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by Béatrice Cointe

beatricecointe.bsky.social
This has sort of worked in that I went from "exhausted + frustrated of fighting for tiny scraps of reading-writing-thinking time" to less tired + managing to spend a reasonable amount of time on research
but writing is still tough because my time is too fragmented and I need to warm up...
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by Béatrice Cointe

beatricecointe.bsky.social
I also try to preserve days/half weeks with nothing scheduled (tough, but getting better at it)

& if something comes up and my immediate reaction is not "I must do this" (for whatever reason, be it enthusiasm or obligation or debt), I take it as a signal to say no.
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by Béatrice Cointe

beatricecointe.bsky.social
A year or so ago when I was overwhelmed I made a list of tasks with 3 categories: stuff I enjoy/meh but non-negotiable stuff/non essential chores
(thankfully the first category was the longest!)

then I tried to squeeze out of the non essentials and started counting my hours on the meh stuff.
johnmkuhn.bsky.social
John Kuhn @johnmkuhn.bsky.social · 17h
genuine question for mid-career people: what concrete tips do you have to keep service from swamping your own writing?
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by Béatrice Cointe

beatricecointe.bsky.social
Wonderful!
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johnmkuhn.bsky.social
genuine question for mid-career people: what concrete tips do you have to keep service from swamping your own writing?
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adamstandring.bsky.social
Bang on point:
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by Béatrice Cointe

beatricecointe.bsky.social
Film complètement dingue 🤯
Affiche du film Soundtrack to a Coup d’Etat
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by Béatrice Cointe

beatricecointe.bsky.social
New office decorations
- courtesy of Black Lodge Press
Two red and black prints on an office wall. One says "No great men, only the great many!" and the other "The future is a contested place!"
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Verso doesn't have a page for it yet but Penguin does www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/804685...
Working Nature by Daniela Russ: 9781804298978 | PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books
A history of the energy economy from the perspective of critical theory Working Nature offers a history of the energy economy and its representations over the 19th and 20th century.Russ argues that “...
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by Glen P. Peters — Reposted by: Béatrice Cointe

glenpeters.bsky.social
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.

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by Glen P. Peters — Reposted by: Béatrice Cointe

glenpeters.bsky.social
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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by Béatrice Cointe

beatricecointe.bsky.social
Je pense que pour 2020 c'est parce que pendant le confinement, si je me souviens bien, les déclarations avaient été suspendues car tout le monde en TT; en 2022, possiblement régularisation massive du TT des chercheurs qui ne le déclaraient guère avant et ont été poussés à le faire post-confinement?
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Reposted by: Béatrice Cointe, Alan Richardson, Pratik Chakrabarti , and 1 more

alisabokulich.bsky.social
#Postdoc at U. of Vienna in philosophy of science, with focus on scientific modeling, interdisciplinarity &/or philosophy of engineering, w/ Prof. Tarja Knuuttila. English & German language proficiency required.
Deadline: Oct 9th
#philsci

jobs.univie.ac.at/job/Universi...
University Assistant postdoctoral, in the research area of Philosophy of Science
University Assistant postdoctoral, in the research area of Philosophy of Science
jobs.univie.ac.at
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by Béatrice Cointe

beatricecointe.bsky.social
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Cover of the 2007 book « Evil Paradises. Dreamworlds of Neoliberalism » edited by Mike Davis and Daniel Bertrand Monk
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by Béatrice Cointe

beatricecointe.bsky.social
SNCF : à nous de vous faire préférer l’avion
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Jon Worth @jonworth.eu · 9d
No more Paris-Wien/Berlin night trains

"Die ÖBB bedauern, dass nach dem Rückzug der französischen Partner, die beiden Nachtzugverbindungen ab 14. Dez 2025 nicht mehr angeboten werden können." - SNCF, this is you presse-oebb.at/news-oebb-be...

My analysis in English:
jonworth.eu/sncfs-half-h...
SNCF's half hearted effort to support international night trains in danger of hitting the buffers - Jon Worth
In December 2023 the Paris-Berlin night train re-started after a 9 year hiatus. Operated as a Nighjet service by ÖBB, SNCF provided motive power for the train from Mannheim to Paris. They even put SNC...
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sandraregol.bsky.social
✍️ Lien vers la pétition lancée par le collectif « Oui au train de nuit » pour le maintien de ces liaisons ferroviaires européennes : agir.greenvoice.fr/petitions/sa...
🚂 Sauvons les trains de nuit Paris-Berlin et Paris-Vienne
Signez la pétition maintenant !
agir.greenvoice.fr
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sandraregol.bsky.social
🚂🇪🇺 Quelques années seulement après leur relance, les lignes de train de nuit Paris-Strasbourg-Berlin et Paris-Strasbourg-Vienne sont supprimées faute de subventions de l’État.

Ces lignes étaient une alternative à l’avion très plébiscitée par les usager·es. Elles ne peuvent pas disparaître.
Les trains de nuit Vienne-Paris et Berlin-Paris ne circuleront plus à partir du 14 décembre - ici
Les lignes ferroviaires qui circulent la nuit entre Vienne et Paris et Berlin et Paris vont s'arrêter à partir du 14 décembre, a annoncé la compagnie autrichienne ÖBB ce lundi. L'État français met fin...
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jonworth.eu
No more Paris-Wien/Berlin night trains

"Die ÖBB bedauern, dass nach dem Rückzug der französischen Partner, die beiden Nachtzugverbindungen ab 14. Dez 2025 nicht mehr angeboten werden können." - SNCF, this is you presse-oebb.at/news-oebb-be...

My analysis in English:
jonworth.eu/sncfs-half-h...
SNCF's half hearted effort to support international night trains in danger of hitting the buffers - Jon Worth
In December 2023 the Paris-Berlin night train re-started after a 9 year hiatus. Operated as a Nighjet service by ÖBB, SNCF provided motive power for the train from Mannheim to Paris. They even put SNC...
jonworth.eu
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Reposted by: Béatrice Cointe, Cas Mudde, Anna O. Law , and 6 more

noahs.bsky.social
THE MEME IS REAL
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toteraltermann.bsky.social
Some of you will know that I recently got funding for a project on Nitrogen in society. I am here making my application accessible for others who are thinking about applying for funding—plus some background on the funding programme and a few tips.

wondrousmachine.substack.com/p/more-and-l...
More and Less: Mutable Economies of Nitrogen I
An open-access grant application in German and English
wondrousmachine.substack.com
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by Jack Stilgoe — Reposted by: Béatrice Cointe, Diane Coyle, Lesley A. Hall , and 4 more

jackstilgoe.bsky.social
We need an associate lecturer in history of modern science @stsucl.bsky.social www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...
UCL – University College London
UCL is consistently ranked as one of the top ten universities in the world (QS World University Rankings 2010-2022) and is No.2 in the UK for research power (Research Excellence Framework 2021).
www.ucl.ac.uk
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Reposted by: Béatrice Cointe, Naomi Klein, Rosemary A. Joyce , and 12 more

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1/ A longtime Wired editor just wrote a mush-brained essay about how he totally missed the political rot of Silicon Valley (& still doesn't get it).

But in the late 1990s, a Wired journalist warned of a toxic ideology bubbling up from tech. Paulina Borsook has largely been erased. Let's change that
photo of paulina borsook
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Reposted by: Béatrice Cointe, Esther Turnhout, Benjamin Braun , and 2 more

kprodani.bsky.social
🚨New article🚨 Why has the promise of universal ownership been broken, as @benbraun.bsky.social has suggested?

Our argument: because the Big Three are hardly universal. They mainly invest in those that can insulate themselves from environmental harm - big tech & financials in the Global North.
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Reposted by: Béatrice Cointe, Fabián Muniesa, Jérôme Denis

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En librairie le 16 octobre

www.premierparallele.fr/livre/incorp...
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Reposted by: Béatrice Cointe, Steven French, Lesley A. Hall , and 3 more

alisabokulich.bsky.social
#HPS program at the University of Copenhagen invites applications for Postdoc in History and Philosophy of Science as part of research project Human Variables in Biodiversity Assessment (PI: Joeri Witteveen): employment.ku.dk/faculty/?sho...
#philsky #PhilJobs #philsci

Deadline is November 7, 2025.
Post-doc position in History and Philosophy of Science
employment.ku.dk
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Reposted by: Béatrice Cointe, Sonia I. Seneviratne, Luc Int Panis , and 2 more

ipcc.bsky.social
Registration for experts interested in serving as Expert Reviewers and providing scientific comments on the First Order Draft of the Special Report on Climate Change and Cities is now open!

Register here: apps.ipcc.ch/comments/src...
⚠️ Registration closes 30 Nov2025

🔗 www.ipcc.ch/2025/09/17/p...
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Reposted by: Béatrice Cointe, Fabián Muniesa, Alan Richardson

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I am a new Expert Voices columnist @science.org and my first article just came out! In it, I argue that scaling technology has a dark side, particularly when it comes to alleviating inequality and injustice. And I suggest what scientists, engineers, and policymakers can do about it.
Beware the drive to scale technology
When it comes to technology, scalability—its capacity to be standardized and then distributed en masse and across contexts—is the ultimate goal. Scientists and engineers view scalability as the route ...
www.science.org
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by Béatrice Cointe

beatricecointe.bsky.social
And the short film that prompted the question is amazing: it traces plastic objects back to their source. In verse!

Also, had no idea Raymond Queneau had written that kind of things

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Venus Bivar @vbivar.bsky.social · 20d
The film is online - and someone even has a version with English subtitles. Commissioned by the biggest manufacturer of plastic in France at the time - Pechiney (most well known for aluminium). Meant to educate public and promote plastic. Showed before feature films.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=SKt1...
Le Chant du Styrène 1958 [English Subtitle]
YouTube video by Abdul F
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by Béatrice Cointe

beatricecointe.bsky.social
This question yielded a fascinating thread

(I suspect it’d spark the interest of @alexandreviolle.bsky.social , @bard.lahn.no and @ueberdruss.bsky.social)
vbivar.bsky.social
Venus Bivar @vbivar.bsky.social · 20d
Energy history folks: When did we know that oil and coal come from ancient organic matter? I have a text from 1958 saying its origins are obscure and that it's controversial to say it comes from plankton. But surely by 1956 this was not a mystery? @robertsuits.bsky.social ? @jlappen1.bsky.social ?
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vbivar.bsky.social
The film is online - and someone even has a version with English subtitles. Commissioned by the biggest manufacturer of plastic in France at the time - Pechiney (most well known for aluminium). Meant to educate public and promote plastic. Showed before feature films.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=SKt1...
Le Chant du Styrène 1958 [English Subtitle]
YouTube video by Abdul F
www.youtube.com
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