Bob D 🦋
@bobathon.bsky.social
physicist interested in quantum theory, cosmology, climate change, stars, yorkshire, wildlife, birds, fell running, mindfulness, mindlessness, the world and stuff
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Look I get the urge to ignore science, I find it hard to accept that cheese is bad for you/jogging has a point/bourbon isn't a vegetable. It's normal, you get over it, whatever.
What I don't get is ignoring science in the service of killing as many of your own voters as possible, for no reason
What I don't get is ignoring science in the service of killing as many of your own voters as possible, for no reason
Breaking: After contentious debates and three failed attempts at a vote, a federal vaccine committee decided on Friday to end the decades-long recommendation that all newborns be immunized at birth against hepatitis B.
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/05/h...
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/05/h...
An End to Hepatitis B Shots for All Newborns
www.nytimes.com
December 5, 2025 at 5:20 PM
Look I get the urge to ignore science, I find it hard to accept that cheese is bad for you/jogging has a point/bourbon isn't a vegetable. It's normal, you get over it, whatever.
What I don't get is ignoring science in the service of killing as many of your own voters as possible, for no reason
What I don't get is ignoring science in the service of killing as many of your own voters as possible, for no reason
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"£500m over 20 years is sod all," said @jakefiennes.bsky.social, responding to this week's announcement of govt funding for Landscape Recovery
As Jake rightly points out, this is a fraction of the overall farming budget & not what was originally promised
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
As Jake rightly points out, this is a fraction of the overall farming budget & not what was originally promised
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Nature recovery plan in England hit by clause allowing contracts to end with a year’s notice
Conservationists say changes, coupled with underfunding, will curb take-up and leave less land protected for nature
www.theguardian.com
December 5, 2025 at 4:48 PM
"£500m over 20 years is sod all," said @jakefiennes.bsky.social, responding to this week's announcement of govt funding for Landscape Recovery
As Jake rightly points out, this is a fraction of the overall farming budget & not what was originally promised
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
As Jake rightly points out, this is a fraction of the overall farming budget & not what was originally promised
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
By far the most likely cause of human extinction is gullibility.
Researchers find what makes AI chatbots politically persuasive arstechnica.com/science/2025...
Researchers find what makes AI chatbots politically persuasive
A massive study of political persuasion shows AIs have, at best, a weak effect.
arstechnica.com
December 5, 2025 at 3:11 PM
By far the most likely cause of human extinction is gullibility.
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"[China] will not achieve the target of reducing carbon emissions per unit of GDP nor the pledges to “strictly control” coal consumption growth and new coal-fired power plants"
"The policy environment and target-setting for the next few years are concerning, raising the risk of an emission rebound"
"The policy environment and target-setting for the next few years are concerning, raising the risk of an emission rebound"
China’s Climate Transition: Outlook 2025 – Centre for Research on Energy and Clean Air
energyandcleanair.org
December 5, 2025 at 10:36 AM
"[China] will not achieve the target of reducing carbon emissions per unit of GDP nor the pledges to “strictly control” coal consumption growth and new coal-fired power plants"
"The policy environment and target-setting for the next few years are concerning, raising the risk of an emission rebound"
"The policy environment and target-setting for the next few years are concerning, raising the risk of an emission rebound"
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We just published our “Top of the Charts”, a look at our most popular charts, articles, data insights & more in 2025! (link in 🧵)
Here are our top 5 most-viewed charts.
Each Friday over the next few weeks, we’ll share the top 5 for other categories (articles, etc.). Stay tuned!
1. CO2 emissions
Here are our top 5 most-viewed charts.
Each Friday over the next few weeks, we’ll share the top 5 for other categories (articles, etc.). Stay tuned!
1. CO2 emissions
December 5, 2025 at 10:44 AM
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You’re Not Worried Enough About Sea Level Rise
YouTube video by PBS Terra
www.youtube.com
December 4, 2025 at 8:41 PM
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December 3, 2025 at 9:28 PM
Meanwhile in particle physics – a thing you probably didn't realise might exist, that some physicists thought should exist, now probably doesn't exist after all
New #results of the #MicroBooNE collaboration at the US research center #Fermilab with the participation of #unibern show: there is no #evidence for a fourth type of the #elementary particle #neutrino, so-called sterile neutrinos: mediarelations.unibe.ch/media_releas....
No evidence of sterile neutrinos
There is no evidence for the existence of sterile neutrinos – a fourth type of the elementary neutrino particle. This is shown by the international MicroBooNE collaboration at the US research center F...
mediarelations.unibe.ch
December 3, 2025 at 8:48 PM
Meanwhile in particle physics – a thing you probably didn't realise might exist, that some physicists thought should exist, now probably doesn't exist after all
I've been getting electricity from @goodenergyuk.bsky.social for 25 years, but they source a lot of their renewable energy from this stuff and I don't think it's excusable any more.
It's time for change.
Long, long trains from Liverpool docks to Drax rumble past my house every night. It's grim.
It's time for change.
Long, long trains from Liverpool docks to Drax rumble past my house every night. It's grim.
December 3, 2025 at 4:06 PM
I've been getting electricity from @goodenergyuk.bsky.social for 25 years, but they source a lot of their renewable energy from this stuff and I don't think it's excusable any more.
It's time for change.
Long, long trains from Liverpool docks to Drax rumble past my house every night. It's grim.
It's time for change.
Long, long trains from Liverpool docks to Drax rumble past my house every night. It's grim.
The endless control-freakery of animal agriculture.
An industry built on suffering and death, with horrendous impacts on our environment and our health, that feels entitled to a fluffy image of being natural, good for us and stewards of the land.
It's a scam. Of course it can't allow alternatives.
An industry built on suffering and death, with horrendous impacts on our environment and our health, that feels entitled to a fluffy image of being natural, good for us and stewards of the land.
It's a scam. Of course it can't allow alternatives.
1. The European Parliament’s attempt to ban plant-based foods from being sold as “sausages”, “burgers” etc is a direct response to livestock industry lobbying. This is a short thread on how utterly bleeding ridiculous it is. 🧵1/6
December 3, 2025 at 11:23 AM
The endless control-freakery of animal agriculture.
An industry built on suffering and death, with horrendous impacts on our environment and our health, that feels entitled to a fluffy image of being natural, good for us and stewards of the land.
It's a scam. Of course it can't allow alternatives.
An industry built on suffering and death, with horrendous impacts on our environment and our health, that feels entitled to a fluffy image of being natural, good for us and stewards of the land.
It's a scam. Of course it can't allow alternatives.
Brilliant.
The media bias towards inequality over the past couple of weeks really has been comical
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
The media bias towards inequality over the past couple of weeks really has been comical
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Won’t somebody please think of Britain’s poor £2m homeowners? Oh, wait – everyone already is | Jonathan Liew
Contrast the furious reaction to Rachel Reeves’s ‘mansion tax’ to the response offered to those living with real housing injustice: indifference, says Guardian columnist Jonathan Liew
www.theguardian.com
December 3, 2025 at 10:35 AM
Brilliant.
The media bias towards inequality over the past couple of weeks really has been comical
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
The media bias towards inequality over the past couple of weeks really has been comical
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Over 1,200 people have lost their lives in Southeast Asia after historic flooding.
While oil and gas companies keep getting richer, ordinary people around the world are left struggling to survive.
While oil and gas companies keep getting richer, ordinary people around the world are left struggling to survive.
December 2, 2025 at 9:55 PM
Over 1,200 people have lost their lives in Southeast Asia after historic flooding.
While oil and gas companies keep getting richer, ordinary people around the world are left struggling to survive.
While oil and gas companies keep getting richer, ordinary people around the world are left struggling to survive.
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Valid link to the paper:
mapress.com/zt/article/v...
mapress.com/zt/article/v...
December 2, 2025 at 9:05 AM
Valid link to the paper:
mapress.com/zt/article/v...
mapress.com/zt/article/v...
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A very important article about a long-looming threat to environmental progress embedded in many (perhaps most) trade treaties.
Sovereignty? Democracy? Sorry, but we can't afford those anymore. We'll be sued if we try to defend them.
This week's column is about a massive but scarcely-covered scandal.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
This week's column is about a massive but scarcely-covered scandal.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Hello, foreign oligarchs and corporations! Please come and sue the UK for billions | George Monbiot
The case of a planned Cumbrian coalmine shows how governments around the world are being threatened by litigation in shadowy offshore courts, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot
www.theguardian.com
December 1, 2025 at 10:40 AM
A very important article about a long-looming threat to environmental progress embedded in many (perhaps most) trade treaties.
Excellent JHaT round-up of the @nebriefing.bsky.social
climate and nature crisis briefing, and what we can do now
www.youtube.com/watch?v=8sa7...
climate and nature crisis briefing, and what we can do now
www.youtube.com/watch?v=8sa7...
This is not the video I had planned to make.
YouTube video by Just Have a Think
www.youtube.com
November 30, 2025 at 9:03 PM
Excellent JHaT round-up of the @nebriefing.bsky.social
climate and nature crisis briefing, and what we can do now
www.youtube.com/watch?v=8sa7...
climate and nature crisis briefing, and what we can do now
www.youtube.com/watch?v=8sa7...
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We can't really say this enough...
> Anastasia Berg [at UCL Irvine] said that new research — and what she's hearing directly from colleagues across various industries — shows that employees who heavily rely on AI are losing core skills at a startling rate.
www.businessinsider.com/ai-tools-are...
> Anastasia Berg [at UCL Irvine] said that new research — and what she's hearing directly from colleagues across various industries — shows that employees who heavily rely on AI are losing core skills at a startling rate.
www.businessinsider.com/ai-tools-are...
AI tools are 'deskilling' workers, philosophy professor says
A philosophy professor warns that AI reliance is weakening workers' judgment, creativity, and problem-solving.
www.businessinsider.com
November 30, 2025 at 6:09 PM
We can't really say this enough...
> Anastasia Berg [at UCL Irvine] said that new research — and what she's hearing directly from colleagues across various industries — shows that employees who heavily rely on AI are losing core skills at a startling rate.
www.businessinsider.com/ai-tools-are...
> Anastasia Berg [at UCL Irvine] said that new research — and what she's hearing directly from colleagues across various industries — shows that employees who heavily rely on AI are losing core skills at a startling rate.
www.businessinsider.com/ai-tools-are...
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Generations from now, when historians study this period where we have perfect understanding of the problem, and brilliant, readily available solutions with all the resources necessary to implement them, they'll study cases like this to try to figure out why we kept drilling holes in our lifeboat.
November 28, 2025 at 4:58 PM
Generations from now, when historians study this period where we have perfect understanding of the problem, and brilliant, readily available solutions with all the resources necessary to implement them, they'll study cases like this to try to figure out why we kept drilling holes in our lifeboat.
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What a great headline
November 28, 2025 at 3:49 PM
What a great headline
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‘Taking action is not a sacrifice, it’s not even a problem, taking action is the opportunity here’ @zackpolanski.bsky.social
Add your signature to the open letter to Keir Starmer and all public service broadcasters.
www.nebriefing.org/open-letter-keir
#climatecrisis #netzero #NEB2025 #cop30
Add your signature to the open letter to Keir Starmer and all public service broadcasters.
www.nebriefing.org/open-letter-keir
#climatecrisis #netzero #NEB2025 #cop30
November 28, 2025 at 12:46 PM
‘Taking action is not a sacrifice, it’s not even a problem, taking action is the opportunity here’ @zackpolanski.bsky.social
Add your signature to the open letter to Keir Starmer and all public service broadcasters.
www.nebriefing.org/open-letter-keir
#climatecrisis #netzero #NEB2025 #cop30
Add your signature to the open letter to Keir Starmer and all public service broadcasters.
www.nebriefing.org/open-letter-keir
#climatecrisis #netzero #NEB2025 #cop30
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The UK Is Naming Roads After Birds It's Losing
New analysis from the RSPB reveals an ironic trend of new housing developments using names of some of the UK's most threatened birds.
www.rarebirdalert.co.uk/v2/Content/T...
New analysis from the RSPB reveals an ironic trend of new housing developments using names of some of the UK's most threatened birds.
www.rarebirdalert.co.uk/v2/Content/T...
The UK Is Naming Roads After Birds It's Losing
New analysis from the RSPB reveals an ironic trend of new housing developments using names of some of the UK's most threatened birds
www.rarebirdalert.co.uk
November 27, 2025 at 1:04 PM
The UK Is Naming Roads After Birds It's Losing
New analysis from the RSPB reveals an ironic trend of new housing developments using names of some of the UK's most threatened birds.
www.rarebirdalert.co.uk/v2/Content/T...
New analysis from the RSPB reveals an ironic trend of new housing developments using names of some of the UK's most threatened birds.
www.rarebirdalert.co.uk/v2/Content/T...
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Scientists warn of severe climate-related risks to UK economy and security
Scientists warn of severe climate-related risks to UK economy and security
Experts lay out scale of changes needed in ‘first-of-its-kind national emergency briefing’ in Westminster
www.theguardian.com
November 27, 2025 at 4:23 PM
Scientists warn of severe climate-related risks to UK economy and security
Trees Are So Weird
YouTube video by Kurzgesagt – In a Nutshell
www.youtube.com
November 26, 2025 at 11:04 PM
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For months, I analysed the campaigns funded through the Enjoy It’s from Europe programme.
What I found is striking: 1/3 of the campaigns promote exclusively meat and dairy and dozens of them present intensive livestock farming as environmentally friendly
Read my full investigation on @desmog.com
What I found is striking: 1/3 of the campaigns promote exclusively meat and dairy and dozens of them present intensive livestock farming as environmentally friendly
Read my full investigation on @desmog.com
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MEPs Call for Urgent Review of €1.5 Billion EU Food Scheme Pushing ‘Misleading’ Claims
📝 @lauravilladiego.bsky.social 👇
www.desmog.com/2025/11/25/m...
MEPs Call for Urgent Review of €1.5 Billion EU Food Scheme Pushing ‘Misleading’ Claims
📝 @lauravilladiego.bsky.social 👇
www.desmog.com/2025/11/25/m...
MEPs Call for Urgent Review of €1.5 Billion EU Food Scheme Pushing 'Misleading' Claims
EU taxpayers are funding a multi-year campaign blitz which frequently overstates the environmental benefits of eating meat and dairy while featuring bizarre and misleading claims. Since 2017, the Euro...
www.desmog.com
November 26, 2025 at 9:49 AM
For months, I analysed the campaigns funded through the Enjoy It’s from Europe programme.
What I found is striking: 1/3 of the campaigns promote exclusively meat and dairy and dozens of them present intensive livestock farming as environmentally friendly
Read my full investigation on @desmog.com
What I found is striking: 1/3 of the campaigns promote exclusively meat and dairy and dozens of them present intensive livestock farming as environmentally friendly
Read my full investigation on @desmog.com