Mark Cooper

The Long Heat The world is crossing the 1.5°C global warming limit, perhaps exceeding 2°C soon after. What is to be done when these boundaries, set by the Paris Agreement, have been passed? In the overshoot era, sc...

The Long Heat is finally out from @versobooks.bsky.social today:

It deals with inter alia the promise of climate reversal, climate tipping points, the political economy of carbon removal and the very many antinomies of solar geoengineering.

www.versobooks.com/products/331...

How had I not seen this before?

Insurance in the Polycrisis | Kate Mackenzie & Tim Sahay The future is triage on an uninsurable earth.

NEW: Insurance in the Polycrisis @katemac.bsky.social & I

On the twentieth anniversary of Hurricane Katrina, those who are devalued, displaced, and disinvested already know what the future on an uninsurable earth looks like for the beautiful and the damned.
www.phenomenalworld.org/analysis/ins...

[412483-high-flying-kite]

Madison Starship, Monroe Starship...

Mine too! 😔

I have an 11x17 of this in my office! (from Paperback Paradise)

Lawrence? Topeka?

In the back of my mind I’ve always worried that this was intentional: that unless you’ve first learned to be a small cog in the policy machine your expert knowledge isn’t actually wanted.

Postdoctoral Research Associate - Australia's Climate Economy - Progress in Political Economy (PPE) Full time (Part Time negotiable), Fixed term for 3 years Work with a team of interdisciplinary researchers and doctoral students building a conceptual and empirical map of the emerging Climate Economy...

A three-year Postdoctoral Research Fellowship to work on "The Climate Economy: Emerging Strategies for Australia" with @garethbryant.bsky.social and Sophie Webber. A wonderful opportunity👇

www.ppesydney.net/postdoctoral...

I want to know the backstory on who did the art covering this thing and whether they knew what it was going to be used for.

Feel like it’s the right time for people to start performing that play again.

Same

Trump’s War on Measurement Means Losing Data on Drug Use, Maternal Mortality, Climate Change and More By slashing teams that gather critical data, the administration has left the federal government with no way of understanding if policies are working — and created a black hole of information whose con...

DON’T LOOK AWAY! The Trump administration is catapulting us into a data black hole and the consequences could be massive. Halting data collection on drug use, maternal mortality, climate change, more, by @alecmac.bsky.social

RCF preparing call for universities to invite foreign researchers to Finland The Research Council of Finland (RCF) is planning a new funding call to help universities recruit international experts to Finland. The call would be part of the RCF funding scheme that strengthens un...

My dear fellow researchers in #America and elsewhere!

If you are in the midst of finding a new #academic home and securing new #research #funding the Research Council of Finland is preparing a large funding call to cover the period from 2026 to 2030.

www.aka.fi/en/about-us/...
#science #phd

U.S. citizen interested in grad studies at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver (Canada)?

Grad programs are re-opening applications of US programs for one week. With expedited decisions.

U.S. Applicant Week:

www.grad.ubc.ca/us-applicant...

#AcademicChatter #Canada #GradSchool

Thanks for Beetlejuicing

Duckberg is Omelas

The town of Kier shows up as "Kier PE" in addresses seen in the show, but PE isn't a real state abbreviation. I second the upstate New York (Great Awakening) vibes.

I'd like to report a murder.

And on top of that “good soldierism” is rampant, so senior faculty and lower level admins will defer to “the institution” and avoid doing anything that someone higher up hasn’t explicitly approved. Knowing your place > acting on principle.

2 year Postdoc opportunity in Environmental Humanities (focus on Multispecies Politics) at William & Mary. "We seek an individual with expertise in Multispecies Politics or Animate Ecologies...the postdoc will have substantial amounts of time to focus on their own research agenda."

Yep!

But also, the NSF Political Science program gets singled out most.

That raises the possibility that they don’t know what social science is, they just want to make sure “liberal professors” don’t get money to talk about politics.

Social science often produces knowledge that challenges the assumptions and preferences of the governing elite.

Or maybe it’s that you don’t need social science if “there’s no such thing as society.”

Maybe DOGE will explode like his rockets?

omg this this this this this

How Research Credibility Suffers in a Quantified Society - Social Science Space To address research credibility issues, we must reform the role of metrics, rankings, and incentives in universities.

'The pressure to produce and perform in the short term can come at the expense of scientific progress in the long term. A more critical stance towards metrics and rankings is essential if we want to enhance the quality and credibility of research.'

www.socialsciencespace.com/2025/01/how-...

Awesome. Well done Kai.