Granted, I haven’t seriously looked in a long time, but I haven’t noticed a serious price of analysis come out of these pages in a while

A new investigation by @ejfoundation.org reveals widespread illegal #fishing, environmental destruction and severe human rights abuses across the global squid industry, one of the world's most poorly governed #seafood sectors. ejfoundation.org/news-media/g...

The court has effectively ruled that severely disabled people are not entitled to the same standards of liberty because they allegedly can't experience it fully. A bizarrely regressive ruling on rights It even implies non-resistance as possible consent: an extremely dangerous view for all victims

The Feds and Alberta are running roughshod over BC. Carney and Smith seem to feel they are entitled to build whatever they want in BC regardless of what the BC government says www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

This is simply normalising imperialism

LLMs and their proponents are becoming a new totalitarianism, infesting the minds and lives of humanity. They seek complete synthesis with daily life: work, entertainment, personal lives, relationships, decisions - every aspect of human existence is fair game and open for ‘enhancement’ 1/3

The number of PMs is not the correct indicator for ‘governability’, rather it should be the quality of policy implementation. All having long ‘reigns’ shows is the sclerosis of the political system and the failure to have democratic renewal.

Entirely evidence-free wibbke from @rentouljohn.bsky.social/ @the-independent.com here. Has cutting immigration been good for growth or public services? No. Has it reduced racism/community pensions? Also no. Has it helped Labour politically? Also no. Also LOL But.. "it's a good story"

My latest paper has been published in the South African Journal of Economics today! It estimates the effect of informal ethnic networks on trade flows in Africa It leverages a new IV framework using pre-colonial territory maps #EconSky #AcademicSky onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1...

Can it get more peak colonial solipsism than Canadians complaining that our first indigenous GG (who speaks Inuktitut and English fluently) is criticised for not learning French sufficiently (despite having basic conversational skills in French)? 1/2 www.ctvnews.ca/politics/art...

Data from hundreds of thousands of ancient coins is used to reconstruct granular time series of trade and real consumption around the Mediterranean from the 4th to the 10th century, from @johannesmboehm.bsky.social and Thomas Chaney www.nber.org/papers/w35156

“Mysterious fog nothing to worry about,” says weatherman who died 20 years ago

Man who introduced them to boxing, gave them all their equipment, taught them how to use it, and pulled them into the ring is tired of being punched? Leopards, faces, etc. www.ctvnews.ca/politics/art...

A convenient aspect of the Aegean is that you are basically always in sight of land

Reports suggest the SNP will be the largest party in Scotland but will be short of an overall majority. At our event, Liz Lloyd, former Chief of Staff to the First Minister, discussed the difficulties the SNP faced in getting a majority and why it is sometimes easier to govern as a minority.

The extent to which we have tolerated corporate autocracy while fighting tooth and nail for political democracy is one of the great faults of the modern age. Economic democracy is necessary not only for the successful consolidation of political democracy but also for a free society

This isn't Canada, this isn't what we should be doing We should be welcoming everyone with open arms so they can build secure lives in Canada The government's actions on immigration in recent years are shameful www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

US wants our energy, but not anything else - what else is new? This isn't a partnership nationalnewswatch.com/2026/04/30/t...

15 years ago there was evidence of prehistoric colossal octopuses playing with their food. Critics said it was far fetched 10 years ago there was evidence that prehistoric octopuses could grow much bigger than we thought. Critics said it was unlikely Now: 7m-20m 🐙 www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Really BIG mollusc news! 🧪🦑⚒️ 🐙 Earliest octopuses were giant top predators in Cretaceous oceans Science www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

This is wild: the authors find evidence for giant, macro-predatory octopuses in Late Cretaceous oceans that might max out at *62 feet long,* comfortably large enough to attack, kill and eat mosasaurs

When realists finally get the foreign policy their arguments imply, they’re all like “no, not like that” or “that’s not actually realism” and suddenly become very obsessed with domestic details… Everyone’s a liberal-institutionalist in a foxhole, I guess? www.foreignaffairs.com/united-state...

🚨 NEW: The Green Party says the BBC is fuelling hostility towards asylum seekers for revealing they’re told to pose as gay “When they give so much prominence to the report, it ceases to be in the public interest… it gives a false impression of a system stacked against them”

No, what the US needs is to un-fuse their head of government and head of state so that their government can be more accountable than their current elected 4-year kingship. Any parliamentary system can do this. Just put the government in the legislature.

Brilliant to visit the Hebridean Baker’s croft today, meet the Highland coos and put my baking skills to a test. Thank you for the delicious birthday cake too! Scotland’s food and drink industry is absolutely world class and the SNP will always support it.

The Venn Diagram of the NYT and Carl at this point is a circle, so where’s the challenge?

In order to be effective this needs to be same pay for a 30 hour week, not just compressed hours as standard

I think we can all agree the US is clearly no longer in the business of halting war crimes…

Tinariwen have added a Canadian leg to their 2026 tour - going to 13 cities across the country in Sep Check out their most recent album (Hoggar) and catch them in Sep if you can open.spotify.com/album/2gqUcb... exclaim.ca/music/articl...

Not just the Arab world, the entire world. Who does the US lead when it has burned through all of its trust and goodwill? Until it fully confronts and reconciles how it has gotten here it will never regain its position.

I'm honestly getting really tired seeing Americans saying some version of "we can't keep doing this, something needs to change". Do something then. It's your country and it's your responsibility to be the change.

Today could mark the day where the US crosses over from war crimes to blatant crimes against humanity

At the very least the fiscal framework is going to see a significant rework after May, with the potential that the wider devolution settlement (particularly in Wales) will get an overhaul. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

You don't only have to look up to be in awe of the moon(fish)! www.kpbs.org/news/2015/05...

🎉 OCEAN WIN: Scientists exploring the deep Coral Sea off Australia have discovered over 110 new-to-science marine animals, from ghost sharks to sea anemones, living up to 3km below the surface 🌊 https://bit.ly/4e63Hkh

MPs may work hard but if they are not “out of touch” then the current level of debate is inexcusable.

Despite being tongue-in-cheek, the response shows the extent to which formerly credible US media has burned through its grace. Until it earns back that credibility, it can’t effectively harness ridicule

In February 2026, Trump and his administration added another 48 atrocities to this list. #LestWeForgetTheHorrors

How much did it cost to unload and reload cargo onto various vehicles in the Roman Mediterranean? ⛵In the Journal of Maritime Archaeology, James Page calculates these costs in a new, open access article. Such an interesting paper for GIS transit modeling & for labor cost (bookkeepers got 20 nummi!).

American exceptionalism strikes again “You can’t call us a ‘regime’, we’re America” A country-wide delusion

- Have all the planks of your ship been replaced? - Did you replace the planks with the same material(s) as before? - Do any of the original planks remain? - Did you or anyone else build a ship out of the old planks?

Humans are often very myopic in how we think about things and classify the 'possible' (see frequent depictions of 'alien' worlds in fiction for example) There are many ways to solve the same problems and there are many forms of 'intelligence'. Recognising this is important

Climate change is killing to oceans faster than first thought and it is affecting much more than just corals. Combined with continued overfishing, this will eventually leave the oceans virtually empty (populated only by jellyfish and cephalopods) www.theguardian.com/environment/...

“People are the same all over and across all times” ^ a surprisingly controversial statement I’ve made in some seminars, but it is necessary for people to understand that humans (and human cognitive abilities) have changed very little over our history - technology is the only difference

The question is no longer whether multi-party politics has arrived in the UK – it’s whether our outdated electoral system can survive it.

Price shocks in essentials must be buffered before they ripple through the economy and rip apart our societies. Have governments learned their lesson or will they let the fossil fuel price shock unleash another round of windfall profits and inflation? Link: www.nytimes.com/2024/11/12/o...

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Only one week left to propose a paper for the joint economic history-Indigenous economics meeting August 21-23 in Yellowknife, Northwest Territories. Send 1-2 page extended abstract to David Rosé ([email protected]) & Rob Gillezeau ([email protected]) by February 27! economichistory.ca

The Me Too movement is a revolution built upon women not willing to shut up. Keep going.

"Begun to wobble" is a take on this that is about 20 years out of date...