@judithekrauss.bsky.social
Lecturer @ UoYork, UK, Politics, IGDC member, YESI co-research theme lead, Assoc Editor @JPoliticalEcology. Sustainable value chains, convivial conservation, SDGs, squirrels & more. Love singing & cycling, sometimes in conjunction. My views. She/her
When a collaborator is targeted because her scientific findings that attribute extreme weather to human-caused climate change is being used (effectively) in climate lawsuits against oil companies, you know times are dark indeed.
ICYMI @davidho.bsky.social
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This is the world we live in - where good people are mocked and thugs are celebrated - I presume the Business Secretary will say this is a great example of freedom of speech
www.chortle.co.uk/news/2025/10...
I am horrified by the images of a mosque in Peacehaven burning after a suspected arson attack.
Everyone should be able to worship free from fear and terror.
Islamophobia is totally unacceptable. Those who spread hatred and incite violence against Muslim communities must stop.
Jews and Muslims in North Manchester: A personal story.
Fantastic piece by @ophiraophira.bsky.social, who has covered the attack for @manchestermill.bsky.social like no other journalist. Read this alongside the other news coverage.
manchestermill.co.uk/jews-and-mus...
🚨 Landmark win 🚨 : Govt forced to review Industrial Strategy after Scrap Carbon Capture legal challenge #EnvironmentAct.
First time a policy was re-taken for failing the Environmental Principles duty. No more “light-touch” assessments.
@chrisgpackham.bsky.social
@dalevince.com
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Yom Kippur is a time for reflection and family. The scenes unfolding in Manchester, on this most holy of days in the Jewish calendar, are deeply horrifying. Sending all my prayers to those affected.
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“Air pollution fell substantially as Paris restricted car traffic and made way for parks, people-streets and bike-lanes.”
Better for the climate, better for health, better for livability & quality of life.
Common sense.
Such a no-brainer, it’s remarkable that more cities HAVEN’T done the same.
"Der Publizist Michel Friedman warnt davor, dass Deutschland in zehn Jahren keine Demokratie mehr sein könnte. »Ich bin erstaunt, wie viele Menschen ihr Leben normal weiterleben (...)".
www.spiegel.de/panorama/leu...
Dreadful to see this - Farhana Sultana is a stellar academic, with a commitment to social justice. She repeatedly said she was being targeted on this platform & on others. I note her account is deleted. Shame on Syracuse for not standing up for colleagues ⬇️ solidarity to her & Jenn Jackson
20.09.2025 17:03 — 👍 35 🔁 15 💬 1 📌 4
cover of a "pocket guide to scientific writing and publishing"
🚨Big news🚨
A Pocket Guide to Scientific Writing and Publishing is out🎉
This is the book I wish I’d had 20 years ago — short, practical, and designed to help researchers write & get their papers published
I hope it helps many
Please share with anyone who might benefit!
👉 mybook.to/ScienceGuide
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I'm sorry, worldwide, irrevocable, non-exclusive, transferable permission to my voice and likeness? For what now? In any manner for any purpose???
This is in academia/.edu's new ToS, which you're prompted to agree to on login. Anyway I'll be jumping ship. You can find my stuff at hcommons.org.
I'm mad as hell, and I'm not going to take it anymore.
So I wrote a blog about ten things you can do *right now* to help defeat Farage, Musk, and rightwing populism.
From scrutinising Reform councillors to demanding the UK Govt leave X - get involved:
guyshrubsole.substack.com/p/ten-things...
Goodness gracious. Solidarity ✊
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On this day in 1966, Star Trek first beamed into living rooms across America. None of us could have imagined then the journey it would set us on. And not just the cast and crew, but the millions of fans who would find hope, inspiration, and community in its vision of the future.
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the discourse of scenario modeling is indelibly constituted by neoclassical economics and a quasi-religious capitalist techno-faith, so of course that's how the models hypothesize futures
not to mention that world govts refuse to approve statements about radical change in IPCC reports
Just a reminder to check for your name in this list of books that OpenAI trained from. If your name is there, they probably owe you several thousand dollars.
OpenAI cried that if everyone eligible author files, the company will go bankrupt, so I'm alerting every author I have ever spoken to.
Bild von Margot Friedländer Text: „Ich bin zurückgekommen, um mit Euch zu sprechen, um Euch die Hand zu reichen, Euch zu bitten, dass Ihr die Zeitzeugen sein sollt, die wir nicht mehr lange sein können. Es ist für Euch, für Eure Zukunft. Das darf nie wieder geschehen. Und ihr müsst dafür sorgen, dass es nie wieder geschieht." Margot Friedländer Holocaust-Überlebende
„Das darf nie wieder geschehen. Und ihr müsst dafür sorgen, dass es nie wieder geschieht."
Margot Friedländer (1921-2025)
#NieWiederIstJetzt
#AfdVerbot
Angela Rayner accidentally pays less tax than she should have, resigns, and the media gives her hell.
Nigel Farage deliberately pays less tax than he should have, and the media gives him a free pass.
That, right there, is the problem.
A huge moment -- Melvyn Bragg steps down from In Our Time after over a quarter of a century. What a programme and what a legacy! Just a model for how to make great, clever, engaging radio, and a twenty-seven-year experiment that proves there's a huge global audience for smart, scholarly programming.
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🌍Interdisciplinary research. Real-world impact.
The YESI Fellows Scheme (opens 8 Sept) gives you time, space + support to develop bold environmental research ideas across disciplines.
Want to know what YESI is all about?
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Woran ‘die Linke’ schuld ist oder: Wie man rechte Propaganda bestätigt im Ton der Besorgnis.
(Thread zu Text, ihr kennt das ja schon)
A courteous but very impressive rebuke to Nigel Farage from the Bishop of Oxford.
"I heard no compassion in what you said...".
"I disagree profoundly with your attempts to ... increase fear of the stranger in our communities".
Do read.
blogs.oxford.anglican.org/an-open-lett...
The North York Moors fire will be devastating to wildlife - thank you to everyone tirelessly tackling the blaze, from the fire service and volunteers to local land managers.
Our countryside is incredibly dry, please:
🔥Do not light a BBQ or stoves anywhere
🔥Take all your litter home
🔥No smoking
Reform UK, which has a grand total of four MPs, was just given an uninterrupted platform for an hour and a half on the BBC and Sky News channels, in order to talk about its plans for mass deportations
When was the last time the Greens (with four MPs) or the Lib Dems (with 72) were given the same?
The government has approved a vast new data centre on protected green belt land
Despite there being no environmental impact assessment
And despite the local authority rejecting the development as inappropriate
Remind me again how AI will help us conserve nature?
The only newsworthy aspect of the far-right anti-migrant protests currently is how pathetically small they are.
Last summer 60,000 people came to the Restore Nature Now protest in London, and the BBC didn’t even report on it.
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Why should I write better when a machine can do it for me? Because actually no one can do it for you, because your voice is unique among all the people on earth. Siri never petted a horse's neck. Alexa has never been ghosted by the captain of the football team. But you have lived, your heart is beating, you have suffered, and you have something important to say. It's a human's job, to use words, and whatever job you give to a machine, that part of your brain goes dark. Maybe it's worth it when it comes to remembering phone numbers and directions, but when that part of your brain that uses words goes dark, that's a vast area that's very close to your soul. Don't let some internet platform convince you that what you have to say and create isn't worthwhile. Words are the echo of your soul. Honing that echo matters.
this iconic advertising copywriter named Kathy Hepinstall Parks died over the weekend and I wanted to share something from her website I thought Bluesky would like
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Image Source: https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-02553-3 Credit European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts/Copernicus
"The summer of 2025 is already shaping up to be a record-breaker. Two intense heatwaves have swept across Europe, causing hundreds of heat-related deaths, fuelling wildfires and pushing power systems to their limit — and more are on the way."
#Science #Ecology #Climate
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
... in the service of this important argument, please don't reinforce problematic perceptions. Interrail has its flaws, but IMO deserves fair consideration as a currently available (to young and old), affordable system that can help right now as we work to transform transport overall. Thank you /End
21.08.2025 10:49 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0... and whenever I show people the Interrail mobile app, they are surprised by its ease of use (still room for improvement obviously!).
We agree that national and EU government need to do better on governing and subsidising trains in Europe and removing perverse incentives for flying. But 4/
