Rage Against the Miocene
@organiccarbon.bsky.social
Rich Pancost, Earth Scientist at the University of Bristol. Interested in past climates and earth system processes, from peatlands to the deep sea. First gen/ working class. Privileged white cis male. Anti-racist, pro LGBTQ+, unapologetically woke. He/Him
The Reflecting Pool saga is a perfect diorama of how right-wing media turns Trump’s fantasies into public reality, and then tries to quietly conceal the wreckage once the facts catch up.
Jeanine Pirro's Reflecting Pool reckoning
The former Fox News star couldn't sustain Trump's fantasy. Her downfall is classic MAGA tale
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I can’t believe we’re still having a debate about whether there’s a trade off between job creation and measures to green the economy. There isn’t. The evidence was clear years ago - a green economy creates far more jobs than the fossil fuel economy it replaces. Come on Labour, catch up …
Government contracts to require job creation instead of green targets under new rules
Louise Haigh says taxpayer money must benefit local communities amid backlash from environmental groups
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Bede's World! Bede's World! Party time! Venerable!
Rivers are not simply conveyor belts of plastics to the sea. Microplastics can deposit & accumulate in river sediments. We first saw this in the St Lawrence River. Concentrations in some rivers are as high as the world's most contaminated ocean sediments: redpath-staff.mcgill.ca/ricciardi/Cr...
"Embrace the Mediterranean life." www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Murderous heat, an endangered food supply, decimated landscapes: embrace the Mediterranean life | George Monbiot
As climate disaster stares us in the face, the radical right says ‘Embrace the Mediterranean life’. Embrace death, more like it, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot
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There Will Come Soft Rains In 1950 Ray Bradbury wrote a short story called There Will Come Soft Rains. The story appears in a collection called The Martian Chronicles. The title comes from poem of the same title, written in 1918 as a response to the horrors of World War 1: There will come soft…
There Will Come Soft Rains
In 1950 Ray Bradbury wrote a short story called There Will Come Soft Rains. The story appears in a collection called The Martian Chronicles. The title comes from poem of the same title, written in 1918 as a response to the horrors of World War 1: There will come soft rains and the smell of the ground,
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“There have been youth-led lawsuits against the producers of climate chaos and the governments who’ve refused to act adequately – essentially for robbing them of their future. Robbing us all of the immeasurable joys of summer as it was is part of that theft.” - @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social
We launched a war on nature. Now we are in a climate warzone | Rebecca Solnit
Generative AI is catnip to the men who miss female sycophants katemanne.substack.com/p/a-culture-...
A Culture Hooked on Generative AI is a Culture that Misses Female Sycophants
And we have missed a central reason why AI is a feminist issue
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Detail of the boulder breccia (basal layer of Cambrian) transitioning into overlying Sauk Sea sandstone at East Bluff, Devil's Lake State Park in Wisconsin. ⚒️
A BILLION YEARS OF MISSING TIME The Great Unconformity at East Bluff, Devil's Lake, Wisconsin: 1.63 Ga Baraboo Quartzite overlain by a boulder breccia at the base of the sandstones of the Cambrian Sauk Sea (600-505 Ma). ⚒️
Animal agriculture’s destructive impact on the planet is clear. Research shows that 90% of water now taken from natural systems for irrigation is used to feed the world’s over 80 billion land animals killed for food each year ✍️Dr Carys Bennett
Wales Is on Fire. Meat is Fanning the Flames
Dr Carys Bennett A mountain is burning on my doorstep. Since 19 July, wildfires have ripped through Mynydd Garnclochdy near Blaenavon. When the smell of acrid smoke drifted across the valleys, it felt...
nation.cymru
26 years living here, and I have never been so grateful for rain. Not enough, but it helps.
Nearly 2 weeks and it's still going. Pure decimation. The whole mountain is black and still smoking nearly 2 weeks on. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Why did Today give him so much air time? France, Spain & Greece are on fire, so was Scotland & Wales. We’ve just had the driest month ever recorded. Where’s the Green spokesperson being interviewed on what we need to do? And if you do have a Reform member, grill them on probity and their finances
On the Today programme Reform UK’s home affairs spokesperson Zia Yusuf claimed “almost 1%” of, or “one in 100”, people crossing the Channel via small boat are dying. That’s not correct. The data we have suggests the actual proportion is closer to one in 1,000.
Shooting interests & the rightwing press want to exploit the wildfires to reinstate moorland burning. But you don't fight fire with fire. You fight it with water. This wildfire in Wales' Elan Valley in May stopped abruptly when it reached re-wetted peat bogs: www.walesfarmer.co.uk/news/2614875...
A wild, blackwater sanctuary gains global recognition as the Okefenokee Swamp secures its place on the UNESCO World Heritage list. Evidence: Global recognition, ecosystem preservation, biodiversity protection. #Conservation #Okefenokee 🌐
Welcome to the CAMBRIAN FECAL REVOLUTION. We didn't name it the Cambrian fecal explosion for obvious reasons. I'm happy to share this paper on fecal matter and its role in Cambrian ecosystems. So if you want to read a really shitty paper (50 days free access): authors.elsevier.com/a/1nYg8cZ3X7...
Fuego, one of the region's most active volcanoes, has erupted repeatedly in recent years, forcing mass evacuations.
Guatemala issues second-highest ‘danger' alert after Fuego volcano erupts
Fuego, one of the region's most active volcanoes, has erupted repeatedly in recent years, forcing mass evacuations.
aljazeera.com
Hey man, maybe just make the sandwiches and take a pic of them.
This is Massive Attack's response to what happened in Singapore, posted on their Instagram page. Good on them.
Massive Attack has been banned from Singapore after they held up a Palestinian flag during their concert here last week. www.bbc.com/news/article...
This Tuesday on August 04, 2026, at #PalaeoPERCS we will be joined by Adam Woodhouse from the Open University, UK. He will deliver a comprehensive talk on evolutionary and biological response of planktic foraminifera to Cenozoic climate change. Sign up here: paleopercs.com/participate/
"Drawing on an analysis of over 100000 articles in ecology-related disciplines [...], we show that the shift to pay-to-publish OA has already reduced participation by researchers from many middle-income countries." nsojournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
Payment‐based open access is biasing scientific participation from the Global South in ecology
Opening access to the products of scientific research is widely considered a key step toward both fairness and better science worldwide. Since the 1990s, different forms of open access (OA) to journa...
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“Tech bros find arcane books and try and use them in LLMs” feels like a good premise for a modern cosmic horror
Are there any Cthulhu stories that reflect how much budget cuts have affected collegial investigators our there? Seems like a rich vein
What a wonderful workshop we organised together with Niña Quibod at #ATBC2026 on #Outreach for tropical #biodiverisity 🥬Thanks to all the participants for your creativity. Huge thanks to our sponsors💚 @britishecologicalsociety.org @methodsinecoevol.bsky.social @jappliedecology.bsky.social & CharmEU
“It’s not a fight between left and right, it’s between top and bottom. Which is why I met with a bunch of plague cultists for the most powerful man in the entire world.”
Sure the MAHA activists want to make it illegal for trans people to access hormones but they're so authentic and populist about it so
I'm starting to suspect that my tax dollars are going to munitions I'll never use, either
Opinion: Mamdani's idea may sound appealing, but it's NYC taxpayers who will take the hit, subsidizing discounts they may never even use.