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dr cremades is cascading @rogercre.bsky.social · 3h

Too many people writing about it... none about how to assess it?

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sdiazecology.bsky.social @sdiazecology.bsky.social · 10h

In this interview, I talk about nature, greed and the future 👇
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“Humanity is missing the bigger picture”: Sandra Diaz explains | Talk to Al Jazeera

YouTube video by Al Jazeera English

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Wolfgang Cramer @wolfgangcramer.net · 1d

I believe that scholars and practitioners in the biodiversity / ecosystem service community need to read this very well-researched and inspiring paper - The Nature of Planetary Habitability.

Julia Nordblad @julianordblad.bsky.social · Mar 13

My article is out! On how ‘ecosystem services’ went from a word for those aspects of nature that economics cannot express to a word for nature's economic value, and how concerns for planetary habitability disappeared from the environmentalist vocabulary.

www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...

The Nature of Planetary Habitability: A Conceptual History of Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services | Environmental History

Abstract This essay traces the conceptual history of biodiversity and ecosystem services from the late 1970s to the early 2000s. In contrast to recent historical studies that have interpreted biodiver...

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Ollie Wearn @olliewearn.bsky.social · 1d

Important reflections on the power dynamics in large-scale syntheses of ecological data. Many of them perpetuate colonial structures.

An example that comes to mind is Google & Wildlife Insights, who used camera trap data to publish the SpeciesNet algorithm, with no credit given to field researchers

International Biodiversity @ibioconsultants.com · 1d

“Remote-control science” keeps power in the #GlobalNorth while local experts do the work without credit. Time to #decolonize research with fair authorship, funding & respect for local knowledge 🌍

#DecolonizeScience #ResearchEquity #GlobalSouth #FairScience

onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Remote‐Control Science in Ecology: A Hidden Face of Scientific Neocolonialism

We introduce the concept of “remote-control science” as a modern form of scientific neocolonialism in ecology, where researchers, preferably from the Global North, control projects in the Global Sout....

onlinelibrary.wiley.com

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Ann Pettifor @annpettifor.bsky.social · 1d

It is easy to see why financiers - and Silicon Valley tech billionaires - would want to remove the full employment mandate. Robots and Ai are expected to displace human labour and increase profits. open.substack.com/pub/annpetti...

Lisa Cook, the Federal Reserve, Full Employment & Civil Rights. CBs Pt 3

The Real Reason for Trumpist Attacks on a Black Fed Governor

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IPBES @ipbes.net · 1d

Urban expansion can lead to habitat loss. Yet, as IPBES #GlobalAssessment shows, smart city planning + nature-based solutions can create resilient, bird-friendly cities.🌍

This #WorldMigratoryBirdDay, let’s protect migratory birds in our #SharedSpaces 🏡

🧪https://www.worldmigratorybirdday.org/

Infographic detailing seven ways to create a bird-friendly community, including planting native plants, turning off lights, avoiding pesticides, and preventing collisions.

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Calgary Climate Hub @calgaryclimatehub.ca · 2d

It's only a trillion dollars. There's always bailouts, right? #CostOfClimate #ClimateChange theecologist.org/2025/oct/09/...

A trillion dollar climate risk

New research shows fossil fuel exposures of the world’s 60 biggest banks.

theecologist.org

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David @daverino.bsky.social · 2d

"For decades, forest, grasslands and other land ecosystems have collectively absorbed up to a third of the carbon dioxide we emit each year - but this climate buffer may be collapsing far sooner than anyone expected"
www.newscientist.com/article/2497...

One of Earth’s most vital carbon sinks is faltering. Can we save it?

For decades, forest, grasslands and other land ecosystems have collectively absorbed up to a third of the carbon dioxide we emit each year - but this climate buffer may be collapsing far sooner than a...

www.newscientist.com

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dr cremades is cascading @rogercre.bsky.social · 4d

ReALcession

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dr cremades is cascading @rogercre.bsky.social · 4d

Do we need a new word / ontology for when the real economy is in recession?

David @daverino.bsky.social · 4d

"Without the data center boom, we’d probably be in a recession..hundreds of billions spending on centers have boosted investment, while soaring stock prices have supported..spending by the wealthy even as demand from lower & middle-income Americans weakens"
paulkrugman.substack.com/p/why-arent-...

Why Aren’t We Partying Like It’s 1999?

Fear, not hope, permeates today’s technology hype

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dr cremades is cascading @rogercre.bsky.social · 5d

The cotton supply chain connects multiple vulnerabilities and exposures to climate risks.

Cirad @cirad.bsky.social · 5d

À l’occasion de la journée internationale du #coton, redécouvrez la feuille de route Coton (2023-2033) du #Cirad:
👉 www.cirad.fr/Media/espace...

#JournéeInternationaleCoton #Coton #CotonDurable #FilièreCoton #Agroécologie #Afrique

Synthèse de la feuille de route coton du Cirad

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dr cremades is cascading @rogercre.bsky.social · 5d

Ready for a PhD modelling climate-financial cascading events?

Develop a novel Agent-Based Model to simulate cascading climate uncertainties & transform global risk assessment.

Join a unique Leeds/IIASA team. #ClimateRisk #ABM @envleeds.bsky.social @yrcss.bsky.social @comses.net

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dr cremades is cascading @rogercre.bsky.social · 5d

Honoring every life affected by violence: is it time for an International Day of Empathy?

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dr cremades is cascading @rogercre.bsky.social · 5d

Yes let's exchange ideas!

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dr cremades is cascading @rogercre.bsky.social · 6d

Wow that would be amazing! I am looking forward to it.

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dr cremades is cascading @rogercre.bsky.social · 6d

It's also in the context, mate.

Dr Rob Wray @drrobwray.bsky.social · 6d

Researchers have mapped an underlying “psychological signature” for people who are predisposed to holding extreme social, political and religious attitudes and supporting violence in the name of ideology.

www.cam.ac.uk/stories/extr...

Psychological ‘signature’ for the extremist mind uncovered

Researchers have mapped an underlying “psychological signature” for people who are predisposed to holding extreme social, political or religious attitudes.

www.cam.ac.uk

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dr cremades is cascading @rogercre.bsky.social · 6d

Right, and we need more culture to expand discussions beyond the shallow risk, fear and hate behind many narratives... thanks for inspiring!

I just took this picture of a natural source of risk the other day, much less interesting art, though.

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dr cremades is cascading @rogercre.bsky.social · 6d

More culture, less doom scenarios! Great stuff.

A.A.K Art @asmaahsankhan.bsky.social · 9d

An excerpt from today of dialoguing and drawing with @doynefarmer.bsky.social with ILM Collective.
It was an honour to talk to an elder in science about time, chaos, entropy, emergence, climate change, hope, purpose and AI.
#hope #art #science #ilmcollective #drawing #montreal #asmaahsankhan

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dr cremades is cascading @rogercre.bsky.social · 7d

Is it true that ABM started with Enrico Fermi's model of neutron transport through matter?

#ignorantme

dr cremades is cascading @rogercre.bsky.social · 8d

IMHO the problem started much earlier, when so much responsibility was transferred to individuals lacking agency or power. Nevertheless, their critique to older generations was absent.

dr cremades is cascading @rogercre.bsky.social · 8d

Coal industry's widest dream: to associate environmental activism with hamas?

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Elizabeth Manneh @elizabethmanneh.bsky.social · 8d

A male Violet-Backed #starling showing off his stunning plumage.

#birdwatching #gambia #birdphotography #birding #birdingphotography #wildlifephotography #wildlife #birds

A bird is perched on a horizontal branch. It has white underparts and iridescent violet back, tail and head.

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Telegraph Global Health Security @telglobalhealth.bsky.social · 11d

‘It’s all dead now... nothing will grow’: Fish and hippos dissolve in polluted acid river

Zambia counts the cost of a toxic waste leak that sickened humans, killed animals and devastated agricultural land

Free to read 🔓
www.telegraph.co.uk/global-healt...

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dr cremades is cascading @rogercre.bsky.social · 10d

Love this!

Graham Appleton @wadertales.bsky.social · 10d

One of the benefits of studying wader migration is that you learn how interconnected places are.
The world seems smaller and country borders seem trivial.
Black-tailed Godwit blog:
wadertales.wordpress.com/2025/01/09/h...
#ornithology

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Billur Bektaş 🍃 @billurbektas.bsky.social · 10d

Jane Goodall has been a role model for generations of women scientists and ecologists. She taught us that we can follow our passion beyond the roles society assigns us — that we can be compassionate while still being ambitious. She opened the path and paved the way with elegance. Forever grateful!

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