❤️ trains and geopolitics. Got both here. And logistics. @jsargentr.bsky.social www.transportandlogisticsme.com/smart-transp...

Middle East Bets on Rail to Future-Proof Supply Chains

Middle East Bets on Rail to Future-Proof Supply Chains

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New Evidence Data Centers May Cause Hotter Weather

Data Centers May Cause Hotter Weather, New Study Suggests

Is waste heat from data centers affecting the weather? A new study says they are making their local environment hotter.

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No matter where you live and what you do, you can be certain that your life has been made better by a foreign-born scientist in more ways than you’ll ever know. My new post on science and immigration and the administration’s attacks on our international colleagues. blog.ucs.org/gretchen-gol...

Science and Immigration Are Interconnected: On Higher Education, ICE, and the Assault on DEI

One day in graduate school, I confessed to my fellow students that I had never been outside of the United States. They hailed from all over the world, so I was embarrassed to admit it. “You don’t need...

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Photographer Daniel Kramer (born today in 1932) had something everyone wanted in 1965 & 1966 – near-total access to Bob Dylan. Starting on Aug. 27, 1965, Kramer spent the next 366 days photographing Dylan – creating a startling visual record of a cultural phenomenon in his prime. Kramer died in 2024

This is an important point about norms, large scale group dynamics, and the power of information. Not sure if the Federal government has effectively rolled back though...not when you look at certain outcomes of the war against Iran.

Julia Simon@juliaradio.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Forget shark week -- It's climate solutions week y'all This year the theme is LOCAL solutions - ways that cities and states and neighborhoods are stepping up when the federal government backtracks on climate action. I'll thread the stories here as the week goes on... Here's our intro ⬇️📻🎧

New: Berkeley is the first US city to require home sellers and buyers to replace gas furnaces/water heaters with heat pumps or make other green upgrades as a condition of sale. It's changing the local real estate market as sellers tout electrification. Free link. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

To Sell a Home in This California City, It Must Be Climate Friendly

Berkeley is requiring home sellers to make green upgrades as a condition of sale.

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The 2026 @iom.int World Migration Report is out. Even more interactive this year, it's a treasure trove on how we increasingly move around the world. Interesting to see who gets to move freely around the world, and who does not. Who decides who decides? worldmigrationreport.iom.int/msite/wmr-20...

All the men who can now see victory in Ukraine still cannot offer a strategy that explains it beyond, muh, drone warfare! The drones are not why or how, but simply the tail of a larger effort. I have enumerated Ukraine's twin strategies and their combined and corresponding theory of victory.

And 🇺🇸 has been extricating itself from its reliance on 🇹🇼 (again for those at the back of the room - US reliance on Taiwan) for semi-conductor chips, by building its own state of the art plants. 🇺🇸 is much less likely to defend 🇹🇼 if 1) it no longer has mil stocks to do so, 2) it doesn't need...

Sam Olsen@samolsen.bsky.social · 3mo ago

The Changing World in Figures No. 1 - 74% 74% of UN member states now publicly affirm that Taiwan is part of China. As Trump and Xi meet this week, this reveals how much of the world is moving closer to China than the US, & not just on Taiwan. #statesofplay

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Ressources pédagogiques - collège et lycée histoire EHNE@ressourcesehne.bsky.social · 7mo ago

🌍 Le mythe d’un déclin environnemental du Maghreb a-t-il servi les intérêts des colonisateurs français ? ✍️ Jonas Matheron vous présente le livre de Diana K. Davis 👇 ehne.fr/fr/eduscol/c... 🤝 @lettres-sorbonne.bsky.social @aphg.bsky.social

Thank you so much to @tombhamilton.bsky.social and @eldrclaire.bsky.social for all their work putting this together, and to @brettrushforth.bsky.social @rosetande.bsky.social @singaravelou.bsky.social @guillaumblanc.bsky.social @editionsduseuil.bsky.social

Tom Hamilton (@tombhamilton.bsky.social)

Historian of early modern France and Europe; crime, justice, gender, Wars of Religion; co-editor of French History; structuralish 📖📚 ⚖️🌳🏃🇫🇷🇩🇪🇪🇺

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C’est à un voyage passionnant auquel nous convient Guillaume Blanc et Antonin Plarier. Leur ambition : « renouveler la compréhension des territoires impériaux » et « donner à voir comment l’histoire des empires peut s’écrire d’un point de vue environnemental ». Par Christophe Patillon

Dominer la nature au nom de l'Empire

C’est à un voyage passionnant auquel nous convient Guillaume Blanc et Antonin Plarier. Leur ambition : « renouveler la compréhension des territoires impériaux » et « donner à voir comment l’histoire des empires peut s’écrire d’un point de vue environnemental ».

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Important research available for those interested in this area

Adam Baczko@adambaczko.bsky.social · 8mo ago

If you’re having trouble accessing my book The Taliban Courts: War through Law, feel free to contact me. It’s been unavailable and, since OUP won’t do a paperback, the hardback is very expensive for individuals. I’m happy to help you find a way to read it.

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Institute for the Study of War@thestudyofwar.bsky.social · 3mo ago

NEW: There is an emergent consensus in Tehran that the Strait of Hormuz is an increasingly potent lever of power and must be central to Iranian strategy moving forward. Iranian actions and rhetoric demonstrate the disruptive ways that Iran hopes to use this lever in the future. (1/7)

Why do I get the impression this article has identified a problem and then committed the classic category error of doubling down on the symptoms rather than the causes? @graceblakeley.substack.com @thomaspiketty.bsky.social A Keynesian solution to global imbalances share.google/ORqCk1x5NWdP...

A Keynesian solution to global imbalances

Economists have been proposing fixes to structural problems created by an international reserve currency since the 1940s

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Wellbeing economics is not much of a thing in the US of A methinks... From 'Good Economics for Hard Times' by nobel prize winners Abhijit Banerjee amd Esther Duflo 👇

The publishing industry views Bluesky as some tiny unimportant island out somewhere in a far-off ocean. It's not worthy of their attention like Amazon Algoland or The Republic Of Instagram Influencer Collaborativepost is. What they don't realise is just how much the island's inhabitants love books.

Important economic points in this article, with useful hyperlinks to background. Excessive flow of money out of a community/country is degenerative... What everyone is missing about Mamdani’s plan to tax Ken Griffin’s $238 million penthouse | CNN Business share.google/gxkRyLXYHhfN...

What everyone is missing about Mamdani’s plan to tax Ken Griffin’s $238 million penthouse | CNN Business

New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani stood outside a luxury skyscraper in Manhattan for a video on Tax Day to deliver on his trademark plan: “We’re taxing the rich.”

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Now through June 9th, save 50% on Standing for Nature: Legal Strategies for Environmental Justice. This book offers advocates a blueprint for creating, implementing, and safeguarding rights of Nature laws. Use code SPRING50 at checkout: press.princeton.edu/books/paperb...

📅 EVENT: How can we improve trust & transparency in public decision-making? 📍 2pm | 18 May OGP is an international initiative that brings government & civil society together to promote trust, and integrity. Join UKACC & Open Data Manchester for an online session to shape this work. Details ⤵️

‼️ Hungary returns stolen Oschadbank funds and gold to Ukraine

Hungary returns seized Oschadbank funds and gold to Ukraine

Hungary has fully returned Oschadbank funds and valuables seized by Hungarian special services in March 2026.

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Switzerland’s Federal Intelligence Service is reversing course and will allow limited access to its file on Nazi doctor Josef Mengele, currently held at the Federal Archives. www.worldradio.ch/news/bitesiz...

Pourquoi faut-il cultiver son jardin @rfi.fr? Pour faire chacun son petite contribution à attenuer la crise de sécurité alimentaire qui se produit à cause de la guerre avec Iran. Quand on pousse ou ramasse la nourriture de la nature, ça baisse un peu la stresse de la marché qui... rfi.my/CdT2

Questions d'environnement - Santé et biodiversité: pourquoi faut-il cultiver son jardin?

Cette chronique est une invitation à mettre la main à la terre. Le jardinage a des effets bénéfiques sur le corps humain et sur l'ensemble du vivant. Un simple petit bout de nature chez soi permet d'a...

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Poland prepares...

Ulrike Franke@rikefranke.bsky.social · 3mo ago

“Magdalena Biskup said it was the arrival of a 48-page emergency preparation guide recently sent by the government to every household that, for the first time, brought home the reality of the threat.” One more reason why these guides should be sent to every household.

📣 Thrilled to announce our 5th Workshop on Field Experiments in Economics and Business, 7-8 Sept 2026, @tum.de, Campus Heilbronn. Keynotes: @peterbergman.bsky.social (University of Texas at Austin) & Esther Duflo (@mit.edu, University of Zurich) 🫶🏻 Submission deadline May 15, 2026 🚨 #EconSky

There's never a lack of opportunity to point out that conflict prevention & de-escalation are a thing. Conflict & violence occur in many ways, often lingering longest below the radar where cycles of conflict pass on through families, societies & states... Behind every aggressor is a world of pain.

The Kent State Massacre unfolded on this date in 1970 in the vicinity of Taylor Hall on the Kent State University campus. The Ohio National Guard wounded 29 students – & killed four unarmed Americans: Allison Krause, Jeffrey Glenn Miller, Sandra Lee Scheuer, & William Knox Schroeder.

Chinese researchers have created a bamboo-based plastic as strong as petroleum-based plastics, which can fully biodegrade in soil in just 2 months phys.org/news/2025-10...

Bamboo-based plastic can be made to biodegrade quickly, but still holds up in tough conditions

A new method to produce strong, biodegradable plastic from bamboo is reported in Nature Communications this week. The bioplastic resembles oil-based plastics in strength, shapability, and thermal stab...

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Alienation of any kind is dangerous - but with great power (and money) comes responsibility... they also need help.

Thomas Zeitzoff@zeitzoff.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Also, the level of antipathy and loathing of normie society by many of the tech elites is a key driver. It’s elite alienation, and that’s the kind of alienation we should be really worried about— because they have the resources to do something about it . zeitzoff.substack.com/p/why-politi...