Mehdi Mikou
mikmeh.bsky.social
Mehdi Mikou
@mikmeh.bsky.social
PhD student @CIRED working on inequalities of exposure to extreme climate events
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The Israeli Government has made an ad about the Global Sumud Flotilla headed for Gaza, and it's surprsingly honest and informative.
Honest Government Ad | Global Sumud Flotilla
YouTube video by thejuicemedia
youtube.com
September 13, 2025 at 9:07 AM
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L'été 2025 a été marqué par les évènements climatiques extrêmes. Mais riches et pauvres sont-ils exposés de la même manière ?

Réponse en 5 minutes avec @mikmeh.bsky.social qui a soutenu une thèse sur ce sujet au @cired.bsky.social.

www.radiofrance.fr/francecultur...
Sommes-nous égaux face aux évènements climatiques extrêmes ?
Records de chaleurs, inondations et incendies géants… L'été 2025 a été marqué par les évènements climatiques extrêmes. Mais sommes-nous tous autant exposés ?
www.radiofrance.fr
August 27, 2025 at 4:11 PM
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Amorcer la déchéance de nationalité d'un citoyen américain uniquement car... c'est un opposant de gauche qui a des chances d'être élu maire de New-York.

Voici l'intention explicite de l'administration Trump.

Sans exagération aucune : Chaque jour qui passe, la démocratie s'estompe aux Etats-Unis.
Karoline Leavitt indicates the administration is open to a denaturalization-oriented investigation against Zohran Mamdani
June 30, 2025 at 7:03 PM
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Our paper has just been published in Nature Cities ! ✨👇
Can we balance the preservation of biodiversity with the need for artificial lights at night in urban areas? Our new Nature Cities paper with @chloebdt.bsky.social, S. Potin, J. Chaurand, V. Delbar, L. Mariton & M. David explores this question
Planning sustainable urban lighting for biodiversity and society
Nature Cities - Sustainable lighting requires balancing the preservation of biodiversity with the needs of urban residents. This study offers a valuable tool and meaningful insights to assist urban...
rdcu.be
June 20, 2025 at 4:16 PM
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Imagine, just imagine, the response from the West if the Iranian government, in international waters, had rammed and then boarded a European ship, filled with European citizens, and taken them captive.

But it's Israel, so it's all good. Our citizens don't matter.
June 9, 2025 at 9:14 PM
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Colonial extraction and unequal exchange have shaped two centuries of North-South inequality.
A thread on the new study written with @gatonievas.bsky.social
[A thread 1/8🧵]
June 9, 2025 at 1:37 PM
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Dans 3 semaines sort mon rapport, aboutissement de plus de 2 ans de travaux à @strategieplan.bsky.social

Comment réinventer la solidarité collective face aux risques climatiques? Peut on s’inspirer de la mutualisation des risques sociaux?

Venez en discuter!

www.strategie.gouv.fr/evenements/f...
Faut-il repenser la mutualisation des risques climatiques ? | France Stratégie
Inscription en présentiel
www.strategie.gouv.fr
May 25, 2025 at 8:46 AM
Excited to share our latest publication in Environmental Research Letters: "High-resolution income projections over the 21st century in Europe consistent with the Shared Socioeconomic Pathways" with the great @vallet-ameline.bsky.social & @celineguivarch.bsky.social
May 20, 2025 at 1:34 PM
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En France, la pollution aux particules fines augmente l'absentéisme des salariés, baisse leur productivité, affecte les consommateurs et nuit in fine aux entreprises.

J'explique les résultats de notre étude menée avec Hélène Ollivier au micro de @vgarin.bsky.social pour RTL: shorturl.at/nbubg
Pollution de l'air : voici son coût astronomique pour la santé et l'économie en France
PODCAST - La pollution de l'air est responsable de 45.000 décès prématurés par an en France, mais l'impact ne concerne pas seulement notre santé.
www.rtl.fr
May 9, 2025 at 12:08 PM
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Who's responsible for the climate crisis?

Two new studies try to answer this question: but whichever way we slice it, the answer doesn't change much.

The wealthiest are disproportionately responsible for the greatest emissions, and that's why climate change is so unfair.

An explanatory thread 🧵
Who Did It? GIF
Alt: Who Did It? GIF
media.tenor.com
May 7, 2025 at 8:53 PM
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🔴New paper!

Next month, the #FfD4 UN conference will try to find resources to finance sustainable development, in the context of plummeting foreign aid.

Meanwhile, I show that extreme poverty cannot be eradicated by 2030 (SDG1) without international transfers.

www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1...
April 30, 2025 at 1:45 AM
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"Bonobos [one of our closest relatives] refuse to participate when faced with unequal rewards."

The vast majority of people similarly want fairness between us, but almost always end up with leaders who don't.

That mismatch is the single biggest barrier to a better world.
phys.org/news/2025-04...
Bonobos refuse to participate when faced with unequal rewards
The question of whether non-human animals have a sense of fairness has been widely debated. Some studies suggest that primates and other cooperative species show an aversion to inequity, while others ...
phys.org
April 17, 2025 at 5:45 AM
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🚨Je ne pouvais pas le poster un 1er Avril car ceci n'est malheureusement pas une blague : la chasse aux #chercheurs a commencé en France avec le même mode opératoire qu'aux #USA dans les années 2020.
Analyse de la campagne contre #OpenPortability / #HelloQuitteX
➡️ hal.science/hal-05014849
April 2, 2025 at 8:44 AM
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This piece from @jvl.bsky.social is one of the most important insightful I have read since January 20th 2025.
How to Think (and Act) Like a Dissident Movement
AOC, solidarity, and people power.
www.thebulwark.com
March 30, 2025 at 5:12 PM
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In 25 years of covering national security, I’ve never seen a story like this: Senior Trump officials discussed planning for the U.S. attack on Yemen in a Signal group--and inadvertently added the editor-in-chief of The Atlantic. www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...
The Trump Administration Accidentally Texted Me Its War Plans
U.S. national-security leaders included me in a group chat about upcoming military strikes in Yemen. I didn’t think it could be real. Then the bombs started falling.
www.theatlantic.com
March 24, 2025 at 4:11 PM
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From a source: “Just had a co-presenter for a buildings research conference bow out. She’s a dual citizen and the FBI came knocking to ask her about her involvement in coauthoring chunks of the Paris Agreement.

Climate science is being literally (and I mean literally) criminalized.”
March 18, 2025 at 4:45 PM
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‘Elle est passée où ta Greta Thunberg ?’

Elle est toujours là, active, à se battre pour le climat. C’est juste qu’elle est aussi contre la colonisation et les gouvernements d’extrême-droite donc quand elle a communiqué sur le genocide en Palestine de nombreux médias ont cessé de parler d’elle.
March 17, 2025 at 7:15 PM
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💥New from our EU @taxobservatory.bsky.social today:

A first quantification of how a minimum tax on super-wealthy Europeans could contribute to a safer and more resilient Europe 🧵

www.taxobservatory.eu//www-site/up...
March 17, 2025 at 8:40 AM
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"Harvard must stand up, speak out, and lead a public defense of our freedom to speak and study freely." www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...
First They Came for Columbia | Opinion | The Harvard Crimson
We must learn from the past. We cannot remain silent in the face of authoritarian attacks on our peers, even if they have not yet come for us.
www.thecrimson.com
March 14, 2025 at 1:14 PM
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Notre première étude Agoratlas !
Où on a trouvé des milliers de bots/trolls insultants Zelensky, et félicitant Trump.

La première partie de l'étude étant dans le lien cité, je vais profiter de mon thread perso pour vous parler de ma journée et du process derrière 😅
THREAD - Dans les dernières 24 heures, près de 35 000 comptes francophones ont parlé de la rencontre Trump/Zelensky sur Twitter.

Nos analyses ont permis de mettre en évidence de nombreux comportements coordonnés visant à manipuler l'opinion publique en faveur de la Russie ⤵️
March 1, 2025 at 7:17 PM
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L'intelligence artificielle telle qu'elle est développée aujourd'hui par les grandes entreprises de la tech sert une vision du monde.
February 17, 2025 at 9:57 AM
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Refuser le principe d’un taux plancher d’imposition des ultra-riches, c’est défendre le « droit » des milliardaires à payer zéro.

Notre appel dans Le Monde, avec de nombreuses personnalités du monde politique, syndical et de la société civile

👇👇👇

www.lemonde.fr/idees/articl...
« Le temps est venu de soumettre les très grandes fortunes à un taux minimal d’imposition » : l’appel de personnalités derrière Gabriel Zucman
TRIBUNE. La commission des finances a adopté, mercredi 12 février, une proposition de loi pour instaurer un impôt plancher de 2 % sur les patrimoines de plus de 100 millions d’euros. D’Eric Coquerel à...
www.lemonde.fr
February 16, 2025 at 10:25 AM
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The neoliberal dream of fossil fuel billionaire Charles Koch was always the destruction of US democracy and the elimination of government (except for its repressive organs police, courts, prisons, military ofc), and now he has won.
What now? A 🧵.
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February 8, 2025 at 10:38 AM