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Socio-ecogical equity in the pluriverse 🌌

Interdisciplinary research-practitioner cz I can’t be a cat napping in the sun 🐋 A they-by.

Systems thinker figuring: Food | Climate | Development-Economic Alternatives | Health | Queerness, Community and Art
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"As Mumbai sees increased energy demand from new datacentres, particularly from Amazon, the filthiest neighbourhood in one of India’s largest cities must keep its major coal plants"

www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
‘It’s hell for us here’: Mumbai families suffer as datacentres keep the city hooked on coal
As Mumbai sees increased energy demand from new datacenters, particularly from Amazon, the filthiest neighbourhood in one of India’s largest cities must keep its major coal plants
www.theguardian.com
November 25, 2025 at 8:06 AM
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UPDATE: We have revamped the Global South Climate Database 🎉

I'm super excited to announce this huge update, which makes the database even quicker and easier to use. (Also prettier ✨)

Please check it out to find brilliant climate experts from the global south 🌏

🔗 bit.ly/GSClimateDatabase

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November 11, 2025 at 12:01 PM
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The problem with the climate regime in one article: With fewer people attending COP30 "one in every 25 participants at this year’s UN climate summit is a fossil fuel lobbyist." It is "the largest concentration of fossil fuel lobbyists at COP" and up 12% from COP29 www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Fossil fuel lobbyists outnumber all Cop30 delegations except Brazil, report says
One in every 25 participants at 2025 UN climate summit is a fossil fuel lobbyist, according to Kick Big Polluters Out
www.theguardian.com
November 14, 2025 at 11:20 AM
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“The solution certainly won’t come from AI; on the contrary, this only magnifies the problem. Moreover, correcting the errors of AI will cost us loads of time and effort. But once the cat’s out of the bag…”

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Belgian AI scientists resist the use of AI in academia
Several AI scientists have published an open letter calling for a ban on AI use by students.
apache.be
October 24, 2025 at 10:33 AM
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I am close to tears; they listened and made an english version apache.be/2025/10/24/b...

@apache.be you rule 🖤
October 24, 2025 at 10:13 AM
Great way to look at cognitive offloading not just to tech, but to other humans.

Important to assess the productivity and creative slug it often pushes.

Here workslop is: “AI generated work content that masquerades as good work, but lacks the substance to meaningfully advance a given task.”
'Workslop' is on the rise, and it's starting to cause serious issues with productivity.

Researchers from @techimpactpolicy.bsky.social and Betterup Labs look at why this is happening and what can be done to keep poorly applied AI from running amok in the workplace. ow.ly/PFp550XbQQl
AI-Generated “Workslop” Is Destroying Productivity
Despite a surge in generative AI use across workplaces, most companies are seeing little measurable ROI. One possible reason is because AI tools are being used to produce “workslop”—content that appea...
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November 2, 2025 at 7:25 AM
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One week left!

Submit your abstract for the #JOTS special issue on Digital Intersectionality and Marginalization in the #MajorityWorld.

🗓️ Deadline: October 31, 2025
🔗 Learn more: bit.ly/4mZDjtb

#TrustAndSafety
October 24, 2025 at 4:59 PM
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🧵🔴Why are our food systems, their people and environments so vulnerable? How can they become more resilient and help reduce future shocks?

📺Watch the HLPE-FSN report Resilient food systems launch live: www.fao.org/webcast/home...
September 4, 2025 at 12:17 PM
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There's a lawsuit about AI stealing your work. It's the same lawyers taking on Elsevier et al in a separate case.

Academics:
1. Check if your work is in LibGen at www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...

2. If so, let the lawyers know at www.lieffcabraser.com/anthropic-au...
There are tons of graphic novels, academic papers, film and TV scripts, & prose novels/nonfiction on the LibGen list Anthropic used.

As settlement approaches, make it easy for the class action lawyers to contact you! Here’s how

Part 1: is your work in Libgen?

www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...
Search LibGen, the Pirated-Books Database That Meta Used to Train AI
Millions of books and scientific papers are captured in the collection’s current iteration.
www.theatlantic.com
August 27, 2025 at 8:44 PM
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I was shocked when I first saw these results from standard climate models used in IPCC reports: for high emissions, the Atlantic overturning circulation #AMOC shuts down in all 9 models that ran past 2100, and is well on the way to shutdown by 2100.
Our paper on that is out today.🧵
August 28, 2025 at 3:55 PM
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All the Ways Heat Is Terrible for Your Health
All the Ways Heat Is Terrible for Your Health
From kidney disease to mental health to deaths, more research is necessary to grapple with extreme heat worsened by climate change.
www.bloomberg.com
September 2, 2024 at 5:20 AM
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"In India’s financial capital – where 73% of all offices & commercial establishments are within 500m of a flood hotspot & 69% of all employees experience “hindered access” [..] trying to get to or leave work – forecasting the monsoon is fraught, essential & getting trickier with climate change."
If extreme weather had a capital, it would be Mumbai. We’ve got it all: floods, sea-level rise, cyclones, heat islands.

Mumbaikars are sick of being called resilient and being caught off-guard.

But forecasting the monsoon is fraught, more so with climate change. My dispatch for @carbonbrief.org👇🏽
💡 Spotlight | This week, Carbon Brief visits Mumbai’s official monsoon monitoring centre and “war room” to examine how the city is responding to its earliest downpour on record.

Read spotlight here: buff.ly/MXgAwGC
June 24, 2025 at 2:26 AM
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I'm excited to announce this new paper we have in The Lancet Planetary Health.

We show that the world is not moving towards a just and ecological future for all.
June 24, 2025 at 2:31 AM
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I'm excited to announce this new paper with
@haugejostein
. It establishes a progressive industrial policy framework to scale down harmful industries, organise production around public benefit, and achieve global ecological justice.

Link in the next tweet, open access!
June 24, 2025 at 2:38 AM
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“When you sweat so much, there is cellular dehydration and electrolyte imbalance. We must pay attention to the humidity factor in our approach to extreme heat,” said Vidhya Venugopal, whose research area is extreme heat and health.

scroll.in/article/1082...

By Tanvi Deshpande via India Spend
May 11, 2025 at 12:15 PM
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Daily bunny no.2951 gotcha!
May 11, 2025 at 3:59 AM
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PM Modi inaugurated the Ken-Betwa River Link in Khajuraho on 25 Dec 2024. In April, Priyanka Bhadani visited 9 villages where residents are in the process of being displaced under the project—some without clarity, others without compensation

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As Modi Govt Fast-Tracks Controversial Project To Link Rivers, Thousands Of Anxious, Angry Adivasis Set To Lose Homes
After Prime Minister Narendra Modi laid the foundation stone in December 2024 for a dam that will destroy over 4 million trees in a key tiger reserve and displace thousands, mostly Adivasis, anger spr...
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May 7, 2025 at 3:48 AM
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Swiss Re documenting changes in the IPCC’s language around the urgency and certainty of human-caused global warming:
April 28, 2025 at 11:48 AM
“The study found with a high level of confidence that the global economy would be $28 trillion richer were it not for the extreme heat caused by the emissions from the 111 carbon majors.”

Have folks brewed their thoughts and takes on this study yet?
The scientific case for climate liability is no longer a “what if”—it’s here. A new @nature.com paper lays out a powerful end-to-end attribution science framework linking emissions from fossil fuel companies to real-world economic damages from extreme heat.
Carbon majors and the scientific case for climate liability - Nature
A transparent and reproducible scientific framework is introduced to formalize how trillions in economic losses are attributable to the extreme heat caused by emissions from fossil fuel companies, whi...
www.nature.com
April 24, 2025 at 2:23 AM
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If we continue burning fossil fuels and warming the ocean, coral reefs will become a thing of the past.
More than 80% of the world’s reefs hit by bleaching after worst global event on record
An ashen pallor and an eerie stillness all that remains where there should fluttering fish and vibrant colours in the reefscape, one conservationist says
www.theguardian.com
April 23, 2025 at 5:43 AM
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April 21, 2025 at 12:33 PM
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For women in Sri Lanka's Northern Province, giving up work in the face of extreme heat is an unaffordable luxury.

Amita Arudpragasam writes
Women bear the brunt of extreme heat in Sri Lanka’s war-torn North
This story was produced with support from Internews’ Earth Journalism Network.  TEMPERATURES ARE RISING again. In the first-ever women-run cashew processin
www.himalmag.com
April 20, 2025 at 2:30 AM
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April 19, 2025 at 8:54 PM
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Thrilled to share this great collection of articles attending to issues of climate justice within the UNFCCC process!

Now FREE access to the complete Special Issue with C&D: www.tandfonline.com/journals/tcl...
@lisaschipper.bsky.social @climdevjournal.bsky.social @ebhite22.bsky.social
Collaborative event ethnography of the UNFCCC process: Assessing local-global scales of (in)justice within global climate governance arenas
Explore the article collection: Collaborative event ethnography of the UNFCCC process: Assessing local-global scales of (in)justice within global climate governance arenas. Published in Climate and Development.
www.tandfonline.com
April 17, 2025 at 6:43 PM
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New #article from Carvalho et al: Global synthesis of peer-reviewed articles reveals blind spots in climate impacts research
TL;DR: disasters in low-income countries cause about 16 times more deaths and affect 130 times more people to receive attention
www.researchsquare.com/article/rs-6...
April 15, 2025 at 1:29 AM