Clare Kelly

Profesores de Trinity College se resisten a la narrativa de la inevitabilidad de la IAgenerativa en la investigación y la docencia.

"Nos resistimos porque es ambientalmente destructivo, éticamente corrupto, y porque reduce la capacidad de pensar que nos hace humanos."

Every far-right riot and protest that was tolerated, every racist dog whistle from public reps, every bit of hate and misinformation allowed to spread by social media companies, all led to this moment in Drogheda last night where someone felt emboldened enough to try to burn children alive.

Interested in global political economy of the energy transition?
Brilliant conversation between @brettchristophers.bsky.social and Adam Tooze, moderated by
@katearonoff.bsky.social in NY
Our @thepolycrisis.bsky.social Dispatch buttondown.com/polycrisisdi...
Youtube: youtube.com/watch?app=de...

I've finally got around to curating a selection of films about the #climate crisis 🎥

There's lot of mediocre climate films out there, but for me these stand out head & shoulders above the rest 🎞️

They make excellent resources for classrooms, lecture halls, or community cinema's 🎬

Thread:🧵Plz RT

Colin Sheridan opinion piece in Examiner, opening section.

"When history judges us, it won’t ask how “agile” we were.

It will ask who we housed, who we fed, who we sheltered, who we lifted up when the lift got stuck.

That’s the only kind of fast that matters."

www.irishexaminer.com/opinion/colu...

Kid wearing a giant blue paper maché cat head with big white teeth. The cat is Looshkin, my kid's favourite comic, by Jamie Smart.

Sorry I haven't responded to your email. It's definitely not because I was busy making a giant paper maché head 😅

Move over for AI - DRB Katja Bruisch writes: I recently completed a scholarly monograph – an environmental, economic and energy history of peat in imperial and Soviet Russia. After years of thinking and writing, I approache...

We need a critique of AI in academic publishing. Following my decision not to sign an AI addendum to my contract with Cambridge University Press, I wrote this short essay which is now out in the Dublin Review of Books.
👇
drb.ie/move-over-fo...

This is insane -- 'According to the report, the top 0.1% in Ireland have an average carbon footprint of 286 tonnes of CO₂ per person per year — more than 100 times Ireland’s 2030 target of 2.5 tonnes per person.'

Hospital gets low-carbon heating from data centres 1 day ago Share Save Tony Fisher Bedfordshire, Hertfordshire and Buckinghamshire

Take out the data centre, and use the electricity to heat three hospitals instead

Greedy industries offer scraps of their own waste to underfunded and undervalued public services all the time, as a way of greenwashing their public image. You don't have to accept it.

www.bbc.com/news/article...

So many climate solutions, so few emissions reductions. A new book explains why. In "The Long Heat," Wim Carton and Andreas Malm argue that capitalism has turned the climate crisis into a business opportunity.

So many climate solutions, so few emissions reductions. A new book explains why.

In "The Long Heat," Wim Carton and Andreas Malm argue that capitalism has turned the climate crisis into a business opportunity.

grist.org/culture/clim...

#BookSky #Books #Climate #Tech #Capitalism

'When someone says we can’t miss the boat, I ask: where is the boat going? What exactly will this technology improve? That’s rarely discussed. Since when did [universities] become Big Tech's free PR department?'
— Nicky Dries, Future of Work Lab at the Catholic University of Leuven

I was recently invited to present my thoughts on the role of universities in the #climate crisis

Several audience members asked that I share my slides, so I've decided to post them here too as an open resource

I'd love any feedback, & for you to share examples of projects & best practice.

Long 🧵😊

As dreams of 1.5°C melt away, net zero’s reckoning is overdue People’s inability to see past net zero shows it is no longer fit for purpose

"they fail to link climate action with things that matter to people: food poverty, fuel poverty, air pollution, inequality, job insecurity, lack of housing, unfordable or non-existent healthcare... they are constrained by only being able to offer pragmatic, ‘politically feasible’ centrism?"

Polluting and costly: growing gap between PHEV claims and reality The gap between real world and official PHEV emissions is widening WLTP emissions Real-world emissions PHEV models emissions gCO2/km 2021 50 35 0 38 3.5 times 134 2022 33 4 times 137 2023 28 5 times 100 120 139 140 In the real world, PHEVs have similar emissions than conventional hybrids and combustion vehicles WLTP emissions Real-world emissions 150 139 135 166 100 PHEV ICE and HEV PHEV ICE and HEV +500€ 0 20 40 60 80 PHEVs operating cost are 500€ larger than what carmakers data suggest Source: T&E analysis of 2021-22-23 OBFCM data collected by the European Environment Agency, EEA car registrations 2021-23, EAFO, Weekly Oil Bulletin T&E

Plug-in hybrid cars are essentially a massive fossil fuel demand protection scam enacted on well-meaning consumers trying to do the right thing

The gap between reported and real emissions is just utterly bonkers - new @transenvuk.bsky.social study here

www.transportenvironment.org/articles/smo...

November edition of @psychmag.bsky.social highlights the value of all psychology disciplines for fighting the climate and biodiversity crisis.
Proudly, @bpsenvpsych.bsky.social members @drsarahpayne.bsky.social & Prof David Canter both contribute to this special issue!

Towards a humbler, braver and kinder science.

My new blog post @ucpress.bsky.social about my upcoming book Science in Resistance, coming out Oct 28th:

www.ucpress.edu/blog-posts/t...

@scientistrebellion.bsky.social
@ucpress.bsky.social

“When it comes to responsible AI use, there are, at best, many conflicting positions. Equating responsibility with disclosing genAI use conceals, in fact, several fundamental questions concerning the responsibilities that academics have to their disciplines, each other, and society at large.”

This graph says it all: instead of starting to go down, the *annual increase* of atmospheric CO2 is setting new records. We're making climate change worse at a record rate.
Turning this around should be our top priority, and it's not.
From: www.carbonbrief.org/met-office-a...

This one? Andre et al. 2024 www.nature.com/articles/s41... One of my favourite things to teach about/demonstrate!

Thank you for creating this starter pack @thierryaaron.bsky.social! And for the nudge... the Climate Justice Universities Union is here now 😊

bsky.app/profile/clim...

For those wishing to stay up-to-date with developments around university climate action, I've assembled this starter pack of thinkers and doers who have inspired me on this topic...

go.bsky.app/R51quRA

🔥 The never-ending narrative…
This week, I’ve once again heard prominent climate researchers dismiss individual action as either irrelevant or a distraction instigated by the fossil fuel industry.

Here’s a 🧵 on why this argument frustrates me to no end and why I think it misses the bigger picture.

The Irish Times view on Ireland’s waterways: an ecological death Nutrients from agriculture and poor wastewater treatment have led to 48 per cent of waters being rated below minimum standards

'[this] could not have come at a worse time for the Gov. & farmers as Ireland attempts to retain its EU nitrates derogation.. The EPA findings undermine the case for retention ..The Min for Ag has called for an extension..This now looks like a specious argument.'

www.irishtimes.com/opinion/edit...

Global Assessment - Brown Climate Social Science Network Climate advocacy has not failed, climate policy has been sabotaged, explains a new open access book, Climate Obstruction: A Global Assessment.

Honored to be among the more than 100 scholars who contributed to this @cssn.org global assessment of social and political obstruction to climate action, out today with Oxford University Press:
cssn.org/news-researc...

YouTube video by Iris van Rooij Critical AI Literacy: Empowering people to resist hype and harms in the age of AI -- Symposium 2025

Critical AI Literacy Symposium, with Dagmar Monett, @lucyavraamidou.bsky.social & Miquel Pérez Torres, Linda Mannila, and @olivia.science

🎬 Video recording: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fxyg...

📢 Symposium website: www.ru.nl/en/about-us/...

🤔 Critical AI Literacy website: www.ru.nl/en/research/...

Really enjoyed & honoured to be part of the Critical AI Literacy Symposium yesterday. Also @lucyavraamidou.bsky.social & @miquelpt.bsky.social (and others) spoke about their wonderful work too. Big thanks to @irisvanrooij.bsky.social, Leo & Barbara for organising. ✨

www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fxyg...

Happening in half an hour: webinar with @swaziadam.bsky.social on the role of social science in collective climate action 👇

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Your AI transcription tools might be cheap, but how reliably can they transcribe phrases like 'specialist academic lexicography' or 'preponderance of terminal degrees' without you having to waste time you could be analysing and coding on editing and accuracy-checking?

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It's the 'Scientists Responsibility Summit' today.

Here's a live thread with some take aways from each talk... 🧵

In addition to being totally pathetic, he's also completely wrong.
EPA polls consistently show that the vast majority, across all ages, incomes , urban or rural, all want the government to take action.
So by polarising, he must mean that Micheal o Leary,Amazon, and Tirlan don't want it