That escalated quickly.

Ethics and Planetary Boundaries is now out in the world! Our Open-Access(!!), interdisciplinary book with Cambridge University Press has two chapters on each of the planetary boundaries. Read it here now: www.cambridge.org/core/books/e... #PlanetaryBoundaries #Ethics

Ethics and Planetary Boundaries

Cambridge Core - Environmental Policy, Economics and Law - Ethics and Planetary Boundaries

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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

Ironies all the way down: cutting space in a migration museum to make room for student housing while systematically decimating the university sector by counting students as migrants, and using it to score political points. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

London Museum of Migration space may be cut for student rooms

Under amended plans, the museum would have two floors instead of three at its new site.

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Love seeing the international media try to explain Count Binface.

It’s incomprehensible to me that universities imagine their decimation of humanities follows “market forces” when they are so manifestly behind the curve of even the most corporate decisions. Universities are stuck in spent logic of “we must embrace AI” when frontier labs are hiring philosophers 1/

Nice to see digital technology used for good rather than pointless AI slop. www.wired.me/story/how-pa...

How Palestinians Are Building a Digital Archive That Can’t Be Erased

Distributed backups, cyber resilience and half a million records are preserving Palestinian history beyond any single building or border.

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As we head into the 4th day of extreme heat warning here in London, Mahvish Shami and I have some thoughts on what lessons can be learned in Europe from the experiences of extreme heat in South Asia. blogs.lse.ac.uk/businessrevi...

How to live and work in extreme heat - LSE Business Review

With Europe in the grip of an unusually intense heatwave, what can be learned from regions more used to extreme heat?

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Musk says not a single person has died due to him axing USAID. Sadly, part of my job involves tracking aid spending. So here’s a thread with just some of the people who lost their lives because of USAID cuts

Can't even start with how poorly prepared the UK is in dealing with extreme heat. Not looking forward to the next few days...

The thing about living in East London is that no matter which team wins, there will be fireworks going off at 10pm. #WorldCup

now thats an anecdote with a punch, from Gillian Tett www.ft.com/content/c0ae...

Not going to click on the link, because its the NYPost, but what in the actual world is this??? When did basic makeshift infrastructure become luxury?

LSE’s @gsos-lse.bsky.social has awarded funding for Living with Heat, a new research initiative led by Dr Sohini Kar and Dr Mahvish Shami exploring the impacts of extreme heat in South Asia. Read more: www.lse.ac.uk/internationa...

I was saddened to hear of the passing of my PhD committee member Kay Warren. My favorite memory of Kay was being in a seminar where she said she had an invisible buzzer & she would ding anyone (mostly women) who apologized before speaking or sharing an opinion. I still carry that buzzer with me.

I have a father and mother in law in Iran. I have a sister in law. A niece. She's 14. She likes silly pink headbands and purses and dresses, just like kids her age all over the world. There are 93 million people like her in Iran. People who do all the normal mundane life things as the rest of us.

Google Scholar is now suggesting I add something that is clearly an AI hallucination to my profile.

Such a good piece today from @jburnmurdoch.ft.com which shows that the declining graduate premium is very much a UK problem rather than a general (or inevevitable) consequence of more people going to uni www.ft.com/content/649d...

Remembering Professor Tim Allen The Department of International Development is deeply saddened by the passing of Professor Tim Allen, former Head of our Department. One of his long‑standing colleagues, Professor David Keen, shares the following tribute on behalf of the Department.

Remembering Professor Tim Allen - LSE International Development

The Department of International Development is deeply saddened by the passing of Professor Tim Allen. Tim joined the Department in 1997, later served as Head of Department, and went on to become the D...

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www.propublica.org/article/ice-...

“I Have Been Here Too Long”: Read Letters from the Children Detained at ICE’s Dilley Facility

Hundreds of children are currently being held with their parents at an immigration detention center in Dilley, Texas. In letters and drawings, eight kids convey the pain of feeling trapped with no end...

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Aren't these the people who just drink Soylent?

today is the 2 year anniversary of Hind Rajab being shot 335 times by Israeli forces. she was 6. I cannot look at her pictures of her face without crying. I genuinely, in a soul deep way, cannot understand people who can look upon this and think "good."

my son is five, same age as Liam Ramos. you don't need to have a child the same age to be fucking horrified by the violence we are doing (and HAVE BEEN doing) upon immigrant children in this nation. but that he keeps asking for his spidey backpack is the kind of detail that rips my heart in two.

There are 3,800 kids in ICE custody.

As a parent of a similarly aged child, but more importantly, as a human being, this picture really breaks me.

Joaquin Castro@joaquincastrotx.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Just visited with Liam and his father at Dilley detention center. I demanded his release and told him how much his family, his school, and our country loves him and is praying for him.

The centre-left's determination to thwart anyone with charisma is a real superpower. bsky.app/profile/jess...

Jessica Elgot@jessicaelgot.bsky.social · 7mo ago

Have asked a number of NEC members to tell me the chances Andy Burnham has of being selected to fight a by-election. Every single one says zero.

All empires fall. You just don’t think you’ll observe it in real time.

Searching for "Traitors" on here when I just want to see chatter about Harriet's meltdown on television, but ending up with depressing political discourse...

When was the last time you could honestly say "Happy New Year!" without silently adding "despite everything..."?

while simultaneously working to undo or lessen some of the harms caused by extractive industries. journal.culanth.org/index.php/ca...