Gaia Vince
@wanderinggaia.bsky.social
Writer, broadcaster, author (NOMAD CENTURY; TRANSCENDENCE; ANTHROPOCENE https://bit.ly/3QR898d) Human-Earth system science https://toot.community/@WanderingGaia
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Gaia Vince
@wanderinggaia.bsky.social
· Nov 22
Looking back on my 2023 highlights: #NomadCentury came out in paperback, was Highly Commended in the
Wainwright Prize for nature writing 2023, shortlisted for the Zócalo Book Prize and the Christopher Moore Prize For Human Rights books www.amazon.com/Nomad-Centur...
Wainwright Prize for nature writing 2023, shortlisted for the Zócalo Book Prize and the Christopher Moore Prize For Human Rights books www.amazon.com/Nomad-Centur...
A round-up introduction thread to some of my work and interests 🧵
Terrible!
This is the most alarming story I’ve read today. Giving up the fight before it’s started
November 30, 2025 at 12:08 PM
Terrible!
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I mean - I almost can't take any more of this as it's just too fun BUT I just went back to the photo's source, New Statesman correspondent Megan Kenyon on Twitter, and realised she'd actually said they were chanting OH JEREMY CORBYN. Which has somehow been picked up as Glad to be Gay?
November 30, 2025 at 11:30 AM
I mean - I almost can't take any more of this as it's just too fun BUT I just went back to the photo's source, New Statesman correspondent Megan Kenyon on Twitter, and realised she'd actually said they were chanting OH JEREMY CORBYN. Which has somehow been picked up as Glad to be Gay?
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I don't understand what is written on the screen in this photo, but it gives me life. Is it Dostoevsky?
November 30, 2025 at 11:07 AM
I don't understand what is written on the screen in this photo, but it gives me life. Is it Dostoevsky?
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Seven or so years ago my daughter outgrew her cot so I purchased a single bed. Since then I receive almost daily bed-purchase offers from the bed company.
November 30, 2025 at 10:55 AM
Seven or so years ago my daughter outgrew her cot so I purchased a single bed. Since then I receive almost daily bed-purchase offers from the bed company.
Planetary citizens — us — cannot afford to lose these services
Africa’s forests have joined the Brazilian Amazon and Australian forests in becoming carbon sources rather than sinks. Around 2010 the previous storage of our carbon emissions flipped, mainly through deforestation and degradation.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
#climatechange #deforestation #Africa
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
#climatechange #deforestation #Africa
Loss of tropical moist broadleaf forest has turned Africa’s forests from a carbon sink into a source - Scientific Reports
Africa’s forests and woody savannas have historically acted as a carbon sink, removing atmospheric carbon and storing it as biomass. However, our novel analysis reveals a critical transition from a ca...
www.nature.com
November 30, 2025 at 10:52 AM
Planetary citizens — us — cannot afford to lose these services
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Let me give some insight on this, as a producer in the dub industry who worked with major streamers, who's witnessed first-hand where this push for AI is coming from.
tl;dr: Only CEOs want this. Tell them how much you hate it. Be loud, email, call, @, post. You will kill this.
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tl;dr: Only CEOs want this. Tell them how much you hate it. Be loud, email, call, @, post. You will kill this.
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The only thing less human than these AI dub performances is the decision to sign off on them
A company this big can pay human actors a decent wage, not produce slop that intentionally removes the human element.
A company this big can pay human actors a decent wage, not produce slop that intentionally removes the human element.
November 30, 2025 at 4:55 AM
Let me give some insight on this, as a producer in the dub industry who worked with major streamers, who's witnessed first-hand where this push for AI is coming from.
tl;dr: Only CEOs want this. Tell them how much you hate it. Be loud, email, call, @, post. You will kill this.
🧵⬇️
tl;dr: Only CEOs want this. Tell them how much you hate it. Be loud, email, call, @, post. You will kill this.
🧵⬇️
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This is excellent by @nesrinemalik.bsky.social
Shabana Mahmood is an avatar of open Britain – that’s what makes her fable about immigration so seductive | Nesrine Malik
‘She is the daughter of immigrants,’ supporters of her cruel asylum policies say. ‘How can she be wrong?’ Let me put them straight, says Guardian columnist Nesrine Malik
www.theguardian.com
November 29, 2025 at 10:31 PM
This is excellent by @nesrinemalik.bsky.social
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November 29, 2025 at 7:28 PM
Ah this is a huge loss!
“I mean, you’d never know you were in a box, would you? It would be just like being asleep in a box. Not that I’d like to sleep in a box, mind you, not without any air-you’d wake up dead, for a start, and then where would you be?”
RIP Mr Stoppard…
youtu.be/9LYDKs480UA?...
RIP Mr Stoppard…
youtu.be/9LYDKs480UA?...
Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead - Life in a Box
YouTube video by Runabrat
youtu.be
November 29, 2025 at 6:40 PM
Ah this is a huge loss!
Watching the Goonies. Still good
November 29, 2025 at 6:28 PM
Watching the Goonies. Still good
Meanwhile, water shortage in countries like Spain could affect food supplies in the many countries they produce food for.
5/6
5/6
November 29, 2025 at 8:46 AM
" #Climate scientists have already warned that extreme weather events ... will continue to worsen as temperatures increase," said Renard Siew, climate change advisor to the Centre for Governance and Political Studies in Malaysia.
"That is exactly what we have been seeing."
"That is exactly what we have been seeing."
Floods across Southeast Asia kill at least 250 as rescuers step up recovery operations
The death toll from floods across large swathes of Southeast Asia rose to at least 250 on Friday.
www.sbs.com.au
November 29, 2025 at 8:42 AM
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🔴 ⚠️ 🌀 🛰️ Dramatic impact of #cycloneDitwah on #SriLanka, where heavy #floods affected more than 200000 people with at least 50 dead and dozens missing. ⬇️ last 36 hours seen by Meteosat-9 with RGB Airmass + HSAF Precipitation rate (blu is >50mm/hr).
Animation via #EUMETview
Animation via #EUMETview
November 28, 2025 at 6:19 PM
🔴 ⚠️ 🌀 🛰️ Dramatic impact of #cycloneDitwah on #SriLanka, where heavy #floods affected more than 200000 people with at least 50 dead and dozens missing. ⬇️ last 36 hours seen by Meteosat-9 with RGB Airmass + HSAF Precipitation rate (blu is >50mm/hr).
Animation via #EUMETview
Animation via #EUMETview
Exciting!
‘They don’t have symptoms’: CAR-T therapies send autoimmune diseases into remission www.nature.com/articles/d41...
‘They don’t have symptoms’: CAR-T therapies send autoimmune diseases into remission
Engineered T cells that have been used to treat ulcerative colitis, rheumatoid arthritis and lupus show promising results.
www.nature.com
November 28, 2025 at 11:14 PM
Exciting!
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What a great headline
November 28, 2025 at 3:49 PM
What a great headline
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Riots, violence, attacks on people trying to access water, cyber attacks on water systems - around the world battles are being fought over ever scarcer water, while access to water is being used as a weapon of war. Chilling article by @ianjames.bsky.social:
www.latimes.com/environment/...
www.latimes.com/environment/...
Violent conflict over water hit a record last year
Violence over water is on the rise worldwide. Researchers counted a record 420 incidents of conflict in 2024, many in Ukraine and the Middle East.
www.latimes.com
November 27, 2025 at 5:10 PM
Riots, violence, attacks on people trying to access water, cyber attacks on water systems - around the world battles are being fought over ever scarcer water, while access to water is being used as a weapon of war. Chilling article by @ianjames.bsky.social:
www.latimes.com/environment/...
www.latimes.com/environment/...
A sad story worth reading
"The IRA’s survival was premised on the logic that a loose alignment of corporations would support climate policies in exchange for subsidies and convince Republicans to get on their side. That didn’t work." newrepublic.com/article/2027...
The Quick and Shameful Death of Biden’s Biggest Policy
It was far too easy for Republicans to kill the Inflation Reduction Act. Where did those who crafted it go wrong?
newrepublic.com
November 28, 2025 at 4:08 PM
A sad story worth reading
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Green groups hope that the long-awaited revised Environmental Improvement Plan #EIP will offer a reset from the government after a ‘really difficult few months’ for nature...
So what can we expect?
Read now ➡️ www.endsreport.com/article/1941...
So what can we expect?
Read now ➡️ www.endsreport.com/article/1941...
‘Judgement day’: What to look out for as revised Environmental Improvement Plan due imminently
Green groups hope that the long-awaited revised Environmental Improvement Plan (EIP) will offer a reset from the government after a ‘really difficult few months’ for nature, with the Wildlife Trusts t...
www.endsreport.com
November 28, 2025 at 2:26 PM
Green groups hope that the long-awaited revised Environmental Improvement Plan #EIP will offer a reset from the government after a ‘really difficult few months’ for nature...
So what can we expect?
Read now ➡️ www.endsreport.com/article/1941...
So what can we expect?
Read now ➡️ www.endsreport.com/article/1941...
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If you're trying to get your head round Mahmood's idiotic "earned settlement" proposals that aim to keep refugees in limbo 20 years, & offer a sliding scale of crulety to all immigrants based on their pay packet, this is a great, clear explainer by @praxisprojects.bsky.social & @gmiau.bsky.social
November 28, 2025 at 3:25 PM
If you're trying to get your head round Mahmood's idiotic "earned settlement" proposals that aim to keep refugees in limbo 20 years, & offer a sliding scale of crulety to all immigrants based on their pay packet, this is a great, clear explainer by @praxisprojects.bsky.social & @gmiau.bsky.social
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🚨 BREAKING: The 28 oil & gas exploration licences we legally challenged have just been ruled lawful by the High Court. This means exploration can go ahead, despite 3/4 of the licences sitting inside marine PROTECTED areas - wildlife havens home to porpoises, puffins & seals 🐬
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November 28, 2025 at 2:33 PM
🚨 BREAKING: The 28 oil & gas exploration licences we legally challenged have just been ruled lawful by the High Court. This means exploration can go ahead, despite 3/4 of the licences sitting inside marine PROTECTED areas - wildlife havens home to porpoises, puffins & seals 🐬
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Is this peak stupid, or can she possibly beat it? Just grateful she's not actually in government
November 28, 2025 at 11:36 AM
Is this peak stupid, or can she possibly beat it? Just grateful she's not actually in government
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Also the Romans literally had a welfare system that included cash transfers for poor children. (And subsidised grain for low income workers...).
There was no state. Who does she think crucified him, an anarchist collective?
November 28, 2025 at 11:23 AM
Also the Romans literally had a welfare system that included cash transfers for poor children. (And subsidised grain for low income workers...).
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Reuters reached out to everyone that Trump or his subordinates singled out publicly for retribution, and reviewed hundreds of official orders, directives and public records. The result: the most comprehensive accounting yet of his campaign of payback.
www.reuters.com/investigates...
www.reuters.com/investigates...
November 27, 2025 at 1:48 AM
Reuters reached out to everyone that Trump or his subordinates singled out publicly for retribution, and reviewed hundreds of official orders, directives and public records. The result: the most comprehensive accounting yet of his campaign of payback.
www.reuters.com/investigates...
www.reuters.com/investigates...