Chad Briggs

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‘I’m afraid for our children’: living with the climate crisis in the Philippines – in pictures Gideon Mendel’s visceral portraits from his project Drowning World show people in Bulacan province dealing with the climate emergency in their daily lives

Filipinos share the realities of the climate crisis & the adaptation measures they need to survive.

Rich countries must pay up for adaptation so that people can stay in their homes or move if they want to, & global leaders must take action to end our reliance on fossil fuels once & for all.

Nodding along in the Philippines...

(Checks my CV, sees I co-authored two econ articles this year)

Dammit, I wanted to be a geographer

Well, that's a blast from the past

In 2024, hail damage in the US cost more than damage from hurricanes and floods put together. That year, hail-related expenses were estimated to have reached around $40 billion.

Just 15 years ago, the annual cost of hail damage was less than $1 billion.

Yeah, I think it will become much more difficult to travel on a US passport

EPA erases references to human-caused climate change from websites The agency revamped its webpages to feature natural causes of rising temperatures such as the Earth’s orbit.

The Trump Administration continues its attacks on science here by removing all reference to the science of climate change from the EPA websites.

Next is likely a full rush at the endangerment finding.

www.eenews.net/articles/epa...

From the NSS: Energy Dominance – Restoring American energy dominance (in oil, gas, coal, and nuclear) and reshoring the necessary key energy components is a top strategic priority. Cheap and abundant energy will produce well-paying jobs in the United States, reduce costs for American consumers and businesses, fuel reindustrialization, and help maintain our advantage in cutting-edge technologies such as AI. Expanding our net energy exports will also deepen relationships with allies while curtailing the influence of adversaries, protect our ability to defend our shores, and—when and where necessary—enables us to project power. We reject the disastrous “climate change” and “Net Zero” ideologies that have so greatly harmed Europe, threaten the United States, and subsidize our adversaries. <last sentence emphasised by me]

The only mention of climate in the new US National Security Strategy (NSS)
www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/u...

No kidding, that shit doesn't just wash off

Our new piece in the Journal of Strategic Security on lessons from cognitive warfare in Ukraine, and it's open access
digitalcommons.usf.edu/jss/vol18/is...

Our new piece in the Journal of Strategic Security on lessons from cognitive warfare in Ukraine, and it's open access
digitalcommons.usf.edu/jss/vol18/is...

"People can be led to distrust their neighbors, even when there is no rational reason for doing so."

Danyk and Briggs: Modern Cognitive Operations and Hybrid Warfare

Journal of Strategic Security, 2023

digitalcommons.usf.edu/cgi/viewcont...

So they have thirteen hours to drive from Torrance to Long Beach?

I'm still waiting to wake up from this dream

For those unfamiliar with the acronym, CNRS is Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, which is the French National Centre for Scientific Research

Disrupted Federal Funding for Extramural Cancer Research This cross-sectional study assesses the scale and scope of terminated cancer research grants from the National Cancer Institute.

The US government support of cancer research via NCI
has been severely cut.
And of June 2025, "There were 181 individual terminated NCI funded grants, with a total award amount of $640,867, 956."
jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

a woman with curly hair is wearing a plaid scarf around her neck . Alt: Keeley Hawes and Philip Glennister giving raised eyebrow looks to each other while in a car in the 1980s

Ashes to Ashes had so many little gems like that

Ukraine’s drones keep enemy soldiers and civilians weary Months after Ukrainian ground troops retreated from this Russian region, assaults in the air are still a common hazard

The Globe provides insight into a Russian troupe’s daily activities as they attack Ukrainian military.
Remarkable reporting by The Globe.

www.theglobeandmail.com/world/articl...

FFS

Ages ago I had a student doing a journalism internship in DC. After speaking to groups of lawmakers, she called and sheepishly asked, "Prof, is it me, or are some of these powerful people . . . not always that smart?"

No kidding. If you have to hire outside consultants, doesn't that suggest that you're understaffed?

Today's biggest science news: Doomed comet explodes | Comet 3I/ATLAS course alteration | Dark matter detected? Wednesday, Nov. 26, 2025: Your daily feed of the biggest discoveries and breakthroughs making headlines.

NEW from me - NSF cancels grant scheme for social science research.

Seems the NSF quietly archived ALL calls for DDRIG grants in the SBE directorate. This is a massive blow for PhD students wanting to do cutting-edge social science research. 🏺🧪

You’ve been kidnapped. The characters from the last TV show you watched are trying to rescue you. Who’s coming to save you?

I might be ok. I might really be in trouble. (And yes, I know this graphic is from the movie, not the show.)

Happy Turkey Day

“The people in this book are brave,” said Toad. “They fight dragons and giants, and they are never afraid.”

“I wonder if we are brave,” said Frog.

Without US satellites, 'we go dark', tells climate monitor US budget cuts risk creating blind spots in Earth monitoring systems that would imperil weather forecasting and climate research for years to come, the deputy chair of a key UN-backed climate monitori...

Without US satellites, 'we go dark', tells climate monitor - @kellymacnamara.bsky.social @afp.com via Andrew ZININ @sciencex.bsky.social

phys.org/news/2025-11...

Thank you. As someone who devoted a good chunk of my life to learning Hungarian (among other languages), I always thought Chomsky was full of crap

Deutsche Bank? The Russian link?