Terry Hathaway
@terryhathaway.bsky.social
Political economist, writing a book on corporate power. Work at Uni of York. Chaotic good.
Half-arsed baker, chronically injured climber, perspiring writer.
Half-arsed baker, chronically injured climber, perspiring writer.
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Why do global environmental institutions multiply and persist even when they seem unable to address biodiversity loss and environmental governance failures effectively?
Our new OA article with @jacquelinebest.bsky.social in @risjnl.bsky.social tries to answer this question. 1/7
cup.org/4hZNlcX
Our new OA article with @jacquelinebest.bsky.social in @risjnl.bsky.social tries to answer this question. 1/7
cup.org/4hZNlcX
Failure-proof or failure-prone? The paradoxes of global biodiversity institutions | Review of International Studies | Cambridge Core
Failure-proof or failure-prone? The paradoxes of global biodiversity institutions
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November 19, 2025 at 6:43 AM
Why do global environmental institutions multiply and persist even when they seem unable to address biodiversity loss and environmental governance failures effectively?
Our new OA article with @jacquelinebest.bsky.social in @risjnl.bsky.social tries to answer this question. 1/7
cup.org/4hZNlcX
Our new OA article with @jacquelinebest.bsky.social in @risjnl.bsky.social tries to answer this question. 1/7
cup.org/4hZNlcX
A few things about AI worth remembering.
1) What it says has no credibility.
2) It does not hallucinate, it generates plausible accounts that depart from reality
3) "Intelligence" is a great stretch of the term
4) There's a strong push to claim it is the inevitable future, but if so, why the push?
1) What it says has no credibility.
2) It does not hallucinate, it generates plausible accounts that depart from reality
3) "Intelligence" is a great stretch of the term
4) There's a strong push to claim it is the inevitable future, but if so, why the push?
November 12, 2025 at 12:18 PM
A few things about AI worth remembering.
1) What it says has no credibility.
2) It does not hallucinate, it generates plausible accounts that depart from reality
3) "Intelligence" is a great stretch of the term
4) There's a strong push to claim it is the inevitable future, but if so, why the push?
1) What it says has no credibility.
2) It does not hallucinate, it generates plausible accounts that depart from reality
3) "Intelligence" is a great stretch of the term
4) There's a strong push to claim it is the inevitable future, but if so, why the push?
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AI could end scarcity, end humanity - or boost trend growth by 0.2 percentage points
November 7, 2025 at 1:24 PM
AI could end scarcity, end humanity - or boost trend growth by 0.2 percentage points
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With Maurice Glasman and Dominic Lawson calling for the return of the stocks, we find most Britons opposed - although Reform voters are divided
All Britons: 21% support / 72% oppose
Lib Dem: 12% / 85%
Labour: 12% / 83%
Green: 13% / 82%
Con: 28% / 64%
Reform: 43% / 48%
yougov.co.uk/society/arti...
All Britons: 21% support / 72% oppose
Lib Dem: 12% / 85%
Labour: 12% / 83%
Green: 13% / 82%
Con: 28% / 64%
Reform: 43% / 48%
yougov.co.uk/society/arti...
November 7, 2025 at 11:55 AM
With Maurice Glasman and Dominic Lawson calling for the return of the stocks, we find most Britons opposed - although Reform voters are divided
All Britons: 21% support / 72% oppose
Lib Dem: 12% / 85%
Labour: 12% / 83%
Green: 13% / 82%
Con: 28% / 64%
Reform: 43% / 48%
yougov.co.uk/society/arti...
All Britons: 21% support / 72% oppose
Lib Dem: 12% / 85%
Labour: 12% / 83%
Green: 13% / 82%
Con: 28% / 64%
Reform: 43% / 48%
yougov.co.uk/society/arti...
This is such a snivelly shitweasel thing to say, as if people who oppose more and more testing aren't actually on the side of good education.
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
November 1, 2025 at 10:27 AM
This is such a snivelly shitweasel thing to say, as if people who oppose more and more testing aren't actually on the side of good education.
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
The world is run by cry bullies who assert power by claiming anyone stopping them being dicks is hurting them
The Spanish football club is planning to seek more than €4bn in damages from Uefa for alleged losses it suffered after European football’s governing body blocked proposals for a controversial Super League ft.trib.al/fSMcH5Q
October 30, 2025 at 7:41 AM
The world is run by cry bullies who assert power by claiming anyone stopping them being dicks is hurting them
Rogoff's new article on the Guardian is a joy of misrepresentations and defenses in order to promote his new book. Very weird, but how would you keep going after being found out so publicly?
October 27, 2025 at 11:29 AM
Rogoff's new article on the Guardian is a joy of misrepresentations and defenses in order to promote his new book. Very weird, but how would you keep going after being found out so publicly?
In my house a fart is increasingly known as a Presidential Address
October 26, 2025 at 8:33 AM
In my house a fart is increasingly known as a Presidential Address
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Humanist Bertrand Russell's perfect, utterly uncompromising 1962 letter declining Oswald Mosley's invitation to lunch. An perennial joy to see this circulating online from time to time.
October 20, 2025 at 2:06 PM
Humanist Bertrand Russell's perfect, utterly uncompromising 1962 letter declining Oswald Mosley's invitation to lunch. An perennial joy to see this circulating online from time to time.
Politicians are repeatedly sliding in to applying conditionalities to the human rights of immigrants. Easy slippery slope to everyone else
This -official Conservative policy - is essentially identical to the Reform policy that the Prime Minister described as "racist and immoral" and would "rip out country apart".
Would be good if media and politicians pointed this out .
Would be good if media and politicians pointed this out .
Lam's proposal is to refuse future grants of ILR but to cancel past grants of permanent status to anyone who is not likely to be a fiscal net contributor, and anyone "who has accessed state support" once they got permanent status. That will revoke pledges to those told this was their permanent home.
October 19, 2025 at 7:59 AM
Politicians are repeatedly sliding in to applying conditionalities to the human rights of immigrants. Easy slippery slope to everyone else
This is maybe a reflection on the contemporary moment....or, it's an assigned reading for a class this week
October 16, 2025 at 7:45 AM
This is maybe a reflection on the contemporary moment....or, it's an assigned reading for a class this week
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Emily Tucker argues that the AI regulation debate largely misses the point: the real threat to democracy is unchecked data extraction and accumulation that is fueling corporate power. “We can have mass surveillance, or we can have political self-determination. We can’t have both,” she writes.
To Have Democracy, We Must Contest Data | TechPolicy.Press
Emily Tucker makes the case for redlines for data, not AI—real limits on corporate data collection to protect democracy and political self-determination.
www.techpolicy.press
October 14, 2025 at 1:28 PM
Emily Tucker argues that the AI regulation debate largely misses the point: the real threat to democracy is unchecked data extraction and accumulation that is fueling corporate power. “We can have mass surveillance, or we can have political self-determination. We can’t have both,” she writes.
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Incredible.
Jack Posobiec references the earliest version of antifa -- the anti-fascists in the Weimar Republic who were opposed to the Nazi Party -- as the bad guys.
Jack Posobiec references the earliest version of antifa -- the anti-fascists in the Weimar Republic who were opposed to the Nazi Party -- as the bad guys.
October 8, 2025 at 8:16 PM
Incredible.
Jack Posobiec references the earliest version of antifa -- the anti-fascists in the Weimar Republic who were opposed to the Nazi Party -- as the bad guys.
Jack Posobiec references the earliest version of antifa -- the anti-fascists in the Weimar Republic who were opposed to the Nazi Party -- as the bad guys.
When being hit by a car, a smaller car going at a slower speed is preferable. Also, try not to be a child.
When it comes to road deaths, we often put the onus on people doing the dying rather than people doing the killing.
September 28, 2025 at 3:42 PM
When being hit by a car, a smaller car going at a slower speed is preferable. Also, try not to be a child.
Ah, microwaved leftover Blairism. Kier, you shouldn't have!
Like, really, Kier, you shouldn't have.
Like, really, Kier, you shouldn't have.
September 25, 2025 at 9:21 PM
Ah, microwaved leftover Blairism. Kier, you shouldn't have!
Like, really, Kier, you shouldn't have.
Like, really, Kier, you shouldn't have.
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In case you thought I was exaggerating, here is the "debate" on Kimmel from Newsnight.
David Frum explaining the horrific first-amendment-breaching executive overreach.
British right wing hacks: bUt HiS jOkE wAs iNaCCuRaTe!
David Frum explaining the horrific first-amendment-breaching executive overreach.
British right wing hacks: bUt HiS jOkE wAs iNaCCuRaTe!
September 20, 2025 at 10:18 AM
In case you thought I was exaggerating, here is the "debate" on Kimmel from Newsnight.
David Frum explaining the horrific first-amendment-breaching executive overreach.
British right wing hacks: bUt HiS jOkE wAs iNaCCuRaTe!
David Frum explaining the horrific first-amendment-breaching executive overreach.
British right wing hacks: bUt HiS jOkE wAs iNaCCuRaTe!
I guess the Ovenden window shifted.
September 15, 2025 at 9:16 PM
I guess the Ovenden window shifted.
Fascists ruin everything. Here I am, trying to enjoy the switch into Autumn and the fascists are off fascing. Why can't they, I dunno, bake an apple crumble or something?
September 14, 2025 at 2:55 PM
Fascists ruin everything. Here I am, trying to enjoy the switch into Autumn and the fascists are off fascing. Why can't they, I dunno, bake an apple crumble or something?
I didn't realise hobbyists were being funded by universities! Here I was thinking that most University staff members have an undergraduate degree, maybe a Masters, and a PhD. Y'know, the 6-8 years of qualifications that make you a professional researcher.
Hierarchy eats people's brains.
Hierarchy eats people's brains.
Ministers ‘want to shift funds away from low-quality research’ .
Universities UK president says institutions cannot afford “unfunded hobbyist research”.
www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-u...
Universities UK president says institutions cannot afford “unfunded hobbyist research”.
www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-u...
Ministers ‘want to shift funds away from low-quality research’ - Research Professional News
Universities UK president says institutions cannot afford “unfunded hobbyist research”
www.researchprofessionalnews.com
September 12, 2025 at 8:01 AM
I didn't realise hobbyists were being funded by universities! Here I was thinking that most University staff members have an undergraduate degree, maybe a Masters, and a PhD. Y'know, the 6-8 years of qualifications that make you a professional researcher.
Hierarchy eats people's brains.
Hierarchy eats people's brains.
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*PSA EVENT* This #Teaching & #Learning Webinar will look at using LEGO® in #PoliticalScience & #InternationalStudies as a Flexible and Effective Tool for Playful Learning’ with Dr. David Wilcox & Dr. Giuditta Fontana @unibirmingham.bsky.social
📆 19 November, 1 - 2pm, online
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📆 19 November, 1 - 2pm, online
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September 12, 2025 at 7:00 AM
*PSA EVENT* This #Teaching & #Learning Webinar will look at using LEGO® in #PoliticalScience & #InternationalStudies as a Flexible and Effective Tool for Playful Learning’ with Dr. David Wilcox & Dr. Giuditta Fontana @unibirmingham.bsky.social
📆 19 November, 1 - 2pm, online
➡️ buff.ly/VEPbxAy
📆 19 November, 1 - 2pm, online
➡️ buff.ly/VEPbxAy
It is always sad to see yet another victim of the horrific levels of gun violence in the United States. I'm sure we all hope that such an appalling incident leads to greater political attention to this epidemic of senseless and needless carnage.
September 10, 2025 at 9:15 PM
It is always sad to see yet another victim of the horrific levels of gun violence in the United States. I'm sure we all hope that such an appalling incident leads to greater political attention to this epidemic of senseless and needless carnage.
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Publication alert:
Commercial determinants of infant and child health: A focus on Nestlé’s baby food products marketed in Africa
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Commercial determinants of infant and child health: A focus on Nestlé’s baby food products marketed in Africa
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Commercial determinants of infant and child health: A focus on Nestlé’s baby food products marketed in Africa
The transnational baby food industry (TBFI), which operates in Africa, engages in aggressive marketing and deploys corporate practices to maximise pro…
www.sciencedirect.com
September 10, 2025 at 11:24 AM
Publication alert:
Commercial determinants of infant and child health: A focus on Nestlé’s baby food products marketed in Africa
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Commercial determinants of infant and child health: A focus on Nestlé’s baby food products marketed in Africa
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Man I'm old. After a few weeks of being away on collection day, I just thought to myself "Ooh, the recycling bins will be emptied today"
September 8, 2025 at 7:26 AM
Man I'm old. After a few weeks of being away on collection day, I just thought to myself "Ooh, the recycling bins will be emptied today"
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Finally! 🤩 Our position piece: Against the Uncritical Adoption of 'AI' Technologies in Academia:
doi.org/10.5281/zeno...
We unpick the tech industry’s marketing, hype, & harm; and we argue for safeguarding higher education, critical
thinking, expertise, academic freedom, & scientific integrity.
1/n
doi.org/10.5281/zeno...
We unpick the tech industry’s marketing, hype, & harm; and we argue for safeguarding higher education, critical
thinking, expertise, academic freedom, & scientific integrity.
1/n
September 6, 2025 at 8:13 AM
Finally! 🤩 Our position piece: Against the Uncritical Adoption of 'AI' Technologies in Academia:
doi.org/10.5281/zeno...
We unpick the tech industry’s marketing, hype, & harm; and we argue for safeguarding higher education, critical
thinking, expertise, academic freedom, & scientific integrity.
1/n
doi.org/10.5281/zeno...
We unpick the tech industry’s marketing, hype, & harm; and we argue for safeguarding higher education, critical
thinking, expertise, academic freedom, & scientific integrity.
1/n