Good morning on Day 1649 of Ukraine's defence. Welcome along, though updates today may be somewhat limited for personal reasons... feel free to wish me happy birthday 🎉 Anyway work to do, let's start.
@justdarnedordinary.bsky.social
During grad school, we’d say that climate change is happening, but we can’t definitively say it’s due to humans (even though we were pretty sure it was). It might be technically correct to say that we can’t definitively say what happened in Nepal/Tibet is due to climate change, but really, we can.
The source of the flood in Nepal is a collapsed glacier 🧪⚒️
Dr Dan Shugar 🇨🇦@watershedlab.bsky.social · last wk.There has been a truly horrific flood in Nepal this morning (you can go search for videos). Let's be careful not to jump to conclusions about the trigger until we have visual confirmation. This is unlikely to have been a glacial lake outburst flood. 🧪⚒️
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I started my PhD program with an eight week old at home, sole income being my doctoral stipend, in a history program, in Knoxville, TN. And every month we got a new book to read to my son, free, mailed to us, so my kid, my kids, grew up in rooms full of books even when I had no money. That's Dolly.
Under a Binface government, anyone who doesn’t accept human-made climate change as fact will be sent back to school, from Year 1 right the way to A Levels, to see if anything goes in the second time round. #VoteBinface
What *actually* works — right here, right now — to address climate change? Here you go. This is the result of thousands of hours of painstaking research and analysis from the Project Drawdown team.
The rise of larger vehicles like SUVs and pickup trucks, with their taller hoods and larger blind zones, has contributed to a 75% increase in pedestrian and cyclist deaths since 2009. Until we design better streets and ban these vehicles, people outside these vehicles will keep dying.
The Deadly Rise of Giant Trucks and S.U.V.s (Gift Article)
The vehicles on American roads have grown larger — and they are killing thousands more pedestrians, a Times investigation found.
nytimes.com
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Not many days left of my #Scandinavian tour by rail. Happened upon this jaw dropping scene in #Malmö yesterday at sunset. #Øresund Bridge and #Copenhagen just visible on the horizon. Oh yes, #flyless
On day 15 of my #Scandinavian tour by rail. I love it up here and I have to say the @interraileu.bsky.social pass is fantastic, brilliant, superlative. Its flexible and, so rare these days, excellent value
I knew my writing students were using AI. Their confessions led to a powerful teaching moment | Micah Nathan
I knew my writing students were using AI. Their confessions led to a powerful teaching moment | Micah Nathan
The problem wasn’t just the perfectly polished, yet mediocre prose. It’s what’s lost when we surrender the struggle to translate thought into words
theguardian.com
Europe's electricity: 29% fossil fuels in 2024, down from 53% in 2005. Progress. But transport is still 92% fossil. Buildings: 71%. Industry: 61%. And 95% of EU oil and 88% of gas imported. Switching suppliers doesn't fix this. Electrification and efficiency do. More here: rdcu.be/feOjc
Individual action is vital, but systemic change requires a coalition. Today, I join people, NGOs and organisations around the world to deliver a direct message to world leaders: stop the tunnel vision and #SeeTheBigPicture. #EarthDay2026
"Rahmstorf, who has studied the Amoc for 35 years, has said a collapse must be avoided 'at all costs'. 'I argued this when we thought the chance of an Amoc shutdown was maybe 5%, and even then we were saying that risk is too high, given the massive impacts. Now it looks like it’s more than 50%.'"
Critical Atlantic current significantly more likely to collapse than thought
Scientists say finding is ‘very concerning’ as collapse would be catastrophic for Europe, Africa and the Americas
theguardian.com
Hugely important, hugely influencial. AMOC gives us warmth in winter. It's a potential climate tipping point. And there are others. This. Is why we should not fly, or at the very least #flyless www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Critical Atlantic current significantly more likely to collapse than thought
Scientists say finding is ‘very concerning’ as collapse would be catastrophic for Europe, Africa and the Americas
theguardian.com
1/ For those of us keeping an eye on systemic #climate risks, these aren’t difficult dots to connect. I find it downright frightening. We need to brace for impacts and spring into preparedness now. This thread outlines 6 key papers and what we can do in response. ⬇️🧵
A lobbyist who worked directly for Peter Mandelson, on the Palantir board, and on the board of *four* NHS trusts. Lobbying the NHS to hand over even more patient data to Palantir. This absolutely stinks. Get Palantir out of the NHS. Sign my petition: you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/st...
Active travel saves the NHS at least £54 million a year just in Liverpool alone. Other regions especially the north east need to sit up, take note and ramp up their efforts. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
'Active travel' in Liverpool City Region 'saves NHS millions'
People walking, wheeling and cycling in the Liverpool City Region saves the NHS an estimated £53.8m a year.
bbc.co.uk
Yeah, an ID.7 GTX would work too, it manages 1,800kg. Quite a surprising uplift from the RWD 1,000kg
Brainwashing, 2026 edition. This paper shows how X's algorithmic feed shifts people's views rightwards. It's a sophisticated, highly effective form of reorientation. And it is utterly chilling. If you're still on that platform, unhook yourself now. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
The political effects of X’s feed algorithm - Nature
Among users initially on a chronological feed, 7 weeks of exposure to X’s algorithmic feed in 2023 shifted political attitudes and account-following behaviour in a more conservative direction compared...
nature.com
In competence and venality of the old political elite is ushering in a class of oligarchic politicians that are backed by unprecedented levels of private wealth and driven by some batshit crazy ideas (that just happen to be good for their wealth…) Thiel is a prime mover in this
Áine ☽𖤐☾@whoa-magic.lol · 7mo agoPeter Thiel warns the Antichrist and apocalypse are linked to the ‘end of modernity’ currently happening—and cites Greta Thunberg as a driving example fortune.com/2026/02/04/p... *Not satire.
Get Palantir out of the UK. Protect our NHS. Protect our country. www.thenational.scot/news/2582860...
Scrap Palantir UK contracts over Mandelson links, Zack Polanski demands
ZACK Polanski has demanded that the UK Government scraps its contracts with Palantir, amid mounting questions over Peter Mandelson’s role in…
thenational.scot
Make Peter Thiel into the villain, Democrats. It's all there. He is the node that connects Trump, Vance, Palantir, Musk, Epstein, and so many other terrible players. Just expose it and make him and Musk the face of these psychopathic billionaires ruining our lives.
IMPORTANT: The Dutch invest €595 million annually on urban biking, resulting in €19 BILLION saved in public health care costs alone. That’s how smart governments do the math on investing in better mobility. Let’s be clear— it WASTES public money to NOT do it. #CityMakingMath HT @modacitylife.com
Following coverage over the weekend of Sir Paul Nurse's comments that suggested that the only reason that a Fellow should be expelled from @royalsociety.org is scientific misconduct, I have written to him to explain the risks such an attitude poses of increasing sexual harassment in STEM.
Unhook ourselves from oil and gas and we unhook ourselves from dependency on dictators, autocrats and expansionist regimes all over the planet. Renewables and other low-carbon energy sources are not just good climate sense. They are also good political sense.