Daniel I. Avila-Ortega

The most persistent delusion is that Ru can be satisfied w a partial win in Ukr (territory and/or forced Ukr neutrality) and then cooperation can restart. Ru wants the West’s destruction. It’s not powerful enough to achieve it but it won’t stop trying if the West were to become more accommodating.

Is it an apologetic book for and from your previous one?

The previous one was a super flaw and you couldn't grasp terms as degrowth and equity.

No one can stop SpaceX and its owner Elon Musk. I don't say this with pride, on the contrary it worries me massively that they will get away with damaging the environment and 'invading' Mexico territory without any repercussions whatsoever.

Israeli cruise ship turned away from Greek island by Gaza war protest Tourists greeted on Syros by banner saying Stop the Genocide and prevented from disembarking

1,600 Israeli passengers on
the Crown Iris were prevented from disembarking when 100s of demonstrators on the Greek isle of Syros made clear they were unwelcome over Israel’s treatment of Palestinians in Gaza.

Setting an example to us all.

#BDS #Israel #Gaza

www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...

I wonder if the guys in the 70s/80s/90s who moved production to China regret it—they dug their own grave. They didn’t just outsource factories but handed over strategic power. China’s totalitarian system turns economic gains into a long-term vision no democracy can match.

I wonder if the guys in the 70s/80s/90s who moved production to China regret it—they dug their own grave. They didn’t just outsource factories but handed over strategic power. China’s totalitarian system turns economic gains into a long-term vision no democracy can match.

I remember reading a post from a researcher that shared her preprint on the use of AI, hidden prompts and review. Her comment, in the post, was that her article was not yet through peer review but the results were very interesting and she needed to move to her next article. This was 3 weeks ago max.

a little boy wearing a hat that says respect on it ALT: a little boy wearing a hat that says respect on it

Wow! I stopped playing it exactly 3 years and 34 days ago. Respect!

You are joking, right?

dear economist,

your constant defense and support of crony, immoral capitalism is repulsive

if you haven’t noticed, the USA is currently imploding because of this type of capitalism destroying our democracy

go fuck yourself

This is the MAGA/Trump mentality:

Stop collecting #climate data and doing research and climate change disappears.
Eliminate disaster programs and disasters disappear.
Stop reporting disease statistics and diseases disappear.
Stop freedom to speak and dissent disappears.
Resistance isn't futile.

Auditors can’t save carbon offsets The theory behind carbon offset projects is appealing: Instead of an organization cutting its own emissions, it can fund lower-cost carbon-reducing projects elsewhere to “offset” its emissions. The re...

Auditors can’t save carbon offsets
Giles+
doi.org/10.1126/scie...
"The theory behind carbon offset projects is appealing ...The reality has been less encouraging."

"all of the credit overclaiming projects that have stirred so much controversy were ratified by third-party auditors"

Delineating the technosphere: definition, categorization, and characteristics Abstract. The global assemblage of human-created buildings, infrastructure, machinery, and other artifacts has been called the “technosphere”, and it plays a major role in the present-day dynamics of ...

Whats the #technosphere? While its a major part of our planet, its not properly considered as part of the Earth system. Here we synthesize insights from social metabolism and industrial ecology research for the Human-Earth system in the #Anthropocene
@bokuvienna.bsky.social

doi.org/10.5194/esd-...

Public policies haven't been able to fight the meat industry, its lobby and the hyper consumption around meat...but a tick species might be the 'solution' and doom of the industry.

Crazy unintended consequences.

Meat allergy.

In the midst of a brutal heat wave, NYC chooses between Andrew Cuomo, who lied about causing vulnerable seniors to die in nursing homes, and Zohran Mamdani, who’s dedicated to to making NYC affordable and green for everyone.

This is what 21st century climate elections actually look like.

352 drones and 16 missiles overnight.

Their main target was Kyiv.

If your media ‘was bored’ to tell.

Video source: Kyiv mayor, Vitaliy Klychko

@academic-chatter.bsky.social I want to use your extended network, followers, to ask this:

Does anybody have a database of emails from University libraries and research centres worldwide? I am collecting data on publications and fees.

#PhDchat #AcademicChatter #bibliometrics

Speculation but:

He is free now, giving massive interviews with the media that never reports properly on the shitty stuff that Trump does. While I don't doubt his, candidate, good faith actions. It's very convenient that the NYT ranked him #1, he got detained and now is out. Big marketing.

“there’s always been something deeply racist about which country is or is not permitted to develop nuclear weapons. [..]

Israel, which is believed to have about 90 nuclear warheads and enough plutonium for many more refuses to sign the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT)”

@ufw.bsky.social how can I get in touch with you?

@claudiasheinbaum.bsky.social no se espanten si después ven que comienzan a desaparecer piezas de los museos o sus bodegas.

@pajaropolitico.bsky.social rasquen para ver quiénes son los socios de las empresas de seguridad que ganaron el fallo.

A hike across Europe, guided by wolves | The Observer A walk across borders on the trail of our most maligned canine interrogates our fears

"We fret about Europe’s 21,500 wolves but think it’s environmentally fine to be feeding 92 million dogs in Europe, even though dogs kill an estimated 15,000 sheep in the UK a year, and in 2023 there were 16 human fatalities from dog attacks."
observer.co.uk/culture/book...

Dear Senator Ernst, A LETTER FROM THE TOOTH FAIRY

“Glad I didn’t have to bring up the Tooth Fairy,” you said, standing in a f-ing cemetery, wearing your Sunday smug, smirking like you just solved poverty by smothering it with a pillow. I stopped mid-wingbeat. A bicuspid fell out of my sack. A raccoon stared at me. We both whispered, what the fuck?”

Read Karen Hao. Read her now.

That's quite good! Thanks for sharing :)

At first glance I thought exactly on the example they gave: phone books take a long time to burn.

It reminded me of a Dutch company using coconut straw as a building material. Very fire and humidity resistant.

I am concerned(?), maybe more curious about the fire hazard risk, the thickness of the walls (are current homes/buildings fit for it?), the risk for fungus growth. I am not questioning the solution, to be clear. I want to have a full overview.

Me too! I have seen it a lot. OpenAlex has a serious problem indexing book reviews as the actual references of articles, including more than one book review per article.

For this specific case, I cannot find the actual content, but I certainly do not doubt it is a book review.

I have been thinking the same, but I honestly cannot find the book review (the content). If you find it somewhere, can you share the link here?

I don't want to 'target' an author for something that's not accurate and it's a metadata, scholarly problem. In specific for this piece.

#Ghostarticle 4/4

4. Accumulates citations that logically belong to the original book.
5.Often confuses citation analysis, literature reviews, or impact metrics.

#Ghostarticle 3/4
Characteristics:
1. It shares the exact title with a legitimate book or monograph.
2. Is indexed in scholarly databases (e.g., Scopus, Web of Science, Google Scholar).
3. Lacks scientific content, analysis, or references.