Chatbots are not your friend. They have no ability to care about you. They experience no social repercussions from sociopathic behaviour. Yes, talking to humans is hard, but the alternative is dangerous for your literal grip on reality

In terms of US politics, Bush v. Gore is the defining event of the century. It set the template: a ruthless right that instinctively seeks power & doesn't give a shit about rule of law...and a bunch of hapless, feckless octogenarian Dems worried about the good opinion of centrist opinion columnists.

2025: the late liberal consensus is broken. the global knowledge infrastructure of climate change has ground to a political standstill. my colleagues are endlessly replying all to a listserv asking to subscribe that they're already part of it.

👀 If the NYC pension boards adopt the @nyccomptroller.bsky.social recommendations and move BlackRock's $42B mandate to other asset managers, it could be one of the most consequential climate-related actions ever taken by a pension fund in the US or anywhere in the world.

turns out best way to beautify your city is also best way to adapt to climate change: deprioritize cars & on-street parking prioritize sustainable mobility and sponge city principles (de-paving streets for trees) bonus points: cleaner air, reduced urban heat islands, better public health outcomes

1) genuine life changing moment of my early 20s was realizing I actually didn't have to do this at all. tell the youths 2) I feel like there's a class discussion to be had around the stakes of this kind of decision though

Landmark move: New York City's comptroller @bradlander.bsky.social, with hundreds of billions under his control, recommends dropping investment giant Blackrock because they won't reckon with climate change. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

a cute thing happened at #AAA2025! such a fangirl of the bateson books over the years, totally chuffed to be in this company ✨✨✨

Now that #AAA2025 is a wrap—time for an award 🏆 thread! Congratulations @lmesseri.bsky.social for winning this year's Gregory Bateson Book Prize!! Awarded for In the Land of the Unreal: Virtual and Other Realities in Los Angeles. More info here @dukepress.bsky.social: dukeupress.edu/in-the-land-...

Ça aurait eu encore plus de succès avec ce titre et ce sous-titre 😏

Hello #AAA2025 #NewOrleans! If you're looking for AAA Climate Change Interest Group activities, Thursday, November 20, 2025 is THE day! See you there!

This is the importance of buying the books we write and teach from university presses. The same administrations that don’t care about the humanities would be just as happy to have academic publishing handled by these companies. We can save our own publishing ecosystem- but we have to do it.

Join CEE Director of Policy, @seansfield.bsky.social, in celebrating the release of his new book: Carbon Capital 2 - 4pm GMT, Thurs 4 December Online and In-Person at the University of St Andrews Register now 👇👇 www.tickettailor.com/events/centr...

📖 I'm excited to convene a virtual reading group on #EnergyHeritage with @energy-ethics.bsky.social! Engaging w/ scholarship, fiction & artistic projects, we'll meet monthly from Nov-April for discussion and creative responses. Details + registration: energyethics.st-andrews.ac.uk/cee-reading-...

Your daily reminder that the fossil fuel industry is propped up by billions of dollars in U.S. government subsidies and a multimillion dollar campaign to spread climate disinformation. 💵

"The people we work with already have theories of the world." This interview with Lachlan Summers about his recent CA article takes up ethnographic writing, social theory, and problems and solutions: www.culanth.org/fieldsights/...

Are you on your way to New Orleans for this year's AAA? Join us, @amethno.bsky.social, and the Society for Visual Anthropology for a multimodal exhibiton and reception on Thursday!

Starbucks’ CEO makes 6,666x what the average @sbworkersunited.org barista does. It would take less than one day of sales to finalize a fair contract. Baristas at Starbucks corporate stores nationwide are on strike to fight this corporate greed and get the fair contract they deserve.

Remember: The richest 1% evade over $160 billion in taxes every year. That amount would fund SNAP for a year with money to spare. Ask yourself who the real freeloaders are.

Ce n’est pas la France qui est de droite mais les médias 🤷‍♂️

"Last month, Google shelved plans to build a $1bn data centre in Indianapolis, after residents organized a months-long campaign against the project. When a lawyer representing Google... announced the decision at a city council meeting, the room erupted in applause that lasted for nearly a minute."

Uh, yeah… they’ve hit a record high every single year for at least the last 67 years…

so many dead canaries and we just keep on mining

Exactly this

A free and democratic society cannot silence comedians because the President doesn’t like what they say. This is an attack on free speech and cannot be allowed to stand. All elected officials need to speak up and push back on this undemocratic act.

It needs to be said that by rebranding Charlie Kirk's views as moderate by both right wingers and liberal cowards resets the extremist views he held as normal and pushes the Overton window to the far right

Si aujourd’hui on a surtout en tête ses grands buildings, Manhattan tire bien son nom de ses collines originelles, en grande partie nivelées au fil des aménagements, ➡️ https://l.franceculture.fr/hUw

The rampant violations of academic freedom and intrusions on extramural speech are escalating rapidly. Faculty members have the right to speak or write as citizens, free from institutional censorship or discipline. Expression of opinion as a citizen does not constitute grounds for dismissal.

New episode of the Cultures of Energy podcast! Hannah Knox joins us to talk about the challenges climate change has posed to the concepts and methods of governing a city. Case in point: Manchester! tinyurl.com/3yax7euh @cymene.bsky.social @culanth.bsky.social @4sweb.bsky.social

The free speech activist who built a list of professors he worked to get fired for their speech must be celebrated for his support of free speech, and anyone who quotes his speech accurately in context will be fired and/or face state punishment by the champions of free speech, do I have that right?

Here's a list of people who have been killed by cars and trucks on this stretch of Ave. du Parc in the last few years (photo by @sarahdorner.bsky.social , thanks!) Jacob Austerlitz was the Hasidic boy killed by a truck in Dec 2024

Yesterday, I was riding my bike when I came across this "die-in" protest, a block from our #Montreal apartment. Height of rush hour; police held back vehicular traffic. For context, a 31-year-old woman on a bike was killed by the driver of a truck on Sunday morning. (la version française suit) 🧵

I lived right here for three years. Terrible news yesterday.

I’m a scientist who studies how climate change impacts our lives and the places we love. Most of us are worried, but many feel stuck on what to do. If that's the way you feel, check out this list below! We can’t fix it alone, but I know we can together. 💚

Getting ready for a conference reminds me every time about the importance of writing to understanding what I'm arguing. Writing is thinking and no matter how much you think that you know what you're talking about, writing it all down sharpens all of the connections you need to make.

SCOTUS: considering race as one factor in a college applicant's file is blatantly unconstitutional ALSO SCOTUS: considering race as one factor in targeting whom to detain and deport is cool cool cool

applying for jobs again

holy shit dude using a fake deployment for wildland fire crews from a fire that’s only 13% contained during peak western US fire season to detain multiple firefighters and remove the crews from the fire is a scale of evil & dangerous I can’t fully communicate to people not from wildfire regions

Holy shit: Stateline spoke to nearly a dozen firefighters, agency staffers and contractors, who said that top officials assigned to the fire deployed the crews to a remote location under false pretenses so federal agents could check their immigration status. www.hcn.org/articles/fir...

I will remind folks those images of Nazi book burnings aren't burning just any books. They're burning the library of Magnus Hirschfeld; a gay, Jewish doctor who created an institute dedicated to LGBTQ sex education and healthcare. And a man who pioneered gender affirming care surgeries.

this is the guy the energy abundance bros lauded lmao

This summer, Israeli bulldozers rolled through the West Bank city of Hebron with ruthless efficiency, targeting Palestine’s only surviving national seed bank. What happened in Hebron fits the legal definition of ecocide — the deliberate destruction of ecosystems to undermine human survival.

Destroying the achievements, heritage, and history of Indigenous peoples is one way settler colonial regimes *try* to make their fantasies of empty lands and primitive natives come true.

i cannot overstate how extraordinary it is for federal civil servants to do this

Updating our university climate strategy based on feedback received over the summer. Looking out the window, Vancouver is bathed in a thickening haze of wildfire smoke. Some days it feels overwhelming. Yet, we must persist and remain active.

Often dismissed as suffering a particular form of PTSD, people who have survived and are continually affected by Mexico City's earthquakes sense the material shifts in the city and its geology. For Elena, who marks the growing cracks in her apartment, the earthquake never ended.

Remember earlier when they were literally calling it a blood libel to suggest Israel would ever bomb a hospital and now the only ambiguity is how many times they bombed one

fyi these questions have been part of a lot of job apps posted to other agencies that i've seen, including FEMA

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...

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