Rye loaf baking - this is what you do on Bluesky, right?
November 9, 2025 at 12:29 PM
Rye loaf baking - this is what you do on Bluesky, right?
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Come to this if you're in London on 5 November. A talk on the Gaza genocide and its broader contexts by one of the leading authorities on the Middle East (and my former PhD supervisor) @gilbert-achcar.bsky.social. It will be well worth your time.
www.soas.ac.uk/about/event/...
www.soas.ac.uk/about/event/...
The Gaza Catastrophe: The Genocide in World-Historical Perspective
Book launch of SOAS professor Gilbert Achcar's new publication, 'The Gaza Catastrophe: The Genocide in World-Historical Perspective'.
www.soas.ac.uk
October 27, 2025 at 8:34 AM
Come to this if you're in London on 5 November. A talk on the Gaza genocide and its broader contexts by one of the leading authorities on the Middle East (and my former PhD supervisor) @gilbert-achcar.bsky.social. It will be well worth your time.
www.soas.ac.uk/about/event/...
www.soas.ac.uk/about/event/...
Sinister argument-shopping considerations behind denial of @declassifieduk.org of a parliamentary press pass. Worrying.
Join me in telling Westminster that you also care about freedom of the press in the UK. I've just signed my name. secure.declassifieduk.org/page/178447/...
Join me in telling Westminster that you also care about freedom of the press in the UK. I've just signed my name. secure.declassifieduk.org/page/178447/...
Defend Press Freedom
I stand with Declassified UK - I've just signed my name. Join me in telling Westminster that you care about freedom of the press.
secure.declassifieduk.org
October 9, 2025 at 8:30 PM
Sinister argument-shopping considerations behind denial of @declassifieduk.org of a parliamentary press pass. Worrying.
Join me in telling Westminster that you also care about freedom of the press in the UK. I've just signed my name. secure.declassifieduk.org/page/178447/...
Join me in telling Westminster that you also care about freedom of the press in the UK. I've just signed my name. secure.declassifieduk.org/page/178447/...
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Today, we’re welcoming the very first cohort of students joining our MPhil in Global Risk and Resilience!
October 8, 2025 at 11:22 AM
Today, we’re welcoming the very first cohort of students joining our MPhil in Global Risk and Resilience!
Why is SAI framed as the solution to the air pollution-cooling dilemma?
A student of ours modelled and found that temperature anomalies resulting from a reduction of China and India’s AQSLCFs under SSP3-7.0 might be negated by a 0.05% reduction in global carbon emissions!
Is SRM more realistic?
A student of ours modelled and found that temperature anomalies resulting from a reduction of China and India’s AQSLCFs under SSP3-7.0 might be negated by a 0.05% reduction in global carbon emissions!
Is SRM more realistic?
I have a new @nytimes.com guest essay w/ @davidkeith.bsky.social about sunlight reflection. We note its not a solution for climate change and at best a band aid to treat systems, and suggest if its ever done it should only be to replace the cooling from air pollution today:
Opinion | A Responsible Way to Cool the Planet
A small, carefully scaled geoengineering program could compensate for the loss of cooling as we eliminate sulfur pollution.
www.nytimes.com
October 9, 2025 at 2:12 PM
Why is SAI framed as the solution to the air pollution-cooling dilemma?
A student of ours modelled and found that temperature anomalies resulting from a reduction of China and India’s AQSLCFs under SSP3-7.0 might be negated by a 0.05% reduction in global carbon emissions!
Is SRM more realistic?
A student of ours modelled and found that temperature anomalies resulting from a reduction of China and India’s AQSLCFs under SSP3-7.0 might be negated by a 0.05% reduction in global carbon emissions!
Is SRM more realistic?
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CSER is looking for a part-time Research Assistant to work closely with Centre Director Prof S. M. Amadae (@amadae.bsky.social)
Deadline: 6 July 2025
Find out more and apply below ⬇️
www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/51403/
Deadline: 6 July 2025
Find out more and apply below ⬇️
www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/51403/
May 27, 2025 at 4:02 PM
CSER is looking for a part-time Research Assistant to work closely with Centre Director Prof S. M. Amadae (@amadae.bsky.social)
Deadline: 6 July 2025
Find out more and apply below ⬇️
www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/51403/
Deadline: 6 July 2025
Find out more and apply below ⬇️
www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/51403/
Direct Air Capture (DAC) without the hot air?
Interesting calculations on the mind-boggling scales involved if plans to mechanically capture and store CO2 from the atmosphere for global climate abatement are taken seriously.
By @cer54.bsky.social
mlg.eng.cam.ac.uk/carl/climate...
Interesting calculations on the mind-boggling scales involved if plans to mechanically capture and store CO2 from the atmosphere for global climate abatement are taken seriously.
By @cer54.bsky.social
mlg.eng.cam.ac.uk/carl/climate...
12 Direct Air Capture – Climate Cooperation
mlg.eng.cam.ac.uk
May 22, 2025 at 10:00 AM
Direct Air Capture (DAC) without the hot air?
Interesting calculations on the mind-boggling scales involved if plans to mechanically capture and store CO2 from the atmosphere for global climate abatement are taken seriously.
By @cer54.bsky.social
mlg.eng.cam.ac.uk/carl/climate...
Interesting calculations on the mind-boggling scales involved if plans to mechanically capture and store CO2 from the atmosphere for global climate abatement are taken seriously.
By @cer54.bsky.social
mlg.eng.cam.ac.uk/carl/climate...
Apparently this was 'intelligence-led':
"30 Metropolitan police officers, some armed with stun guns, smashed down the door of the Grade II-listed building and arrested the young women inside."
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m...
"30 Metropolitan police officers, some armed with stun guns, smashed down the door of the Grade II-listed building and arrested the young women inside."
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m...
Why did 30 Met officers kick the door down at a teenage tea and biscuits meeting in a Quaker house?
When six young women hired a room to discuss the war in Gaza, the gathering ended with 30 officers storming in to make arrests
www.theguardian.com
May 10, 2025 at 7:43 PM
Apparently this was 'intelligence-led':
"30 Metropolitan police officers, some armed with stun guns, smashed down the door of the Grade II-listed building and arrested the young women inside."
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m...
"30 Metropolitan police officers, some armed with stun guns, smashed down the door of the Grade II-listed building and arrested the young women inside."
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m...
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4 people having a lovely time discussing Inter Barca @barryglendenning.bsky.social , Mark Langdon and Jonathan Fadugba @footballweekly.bsky.social
www.theguardian.com/football/aud...
www.theguardian.com/football/aud...
Inter 7-6 Barcelona, the greatest two-legged semi-final of all time? - Football Weekly
Max Rushden is joined by Barry Glendenning, Jonathan Fadugba and Mark Langdon as Inter beat Barcelona 7-6 on aggregate after an absolutely thrilling two legged tie in the Champions League
www.theguardian.com
May 7, 2025 at 11:42 AM
4 people having a lovely time discussing Inter Barca @barryglendenning.bsky.social , Mark Langdon and Jonathan Fadugba @footballweekly.bsky.social
www.theguardian.com/football/aud...
www.theguardian.com/football/aud...
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Just read it. @georgemonbiot.bsky.social is right. What more can I add? www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Labour’s great nature sellout is the worst attack on England’s ecosystems I’ve seen in my lifetime | George Monbiot
The horrifying planning bill, which rips up environmental protections, was drafted with CEOs in mind. We know because Keir Starmer told us, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot
www.theguardian.com
April 24, 2025 at 7:05 AM
Just read it. @georgemonbiot.bsky.social is right. What more can I add? www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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It never ends. She’s dead, along with her entire family. #FreePalestine The Palestinian photojournalist Fatima Hassona, killed along with ten family members in an Israeli air strike on her home in northern Gaza, is the star of a doc…
April 17, 2025 at 10:39 PM
It never ends. She’s dead, along with her entire family. #FreePalestine The Palestinian photojournalist Fatima Hassona, killed along with ten family members in an Israeli air strike on her home in northern Gaza, is the star of a doc…
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Fascinating article 👇 #HistIR academic.oup.com/dh/advance-a...
Visions of the One Planet: The Planetary Age in International and Environmental History
“We know that you don’t have the power to stop a transaction, but for goodness’ sake, we are all on the same planet.”- Congressional Representative John Co
academic.oup.com
April 11, 2025 at 10:47 PM
Fascinating article 👇 #HistIR academic.oup.com/dh/advance-a...
"Forsvarsanskaffelser er en god kandidat til å toppe den uhellige kåringen av det temaet som er av størst samfunnsmessig viktighet og har den høyeste økonomisk kostnad – men som er gjenstand for minst kvalifisert analyse og debatt." @bergtora.bsky.social
statogstyring.no/en-samfunnsv...
statogstyring.no/en-samfunnsv...
En samfunnsvitenskapelig blindsone – Stat & Styring
statogstyring.no
April 11, 2025 at 7:32 AM
"Forsvarsanskaffelser er en god kandidat til å toppe den uhellige kåringen av det temaet som er av størst samfunnsmessig viktighet og har den høyeste økonomisk kostnad – men som er gjenstand for minst kvalifisert analyse og debatt." @bergtora.bsky.social
statogstyring.no/en-samfunnsv...
statogstyring.no/en-samfunnsv...
I used to admire The Economist for being well reasoned even if I disagreed.
The Economist's racist, deceitful spiel on Gaza taken apart www.owenjones.news/p/the-econom...
The Economist's racist, deceitful spiel on Gaza taken apart www.owenjones.news/p/the-econom...
The Economist's racist, deceitful spiel on Gaza taken apart
This is a case study in Western media complicity in genocide
www.owenjones.news
April 4, 2025 at 7:39 AM
I used to admire The Economist for being well reasoned even if I disagreed.
The Economist's racist, deceitful spiel on Gaza taken apart www.owenjones.news/p/the-econom...
The Economist's racist, deceitful spiel on Gaza taken apart www.owenjones.news/p/the-econom...
Fascinating paper by Jenny Andersson and E. Rindzeviciute on the "co-production of technoscience and political governance that was explicated in the work of IIASA", and a resulting "redefinition of the world and reshaping of the political role of technoscience"
sciencespo.hal.science/hal-01361235/
sciencespo.hal.science/hal-01361235/
March 28, 2025 at 5:21 PM
Fascinating paper by Jenny Andersson and E. Rindzeviciute on the "co-production of technoscience and political governance that was explicated in the work of IIASA", and a resulting "redefinition of the world and reshaping of the political role of technoscience"
sciencespo.hal.science/hal-01361235/
sciencespo.hal.science/hal-01361235/
The idea of an 'energy transition' falsely projects a history of technological change onto the cumulative history of energy/materials. - Fascinating insight.
The "Energy Transition" is a Pipe Dream | Jean-Baptiste Fressoz www.planetcritical.com/p/jean-bapti...
The "Energy Transition" is a Pipe Dream | Jean-Baptiste Fressoz www.planetcritical.com/p/jean-bapti...
The "Energy Transition" is a Pipe Dream | Jean-Baptiste Fressoz
How a niche phrase in atomic science became policy
www.planetcritical.com
March 20, 2025 at 9:54 AM
The idea of an 'energy transition' falsely projects a history of technological change onto the cumulative history of energy/materials. - Fascinating insight.
The "Energy Transition" is a Pipe Dream | Jean-Baptiste Fressoz www.planetcritical.com/p/jean-bapti...
The "Energy Transition" is a Pipe Dream | Jean-Baptiste Fressoz www.planetcritical.com/p/jean-bapti...
Fascinating read: science, start-ups, security state, solar radiation modification and secrecy - all in one ill boding story.
undark.org/2025/03/17/s...
undark.org/2025/03/17/s...
How One Company Wants to Make Geoengineering Profitable
Stardust, an Israeli-U.S. startup, intends to patent its unique technology for temporarily cooling the planet.
undark.org
March 17, 2025 at 8:26 PM
Fascinating read: science, start-ups, security state, solar radiation modification and secrecy - all in one ill boding story.
undark.org/2025/03/17/s...
undark.org/2025/03/17/s...
"like all techne - the extraordinary sophistication of these
technologies coexists, cooperates in an essential way with sophistry, psycho-rhetoric, and the most cursory, the most archaic, the most crudely opinionated psychagogy, the most
vulgar psychology" - Derrida on nukes and nuke-speak.
technologies coexists, cooperates in an essential way with sophistry, psycho-rhetoric, and the most cursory, the most archaic, the most crudely opinionated psychagogy, the most
vulgar psychology" - Derrida on nukes and nuke-speak.
March 16, 2025 at 2:06 PM
"like all techne - the extraordinary sophistication of these
technologies coexists, cooperates in an essential way with sophistry, psycho-rhetoric, and the most cursory, the most archaic, the most crudely opinionated psychagogy, the most
vulgar psychology" - Derrida on nukes and nuke-speak.
technologies coexists, cooperates in an essential way with sophistry, psycho-rhetoric, and the most cursory, the most archaic, the most crudely opinionated psychagogy, the most
vulgar psychology" - Derrida on nukes and nuke-speak.
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Velskrevet og oplysende essay af historiker Niels Brimnes om dansk slaveri. Argumenter og oplysninger fremfor holdninger i præcis fremstilling af afgørende karakteristika ved forskellige typer af slaveri - illustreret ved eksempler fra Caribien, Osmannerriget, Nord- og Vestafrika.
shorturl.at/rbl5T
shorturl.at/rbl5T
Selv børn blev rykket op med rode, transporteret langt væk og tvunget ind i nye og ofte seksuelle relationer
Dansk kolonihistorie er for øjeblikket rødglødende. Forholdet til Grønland diskuteres heftigt, og nu hælder DR mere benzin på bålet med dramadokumentaren ’Slave af Danmark’, som får tv-premiere i afte...
politiken.dk
March 2, 2025 at 12:21 PM
Velskrevet og oplysende essay af historiker Niels Brimnes om dansk slaveri. Argumenter og oplysninger fremfor holdninger i præcis fremstilling af afgørende karakteristika ved forskellige typer af slaveri - illustreret ved eksempler fra Caribien, Osmannerriget, Nord- og Vestafrika.
shorturl.at/rbl5T
shorturl.at/rbl5T
Occidental CEO about Direct Air Capture originally funded by Biden adm & corporations to pursue net-zero:
“We believe the next round of technology that’s going to add significant barrels - 50 to 70 bn barrels of reserves - will be production that comes from the use of CO2 in enhanced oil recovery”.
“We believe the next round of technology that’s going to add significant barrels - 50 to 70 bn barrels of reserves - will be production that comes from the use of CO2 in enhanced oil recovery”.
March 2, 2025 at 1:53 PM
Occidental CEO about Direct Air Capture originally funded by Biden adm & corporations to pursue net-zero:
“We believe the next round of technology that’s going to add significant barrels - 50 to 70 bn barrels of reserves - will be production that comes from the use of CO2 in enhanced oil recovery”.
“We believe the next round of technology that’s going to add significant barrels - 50 to 70 bn barrels of reserves - will be production that comes from the use of CO2 in enhanced oil recovery”.
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Russian military spending over past decade = roughly two thirds the combined UK & France total, and roughly half the combined UK + France + Germany total (source: SIPRI)
Those who think even more should be spent should be made to work a lot harder to justify it
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Those who think even more should be spent should be made to work a lot harder to justify it
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Keir Starmer to carry out largest cut to UK overseas aid in history
NGOs accuse prime minister of following US by accepting ‘false choice’ of cutting aid to fund defence
www.theguardian.com
February 28, 2025 at 12:09 PM
Russian military spending over past decade = roughly two thirds the combined UK & France total, and roughly half the combined UK + France + Germany total (source: SIPRI)
Those who think even more should be spent should be made to work a lot harder to justify it
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Those who think even more should be spent should be made to work a lot harder to justify it
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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Cycling is 10 times more important than electric cars for reaching net-zero cities and 100 times more fun.
Cycling is ten times more important than electric cars for reaching net-zero cities
Active travel can help tackle the climate crisis earlier than electric vehicles – even if you swap the car for a bike for just one trip a day.
theconversation.com
November 23, 2024 at 8:43 PM
Cycling is 10 times more important than electric cars for reaching net-zero cities and 100 times more fun.
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In a new article in Science this month www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... @olafcorry.bsky.social and I argue that the geopolitics of solar radiation modification (SRM) demands prior agreement on non-deployment to make space for well-governed research. (Abridged here, but still a long thread ... 2/33)
Solar geoengineering research faces geopolitical deadlock
The permissive “science first” approach has failed, but a nondeployment deal might yet enable responsible research
www.science.org
January 23, 2025 at 4:49 PM
In a new article in Science this month www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... @olafcorry.bsky.social and I argue that the geopolitics of solar radiation modification (SRM) demands prior agreement on non-deployment to make space for well-governed research. (Abridged here, but still a long thread ... 2/33)
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There is something really spooky going on at the Presidential Inauguration. Apparently, no women can enter the room where it is happening unless they are on the arm of a man, who appears to be there to guide them, as if they are unable to walk unaided. Is this the new America that Trump wants?
January 20, 2025 at 5:42 PM
There is something really spooky going on at the Presidential Inauguration. Apparently, no women can enter the room where it is happening unless they are on the arm of a man, who appears to be there to guide them, as if they are unable to walk unaided. Is this the new America that Trump wants?
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More fascinating research on expertise in IR. Excited to read 👇 Congrats @olafcorry.bsky.social, @nikolajkornbech.bsky.social, and Duncan McLaren
🚨New First View Article🚨
"‘Scientific models versus power politics: How security expertise reframes solar geoengineering" by @nikolajkornbech.bsky.social, @olafcorry.bsky.social
& Duncan McLaren is now available #OpenAccess!
📜➡️ buff.ly/4fGRMYi
"‘Scientific models versus power politics: How security expertise reframes solar geoengineering" by @nikolajkornbech.bsky.social, @olafcorry.bsky.social
& Duncan McLaren is now available #OpenAccess!
📜➡️ buff.ly/4fGRMYi
November 25, 2024 at 10:48 AM
More fascinating research on expertise in IR. Excited to read 👇 Congrats @olafcorry.bsky.social, @nikolajkornbech.bsky.social, and Duncan McLaren