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Tim Waterman @tim-waterman.co.uk · 1h

"Biodiversity loss is notoriously difficult to quantify. Even in Switzerland, a country with intense monitoring of nature, systematic measurements have only existed for about two decades." www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Century-old papers saved from the bin reveal changes in Europe’s plant life

Plant inventories dating back to 1884 and nearly thrown away enable unique time-lapse study of biodiversity in Swiss meadows

www.theguardian.com

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Jeremy Schmidt @jeremyjschmidt.bsky.social · 11h

How can we pursue nature-based solutions effectively and empirically?

We are launching a new MSc in Natural Capital and Sustainability. It runs across business, env. science, geography, and is in partnership with Kew Gardens!

Applications now open for 2026!
www.qmul.ac.uk/postgraduate...

Natural Capital and Sustainability MSc - Queen Mary University of London

www.qmul.ac.uk

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Jeremy Schmidt @jeremyjschmidt.bsky.social · 16h

I’m sure there are a few emails flying around at some of these universities right now

www.theguardian.com/education/20...

UK universities offered to monitor students’ social media for arms firms, emails show

Loughborough, Heriot-Watt and Glasgow corresponded with companies concerned about campus protests

www.theguardian.com

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Jeremy Schmidt @jeremyjschmidt.bsky.social · 9d

In case anybody teaching game theory is looking for an example of what contemporary freeriding looks like.

The Wall Street Journal @wsj.com · 9d

Exclusive: OpenAI is planning to release a new version of its Sora video generator, which creates videos featuring copyrighted material unless copyright holders opt out of having their work appear.

OpenAI’s New Sora Video Generator to Require Copyright Holders to Opt Out

Executives at the startup notified talent agencies and studios over the last week.

on.wsj.com

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Jeremy Schmidt @jeremyjschmidt.bsky.social · 10d

Just FYI, UK is now hot enough to grow rice

www-bbc-com.cdn.ampproject.org/c/s/www.bbc....

UK's first rice crop ripe for picking after hot summer - BBC News

Paddy fields are thriving in a quiet part of east England and might help feed us in the future.

www-bbc-com.cdn.ampproject.org

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Jeremy Schmidt @jeremyjschmidt.bsky.social · 10d

Just FYI, UK is now hot enough to grow rice

www-bbc-com.cdn.ampproject.org/c/s/www.bbc....

UK's first rice crop ripe for picking after hot summer - BBC News

Paddy fields are thriving in a quiet part of east England and might help feed us in the future.

www-bbc-com.cdn.ampproject.org

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Jeremy Schmidt @jeremyjschmidt.bsky.social · 15d

If you are still looking for that reading at the intersection of environment, health, extraction and disposession (with a dash of the digital)...

Geo: Geography and Environment @geoopenaccess.bsky.social · Jun 13

💻New in Geo!🛢️

'Minecraft's territory: Alberta's oil sands, settler knowledge infrastructure & digital geographies' by @jeremyjschmidt.bsky.social

This paper traces how the data used for a Minecraft extension are tied to broader extractive networks of knowledge production.

doi.org/10.1002/geo2...

A photograph showing the 3D print of the Minecraft model of Peace River - a cross section of the geological formation of this site in different shades of grey and white to show the layers beneath the surface of the earth.

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Ekin Kurtiç @ekinkurtic.bsky.social · 19d

A highly controversial new law in Turkey allows mining in olive groves, requiring tree transplantation.

My new open-access article in @politicalgeography.bsky.social explores the making of "movable nature"— salvage work that moves nature out of the way of infrastructure and extraction projects.

Salvage work: The making of movable nature for post-submergence life

This article critically examines environmental salvage projects undertaken in northeastern Turkey by focusing on political and technoscientific actors…

www.sciencedirect.com

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Jeremy Schmidt @jeremyjschmidt.bsky.social · 17d

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

A prudent planetary limit for geologic carbon storage - Nature

A risk-based, spatially explicit analysis of carbon storage in sedimentary basins establishes a prudent planetary limit of around 1,460 Gt of geological carbon storage, which requires making explicit ...

www.nature.com

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Surprised Eel Historian, PhD @greenleejw.bsky.social · 21d

Some food for thought: if you're reviewing a book & it has good, useful maps, say so in the review! And name the mapmaker if you can.

Often, folks writing books don't know where to go for good maps. Making mention of them in your review helps everyone.
#skystorians #midievalsky #historians

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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 26d

'Many of the living worlds in the ice and snow are not visible to the human eye. “You don’t expect a living organism on the ice,” Bamert says. But there is a rich ice-loving biotic community and surprising biodiversity that thrives in this frozen landscape.'

‘Like walking through time’: as glaciers retreat, new worlds are being created in their wake

As Swiss glaciers melt at an ever-faster rate, new species move in and flourish, but entire ecosystems and an alpine culture can be lost

www.theguardian.com

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Jeremy Schmidt @jeremyjschmidt.bsky.social · 29d

Saw my first humming hawk moth today, amazing!

Had been missing hummingbirds since moving to UK and was wowed by this moth!!

butterfly-conservation.org/moths/hummin...

Humming-bird Hawk-moth

butterfly-conservation.org

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Jeremy Schmidt @jeremyjschmidt.bsky.social · Sep 6

Two books for me; similarly hoping something breaks through the thieving

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Jeremy Schmidt @jeremyjschmidt.bsky.social · Sep 5

Yeah i doubt it now that >50% of the internet seems to be ai content or bots chattering with each other

Jeremy Schmidt @jeremyjschmidt.bsky.social · Sep 5

Is it just reporting on other substacks?

www.thehandbasket.co/p/substack-e...

Substack’s extremist ecosystem is flourishing

The app's recent swastika push alert was just the tip of the iceberg.

www.thehandbasket.co

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Jeremy Schmidt @jeremyjschmidt.bsky.social · Sep 5

I always just ask them where to send the invoice for my author/editor/editorial board fee.

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Dolly Jørgensen @dollyjorgensen.bsky.social · Sep 5

JOB: Assistant Professor of Environmental History with a Focus on Water in Human History, Texas State University (USA)
jobs.hr.txstate.edu/postings/53043
#envhist

Assistant Professor of Environmental History with a Focus on Water in Human History

The Department of History at Texas State University invites applications for a tenure-track Assistant Professor of environmental history with a focus on water in human history (regional and period spe...

jobs.hr.txstate.edu

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Dr. Genevieve Guenther (she/they) @doctorvive.bsky.social · Sep 3

I am so furious at all the scenario modelers and CDR promoters who promised that machines could afford us "climate restoration." These people should be shunned.

Techno-optimism is as dangerous to our children as outright climate denial.

Denial isn't driving EU and UK policy! But CDR BS totally is.

Grantham Institute - Climate Change and the Environment @granthamicl.bsky.social · Sep 3

⏬The result is that the temperature reductions possible through safe underground carbon storage is around 0.7°C, almost ten times lower than previous estimates (around 6°C).

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Joeri Rogelj @joerirogelj.bsky.social · Sep 3

If you want to know the details, read to open source @nature.com publication, led by @gidden.bsky.social online. /end
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

A prudent planetary limit for geologic carbon storage - Nature

A risk-based, spatially explicit analysis of carbon storage in sedimentary basins establishes a prudent planetary limit of around 1,460 Gt of geological carbon storage, which requires making explicit ...

www.nature.com

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Jeremy Schmidt @jeremyjschmidt.bsky.social · Sep 2

Thanks Jonny!

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Thea Riofrancos @triofrancos.bsky.social · Sep 2

‼️ EXTRACTION: The Frontiers of Green Capitalism will be out in the UK with Icon Books on 25 September ‼️

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Jeremy Schmidt @jeremyjschmidt.bsky.social · Sep 2

Thank you!

Jeremy Schmidt @jeremyjschmidt.bsky.social · Sep 2

In my quest to hold every possible academic title I’m very happy to now be Reader in Environmental Geography at QMUL!!

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Jeremy Schmidt @jeremyjschmidt.bsky.social · Sep 2

I was once drinking rusty nails with a very high ranking minister in CofE and he said to me there are just two kinds of people in the world: those who think the French revolution should have happened and those who don’t.

So maybe it’s just binary

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Arn Keeling @arnkeeling.bsky.social · Sep 2

It’s really real! Exciting to see The Price of Gold in print. Pre-order yours today! @mcgillqueensup.bsky.social

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