Jeremy Schmidt

Global warming must peak below 2°C to limit tipping point risks Global warming must peak below 2°C then return under 1.5°C as quickly as possible to limit the risk of dangerous “tipping points”, experts say.   The new paper, by an international team of researchers...

A new paper, by an international team of researchers, reviews the latest evidence and says global temperatures must cool to around 1°C above pre-industrial levels in the long term. tinyurl.com/52xyujnf

I didn't think Small Prophets could get better, then the Modest Mouse tee-shirt scene.

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BBC switching mid-game from hockey to luge. Things that would never happen in Canada. #Canada #Olympics

I was also thinking there are (limited) parallels with a land rush; where scale facilitates reach and return. But of course land is limited in ways that data, while also limited, is not.

I think so too. There is something different than a bubble being built (I'm working my way to a new metaphor but haven't landed on whatever it is that does not displace something and then pop, and is also not like a rhyzome (et al)).

Read a review of a book where somebody takes a swipe at a junior scholar for no clear reason. So, I bought the book and plan to give it a great review (because it is a great book!).

Super excited to host @karsohini.bsky.social this Thursday as part of the Centre of Development Studies Seminar Series @campolis.bsky.social.

All welcome!

Landlocked The book Landlocked: Water, Energy, and Planetary Politics in Alberta, Jeremy J. Schmidt is published by University of Chicago Press.

Thanks for tagging me into this! I'm working on something new around this too...hopefully some ££ news soon but we'll see. In other news, things are partially alive for a september release:
press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...

Well played, London Underground.

I thought so too, now if he took the same view domestically Indigenous-state politics could significantly shift

Wow!! Congrats!!

Maybe it’s a sign off like: and also, Carthage must be destroyed.

Is it normal for butterflies to be out in January in London?

There’s one dancing around our garden but it seems early in the year (but I’m really not sure!)

Area | RGS Geography Journal | Wiley Online Library Sebastião Salgado's photographic series ‘The End of Polio’ offers a critical lens on global health by depicting the spatial and infrastructural realities of polio eradication campaigns. Through an an...

New, by me, on the ethical and political dimensions of global health photography, situating Sebastião Salgado's polio eradication work within debates on representation, witnessing and power in humanitarian visual culture.

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Good point!

I often wonder if there is a correlation among those sorts of reviews and people who themselves haven’t written a book.

It turns out that the phenomenon in this article is incredibly noticeable in the research on Great Tits. These are one of the most widely studied species, yet I haven't found a single paper that talks about the song repertoires of female birds.

Martin Peterson's creative response to being banned from teaching Plato (shared with his permission).

Yeah, I forgot to mention we had just returned from the science museum!

📣 New Blog Post: The snowy phantom of the equator.

Imagine a mountain range so elusive that for nearly two thousand years, half the world thought it was a fairy tale.

This is the story of the Mountains of the Moon, and it begins with a lost Greek merchant. 🧵

Women have disrupted research on bird song, and their findings show how diversity can improve all fields of science For decades, scientists believed that only male birds sang. Then women entered the field and showed what their predecessors had missed.

This is where I start with my students on bird song:

theconversation.com/women-have-d...

It’s really efficient altruism, where efficiency is always the numerated ratio denominated by the donor.

No I didn't know about that one, thanks!! Maybe a little New Years bonus?

I did submit my claim. The settlement is a 50/50 split between author and publisher (which only became clear to me during the actual submission)

Weird works

Exactly!

This is a great analogy for jargon and why it's not terrible, but also need to consider who you are talking/writing to and why you need that word instead of another. We've all been that person who doesn't get most of the jokes. It's a horrible isolating feeling. Don't do that to people.

Totally agree! I always teach my students about theory by starting with the idea of an in-joke that you have with friends—one word or phrase that brings a whole package with it.