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Anthony Burke @anthonyburke.bsky.social · 22m

Looking forward to seeing how these models incorporate different degrees of mass extinction for states to consider, along with biodiversity reduction reduction and taxidermy technology.

Macroecology lab @unipotsdam @zurelllab.bsky.social · 1h

Biodiversity policy needs to look forward, not just backward. 🌍
Our new PNAS piece argues that predictive models - like those used in climate science - are key to guiding effective conservation decisions.
doi.org/10.1073/pnas...
#Biodiversity #Conservation #PNAS
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Predicting the way forward for the Global Biodiversity Framework | PNAS

Predicting the way forward for the Global Biodiversity Framework

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Kevin J. CREATURE @kevinjkircher.com · 9h

Honest question - what do bloggers like about Substack? As a reader, I use essentially none of its features other than getting blogs by email. Substack's actual websites seem to work pretty badly on my phone, especially embedded videos?

Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 11h

- Grim that media barons are buying up mainstream media and making them fascism-enabling propaganda engines

- ULTAGRIM that so many of the big-name journalists escaping that fire are voluntarily leaping directly into a completely separate newsletter website trap set by the same fascists

Substack’s “Nazi problem” won’t go away after push notification apology

Substack may be legitimizing neo-Nazis as “thought leaders,” researcher warns.

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Anthony Burke @anthonyburke.bsky.social · 1h

I love trip hop - I love the name and every shade of its sound and its respect for soul. The Sade offshoot Sweetback deserves a mention too.

‘Music dug up from under the earth’: how trip-hop never stopped

Fused from jungle, rave and soul, trip-hop filled the coffee tables of the 90s, and is now inspiring Billie Eilish’s generation. So why is the term so despised by many?

www.theguardian.com

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Dr. Genevieve Guenther (she/they) @doctorvive.bsky.social · 6h

I'm excited to be at The University of Copenhagen's Center for Applied Ecological Thinking on the 21st!

I'll be talking about how the Trump regime manipulates the language of famous climate scientists to advance their fossil-fascist agenda.

If you're around, come out!

cape.ku.dk/eng/calendar...

The Language of Climate Politics

Talk with Genevieve Guenther followed by a discussion with Frederik Appel Olsen.

cape.ku.dk

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Anthony Burke @anthonyburke.bsky.social · 1h

With everyone finding their research grants cancelled, funding drying up, will neoliberal administrators give up their pseudoscientific delusion that grant win is scientific achievement?

No! The meal is cooked when you enter the store! Even if you stop at maccas on the way home.

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The Onion @theonion.com · 1d

Health Experts Recommend Standing Up At Desk, Leaving Office, Never Coming Back https://theonion.com/health-experts-recommend-standing-up-at-desk-leaving-o-1819577456/

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Chica Marx @mckenziewark.bsky.social · 22h

And you can select your favorite independent (Hive Mind Books, for eg) as your "store" and Bookshop kicks them a lil something.

bookriot.bsky.social @bookriot.bsky.social · 1d

Support independent bookstores and get free shipping by purchasing books through Bookshop.org during their "Anti-Prime Day" sale.

#booksky

bookriot.com/bookshop-org...

Bookshop.org Offers Free Shipping and 20% Off Banned Books for “Anti-Prime Day”

Support independent bookstores and get free shipping by purchasing books through Bookshop.org during their "Anti-Prime Day" sale.

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Jacob Ware @jacobware.bsky.social · 1d

Is there really a rise in left-wing political violence in America? Very grateful to Meghna Chakrabarti for hosting such an informative debate between Daniel Byman and Robert Pape, discussing a recent report by @csis.org. www.wbur.org/onpoint/2025...

Is there really a rise in left-wing political violence in America?

Charlie Kirk's assassination. The United Healthcare CEO's murder. Several recent high-profile killings seem to have political motivations. What’s driving this — and what can we do about it?

www.wbur.org

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Anthony Burke @anthonyburke.bsky.social · 1d

A state that won’t address its own law and order issues humanely and fairly is a failed state. Deportation talk is a fascist paradigm.

Anthony Burke @anthonyburke.bsky.social · 1d

Deportation is one of the surest indicators of fascism. No less true when centrist parties do it.

It’s like opening the door to hell then making a cuppa as you sit down to watch.

Ian Fraser @ianfraser.bsky.social · 1d

Flailing Tory leader Kemi Badenoch’s latest “idea” is a Trumpian immigration hit squad, vowing to deport 150,000 a year. There’s no credible plan for where the deported people would go, how treaties would be upheld, or how overstretched institutions would cope.

The Guardian view on the Tory conference: history’s revenge on Conservatism | Editorial

Editorial: Speeches from the conference floor reveal a party out of ideas. Its leadership team is mistaking slogans for policy and nostalgia for purpose

www.theguardian.com

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Clinically Vulnerable Families 💙💜💗 @cvcev.bsky.social · 1d

⚠️The NHS once protected us.

Now, millions of Clinically Vulnerable people are being told we don’t qualify for a Covid vaccine - even as new variants spread.

This is a dangerous, preventable mistake.

#KeepCovidBoosters

NEW CVF BLOG - Screenshot of top of page

A Preventable Winter Crisis: Why Clinically Vulnerable People Need Your Help

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 1d

There are some people whom the media has decided are "leading intellectuals", regardless of the views of their academic colleagues. Invariably they are people who justify - or at the very least do not challenge - economic power. Steven Pinker is a stand-out example.
www.monbiot.com/2018/03/09/c...

Contrary to Reason

Steven Pinker claims to champion Enlightenment values. But his latest book is an affront to them

www.monbiot.com

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Preorder Read This When Things Fall Apart @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 1d

The table of contents for Read This When Things Fall Apart is a crisis directory—“read this if…” [insert heartbreak, setback, disaster, or breaking point]. I wish I could gift a copy to every activist in Chicago. You can donate a copy to an activist in need here: www.akpress.org/read-this-wh...

The cover for the book, Read This When Things Fall Apart: Letters to Activists in Crisis. The cover art features a person wading into a body of water in the woods at night.

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Anthony Burke @anthonyburke.bsky.social · 1d

Brilliant work.

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Anthony Burke @anthonyburke.bsky.social · 1d

Just in time for another nihilistic performance of pretending to tackle the climate crisis. This take on the political economy of where we need to be will be compelling. Congratulations Prof. Green.

Jessica Green @greenprofgreen.bsky.social · 1d

Today is the day!!! Existential Politics is out in the world!

Read about why we’re doing climate policy wrong (too focused on measuring emissions) & what we should do instead (focus on $$ to constrain fossil asset owners & expand green asset owners). Just in time for #COP30.

Existential Politics

A new way to tackle the real politics of climate change through asset revaluation

press.princeton.edu

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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 1d

News that shocks no one: Carbon offsets do nothing for climate.

Carbon offsets fail to cut global heating due to ‘intractable’ systemic problems, study says

Analysis of 25 years of evidence shows most schemes are poor quality and fail to lower emissions

www.theguardian.com

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Anthony Burke @anthonyburke.bsky.social · 1d

If Howard was leader they would be full maga by now. I wish they realised they live in Australia and loved this land more than the smell of their own coprolitic ideology.

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Aarne Granlund @aarnegranlund.bsky.social · 28d

The transport sector is the main reason why I've been sceptical about green growth, but perhaps the rising economies in the south can work with it better than we have.

theconversation.com/the-worlds-2...

The world’s 280 million electric bikes and mopeds are cutting demand for oil far more than electric cars

Electric vehicles get all the press – but it’s the smaller unsung two wheelers cutting oil demand the most.

theconversation.com

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NPR @npr.org · 2d

The International Criminal Court in the Hague handed down its first-ever Darfur war crimes conviction, finding Janjaweed leader Ali Kushayb, guilty of atrocities committed more than two decades ago.

ICC finds former Sudan militia leader guilty of war crimes in Darfur

The International Criminal Court in the Hague handed down its first-ever Darfur war crimes conviction, finding Janjaweed leader Ali Kushayb, guilty of atrocities committed more than two decades ago.

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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 2d

Greta Thunberg has just been released and she is back on the warpath, exactly like our leaders should be.

Israel will never silence her or the billions who oppose them.

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The Lancet @thelancet.com · 2d

On this week’s cover of The Lancet, a new letter: “Gaza’s healthocide: medical societies must not stay silent”.

Read the letter and more in our latest issue: tinyurl.com/5n85x448

Cover of The Lancet's Oct 4, 2025 issue. Cover quote reads: "Most medical and surgical societies worldwide have remained silent or issued vague statements about Gaza's healthocide [...] Staying silent while pretending to be neutral is, in effect, a form of complicity."

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Aarne Granlund @aarnegranlund.bsky.social · 2d

It wasn't widely understood that Continental Europe and the sub-Arctic regions, extending to the highest latitudes, all heat up faster than the global average.

The models did not capture it earlier. Most politicians thought that economic growth would solve these issues? 🤨

Aarne Granlund @aarnegranlund.bsky.social · 11d

”According to the ERA5 dataset of the Copernicus Climate Change Service (C3S)*, Europe is the fastest-warming continent and has warmed by approximately 0.53°C per decade since the mid-1990s, and the Arctic is warming even faster—around 0.69°C per decade.”

climate.copernicus.eu/why-are-euro...

Why are Europe and the Arctic heating up faster than the rest of the world?

As the planet continues to warm, not all regions are heating up at the same pace. Over the last thirty years, the global average temperature has increased by around 0.26°C per decade. But in Europe a...

climate.copernicus.eu

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Anthony Burke @anthonyburke.bsky.social · 2d

Cool book

www.theportobellobookshop.com/9780520298101

The War of Words, Kenneth Burke (Hardback)

When Kenneth Burke conceived his celebrated “Motivorum” project in the 1940s and 1950s, he envisioned it in three parts. Whereas t...

www.theportobellobookshop.com

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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 2d

You’ll now be able to get an updated coronavirus shot in every state without a prescription, according to the American Pharmacists Association.

CVS and Walgreens have stated you won’t need to attest to any underlying conditions and the questions will be removed from their online booking system.

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Eoghan Daltun 🌍 @irishrainforest.bsky.social · 2d

"Rainforest that has been regenerating for 30 years after being used as cattle pasture showed a remarkable increase in butterfly colour diversity."

It turns out rewilding even has the power to restore the colours human activities are draining from the natural world.
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As forests are cut down, butterflies are losing their colours

The insects’ brilliant hues evolved in lush ecosystems to help them survive. Now they are becoming more muted to adapt to degraded landscapes – and they are not the only things dulling down

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