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Professor Euan Ritchie @euanritchie.bsky.social · 6d

A lovely story about Dr Jane Goodall's career & legacy, from Rachel Fieldhouse & Mohana Basu, in @nature.com www.nature.com/articles/d41.... Includes some comments from me about how researchers _can also_ be advocates and science communicators, and still be taken seriously (I hope)!

Vale, Jane.

Jane Goodall’s legacy: three ways she changed science

The primatologist challenged what it meant to be a scientist.

www.nature.com

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Edward Robinson @ejcrobinson.bsky.social · 8d

"To appreciate the Paris agreement’s effectiveness, consider that renewables comprised 92.5% of all new installed electricity capacity in 2024." The optimistic voice of Jennifer Morgan here, via @projectsyndicate.bsky.social prosyn.org/7NKPPvc

Clean Energy Is Inevitable Despite Trump

Jennifer Morgan touts the progress made in the Paris climate agreement's first decade, but also highlights unfinished work.

prosyn.org

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Edward Robinson @ejcrobinson.bsky.social · 9d

Priyanka Kumar's new book "The Light Between Apple Trees" explains how Americans became hooked on a cartoon version of the apple and how this endangers them. You can read an edited extract on @landclimate.bsky.social. It's out now from @islandpress.bsky.social
www.landclimate.org/seeds-of-ind...

Seeds of industrialisation: how the soul of the apple got lost - Land and Climate Review

An overreliance on pesticides and a disconnect from the land has dampened the mythology of America’s most iconic fruit, says Priyanka Kumar.

www.landclimate.org

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Debbie Gale Mitchell @heydebigale.bsky.social · 23d

Nonfiction science new releases for September, 2025!

Which of these books are you adding to your TBR?

I am adding GHOSTED, BLUEPRINTS, and DANGEROUS MIRACLE to my TBR.

#nonfiction #booksky #science 🧪 #sciencebooks #womeninscience #nonfictionscience
⚛️🎢🌱🦜📚

A maroon-colored slide with the text "nonfiction science new releases September, 2025" along the top with a structure of morphine at the top right corner. 20 book covers are lined up in rows below the title:

AN INCONVENIENCE OF PENGUINS by Jamie Lafferty
BLUEPRINTS by Marcus Du Sautoy
THE LIGHT BETWEEN APPLE TREES by Priyanka Kumar
SUPER NATURAL by Alex Riley
DANGEROUS MIRACLE by Liam Shaw
REPLACEBLE YOU by Mary Roach
THIS IS FOR EVERYONE by Tim Berners-Lee
AGAINST THE MACHINE by Paul Kingsnorth
BIRD SCHOOL by Adam Nicolson
THE GENIUS OF TREES by Harriet Rix
UNDERSTORY by Kevin Van Tighem
THE PHYSICS OF SUPERHEROES by James Kakkalios
THE BIOLOGY OF TRAUMA by Aimie Apigian
GHOSTED by Alice Vernon
SURVIVING THE 21st Century by Noam Chomsky and Jose Mujica.
THE SHAPE OF WONDER by Alan Lightman and Martin Rees
SCIENCE UNDER SIEGE by Michael E Mann and Peter J Hotez
GHOSTS OF THE FARM by Nicola Chester
THE MAN WHO LOST HIS HEAD by Douwe Draaisma
THE BIG ONE by Michael T Osterholm and Mark Olshaker

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Prof Bill McGuire @profbillmcguire.bsky.social · 11d

"Today, we clear a soccer field’s worth of tropical forest every six seconds, a loss dramatically worsened by humanity’s growing hunger for meat"

Wean ourselves off meat now, or the switch to a Pliocene climate that's locked in will do it for us

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Meat is a leading emissions source – but few outlets report on it, analysis finds

Sentient Media reveals less than 4% of climate news stories mention animal agriculture as source of carbon emissions

www.theguardian.com

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Ellie Mae O'Hagan @elliemaeohagan.bsky.social · 17d

This article is more optimistic than the headline suggests. I think it is actually about the West's decision to hand the future economy to China and the East. The speed of the energy transition in China is good for the world and, geopolitically, bad for the West as it inexplicably relegates itself

Wolfgang Blau @wblau.bsky.social · 17d

On China and clean energy tech: “For the first time in two centuries, the West is no longer the leader in future technology but the follower”
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/16/m...

It Isn’t Just the U.S. The Whole World Has Soured on Climate Politics.

www.nytimes.com

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Edward Robinson @ejcrobinson.bsky.social · 17d

It's way too late and much too little, of course, but I wonder if it's the first sign of Labour creaking into gear to respond to your victory. If so, that is a pretty big immediate impact.

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Edward Robinson @ejcrobinson.bsky.social · 29d

As far as I can tell, @zackpolanski.bsky.social is one of the bravest people in the country at the moment. The more Labour and the Tory press attack him, the more the vast majority of decent Britain will tune in to his positive message. Fear may be contagious but so is courage!

Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · Sep 9

The Prime Minister can call me names - “plastic progressive”? (Nope, me neither!)

Meanwhile, I’m travelling across England and Wales, meeting people fired up and ready for change.

We’re going to turn this country around – and no one gets left behind.

Zack with a big crowd of Green Party members and supporters holding signs.

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Edward Robinson @ejcrobinson.bsky.social · Aug 2

Really looking forward to this! Well done @jsmillinstitute.bsky.social for bringing back the Liberal summer schools and keeping them open to people of all political colours. There's a lot to discuss!

Ben Wood /|\🔶️🌿✝️ @cosmichope.bsky.social · Aug 2

Lovely to have you with us @stuartgwhite.bsky.social. 👍✊️

John Stuart Mill Institute @jsmillinstitute.bsky.social · Aug 2

The JSMI is thrilled to welcome Dr Stuart White, Associate Professor of Politics at the University of Oxford, to our Summer School (11-13 August). Stuart will be reflecting on the policies we need to truly democratise work and capital. Sign up to the Summer School below: share.google/xpKKYKL0Aqmw...

Edward Robinson @ejcrobinson.bsky.social · Jul 24

Ah, the good old not winning any elections trick eh!

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UN Environment Programme @unep.org · Jul 24

24 July is #EarthOvershootDay. That means humanity has used up Earth’s yearly natural resources budget in just 7 months. In 2024, the date was 1 August.

The date keeps creeping earlier—but the trend can be reversed: www.genevaenvironmentnetwork.org/resources/up...

This image illustrates Earth Overshoot Day using a visual metaphor: planet Earth hanging a “SORRY WE’RE CLOSED” sign in space. The message below reads, “We have exceeded our natural resource budget for 2025,” emphasizing the urgent need to live within ecological limits.

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Edward Robinson @ejcrobinson.bsky.social · Jul 21

I would also highly recommend this superb review of Steyerl's ideas about image-making by @nguyenterry.bsky.social in @artreview.bsky.social. artreview.com/hito-steyerl...

Hito Steyerl’s ‘Medium Hot’: The Age of Slop

Steyerl challenges us to recognise the vast scale of AI’s ubiquity and also to realise its ‘artificial stupidity’

artreview.com

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Edward Robinson @ejcrobinson.bsky.social · Jul 21

This is from a new collection of Hito Steyerl's essays, from @versobooks.bsky.social which (among many other things) considers the political economy of AI and its links to climate change and fossil fuels: www.landclimate.org/crypto-and-a...

Crypto and AI exploit conflict zones and fossil fuels - with destructive consequences - Land and Climate Review

Cryptocurrencies and AI rely on political stability, refugee camp workers and electricity blackouts, says Hito Steyerl, in an excerpt from her new book.

www.landclimate.org

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Edward Robinson @ejcrobinson.bsky.social · Jul 21

"Interviews with Kurdish microworkers in northern Iraq revealed that many of them still lived in refugee camps, ten years after being displaced by different stages of the Syrian war. Their work consisted in tagging images, mainly for self-driving car systems."

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Edward Robinson @ejcrobinson.bsky.social · Jul 21

Useful, thoughtful, I shall read again. Echos of Gilbert Ryle.

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Edward Robinson @ejcrobinson.bsky.social · Jul 21

If you're worried about the #climate and #nature emergencies and looking for the perfect (UK-focused) climate adaptation and resilience newsletter, check out this one, which I'm helping to edit. It's free on Substack: open.substack.com/pub/adaptati...

Climate Adaptation UK: Summer 2025

Welcome to the May/June/July edition of our Climate Adaptation newsletter. Hope you have your cup of (iced) tea ready, because it’s a monster. Edited by Mirte Boot.

open.substack.com

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Land and Climate Review @landclimate.bsky.social · Jul 18

This week on the Land and Climate Podcast, @alimacewen.bsky.social‬ interviewed @simonclimate.bsky.social‬ from ‪@tyndallcentre.bsky.social‬ about the International Maritime Organisation's new penalties for shipping emissions.

Click below to listen:

www.landclimate.org/...

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Edward Robinson @ejcrobinson.bsky.social · Jul 16

Oh this is just unspeakably ridiculous. Starmer was even part of a coup against a Labour leader in 2016 and didn't lose the whip at the time (as he shouldn't have). These are decent and popular Labour MPs. Is this possibly the most paranoid whips office of recent times?

Jessica Elgot @jessicaelgot.bsky.social · Jul 16

Four whip suspensions -

- Rachael Maskell
- Brian Leishman
- Neil Duncan Jordan
- Chris Hinchliff

Three others are removed as trade envoys

- Rosena Allin Khan
- Mohammed Yasin
- Bell Ribeiro-Addy

Jessica Elgot @jessicaelgot.bsky.social · Jul 16

Sources confirm that Labour suspending at least three MPs - others could follow and some expected to get warnings.

They are three new MPs - Neil Duncan Jordan who spoke out first against winter fuel, Chris Hinchliff who led rebellion on planning and Brian Leishman.

Possible there could be more

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Edward Robinson @ejcrobinson.bsky.social · Jul 15

The problem with all these spreadsheet snapshots of fiscal sustainability is that, while they are correct within their method, they take no account of real features of the economy. How is rent seeking affecting incomes and also gov spending? Inflation's impact on past debt? The ownership of gilts?

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Edward Robinson @ejcrobinson.bsky.social · Jul 14

Great to see this report out. Looking forward to getting stuck in and very sorry to be missing today's event.

Green Alliance @green-alliance.org.uk · Jul 11

🌡️☔ New report | The UK isn't prepared for the impacts of climate change, and they're already here.

Nearly 3k deaths from excess heat in 2022. £2.4bn annual flooding costs. 6m homes at flood risk.

Yet 2/3 of #adaptation actions are inadequate for the scale of the challenge.

🔗 buff.ly/v9yl5ln

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Adapt to thrive: preparing the UK for climate change

In this report, we show that the UK is underprepared for the impacts of climate change and outline a roadmap to an adapted and more resilient future.

buff.ly

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Edward Robinson @ejcrobinson.bsky.social · Jul 14

Just seen this important film. Credit to @ejfoundation.org for making it and for continuing to campaign and educate in the area of unsustainable fishing. Well worth a watch!

Environmental Justice Foundation @ejfoundation.org · Jul 3

Fishing is critical to coastal communities in Senegal. Not only is it a vital source of food, but it has also been the main livelihood of many families for generations.

Our film follows Abdou, a migrant to Tenerife who comes from a fishing family in Senegal 🎥

Adrift: Senegal’s coastal crisis and the deadly route to Europe

YouTube video by Environmental Justice Foundation

www.youtube.com

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Edward Robinson @ejcrobinson.bsky.social · Jun 9

How did we lose the farmers? @felixschulz.bsky.social has some answers on our latest podcast 👇👇

Land and Climate Review @landclimate.bsky.social · Jun 6

This week on the Land and Climate Podcast @alimacewen.bsky.social‬ speaks with Felix Schulz about his new research, which examines the divergence in core values between the global north and south.

Click below to listen:

www.landclimate.org/...

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Covering Climate Now @coveringclimatenow.org · Jun 7

Join CCNow and @soljourno.bsky.social on Tuesday, June 10, for a webinar that will help you cover climate movements thoughtfully and fairly. You’ll get to learn from journalists who have decades of experience covering climate change and movements to address it. ⁠https://buff.ly/JJDgkwI

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Edward Robinson @ejcrobinson.bsky.social · May 28

It's back!

Renewal @renewaljournal.bsky.social · May 28

Subscribe here to get your copy: renewal.org.uk

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Edward Robinson @ejcrobinson.bsky.social · May 28

I have to say (remembering the fate of medium etc) that I have long worried about this. Oh for some sort of community-owned social media platform! The eternal problem with media ownership!

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