Katharine Kite
@katharinekite.bsky.social
Ecologist - keen on things watery, fresh & salt #seabirds #waders #cetaceans #pollution - 1st priority #ClimateEmergency #EcologicalEmergency
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Check out our latest #PhD opportunities in #ClimateResearch and help us promote informed decisions on mitigating and adapting to #ClimateChange💡https://tyndall.ac.uk/jobs-and-opportunities/
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Jobs and Opportunities - Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research
Jobs and Opportunities at the Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research.
tyndall.ac.uk
November 19, 2025 at 10:35 AM
Check out our latest #PhD opportunities in #ClimateResearch and help us promote informed decisions on mitigating and adapting to #ClimateChange💡https://tyndall.ac.uk/jobs-and-opportunities/
#PhDjobs #AcademicSky #PhDSky #EduSky #PhDposition
#PhDjobs #AcademicSky #PhDSky #EduSky #PhDposition
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At the Budget, the Green Party's message is clear: Cut Bills. Tax Billionaires.
November 19, 2025 at 8:20 AM
At the Budget, the Green Party's message is clear: Cut Bills. Tax Billionaires.
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We need a new National Energy Guarantee where every household's essential energy needs are protected, so no-one has to spend another winter worrying about keeping their family warm. 2/2
neweconomics.org/2023/08/deli...
neweconomics.org/2023/08/deli...
Delivering a National Energy Guarantee
Meeting net-zero targets while protecting households against future price shocks
neweconomics.org
November 19, 2025 at 11:13 AM
We need a new National Energy Guarantee where every household's essential energy needs are protected, so no-one has to spend another winter worrying about keeping their family warm. 2/2
neweconomics.org/2023/08/deli...
neweconomics.org/2023/08/deli...
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„You don’t have to embarrass our guest“
November 19, 2025 at 7:02 AM
„You don’t have to embarrass our guest“
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I’m so old I remember when the Constitution had an emoluments clause.
“They buy apartments from me. They spend $40 million, $50 million. Am I supposed to dislike them? I like them very much.”
Trump meets business partner In the Oval Office
From “bad situation” to “things happen”: How Saudi money changed Trump’s tune on Khashoggi's murder.
www.motherjones.com
November 18, 2025 at 11:20 PM
I’m so old I remember when the Constitution had an emoluments clause.
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My first piece for @theguardian.com on MBS’s visit to the U.S., seven years after Jamal Khashoggi’s murder.
Trump’s America is beginning to look like MBS’s Saudi Arabia— which Jamal warned me about.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Trump’s America is beginning to look like MBS’s Saudi Arabia— which Jamal warned me about.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
The Saudification of America is under way | Karen Attiah
Jamal Khashoggi’s plight and murder was a warning sign for the US, of the impending loss of freedom and censorship that would sweep the country
www.theguardian.com
November 18, 2025 at 9:58 PM
My first piece for @theguardian.com on MBS’s visit to the U.S., seven years after Jamal Khashoggi’s murder.
Trump’s America is beginning to look like MBS’s Saudi Arabia— which Jamal warned me about.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Trump’s America is beginning to look like MBS’s Saudi Arabia— which Jamal warned me about.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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The reason we have laws* against bribery is that companies will absolutely bribe politicians at the very first opportunity if it is good for the bottom line, because they see it as a sound business decision, not a civilizational betrayal.
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Coinbase donated to Trump's $300 million White House ballroom project as an appeal to the administration, Emilie Choi, the cryptocurrency exchange's president and COO, said at Axios' BFD event today.
Exclusive: Coinbase explains donation to Trump's ballroom
Tech firms like Google, Amazon, and Nvidia also donated to Trump's ballroom fund.
www.axios.com
November 18, 2025 at 9:28 PM
The reason we have laws* against bribery is that companies will absolutely bribe politicians at the very first opportunity if it is good for the bottom line, because they see it as a sound business decision, not a civilizational betrayal.
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Curtis Yarvin is Peter Thiel's spiritual advisor and highest guru. Here he is speaking in Oxford, expressing his admiration for Crown Prince Bone Saw for murdering a Washington Post columnist and locking up dozens of prominent Saudis in the Ritz hotel, as he shook them down for cash, mob style.
Oakeshott Lectures 2025 - Curtis Yarvin on the End of the End of History
YouTube video by Oakeshott Lectures
www.youtube.com
November 18, 2025 at 11:13 PM
Curtis Yarvin is Peter Thiel's spiritual advisor and highest guru. Here he is speaking in Oxford, expressing his admiration for Crown Prince Bone Saw for murdering a Washington Post columnist and locking up dozens of prominent Saudis in the Ritz hotel, as he shook them down for cash, mob style.
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Colombia will no longer approve new oil or large-scale mining projects in its Amazon biome, which covers 42% of the nation’s territory.
Acting Environment Minister Irene Vélez Torres said the entire Colombian Amazon will be made a reserve for renewable natural resources.
Acting Environment Minister Irene Vélez Torres said the entire Colombian Amazon will be made a reserve for renewable natural resources.
Colombia bans all new oil and mining projects in its Amazon
Colombia will no longer approve new oil or large-scale mining projects in its Amazon biome, which covers 42% of the nation’s territory, according to a Nov. 13 statement by its environment ministry.…
news.mongabay.com
November 19, 2025 at 2:10 AM
Colombia will no longer approve new oil or large-scale mining projects in its Amazon biome, which covers 42% of the nation’s territory.
Acting Environment Minister Irene Vélez Torres said the entire Colombian Amazon will be made a reserve for renewable natural resources.
Acting Environment Minister Irene Vélez Torres said the entire Colombian Amazon will be made a reserve for renewable natural resources.
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Just checking in on X, the home of healthy mainstream discourse
November 18, 2025 at 5:57 PM
Just checking in on X, the home of healthy mainstream discourse
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It's a powerful feedback loop: more ice shelf melting changes salinities which generates more ocean turbulence, which in turn causes more melting — with major implications for ice shelf stability and global sea level rise. (arrow shows max melt ratio)
Paper in @nature.com Geoscience ▶️ rdcu.be/eQEEg
Paper in @nature.com Geoscience ▶️ rdcu.be/eQEEg
November 19, 2025 at 3:48 AM
It's a powerful feedback loop: more ice shelf melting changes salinities which generates more ocean turbulence, which in turn causes more melting — with major implications for ice shelf stability and global sea level rise. (arrow shows max melt ratio)
Paper in @nature.com Geoscience ▶️ rdcu.be/eQEEg
Paper in @nature.com Geoscience ▶️ rdcu.be/eQEEg
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The amount of ice flowing from Thwaites Glacier in West Antarctica has doubled in the span of three decades. These satellite images from 2001 and 2019 show the fracture and retreat of the glacier ice tongue floating on the Amundsen Sea, as it's melted from below.
🛰️ NASA
🛰️ NASA
November 19, 2025 at 3:48 AM
The amount of ice flowing from Thwaites Glacier in West Antarctica has doubled in the span of three decades. These satellite images from 2001 and 2019 show the fracture and retreat of the glacier ice tongue floating on the Amundsen Sea, as it's melted from below.
🛰️ NASA
🛰️ NASA
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Epstein files expose his links with Europe’s far-Right
Disgraced billionaire’s emails reveal his celebration of Tommy Robinson’s freedom – and his web of influence across the world
www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2...
Disgraced billionaire’s emails reveal his celebration of Tommy Robinson’s freedom – and his web of influence across the world
www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2...
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"Epstein files expose his links with Europe’s far-Right
Disgraced billionaire’s emails reveal his celebration of Tommy Robinson’s freedom – and his web of influence across the world
[Representation of Epstein email mentioning Tommy Robinson and image of Stephen Yaxley-Lennon looking like the angry cokehead he is]
By Cameron Henderson
17 November 2025 8:00am GMT
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November 18, 2025 at 5:41 PM
Epstein files expose his links with Europe’s far-Right
Disgraced billionaire’s emails reveal his celebration of Tommy Robinson’s freedom – and his web of influence across the world
www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2...
Disgraced billionaire’s emails reveal his celebration of Tommy Robinson’s freedom – and his web of influence across the world
www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2...
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"Everybody has a plan until they get punched in the nose" - Mike Tyson
Chasing the right wing vote eats your soul. Take note Keir Starmer, because next May there will be blood and snot everywhere.
Chasing the right wing vote eats your soul. Take note Keir Starmer, because next May there will be blood and snot everywhere.
🚨🚨Perhaps a hardline populist stance on immigration isn't the way to go. 🧵 www.politico.eu/article/cope...
Danish voters turn on PM Frederiksen over housing costs
After 122 years in power, voters in Copenhagen are turning their backs on the governing Social Democrats and expressing increased dissatisfaction with the party’s rightward turn.
www.politico.eu
November 19, 2025 at 6:44 AM
"Everybody has a plan until they get punched in the nose" - Mike Tyson
Chasing the right wing vote eats your soul. Take note Keir Starmer, because next May there will be blood and snot everywhere.
Chasing the right wing vote eats your soul. Take note Keir Starmer, because next May there will be blood and snot everywhere.
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The world's govts already agreed to triple renewables, double energy efficiency, & substantially cut methane emissions
*If* they follow through on these by 2035, it would quickly slow the rate of warming, lowering temperature rise this century from 2.6C to 1.7C
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
*If* they follow through on these by 2035, it would quickly slow the rate of warming, lowering temperature rise this century from 2.6C to 1.7C
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Keeping promises on renewables, energy efficiency and methane ‘would avoid nearly 1C of global heating’
Analysis published at Cop30 summit shows adhering to pledges offer world hope of avoiding climate breakdown
www.theguardian.com
November 19, 2025 at 7:16 AM
The world's govts already agreed to triple renewables, double energy efficiency, & substantially cut methane emissions
*If* they follow through on these by 2035, it would quickly slow the rate of warming, lowering temperature rise this century from 2.6C to 1.7C
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
*If* they follow through on these by 2035, it would quickly slow the rate of warming, lowering temperature rise this century from 2.6C to 1.7C
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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Health leaders: "Granting access to exploit Rosebank would fly in the face of the Gov’s ambition to shift our health service from sickness to prevention, save our NHS budget, drive growth in the green economy & address climate change at pace and scale."
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Health leaders call on PM to reject Rosebank to protect health - UK Health Alliance on Climate Change
Granting access to exploit the Rosebank Field would fly in the face of the Government’s ambition to shift our health service from sickness to prevention, to save our NHS budget, to drive growth in the...
ukhealthalliance.org
November 19, 2025 at 7:10 AM
Health leaders: "Granting access to exploit Rosebank would fly in the face of the Gov’s ambition to shift our health service from sickness to prevention, save our NHS budget, drive growth in the green economy & address climate change at pace and scale."
ukhealthalliance.org/news-item/he...
ukhealthalliance.org/news-item/he...
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Ultra-processed food (UPF) is linked to harm in every major organ system of the human body .
Increased risk of a dozen health conditions, including obesity, type 2 diabetes, heart disease and depression.
Companies know but inflict harms to boost profits. Need effective regulation.
Increased risk of a dozen health conditions, including obesity, type 2 diabetes, heart disease and depression.
Companies know but inflict harms to boost profits. Need effective regulation.
Ultra-processed food linked to harm in every major human organ, study finds
World’s largest scientific review warns consumption of UPFs poses seismic threat to global health and wellbeing
www.theguardian.com
November 19, 2025 at 7:30 AM
Ultra-processed food (UPF) is linked to harm in every major organ system of the human body .
Increased risk of a dozen health conditions, including obesity, type 2 diabetes, heart disease and depression.
Companies know but inflict harms to boost profits. Need effective regulation.
Increased risk of a dozen health conditions, including obesity, type 2 diabetes, heart disease and depression.
Companies know but inflict harms to boost profits. Need effective regulation.
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Study of all-electric properties in Birmingham, with heat pumps and solar, shows they use less energy at peak times than expected, reducing stress on the grid
“We’re finding all those reasons not to go ahead with a heat pump are slowly but surely falling away”
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
“We’re finding all those reasons not to go ahead with a heat pump are slowly but surely falling away”
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Heat-pump homes put less strain on grid than expected, study shows
Analysis of new-builds in Birmingham suggests all-electric homes not only use less energy but vary in peak usage
www.theguardian.com
November 19, 2025 at 7:38 AM
Study of all-electric properties in Birmingham, with heat pumps and solar, shows they use less energy at peak times than expected, reducing stress on the grid
“We’re finding all those reasons not to go ahead with a heat pump are slowly but surely falling away”
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
“We’re finding all those reasons not to go ahead with a heat pump are slowly but surely falling away”
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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And I say this a very strong defender of European integration and Professor of EU law. The pressing issues observed by Rachmann are serious and need to be addressed by the European political leaders in the very near future. Full @financialtimes.com piece is available here:
www.ft.com/content/307c...
www.ft.com/content/307c...
The scramble for Europe is just beginning
As the EU struggles to defend its interests, outside powers play divide and rule
www.ft.com
November 19, 2025 at 7:44 AM
And I say this a very strong defender of European integration and Professor of EU law. The pressing issues observed by Rachmann are serious and need to be addressed by the European political leaders in the very near future. Full @financialtimes.com piece is available here:
www.ft.com/content/307c...
www.ft.com/content/307c...
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One of the things that the “immigration debate” in the UK really reveals is how little people actually know about how other people live. So much of immigration policy fails to work, even on its own terms, because it’s trying to solve problems that mostly exist in peoples heads
November 18, 2025 at 10:51 PM
One of the things that the “immigration debate” in the UK really reveals is how little people actually know about how other people live. So much of immigration policy fails to work, even on its own terms, because it’s trying to solve problems that mostly exist in peoples heads
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NHS failing to cut waiting times as promised in recovery plan.
Bad inheritance from 14 yrs of Tory rule.
Not helped by another reorganization costing billions, low staff morale.
Billions wasted through PFI, privatisations. Govt planning more of the same, leaves less for frontline services.
Bad inheritance from 14 yrs of Tory rule.
Not helped by another reorganization costing billions, low staff morale.
Billions wasted through PFI, privatisations. Govt planning more of the same, leaves less for frontline services.
NHS failing to cut waiting times as promised in recovery plan, report warns
Public accounts committee finds Labour’s progress ‘appears to have stalled’ despite billions of pounds in investment
www.theguardian.com
November 19, 2025 at 7:54 AM
NHS failing to cut waiting times as promised in recovery plan.
Bad inheritance from 14 yrs of Tory rule.
Not helped by another reorganization costing billions, low staff morale.
Billions wasted through PFI, privatisations. Govt planning more of the same, leaves less for frontline services.
Bad inheritance from 14 yrs of Tory rule.
Not helped by another reorganization costing billions, low staff morale.
Billions wasted through PFI, privatisations. Govt planning more of the same, leaves less for frontline services.
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This is what happens when the Centre Left follow far right policies on immigration. Is Labour watching? Those Danish immigration policies still looking attractive?
Danish Social democrats suffered a massive defeat in Copenhagen last night. They incurred similar defeats across the country and there will be a general election in the next year. In Copenhagen the far-left Enhedslisten (the unity list) won the most mandates followed by the socialist people's party.
November 19, 2025 at 7:57 AM
This is what happens when the Centre Left follow far right policies on immigration. Is Labour watching? Those Danish immigration policies still looking attractive?
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🔴The NHS Is Failing to Meet Waiting Times Targets Despite £3 Billion Investment
Wes Streeting’s multi-billion pound reforms are failing to deliver the improvements he promised, a report by MPs has found
bylinetimes.com/2025/11/19/t...
Wes Streeting’s multi-billion pound reforms are failing to deliver the improvements he promised, a report by MPs has found
bylinetimes.com/2025/11/19/t...
The NHS Is Failing to Meet Waiting Times Targets Despite £3 Billion Investment
Wes Streeting's multi-billion pound reforms are failing to deliver the improvements he promised, a report by MPs has found
bylinetimes.com
November 19, 2025 at 8:19 AM
🔴The NHS Is Failing to Meet Waiting Times Targets Despite £3 Billion Investment
Wes Streeting’s multi-billion pound reforms are failing to deliver the improvements he promised, a report by MPs has found
bylinetimes.com/2025/11/19/t...
Wes Streeting’s multi-billion pound reforms are failing to deliver the improvements he promised, a report by MPs has found
bylinetimes.com/2025/11/19/t...
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The i Paper is reporting that once the changes are brought in, the 20 year route will be applied to refugees who are already here.
I can't over emphasise the level of terror this will cause to our refugee population, and the lack of detail and timescale will make it very difficult to calm nerves.
I can't over emphasise the level of terror this will cause to our refugee population, and the lack of detail and timescale will make it very difficult to calm nerves.
November 19, 2025 at 8:06 AM
The i Paper is reporting that once the changes are brought in, the 20 year route will be applied to refugees who are already here.
I can't over emphasise the level of terror this will cause to our refugee population, and the lack of detail and timescale will make it very difficult to calm nerves.
I can't over emphasise the level of terror this will cause to our refugee population, and the lack of detail and timescale will make it very difficult to calm nerves.
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So much for the "smash the smugglers' business model" shtick
To put it into perspective, Priti Patel wanted her 10 year rules to only apply to new arrivals as she thought it was unfair on people already here. Labour are also going further by not exempting people who claim asylum while here on a visa.
November 19, 2025 at 8:28 AM
So much for the "smash the smugglers' business model" shtick