Singapore has become the first Asian country where students can take a music PhD that combines artistic practice with academic research as universities seek to support cultural ambitions, reports Tash Mosheim #academicsky https://ow.ly/pPQ950XbStH

Nearly one-quarter of heatwaves would have been ‘virtually impossible’ without global warming — and can be attributed to the emissions of individual energy producers go.nature.com/3Kir39u

Tom Lehrer was an amazing polymath combining science with clever humour and musical acumen. I hope his songs will be replayed for a long time to come.

Unsurprising, but nevertheless tragic. Makes it very hard for integrators and multidisciplinarians to exist in academia. #academicsky

Weekend re-reading of Cybernetics. “Let us remember that the automatic machine is the precise economic equivalent of slave labor. Any labor which competes with slave labor must accept the economic consequences of slave labor.” Let us never forget our humanity - first and foremost.

I have been trying to embed systems thinking and systems approaches into universities for a while now. So hard to get traction. Everything devolves into capability sales exercise. Anybody been successful at this? How did you do it? #academicsky

Tried to get access to Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics today via my university’s library. Available as online book only. Multiple Shibboleth errors later, the ereader on the Cambridge Uni Press won’t load. No access. A foundational text of western thought. #academicsky

It’s a grim milestone and not something that I wanted my first post to be, but it seems that earth has breached the 1.5 degree heating milestone for the first time: www.nature.com/articles/d41...