Inspired by this + fossil giant Eni's fusion investments to update my 'greenwashing habitable zone' conceptualisation of what techs seem to lend themselves to being the most useful for bullshitty climate delay Welcome to the zone, fusion, you finally made the cut Top right = The Altman Expanse

The world may be terrifying, but some things you can rely on. It’s officially decorative gourd season, and we have a new mug. Blammo. store.mcsweeneys.net/t/categories...

Reading papers is a basic skill (and dare I say duty?) of scientists, and I include medical doctors in that group. Keeping abreast of the literature is a foundational part of our professions. There aren’t good shortcuts. In any case, reading papers regularly is fun. arstechnica.com/ai/2025/09/s...

Thanks to @jksteinberger.bsky.social for joining us in our first episode of #BeyondtheFix! 🎙️ Dive into her brilliant insights on #Degrowth and #EcologicalEconomics here: criticalscientists.ch/podcast as well as Spotify, Apple Podcasts and more #Criticalscience

💛🚫🤖 No AI Gods, No AI Masters 🤖🚫💛 I am massively excited to share the backstory ACADEMIC SHENANIGANS behind our Open Letter (& so this paper below too) — and as always big thanks to my co-authors {@irisvanrooij.bsky.social & @marentierra.bsky.social}: www.civicsoftechnology.org/blog/no-ai-g... 1/n

Let's make Car Free Days the norm, not the rare exception. My letter in The Irish Times this morning. #ReimagineDublin

Minister for Transport, Darragh O'Brien, has just been on @rteone.rte.ie news insisting on the need to grow Dublin Airport capacity from 36 million passengers per year to a potential 60 million, liberally sprinkling his speech with the word 'sustainably'. These people are living on another planet.

“A lot of academic research on AI currently is also funded by the AI industry, which creates the risk of distorting scientific knowledge, similar to how we’ve seen happen in the past.”

Oh, this was so wholesome: @irisvanrooij.bsky.social and I went on @disruptedscience.bsky.social to talk about these topics! So much fun, if I do say so myself. 🖤 www.youtube.com/watch?v=p9w0...

In a time of war, climate crisis, fascism, and deepening inequality, this feels like the most significant presidential campaign we've had - a litmus test for Ireland and where we see ourselves in the world. Ireland's young people really need to show up for Catherine Connolly.

Irish Examiner... #Aras25 #FeckOffIona

Dr Clare Kelly (School of Psychology) contributed to an opinion piece in the Irish Times about AI in higher education stating that ‘even if all the known issues were magically resolved, we would still not want our students to use GenAI.’ @clarekelly.bsky.social www.irishtimes.com/opinion/2025...

“It is exactly because problems continue to grow that we must speak out now. The repetition that somehow things are set in stone needs to be urgently, vociferously, and vigilantly countered” -- zenodo.org/records/1706...

“AI has always been a marketing phrase that erodes scientific inquiry and scholarly discussion by de- sign, leaving the door open to pseudoscience, exclusion, and surveillance”

Such a good @bankfieldbecky.bsky.social + @steveclimate.bsky.social paper here: examining how "climate pragmatism" has become a major part of the new lexicon of climate delay Also see: "climate realism" theconversation.com/politicians-...

- you clean up that banksy? - sure did, your honour, leaving a perfect, permanent outline, imbuing the work with real fuckin gravitas while making its point better than the artist did himself just like you asked

With students heading back to the classroom, a group of cognitive scientists and AI researchers has published one of the most forceful and evidence-backed calls yet to reject the "uncritical adoption of AI" in academia:

If you want to be both seriously impressed by meticulous investigative journalism and driven to tears of anger & frustration at the power, influence, & duplicity of the fossil fuel industy, then I highly recommend the latest series in the best #TrueCrime podcast around, @drilledmedia.bsky.social 👇

a single billionaire is asking for the same amount of money it costs the irish state annually to fund 2000 artists on its basic income pilot scheme so that he can host a golf event *turns slowly to look at camera* www.irishtimes.com/ireland/2025...

🔥Growing the climate movement by centering transformative adaptation In a new preprint, Kevin Young, @swaziadam.bsky.social, & I advocate for transformative adaptation as a framework to better connect people's material interests with climate change and increase mobilization. osf.io/preprints/so...

Just filled this out…took about 15 minutes. Please have your say on climate change in Ireland. It is a straightforward questionnaire. #ClimateAction

🧵 An open letter to the US Open and USTA: Trump will attend the #USOpen as a guest of ROLEX. Yesterday, Trump declared 'WAR' on Chicago. The USTA has called for media censorship of dissent against Trump today. I played NCAA tennis many years ago and still play. Today I resign my #USTA membership.

Always get my @imbibecoffee.bsky.social at The Good Neighbour Rathmines (www.thegoodneighbour.ie). Two fantastic local, sustainable, and ethical businesses 👏👏👏

This year we'll give up 4% of all our revenue. 1% goes to staff on top of salary and bonus. 3% to good causes. It's viable and everyone does well. It's not marketing. It's an attempt to show what is currently accepted as necessary for globocorps to survive is nonsense. If you need coffee imbibe.ie

So proud of this collaboration led by @cssn.org 110 top experts from around the world 13 chapters on who is blocking or slowing action on climate change A quantum leap in our understanding of why society has failed to solve this Will be free online Oct 14 1/x global.oup.com/academic/pro...

Part of resisting chatbots in education means enacting what a real education should be - embodied, engaged, interactive, curious, and empowering. This beautiful short and accessible piece from @abeba.bsky.social describes what resistance can look like 👇

👇 A must-read from @olivia.science, @irisvanrooij.bsky.social et al. A powerful articulation of the reasons why the uncritical adoption of AI technologies is fundamentally incompatible with learning & research integrity, & why it matters that academics resist & fight the narrative of inevitability

👇 A must-read from @olivia.science, @irisvanrooij.bsky.social et al. Such a clear & comprehensive articulation of the reasons why the uncritical adoption of AI technologies is fundamentally incompatible with learning & with research integrity, and why academics must resist. bsky.app/profile/oliv...

You and I are richer than Gates, Zuckerberg, etc. because we can afford not to polish the boots of the authoritarian clown.

has a little cry about this — solidarity with Ireland-based comrades 🥰

Academics are under unrelenting pressure to accept the narrative of the inevitability of #generativeAI & to embrace it in teaching & learning. We resist - because it is ecologically destructive, ethically corrupt, & because it undermines the thinking abilities that make us both human & intelligent.

It was good to co-author alongside @clarekelly.bsky.social & Caitríona Leahy & with the input from Harun Šiljak & Norah Campbell. We are clearly not the only ones thinking like this, both within Trinity & beyond, so let's build community to #resistAI www.irishtimes.com/opinion/2025...

This is excellent from TCD colleagues @clarekelly.bsky.social @kbruisch.bsky.social & Caitríona Leahy and just the sort of critical thinking and leadership we need to resist the relentless and harmful march of AI.

The Department of Energy hired five academics to raise doubts about climate change. 85+ climate experts (organized by @andrewdessler.com) reviewed their report. Our conclusion, detailed in 450 pages of analysis: it is biased, full of errors, and not fit to inform policy making.

While defending the luddite argument in Discord, I stumbled into this IMO succinct explanation for opposing generative AI: At every step in the process, it impoverishes us.

We need to stop using a framework of 'ChatGPT killed someone', it feeds into the myth of the system's agency & OpenAI's framing. The right framework to use: OpenAI is continuing to perpetuate an indefinite industrial disaster. The oil pipe is not at fault when it breaks. The company that built it is

10. I could go on and on. But instead, read the paper. And record this as my vote for having more philosophers, and fewer computer scientists, on the Provost's Expert Committee For AI Futures and Institutional Destiny.

Given the deranged turn in the public conversation around migration lately, I highly encourage everyone listen to this interview with environmental historian Prof. Sunil Amrith, on the history of human movement. It provides much needed perspective & more than a little sanity to the discussion!

15-17 octobre 2025 🧠Neurosciences de demain à + 2° 🌏 Quelles neurosciences à l'ère de l'Anthropocène ? Lieux : Palais du Pharo et Campus Timone, Marseille neuro22m1a2deg.sciencesconf.org 1/n

Ooof... given the general enshittification of Google, this worry has been lurking at the back of my mind. Would love to hear about experiences with openalex.org or other alternatives. I avoid genAI. Open Alex does not seem to use it?

THE most important thing, bar none, you need to understand about Israel bombing hospitals, killing journalists and double-tapping rescue workers is that it's been happening for almost 2 years straight with not a single Western media outlet giving a single fuck.

My lab's been attacked by an anti-wind group and their lawyers. They threatened the science funding of my whole university, to shut me and my undergraduate research assistants up. NYT just covered it. 1/n www.nytimes.com/2025/08/25/c...

Our pals The Mary Wallopers have just been pulled off stage and the PA shut down at VictoriousFest in Portsmouth for taking out a 🇵🇸 flag and saying Free Palestine Speak up against genocide in England and you're treated like a criminal Up the Mary Wallopers 💚🤍🧡 Free Palestine! Free the 6 counties!

Decarbonisation isn't being held back by a lack of knowledge or technology It's being held back by the power of vested interests Even if AI was benign and all it's hyped up to be, it wouldn't address that

I did not know that Nature did advertorials. Absolutely fucking scarlet for the editor that approved this gaslighting bullshit.

Get, and I mean this sincerely, fucked.

These statements cannot both be true. An Taisce: 'This development is contrary to the national climate objective'. Co Kildare Chamber: 'This development positions Kildare as a leader in sustainable digital infrastructure.' www.independent.ie/business/mon...

"What if the real doomer scenario is that we pollute the internet and the planet, reorient our economy and leverage ourselves, outsource big chunks of our minds, realign our geopolitics and culture, and fight endlessly over a technology that never comes close to delivering on its grandest promises?"

The people dominating our political landscape, culture, and economy are just so stupid and full of shit it's almost impossible to describe