@pvernus.bsky.social
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What happens at #COP30 in #Belém?
So far, #COP30 has been far more interesting than many expected (including myself) — and also more encouraging, given the otherwise very bleak global outlook on climate and almost everything else.
Here are my takeaways from the first week:
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So far, #COP30 has been far more interesting than many expected (including myself) — and also more encouraging, given the otherwise very bleak global outlook on climate and almost everything else.
Here are my takeaways from the first week:
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November 19, 2025 at 7:16 AM
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#rstats Please welcome Jarl, a new R linter.
Jarl is a CLI tool with extensions in VS Code, Positron, and Zed. It can check thousands of lines of R code in milliseconds.
Jarl provides several output formats, a Github Actions workflow, and more.
Blog post: www.etiennebacher.com/posts/2025-1...
Jarl is a CLI tool with extensions in VS Code, Positron, and Zed. It can check thousands of lines of R code in milliseconds.
Jarl provides several output formats, a Github Actions workflow, and more.
Blog post: www.etiennebacher.com/posts/2025-1...
November 20, 2025 at 4:50 PM
#rstats Please welcome Jarl, a new R linter.
Jarl is a CLI tool with extensions in VS Code, Positron, and Zed. It can check thousands of lines of R code in milliseconds.
Jarl provides several output formats, a Github Actions workflow, and more.
Blog post: www.etiennebacher.com/posts/2025-1...
Jarl is a CLI tool with extensions in VS Code, Positron, and Zed. It can check thousands of lines of R code in milliseconds.
Jarl provides several output formats, a Github Actions workflow, and more.
Blog post: www.etiennebacher.com/posts/2025-1...
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NEW – COP30: Key outcomes agreed at the UN climate talks in Belém
Read here ➡️ buff.ly/3isyGpX
#COP30
Read here ➡️ buff.ly/3isyGpX
#COP30
November 23, 2025 at 4:26 PM
NEW – COP30: Key outcomes agreed at the UN climate talks in Belém
Read here ➡️ buff.ly/3isyGpX
#COP30
Read here ➡️ buff.ly/3isyGpX
#COP30
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What does the future look like for global aid, NGOs, and development diplomacy? Which new approaches in international development should the world move toward? Eight authors tackle these topics in FP’s latest print issue, available to read now: foreignpolicy.com/the-magazine...
FP’s Fall 2025 Print Magazine: The End of Development
foreignpolicy.com
September 8, 2025 at 7:38 PM
What does the future look like for global aid, NGOs, and development diplomacy? Which new approaches in international development should the world move toward? Eight authors tackle these topics in FP’s latest print issue, available to read now: foreignpolicy.com/the-magazine...
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A bloc of oil-producing states with powerful petrochemical interests is distorting scientific findings and opposing any controls on new plastics.
Preventing a weak treaty was a victory for those advocating strong, binding measures regulating plastic production.
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Preventing a weak treaty was a victory for those advocating strong, binding measures regulating plastic production.
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
UN politics won’t deliver an ambitious plastics treaty
Negotiators again failed to finalize the text for a global plastics treaty in Geneva in August 2025. The talks exposed two harsh truths. Consensus on the treaty text, where no state formally objects, ...
www.science.org
October 3, 2025 at 7:11 AM
A bloc of oil-producing states with powerful petrochemical interests is distorting scientific findings and opposing any controls on new plastics.
Preventing a weak treaty was a victory for those advocating strong, binding measures regulating plastic production.
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Preventing a weak treaty was a victory for those advocating strong, binding measures regulating plastic production.
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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L'écrivaine sud-africaine Zukiswa Wanner partage avec @afriquexxi.bsky.social son journal de bord depuis la flotille Global Sumud. C'est roboratif
Le dernier bateau pour Gaza. « L’incertitude peut anéantir l’espoir »
Zukiswa Wanner, écrivaine et activiste sud-africaine, publie dans Afrique XXI son journal de bord de la flottille Global Sumud en route pour Gaza. Son bateau, baptisé par elle Mendi Reincarné (son (…)
afriquexxi.info
September 19, 2025 at 4:07 PM
L'écrivaine sud-africaine Zukiswa Wanner partage avec @afriquexxi.bsky.social son journal de bord depuis la flotille Global Sumud. C'est roboratif
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The geopolitics of international development (after foreign aid): www.africanistperspective.com/p/the-geopol...
The geopolitics of international development (after foreign aid)
You can't have nice things without strategic independence and policy autonomy
www.africanistperspective.com
October 2, 2025 at 4:06 PM
The geopolitics of international development (after foreign aid): www.africanistperspective.com/p/the-geopol...
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I wrote for the @bostonreview.bsky.social about the extraordinary Andrée Blouin, along with Lumumba, Cesaire, Fanon, and the anticolonial revolution that could have been.
The Inventor of the Future - Boston Review
The autobiography of anticolonial luminary Andrée Blouin captures her era’s euphoric highs as well as its tragic denouement.
www.bostonreview.net
October 2, 2025 at 2:54 PM
I wrote for the @bostonreview.bsky.social about the extraordinary Andrée Blouin, along with Lumumba, Cesaire, Fanon, and the anticolonial revolution that could have been.
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What are the implications of Western donors' retreat from official development assistance?
A new joint special issue of our Disasters and Development Policy Review journals is now out – featuring 14 free-to-read articles on the future of aid from a range of leading thinkers: buff.ly/3LAy61x 📚
A new joint special issue of our Disasters and Development Policy Review journals is now out – featuring 14 free-to-read articles on the future of aid from a range of leading thinkers: buff.ly/3LAy61x 📚
October 1, 2025 at 10:23 AM
What are the implications of Western donors' retreat from official development assistance?
A new joint special issue of our Disasters and Development Policy Review journals is now out – featuring 14 free-to-read articles on the future of aid from a range of leading thinkers: buff.ly/3LAy61x 📚
A new joint special issue of our Disasters and Development Policy Review journals is now out – featuring 14 free-to-read articles on the future of aid from a range of leading thinkers: buff.ly/3LAy61x 📚
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Surveying the literature that links macroeconomics and climate change through: loss and damage, mitigation and the energy transition, and adaptation, from Adrien Bilal and James H. Stock https://www.nber.org/papers/w33567
March 20, 2025 at 1:00 PM
Surveying the literature that links macroeconomics and climate change through: loss and damage, mitigation and the energy transition, and adaptation, from Adrien Bilal and James H. Stock https://www.nber.org/papers/w33567
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🆕 How does monetary policy shape economic activity in developing countries?
Today on VoxDev, Djeneba Dramé (Université Paris Nanterre) & Florian Léon (@fondationferdi.bsky.social) discuss how firms react to monetary policy contraction and expansion: voxdev.org/topic/firms/...
Today on VoxDev, Djeneba Dramé (Université Paris Nanterre) & Florian Léon (@fondationferdi.bsky.social) discuss how firms react to monetary policy contraction and expansion: voxdev.org/topic/firms/...
How does monetary policy shape economic activity in developing countries?
How does monetary policy transmit through developing economies? New evidence shows that firms do react to both monetary policy contraction and expansion, but not symmetrically.
voxdev.org
September 22, 2025 at 8:24 AM
🆕 How does monetary policy shape economic activity in developing countries?
Today on VoxDev, Djeneba Dramé (Université Paris Nanterre) & Florian Léon (@fondationferdi.bsky.social) discuss how firms react to monetary policy contraction and expansion: voxdev.org/topic/firms/...
Today on VoxDev, Djeneba Dramé (Université Paris Nanterre) & Florian Léon (@fondationferdi.bsky.social) discuss how firms react to monetary policy contraction and expansion: voxdev.org/topic/firms/...
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Israeli political scientist Lihi Ben Shitrit:
"The more I learn about genocide, the more shocked and embarrassed I am by my own ignorance. Once I actively tried to be better informed about genocide, the picture in Gaza became terrifyingly clear."
forward.com/opinion/7598...
"The more I learn about genocide, the more shocked and embarrassed I am by my own ignorance. Once I actively tried to be better informed about genocide, the picture in Gaza became terrifyingly clear."
forward.com/opinion/7598...
As an Israeli political scientist, I resisted thinking this war was a genocide. Here's what changed my mind
The incitement for genocide in the Israeli public sphere is undeniable. So why are so many of us liberal Jews so reluctant?
forward.com
August 3, 2025 at 7:10 AM
Israeli political scientist Lihi Ben Shitrit:
"The more I learn about genocide, the more shocked and embarrassed I am by my own ignorance. Once I actively tried to be better informed about genocide, the picture in Gaza became terrifyingly clear."
forward.com/opinion/7598...
"The more I learn about genocide, the more shocked and embarrassed I am by my own ignorance. Once I actively tried to be better informed about genocide, the picture in Gaza became terrifyingly clear."
forward.com/opinion/7598...
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An international call for action just got louder:
Today, 7 Nobel Laureates have issued a powerful call for a minimum tax on the ultra-wealthy in Le Monde
Here’s a quick breakdown of the debate—and where things stand globally
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www.lemonde.fr/en/opinion/a...
Today, 7 Nobel Laureates have issued a powerful call for a minimum tax on the ultra-wealthy in Le Monde
Here’s a quick breakdown of the debate—and where things stand globally
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www.lemonde.fr/en/opinion/a...
Tax on ultra-rich: 'France has the opportunity to lead the way,' say Nobel Prize-winning economists
OP-ED. As public deficits balloon and extreme wealth explode, creating a minimum tax on the assets of billionaires should be a priority, argue seven Nobel Prize-winning economists in an op-ed for Le M...
www.lemonde.fr
July 7, 2025 at 5:09 PM
An international call for action just got louder:
Today, 7 Nobel Laureates have issued a powerful call for a minimum tax on the ultra-wealthy in Le Monde
Here’s a quick breakdown of the debate—and where things stand globally
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www.lemonde.fr/en/opinion/a...
Today, 7 Nobel Laureates have issued a powerful call for a minimum tax on the ultra-wealthy in Le Monde
Here’s a quick breakdown of the debate—and where things stand globally
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www.lemonde.fr/en/opinion/a...
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En 1904, deux savants se rencontrent à la mosquée al-Azhar du Caire, un lettré musulman du Borno, al-Hajj Musa et un linguiste amateur allemand, Rudolf Prietze, tous deux en Égypte pour poursuivre leurs études, ils collaboreront pendant dix ans produisant des centaines de pages de textes en kanouri.
June 30, 2025 at 6:27 PM
En 1904, deux savants se rencontrent à la mosquée al-Azhar du Caire, un lettré musulman du Borno, al-Hajj Musa et un linguiste amateur allemand, Rudolf Prietze, tous deux en Égypte pour poursuivre leurs études, ils collaboreront pendant dix ans produisant des centaines de pages de textes en kanouri.
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The planned expulsion of Gaza’s population is already underway
Israel is conditioning aid delivery to force Gazans south into ‘concentration zones.’ This scheme has begun to stall, but that only portends greater brutality.
www.972mag.com/gaza-expulsi...
Israel is conditioning aid delivery to force Gazans south into ‘concentration zones.’ This scheme has begun to stall, but that only portends greater brutality.
www.972mag.com/gaza-expulsi...
The planned expulsion of Gaza's population is already underway - +972 Magazine
Israel is conditioning aid delivery to force Gazans south into ‘concentration zones.’ This scheme has begun to stall, but that only portends greater brutality.
www.972mag.com
June 14, 2025 at 9:56 PM
The planned expulsion of Gaza’s population is already underway
Israel is conditioning aid delivery to force Gazans south into ‘concentration zones.’ This scheme has begun to stall, but that only portends greater brutality.
www.972mag.com/gaza-expulsi...
Israel is conditioning aid delivery to force Gazans south into ‘concentration zones.’ This scheme has begun to stall, but that only portends greater brutality.
www.972mag.com/gaza-expulsi...
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We must conserve and restore forests because they are wonderful, full of life, support the lives and livelihoods of over a billion people, and play multiple vital roles in the maintenance of a liveable planet
But to slow climate breakdown, we have to bring about the end of the fossil fuel age
But to slow climate breakdown, we have to bring about the end of the fossil fuel age
Realistic models of the potential for global reforestation suggest that it could absorb roughly 5% of human CO2 emissions. This is still worthwhile but nowhere near a solution on its own. New paper just published 🧪🌏🌐
Addressing critiques refines global estimates of reforestation potential for climate change mitigation - Nature Communications
Reforestation is a key climate change mitigation strategy, but global maps of its potential are widely criticized. This study shows that addressing those critiques substantially refines estimates of t...
www.nature.com
June 11, 2025 at 11:31 AM
We must conserve and restore forests because they are wonderful, full of life, support the lives and livelihoods of over a billion people, and play multiple vital roles in the maintenance of a liveable planet
But to slow climate breakdown, we have to bring about the end of the fossil fuel age
But to slow climate breakdown, we have to bring about the end of the fossil fuel age
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Does anyone have really good examples of a github repository for a research paper. Trying to get good examples for a lesson I'm giving
June 9, 2025 at 4:24 PM
Does anyone have really good examples of a github repository for a research paper. Trying to get good examples for a lesson I'm giving
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Cette semaine dans @culturesmonde.bsky.social, une série entière sur Gaza 🕊
🇵🇸 Récit d’une société en survie
🇵🇸 Voix, visages et mémoire de Gaza
🇵🇸 Occupation, colonisation : que reste-t-il de la Palestine ?
🇵🇸Zone de non droit humanitaire
Merci à nos invité.e.s 🙏🏼
www.radiofrance.fr/francecultur...
🇵🇸 Récit d’une société en survie
🇵🇸 Voix, visages et mémoire de Gaza
🇵🇸 Occupation, colonisation : que reste-t-il de la Palestine ?
🇵🇸Zone de non droit humanitaire
Merci à nos invité.e.s 🙏🏼
www.radiofrance.fr/francecultur...
June 12, 2025 at 11:26 AM
Cette semaine dans @culturesmonde.bsky.social, une série entière sur Gaza 🕊
🇵🇸 Récit d’une société en survie
🇵🇸 Voix, visages et mémoire de Gaza
🇵🇸 Occupation, colonisation : que reste-t-il de la Palestine ?
🇵🇸Zone de non droit humanitaire
Merci à nos invité.e.s 🙏🏼
www.radiofrance.fr/francecultur...
🇵🇸 Récit d’une société en survie
🇵🇸 Voix, visages et mémoire de Gaza
🇵🇸 Occupation, colonisation : que reste-t-il de la Palestine ?
🇵🇸Zone de non droit humanitaire
Merci à nos invité.e.s 🙏🏼
www.radiofrance.fr/francecultur...
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L’impôt plancher sur le patrimoine a été adopté par l’Assemblée nationale
Il est plébiscité par les Français
Sa logique économique est limpide
Le Sénat, en première lecture, le rejette aujourd’hui
Que fait on maintenant ?
On continue ! 🧵
Il est plébiscité par les Français
Sa logique économique est limpide
Le Sénat, en première lecture, le rejette aujourd’hui
Que fait on maintenant ?
On continue ! 🧵
June 12, 2025 at 4:46 PM
L’impôt plancher sur le patrimoine a été adopté par l’Assemblée nationale
Il est plébiscité par les Français
Sa logique économique est limpide
Le Sénat, en première lecture, le rejette aujourd’hui
Que fait on maintenant ?
On continue ! 🧵
Il est plébiscité par les Français
Sa logique économique est limpide
Le Sénat, en première lecture, le rejette aujourd’hui
Que fait on maintenant ?
On continue ! 🧵
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#rstats A few weeks ago I gave three R classes at Universitat Innsbruck:
1. Webscraping part 1: static webscraping
2. Webscraping part 2: dynamic webscraping
3. Handling large data with Python and R
Details and links to the slides in the 🧵
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1. Webscraping part 1: static webscraping
2. Webscraping part 2: dynamic webscraping
3. Handling large data with Python and R
Details and links to the slides in the 🧵
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June 2, 2025 at 7:00 PM
#rstats A few weeks ago I gave three R classes at Universitat Innsbruck:
1. Webscraping part 1: static webscraping
2. Webscraping part 2: dynamic webscraping
3. Handling large data with Python and R
Details and links to the slides in the 🧵
(1/5)
1. Webscraping part 1: static webscraping
2. Webscraping part 2: dynamic webscraping
3. Handling large data with Python and R
Details and links to the slides in the 🧵
(1/5)
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Israel has revived its expulsion project, which Donald Trump has now embraced. This is the first time since the second world war that a head of state has so openly called for a crime against humanity as defined by international law.
mondediplo.com/2025/03/01gaza
mondediplo.com/2025/03/01gaza
Emptying Gaza is an old Zionist dream
Open access // by Alain Gresh (Le Monde diplomatique - English edition, March 2025)
mondediplo.com
May 20, 2025 at 8:40 PM
Israel has revived its expulsion project, which Donald Trump has now embraced. This is the first time since the second world war that a head of state has so openly called for a crime against humanity as defined by international law.
mondediplo.com/2025/03/01gaza
mondediplo.com/2025/03/01gaza
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Toyin Ojih Odutola Is Drawing Up Worlds www.nytimes.com/2025/05/22/a... Great art piece by @siddharthamitter.bsky.social
Toyin Ojih Odutola Is Drawing Up Worlds
www.nytimes.com
May 23, 2025 at 5:05 AM
Toyin Ojih Odutola Is Drawing Up Worlds www.nytimes.com/2025/05/22/a... Great art piece by @siddharthamitter.bsky.social
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Dans un nouveau working paper co-écrit avec @ondineberland.bsky.social, nous trouvons que les femmes ont une empreinte carbone 26% moins élevée que les hommes dans l’alimentation et les transports en 🇫🇷
Ce n’est pas seulement dû à des differences biologiques ou sur le marché du travail. Un🧵(1/11)
Ce n’est pas seulement dû à des differences biologiques ou sur le marché du travail. Un🧵(1/11)
May 16, 2025 at 11:48 AM
Dans un nouveau working paper co-écrit avec @ondineberland.bsky.social, nous trouvons que les femmes ont une empreinte carbone 26% moins élevée que les hommes dans l’alimentation et les transports en 🇫🇷
Ce n’est pas seulement dû à des differences biologiques ou sur le marché du travail. Un🧵(1/11)
Ce n’est pas seulement dû à des differences biologiques ou sur le marché du travail. Un🧵(1/11)
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[VIENT DE PARAÎTRE] 🛎️
Voici venu le temps du numéro 257 de la Revue internationale des études du développement : "Risques, protections, et dérèglement climatique", sous la direction de Hamidou Diallo, Elsa Gautrain et Karine Marazyan
À retrouver en librairie et sur notre site ! 🌎📈
Voici venu le temps du numéro 257 de la Revue internationale des études du développement : "Risques, protections, et dérèglement climatique", sous la direction de Hamidou Diallo, Elsa Gautrain et Karine Marazyan
À retrouver en librairie et sur notre site ! 🌎📈
April 17, 2025 at 8:58 AM
[VIENT DE PARAÎTRE] 🛎️
Voici venu le temps du numéro 257 de la Revue internationale des études du développement : "Risques, protections, et dérèglement climatique", sous la direction de Hamidou Diallo, Elsa Gautrain et Karine Marazyan
À retrouver en librairie et sur notre site ! 🌎📈
Voici venu le temps du numéro 257 de la Revue internationale des études du développement : "Risques, protections, et dérèglement climatique", sous la direction de Hamidou Diallo, Elsa Gautrain et Karine Marazyan
À retrouver en librairie et sur notre site ! 🌎📈
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My latest post on Patreon is a comprehensive collection of links to over 3,000 Books and Articles on African history, covering over five thousand years of history from across the continent.
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3,000 Books and Articles on African History : A comprehensive catalogue
www.patreon.com/posts/3-000-...
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3,000 Books and Articles on African History : A comprehensive catalogue
www.patreon.com/posts/3-000-...
3,000 Books and Articles on African History : A comprehensive catalogue | Isaac Samuel
Get more from Isaac Samuel on Patreon
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April 13, 2025 at 7:41 PM
My latest post on Patreon is a comprehensive collection of links to over 3,000 Books and Articles on African history, covering over five thousand years of history from across the continent.
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3,000 Books and Articles on African History : A comprehensive catalogue
www.patreon.com/posts/3-000-...
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3,000 Books and Articles on African History : A comprehensive catalogue
www.patreon.com/posts/3-000-...