Melissa Gregg

America Is Living in a Climate-Denial Fantasy On climate, the U.S. and the rest of the planet are now in “completely separate worlds.”

On this and several other topics… www.theatlantic.com/science/arch...

Useful ongoing reminder of capitalism’s many sacrifice zones

Pissants by Brandon Jack review – is this novel a critique or a celebration of toxic masculinity? Even it isn’t sure The former AFL player’s debut novel barely has a plot, following a group of aggressive, entitled footy players as they get wasted and treat women like props

I wrote about Brandon Jack’s debut novel Pissants for Guardian Australia. It evoked in me a similar response to Trainspotting back in the day, and I guess whether or not that’s a positive evaluation depends on your reading of that novel. www.theguardian.com/books/2025/a...

Climate target malpractice As the Albanese government prepares to announce Australia’s 2035 climate target, pressure is mounting to show greater ambition. A cut in greenhouse gas emissions of at least 75 per cent below 2005 lev...

“The government wouldn’t need to keep cooking the books if it simply had the courage to confront fossil fuels… Since most gas and coal is shipped overseas, these aren’t emissions that keep the lights on—they’re emissions keeping one industry afloat” www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au/comment/topi...

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Just saw this exhibition in person and had a good cry. Overwhelming. wildislandtas.com.au/collections/...

I have been researching books about birds for a side project and this one made me LOL www.booktopia.com.au/covers/big/9...

These are Tasmanian native hens!

Sharing breakfast with the neighborhood turbo chooks earlier today

Humanities and social science provide the historical perspective to appreciate that disciplines are a byproduct of their socio-economic moment. At this point in history, the biggest problems we face will only be solved with interdisciplinary partnership.

Also support! What's often missing in this debate is that a BA does not limit graduates from working in and with science and engineering. Humanities is the training that helped me gain work in STEM - to become a "Senior Principal Engineer" - and translate knowledge across disciplinary boundaries.

Torn beats Treaty. Wild

Welcome to The End I am starting this newsletter to try to solve some problems. I've been covering right-wing and far-right politics for over a decade, mostly as a freelancer, with hundreds of bylines across publicatio...

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Day three of @iamcr.org and Kerrie Foxwell Norton is dropping some truth bombs on the field of environmental communication having failed the Great Barrier Reef

Feeling Obsolescence Electronic waste is “the fastest growing waste stream in the world” and has been so for over a decade. The earliest reference I have for this claim is a 2014 International Labour Organi…

I wrote about our ongoing complicity with e-waste for Interactions magazine this month, reposted here so you can see what a "Buffalo" shredder looks like 🤓 melgregg.com/2025/07/04/f...

YouTube video by Intel Young Innovator Achieves Childhood Dream at Intel ISEF | Intel

What tech companies used to do
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Sometimes NPS is entirely the right metric measuringu.com/meeting-soft...

Glad you saw this! Was going to send it to you!

Why the world cannot quit coal Ten years after the signing of the Paris climate accord, demand for coal shows no sign of peaking

Despite all the excellent data visualisation in this article, what I will remember is the comment about wedding clothes. Clean air is still somehow a privilege on.ft.com/4k8xeJJ

Solstice greetings: bonds, bribes, and the practical value of imagination  · Probable Futures Spencer Glendon explores why investors should be placing less emphasis on forecasts and more on dynamic scenarios in a changing climate.

“If I can’t put it in the spreadsheet, it doesn’t exist” —on the deficiencies of financial models for climate change probablefutures.org/perspective/...

Excited to announce that the #landgrabu investigation at @highcountrynews is posting a correction.
It's a little unusual for reporters to get excited about corrections, so check this out ⬇️

Inside China’s ‘stolen iPhone building’ We track the roaring trade of mobiles grabbed in London and New York, then sold in a single district in Shenzhen

The many value vectors in hardware reuse: Individual features and components create alternative experiences and livelihoods, stripped of the mythology that digital devices are a vehicle for personal identity on.ft.com/4jHzabG

The first of the “Climate Futures in Digital Cultures” positions at Leuphana now open. A great opportunity to work with fantastic scholars www.leuphana.de/universitaet...

Here's a long thread on an issue dear to my heart. This Tuesday evening I’m doing an Intellectual Publics with Macarena Gomez-Barris on publishing. Like last year’s conversation with Denise Cruz, or the prior year’s with Racquel Gates, we will talk about how to find a publisher, turn a thesis... 1/

I don’t understand this England

Taiwan’s chip plants run on migrant workers. Job brokers run their lives In Taiwan’s AI-fueled chip boom, brokers control everything from paychecks to dorm beds, leaving workers feeling trapped and exploited.

The dorms behind Nvidia's share price restofworld.org/2025/taiwan-...

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YouTube video by OpenAI Sam & Jony introduce io

I almost feel sorry for San Francisco youtu.be/W09bIpc_3ms?...

US applications for British citizenship hit record high after Trump win Immigration lawyers report surge in Americans looking to move to UK

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📣 The draft programme for our Environmental Humanities Summer School has landed and we're so excited to share it with you: bit.ly/4miqI5k ✨
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You bet they do: "cumbersome permitting processes, a lack of reliable energy infrastructure, and a push by environmental groups to ignore traditional energy resources threaten America’s leadership" naturalresources.house.gov/uploadedfile...