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Amazing letter in today’s @thetimes.com about Tom Stoppard

I found a flowchart which helps you navigate the IT landscape

Climate Viz of the Month October 2025 Hi everyone! Instead of designing a new special feature visualization, this next ‘climate viz of the month’ blog will focus on briefly summarizing the recent extremes in th…

October 2025 was the warmest October on record for the #Arctic. Arctic sea-ice extent is currently the lowest on record for late November. My newest 'climate viz of the month' summarizes some of this latest data: zacklabe.com/climate-viz-...

#ClimateChange #SciComm #OpenScience #OpenData #DataViz

Another massive, beautiful, and powerful day of community, fun and disruptive nonviolent action for climate justice 💙🌊 Our #RisingTide Climate Concert continues in Camp Shortland from 12:30-5:30pm 🎶🎸🎤

How Fossil Fuel Money Made Climate Change Denial the Word of God Splinter is your home for news and opinions that challenge power in our political and economic system that's becoming more unhinged each and every day.

"Conservative groups, funded by fossil fuel magnates, spend $1B/yr interfering with public understanding of what is happening to our world. Few investments rival the return they've gotten from evangelicals."

An oldie but goodie makes the link between fossil fuels, climate denial, and U.S. religion.

Another thing: if we've only managed to cut real emissions by 4% since 2005, how do you think we're getting the rest of the way to 62-70% by 2035 with the same weak policies?
The land-use accounting tricks that got us to -28% aren't yielding any more.

The Point Live: Nationals push for Coalition to delay mining friendly envvironment laws, while the fallout from Hanson't Islamaphobic burqa stunt continues Not content with having blown up net zero, the Nationals are now wagging the dog over legislation decisions, pushing for the Liberals to delay passing the mining friendly environment legislation. Mean...

Tuesday QT and @amyremeikis.bsky.social is doing the lord's work (or Dolly's)
live.thepoint.com.au

Relying on ChatGPT to teach you about a topic leaves you with shallower knowledge than Googling and reading about it, according to new research that compared what more than 10,000 people knew after using one method or the other.

Shared by @gizmodo.com: buff.ly/yAAHtHq

If you’re a journalist who’s still on Twitter, from now on in your writing you have to replace “the American people want” with “troll bots in Eastern Europe demand”

Being there makes your judgment suspect. I don’t care how savvy you think you are, you’re marinating in a disinformation campaign.

I love Northern Australia, and it breaks my heart what's happening and is planned for this region. More people need to know why this place is so special and what's at risk, so I wrote about it. My first article for @australiainstitute.org.au's The Point. thepoint.com.au/opinions/251...

COP-tastrophe: How the COP of Implementation, Truth, Forests, and Indigenous Peoples Failed on All Counts COP30 began full of promise but ended as yet another reminder that the mechanism for global climate governance is broken.

The #COP30 text commits to following the science and embracing information integrity while stripping away all mention of fossil fuel phaseout @roycerk2.bsky.social reports.

drilled.media/news/COP30-w...

An image of two activists wearing long trains reading "end the fossil fuel era" and "phase out fossil fuels" with banners above them reading "stop Amazon oil" and "1.5oC under threat: time to act."

Nearly 30 countries refuse to sign a final #COP30 agreement that doesn't include "fossil fuel phase-out," as negotiations head into overtime.

Live updates from @fionaharvey.bsky.social, @olliemilman.bsky.social and @theguardian.com here: www.theguardian.com/world/live/2...

Last year, we advocated for marine wildlife at a series of stakeholder engagement sessions that helped decide what would be included in this plan. We also encouraged supporters to have their say. The results were loud and clear: on average, 90% of people agreed with the NSW EPA's proposed actions.

COP30 So Far: Protestors, Polluters and Paying for Pollution Investigating the obstacles to action on climate change.

Curious about what's happening at #COP30? @roycerk2.bsky.social and I recapped the first week for @drilledmedia.bsky.social drilled.media/news/COP30-w...

i just read something about grief from C.S. Lewis and his book, “A Grief Observed”

basically, when someone you love dies, it isn’t just them that you miss, but the parts of yourself that person brought out of you that can never be brought out again.

i feel that with my dad.

65 Years Ago,,, History was made. #RubyBridges

YouTube video by Reuters Iceland on alert amid Atlantic Ocean current's possible collapse | REUTERS

"The science is evolving quite rapidly and time is running out to do anything about it because the tipping point may well be quite close," says PIK's @rahmstorf.bsky.social in this piece on Iceland declaring the potential collapse of #AMOC a national security risk. 👇
www.youtube.com/watch?v=N1op...

And we knew this. This wasn't speculation. We studied it, we had the talking points. We trained volunteers to explain this to people. It's not a surprise. Rich people don't flee places with good quality of life when we increase the quality of life. They might try to cheat us, but they don't leave.

Phew! We’re still on track. Tell the Libs to relax, there’s no hurry.

Friendly reminder that dishwashers made after 1995 or so are so water and energy efficient that even if you ran them twice fully loaded it would still use less water than handwashing the same load.

So many "green" things feel like sacrifices. Dishwashers are not one of them.

Climate is MIA in Australia and Türkiye’s bids to host COP31 Neither Australia or Türkiye have set out how they would use their COP31 presidency to accelerate climate action

Nice @cat-abreu.bsky.social piece in @climatechangenews.com

"Neither Australia or Türkiye have set out how they would use their COP31 presidency to accelerate climate action"

www.climatechangenews.com/2025/11/11/c...

ever since I learned about three-cueing I've developed infinitely more patience for replies on social media. mfers literally do not know how to read. people are walking around conjuring random meanings into words they don't know, and they don't know a lot of words. it's crazy

As leaders head to #COP30, experts are calling to: 🩺 Put health at the centre of climate ambition 💡 Take stronger action for healthier futures

Stay tuned for more on health action at COP30 👉 bit.ly/HealthCOP30

The most incredible library in the world, @bodleian.ox.ac.uk opened to OTD 1602, through the energy, money & commitment of Sir Thomas Bodley. It began with 5k books, & now more than 22m, with 2m+reader visits a year, & multi-million online users across the globe. Privilged to be its 25th librarian!

"World's first potential trillionaire has killed 600,000 people, including 400,000 children" is the only headline that anyone should ever read about Elon Musk

Rosalind Franklin and the damage of gender harassment Spurred by a recent report on sexual harassment in academia, our columnist revisits a historical case and reflects on what has changed—and what hasn’t

Thinking only of Rosalind Franklin today, and what was stolen from her (and so many other female scientists alongside her).

Your regular reminder that by throwing away nature, we throw away *everything*.

The Shutdown of U.S.A.I.D. Has Already Killed Hundreds of Thousands The short documentary “Rovina’s Choice” tells the story of what goes when aid goes.

One analytical model shows that, as of November 5th, the dismantling of U.S.A.I.D. has already caused the deaths of 600,000 people, two-thirds of them children. https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/jUzNSc