Lightnews — Scholar-powered news

Reposted by Martin Jones

Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 22h

If you want to read an actually good piece about integration in the United Kingdom, try @samfr.bsky.social:

The Truth About Integration

I have been challenged by readers to write something less depressing about the state of the country.

samf.substack.com

9 70 220

Martin Jones @martincjones.com · 23h

"Monash University is proposing to close and break up its flagship climate crisis institute, [the Monash Sustainable Development Institute], leaving scores of academics and staff fearing for their jobs." The MSDI is also home to the Climateworks centre www.theage.com.au/national/vic...

‘Vanish in a puff of smoke’: Monash plans to close climate crisis institute

Fears that “redundancies by stealth” could hit about 100 researchers, staff and climate scientists on short-term contracts.

www.theage.com.au

1

Reposted by Martin Jones

Mara Pfeiffer @wortpiratin.de · 1d

Mit 15 nennt Däbritz Ballack und Messi als ihre Vorbilder. Es ist ihre Generation, die viel dazu beiträgt, dass Kids heute auch ganz selbstverständlich Popp, Schüller – und eben Däbritz sagen.

Bolztribuene @bolztribuene.de · 1d

Hättet ihr's gewusst? Mit Sara Däbritz tritt die letzte Goldmedaillen-Gewinnerin von Rio 2016 aus dem DFB-Team zurück. Für Sport1 schaut die @wortpiratin.de auf ein stilles, aber immer humorvolles Idol des Teams und hat dabei auch eine Archivperle zutage gefördert.
www.sport1.de/news/fussbal...

Die letzte deutsche Heldin von Rio tritt ab

Mit Sara Däbritz geht die letzte Spielerin der Generation, die 2016 die olympische Goldmedaille gewann. Sie hat eine besondere Phase im Fußball der Frauen mitgeprägt.

www.sport1.de

5 35

Reposted by Martin Jones

Michael Mazengarb @michaelmazengarb.bsky.social · 2d

I’m keen to chat to people in Australia working on climate attribution science and economics. Particularly, the quantification of climate losses and linking to specific sources of emissions.

Can anyone point me in the direction of anyone doing this work in Australia?

1 7 5

Reposted by Martin Jones

Glen Peters @glenpeters.bsky.social · 3d

"It is the model with the most scenarios that has the largest influence on 1.5°C scenario findings. Individual studies have only a small or negligible impact on most findings," says @idasogn.bsky.social

cicero.oslo.no/en/articles/...

2 4 16

Martin Jones @martincjones.com · 3d

Forestry business OneFortyOne has reached an agreement with biofuel developer HAMR energy to supply forestry waste to be converted into low-carbon methanol at its future site in Portland, Victoria. HAMR expects to be manufacturing biofuels by 2030. www.abc.net.au/news/2025-09...

Ambitious plan to convert forestry waste into fuel for ships and planes

With biofuels earmarked as a way to power the transport sector in the future, one industry says its waste can be converted into aviation and shipping fuel.

www.abc.net.au

1

Reposted by Martin Jones

Deanna Kreisel 🌱 @doctorwaffle.substack.com · 6d

In honor of National Poetry Day, the greatest parody rewrite of all time:

Screen cap of parodic version of William Blake's "The Tyger" that begins:
Tyger! Tyger! Burning bright
(Not sure if I spelled that right)
What immortal hand or eye
Could fashion such a stripy guy?
What the hammer that hath hewn it
Into such a chonky unit?
Did who made the lamb make thee,
Or an external franchisee?

36 1.4K 3.6K

Reposted by Martin Jones

Richard 塚正ー緑 @rhtebooks.bsky.social · 5d

There is no situation, ever, where comparing a market cap to GDP is useful. I will die on this hill

Euronews @euronews.com · 5d

Magnificent Seven surpass EU GDP: Is this a tech bubble warning?

The combined market value of the US 'Magnificent Seven' tech giants has surpassed the EU’s GDP, raising concerns of a tech bubble. While valuations are high, comparisons to the dot-com era suggest this may be a structural shift.

l.euronews.com

1 4

Martin Jones @martincjones.com · 5d

"Die komplette IT-Fachwelt, führende Sicherheitsforscher, Wissenschaftler:innen aus aller Welt sowie zivilgesellschaftliche Organisationen aller Art lehnen die Chatkontrolle als Bedrohung für die Demokratie vehement ab. Das Suchen nach Inhalten ist technisch nicht auf bestimmte Inhalte zu begrenzen"

Jürgen Zimmerer @juergenzimmerer.bsky.social · 5d

Das Postgeheimnis gehört historisch zu den liberalen Grundrechten, die die Demokratie erst möglich machten und machen.
#justsaying

netzpolitik.org/2025/anlassl...

Anlasslose Massenüberwachung: Messenger Signal wird Deutschland verlassen, wenn Chatkontrolle kommt

In den kommenden Tagen wird die Bundesregierung entscheiden, wie sie am 14. Oktober in der EU zur Chatkontrolle abstimmt. Eines ist klar: Kommt die Chatkontrolle, wird es keine verschlüsselte und sich...

netzpolitik.org

Reposted by Martin Jones

Glen Peters @glenpeters.bsky.social · 6d

Yes, having a single number in the SPM might be satisfying, but climate mitigation is about trade-offs.

We have to move away from the summary statistics and find better ways to describe and quantify the trade offs.

8/

3 4 13

Reposted by Martin Jones

Glen Peters @glenpeters.bsky.social · 6d

Models and scenarios are great, but they answer particular questions depending on the study design.

We need to put focus back on assessing the outcomes of scenarios, what drives then, why different models give different outcomes, and put less focus on summary statistics.

7/

1 3 18

Reposted by Martin Jones

Glen Peters @glenpeters.bsky.social · 6d

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...

1/

Two curves show how the median is different depending on the scenario.

1 18 52

Reposted by Martin Jones

Ida Sognnæs @idasogn.bsky.social · 6d

New paper with @glenpeters.bsky.social in Nature Communications today. We show how models and studies with a lot of scenarios in the IPCC scenarios database have a large impact on key findings, including emissions reductions, net-zero GHG year, and coal, gas, and oil consistent with 1.5°C.

Influence of individual models and studies on quantitative mitigation findings in the IPCC Sixth Assessment Report - Nature Communications

The paper analyses the impact of the uneven representation of models and studies on key mitigation findings in the IPCC Sixth Assessment Report. It finds that the model with the most scenarios has a considerable influence on several findings.

www.nature.com

1 15 24

Martin Jones @martincjones.com · 6d

This problem of some models or studies dominating the 'ensemble' effects is sort of obvious when you think about it (admission: I hadn't!), but it's cool the authors have done the work of quantifying it and considering solutions. Valuable paper!

Martin Jones @martincjones.com · 6d

"In the Sixth Assessment Report (AR6), the four models with the most scenarios are responsible for two-thirds of the scenarios that passed vetting and received a climate assessment, and the study with the most scenarios is responsible for almost half of the scenarios"

Ida Sognnæs @idasogn.bsky.social · 6d

New paper with @glenpeters.bsky.social in Nature Communications today. We show how models and studies with a lot of scenarios in the IPCC scenarios database have a large impact on key findings, including emissions reductions, net-zero GHG year, and coal, gas, and oil consistent with 1.5°C.

Influence of individual models and studies on quantitative mitigation findings in the IPCC Sixth Assessment Report - Nature Communications

The paper analyses the impact of the uneven representation of models and studies on key mitigation findings in the IPCC Sixth Assessment Report. It finds that the model with the most scenarios has a considerable influence on several findings.

www.nature.com

1

Reposted by Martin Jones

Melanie Mitchell @melaniemitchell.bsky.social · 7d

In 2016 Hinton predicted that AI would replace all radiologists in five years. Ten years later, why hasn't it happened? This post is a great explainer.

www.understandingai.org/p/ai-isnt-re...

AI isn't replacing radiologists

Radiology combines digital images, clear benchmarks, and repeatable tasks. But demand for human radiologists is at an all-time high.

www.understandingai.org

11 150 350

Martin Jones @martincjones.com · 7d

"This is less a peace plan than a political instrument. Its indeterminacy is deliberate. To treat it as a solution is to misread it; to treat it as the only available off-ramp may still be a rational, if tragic, choice in the face of a continuing catastrophe."

Martin Jones @martincjones.com · 7d

Dr Anas Iqtait: "For Palestinians, alternatives are vanishingly thin. Accepting a text that lets Israel interpret almost every clause to its advantage risks surrendering history, rights and memory; rejecting it risks the continuation of annihilating violence." www.theage.com.au/world/middle...

Tony Blair supervising Palestinian ‘modern governance’ is satire, not diplomacy

The newly unveiled 20-point “peace plan” for Gaza has been presented as a blueprint to end the war. In reality, it is designed less to resolve conflict than to reframe it.

www.theage.com.au

1

Reposted by Martin Jones

Luke Plunkett @lukeplunkett.com · 9d

i will die on the hill that this goes beyond a generational divide. the meat of a 23-minute video can be written down and read in a fraction of the time.

if you're trying to make a point to me a send me a link to a yt video, expecting me to devote HALF AN HOUR to it, you are a psychopath.

Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 9d

The real generational divide is people who refuse to watch a video if it could be an article versus people who refuse to read an article if it could be a video

20 55 400

Martin Jones @martincjones.com · 9d

"[Jonathan] Haidt’s work has been positioned as key scientific support for Australia’s social media ban. But a prescient review in prestigious science journal Nature noted: a) Haidt’s hypothesis was “not supported by science”, and b) the book was going to sell a lot of copies anyway."

1

Martin Jones @martincjones.com · 9d

"It is easy for parents to believe social media is the total cause of their kids’ poor mental health. “But no experts in the youth mental health field believe that. And government did not listen to us when this policy was being formulated,” McGorry said."

1 2

Martin Jones @martincjones.com · 9d

"What if it’s not social media? That’s the thought that keeps running through Patrick McGorry’s head. What if it’s not Facebook or YouTube or TikTok? What if we’re wrong?" www.theage.com.au/national/wha...

What if it’s not social media?

Young people around the world are in the middle of a mental health crisis. We want to blame Facebook and TikTok. What if we’re wrong?

www.theage.com.au

1 1 1

Martin Jones @martincjones.com · 10d

"He adds that when the economy is seen as a zero-sum game, ambition shrinks, but when we see the possibility of positive-sum outcomes, we open the way for abundance. Abundance is “the ability of societies to deliver more homes, more affordable energy, more inclusive growth”."

1 2

Martin Jones @martincjones.com · 10d

"What is this “abundance” thing that progressive economists are suddenly banging on about? Dr Andrew Leigh explains that abundance... [means] that everyone should be provided with the capability to live the life they want." www.theage.com.au/business/the...

Seeking the positive-sum economy where everyone wins a prize

Progressive economists have been banging on about “abundance”, but what’s it all about? Labor’s Andrew Leigh has explained it.

www.theage.com.au

2 1

Martin Jones @martincjones.com · 10d

Prof Brendan Mackey: “It is scientifically wrong to say that half a billion tonnes (roughly Australia’s annual emissions) of CO2 don’t matter. They materially do.”

2