New working paper: Prosperity within Limits? Planetary Habitability, Global Convergence & Structural Transformation 2026-2100 wid.world/news-article...
More to come in the Global Justice Report to be released at the World Inequality Conference Paris June 4-6 2026 inequalitylab.world/en/event/wor...
Can't think of a better analogy. 👇
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50 years since March 3, 1976, the "Bloody Sunday" in the Basque Country. The fascist Francoist police killed five workers in (my) city of Vitoria-Gasteiz during a weeks long industrial action. Memoria gara (we are memory). youtu.be/yVxuiMSXRI8?...
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2026. A code of ethics for peer reviewers. esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
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An analysis of 4 million academic documents reveals major blind spots in sustainability research. Much of this research focuses on technological solutions but pays too little attention to the role of civil society, the public sector, and financial actors, the study finds: buff.ly/eHrdPgz
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The NYT style guide
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Researchers have developed an Ocean Equity Index to measure how fair ocean initiatives are across 12 criteria.
The tool can be used by governments, companies and Indigenous or community groups, and its authors hope it gains global traction.
Experts note equity remains difficult to quantify.
"Thinking through the implications of 4C warming shows that the impacts are so significant that the only real adaptation strategy is to avoid that at all cost because of the pain & suffering that is going to cost. There is no science on how we are going to adapt to 4C warming" @neiladger.bsky.social
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Important new @worldresources.bsky.social research shows that agricultural expansion isn’t only leading to forest loss - it’s leading to loss of grasslands, savannas, & wetlands too.
From 2005-20, the 🌎 lost 95 Mha of non-forest natural ecosystems to annual crops, and another 95 Mha to pasture. 1/
Listen up scientists!
Providing the information and saying what needs to be done isn't enough, because policymaking isn't about doing the right thing
It's a contested space, a battlefield, and we have vastly powerful opponents who don't want governments to enact evidence-based policies
[FOUNDER'S BRIEF - @rhettayersbutler.bsky.social]
Indigenous leader José Albino Cañas Ramírez was shot dead in Caldas, Colombia, highlighting the Emberá Chamí’s “double victimization” by armed groups and extractive pressures. At least 21 social leaders have been killed in Colombia this year.
Vitoria-Gasteiz, 3 Marzo 1976. Memoria gara. Somos memoria.
youtu.be/yVxuiMSXRI8?...
Lorea Flores eta Gorka Laurnagarekin @stopfosilak.bsky.social #ZigoitiaBai-ren eskutik izandako solasaldiaren bideo osoa jada eskuragarri dago
www.youtube.com/watch?v=cGe4...
Sufficiency: "a strategy for reducing the consumption and production through changes in social practices in order to comply with sustainability while ensuring an adequate social foundation for all people"
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Please help me spread this postdoc position with me at Stockholm University, Sweden!!!! su.varbi.com/en/what:job/...
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The political effects of X's feed algorithm https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-026-10098-2 Received: 16 December 2024 Accepted: 4 January 2026 Published online: 18 February 2026 Open access • Check for updates Germain Gauthier,5, Roland Hodler?5, Philine Widmer35 & Ekaterina Zhuravskaya3,4,5 m Feed algorithms are widely suspected to influence political attitudes. However, previous evidence from switching off the algorithm on Meta platforms found no political effects'. Here we present results from a 2023 field experiment on Elon Musk's platform X shedding light on this puzzle. We assigned active US-based users randomly to either an algorithmic or a chronological feed for 7 weeks, measuring political attitudes and online behaviour. Switching from a chronological to an algorithmic feed increased engagement and shifted political opinion towards more conservative positions, particularly regarding policy priorities, perceptions of criminal investigations into Donald Trump and views on the war in Ukraine. In contrast, switching from the algorithmic to the chronological feed had no comparable effects. Neither switching the algorithm on nor switching it off significantly affected affective polarization or self-reported partisanship. To investigate the mechanism, we analysed users' feed content and behaviour. We found that the algorithm promotes conservative content and demotes posts by traditional media. Exposure to algorithmic content leads users to follow conservative political activist accounts, which they continue to follow even after switching off the algorithm, helping explain the asymmetry in effects. These results suggest that initial exposure to X's algorithm has persistent effects on users' current political attitudes and account-following behaviour, even in the absence of a detectable effect on partisanship.
A new paper shows that less than 2 months of exposure to Twitter’s algorithmic feed significantly shifts people’s political views to the right.
Moving from chronological feed to the algorithmic feed also increases engagement.
This is one of the most concerning papers I’ve read in awhile.
when big tech companies say that AI will save the planet, what kinds of AI are they actually talking about — and what's their proof? i took a look at some great new research from @ketanjoshi.co and talked to other experts about how a lot of this talk is probably bullshit:
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The implications of overshooting 1.5 °C on Earth system tipping elements - a review
"Global warming must peak below 2°C, return to below 1.5°C as quickly as possible (i.e. within this century), and to around 1°C thereafter to limit tipping point risks".
iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1...
What Marco Rubio conveniently left out of his "ode to empire" at Munich over the weekend.
I brought some receipts about the human costs of Western imperialism in my latest Guardian column:
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
There is a tendency to act as if climate change adaptation is a ‘get out of jail free’ card
Adapting to ongoing climate change will involve huge disruption to our systems
It would be so much simpler to act to stop further climate change
Appears this is also true for fascism.
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El santo grial del negacionismo. Su efecto no se limita a EEUU. La onda expansiva llegará aquí en cuestión de segundos. www.eldiario.es/1_c62f8e
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Graphic showing changes in CO₂, global temperatures and global sea levels over the last 2025 years. Steep increases are visible after the industrial revolution.
Updated climate indicators graphics, now including 2025
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Gaur Lorea Flores eta Gorka Laurnaga @stopfosilak.bsky.social Zigoitian izan ditugu. Aretoa nagusia beteta. Trantsizio ekosozialaren ikuspegiak partekatu ditugu. Jendea tinko Solariaren erasoei aurre egiteaz gain EHn berriztagarrien bidezko ereduen beharraz hausnartu dugu.
13.02.2026 23:14 — 👍 3 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0
Sounds normal. But it isn’t.
On #WomenInScienceDay these are the voices of women researchers at ICTA-UAB, imagining what science would feel like if gender equality were fully achieved. This is what should be ordinary. #IfThisWereNormal
#GenderEquality #11F #ICTAUAB #WomenInSTEM
Marie Curie fellowships are madness this year. A score of 97% required for funding. To all those who didn't succeed - you and your project are probably brilliant, hang in there and keep trying
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