method of forest restoration, usually by people who have heard extraordinary claims for it. Morales et al. (2025) have reviewed the evidence and found it to be weak or absent. 🌏🧪🌳🌲 besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Tiny forests, huge claims: The evidence gap behind the Miyawaki method for forest restoration
To scale up restoration effectively, practitioners and policymakers should prioritize methods supported by robust empirical evidence rather than relying on untested claims. Our findings highlight the...
besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com

Reposted by Graeme S. Cumming, Garry Peterson

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Helmut Hillebrand @hillebr1.bsky.social · 7d
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@ckunze.bsky.social tested whether the concept of response diversity holds for pulse disturbances & realized response diversity. Turns out interaction strength is key. Great collaboration w @owpet.bsky.social & Shyamolina Gosh @icbm-uol.bsky.social @hifmb.de
Species Interactions Determine the Importance of Response Diversity for Community Stability to Pulse Disturbances
Caculations of response diversity can be based on species fundamental responses in isolation or their realised responses in the community using metrics of response dissimilarity and response divergen...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com

Reposted by Garry Peterson

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#BruceSterling @bruces.bsky.social · 9d
The Three Horsemen of AI Code Rot: "Phantom Dependencies," "Over-Abstraction Syndrome" and the "Confident Wrong Answer"

*I rather imagine there's a fourth horseman who hasn't been recognized as yet

medium.com/@kp9810113/t...
The AI Code Rot Has Started. Why Our PR Reviews Now Take Twice as Long
Last Tuesday, I rejected the same pull request three times.
medium.com

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Garry Peterson @resiliencesci.bsky.social · 10d
Congratulations Nardwuar! Your mom would have been so happy!

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Garry Peterson @resiliencesci.bsky.social · 11d
EU’s carbon border adjustment mechanism (CBAM) begins Jan 1st

it "covers six sectors including steel, cement, aluminium and electricity...Other countries that have cited CBAM as a reason for the establishment or expansion of their own carbon pricing schemes"

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EU to launch carbon border tax despite opposition from trade partners
Landmark levy on steel, electricity and other imports aims to shield bloc’s industry from higher-emission competitors
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Garry Peterson @resiliencesci.bsky.social · 12d
"Solar has risen from almost nothing in 2019 to roughly 10 percent of South Africa’s electricity-generating capacity"
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/30/c...
Cheap Solar Is Transforming Lives and Economies Across Africa
www.nytimes.com

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Garry Peterson @resiliencesci.bsky.social · 18d
God Jul
Setting sun on Dec 24th in Stockholm archipelago

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Garry Peterson @resiliencesci.bsky.social · 19d
“Place matters. The craft product and the skills required to make a knitted garment embody a relationship between maker and place expressed through distinctiveness of materials, style, colourways, motifs and techniques.“
theconversation.com/game-of-wool...
Game of Wool: Fair Isle knitting row reveals why culture and tradition matter
Ultimately, Game of Wool has cast a valuable spotlight on a heritage craft under threat despite its global profile.
theconversation.com

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Garry Peterson @resiliencesci.bsky.social · 19d
“to protect and preserve Shetland’s knitting heritage by recording the knowledge held by older knitters, supporting local makers who want to teach or design and speaking publicly for accuracy in how Shetland’s knitting history and techniques are represented”
www.shetnews.co.uk/2025/12/17/k...
Knitting charity reaches £40k crowdfunder goal in under six weeks
A CHARITY set up to protect and preserve Shetland’s knitting heritage has reached its £40,000 Crowdfunding goal in less than six weeks. Shetland’s...
www.shetnews.co.uk

Reposted by Juan Rocha

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Garry Peterson @resiliencesci.bsky.social · 21d
Stockholm winter solstice
Today’s
Sunrise 8.44
Sunset 14.29

59.3 N
Low winter sun

Reposted by Garry Peterson

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Earth Negotiations Bulletin @enb.iisd.org · 23d
#GBFF Council establishes Ad Hoc Working Group on Predictability in Financing, tasks it to explore ways to strengthen predictability of contributions to GBFF & explore additional approaches to resource mobilization. #GEFcouncil70 @thegef.bsky.social

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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 23d
A three-year Swiss study found that enhanced rock weathering (ERW) removed 10 to 30 times less CO₂ than expected due to soil chemistry and local climate.
Three Years of Field Trials Indicate a Sustained Enhanced Rock Weathering Signal with Limited CO2 Removal
Enhanced rock weathering (ERW) is a CO2 removal technology that involves spreading finely ground silicate rock on fields. The chemical weathering of this rock powder removes atmospheric CO2 in the form of bicarbonate ions and secondary carbonates. Despite some promising theoretical simulations and laboratory findings, results from field trials that evaluate the ERW’s impact on soil biogeochemistry and CO2 removal are still scarce. This study investigated the impact of basaltic rock powder applied at the equivalent rate of 20 t per hectare (2 kg m–2) in three temperate vineyard fields in Switzerland over 1000 days. Analyses of soil pore water revealed that most standard ERW monitoring proxies (pH, electrical conductivity, total dissolved inorganic carbon, calcium, and magnesium concentrations) did not increase significantly. By contrast, sodium concentration in soil pore water was on average 3-fold higher in the rock powder-treated plots, indicating active mineral dissolution. Integrating the pore water results with model analyses, we estimated that the average CO2 removal rate was 100 ± 30 kg CO2 ha–1 yr–1, which is 10 to 30 times lower than the upper rates reported in some previous modeling and experimental studies. Future work is now needed to improve our understanding of ERW’s CO2 removal potential and soil contamination under a variety of soils, rock feedstocks, and climate conditions.
pubs.acs.org

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IPBES @ipbes.net · 23d
Thousands of scientific references synthesized into one assessment.

The IPBES #BizBiodiversity report will provide decision-makers with critical insights to measure business dependencies and impacts on biodiversity and nature's contributions to people.

💡 https://ipbes.canto.de/b/HJAGG

#IPBES12

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 23d
I guess some knowledge IS forbidden! www.chron.com/culture/arti...
Texas' 'anti-Harvard' university is losing its founders
Who will teach the "Forbidden Courses" now?
www.chron.com

Reposted by Garry Peterson

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Guy Pe'er @guypeer.bsky.social · 23d
Reading the Commission's proposal for "simplification and strengthening of food and feed safety requirement“, I recommend reading the preamble for some telling statements. You can read the proposal here:
food.ec.europa.eu/document/dow...
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