The Nobel Prize committee should announce the World Cup winner tomorrow

Today Nov 6 is International Day for Preventing the Exploitation of the Environment in War and Armed Conflict. Given the environmental impacts of recent conflicts in Gaza and Ukraine, we clearly need to do better. joint-research-centre.ec.europa.eu/jrc-news-and...

Our paper just published on the relationships between pastoralists and cheetah in the Horn of Africa. More than 60% of respondents reported a cheetah attack in the last year and reported that killing cheetahs was widespread. www.frontiersin.org/journals/con...

Earlier this year, I made two trips to Sudan, where a terrible civil war has displaced 14 million people. The state is absent, international institutions are weak.Outside powers, motivated by greed and nihilism, have stepped into the vacuum www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...

NEW CHART: Trump's "big beautiful bill" & other efforts to dismantle climate policy means the US will add an extra 7bn tonnes of emissions to the atmosphere from now until 2030, compared to meeting its former climate pledge under the Paris Agreement 🫠 www.carbonbrief.org/...

Another must read for anyone interested in climate litigation - great @granthamlse.bsky.social report. www.lse.ac.uk/granthaminst...

that’s Elon Musk FRS doing his bit for US science, @royalsociety.org

(1/4) It was America and Britain that guaranteed the sovereignty of Ukraine and its borders in return for persuading them to give up their nuclear weapons.

I'm really sorry, but we just need to stop doing this. Your wood-burning hygge leads directly to people's deaths - other people's and perhaps your own. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

If Trump was President in 1940

“Terrible things are happening outside. Poor helpless people are being dragged out of their homes. Families are torn apart. Men, women, and children are separated. Children come home from school to find that their parents have disappeared.” Diary of Anne Frank January 13, 1943

I look at close to 100 stories a week and even more outside of work. I’ve done this ten years. This is among the most horrific things I’ve ever read — testimony from dying children whose access to medicine has been cut off by the Trump administration. www.npr.org/sections/goa...

2/4. The entire practice of the Holocaust of the Jews involved zones of statelessness. It is easier to move people away from law than it is to remove law from people. Almost all of the killing took place in artificially created stateless zones.

I just attended a conference in the US. We had one speaker detained and two others turned away at the border.

BREAKING from @science.org: The Trump admin is seeking to kill nearly all climate research at NOAA, its climate science agency. Its near-final budget proposal would end all NOAA research labs, academic institutes, and regional climate centers. And it wants to fully end the NOAA Research division.

📢 SDSN President Prof. Jeffrey Sachs and VP Guillaume Lafortune have co-authored a new Correspondence in Nature addressing the recent and explicit opposition to the #SDGs by the United States. 🔗 Read the Correspondence: www.nature.com/articles/d41...

There are many people in prison (including Ms Connolly) who in my view do not need to be there. But I’d venture that better evidence of a two-tier society is a national media outlet offering a soft focus profile minimising racist incitement to violence because a prisoner is married to a politician.

I get the stock market is bad but the equivalent has already happened to foreign aid, research funding, and public health. Everyone didn't freak out because there isn't some ticker on the news measuring the number of cancer researchers and Ebola prevention experts being fired.

Essential reading for anyone thinking of travelling to the US. Rebecca Burke's experiences are horrific - but there are many more people still in custody who shouldn't be there. The US is now a failed state. Best leave it well alone. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Effective immediately: Heard Island will be canceling our contract with Spacex for ALL future space travel. Dr. Amelia Sealhart and CPT Charles Icebergh will be leading our charge to adapt all flightless birds to flight capability. This will supplement our already extensive Albatross Space Force

Too edgy for Private Eye? We recently ran the 1st of 3 ads in Private Eye magazine. But after our 1st they told us they wouldn't run any more. Did they give in to pressure from the shooting industry or another vested interest? Private Eye- too establishment for Wild Justice!

Breaking now: Ministry of Economics reporting the tariffs have not caused significant changes to our trading volumes

Never doubt the malevolence of Trump, his staff and his supporters. But also never underestimate their pure incompetence and stupidly

We've been talking an awful lot about how the Trump tariffs will hit the big players: the UK, China, Canada, France, Germany etc But it's time to talk about the ones who DON'T have loud voices. Because some of the poorest countries in the world are going to be crippled by what happened last night

Fact-checking these pathological liars is exhausting, but important to note that this claim - that US sanctions mean zero trade with Russia, so no tariffs needed - is completely false. By USTR’s own count American imported $3bn of Russian goods last year. ustr.gov/countries-re...

Sometimes politics is simple. A man who speaks like an idiot will do idiotic things. That's really the sum total of the political analysis you need to understand what's happening today. But political commentators and investment advisers sought to make it more complicated.

It’s 9am TFT time here, and citizens are already gathering to protest Tariffs by the United States. Our plain clothes Officer Penguins are attempting to maintain calm, but unfortunately we keep losing them in the crowd.

When the US envoys come on Radio 4 and whine about barriers to US products coming to the UK and Europe, remember that they are often talking about the fact their stuff is polluting and dangerous and made in ways we don’t allow here.

Trump’s cuts are having a devastating impact on global conservation work www.theguardian.com/environment/...

The BBC is now firmly ensconced in the right-leaning British media

People love giving the media shit, but if anything we understate its role in spreading populism. It unquestioningly accepts its narratives and persistently holds its politicians to a lower standard than mainstream ones.

The thing about all these pieces complaining about Marine Le Pen's conviction is that not a single one of them bothers to explain why someone found guilty of embezzling millions of Euros from public funds should be allowed to get away with it

Has The Times got a list of crimes that right wing politicians should be allowed to commit with impunity?

This is fabulous!

Land use & climate change are expected to interact to shape biodiversity- but how do we translate the available knowledge into management recommendations? We applied a new framework to illustrate how these interactions may play out for gallery forests in W Africa, & identify what’s likely to help

If the White House is insisting that there was no classified or secret information in the Signal chat, does that mean Jeffrey Goldberg can publish it all?

So, anyone going to visit America - take a clean phone, install or delete apps, any you do have, sign out of them beforehand, keep phone off until you clear immigration, *print out* all travel documents such as boarding passes. On way back, delete browsing data, history.

Please read this. (For my followers who are not biochemists or cell biologists: Professor Frank shared the 2017 Nobel Prize in Chemistry, for pathbreaking work on the electron microscopy of single molecules. Frank's work has revolutionized our ability to analyze cellular physiology.)

I really don’t think 🇺🇸 is the place to hold international conferences or events for the next few years at least.

A lot to be proud of about Lithuania. A world where small states are free and democratic and can pursue a principled foreign policy is infinitely better than a Russian-American world that revolves around predation and violence.

Not only is this crass, it is highly significant. Radosław Sikorski is perhaps the most Atlanticist major politician in Europe. And this is how he is now being publicly treated by US/Musk. They do not want us to be their friends, they do not want us to be their allies.

The lack of Republican push back as the USA is helping Russians kill Ukrainians because of the conscious choices of a Republican president is stunning.

How today’s journalists would have acted during WWII

That’s a pretty sobering graph of NATO aircraft and ground attack crafts. Amazing what an appalling sales job that “master of the art of the deal” 🙃 has done in 6 weeks to turn off desire for USA defence equipment. If he can do it to Ukraine he can do it to you.

A good summary of the ties between T and Russia

Time for speakers. Surgeon and health researcher Atul Gawande says he has seen several scientists leaving their dreams behind, holding their whole careers in boxes after being fired. Scientists arte targets because “Science doesn’t always give the answers that power wants,” he says.

Trump is cancelling $400 million in grants to Columbia University because he says they haven’t done enough to tackle antisemitism. Looks like universities are next on the Trump bonfire as he winds America back to the 18th century.

It’s a very good point.

US technology, provided by private companies, just ceased to be reliable

"As the largest historical emitter, the United States bears a significant share of the blame for the climate adversities affecting vulnerable populations worldwide." 3/4