Joshua Hurtado

My number one tip for researchers that do a significant amount of non peer reviewed paper publication/outreach:

Create an excel table, every time you give an interview, talk, write an oped or white paper, etc. take 5 seconds to immediately note it in the excel.

From the New York Times: Breaking news: U.S. attacks Venezuelan boat for fourth time, challenging legal bounds

Zodiac killer murders again, challenging legal bounds

New response out! timotheeparrique.com/a-response-t...

Decolonizing Environmentalism We live in a moment rife with mixed emotions-existential anxieties about catastrophic climate change, presumptuous confidence in planet-hacking geoengineering t…

There's only so much a movement can accomplish by movement-ing alone! Ultimately, they need to build broad-based solidarities and coalitions, a strategy that XR could invest in more . You may like the arguments we make here: www.bloomsbury.com/us/decolonizing-environmentalism-9781350335493/

This is why we fund scientists to study things like oyster slobber even if you don’t think it sounds important

This reminds me of the 2002 movie S1m0ne, where Al Pacino's character creates a digital actress to avoid dealing with real actors. It goes terribly wrong for him.

As European Society for Ecological Economics, we launched our Curriculum Development Platform!

Designed for educators & learners, it offers 115+ resources—slides, syllabi, games, assignments & more—to support & inspire ecological economics teaching

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Metal mining is a global driver of environmental change - Nature Reviews Earth & Environment Global metal ore extraction has increased almost fourfold since 1970. This Review explores the drivers, patterns and environmental consequences of the growth of metal ore extraction and discusses interventions to reduce negative impacts across metal supply chains.

When we talk "renewables" we need to consider recycling and degrowth principles, it's as simply as that. We can't afford the same number of e-cars, as they need a broader range of metal-based materials, whose extraction is already related to deforestation.
www.nature.com/articles/s43...

Ive seen LLMs pushed a lot to fellow #adhd students and scholarship to "help" them with things like detail work and structuring work. Ive also seen many punished for trusting this offer of help too. Here's what to use instead:

#academicsky

Why has an intelligent and articulate woman wearing a mask and speaking at the UN provoked an aggressive response from some media outlets?

Because her mask and her words have profoundly perturbed people at a deeply subconscious level. The nature of that perturbation is fear.

Digital immortality - LCFI What does it mean to be immortal in the age of artificial intelligence? That’s the topic of a new documentary film released by the Leverhulme Centre for the Future of Intelligence (CFI). The film is b...

A new documentary film released by CFI explores what does it mean to be immortal in the age of artificial intelligence.
www.lcfi.ac.uk/news-events/...

Not exaggerating when I say I owe some of my greatest professional wins to gracious editors and reviewers. Unsung heroes of the profession.

Volume 101 Issue 3 | International Affairs | Oxford Academic The official journal of Chatham House, the Royal Institute of International Affairs. Publishes content across the entire discipline of international relations and is renowned for its academically rigo...

📣 Belated publication announcement – I have never really gotten round to properly introducing the @iajournal.bsky.social special section on ‘Boundary work and the (un)making of global cooperation’, co-edited with the wonderful @marenhofius.bsky.social.
academic.oup.com/ia/issue/101/3

In early 2025, beaver activity in the Brdy Protected Landscape Area, Czech Republic, contributed to the restoration of a wetland ecosystem. A family of beavers constructed a series of dams that coincidentally accomplished environmental goals of the Czech government, which had delayed its proposed project since 2018 for bureaucratic and financial reasons. The beaver-built dams saved the Czech government approximately US$1.2 million,

imagine if a family of beavers randomly showed up right now and finished whatever thing you've been putting off

Kurokawa Onsen. Words fail to describe

Dr. Kaylee Alexander on digital humanities, being a research data librarian, visual culture, cemeteries, French cemetery laws, cemetery sculpture, ethically sound data visualisation and survival bias

This month marks our 4-year anniversary! We are working hard on a special DDD17 episode to celebrate which will be released asap!

In the meantime: do enjoy our back catalogue!

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Writing multiple articles from one set of data So you’ve got this mountain of “stuff” that keeps revealing new secrets every time you look at it. Or maybe you’re doing a PhD by publication and panicking about how to sort out the art…

Some pointers to writing a series of papers from the same project patthomson.net/2025/09/21/w...

Thank you!

I am also worried about that. Let us hope to hear some news soon.

This is a possibility, although the news and response from the University of Syracuse does not suggest to me that this is the case. In any case, I hope Professor Sultana is okay.

Thank you for your response 🙂

Thank you! I had asked this question a few days ago and now I have an answer. Again, institutional cowardice is the response in the face of fascism...

Congresswoman Claudia Tenney Calls on Syracuse University to Fire Professors Who Celebrated Charlie Kirk's Murder or Face Loss of Federal Funding September 17, 2025 | Press Release Washington, DC - Congresswoman Claudia Tenney (NY-24) today issued the following statement after reports surfaced o that two professors at Syracuse University mocked the brutal murder of conservative leader Charlie Kirk: "While Americans across the country are mourning the tragic murder of Charle Kirk, two Syracuse University professors, Jenn Jackson and Farhana Sultana, used their platforms to celebrate and mock his death," said Congresswoman Tenney. Their appalling remarks included comments such as 'rest in piss, 'give him what he valued: no empathy, referring to him as 'trash, and even thanking a so-called 'witch' for cursing his life." = tenney.house.gov

We'll deliver breaking news directly to your inbox. Sign up today. By Mark Weiner | mweiner@syracuse.com Syracuse, N.Y. - Syracuse University said Wednesday it had taken swift action to address an uproar over social media posts made by two professors about the fatal shooting of conservative activist Charlie Kirk. In a statement, the university implied it had placed both professors on leave and promised to treat the matter "with utmost seriousness.

Hey, people who work on climate especially, you should know this is happening.

I wanted to get a video of this ghost crab but every time I got close to their hole they scuttled back in, so I tried getting clever with it. I made a little sandcastle and shoved my phone into it, hit record, and walked away. Crab was VERY suspicious of this addition to their environment.

Fascinating read: AI doomers & AI utopians aren’t opposites; they’re allies. Both sell the fantasy that AI will transform humanity, serving tech billionaires who profit from "hype". The real threat isn’t superintelligence. It’s the tech oligarchs building AI today.

Why science needs outsiders - Works in Progress Magazine Science has forgotten that the greatest breakthroughs often come from outsiders who are able to take a fresh perspective.

Fun article about “outsider” scientists and their breakthroughs.

“Academia filters most funding, publishing, and hiring decisions through senior insiders, which favors ideas within existing paradigms.”

worksinprogress.co/issue/why-sc...

Best review comment I ever received was "oppressive use of puns, perhaps held over from the dissertation stage." No, dear emeritus professor, they were all very intentional.

Just noticed that Professor Farhana Sultana disappeared, not only from here, but from her page at @syracuseu.bsky.social . Seems like institutional cowardice in the face of fascism is becoming the norm (again). Does any colleague from @pollenetwork.bsky.social have any news?

Oh ffs. No, I do not want to "Chat with the PDF" of this interesting looking academic journal article I just came across.

I would like to read it. With my own eyeballs. And think about it. You know, with that grey matter sitting between my ears.

Just make it stop.

#AcademicChatter

Job of “pope” remains un-killed at this time

EVERY YEAR we extract more material (coal, gas, oil) than the material needed for the ENTIRE energy transition...at massive economic and environmental cost.

The cost of the energy transition is discussed all the time.

What's often missing is the cost of not doing it.