Femke Nijsse

But fossil fuel companies weren't political, according to Meta 🙄

I wonder if that's going to increase the gap in healthy life expectancy..

Global Tipping Points | understanding risks & their potential impact Harmful tipping points in the natural world threaten humanity by disrupting life support systems and societal stability.

The Global Tipping Points Report 2025 is out:

How can societies trigger positive shifts for people and planet? The technologies chapter (which I contributed to) looks at how innovation can drive these transformations. #GTP2025 #ClimateAction

global-tipping-points.org

And would ozempic help us get smaller cars again?

I was not aware. That's great!

Who will be next?

There's four studies on it now, all consistently showing it helps. All with caveats (secondary outcomes, epidemiology)

GP doesn't want to prescribe, doesn't want the links to studies. Private GP said the exact same thing. I now have to wait for the clinic, who won't come back in time, if at all.

Anyone know how to get metformin for long COVID prevention in the UK? Got infected again.

GP not familiar enough with research to be willing to prescribe.

The sound of knowledge growing: Wikipedia edits as ambient music 🎶🎵.

Relax, listen, or join in by making an edit: listen.hatnote.com#nowelcomes,en

I can't imagine that working for a final project though...

It takes a lot of creativity away from students to mostly rely on exams

To those teaching in higher education, how do you AI proof your assessments?

Is there a place still for a dissertation?

Cheaper car insurance in particular is great with so many folks struggling

If you'd like to benefit, do let your councillors know 📃📤

Asked a question today in Devon County Council: how to include children in decisions about walking and cycling infrastructure?

Children are usually overlooked in decisions.

Every child deserves to be independent and use our streets

For me, the best way to deal with bad news is to do something about it. If you're busy campaigning or helping others, you can't doom scroll

I'm concerned with the algorithms or prejudice that leads to these kinds of media diets. I imagine it's more of the former.

And yes, that impacts the content too. I rarely see women cook shows normalise copious meat consumption for instance.

Are you familiar with the women in energy starter packs: go.bsky.app/AGCURBf might have some inspiration on who to follow!

One thing I've been noticing: so many men mostly consume media made by men, for instance with podcasts. Even progressive men seem to listen to very few women

I always try to think of a stolen bike as an involuntary subsidy to cycling

Still, will miss my steed of steel (or 'stalen ros' as we say in the Netherlands)

UK bike parking 🚲 is so bad, I had to leave my bike next to the full racks on Tuesday.

The racks were still there when I got back.

I do hope the new ICJ advisory on climate change will make it less likely to succeed

Needs to meet both IOM and CCC criteria

You'd be surprised at how large the uncertainty is of world population data. We might end up with a Byrnihat population estimate between -500 million and +500 million this way

Google's AI prompt giving information about a Dutch island's population when asked about an Indian town.

Thanks AI

Lovely to welcome the great Hector Pollitt to Bluesky!

Looking forward to reading more of these economics blogs ☀️. I've missed them

A paragraph on misinformation about diet and exercise in polycystic ovary syndrome, added on Wikipedia

This week in #Wikipedia land, someone added influencer diet bullshit to the article on PCOS (a common endocrine disorder)

Now the article has a paragraph on influencer misinformation

He has unfortunately passed away

Part of statue damaged by acid rain

Long shot

Does anybody know where this image of acid rain damage was taken?

I only know the year (2005) and the author (a long inactive Wikipedian)

While it's inevitable more air con is needed for adaptation in Europe, a lot of cooling can be achieved without using energy.

I know tons of people that don't close curtains, and open windows during the hottest parts of the day

With the heat, note that the coldest part of the day is the end of the night 🌅

Opening windows in the early morning helps cool your house if you forgot overnight

I would say it is, yes

As in: there seem quite a few steps there

Insecure code -> Hitler fan

I can sort of imagine the route of associations, but still