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Prof. Felipe Gusmão @fgusmao.bsky.social · 1d

Why we are getting more stupid.
Slavoj Zizek

Why we are getting more stupid | Slavoj Žižek FULL INTERVIEW

YouTube video by The Institute of Art and Ideas

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Prof. Felipe Gusmão @fgusmao.bsky.social · 2d

"People & Power tells the story of how a single group of chemicals poisoned the entire planet, and meets the men and women fighting to bring those responsible to justice"

youtu.be/JPTk6YxZolA

PFAS: The toxin inside us all | People & Power Documentary

YouTube video by Al Jazeera English

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Nixa Sedes, MD @nixassedes.bsky.social · 2d

Potential planetary health impacts of the airborne plastisphere🔓One Earth www.cell.com/one-earth/fu...

Potential planetary health impacts of the airborne plastisphere

Plastics interact with microorganisms in ways that can profoundly affect ecosystems and human health. Despite their global atmospheric presence, microplastic-microbe interactions in air and their plan...

www.cell.com

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Prof. Stefan Rahmstorf @rahmstorf.bsky.social · 8d

High resolution images from satellite and from eddy-resolving ocean circulation models point to an ongoing decline of the Atlantic overturning circulation, a key ocean current for our climate. Read more about it in my new blog article. 🌊
www.realclimate.org/index.php/ar...

RealClimate: High-resolution ‘fingerprint’ images reveal a weakening Atlantic Ocean circulation (AMOC)

The #AMOC is the reason for Europe’s mild climate. Evidence that it is slowing has been piling up over the years – it now is likely at its weakest in at least a millennium, and it may even be approach...

www.realclimate.org

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Monica Piccinini @monicapiccinini.bsky.social · 9d

Disease is catastrophically reshaping the planet’s most protected landscapes.

By me for @thecanaryuk.bsky.social

www.thecanary.co/global/world...

Disease is catastrophically reshaping the planet's most protected landscapes

A new report from the IUCN warns that the next great biodiversity crisis may already be underway, as wildlife diseases spread quickly

www.thecanary.co

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Institute of Art and Ideas @iai.tv · 9d

Most people think the world consists of various distinctions ranging from fire and water to protons and electrons. But Heinrich Päs disagrees. | https://bit.ly/46ls4X9

Quantum physics revives the idea of universal oneness that Christianity unjustly excluded from our culture.

#philsci ⚛️ 🧪

Quantum physics reveals the unity of the universe | Heinrich Päs

Most people think the world consists of various elements ranging from fire and water to protons and electrons. Heinrich Päs challenges this idea, arguing that quantum physics revives the ancient idea ...

iai.tv

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Lucia C. Neco (Luba) @luciacneco.bsky.social · 12d

Less than a week to go until our workshop on more-than-human deliberation! 🌿🐝🌵🕊️

Check out the program and register here: forms.gle/czwCGdovA6wq...

#multispecies #philsky #justice #morethanhuman #rightsofnature #AnimalEthics #Biocentrism #Philosophy

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Grist @grist.org · 14d

The ocean is a carbon toilet. Marine heat waves are clogging it.

Tiny poops are supposed to sink to the seafloor, locking away carbon. But scientists have found that warm spells are disrupting that flushing.

grist.org/climate/the-...

#Oceans #Climate #MarineBiology #Nature #Environment #Fishing

The ocean is a carbon toilet. Marine heat waves are clogging it.

Tiny poops are supposed to sink to the seafloor, locking away carbon. But scientists have found that heat waves are disrupting that flushing.

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kottke.org @kottke.org · 14d

Tim Berners-Lee: “I gave the world wide web away for free because I thought that it would only work if it worked for everyone. Today, I believe that to be truer than ever.” [theguardian.com]

Why I gave the world wide web away for free | Tim Berners-Lee

My vision was based on sharing, not exploitation – and here’s why it’s still worth fighting for

www.theguardian.com

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Ennius @enniusredloeb.bsky.social · 16d

4 October is the feast day of St Francis of Assisi: here he is with lambs and preaching to birds.

BL Add 15710; St Bonaventure, Legenda Sancti Francisci, illuminated & transl. by the nun Sister Sibilla von Bondorf; Germany; 15th c; ff.103r, 107v

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Prof. Felipe Gusmão @fgusmao.bsky.social · 18d

Unbelievable...

Monica Piccinini @monicapiccinini.bsky.social · 18d

Brazil: Rio de Janeiro Bill Will Encourage Police Shootings.

“Giving bonuses to police for killings is not only outright brutal but also undermines public security by creating a financial incentive for officers to shoot rather than arrest suspects.”

www.hrw.org/news/2025/10...

Brazil: Rio de Janeiro Bill Will Encourage Police Shootings

The governor of the Brazilian state of Rio de Janeiro should veto provisions in a new bill that would give civil police an economic incentive to kill suspects and would weaken forensic analysis, Human...

www.hrw.org

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Environmental Films Australia @envirofilmsaus.bsky.social · 29d

Environmental Film Festival is back, with the best eco-cinema from around the world exploring how Environment is Everywhere.

Join us 16-23 Oct in venues across Naarm/Melbourne for 23 films, including 15 premieres, four talks, two community gatherings and one special party.

🎟️ via link in bio

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Monica Piccinini @monicapiccinini.bsky.social · 26d

My latest article for @thecanaryuk.bsky.social:

The Amazon is suffocating thanks to the BR-319 highway.

www.thecanary.co/global/world...

The Amazon is suffocating thanks to the BR-319 highway

The environmentally destructive BR-319 highway is triggering a smoke pollution and health crisis in Amazon rainforest states

www.thecanary.co

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Prof. Felipe Gusmão @fgusmao.bsky.social · 21d

John Searle: 3 Philosophy Courses (UC Berkeley)

Philosophy of Mind, Spring 2011
Philosophy of Society, Fall 2010
Philosophy of Language, Fall 2010

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Brad Johnson @climatebrad.hillheat.com · 21d

Even without a government shutdown, a third of the US Geological Survey’s Climate Adaptation Science Centers could wind down or cease operations this week because the Interior Department is refusing to submit paperwork to release funding.

‘Wholesale destruction’: Government shutdown or not, critical science programs are at risk

The Trump administration has proposed devastating cuts to federal Earth and climate science programs, and a government shutdown could give them an opportunity to begin implementing those cuts.

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Lucia C. Neco (Luba) @luciacneco.bsky.social · Sep 10

[NEW PAPER] In "Beyond Dichotomies", I challenge the false dichotomy between subjectivity and objectivity in human social relationships. I show how they are both biological and social, using kinship research as an example. I’d love to hear your thoughts!

#PhilSci #Anthropology #PhilSky

Beyond Dichotomies: Embracing an Integrated Approach to Social Relationships | Philosophy of Science | Cambridge Core

Beyond Dichotomies: Embracing an Integrated Approach to Social Relationships

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Stephen Cobb @scobb.net · 23d

If you read just one article about AI this weekend, let it be this.

I've spent the last six years researching tech risk, existential risk, and AI. This is one of the best things I've read in that space. #AI #AIRisk #TechRisk #TechEthics #AIEthics #XRisk

“AI will kill everyone” is not an argument. It’s a worldview.

How rational is Eliezer Yudkowsky’s prophecy?

www.vox.com

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John Sanbonmatsu @jsanbonmatsu.bsky.social · 26d

"World’s oceans fail key health check as acidity crosses critical threshold for marine life

"Scientists call for renewed global effort to curb fossil fuels as seven of nine planetary boundaries now transgressed."

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

World’s oceans fail key health check as acidity crosses critical threshold for marine life

Scientists call for renewed global effort to curb fossil fuels as seven of nine planetary boundaries now transgressed

www.theguardian.com

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Dr. Walter Veit @walterveit.bsky.social · 28d

My new book 'Modelling Evolution' is now published! Please share. Available for free download for 2 weeks with this link: www.cambridge.org/core/element...

Modelling Evolution

Cambridge Core - Philosophy of Science - Modelling Evolution

www.cambridge.org

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Johns Hopkins Berman Institute of Bioethics @bermaninstitute.bsky.social · 28d

NSF Held Captive: Trump directives have undermined a 75-year history of independence and threaten NSF's vaunted track record for excellence. | Science | AAAS www.science.org/content/arti...

Under Trump, NSF faces worst crisis in its 75-year history

Political directives have undermined agency's independence and record of supporting the best basic research

www.science.org

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Institute of Art and Ideas @iai.tv · 28d

The worldviews and personal opinions of scientists are often thought to be irrelevant. But might this be a dangerous mistake? | https://iai.tv/video/the-values-and-prejudices-of-science

Join as Tim Palmer, Shini Somara, and Ben Ware discuss the place of values in science.

#philsci 🧪

The values and prejudices of science

From the origins of the universe to the functioning of the brain, we see science as a quest for the underlying truth of things. The worldviews and personal opinions of the scientists are thought to be...

iai.tv

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David @daverino.bsky.social · Sep 18

“First Nations people have called SA’s ongoing harmful algal bloom a cultural emergency. Several submissions have been made to a govt inquiry detailing the impact of the bloom..groups are calling for more cultural knowledge to be used during the algal bloom recovery”
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-09...

First Nations say they are being left out of the algal bloom conversation

First Nations South Australians say the harmful algal bloom impacting the state's coastline is a cultural emergency, as it continues to devastate beaches.

www.abc.net.au

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Monica Piccinini @monicapiccinini.bsky.social · Sep 17

Defending the planet shouldn’t be a death sentence. Last year, 146 land & environmental defenders were killed or went missing.

globalwitness.org/en/campaigns...

New threats target land and environmental rights defenders

Land and environmental defenders face extreme violence, criminalisation and lack of protection around the world, with 146 killed or disappeared in 2024

globalwitness.org

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Monica Piccinini @monicapiccinini.bsky.social · Sep 15

Feels like we’re gaslit every year! More speeches, more promises, but fossil fuel production keeps rising. Paris didn’t fix that. COPs aren’t fixing it. And time is running out!

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The Revelator @therevelator.org · Sep 15

Can we save wildlife from the exotic pet trade? EU legislators are considering a form of regulation that could protect many species from unsafe exploitation — if it’s done right. @wildjourno.bsky.social reports: https://therevelator.org/exotic-pet-trade-european-union/

The Exotic Pet Trade Harms Animals and Humans. The European Union Is Studying a Potential Solution • The Revelator

EU legislators are considering a form of regulation that could protect many species from unsafe exploitation -- if it's done right.

therevelator.org

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