Today in "talk shit, get hit": Japanese "politician" Kawai Yūsuke, who's turned to anti-immigrant hate to garner attention, got lightly grazed on the cheek after harassing Kurdish immigrants at their annual Newroz Festival & acted like he'd taken a bazooka to the face.

An extremely urgent edition of: to keep functioning, society must discourage baldface lying, especially by authorities

Eliot Higgins@eliothiggins.bsky.social · 6mo ago

And Trump's just making shit up, again www.theguardian.com/world/live/2...

🌱 Glad having Sarah Ware (@sware.bsky.social) from CEU Vienna tuning in for the last session of #CriticalApproaches26 today at @frw-rug.bsky.social (@rug.nl). 💡On 'Feminist perspectives in post-growth planning'. An immense pleasure teaching the course, coordinated by @muhalefetserhi.bsky.social .

'How climate imaginaries (re)shape space' - this Tuesday, @muhalefetserhi.bsky.social & me had the privilege of having Juliana Gonçalves from TU Delft as a guest in #CriticalApproaches26 in Groningen at @frw-rug.bsky.social (@rug.nl). Visionary approaches, realities - and prefigurative politics.

'Models like heroes?' Felix Krawczyk from University of Kassel (@kasselinstitute.bsky.social) visited @muhalefetserhi.bsky.social & me yesterday in #CriticalApproaches26 at @frw-rug.bsky.social for making integrated assessment models ready for deep carbonisation & socio-economic transformation.

Food for thought in today's #CriticalApproaches26 lecture @frw-rug.bsky.social . 🤓Open for further answers, thoughts, questions, ... - please share, also for coming years of the great course, coordinated by @muhalefetserhi.bsky.social !

Planetary boundaries in the real world - Ports & Global Maritime in #CriticalApproaches26 by @muhalefetserhi.bsky.social &me at @frw-rug.bsky.social : 🌍A special pleasure welcoming Tanner Tuttle (@oneplanetport.bsky.social & alumni of #CriticalApproaches23) for presentation & open discussion!

“Billionaires like Donald Trump don’t suffer the devastation of climate change,” he said. “Working people do.” #CriticalApproaches26 www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Trump’s EPA repeals landmark climate finding in gift to ‘billionaire polluters’

Rollback of government’s ability to limit climate-heating pollution will make families ‘sicker and less safe’, environmental advocate says

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Atmos, the student association of the MSc. Energy and Environmental Sciences (www.rug.nl/masters/ener...), is orginaizing February Enerbeer on Inside the IPCC Climate Report. ( www.atmosgroningen.nl/events/febru... ) A joint talk by @klaushubacek.bsky.social and @prajdhan.bsky.social

I still stand by these, even as universities around the world, including my own, brainlessly capitulate to AI.

Prof Julia Steinberger 🌹🌱🌍 #ClimateAction #Fightfascism@jksteinberger.bsky.social · 2y ago

As promised, here are the slides I shared with students to convince them to NOT use chatGPT and other artificial stupidity. TL;DR? AI is evil, unsustainable and stupid, and I'd much rather they use their own brains, make their own mistakes, and actually learn something. 🪄

Senden benden iyi başlamıştır kesin.

BirGün Gazetesi@birgun.net · 11mo ago

Altın haftaya nasıl başladı? www.birgun.net/haber/altin-...

Apply now for a free week-long PhD course on Energy Humanities organized by the Greenhouse and the project Energy Lives! project run by @melinabuns.bsky.social Takes place in Stavanger, Norway, 1-5 December 2025 www.uis.no/en/research/... #envhum #envhist #energy

Apply for PhD Course on Energy Humanities

5 ECTS PhD course ‘Themes within Environmental Humanities’ to be held in Stavanger, 1-5 December 2025. This year’s thematic focus is the developing field of the Energy Humanities.

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It's finally here! 100+ scholars, global scope, practical insights. “Climate Obstruction: A Global Assessment” shows how organized interests stall policy—and how governance can respond. Open access available now! Or order for paperback and hardcover. cssn.org/wp-content/u...

We are very excited to share the CfP for the Pollen26 conference in Barcelona (29 June-3 July) and invite submissions to our panel: Political ecologies of wildfires in Mediterranean Climate Zones: Beyond the Firefighting Trap nomadit.co.uk/conference/p...

We’ve met with Greta Thunberg and others in the flotilla. They describe hours-long scenes of torture and sexual harassment in Israeli captivity. Experts conclude that they have been subjected to serious crimes – Sweden’s foreign minister believes they have themselves to blame. tinyurl.se/crR

Greta Thunberg: “They kicked me every time the flag touched my face”

– Greta Thunberg on her days in Israeli captivity Beating, kicking, and threats of being gassed in cages. Greta Thunberg and several others from the flotilla ar

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A reminder.

David Ho@davidho.bsky.social · 2y ago

In recognition of us doing fuck all to reduce emissions, let me remind y'all that carbon dioxide removal (CDR) is useless unless we decarbonize drastically. rdcu.be/dbFbB

Goede keuze @volkskrant.nl — academisch marginaal, maar politiek radikaal!

de Volkskrant@volkskrant.nl · 12mo ago

Israëlisch onderzoeker Harel Chorev: ‘We moeten niet te optimistisch zijn, want we kennen Hamas’

Dr. Jane Goodall filmed an interview with Netflix in March 2025 that she understood would only be released after her death.

As long as the far right shapes public opinion, and mainstream parties follow public opinion, the far right dominates politics, whether in government or not.

@australianlabor.bsky.social @albomp.bsky.social Listen up!

Si un turista israelí se comporta así con unos voluntarios de UNICEF en Milán imagina cómo actúan sabiéndose impunes un colono robando casas y tierras en Cisjordania o un militar asesinando niños en Gaza. O todo un estado poderoso como el israelí con su maquinaria genocida perfectamente engrasada.

The board just dropped in the finance committee: 30 million in cuts still needed, equivalent to 300 FTE. Is this just more budgetary belt-tightening, or are these the first whispers of layoffs?

Members of the main opposition party in Turkey, whose presidential candidate and dozens of mayors are in prison, cannot enter their own party building in Istanbul because tomorrow (Monday) the Istanbul branch of the party'll be taken over by a trustee appointed by the regime. Oligarchy in action!

Reuters@reuters.com · last yr.

Turkey's main opposition calls for rallies after police barricade Istanbul office reut.rs/4phw3eS

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Timmons' pioneering work on climate justice has been very influential on many of us in the field. This is dangerous territory.

Timmons Roberts@timmonsroberts.bsky.social · last yr.

My lab's been attacked by an anti-wind group and their lawyers. They threatened the science funding of my whole university, to shut me and my undergraduate research assistants up. NYT just covered it. 1/n www.nytimes.com/2025/08/25/c...

Turkey was supposed to be a little U.S. after WWII; now the U.S. is becoming a bigger Turkey.

Justin Wolfers@justinwolfers.bsky.social · last yr.

Yes, the stakes here are large. Very large.

Literally: this is fine -dot- gif

EU wildfires worst on record as burning season continues

Data shows more than 1m hectares torched so far this year, with records also broken for CO2 and other air pollutants

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🧑‍🌾 👩🏾‍🌾 In our recent article with Deniz Pelek & Cemil Yıldızcan, we trace the im/mobility of migrant seasonal agricultural workers and the slow violence they are exposed to in #disaster-affected areas in #Turkey. #openaccess link.springer.com/article/10.1...

We’re proud to share that @rug.nl experts are contributing to the IPCC AR7 – Working Group III 🌍 @klaushubacek.bsky.social — LA, Ch.2 🌍 @prajdhan.bsky.social — CLA, Ch.4 🌍 Linda Steg — LA, Ch.5 Shaping pathways for a sustainable future. #AR7 #IPCC #ClimateAction

Hmm, what do ‘central camps’ and ‘final plan’ remind you of? 🤷🏽‍♂️👇🏽