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Gaia Vince

@wanderinggaia.bsky.social

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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

A round-up introduction thread to some of my work and interests 🧵

Gaia Vince @wanderinggaia.bsky.social · Dec 30

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...

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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.bsky.social · 7h

aaand we are officially in the hide-your-neighbors stage

Sophie Sherry @sophiesherry.bsky.social · 10h

During a military-style raid on a building in Chicago’s South Shore, one resident heard a knock on his door.   It wasn’t the feds — it was a mom and her 7-year-old daughter, pleading for help.

He let them hide in his unit for the next 3 days.

chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...

Neighbor shielded 7-year-old during South Shore federal raid: ‘I didn’t want them to take her’

During the Sept. 30 raid one tenant protected a terrified girl and her mom. Remnants at the complex, including a detailed map of all the units, offer clues to what authorities may have known before th...

chicago.suntimes.com

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Gaia Vince @wanderinggaia.bsky.social · 9h

Yes it’s clear :(

Gaia Vince @wanderinggaia.bsky.social · 10h

I did suspect this might be the case but cant afford one at the mo

Gaia Vince @wanderinggaia.bsky.social · 10h

Cant afford this at the mo

Gaia Vince @wanderinggaia.bsky.social · 10h

Can’t put any salad, fruit, veg near the back of the fridge or it freezes and then rots. Can’t turn up fridge temp or everything goes off. Not ideal. Especially for long stuff like cucumber

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Catie Haunted Haus-man 👻👻👻 @catiehausman.bsky.social · 13h

there's a lot going on, but kind of feels like the removal of the Peruvian president should be getting more coverage?

www.npr.org/2025/10/10/n...

Peru's Congress removes President Boluarte as a crime wave grips the country

Lawmakers voted overwhelmingly to swiftly remove Peru's first female president shortly after midnight, marking yet another leadership shake-up in a nation rocked by violence and political turmoil.

www.npr.org

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Gaia Vince @wanderinggaia.bsky.social · 17h

The agri lobby is as much of a problem as the fossil fuel lobby

Dr Jo Swabe @joswabe.bsky.social · 1d

European Parliament votes to ban veggie burgers, the serves them for lunch.

O, the irony…

www.politico.eu/article/eu-p...

EU Parliament votes to ban veggie burgers — then serves them for lunch

The ink was barely dry on the European Parliament’s prohibition across the bloc when its own chefs dished up “vegan burgers,” leaving lawmakers choking on the irony.

www.politico.eu

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Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ @olivia.science · 19h

"We document the participation of women in European academia [from the year 1000 to 1800]. A total of 108 women taught at universities or were members of academies of arts and sciences. Comparing them with 58,995 male scholars, we find that they were on average better."

doi.org/10.1093/ereh...

table 1 from David de la Croix, Mara Vitale, Women in European academia before 1800—religion, marriage, and human capital, European Review of Economic History, Volume 27, Issue 4, November 2023, Pages 506–532, https://doi.org/10.1093/ereh/heac023

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 18h

Immigrant Nobel Prize winners exiting the United States

Florian Scheuer @florianscheuer.bsky.social · 20h

I am delighted to share that Nobel laureates Esther Duflo and Abhijit Banerjee will join our Department of Economics @econ.uzh.ch at the University of Zurich on July 1, 2026, as Lemann Foundation Professors of Economics.

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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.bsky.social · 19h

Congratulations to Maria Corina Machado, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize - her incredible optimism has already changed her country. I spoke to her, and wrote about her, at the beginning of this year:
www.theatlantic.com/internationa...

The ‘Anthropological Change’ Happening in Venezuela

Maduro is still in place, but a pro-democracy movement is transforming the beleaguered country.

www.theatlantic.com

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Henry Mance @henrymance.ft.com · 18h

superb - Robert Jenrick is supporting the case of asylum seeker, who is appealing against a public order conviction, using the ECHR bsky.app/profile/rola...

Roland Smith @rolandmcs.bsky.social · 19h

I see Robert Jenrick is supporting Hamit Coskun who is appealing his conviction by reference to the ECHR (which Jenrick wants to withdraw from).

Who knew that the ECHR could be useful, even to the anti-ECHR Hard Right?

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Stephen Collins @stephencollins.bsky.social · 19h

All my comics have happy endings!

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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 20h

A story from last year about your Nobel Peace Prize winner.

The ‘Iron Lady’ of Venezuela Threatens to Unseat Its Autocrat (Published 2024)

www.nytimes.com

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Gaia Vince @wanderinggaia.bsky.social · 19h

Excellent Nobel Peace Prize choice!

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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 1d

Are we great yet?

Mark Bray, a Rutgers University professor and expert on anti-fascist groups, is fleeing to Spain with his family due to death threats that stem from a campaign by Turning Point USA and other conservative groups to get him fired, falsely labeling him as an antifa member.

Antifa expert at Rutgers University says he is moving to Spain because of death threats

An expert on anti-fascist groups who teaches at New Jersey’s flagship state university is moving his family overseas.

apnews.com

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The Women In Science Archive @wisarchive.bsky.social · 1d

Wishing a happy 76th birthday to mathematician Fan Chung, whose work on Graph Theory Combinatorics gave us startling insights into the fate of massively interconnected systems like the Internet.

tinyurl.com/7yzbja29

#WomenInSTEM #MathSky 🧮

The Billion Roads from Here to There: The Graph Theory Combinatorics of Fan Chung

‘Well, some go this way, some go that way. But as for me, myself, personally, I prefer the short-cut.’ – The Cheshire Cat Every morning we wake to a deafening barrage of choice, decisions that crackle...

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Matthew Cobb @matthewcobb.bsky.social · 23h

Getting my jab today, but thanks to Wes Streeting, I have to pay for it (£90)… Many other 65-69s and immunocompromised ppl will not be able to afford it.

@DrJoePajak CSci CChem FRSC @drjoepajak.bsky.social · 1d

Latest England COVID-19 hospital bed occupancy up.
COVID-19 positive tests up.
COVID-19 deaths up.
COVID-19 cases up.
Data source @ukhsa.bsky.social
Why?
Limited vaccine eligibility, waning immunity, lower priority by leaders, mixing in poorly ventilated, cramped spaces. Scant use of face coverings.

Latest England COVID-19 hospital bed occupancy up.
COVID-19 deaths up.
COVID-19 positive tests up.
COVID-19 cases up.
Data source @ukhsa.bsky.social
Why?
Limited vaccine eligibility, waning immunity, lower priority by leaders, mixing in poorly ventilated, cramped spaces. Scant use of face coverings.

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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 22h

Private Eye offers up an excellently scornful commentary on the relentless polling. It’s become ridiculous and has oversimplified our politics to dangerous levels of stupid and irresponsible.

SHOCK POLL:
NIGEL FARAGE WILL BE PM TOMORROW
IN an amazing poll conducted
by The Pointless Polling Company, it was revealed that voters' intentions
may well change over the next three and a half years and at present it's 100 percent impossible to guess what the next government might look like.
However, 99 percent of journalists
agree that it would be much more fun if we had an election tomorrow and everybody resigned and everything was chaos and Farage had a go at being PM, just for the hell of it, because it was so much fun when
Brexit happened and then the government kept falling every five minutes and we could write endless pieces about (cont. p94)

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Gaia Vince @wanderinggaia.bsky.social · 21h

That’s good. Thanks

Gaia Vince @wanderinggaia.bsky.social · 21h

For more on how to survive the climate upheaval, read my book of solutions Nomad Century

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Gaia Vince @wanderinggaia.bsky.social · 21h

Thinking of giving scrivener a go… need help organising the chaos

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Costa Samaras @costasamaras.com · 1d

Picture how big the Hoover Dam is. An absolute unit. The Hoover Dam has a power capacity of 2 gigawatts (GW).

The solar farm that the Admin just cancelled could have produces 6.2 GW of power. That's more than 3 Hoover Dams.

jael holzman @jael.bsky.social · 1d

SCOOP: The Bureau of Land Management says the largest solar project in Nevada — the Esmeralda 7 mega-farm — has been canceled

The news was quietly dropped via a sudden website update with no public word from any of the companies involved or a statement from the agency

@heatmap.news

Esmeralda 7 Solar Project Has Been Canceled, BLM Says

It would have delivered a gargantuan 6.2 gigawatts of power.

heatmap.news

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John Sabapathy @jwwsabapathy.bsky.social · 22h

A lovely evening talking with Georgina Endfield & @wanderinggaia.bsky.social about history and environmental change last night @britishacademy.bsky.social starting a great season of 'living with the planet': www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/seasons/livi... #Anthropocene, #medievalsky

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Gaia Vince @wanderinggaia.bsky.social · 22h

Thanks so much!

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Prof Anna Watts @profannawatts.bsky.social · 1d

Lol the Nobels can't even acknowledge women's contribution to discovery. But sure let's acknowledge The Machines.

Headline from an article in Nature this week that states "Prizes must recognize machine contributions to discovery. The future of science will be written by humans and machines together. Awards should reflect that reality."

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