Matt Berkley's Avatar

Matt Berkley

@mattberkley.bsky.social

Sentientism, food policy for desired/anticipated consumption patterns, plant-based food for climate, consumption behaviour, history and reporting of global goals, framing.

7,205 Followers  |  6,982 Following  |  271 Posts  |  Joined: 01.12.2023
Posts Following

Posts by Matt Berkley (@mattberkley.bsky.social)

Perhaps the Committee on Publication Ethics might include in its guidelines:

When an article is retracted, publishers should notify authors of all papers which have cited it.

25.01.2026 10:47 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

bsky.app/profile/matt...

21.01.2026 22:36 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

bsky.app/profile/matt...

21.01.2026 22:36 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

bsky.app/profile/matt...

21.01.2026 22:32 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

bsky.app/profile/matt...

21.01.2026 22:31 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

We might ask similar questions about training, orders, guidelines, discipline and whistleblowing at ICE.

18.11.2025 14:25 — 👍 0    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 2

Has anyone publicised incentive structures in ICE - such as quotas, targets and bonuses?

Is there scope for these systems to be challenged in court?

18.11.2025 14:21 — 👍 8    🔁 4    💬 1    📌 2

RR: Rigorous Review.
RPR: Rigorous Part-Review.

Competent, useful critical appraisal does not necessarily need a "peer" as regards ability to assess more than one aspect of a research article - or to cover more than one aspect.

PRR: Positive Rigorous Review.
PR2: Positive Rigorous Part-Review.

20.01.2026 17:22 — 👍 4    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0

Could a US legal expert provide information/views on this, or give context -

What are the duties of members of the US armed forces if ordered to:

a) consider,
b) plan,
c) prepare for,
d) facilitate,
or
e) give purported justification for

action which would be unlawful if carried out?

21.01.2026 12:38 — 👍 5    🔁 4    💬 0    📌 2

bsky.app/profile/matt...

21.01.2026 14:20 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

bsky.app/profile/matt...

21.01.2026 14:16 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Could a US legal expert provide information/views on this, or give context -

What are the duties of members of the US armed forces if ordered to:

a) consider,
b) plan,
c) prepare for,
d) facilitate,
or
e) give purported justification for

action which would be unlawful if carried out?

21.01.2026 12:38 — 👍 5    🔁 4    💬 0    📌 2

So the government is letting primary schools tell kids, and imply, that

"families have a mummy and daddy, and sometimes just a mummy or daddy"?

It's not even factually accurate, or consistent with same-sex marriage being lawful.

21.01.2026 12:31 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

RR: Rigorous Review.
RPR: Rigorous Part-Review.

Competent, useful critical appraisal does not necessarily need a "peer" as regards ability to assess more than one aspect of a research article - or to cover more than one aspect.

PRR: Positive Rigorous Review.
PR2: Positive Rigorous Part-Review.

20.01.2026 17:22 — 👍 4    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0

Degenerative "AI".

03.01.2026 12:21 — 👍 11    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0

Also: the more that statistics on serious attacks are dominated by those who know each other, the less relevance to most people's safety.

12.01.2026 16:34 — 👍 1    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

It's perhaps worth noting that even when we don't know where we may be wrong, we may still be able to think about how to guess at sources of uncertainty - such as by thinking about

- how we've been biased in the past,

- what mistakes others have made,

- how we have defined key concepts and ...

20.01.2026 16:23 — 👍 1    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0

...as well as varieties of ways of thinking with the purpose of finding clues to the unknowns that may be useful (visualising, analysing language and so on).

20.01.2026 16:33 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

... how those concepts may be limited or dubious or based on categories which may be no more justifiable than others.

And that there are ways other than thinking which can prompt us to conceptualise differently (intuition, dreams, analogy, fiction) ...

20.01.2026 16:31 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

It's perhaps worth noting that even when we don't know where we may be wrong, we may still be able to think about how to guess at sources of uncertainty - such as by thinking about

- how we've been biased in the past,

- what mistakes others have made,

- how we have defined key concepts and ...

20.01.2026 16:23 — 👍 1    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0

Let's think of other ways to conceptualise this.

"Unlimited irresponsibility"
"Unlimited damage potential"
"Unlimited recklessness"

"Limited liability" concerns the welfare of the offender, rather than others.

11.10.2025 08:48 — 👍 2    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0

Let's take a little time to consider what Trump and his allies may be doing behind the scenes, in the form for instance of instructions to agencies on surveillance.

11.02.2025 09:51 — 👍 4    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

If your government has a realistic plan in case of a sudden and massive disruption to fossil fuel supply (through war or otherwise):

It can probably use a lot of that plan now for the climate crisis.

If it doesn't have that plan:

It's probably failing on both counts.

28.11.2025 22:03 — 👍 17    🔁 5    💬 0    📌 1

SINO:

Science In Name Only.

16.12.2025 10:52 — 👍 4    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 1
Preview
The UK’s hidden carbon footprint - ESCoE Accounting for environmental impacts in trade By Anne Owen, Lena Killian and Rutger Hoekstra When […]

Yes, it's important for people to understand climate effects of outsourcing to other countries (including both emissions and lost forests).

Also material footprint (end of article)

www.escoe.ac.uk/the-uks-hidd...

and pollution/habitat destruction effects of outsourced manufacturing/farming.

21.10.2025 09:19 — 👍 13    🔁 6    💬 1    📌 0

"Adding up some domestic emissions that your largely service economy causes and going on about "net zero"

without

telling people each time what you are talking about

is a bit like

paying your poorer neighbour to burn your rubbish and implying you haven't caused any smoke."

Is that fair?

14.11.2025 20:15 — 👍 8    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 1

Climate impacts of a country on others, in addition to domestic emissions, include impacts caused or partially caused outside its borders, through for example:

Outsourced emissions

Shipping, aviation

Subsidiaries

Financing pollution

Failure of companies/governments to warn of dangers

Military

16.12.2025 11:49 — 👍 3    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 1

Shall we call traditional peer review

(for example,

secret,

only involving a couple of reviewers who may not between them have all the required skills, knowledge and experience, and

unpaid)

initial peer review: IPR?

13.01.2026 08:49 — 👍 7    🔁 3    💬 1    📌 1

Shall we say

"published article" (or "draft" if the authors prefer) instead of "preprint" if it's published on the internet,

and

"traditionally published" or "published with a claim of initial peer review" if it's traditionally "published"?

13.01.2026 18:31 — 👍 3    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

Political bias/prejudice may have changed since the original research found by that search done in 2016, due to factors including:

Rise of far right, Trump 1 and 2
"culture wars"
Covid/antivaccine
Ukraine war
Gaza
Musk buying Twitter
Other social media companies' policies
Brexit
Economic hardship

18.01.2026 10:21 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0