The hypocrisy is unbearable
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Just trying to be good to this beautiful Earth and its creatures.
I heartily believe George is correct and I'm seeing the problem he points to every day.
How many times do we need to point this out?
By appeasing the far right, you do not weaken it. You strengthen it.
While weakening your own position.
There's a vast amount of academic research showing this.
But Labour will not listen.
www.theguardian.com/law/2025/dec...
By appeasing the far right, you do not weaken it. You strengthen it.
While weakening your own position.
There's a vast amount of academic research showing this.
But Labour will not listen.
www.theguardian.com/law/2025/dec...
Starmer urges Europe’s leaders to curb ECHR to halt rise of far right
Exclusive: PM calls for members of European convention on human rights to allow tougher action to protect borders
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December 10, 2025 at 6:44 PM
I heartily believe George is correct and I'm seeing the problem he points to every day.
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October 2025 was the warmest October on record for the #Arctic. Arctic sea-ice extent is currently the lowest on record for late November. My newest 'climate viz of the month' summarizes some of this latest data: zacklabe.com/climate-viz-...
#ClimateChange #SciComm #OpenScience #OpenData #DataViz
#ClimateChange #SciComm #OpenScience #OpenData #DataViz
Climate Viz of the Month
October 2025 Hi everyone! Instead of designing a new special feature visualization, this next ‘climate viz of the month’ blog will focus on briefly summarizing the recent extremes in th…
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November 29, 2025 at 8:42 PM
October 2025 was the warmest October on record for the #Arctic. Arctic sea-ice extent is currently the lowest on record for late November. My newest 'climate viz of the month' summarizes some of this latest data: zacklabe.com/climate-viz-...
#ClimateChange #SciComm #OpenScience #OpenData #DataViz
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Keep this in mind when people claim cars mean business — closing Central #Madrid to cars over holidays resulted in a 9.5% boost in retail spending on its main shopping street: STUDY.
There was also a 71% drop in air pollution.
Via @carltonreid.com in @forbes.com. #citymakingmath #citiesforpeople
There was also a 71% drop in air pollution.
Via @carltonreid.com in @forbes.com. #citymakingmath #citiesforpeople
Closing Central Madrid To Cars Resulted In 9.5% Boost To Retail Spending, Finds Bank Analysis
City of Madrid significantly boosted the takings of its shops and restaurants last Christmas by banning cars from the CBD, finds an analysis by Spain's second largest bank.
www.forbes.com
November 20, 2025 at 6:21 AM
Keep this in mind when people claim cars mean business — closing Central #Madrid to cars over holidays resulted in a 9.5% boost in retail spending on its main shopping street: STUDY.
There was also a 71% drop in air pollution.
Via @carltonreid.com in @forbes.com. #citymakingmath #citiesforpeople
There was also a 71% drop in air pollution.
Via @carltonreid.com in @forbes.com. #citymakingmath #citiesforpeople
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By some estimates, species are vanishing at up to a thousand times the natural background rate. Yet a new study in Proceedings of the Royal Society B suggests the picture is more complex. Extinctions may have peaked a century ago—and declined since.
By some estimates, species are vanishing at up to a thousand times the natural background rate. Yet a new study in Proceedings of the Royal Society B suggests the picture is more complex. Extinctions may have peaked a century ago—and declined since.
A slowdown, not salvation: what new extinction data reveal about the state of life on Earth
For decades, biologists have warned that humanity is precipitating a sixth mass extinction. By some estimates, species are vanishing at up to a thousand times the natural background rate. Yet a new…
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November 18, 2025 at 9:01 PM
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By some estimates, species are vanishing at up to a thousand times the natural background rate. Yet a new study in Proceedings of the Royal Society B suggests the picture is more complex. Extinctions may have peaked a century ago—and declined since.
By some estimates, species are vanishing at up to a thousand times the natural background rate. Yet a new study in Proceedings of the Royal Society B suggests the picture is more complex. Extinctions may have peaked a century ago—and declined since.
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Preparing to teach I Live in Fear tomorrow by watching this 1956 documentary about the hibakusha (survivors of the bomb). I highly recommend it. It's beautiful and disturbing. Wish I could watch The World is Terrified: The Reality of the “Ashes of Death” (1957) too, but unfortunately I can't find it
October 29, 2025 at 10:37 PM
Preparing to teach I Live in Fear tomorrow by watching this 1956 documentary about the hibakusha (survivors of the bomb). I highly recommend it. It's beautiful and disturbing. Wish I could watch The World is Terrified: The Reality of the “Ashes of Death” (1957) too, but unfortunately I can't find it
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If you've been wondering how to tell ring-tailed lemurs apart, Duke Lemur Center has a very wonderful graph mapping individual variations based on ear angle and pointiness
Pointiness range is Round to Elf
Angle range is Cat (straight up) to Airplane (side-to-side)
lemur.duke.edu/catta-ears/ 🧪
Pointiness range is Round to Elf
Angle range is Cat (straight up) to Airplane (side-to-side)
lemur.duke.edu/catta-ears/ 🧪
October 26, 2025 at 7:21 PM
If you've been wondering how to tell ring-tailed lemurs apart, Duke Lemur Center has a very wonderful graph mapping individual variations based on ear angle and pointiness
Pointiness range is Round to Elf
Angle range is Cat (straight up) to Airplane (side-to-side)
lemur.duke.edu/catta-ears/ 🧪
Pointiness range is Round to Elf
Angle range is Cat (straight up) to Airplane (side-to-side)
lemur.duke.edu/catta-ears/ 🧪
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Universities across the world seeing this:
"its only wrong 45% of the time!!
Lets buy free licenses for our students, staff and faculty!!
Lets lock into contracts with rapacious predatory AI companies with shitty technofascist politics, sucking up water and jacking up electricity prices!!"
"its only wrong 45% of the time!!
Lets buy free licenses for our students, staff and faculty!!
Lets lock into contracts with rapacious predatory AI companies with shitty technofascist politics, sucking up water and jacking up electricity prices!!"
October 23, 2025 at 1:19 PM
Universities across the world seeing this:
"its only wrong 45% of the time!!
Lets buy free licenses for our students, staff and faculty!!
Lets lock into contracts with rapacious predatory AI companies with shitty technofascist politics, sucking up water and jacking up electricity prices!!"
"its only wrong 45% of the time!!
Lets buy free licenses for our students, staff and faculty!!
Lets lock into contracts with rapacious predatory AI companies with shitty technofascist politics, sucking up water and jacking up electricity prices!!"
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Here's a fabulous arachnid for the feed tonight, a Giant Velvet Mite. Their bright colors appear to be aposematic, warning potential predators of their unpleasant taste and smell.
(Dinothrombium sp.) Portal, AZ 2025 #Arachtober
(Dinothrombium sp.) Portal, AZ 2025 #Arachtober
October 20, 2025 at 2:07 AM
Here's a fabulous arachnid for the feed tonight, a Giant Velvet Mite. Their bright colors appear to be aposematic, warning potential predators of their unpleasant taste and smell.
(Dinothrombium sp.) Portal, AZ 2025 #Arachtober
(Dinothrombium sp.) Portal, AZ 2025 #Arachtober
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To mark #WorldAnimalDay today, be sure to read Sue Donaldson & Will Kymlicka’s thought-provoking 2023 article “Doing Politics with Animals.”
muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/a...
#animalrights #loveanimals 🦑 🦈 🦗 🦩 🐘
muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/a...
#animalrights #loveanimals 🦑 🦈 🦗 🦩 🐘
October 4, 2025 at 1:06 PM
To mark #WorldAnimalDay today, be sure to read Sue Donaldson & Will Kymlicka’s thought-provoking 2023 article “Doing Politics with Animals.”
muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/a...
#animalrights #loveanimals 🦑 🦈 🦗 🦩 🐘
muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/a...
#animalrights #loveanimals 🦑 🦈 🦗 🦩 🐘
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"Swiss glaciers have shrunk by a quarter since 2015, study say."
All the latest global #climatechange news here:
climateandeconomy.com/2025/10/02/2...
All the latest global #climatechange news here:
climateandeconomy.com/2025/10/02/2...
2nd October 2025 Today's Round-Up of Climate News • Climate and Economy
Many thanks to my October donor, Cassandra, who suggests this month listening daily to Adagio for Strings (one of the west’s most famous concert pieces) while you read the C & E posts: https://www.you...
climateandeconomy.com
October 2, 2025 at 9:39 AM
"Swiss glaciers have shrunk by a quarter since 2015, study say."
All the latest global #climatechange news here:
climateandeconomy.com/2025/10/02/2...
All the latest global #climatechange news here:
climateandeconomy.com/2025/10/02/2...
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Breaking | Greg Stoker reports Thirty-two vessels of the Global Sumud Flotilla continue their mission toward Gaza regardless of Israeli threats, with an estimated 9 to 12 hours remaining until they reach the Strip.
October 1, 2025 at 10:17 PM
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This is why we fund scientists to study things like oyster slobber even if you don’t think it sounds important
⚠️ Chinese researchers have invented bone glue that mimics how oysters stick to surfaces underwater.
The adhesive can reportedly repair orthopedic fractures in 2-3 minutes, even in blood-rich environments, and is bioabsorbable.
interestingengineering.com/science/chin...
The adhesive can reportedly repair orthopedic fractures in 2-3 minutes, even in blood-rich environments, and is bioabsorbable.
interestingengineering.com/science/chin...
China's oyster-inspired 'bone glue' bonds fractures in minutes
A new oyster-inspired Bone-02 adhesive can revolutionize bone repair without metal fasteners.
interestingengineering.com
September 30, 2025 at 10:35 PM
This is why we fund scientists to study things like oyster slobber even if you don’t think it sounds important
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🌡️EXCEPTIONAL OCTOBER HEAT
Thousands of records will fall allover the Northern Hemisphere in which will be one of the most record breaking weeks in the Hemisphere history.
High Minimums records will exceed those of Tmaxes by 3/4x times
Click on the description for all details👇
Thousands of records will fall allover the Northern Hemisphere in which will be one of the most record breaking weeks in the Hemisphere history.
High Minimums records will exceed those of Tmaxes by 3/4x times
Click on the description for all details👇
September 28, 2025 at 5:08 PM
🌡️EXCEPTIONAL OCTOBER HEAT
Thousands of records will fall allover the Northern Hemisphere in which will be one of the most record breaking weeks in the Hemisphere history.
High Minimums records will exceed those of Tmaxes by 3/4x times
Click on the description for all details👇
Thousands of records will fall allover the Northern Hemisphere in which will be one of the most record breaking weeks in the Hemisphere history.
High Minimums records will exceed those of Tmaxes by 3/4x times
Click on the description for all details👇
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A small community of Common Limpets (Patella vulgata) have selected this particular rock as their resting spot during lowtide. Once the tide returns they'll head off looking for food.
County Clare, Ireland.
County Clare, Ireland.
September 28, 2025 at 11:12 AM
A small community of Common Limpets (Patella vulgata) have selected this particular rock as their resting spot during lowtide. Once the tide returns they'll head off looking for food.
County Clare, Ireland.
County Clare, Ireland.
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A tangle of Keelworm (Spirobranchus triqueter) casings. These are the protective calcareous tubes that Keelworms build and inhabit on rocky or hard surfaces. These ones have been abandoned and knocked loose from whatever surface they were once attached to.
County Donegal, Ireland.
County Donegal, Ireland.
September 28, 2025 at 11:27 AM
A tangle of Keelworm (Spirobranchus triqueter) casings. These are the protective calcareous tubes that Keelworms build and inhabit on rocky or hard surfaces. These ones have been abandoned and knocked loose from whatever surface they were once attached to.
County Donegal, Ireland.
County Donegal, Ireland.
I genuinely don't know what I think until I can write it down. That's how important the process is.
What is literally the point of putting something like that out as the basis of scholarly analysis?
The first thing I learned about academic writing is that everything that's on the page has to take a detour through your mind. You're in charge of making sense of it. That's the thing. That's the job.
The first thing I learned about academic writing is that everything that's on the page has to take a detour through your mind. You're in charge of making sense of it. That's the thing. That's the job.
September 19, 2025 at 6:27 PM
I genuinely don't know what I think until I can write it down. That's how important the process is.
Cowardice is a thing that enables genocide. Shame on you, #WLU. actionnetwork.org/letters/wilf...
Wilfrid Laurier University cancels talk on Canada and the Genocide in Gaza
Late in the afternoon on Thursday, September 18th, Wilfrid Laurier University (WLU) abruptly cancelled the room booking for a talk on Canada and the Genocide in Gaza, planned for September 19th. The s...
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September 19, 2025 at 3:41 PM
Cowardice is a thing that enables genocide. Shame on you, #WLU. actionnetwork.org/letters/wilf...
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Feels like the world is burning so time for weird jellyfish facts 🧵
September 13, 2025 at 12:22 AM
Feels like the world is burning so time for weird jellyfish facts 🧵
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The proverbial canary in the coalmine for the whole planet. And we are, collectively, doing fuck all.
*Another* piece of research showing declines in other areas of low human impact. “ insect populations... declined by an average 6.6% annually — a 72.4% drop over the 20-year period.” www.npr.org/2025/09/12/n...
Insect populations drop even without direct human interference, a new study finds
Research published this month found that even in pristine, untouched areas, insect populations are still on the decline. Climate change is a likely culprit.
www.npr.org
September 13, 2025 at 5:49 PM
The proverbial canary in the coalmine for the whole planet. And we are, collectively, doing fuck all.
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There is mounting evidence that indicates that Long COVID is a complex condition that continues to affect the health of millions of people worldwide. Browse this collection of Long COVID research from Communications Medicine. #medsky 🧪
Post COVID-19 condition/Long COVID
This Collection welcomes submissions of primary research with a focus on all aspects of post COVID-19 condition and its direct or indirect implications for ...
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September 12, 2025 at 1:11 AM
There is mounting evidence that indicates that Long COVID is a complex condition that continues to affect the health of millions of people worldwide. Browse this collection of Long COVID research from Communications Medicine. #medsky 🧪
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For more than a decade, professor of forest hydrology Younes Alila’s research showed how B.C.’s land management choices can amplify floods and landslides.
He published in peer-reviewed journals, warned officials and spoke to anyone willing to listen.
Few did.
He published in peer-reviewed journals, warned officials and spoke to anyone willing to listen.
Few did.
Floods, Fires, Forests. For Younes Alila, It All Connects | The Tyee
Meet the UBC forestry prof whose path-breaking work links disasters to how BC manages forests.
thetyee.ca
September 8, 2025 at 2:37 PM
For more than a decade, professor of forest hydrology Younes Alila’s research showed how B.C.’s land management choices can amplify floods and landslides.
He published in peer-reviewed journals, warned officials and spoke to anyone willing to listen.
Few did.
He published in peer-reviewed journals, warned officials and spoke to anyone willing to listen.
Few did.
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Kinross Gold wants to dump inadequately treated industrial wastewater upstream of Grassy Narrows.
Speak out before Ontario makes its decision.
Take action with 1 click: leadnow.ca/campaigns/re...
#FreeGrassy #GrassyNarrows
Speak out before Ontario makes its decision.
Take action with 1 click: leadnow.ca/campaigns/re...
#FreeGrassy #GrassyNarrows
Protect Grassy Narrows: Reject Kinross Gold's Mine - Leadnow
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August 20, 2025 at 1:41 PM
Kinross Gold wants to dump inadequately treated industrial wastewater upstream of Grassy Narrows.
Speak out before Ontario makes its decision.
Take action with 1 click: leadnow.ca/campaigns/re...
#FreeGrassy #GrassyNarrows
Speak out before Ontario makes its decision.
Take action with 1 click: leadnow.ca/campaigns/re...
#FreeGrassy #GrassyNarrows
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August 19, 2025 at 3:28 PM
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