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Prof Rachael Garrett
@rachgarr.bsky.social

Prof of Conservation & Development @Cambridge_uni; feminist & anti-racist. food systems; supply chains; conservation; tropics; sociobioeconomies; GLP SSC co-chair @glp-earth.bsky.social

Rachael D. Garrett is the Moran Professor of Conservation and Development at the University of Cambridge. She is known for her work on factors impacting land change, especially with respect to farmers. .. more

Environmental science 38%
Agriculture 17%
Pinned
Reflecting on the Global Land Programme
#GLPOSM5 & the Science Steering Committee meeting in Oaxaca to begin trying to express how meaningful these events have been to me.

Congrats to this group!
Honoured to receive this ERC Synergy grant to work with these fantastic researchers!
Rob Marchant, Laura Pereira, Unai Pascual, and Thomas Hickler will use their ERC Synergy Grant to understand how nature and societies interact in and beyond mountain socioecological systems ⛰️

@rob-marchant.bsky.social @laurap18.bsky.social @upascual.bsky.social

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#ERCSyG

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Honoured to receive this ERC Synergy grant to work with these fantastic researchers!
Rob Marchant, Laura Pereira, Unai Pascual, and Thomas Hickler will use their ERC Synergy Grant to understand how nature and societies interact in and beyond mountain socioecological systems ⛰️

@rob-marchant.bsky.social @laurap18.bsky.social @upascual.bsky.social

👉 buff.ly/ZQhLp4h

#ERCSyG

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The Israeli army killed Gaza civilians in a free-for-all, say ...

... Israeli soldiers who served there.
One analytical model shows that, as of November 5th, the dismantling of U.S.A.I.D. has already caused the deaths of 600,000 people, two-thirds of them children. https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/jUzNSc
The Shutdown of U.S.A.I.D. Has Already Killed Hundreds of Thousands
The short documentary “Rovina’s Choice” tells the story of what goes when aid goes.
newyorkermag.visitlink.me

So needed!

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Gutsy and fascinating work developing a chicken pain index, in essence, as a path to more ethical animal-agriculture futures in a protein-hungry world by @cleoverk.bsky.social 🧪🐓. Paper and summary: 🧵

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On average Meta shows its platforms’ users an estimated 15 billion “higher risk” scam advertisements every day.

(Meta earns about $7 billion in annualized revenue from this category of scam ads each year.) www.reuters.com/investigatio...
Meta is earning a fortune on a deluge of fraudulent ads, documents show
Meta projected 10% of its 2024 revenue would come from ads for scams and banned goods, and it internally estimates that its platforms show users 15 billion scam ads a day, company documents show.
www.reuters.com
"In total, the Gates Foundation (formerly known as the The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation) has donated $3,519,491 to Lomborg’s think tank. The most recent tax filing on record includes a 2022 donation to the Copenhagen Consensus Center worth $1.25 million" - @rtakver.bsky.social, @desmog.com
Bill Gates Gave $3.5M to Think Tank Run by Climate Crisis Denier Bjorn Lomborg
Tax records reveal that the billionaire’s foundation has donated for years to Lomborg’s Copenhagen Consensus Center.
www.desmog.com
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"Perhaps the most striking findings is that the British public vastly overestimates the cost getting to net zero by almost 14,000%, fueling scepticism & a reluctance to pay. On average, they estimate it will need 28% of GDP by 2050, compared to @thecccuk.bsky.social forecast of just 0.2%"
Are the advocates for net zero losing the fight?
The cost of misunderstanding: How public perception shapes the net zero debate
fgsglobal.com

@lailaberning.bsky.social congratulations on your stellar defense today!!

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ICMY ‼️

GLP land system science experts published our 8️⃣ policy principles for sustainable & just land systems.

Following these principles from agenda setting to formulation to implementation can help improve land policy.

@glp-earth.bsky.social @royalsociety.org
@camunigeography.bsky.social

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Policy principles for sustainable and just land systems @rachgarr.bsky.social etal. @royalsociety.org
royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/epdf/10....

That's 250 million not going to helping people.

@senategop.govpeeps.us @houserepublicans.bsky.social

This is how you serve your country? What a joke.
Scoop: Trump has started demolishing the White House's East Wing facade to build his ballroom. The president had claimed construction of the $250 million building wouldn’t ‘interfere’ with the existing White House structure. /W @ddiamond.bsky.social wapo.st/4hqBNiU
White House begins demolishing East Wing facade to build Trump’s ballroom
The president had claimed construction of the $250 million ballroom wouldn’t ‘interfere’ with the existing White House structure.
wapo.st
Scoop: Trump has started demolishing the White House's East Wing facade to build his ballroom. The president had claimed construction of the $250 million building wouldn’t ‘interfere’ with the existing White House structure. /W @ddiamond.bsky.social wapo.st/4hqBNiU
White House begins demolishing East Wing facade to build Trump’s ballroom
The president had claimed construction of the $250 million ballroom wouldn’t ‘interfere’ with the existing White House structure.
wapo.st

The study revealed how international #diplomacy and advocacy by civil society have been pivotal in creating the awareness and demand for political leadership to emerge. Moving to the 2010s, #Indigenous rights were seen as an important complement to political will and law enforcement."

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Public write up of our recent @consletters.bsky.social paper.

"Our results were clear: across both countries, our experts judged that #political will and #law enforcement were by far the most important factors for protecting #forests...

theconversation.com/protecting-b...
Protecting Brazil and Indonesia’s tropical forests requires political will, law enforcement and public pressure
How Brazil and Indonesia have cut down on deforestation.
theconversation.com
wikipedia's data shows that AI is siphoning traffic away from the site, which is a danger to its sustainability. ironically Wikipedia is more important than ever to users who want reliable information instead of slop, and to AI companies that need it for training data www.404media.co/wikipedia-sa...
Wikipedia Says AI Is Causing a Dangerous Decline in Human Visitors
“With fewer visits to Wikipedia, fewer volunteers may grow and enrich the content, and fewer individual donors may support this work.”
www.404media.co

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Baha and Samaa have worked hard to make their tent into a nice home for their girls, but it provides neither shade nor insulation, it's infested with insects, and they're all suffering from the effects of malnutrition. Please help. gofund.me/db56c7ce3 @mommunism.bsky.social @lexialex.bsky.social 🍉
🚨🇪🇸 Breaking: Spain has dispatched a navy vessel to support the Global Sumud Flotilla heading to Gaza. Speaking from New York, Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez said Spain “condemns the genocide” in Gaza and demanded Israel uphold international law and allow Spanish citizens to sail safely in the...

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The age of warnings is over.
The climate and nature crisis is already here, threatening our food, health and national security.
On 27 Nov, top UK experts deliver the official briefing our leaders urgently need. Make sure your MP attends❗️

#TimeToStepUp
www.nebriefing.org

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I’m sharing a Palestinian account every day and today is Rania. Rania’s husband who was a university professor of commercial law recently broke his leg when trying to get aid and now Rania is trying to take care of her children Aya, 18, Jana, 16, Oday, 11 and Kinda, 6.
Why no English speaking outlets covering such an egregious case of abuse by a high profile scientist?

Thomas Crowther dismissed from ETH after multiple cases brought against him over multiple years.

@natureportfolio.bsky.social @scinews.bsky.social @theguardian.com @britishecolsoc.bsky.social
#ICYMI

«Steve Jobs der Umweltwissenschaft» verliert Job an der ETH

Der Ökologe Thomas Crowther ist nach Vorwürfen von 8 Personen freigestellt. 2019 hatte eine von ihm geleitete Studie in Science zum CO2-Einlagerungspotential von Aufforstungen Kontroversen ausgelöst

www.watson.ch/schweiz/fors... 🧪
Nach unangebrachten «Annäherungen»: Weltbekannter Klimaforscher verliert Job an der ETH
Crowther war seit 2017 bei der ETH im Verfahren zum fest angestellten Professor. Der ETH-Präsident entschied, den Klimaforscher nicht weiter zu beschäftigen.
www.watson.ch

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HSBC Says It’s Time to End ‘Negative Bias’ on Fossil Fuels - Bloomberg
HSBC Says It’s Time to End ‘Negative Bias’ Toward Fossil Fuels
The new head of sustainability at HSBC Holdings Plc says the time has come for banks to stop penalizing clients that have a large carbon footprint.
buff.ly

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A tale as old as time

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The amazing @shannonmattern.bsky.social wrote about her departure from the academy. From title to final period, I have so many feelings about this piece that I can't articulate. @shannonmattern.bsky.social is such a generous and brilliant scholar.
wordsinspace.net/2025/06/30/i...
I Prefer Weeds to Ivy
Words in Space is the work of Shannon Mattern.
wordsinspace.net