Dr. Aaron Thierry
@thierryaaron.bsky.social
Graduate student at Cardiff University - researching the role of science and scientists in the climate movement. PhD in Ecology. Activism. Climate communications.
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Preventable suffering is both widespread and socially produced.
Preventable deaths in a warming world: how politics shapes who lives and who dies
Preventable suffering is both widespread and socially produced.
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I’m pleased to share my latest article in @uk.theconversation.com
It asks what overheated apartments, flooded rice fields, & invisible policy failures have in common, & how preventable harm becomes the slow violence of necropolitics in the Chthulucene.
Here's a short thread on some key points 🧵
It asks what overheated apartments, flooded rice fields, & invisible policy failures have in common, & how preventable harm becomes the slow violence of necropolitics in the Chthulucene.
Here's a short thread on some key points 🧵
Heroes one and all 👏
They risked a great deal to expose the moral rot inside JPMorgan.
History won’t forget who spoke up ✊️
They risked a great deal to expose the moral rot inside JPMorgan.
History won’t forget who spoke up ✊️
🚨BREAKING NEWS!
Medics that broke windows at JP Morgan HQ to expose fossil fuel financing links to climate devastation found NOT GUILTY today by jurors.
The climate crisis is a health crisis and health professionals have a duty to act when lives are at risk.
Read more here:
healthforxr.com
Medics that broke windows at JP Morgan HQ to expose fossil fuel financing links to climate devastation found NOT GUILTY today by jurors.
The climate crisis is a health crisis and health professionals have a duty to act when lives are at risk.
Read more here:
healthforxr.com
February 16, 2026 at 3:34 PM
Heroes one and all 👏
They risked a great deal to expose the moral rot inside JPMorgan.
History won’t forget who spoke up ✊️
They risked a great deal to expose the moral rot inside JPMorgan.
History won’t forget who spoke up ✊️
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Dates for Scotland now confirmed!
I’ll be there in person to join a Q&A after the film to discuss the links with local community.
@xrscotland.bsky.social
@greenparty.org.uk
@quaker.org.uk
@ufw.bsky.social
@unitetheunion.bsky.social
@filmhubscotland.bsky.social
@mattywin.bsky.social
I’ll be there in person to join a Q&A after the film to discuss the links with local community.
@xrscotland.bsky.social
@greenparty.org.uk
@quaker.org.uk
@ufw.bsky.social
@unitetheunion.bsky.social
@filmhubscotland.bsky.social
@mattywin.bsky.social
February 16, 2026 at 2:09 PM
Dates for Scotland now confirmed!
I’ll be there in person to join a Q&A after the film to discuss the links with local community.
@xrscotland.bsky.social
@greenparty.org.uk
@quaker.org.uk
@ufw.bsky.social
@unitetheunion.bsky.social
@filmhubscotland.bsky.social
@mattywin.bsky.social
I’ll be there in person to join a Q&A after the film to discuss the links with local community.
@xrscotland.bsky.social
@greenparty.org.uk
@quaker.org.uk
@ufw.bsky.social
@unitetheunion.bsky.social
@filmhubscotland.bsky.social
@mattywin.bsky.social
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This new piece by @markengler.bsky.social and Paul Engler in The Guardian provides valuable insights into the role that non-cooperation and popular defiance must play in pushing back to the growing autocracy in the US. Read the whole piece here: www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
The key to defeating Trump? Mass non-cooperation | Mark Engler and Paul Engler
Our studies in civil resistance offer insight into the level of popular organizing needed to repel assaults on democracy
www.theguardian.com
February 16, 2026 at 12:44 PM
This new piece by @markengler.bsky.social and Paul Engler in The Guardian provides valuable insights into the role that non-cooperation and popular defiance must play in pushing back to the growing autocracy in the US. Read the whole piece here: www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Interview with @revkin.bsky.social !!!! covering his >40yrs of climate reporting, music and much more.
It is a must-read.
Spoiler - his last answer - “Hope is an act more than a thing”
Pls share widely, comment, suggest other interviewees.
allouryesterdays.info/2026/02/16/a...
It is a must-read.
Spoiler - his last answer - “Hope is an act more than a thing”
Pls share widely, comment, suggest other interviewees.
allouryesterdays.info/2026/02/16/a...
Andy Revkin: "Hope is an act more than a thing" - All Our Yesterdays
1. A little bit about yourself – where you were born, grew up, how you found yourself doing journalism. I was born and raised in Rhode Island, a lucky circumstance that came with lots of access to the...
allouryesterdays.info
February 16, 2026 at 11:26 AM
Interview with @revkin.bsky.social !!!! covering his >40yrs of climate reporting, music and much more.
It is a must-read.
Spoiler - his last answer - “Hope is an act more than a thing”
Pls share widely, comment, suggest other interviewees.
allouryesterdays.info/2026/02/16/a...
It is a must-read.
Spoiler - his last answer - “Hope is an act more than a thing”
Pls share widely, comment, suggest other interviewees.
allouryesterdays.info/2026/02/16/a...
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"Sure, it’s scary to stand up to fascism, but... there is also risk to a version of the future where we don’t have vaccines, birth control, freedom, science, or a right to vote. Pick your poison: Scary now or scary later"
@cdelawalla.bsky.social
www.standupforscience.net/blog/fear-an...
@cdelawalla.bsky.social
www.standupforscience.net/blog/fear-an...
Fear and Fascism — STAND UP FOR SCIENCE
I recently had coffee and spent some time with a Big Deal (TM) Psychologist—who I have looked up to for years and who’s lab I unsuccessfully applied to for my PhD. It was very wonderful, and I actuall...
www.standupforscience.net
February 16, 2026 at 11:17 AM
"Sure, it’s scary to stand up to fascism, but... there is also risk to a version of the future where we don’t have vaccines, birth control, freedom, science, or a right to vote. Pick your poison: Scary now or scary later"
@cdelawalla.bsky.social
www.standupforscience.net/blog/fear-an...
@cdelawalla.bsky.social
www.standupforscience.net/blog/fear-an...
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UPDATES
There are no more words to describe tne insanity going on : dozens of thousands of records are being smashed allover Asia.
RUSSIA is with +24C at over 1000m asl and rising.
In many areas is way warmer than a July day and next days will be MUCH hotter.
There are no more words to describe tne insanity going on : dozens of thousands of records are being smashed allover Asia.
RUSSIA is with +24C at over 1000m asl and rising.
In many areas is way warmer than a July day and next days will be MUCH hotter.
Middle East and North Africa with 37C, Central Asia with up to 33C, SE Asia 39C, dozens of thousands of records from Morocco to Korea.
If you think it can't get worse, you are so wrong,coz next week it will get far worse.
Prepare to watch something beyond any imagination
If you think it can't get worse, you are so wrong,coz next week it will get far worse.
Prepare to watch something beyond any imagination
February 16, 2026 at 10:44 AM
UPDATES
There are no more words to describe tne insanity going on : dozens of thousands of records are being smashed allover Asia.
RUSSIA is with +24C at over 1000m asl and rising.
In many areas is way warmer than a July day and next days will be MUCH hotter.
There are no more words to describe tne insanity going on : dozens of thousands of records are being smashed allover Asia.
RUSSIA is with +24C at over 1000m asl and rising.
In many areas is way warmer than a July day and next days will be MUCH hotter.
Reposted by Dr. Aaron Thierry
NEW: Read this terrific piece @virginiaheffernan.bsky.social for @thenerve.news in which she unpicks Edge.org, the hugely influential 'salon' funded by Epstein & threaded through with race science & eugenics.
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www.thenerve.news/p/epstein-bi...
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www.thenerve.news/p/epstein-bi...
The billionaires' eugenics project: how Epstein infiltrated Harvard, muzzled the humanities and preached master-race science
Edge - Jeffrey Epstein's favourite intellectual salon - was sold to me as a gathering of the world's finest minds, writes Virginia Heffernan. The files reveal it was something far darker: a decades-lo...
www.thenerve.news
February 15, 2026 at 11:18 AM
NEW: Read this terrific piece @virginiaheffernan.bsky.social for @thenerve.news in which she unpicks Edge.org, the hugely influential 'salon' funded by Epstein & threaded through with race science & eugenics.
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www.thenerve.news/p/epstein-bi...
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www.thenerve.news/p/epstein-bi...
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The ecological crisis is unprecedented in scale and scope, so no, countries have not had to do this before, but you’d have to be wilfully blind to think they don’t have to do it now. You’d also have to be kidding or paid to say that harnessing wind and sun is more primitive than burning fossil fuels
"No country has ever attempted to rip out its economic infrastructure and replace it with something more primitive" says person who co-founded a campaign for the UK to leave the largest trading bloc in the world, wreaking havoc on the country's economic infrastructure.
February 16, 2026 at 9:27 AM
The ecological crisis is unprecedented in scale and scope, so no, countries have not had to do this before, but you’d have to be wilfully blind to think they don’t have to do it now. You’d also have to be kidding or paid to say that harnessing wind and sun is more primitive than burning fossil fuels
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Great thread on what it takes to inspire climate action - especially this point on why people often need help with the basics - who do I speak to? How do I convene a group?
@parisawright.bsky.social has started a new network to help people set up their own community sustainability initiatives.
@parisawright.bsky.social has started a new network to help people set up their own community sustainability initiatives.
February 16, 2026 at 8:39 AM
Great thread on what it takes to inspire climate action - especially this point on why people often need help with the basics - who do I speak to? How do I convene a group?
@parisawright.bsky.social has started a new network to help people set up their own community sustainability initiatives.
@parisawright.bsky.social has started a new network to help people set up their own community sustainability initiatives.
We need more stories that help people learn from what’s working.
Not just what’s going wrong.
Not just what “has to happen by 2050.”
Real examples of action that others can see, understand & build on.
Here's a 🧵on advice & tips for sharing #climate stories that actually inspire action.
Not just what’s going wrong.
Not just what “has to happen by 2050.”
Real examples of action that others can see, understand & build on.
Here's a 🧵on advice & tips for sharing #climate stories that actually inspire action.
February 16, 2026 at 8:14 AM
We need more stories that help people learn from what’s working.
Not just what’s going wrong.
Not just what “has to happen by 2050.”
Real examples of action that others can see, understand & build on.
Here's a 🧵on advice & tips for sharing #climate stories that actually inspire action.
Not just what’s going wrong.
Not just what “has to happen by 2050.”
Real examples of action that others can see, understand & build on.
Here's a 🧵on advice & tips for sharing #climate stories that actually inspire action.
"Addressing this injustice requires a living politics of care. This means a political system that recognises vulnerability as socially produced and demands solidarity, equity and accountability"
Preventable deaths in a warming world: how politics shapes who lives and who dies
Preventable suffering is both widespread and socially produced.
theconversation.com
February 16, 2026 at 7:39 AM
"Addressing this injustice requires a living politics of care. This means a political system that recognises vulnerability as socially produced and demands solidarity, equity and accountability"
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Powerful words from Sir David King at the launch of #ScientistsOnSurvival last week.
1/5 Sir David King, former Chief Scientific Advisor to the UK Government, at the launch of 'Scientists on Survival: Personal Stories of Climate Action'.
April 10, 2025 at 5:03 PM
Powerful words from Sir David King at the launch of #ScientistsOnSurvival last week.
Reposted by Dr. Aaron Thierry
Episode 2 of "Nature in Crisis," the podcast I'm doing with
@meehancrist.bsky.social for the @lrb.co.uk is now up.
We discuss "The Light Eaters" by @zoeschlanger.bsky.social.
Plant intelligence, plant agency, the pace and place of plants.
www.lrb.co.uk/podcasts-and...
@meehancrist.bsky.social for the @lrb.co.uk is now up.
We discuss "The Light Eaters" by @zoeschlanger.bsky.social.
Plant intelligence, plant agency, the pace and place of plants.
www.lrb.co.uk/podcasts-and...
Podcast: Meehan Crist and Peter Godfrey-Smith · Nature in Crisis: ‘The Light Eaters’ by Zoë Schlanger
www.lrb.co.uk
February 16, 2026 at 6:17 AM
Episode 2 of "Nature in Crisis," the podcast I'm doing with
@meehancrist.bsky.social for the @lrb.co.uk is now up.
We discuss "The Light Eaters" by @zoeschlanger.bsky.social.
Plant intelligence, plant agency, the pace and place of plants.
www.lrb.co.uk/podcasts-and...
@meehancrist.bsky.social for the @lrb.co.uk is now up.
We discuss "The Light Eaters" by @zoeschlanger.bsky.social.
Plant intelligence, plant agency, the pace and place of plants.
www.lrb.co.uk/podcasts-and...
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WATCH: How this small city tripled its cycling in just 11 years, via @ohtheurbanity.bsky.social.
(spoiler: It’s Victoria BC in Canada, and it’s worth watching)
(spoiler: It’s Victoria BC in Canada, and it’s worth watching)
How This Small City Tripled Its Cycling In Just 11 Years
YouTube video by Oh The Urbanity!
youtube.com
February 15, 2026 at 11:54 PM
WATCH: How this small city tripled its cycling in just 11 years, via @ohtheurbanity.bsky.social.
(spoiler: It’s Victoria BC in Canada, and it’s worth watching)
(spoiler: It’s Victoria BC in Canada, and it’s worth watching)
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"Climate change, plastic pollution, & overfishing concerns have made it difficult to train scientists in technical skills. UCSB's Alexandra Phillips has put together a guide to help universities support student engagement in ocean policy."
#scipol 🌊 🦑 🧪
news.ucsb.edu/2026/022376/...
#scipol 🌊 🦑 🧪
news.ucsb.edu/2026/022376/...
Science policy education should start on campus
UC Santa Barbara professor Alexandra Phillips published a guide to help universities support student engagement in ocean policy.
news.ucsb.edu
February 15, 2026 at 7:48 PM
"Climate change, plastic pollution, & overfishing concerns have made it difficult to train scientists in technical skills. UCSB's Alexandra Phillips has put together a guide to help universities support student engagement in ocean policy."
#scipol 🌊 🦑 🧪
news.ucsb.edu/2026/022376/...
#scipol 🌊 🦑 🧪
news.ucsb.edu/2026/022376/...
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During an El Niño, ocean heat comes to the surface of the tropical Pacific Ocean.
The more than doubling of the Earth's Energy Imbalance and record rate of Ocean Heat Contant increase likely leads to a more than doubling of Sea Surface Temperature increase, as we start to see:
The more than doubling of the Earth's Energy Imbalance and record rate of Ocean Heat Contant increase likely leads to a more than doubling of Sea Surface Temperature increase, as we start to see:
February 15, 2026 at 4:14 PM
During an El Niño, ocean heat comes to the surface of the tropical Pacific Ocean.
The more than doubling of the Earth's Energy Imbalance and record rate of Ocean Heat Contant increase likely leads to a more than doubling of Sea Surface Temperature increase, as we start to see:
The more than doubling of the Earth's Energy Imbalance and record rate of Ocean Heat Contant increase likely leads to a more than doubling of Sea Surface Temperature increase, as we start to see:
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The above 2026 projection (new record) is +0.15°C warmer than 2023.
In the Mercator Ocean estimate, Ocean Heat Content increased by about 100 ZJ (1*10^23 joules) the past two years.
Using basic physics and back of the envelope, this amount of heat can increase the top 400 m of ocean by 0.17°C!
In the Mercator Ocean estimate, Ocean Heat Content increased by about 100 ZJ (1*10^23 joules) the past two years.
Using basic physics and back of the envelope, this amount of heat can increase the top 400 m of ocean by 0.17°C!
February 15, 2026 at 4:14 PM
The above 2026 projection (new record) is +0.15°C warmer than 2023.
In the Mercator Ocean estimate, Ocean Heat Content increased by about 100 ZJ (1*10^23 joules) the past two years.
Using basic physics and back of the envelope, this amount of heat can increase the top 400 m of ocean by 0.17°C!
In the Mercator Ocean estimate, Ocean Heat Content increased by about 100 ZJ (1*10^23 joules) the past two years.
Using basic physics and back of the envelope, this amount of heat can increase the top 400 m of ocean by 0.17°C!
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If Sea surface Temperatures develop in a similar fashion as during the 2023 El Niño year, the annual average will be higher than the daily Super El Niño peak of 2016!
This is a simple projection, but based on the @mercatorocean.bsky.social Ocean Heat Content (OHC) estimate, it is quite possible.
This is a simple projection, but based on the @mercatorocean.bsky.social Ocean Heat Content (OHC) estimate, it is quite possible.
February 15, 2026 at 4:14 PM
If Sea surface Temperatures develop in a similar fashion as during the 2023 El Niño year, the annual average will be higher than the daily Super El Niño peak of 2016!
This is a simple projection, but based on the @mercatorocean.bsky.social Ocean Heat Content (OHC) estimate, it is quite possible.
This is a simple projection, but based on the @mercatorocean.bsky.social Ocean Heat Content (OHC) estimate, it is quite possible.
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This state’s power prices are plummeting as it nears 100% renewables
"South Australia is proving to the world that relying largely on wind+solar energy with battery back-up is incredibly cheap, with electricity prices tumbling by 30% in a year..."
www.newscientist.com/article/2514...
"South Australia is proving to the world that relying largely on wind+solar energy with battery back-up is incredibly cheap, with electricity prices tumbling by 30% in a year..."
www.newscientist.com/article/2514...
This state’s power prices are plummeting as it nears 100% renewables
South Australia is proving to the world that relying largely on wind and solar energy with battery back-up is incredibly cheap, with electricity prices tumbling by 30 per cent in a year and sometimes ...
www.newscientist.com
February 12, 2026 at 4:01 PM
This state’s power prices are plummeting as it nears 100% renewables
"South Australia is proving to the world that relying largely on wind+solar energy with battery back-up is incredibly cheap, with electricity prices tumbling by 30% in a year..."
www.newscientist.com/article/2514...
"South Australia is proving to the world that relying largely on wind+solar energy with battery back-up is incredibly cheap, with electricity prices tumbling by 30% in a year..."
www.newscientist.com/article/2514...
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For decades, the Environmental Protection Agency has factored public health impacts into pollution limits.
Now, the equation is changing.
Woods senior fellow Marshall Burke explains what that shift means — and why it matters.
Read more: bit.ly/3NridYV
Now, the equation is changing.
Woods senior fellow Marshall Burke explains what that shift means — and why it matters.
Read more: bit.ly/3NridYV
January 22, 2026 at 7:15 PM
For decades, the Environmental Protection Agency has factored public health impacts into pollution limits.
Now, the equation is changing.
Woods senior fellow Marshall Burke explains what that shift means — and why it matters.
Read more: bit.ly/3NridYV
Now, the equation is changing.
Woods senior fellow Marshall Burke explains what that shift means — and why it matters.
Read more: bit.ly/3NridYV
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The Dawlish - Teignmouth railway line feels like the absolute front line of climate adaptation in Britain (a test we are not passing so far).
And yet somehow, somehow, this article manages to go in-depth on the problems with the line without mentioning the climate once. The sea is literally higher!
And yet somehow, somehow, this article manages to go in-depth on the problems with the line without mentioning the climate once. The sea is literally higher!
Fresh fears for South West's rail link in Dawlish after storms
Taxpayer money has flowed into fixing the rail line connecting Cornwall with the rest of the UK - but the elements have other ideas.
www.bbc.co.uk
February 15, 2026 at 8:27 PM
The Dawlish - Teignmouth railway line feels like the absolute front line of climate adaptation in Britain (a test we are not passing so far).
And yet somehow, somehow, this article manages to go in-depth on the problems with the line without mentioning the climate once. The sea is literally higher!
And yet somehow, somehow, this article manages to go in-depth on the problems with the line without mentioning the climate once. The sea is literally higher!
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Social biases help misinformation spread, but the problem deepens when political leaders break democratic norms and social media platforms are designed to amplify extreme content.
www.science.org/doi/full/10....
www.science.org/doi/full/10....
Internet platforms must be held accountable for their actions
Multiple independent research institutions have recently and repeatedly sounded the alarm that democracy is in retreat worldwide. In the United States, a British academic has painstakingly recorded mo...
www.science.org
February 15, 2026 at 5:54 PM
Social biases help misinformation spread, but the problem deepens when political leaders break democratic norms and social media platforms are designed to amplify extreme content.
www.science.org/doi/full/10....
www.science.org/doi/full/10....
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I personally think this extreme wealth concentration and growth are the main reasons democracy is faltering. We can, as a public united, push for change. We do not have to accept this as our future.
The pace at which US wealth concentration is rising is simply staggering
The concentration of AI wealth into the hands of a few tech barons + plutocratic capture ==> unchartered territory
The concentration of AI wealth into the hands of a few tech barons + plutocratic capture ==> unchartered territory
February 15, 2026 at 3:00 PM
I personally think this extreme wealth concentration and growth are the main reasons democracy is faltering. We can, as a public united, push for change. We do not have to accept this as our future.
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Remarkable that climate change isn't mentioned anywhere in this article on the fragility of the Dawlish stretch of the SW main line
BBC News - The saga of a £165m rail line that keeps causing travel chaos
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
BBC News - The saga of a £165m rail line that keeps causing travel chaos
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Fresh fears for South West's rail link in Dawlish after storms
Taxpayer money has flowed into fixing the rail line connecting Cornwall with the rest of the UK - but the elements have other ideas.
www.bbc.co.uk
February 15, 2026 at 1:59 PM
Remarkable that climate change isn't mentioned anywhere in this article on the fragility of the Dawlish stretch of the SW main line
BBC News - The saga of a £165m rail line that keeps causing travel chaos
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
BBC News - The saga of a £165m rail line that keeps causing travel chaos
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Trevor Philips, "This is not a country where people get thrown in jail for the things that they say"
Zack Polanski, "We're spiralling down that road. 2,700 arrested for opposing a genocide"
Zack Polanski, "We're spiralling down that road. 2,700 arrested for opposing a genocide"
February 15, 2026 at 10:31 AM
Trevor Philips, "This is not a country where people get thrown in jail for the things that they say"
Zack Polanski, "We're spiralling down that road. 2,700 arrested for opposing a genocide"
Zack Polanski, "We're spiralling down that road. 2,700 arrested for opposing a genocide"