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⚡️ More and more fields and forests around Pokrovsk, Donetsk region, are covered with fiber optic wires from drones.

Exxon funded thinktanks to spread climate denial in Latin America, documents reveal Texas-based fossil fuel company financed Atlas Network in attempt to derail UN-led climate treaty process

Global gaslighting, sponsored by Exxon

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

En 2026, les californiens vont peut-être adopter une taxe de 5% sur la fortune des milliardaires. Par référendum, car leur gouverneur (démocrate...) s'oppose à taxer la fortune.

Cette proposition évite toutes les critiques formulées à l'encontre de la taxe Zucman. ⬇️
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oag.ca.gov/system/files...

The 400 richest Americans are now worth a record $6.6 trillion.

The entire bottom 50% of America is worth just $4.2 trillion.

Read that back.

When 400 people control more wealth than half a country’s population, we have a very serious problem.

Turkey’s fabled textile industry is coming apart at the seams Inflation, China and an exodus of Syrian workers are among its problems

Ironic that Syrians were dubbed a "flexible workforce" for years, when that meant informal employment. Now that they're returning to Syria, it is a "labor shortage."
Syrians weren't/aren't the problem. It is the business model!
www.economist.com/europe/2025/...

Economics Literature Search Full-text search across 15,000+ papers from top economics journals and NBER working papers. Track how empirical methods have evolved over time.

Dropping a beta version of this page while everyone is up and processing baseball!

This tool lets you search the full text of papers from the American Economic Review, American Economic Journal series, and over 30,000 NBER working papers.

paulgp.com/econlit-pipe...

ANES Data Release! electionstudies.org/data-center/...

The 3-wave ANES panel is now available. It merges data from 3 election studies (2016-2020-2024), the first time the ANES has collected interviews of the same respondents across 3 presidential elections.

Line graph time series of annual mean Arctic sea ice extent from 1979 to 2024. There is a long-term decreasing trend in ice and 2016 and 2020 are the lowest years on record. The colors of the graph are changed to a Halloween style. Data is from the NSIDC Sea Ice Index v3. A linear least squares trend line is shown across all years.

Now here is something scary... 👻

And some more spooky climate trends for today: www.climatecentral.org/climate-matt...

#HappyHalloween! 🎃

Le RN vient de faire voter une résolution d’un racisme totalement décomplexé.

J’ai la nausée et j’ai honte du message que notre pays envoie à tous•tes nos compatriotes d’origine algérienne.

L’obsession de la droite et de l’extrême droite pour l’Algérie a un parfum de revanche colonial.

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#Communiqué 🗞️ Une étude démontre que 60% des plateformes de glaces flottantes situées autour de la calotte glaciaire antarctique pourraient disparaître sur le long terme. Ces plateformes freinent aujourd’hui l’augmentation du niveau des mers. ❄️

👉 www.cnrs.fr/fr/presse/le...

Dans le contre-budget du RN, des coupes sans précédent dans la politique environnementale de la France L’écologie serait, avec les immigrés, la première victime des propositions budgétaires formulées par l’extrême droite, jeudi 23 octobre.

Le contre-budget du RN est clair : ce parti veut accélérer l'effondrement climatique et rendre le pays inhabitable.

Leurs propositions sont aussi délirantes pour l'environnement que l'économie, puisqu'elles anéantiront la filière française du renouvelable.

Bonjour les charlots.

RFK Jr to urge Americans to eat more saturated fats, alarming health experts Guidance from health and human services secretary contradicts decades of dietary recommendations

The lunatics are now in complete control of the asylum

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

North American fires contaminate Europe

#CNRSNews 📰 Megafires in North America impact air quality in Europe as the smoke they release, carried by the atmospheric circulation system, takes only a few days to cross the Atlantic. The various pollutants it contains have been spotted as far away as Germany. 🔥

Le cirque autour de l'incarcération de Nicolas Sarkozy prouve une chose : pour toute une partie de la caste politico-médiatique, la justice ne doit pas être la même pour tout le monde.

Impitoyable avec les faibles, obséquieuse avec les forts.

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“Twitter sucks now and all the cool kids are moving to Bluesky:” Our new survey shows that scientists no longer find Twitter professionally useful or pleasant My colleague Dr. Julia Wester and I have a new paper out in the journal Integrative and Comparative Biology reporting on the results of a survey distributed to over 800 scientists, science educator…

ICYMI, here is the press release for my study with @drjuliawester.bsky.social - we surveyed over 800 scientists who use social media. They overwhelmingly agree that Twitter is no longer useful or pleasant, and that for all professional online scientist goals, Bluesky is superior.
🧪 #SciComm 🌍

🚲🥗🚗 Small choices matter, but big change happens when systems support them.

WRI Climate ranked 19 climate-friendly behaviors to show which ones cut the most emissions and why policies & businesses must make them accessible.

See the list 👉 bit.ly/4q0pWvC

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Nobel 2025 : Mokyr, Aghion et Howitt ont expliqué comment l'innovation tirait la croissance
(Académie royale des Sciences)
annotationsbis.blogspot.com/2025/10/Moky...

Similar effects between animal-based and plant-based protein blend as complementary dietary protein on muscle adaptations to resistance training: findings from a randomized clinical trial Recent evidence suggests that both animal and plant proteins support strength and hypertrophy gains when paired with resistance training and adequate protein intake. The purpose of this study was t...

💪 Plant vs animal protein in training

In a 12-week trial, men who took plant or animal protein with resistance training gained similar muscle mass and strength. Both sources were equally effective.

🔗 doi.org/10.1080/15502783.2025.2568047

#SciComm #Nutrition #Exercise 🧪

One-quarter of freshwater fauna threatened with extinction - Nature A global multi-taxon extinction risk assessment of freshwater fauna for The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species finds one-quarter of species to be at high risk of extinction.

"Here we present the results of a multi-taxon global freshwater fauna assessment for The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species covering 23,496 decapod crustaceans, fishes and odonates, finding that one-quarter are threatened with extinction."

#Biodiversity

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Mosquito-borne viruses surge in a warming Europe Chikungunya cases break records in France; West Nile virus appears near Rome

Mosquitoes are the messengers that bring the news of climate change to your door via their infectious diseases.

La presse Bolloré, « des médias militants, d’obsessions » : Radio France réplique sur l’affaire Legrand-Cohen Le directeur éditorial de Radio France répond à la campagne menée par les médias du groupe Bolloré autour de la vidéo volée des deux journalistes discutant avec des membres du PS.

Radio France contre-attaque enfin.
www.nouvelobs.com/politique/20...

Green energy entrepreneurs urge UK to allow new North Sea oil and gas projects Dale Vince joins Octopus Energy’s Greg Jackson in calling on government to ‘optimise’ the remaining fossil fuels

FFS @DaleVince @g__j

More oil and gas = more emissions = more global heating

We are already locked in to a return to a Pliocene climate, emerging as soon as the 2030s

We cannot afford this sort of insanity

@MrMatthewTodd @ChrisGPackham @CMP_voice

www.theguardian.com/business/202...

Quand un Premier ministre homophobe est nommé en France.

Et que ce qui choque le journaliste est... que tu le dises.

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The important role of wetland conservation and restoration in nitrogen removal across European river basins - Nature Water This study evaluates the potential of wetland conservation and restoration to improve water quality and highlights the important role of wetlands in nitrogen removal across European river basins.

Wetlands as water filters

A new study shows European wetlands remove over 1 million tonnes of nitrogen each year. Targeted wetland restoration could cut pollution to seas by up to 36% while aiding biodiversity and climate goals.

🔗 www.nature.com/articles/s44...

#SciComm 🧪 #Wetlands

The White House is taking new steps to undermine every international student at our universities.

It has approved a new rule restricting student visas to 4 years max. That's not long enough for PhD students, or about half of undergrads, to finish their degree.

Likely to enter force within days.

📢 Call for Papers - Fall 2025 📢
If you are a #junior scholar studying the #economics of #migration, we encourage you to submit!

📧 Email junioreconmig@gmail.com
🗓️ Submit by September 1, 2025
🎤 Seminars will take place on Tuesdays at 5:30pm CET

Spatial correlation in economic analysis of climate change - Nature Nature - Spatial correlation in economic analysis of climate change

📉 Climate–economy links questioned

A reanalysis finds that strong spatial correlations between regions mean earlier studies may have overstated confidence in climate–economic damage estimates.

🔗 doi.org/10.1038/s415...

#SciComm #ClimateCrisis #Economics 🧪

« Sur l’écologie, c’est comme si le gouvernement ne voulait pas accepter que l’état de crise allait devenir notre quotidien. »

Mouvement social du 10 septembre, loi Duplomb, censure de Bayrou, international, municipales, présidentielles : mon interview de rentrée dans @liberation.fr ⤵️