We keep hearing folks rejecting the warning bells about the trans genocide, saying “it’s not like there’s gas chambers & ovens”. Aside from the reality that the Holocaust didn’t start w/ gas chambers & ovens, this comes from an ignorant understanding of what a genocide is. Let’s talk about it. 1/15

Human flourishing is a major area of research in global development with institutions connected to WHO & UN using flourishing-related frameworks to measure well-being beyond productivity and/or pathology. So scales exist & being improved.

Dam been writing a book about this and she just TikToked it in 90 seconds.

“Life must be rich and full of loving—it’s no good otherwise, no good at all, for anyone.” ~ Jack Kerouac

What kind of justice is this? www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

Insane dystopian shit here, totally unacceptable. I expect politicians and commentators to be outraged by it, regardless of their opinion of the crimes these people were convicted of.

New paper "The paradox of climate justice" explores trade-off btw climate justice, effectiveness & political feasibility for mainstream & heterodox policies. Ambitious justice goals may inadvertently reduce support for effective policies - resulting in long-term injustice. dx.doi.org/10.1002/wcc....

The ebook of Elemental is currently on a madly cheap 99p deal. I can't believe I am telling you this. www.amazon.co.uk/Elemental-Wa...

"To some in this country, I am everything that the hateful despise, and I'm standing here as your MSP with care. They say politics is the art of the possible, a politics of care I would say expands what is possible for everyone left behind, pushed out or never invited in.”

Much better would be to read our original paper in @biotropica.bsky.social, reflect on the arguments, and decide for yourself whether or not you agree with it. We're not the left-wing thought police, we're just trying to make our field fairer and more inclusive. 🌍

Our paper on decolonising field ecology was featured on a new BBC documentary as an example of how woke has gone too far on university campuses. Needless to say, I'm thrilled. This is impact! @biotropica.bsky.social 🌍 1/6

My biggest conspiracy theory is that telling working class people that engagement in the arts is a middle / upper class thing and to do so makes you a class traitor is a psyop to make them disengaged with themselves and the world and the beauty of being human, so that they accept worse treatment.

I've been researching the idea of Unconditional Universal Basic Income since 2013. Here's a collection of findings I've compiled from various UBI experiments and studies of cash transfer programs around the world. This will be a VERY LONG and ongoing thread focused entirely on empirical evidence. 🧵

REVEIL, the livestream of field sounds that follows dawn around the world for a full day, has kicked off from a wood in Reading, UK (5am on Sat May 2 to 6am on Sun, UK time). More about the project: soundtent.org/reveil.html Listen here: soundtent.org/reveil/#/

Wow, this, coming less than 24 hours after hearing about UAE ditching OPEC, which can convincingly argued as a response to long term structural falls in oil and gas demand, is quite something.

I love this essay very much!!!!

Every system that was regulated, either explicitly or implicitly, by the fact that they were effortful for humans (letters of recommendation, government filings, essays, or, as this paper finds, lawsuits) will break under a wave of AI.

As wealth concentrates, so does power — the power to influence elections, shape policy, tilt markets and define the terms of public debate. Taxing billionaires is not radical. What is radical is allowing a system where extreme wealth exists alongside widespread hardship.

the idea that taxing billionaires will give us a bright new socialist future is nonsense, the reason to have a tax code that treats them with maximal hostility is because their wealth is a threat to democracy and stability

Yeah, we can’t afford to do anything ever now because (rolls d6) Russian (rolls d10, consults table) transgender (rolls d100) small boats, will give you (d10) exploding (d100) bum diseases

This was a tough one to write, and I took a bit of a personal risk sharing my own career-long process of discovery from tentatively swayed by the potential for deep-sea mining to convinced that we are simply not ready.

This preprint is about this! THIS!! Mindblowing.

Orbán's electoral crushing is a far greater achievement than most people outside Hungary realise. He systemically consolidated power for 16 years, fixed the electoral map, abused govt power for political purposes & censored media. The hurdles that Hungarians overcame for this moment were immense.

What's that you say? Muslims are actually just people? Actual humans with actual human lives part of an actual human society? Well colour me shocked!

I'm one of those trans women. I worked ground ops for Artemis I. I am torn between celebrating the success of my friends and peers and grieving how my dream of working for NASA was shattered by hateful assholes in Tallahassee

AI footage in the quote post. However it's a real fact, with real footage available (See my link below). Now people who believed it have a false image of how octopus act, and people who recognise it as AI question a real observed scientific fact. Utter bullshit. www.youtube.com/watch?v=RN9B...

I've now got 11 videos up from my Global Environmental Governance class including 4 new ones on climate change, the clean energy transition, fisheries, and wildlife conservation. www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...

*sneaks in the back door at 3 am and adds “billionaire” to the DSM-6*

Neither are most adults. This is why very successful managers and leaders still hire external consultants - to bring in expertise in subject matter AND inquiry. SM expertise is sometimes necessary, but you can usually add massive value without being SM expert just by being good at questions.

David Duchovny played a transgender woman, Denise, on Twin Peaks in 1990 and when greeting Cooper, the show's protagonist, she says, "I prefer Denise, if you don't mind" and Cooper responds with "OK" and her identity is settled within a couple seconds and was a non-issue, 36 years ago.

Seeing this already. AI being used by managers to review and respond to consulting work designed to challenge assumptions, poke at received wisdom, identify opportunities etc. AI can only assess this work by comparing it with the very assumptions and received wisdom being challenged. Big problem.

This is great 👇

Just a friendly reminder that I didn’t become disabled until I was 50. Literally two weeks after my birthday, and I’d ironically been ‘getting fit for fifty’, and was in peak condition. Shit happens. Manic Street warning - if you tolerate this then your children could be next. Or you. Or anyone.

As with previous events where I've met pro-democracy actors what came through is there's amazing and impactful work being done in that space that engages the public with really impactful pro-democracy activities, but that great work is rarely recognised outside of their local context.

We don't need to let our social fabric be shredded by rising inequality, as our childrens' future goes up in flames. We can #TaxTheSuperRich and fund effective climate action, great public transit, homes for all, and other nice things. #cdnpoli #bcpoli

Israel has long been an apartheid state - as well as a racist, fascist and genocidal one This just adds further confirmation www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...

Truly, an everything everywhere all at once approach to alienating your base. Playing an absolute blinder. Forensic.

I know it's a silly music show but how on earth is it still the case that Israel is taking part in Eurovision?

Several years ago, on a whim, I started drawing a map of an eel's life travels as seen by the eel. I figured an eel thinks about its life as a linear journey, rather than a there-and-back again adventure. So I wanted to do a map to reflect this. This morning, on another whim, I finished the map!

No community of any size can be sustained without immigration. They really mean no black or brown people here. They mean my family. They mean our friends, partners, neighbours and colleagues. We are in a fight with these bastards and we have to win.

Truth in the replies, but the dunks miss the bigger picture & flattens national contexts. I think ppl intuit that neoliberalism has been the dominant frame, & that centre left pols tacitly accept its boundaries, & this has contributed to the rtn of fascism as the system ratchets ever rightward.

"World Athletics’ mandatory genetic test for women athletes is misguided. I should know – I discovered the relevant gene in 1990". www.mcri.edu.au/news/insight...

Thread. I have been in the UK benefits system for 17 years. I occasionally wonder what kind of person I might have been/what I might have managed to achieve if I hadn’t developed ME, but much more frequently about if I hadn’t had to deal with the DWP and the societal attitudes they’ve proliferated.

Wtaf This is madness. If someone's condition might one day improve let's make their current life immeasurably more difficult and stressful to, er, motivate them more? There is a nasty, cruel, Victorian era logic at work here based on a deep and ugly suspicion of disabled people.

I say this gently and with love. The ppl watching the No Kings protests and saying “I have nothing in common with these normies, but I support the wine moms and fleece vest dads” are in denial. You are a middle aged bike commuter with a dog and a mortgage. You are these normies.

Charities can do more of the good work you want to support if you let them use more of your donation to raise more money.

Starting work soon on a new 3 year book project. People keep asking me if I’ll use AI to help me? I would rather wear a hornet’s nest for underpants than ever delegate thought to a plagiarism engine

'We've been ostracised and patronised long enough' Scottish actor Brian Cox explains why he is at today's independence march in Edinburgh 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿