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Dr. Damien P. Williams Wants A Better Sociotechnical Paradigm @wolvendamien.bsky.social · 3d
Preliminary results show that the current framework of "AI" makes ppl less likely to help or seek help from other humans, or to seek to soothe conflict, and that people actively prefer that framework to any others, literally serving to make them more dependent on it.
Sycophantic AI Decreases Prosocial Intentions and Promotes Dependence
Both the general public and academic communities have raised concerns about sycophancy, the phenomenon of artificial intelligence (AI) excessively agreeing with or flattering users. Yet, beyond isolat...
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Dr Jo Swabe @joswabe.bsky.social · 1d
355 MEPs voted today to ban the use of meat denominations like burger & sausage for plant-based products.

This is a manufactured issue. Consumers are not confused.

If there was ever clearer evidence of political decision-making being heavily influenced by the animal agriculture lobby. This is it.
Voting results amendment on meat denominations https://www.europarl.europa.eu/doceo/document/PV-10-2025-10-08-RCV_FR.pdf Voting results amendment on meat denominations https://www.europarl.europa.eu/doceo/document/PV-10-2025-10-08-RCV_FR.pdf
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Dr. Genevieve Guenther (she/they) @doctorvive.bsky.social · 4d
Until people in the climate movement very publicly stop eating meat and flying, we're not going to seem trustworthy.

I will die on this hill.
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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 4d
Meat is a blind spot for people who care about climate. When I used to have dinner with my colleague Wally Broecker, the climate scientist who coined the term “global warming”, he would always order a steak.
The climate movement’s biggest weakness
What the climate movement is getting dead wrong.
www.vox.com
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Glen Peters @glenpeters.bsky.social · 7d
We finally have a new paper out looking at how summary statistics from the AR6 scenario database are highly dependent on the sampling of the database.

High profile statistics are often more representative of the model fingerprint, not the physics.

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

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Two curves show how the median is different depending on the scenario.
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Dr. Jonathan Foley @globalecoguy.bsky.social · 8d
Direct air capture (DAC) continues to be small, slow, and very expensive.

Not because it’s an early stage technology, but because it runs into fundamental thermodynamic challenges that money can’t solve.

This is exactly why it’s not recommended by Project Drawdown.

www.ft.com/content/fa4c...
Direct carbon capture falters as developers’ costs fail to budge
Some experts say the technology is crucial for climate change goals but scaling up is proving hard
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Petter Holme @pholme.bsky.social · 9d
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Less is more
In this blog post, I will explore why network science is mostly a science of large networks and argue that studying small networks can be just as rewarding and challenging as studying large ones. I…
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Petter Holme @pholme.bsky.social · 9d
arXiv alert! 📄🚨
Robustness of small networks
arxiv.org/abs/2509.23670
Great to dust off one of my favorite topics and get to collaborate with the legendary
@aliceschwarze.bsky.social and Peter Mucha
Robustness of 'small' networks
Modeling how networks change under structural perturbations can yield foundational insights into network robustness, which is critical in many real-world applications. The largest connected component ...
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Manlio De Domenico @manlius.bsky.social · 8d
🚨 Thrilled to release the official repository of the @comunelab.bsky.social!

It centralizes access to decade-long research outputs, including 57 data sets and 22 code libraries.

A titanic effort: 28,000 lines of code

We hope to accelerate #openScience in #ComplexSystems

👉 github.com/CoMuNeLab
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JVG 骨 @jasonv.bsky.social · 9d
Absolute all-timer sentence in today's @nytimes.com
"some legal experts have called it a crime to summarily execute civilians" says today's New York Times, continuing their long tradition of whitewashing fascism
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Stockholm Resilience Centre @sthlmresilience.bsky.social · 12d
📢 Launch alert!

The new EAT-Lancet report will be launched on 3 October, featuring insights from five of our Centre researchers.✨

Until then, revisit the first report: eatforum.org/eat-lancet-c...
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Annie Leymarie @annieleymarie.bsky.social · 9d
Easiest of all: make your next meal plant-based (and the next ones...)
It will likely improve your health and save you money - whilst being, for most people in the Global North (other than frequent flyers) the individual action with the biggest impact www.openaccessgovernment.org/sustainable-...
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Bracknell Forest Community Climate Action @bfcca2025.bsky.social · 16d
Golf courses take up more land than solar farms.
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Alexander Doria @dorialexander.bsky.social · 12d
And new paper out: Pleias 1.0: the First Family of Language Models Trained on Fully Open Data

How we train an open everything model on a new pretraining environment with releasable data (Common Corpus) with an open source framework (Nanotron from HuggingFace).

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Peter Stott @stottpeter.bsky.social · 15d
The people I work with are not stupid people and our climate predictions of 30 years ago of global warming have proved to be accurate. Just saying. www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cp...
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Climate Analytics @climateanalytics.org · 17d
NEW #ProductionGap report out today!

@neilgrant.bsky.social told @theguardian.com “So far, renewable energy growth has been an addition alongside fossil fuel demand, and we haven’t seen peak demand. But given the pace of change in the energy system that could change quite significantly."
Nations’ plans to ramp up coal, gas and oil extraction ‘will put climate goals beyond reach’
New data shows governments now planning more fossil fuel production in coming decades than they were in 2023
www.theguardian.com
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Lenore Taylor @lenoret.bsky.social · 21d
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
In the days after my mum died, a blackbird lingered like a messenger of solace | Mark Saunokonoko
Some Māori believe that when they die, their spirit travels up New Zealand to the tip of the North Island – souls flying like birds
www.theguardian.com
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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 24d
1. What does a Cold War-era game theory problem known as the silent duel have to do with high-risk research strategies, publication in Cell/Nature/Science glamor journals, and the academic job market?

Kevin Gross and I tackle these questions in our latest arXiv preprint: arxiv.org/abs/2509.06718
How competition propels scientific risk-taking Kevin Gross∗ Department of Statistics North Carolina State University Raleigh, NC USA Carl T. Bergstrom† Department of Biology University of Washington Seattle, WA USA (Dated: September 9, 2025) In science as elsewhere, attention is a limited resource and scientists compete with one another to produce the most exciting, novel and impactful results. We develop a game-theoretic model to explore how such competition influences the degree of risk that scientists are willing to embrace in their research endeavors. We find that competition for scarce resources—for example, publications in elite journals, prestigious prizes, and faculty jobs—motivates scientific risk-taking and may be important in counterbalancing other incentives that favor cautious, incremental science. Even small amounts of competition induce substantial risk-taking. Moreover, we find that in an “opt-in” contest, increasing the stakes induces increased participation—which crowds the contest and further impels entrants to pursue higher-risk, higher-return investigations. The model also illuminates a source of tension in academic training and collaboration. Researchers at different career stages differ in their need to amass accomplishments that distinguish them from their peers, and therefore may not agree on what degree of risk to accept.
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the Juice Media @thejuicemedia.com · 26d
The Israeli Government has made an ad about the Global Sumud Flotilla headed for Gaza, and it's surprsingly honest and informative.
Honest Government Ad | Global Sumud Flotilla
YouTube video by thejuicemedia
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Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ @olivia.science · 27d
"We are told that AI is inevitable, that we must adapt or be left behind. But universities are not tech companies. Our role is to foster critical thinking, not to follow industry trends uncritically." www.ru.nl/en/research/...
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Adam Sharp @adamcsharp.bsky.social · 27d
My seven favourite ways to wish someone good luck…

7. Break a leg (English)
6. Break your neck (Czech)
5. Break your neck and leg (German)
4. May your fishing be shitty (Norwegian)
3. May you get neither fluff nor feather (Russian)
2. May God not spare you (Irish)
1. Into the whale’s ass (Italian)
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LaurieWired @lauriewired.bsky.social · 29d
This C code is disgusting. But also really, really clever.

This contest (IOCCC) has been breaking minds since 1984.

Time to find out:
- Can gov-grade tools defeat unreadable code?
- Hiding Salmon in Unicode is not very effective
- Why did I just get Rickrolled?
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Jan Dutkiewicz @jandutkiewicz.bsky.social · 28d
Scientists: We need to reduce meat consumption to keep food production within planetary limits.

EU consumers: We like alt protein and know what's meat and what isn't since it's obvious.

EU politicians: Let's legislate language to protect the meat industry.

www.foodnavigator.com/Article/2025...
‘Meaty’ names ban: One step closer after key Parliament vote
The ban on 'meaty' names, such as "burger" and "steak", for meat alternatives, is one step closer to fruition after winning a vote by the European Parliament's Committee on Agriculture and Rural Devel...
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Annie Leymarie @annieleymarie.bsky.social · 29d
The article doesn't mention that water from the Seine is also used in summer to cool > 800 Paris buildings (including Le Louvre) - a more ecofriendly system than standard air con (supposedly this doesn't harm the river ecosystem...): www.wired.com/story/people... and, in French: shorturl.at/dckTS
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Dr Charlie Gardner @charliejgardner.bsky.social · 29d
Recent research shows that the potential of both carbon capture & storage and ecosystem restoration to mitigate climate change have been greatly over-estimated

It is not going to be possible to suck all that carbon out of the sky once it's up there

We have onlu one option: stop burning stuff
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Dr. Jonathan Foley @globalecoguy.bsky.social · 29d
I am SO EXCITED about this!

Many folks want to take personal action on climate change, but many resources treat people like monoliths.

Enter SHIFT -- a collaboration between Dr. Kim Nicholas and Project Drawdown -- that tailors advice for YOU, using your climate superpowers.

jointheshift.earth
SHIFT
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