Gaia Vince
@wanderinggaia.bsky.social
Writer, broadcaster, author (NOMAD CENTURY; TRANSCENDENCE; ANTHROPOCENE https://bit.ly/3QR898d) Human-Earth system science https://toot.community/@WanderingGaia
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Gaia Vince
@wanderinggaia.bsky.social
· Nov 22
Looking back on my 2023 highlights: #NomadCentury came out in paperback, was Highly Commended in the
Wainwright Prize for nature writing 2023, shortlisted for the Zócalo Book Prize and the Christopher Moore Prize For Human Rights books www.amazon.com/Nomad-Centur...
Wainwright Prize for nature writing 2023, shortlisted for the Zócalo Book Prize and the Christopher Moore Prize For Human Rights books www.amazon.com/Nomad-Centur...
A round-up introduction thread to some of my work and interests 🧵
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Welcome to Britain, a country so short of dentists that an MP's 87-year-old mum pulled her teeth out with pliers. Also a country with thousands of foreign-qualified dentists who can’t work until they pass an exam so oversubscribed it’s like trying to book Glasto tickets. www.ft.com/content/f4e5...
December 9, 2025 at 11:46 AM
Welcome to Britain, a country so short of dentists that an MP's 87-year-old mum pulled her teeth out with pliers. Also a country with thousands of foreign-qualified dentists who can’t work until they pass an exam so oversubscribed it’s like trying to book Glasto tickets. www.ft.com/content/f4e5...
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Why aren’t there more giraffes in Ghana? -- interesting #conservation research: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Sodium constraints on megaherbivore communities in Africa - Nature Ecology & Evolution
Combining high-resolution mapping of foliar and herbivore faecal sodium concentrations across Africa, the authors show that plant-derived sodium availability constrains megaherbivore densities at a co...
www.nature.com
December 9, 2025 at 3:55 PM
Why aren’t there more giraffes in Ghana? -- interesting #conservation research: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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In 2019 (either ahead of running for the Tory Leadership or the General Election, I forget which), Bozza said in an interview that he enjoyed painting model buses to relax. This was all over the news and was apparently done to push all the stuff about the Vote Leave/NHS Bus down the search results.
December 9, 2025 at 9:21 AM
In 2019 (either ahead of running for the Tory Leadership or the General Election, I forget which), Bozza said in an interview that he enjoyed painting model buses to relax. This was all over the news and was apparently done to push all the stuff about the Vote Leave/NHS Bus down the search results.
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A new record - on 5 December wind power produced enough electricity for 3/4 of UK homes
At 23.8GW it meant that even during winter peak demand, it was still providing nearly half the country's power needs
Still a way to go though....
www.edie.net/uk-soars-pas...
At 23.8GW it meant that even during winter peak demand, it was still providing nearly half the country's power needs
Still a way to go though....
www.edie.net/uk-soars-pas...
UK soars past wind power generation record for second time in two months - edie
Great Britain’s maximum wind generation record was broken on Friday, 5 December, the National Energy System Operator (NESO) has confirmed.
www.edie.net
December 9, 2025 at 8:03 AM
A new record - on 5 December wind power produced enough electricity for 3/4 of UK homes
At 23.8GW it meant that even during winter peak demand, it was still providing nearly half the country's power needs
Still a way to go though....
www.edie.net/uk-soars-pas...
At 23.8GW it meant that even during winter peak demand, it was still providing nearly half the country's power needs
Still a way to go though....
www.edie.net/uk-soars-pas...
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New evidence suggests weather persistence is increasing in the northern mid– and high latitudes due to climate change.
So far, I’ve been skeptical as the signal seems small compared to natural variability, but maybe it’s time to update my thinking.
www.nature.com/articles/s43...
So far, I’ve been skeptical as the signal seems small compared to natural variability, but maybe it’s time to update my thinking.
www.nature.com/articles/s43...
Enhanced weather persistence due to amplified Arctic warming - Communications Earth & Environment
Weather persistence, in terms of duration of surface-air temperature anomalies across all weather types and seasons in Northern Hemisphere mid-latitudes, has increased in recent decades due to Arctic ...
www.nature.com
December 9, 2025 at 6:38 AM
New evidence suggests weather persistence is increasing in the northern mid– and high latitudes due to climate change.
So far, I’ve been skeptical as the signal seems small compared to natural variability, but maybe it’s time to update my thinking.
www.nature.com/articles/s43...
So far, I’ve been skeptical as the signal seems small compared to natural variability, but maybe it’s time to update my thinking.
www.nature.com/articles/s43...
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A big advance, folks, for off-the-shelf, universal, engineered (base-edited) T cells achieving complete response vs incurable leukemia in several patients
www.nejm.org/doi/full/10....
www.nejm.org/doi/full/10....
December 8, 2025 at 10:10 PM
A big advance, folks, for off-the-shelf, universal, engineered (base-edited) T cells achieving complete response vs incurable leukemia in several patients
www.nejm.org/doi/full/10....
www.nejm.org/doi/full/10....
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Exciting jobs & PhD studentship!
1) postdoc in historical windstorms: jobs.reading.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai...
2) postdoc in extreme event storylines: jobs.reading.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai...
3) PhD in redeveloping the Central England Temperature series (led by Tim Osborn): www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
1) postdoc in historical windstorms: jobs.reading.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai...
2) postdoc in extreme event storylines: jobs.reading.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai...
3) PhD in redeveloping the Central England Temperature series (led by Tim Osborn): www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
December 8, 2025 at 3:54 PM
Exciting jobs & PhD studentship!
1) postdoc in historical windstorms: jobs.reading.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai...
2) postdoc in extreme event storylines: jobs.reading.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai...
3) PhD in redeveloping the Central England Temperature series (led by Tim Osborn): www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
1) postdoc in historical windstorms: jobs.reading.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai...
2) postdoc in extreme event storylines: jobs.reading.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai...
3) PhD in redeveloping the Central England Temperature series (led by Tim Osborn): www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
This would be fab
White storks to make historic return to London in 2026
Species extinct as breeding birds in Britain since 1416 to be reintroduced in Barking and Dagenham as part of rewilding effort
www.theguardian.com
December 8, 2025 at 3:54 PM
This would be fab
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Warning from German scientists that current observations of emissions and ocean temperatures make 3C of #globalheating by mid-century plausible.
3C of heating makes our current global society unlivable, by the way. Parts of Spain become the Sahara, eg.
worldcrunch.com/focus/green-...
3C of heating makes our current global society unlivable, by the way. Parts of Spain become the Sahara, eg.
worldcrunch.com/focus/green-...
December 8, 2025 at 1:34 PM
Warning from German scientists that current observations of emissions and ocean temperatures make 3C of #globalheating by mid-century plausible.
3C of heating makes our current global society unlivable, by the way. Parts of Spain become the Sahara, eg.
worldcrunch.com/focus/green-...
3C of heating makes our current global society unlivable, by the way. Parts of Spain become the Sahara, eg.
worldcrunch.com/focus/green-...
Don't let your children watch Question Time for eg
The counterterrorism chief says families should focus on early intervention to protect young people from extremism as referrals to Prevent rise to 10,000 in a year
Parents ‘must do more to stop children being radicalised online’
Parents ‘must do more to stop children being radicalised online’
www.thetimes.com
December 8, 2025 at 1:36 PM
Don't let your children watch Question Time for eg
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Elif Shafak named new president of the Royal Society of Literature
Elif Shafak named new president of the Royal Society of Literature
The British-Turkish writer was elected after a vote among the society’s fellows, with outgoing president Bernardine Evaristo describing her selection as ‘terrifically inspired’
Novelist Elif Shafak has been named the new president of the Royal Society of Literature (RSL), taking over from Bernardine Evaristo as she reaches the end of her four-year term.
British-Turkish writer Shafak, the author of novels including The Island of Missing Trees and There Are Rivers in the Sky, was announced in the role on Friday after a vote among fellows at the society’s AGM on Thursday. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
December 8, 2025 at 1:21 PM
Elif Shafak named new president of the Royal Society of Literature
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cannot begin to tell you how happy I am to have stumbled upon the Paris building shared by metal music fans and the union for metal workers, what a delight
December 8, 2025 at 11:31 AM
cannot begin to tell you how happy I am to have stumbled upon the Paris building shared by metal music fans and the union for metal workers, what a delight
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Intensely funny because it seems like the vast majority of people at that event were convinced it was fully autonomous and Musk has repeatedly recently claimed they're not tele-operated
www.reddit.com/r/robotics/c...
www.reddit.com/r/robotics/c...
December 8, 2025 at 11:18 AM
Intensely funny because it seems like the vast majority of people at that event were convinced it was fully autonomous and Musk has repeatedly recently claimed they're not tele-operated
www.reddit.com/r/robotics/c...
www.reddit.com/r/robotics/c...
I'm getting a lot of spam from "readers" who have fallen in love with my books and are moved to promote them on amazon/goodreads/various lists (for a fee), and each gushing email is written with AI, with the prompts slightly different, I guess, but all....off.
December 8, 2025 at 11:38 AM
I'm getting a lot of spam from "readers" who have fallen in love with my books and are moved to promote them on amazon/goodreads/various lists (for a fee), and each gushing email is written with AI, with the prompts slightly different, I guess, but all....off.
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The number of global deaths of children under-5 is projected to increase this year (from 4.6m to 4.8m) for the first time this century. (FT)
The price of aid cuts.
The price of aid cuts.
December 8, 2025 at 9:29 AM
The number of global deaths of children under-5 is projected to increase this year (from 4.6m to 4.8m) for the first time this century. (FT)
The price of aid cuts.
The price of aid cuts.
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The “worldview that Epstein helped architect: the elevation of a self-defined cognitive aristocracy; scepticism toward democratic accountability; obsession with racial and gender hierarchy, and genetic “optimisation”; the legitimacy of population culling to root out inferior groups”
EXCLUSIVE: Epstein didn’t just prey on children. He helped bankroll and embed a worldview of race science, climate “culling” and eugenics inside Silicon Valley’s elite AI networks. Tonight we publish the final part of my
@bylinetimes.bsky.social investigation bylinetimes.com/2025/12/05/h...
@bylinetimes.bsky.social investigation bylinetimes.com/2025/12/05/h...
How Epstein Channelled Race Science and 'Climate Culling' Into Silicon Valley’s AI Elite
The Epstein files expose how racial hierarchy, genetic “optimisation” and even climate-driven population culling circulated inside Big Tech circles
bylinetimes.com
December 6, 2025 at 12:08 PM
The “worldview that Epstein helped architect: the elevation of a self-defined cognitive aristocracy; scepticism toward democratic accountability; obsession with racial and gender hierarchy, and genetic “optimisation”; the legitimacy of population culling to root out inferior groups”
Bring it!
‘Zombie’ electricity projects in Britain face axe to ease quicker grid connections
- Backlog delaying ‘shovel-ready’ ventures will be cleared with aim of building virtually zero-carbon power system by 2030
#netzero
www.theguardian.com/business/202...
- Backlog delaying ‘shovel-ready’ ventures will be cleared with aim of building virtually zero-carbon power system by 2030
#netzero
www.theguardian.com/business/202...
‘Zombie’ electricity projects in Britain face axe to ease quicker grid connections
Backlog delaying ‘shovel-ready’ ventures will be cleared with aim of building virtually zero-carbon power system by 2030
www.theguardian.com
December 8, 2025 at 9:22 AM
Bring it!
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The joint American and Russian attack on Europe is ideological and if Europe is going to succeed in fighting back - rather than be reduced to an unhappy collection of vassal states - it needs to decide whether it is willing and able to defend its own liberal democratic ideals. My latest
Can Europe be Saved?
A few thoughts on the state of Europe amid a twin-pronged assault from the United States and Russia
open.substack.com
December 7, 2025 at 8:57 PM
The joint American and Russian attack on Europe is ideological and if Europe is going to succeed in fighting back - rather than be reduced to an unhappy collection of vassal states - it needs to decide whether it is willing and able to defend its own liberal democratic ideals. My latest
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Rather than pushing yet more hostile anti-asylum policies, Labour needs to be actually supporting people. UK policies and rhetoric have the inevitable consequences of not only forcing more people towards gangs, but increasing violence used against them. #r4today
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
UK asylum policy causes more violence and deaths, say rights groups
Home Office drive to stop small boats crossing Channel is handing more power to people smugglers, report finds
www.theguardian.com
December 8, 2025 at 6:46 AM
Rather than pushing yet more hostile anti-asylum policies, Labour needs to be actually supporting people. UK policies and rhetoric have the inevitable consequences of not only forcing more people towards gangs, but increasing violence used against them. #r4today
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
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Should go without saying, but if protections against torture are preventing your policies being implemented then it isn't the protections which are the issue.
There's no difference, for those affected, here from leaving the ECHR if rights are removed anyway.
www.theguardian.com/law/2025/dec...
There's no difference, for those affected, here from leaving the ECHR if rights are removed anyway.
www.theguardian.com/law/2025/dec...
Rights groups warn against UK plans to weaken torture protections in ECHR
Exclusive: Ministers face pushback over potential changes to asylum seekers’ rights before Council of Europe meeting
www.theguardian.com
December 8, 2025 at 6:52 AM
Should go without saying, but if protections against torture are preventing your policies being implemented then it isn't the protections which are the issue.
There's no difference, for those affected, here from leaving the ECHR if rights are removed anyway.
www.theguardian.com/law/2025/dec...
There's no difference, for those affected, here from leaving the ECHR if rights are removed anyway.
www.theguardian.com/law/2025/dec...
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Eoin Clarke has handily put together a list of 100 Green policies and it’s pretty astounding anyone can type all these out and not work out the economic collapse they would bring on
December 8, 2025 at 6:17 AM
Eoin Clarke has handily put together a list of 100 Green policies and it’s pretty astounding anyone can type all these out and not work out the economic collapse they would bring on
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"David Lammy, the justice secretary, is expected to help lead arguments at the Council of Europe meeting on Wednesday on how the European convention on human rights (ECHR) could be reinterpreted to limit the scope of rights under article 3"
December 8, 2025 at 6:51 AM
"David Lammy, the justice secretary, is expected to help lead arguments at the Council of Europe meeting on Wednesday on how the European convention on human rights (ECHR) could be reinterpreted to limit the scope of rights under article 3"
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In today's @theoverspill: the government's postal service in Denmark is shutting down following a decades-long collapse in letter volume, to an average now of 18 per person per year.
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December 8, 2025 at 7:00 AM
In today's @theoverspill: the government's postal service in Denmark is shutting down following a decades-long collapse in letter volume, to an average now of 18 per person per year.
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After this weekend's racist attacks on the EU, I've written a column about the moral obligation to stop posting on X.
Oh no, wait, I wrote it *two years ago* when it was blatantly obvious what was going on and how it would get much much worse.
www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...
Oh no, wait, I wrote it *two years ago* when it was blatantly obvious what was going on and how it would get much much worse.
www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...
December 7, 2025 at 10:18 PM
After this weekend's racist attacks on the EU, I've written a column about the moral obligation to stop posting on X.
Oh no, wait, I wrote it *two years ago* when it was blatantly obvious what was going on and how it would get much much worse.
www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...
Oh no, wait, I wrote it *two years ago* when it was blatantly obvious what was going on and how it would get much much worse.
www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...
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X (falsely) complaining of EU censorship while then censoring the EU
Elon Musk’s X found a reason to disable the ad account of the EU Commission.
December 7, 2025 at 10:57 PM
X (falsely) complaining of EU censorship while then censoring the EU