Prof Lisa Schipper 🌍🍉💪
@lisaschipper.bsky.social
Climate adaptation & development•Prof Development Geography @giubresearch.bsky.social•Co-EiC @climdevjournal.bsky.social•PI @dependencybonn.de•Associate @sei.org & @ecioxford.bsky.social• @welthungerhilfe.bsky.social•she/her/Du•Servant to 3 rescue 🐈⬛ •🇸🇪
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Since COP29 is turning into an adaptation COP, I am bringing some of my past threads on adaptation from another place here.
PART I: A 🧵 on adaptation and development over the years, digging deep back to the 1990s through to current scholarship.
PART I: A 🧵 on adaptation and development over the years, digging deep back to the 1990s through to current scholarship.
Pleonexia. Learn this word. It’s all around us.
As Christmas approaches, I reflect on my word of the year: pleonexia — an ancient Greek term describing the insatiable desire to take more than your fair share, even when it harms others. In 2025, we saw that everywhere.
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The ancient word that explains 2025
YouTube video by Richard J Murphy
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December 22, 2025 at 7:19 AM
Pleonexia. Learn this word. It’s all around us.
I am really not one of these people who watches shorts/reels whatever but holy moly this soup is good. www.facebook.com/reel/3986346...
10M views · 189K reactions | Roasted Feta Broccoli Soup - try this version of my roasted feta tomato soup; it’s so creamy so so good!! 🥦🥣
INGREDIENTS
1 (8-ounce) feta chunk
4 cups broccoli florets
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Roasted Feta Broccoli Soup - try this version of my roasted feta tomato soup; it’s so creamy so so good!! 🥦🥣
INGREDIENTS
1 (8-ounce) feta chunk
4 cups broccoli florets
1 pound potatoes, peeled &...
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December 20, 2025 at 6:37 PM
I am really not one of these people who watches shorts/reels whatever but holy moly this soup is good. www.facebook.com/reel/3986346...
A few months ago, I was invited to review a book proposal for a major UK publisher. In the list of possible competing titles, I found out that somehow (in my sleep?) I had also written a book on transformative adaptation, which until that point I had had no awareness of…
I’m sorry, but it is disgraceful to be an academic who uses this technology to conduct research. It should be prohibited in all of our scholarly institutions, including universities and journals.
December 20, 2025 at 12:53 PM
A few months ago, I was invited to review a book proposal for a major UK publisher. In the list of possible competing titles, I found out that somehow (in my sleep?) I had also written a book on transformative adaptation, which until that point I had had no awareness of…
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God jul från biståndsministern!
Inget beslut jag fattar med stor glädje, säger Dousa.
Nä vi fattar. Man måste prioritera.
Och just denna jul prioriterar vi mindre till världens fattigaste för att ha råd med skattesänkningar till de rikaste
www.etc.se/inrikes/rege...
Inget beslut jag fattar med stor glädje, säger Dousa.
Nä vi fattar. Man måste prioritera.
Och just denna jul prioriterar vi mindre till världens fattigaste för att ha råd med skattesänkningar till de rikaste
www.etc.se/inrikes/rege...
Regeringen skär ner Sidas anslag med 4 miljarder
Benjamin Dousa (M): ”Det är inget beslut vi har fattat med stor glädje”.
www.etc.se
December 19, 2025 at 10:03 AM
God jul från biståndsministern!
Inget beslut jag fattar med stor glädje, säger Dousa.
Nä vi fattar. Man måste prioritera.
Och just denna jul prioriterar vi mindre till världens fattigaste för att ha råd med skattesänkningar till de rikaste
www.etc.se/inrikes/rege...
Inget beslut jag fattar med stor glädje, säger Dousa.
Nä vi fattar. Man måste prioritera.
Och just denna jul prioriterar vi mindre till världens fattigaste för att ha råd med skattesänkningar till de rikaste
www.etc.se/inrikes/rege...
What a year!
25 papers published
13 keynote talks
4 research grants
Oh wait I forgot…this isn’t LinkedIn.
(and none of those numbers are true)
25 papers published
13 keynote talks
4 research grants
Oh wait I forgot…this isn’t LinkedIn.
(and none of those numbers are true)
December 18, 2025 at 7:58 PM
What a year!
25 papers published
13 keynote talks
4 research grants
Oh wait I forgot…this isn’t LinkedIn.
(and none of those numbers are true)
25 papers published
13 keynote talks
4 research grants
Oh wait I forgot…this isn’t LinkedIn.
(and none of those numbers are true)
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“The report concludes that the cumulative result of sexual harassment in academic sciences, engineering, and medicine is significant damage to research integrity and a costly loss of talent in these fields.”
www.nationalacademies.org/projects/PGA...
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Sexual Harassment in Academia
This study examined the prevalence and impact of sexual harassment in academia on the career advancement of women in the scientific, technical, and medical workforce. The report concludes that the cum...
www.nationalacademies.org
December 18, 2025 at 5:02 PM
“The report concludes that the cumulative result of sexual harassment in academic sciences, engineering, and medicine is significant damage to research integrity and a costly loss of talent in these fields.”
www.nationalacademies.org/projects/PGA...
www.nationalacademies.org/projects/PGA...
Best story of the day. www.bbc.com/news/article...
Polar bear mother adopts cub in rarely documented case
It's only the 13th known case of adoption out of the 4,600 bears studied for nearly five decades in the northern Canadian area.
www.bbc.com
December 17, 2025 at 7:59 PM
Best story of the day. www.bbc.com/news/article...
I feel like this is calling to me
Why middle-aged women are plunging into icy lakes and finding strength there.
How open-water swimming can transform midlife wellbeing – new research
Why middle-aged women are plunging into icy lakes and finding strength there.
tcnv.link
December 17, 2025 at 3:01 PM
I feel like this is calling to me
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I made a climate change education starter pack. More to add, so please reach out if you’d like to be on this list: go.bsky.app/Pgq6Tzu
November 12, 2024 at 11:30 AM
I made a climate change education starter pack. More to add, so please reach out if you’d like to be on this list: go.bsky.app/Pgq6Tzu
Good starter packs circulating here on science and environment
We’re getting lots of new Bluesky friends!
Please share your favorite science and conservation starter packs as a reply here and I’ll share them. Let’s get our science and conservation friends lots of followers! 🧪🌎🦑
Please share your favorite science and conservation starter packs as a reply here and I’ll share them. Let’s get our science and conservation friends lots of followers! 🧪🌎🦑
December 17, 2025 at 12:40 PM
Good starter packs circulating here on science and environment
Guess which horrible song is now stuck in my head? And maybe yours too. Sorry 😫
This time of year I teach a series of intro lectures on development geography. Today was a class on stereotypes of development and white saviourism. Among other things, we watched the music video from Band Aid from 1984. The Charity & xmas no 1 song 'Do they know it's Christmas (Feed the world)?' 🧵
December 16, 2025 at 6:40 PM
Guess which horrible song is now stuck in my head? And maybe yours too. Sorry 😫
This time of year I teach a series of intro lectures on development geography. Today was a class on stereotypes of development and white saviourism. Among other things, we watched the music video from Band Aid from 1984. The Charity & xmas no 1 song 'Do they know it's Christmas (Feed the world)?' 🧵
December 16, 2025 at 2:20 PM
This time of year I teach a series of intro lectures on development geography. Today was a class on stereotypes of development and white saviourism. Among other things, we watched the music video from Band Aid from 1984. The Charity & xmas no 1 song 'Do they know it's Christmas (Feed the world)?' 🧵
This is a real question. Why are not all scientific journals double blind?
December 15, 2025 at 8:27 PM
This is a real question. Why are not all scientific journals double blind?
Just upping this call for papers at our hybrid @devcomms.bsky.social panel next year on Epistemic ruptures in climate governance: Reimagining justice, knowledge and authority. We have received excellent papers so far but are always interested in more! Deadline: 30.12 nomadit.co.uk/conference/d...
P26: Epistemic ruptures in climate governance: Reimagining justice, knowledge, and authority
This panel explores how climate governance, through adaptation and Loss and Damage, reflects deep epistemic inequalities. It asks how knowledge, power, and justice intersect, and how reimagining gover...
nomadit.co.uk
December 15, 2025 at 11:56 AM
Just upping this call for papers at our hybrid @devcomms.bsky.social panel next year on Epistemic ruptures in climate governance: Reimagining justice, knowledge and authority. We have received excellent papers so far but are always interested in more! Deadline: 30.12 nomadit.co.uk/conference/d...
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I’ve seen two kids post that the Brown University shooting is the second school shooting they’ve survived.
This should enrage and radicalize everyone.
Kids shouldn’t have to survive one shooting, let alone two.
No more thoughts and prayers.
It’s time to address the guns.
This should enrage and radicalize everyone.
Kids shouldn’t have to survive one shooting, let alone two.
No more thoughts and prayers.
It’s time to address the guns.
December 14, 2025 at 4:43 AM
I’ve seen two kids post that the Brown University shooting is the second school shooting they’ve survived.
This should enrage and radicalize everyone.
Kids shouldn’t have to survive one shooting, let alone two.
No more thoughts and prayers.
It’s time to address the guns.
This should enrage and radicalize everyone.
Kids shouldn’t have to survive one shooting, let alone two.
No more thoughts and prayers.
It’s time to address the guns.
Very shocked and sad for my alma mater Brown University and all the students who have to experience this. www.bbc.com/news/article...
Brown University shooting: Manhunt continues after two killed and nine injured
The gunman is at large after opening fire in a building where exams were taking place at the campus in Providence, Rhode Island.
www.bbc.com
December 14, 2025 at 7:50 AM
Very shocked and sad for my alma mater Brown University and all the students who have to experience this. www.bbc.com/news/article...
Quite fascinating.
Just got served this on my insta. I see this quite a lot from the collapse / fatalism folks: first the message that it's explicitly "too late" to mitigate climate change, then the follow-up of "we're not giving up, we're still doing things" and then a clarification that the 'thing' is...not material
December 13, 2025 at 1:43 PM
Quite fascinating.
I often think about the @unccd.bsky.social COP6 in Havana in 2003. The leaders who joined Fidel Castro on the stage at one point included Robert Mugabe and Hugo Chávez. It was definitely one of the wildest experiences of my life enb.iisd.org/desert/cop6/...
ENB @ UNCCD COP-6, Havana, Cuba; Aug. 25 - Sept. 05, 2003
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December 13, 2025 at 12:56 PM
I often think about the @unccd.bsky.social COP6 in Havana in 2003. The leaders who joined Fidel Castro on the stage at one point included Robert Mugabe and Hugo Chávez. It was definitely one of the wildest experiences of my life enb.iisd.org/desert/cop6/...
Glad Lucia!
December 13, 2025 at 10:01 AM
Glad Lucia!
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On the 10th Anniversary of the Paris Agreement, you’re going to hear a lot about the progress we’ve made — people saying we “are” heading to 2.5 degrees heating instead of four.
I deeply regret to tell you that this is complacent misinformation.
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I deeply regret to tell you that this is complacent misinformation.
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December 12, 2025 at 12:50 PM
On the 10th Anniversary of the Paris Agreement, you’re going to hear a lot about the progress we’ve made — people saying we “are” heading to 2.5 degrees heating instead of four.
I deeply regret to tell you that this is complacent misinformation.
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I deeply regret to tell you that this is complacent misinformation.
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The cat is out of the bag:
The Danish intelligence service names the US as a threat and sources from the Swedish military intelligence share the assessment that the politicisation of the FBI and CIA has caused a deep crisis of trust
The Danish intelligence service names the US as a threat and sources from the Swedish military intelligence share the assessment that the politicisation of the FBI and CIA has caused a deep crisis of trust
USA pekas ut som del av hotbild i Danmark
För första gången pekas USA ut som en del av hotbilden mot Danmark.
www.svd.se
December 12, 2025 at 10:42 AM
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Alltså wow P1 🔥. Mycket intressanta inslag idag om Nils Hanssons forskning om Nobelprisets parisiska tendenser (bias) och sen om meritokrati i samhället (Alexander Andersson). Tack för att ni tar upp viktiga frågor och visar att alla inte får samma möjligheter + vikten av mångfald och inklusion.
December 12, 2025 at 9:38 AM
Alltså wow P1 🔥. Mycket intressanta inslag idag om Nils Hanssons forskning om Nobelprisets parisiska tendenser (bias) och sen om meritokrati i samhället (Alexander Andersson). Tack för att ni tar upp viktiga frågor och visar att alla inte får samma möjligheter + vikten av mångfald och inklusion.
I am fascinated by the reference to the Monroe Doctrine in the recent policy paper on Europe and the colonial nature of their tone. It is not surprising but just fascinating and scary. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
‘Cultivate resistance’: policy paper lays bare Trump support for Europe’s far right
Text signed by president seems to echo ‘great replacement’ theory, saying Europe faces ‘civilisational erasure’
www.theguardian.com
December 11, 2025 at 8:57 AM
I am fascinated by the reference to the Monroe Doctrine in the recent policy paper on Europe and the colonial nature of their tone. It is not surprising but just fascinating and scary. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
I hope no one thought that politics stayed out of these reports (including IPCC). If so, you would be wrong.
www.bbc.com/news/article...
www.bbc.com/news/article...
UN environment report 'hijacked' over fossil fuels - top scientist
The US and other governments derailed an agreement on a global environment study, its co-chair says.
www.bbc.com
December 10, 2025 at 11:46 AM
I hope no one thought that politics stayed out of these reports (including IPCC). If so, you would be wrong.
www.bbc.com/news/article...
www.bbc.com/news/article...