Black American soldiers literally dug these WWII graves. Traumatic. To acknowledge that fact at a cemetery they helped construct is something the Heritage Foundation cannot accept. As Veterans Day approaches, never forget that this country both compels and disrespects Black military service. Always.

"Far from a peak, China's gasoline demand is estimated to have fallen 9% in October on the year to 12.5 million tons, with average daily use roughly flat with September..." China's oil demand is entering structural decline.

Fines and arrests didn’t work — Georgians still blocked Rustaveli Ave for 343 nights. Now, on day 344, police show up in huge numbers to physically prevent it. Here, protesters march on narrow Leonidze St, yet police only allow them a small slice of the road. 🎥 Publika

The US Army can’t feed its own soldiers.

Now this is how you detect whether an election was stolen. Humans choose rounder numbers. by @TheEconomist

🪩Gala Dinner! 💃🕺 A mid-conference pause Hear a career story from Kim Ollivier, aka Godfather of FOSS4G in NZ Listen to Rua Puka's inspiration for our logo Feast & Dance + live music Wed 19 Nov 6p - 10p Hilton Auckland Central https://bit.ly/3WHeU14 #foss4g #osgeo  #gala  Photo: Wolves and Ravens

I would read this subterranean horror novel

Kanadská firma začala skúmať ložiská antimónu v Malých Karpatoch, Pezinok kritizuje ministerstvo

“In union, there is strength.” ― Aesop Please, all in the conservation movement, do not do deals that simply favour your pet areas, in exchange for publicly endorsing @australianlabor.bsky.social's pathetic environmental law reform bill. Demand the whole package is improved, back in the science!

"It doesn't matter whether the National Party believes in climate change, I promise everybody's insurance company believes in climate change." - co-CEO Richard Denniss unpacks the National Party abandoning net zero on ABC News #auspol @richarddenniss.bsky.social

"Until the end!” - my favourite slogan (sounds “Bolomde” in Georgian). Day 340 of daily #GeorgiaProtests, despite the regime jailing those who stand on the road (or get a face mask, the lack of which results in an EUR 1,700 fine too). 📷 Droa party

This @oilchange.bsky.social report into how Aus, Norway, the US and Canada are going hell-for-leather on oil and gas is pretty incredible. This graphic stood out to me: oilchange.org/publications...

"PM Albanese’s culture of secrecy, in three charts" Damning work by @skyelark.bsky.social on this govt's secrecy #OffTheCharts #ThePoint thepoint.com.au/off-the-char...

The first (1955) Danish edition of Ray Bradbury’s FAHRENHEIT 451. Later editions did not convert the title, so this is the only SI-compatible edition! 🎢

A horrific mass murder is unfolding in Sudan, where no one can see it. The RSF are murdering civilians in El Fasher, having finally defeated the Sudanese army forces holding out in the city. The BBC has managed to speak to some who escaped www.youtube.com/watch?v=i7fC...

NEW from me: Political hostility, high visa fees and (in the case of the UK) stagnant incomes are making the UK and US less attractive destinations for top international talent. That steep decline in the appeal of moving to the US after 2016 is 👀

Help me turn the State Library of Victoria's digitised maps into data! https://wragge.github.io/slv-allmaps/ (bit of a soft launch, so let me know if you see any errors in the documentation...)

hey @arc-tracker.bsky.social do you know of a time series graph for ARC budget? Even better, inflation adjusted... If not, will dig further...

What if we did a single run and declared victory

Developers of the "Geospatial Data Carpentry for Urbanism" lesson, currently in The Carpentries Incubator, are looking for Carpentries community members and Instructors willing to to host and teach beta pilot workshops in 2025 and 2026: carpentries.org/blog/2025/10...

"It's just the weather" "Mosquitoes have been found in Iceland for the first time. Iceland was one of the only places in the world that did not have a mosquito population. The other is Antarctica." #GlobalBoiling

Do you want a bit more sketchiness in your #datavis? Here's my @observablehq.com Plot plugin that turns an Plot specification into a sketchy version with minimal extra work: observablehq.com/@jwolondon/m... Builds on the work of Gordon Tu and rough.js

When you are geolocating at the protest based on inflatable animals

Fri 17 Oct: CO2 levels ⬆️ by a record amount in 2024 & hit a new high of 424ppm Labor may dodge but they can't hide from citizens determined to hold them to account for their enabling of NEW/EXTENSIONS of Coal & Gas projects (31🤯 & counting) Govts should serve citizens NOT the fossil fuel industry❗️

Flexible, industry-friendly Safeguard Mechanism & sympathetic Clean Energy Regulator saves Santos fr meeting costly best practice on GHG emissions CER care for fossil fuel industry also extends to flagging tt "Delivery of the project is reportedly tied to a $6 million bonus for CEO Kevin Gallagher"

When you start a #PhD you are learning how to do research. You don't know how to do it so ask questions. Lots of questions. If you already knew how to do a PhD there wouldn't be any point in doing it. You are doing it to learn #PhDchat #PhDforum #ECRchat #postdoc #AcademicChatter

Sorry kids, believe us, we tried, really hard, to push our political leaders to do better. "Watt’s rejection of an independent, arms-length approval process will anger environment groups but sidesteps a fresh fight with miners and Western Australia’s Labor government." www.afr.com/politics/fed...

This looks against every conceivable code of research integrity worthy of the name... what are they thinking?? New depths reached

If you've never been to Gaza, you won't appreciate what the yellow line means. Basically Israel now holds most of Gaza's small but important agricultural land. Continued Israeli occupation, which I judge the likely outcome, makes Gaza even more unliveable and more dependent on outside goods.

Just in: Kobakhidze states he cancelled his meeting with Elina Valtonen, OSCE Chairperson-in-Office and Finland’s Foreign Minister, after she joined the #GeorgiaProtests last night. His administration has also dismissed her criticism as “lies.”

NEW: Southeast Chicago, Tuesday October 14, 2025. Welcome to Donald Trump’s America. If there isn’t a domestic warzone, manufacture one. Fascism. 📸 Credit to local Chicago freelance photographer Matthew Kaplan for all these images.

JUST IN: The Georgian Dream prepares legislation to enable the Constitutional Court to bar persons from registering political parties, being members of political parties, running in elections, and holding official positions. 1/2

Now, they'll have a method for quantifying WoodCIDE's North West Shelf Extension human health & environmental harms Scarborough's expected to emit 876 million tonnes of CO₂ over its lifetime North West Shelf Extension's expected to emit 4 billion tonnes of GHG emissions over its lifetime

BREAKING📢 Crack team of climate scientists show "it is no longer defensible for companies proposing new or extended fossil fuel projects to claim the climate harms will be negligible. Our research shows the harms are, in fact, tangible and quantifiable – and no project is too small to matter"

Again, every time this happens, we literally have no idea if the masked, plainclothes people are actual government agents, or private citizens acting in party-affiliated paramilitaries. The whole point of IDs & uniforms & no masks is that we know these things.

🚨Amazing: 🇳🇴 Norway’s drone detection system protecting Oslo Airport comes from 🇨🇳 Chinese company DJI Aeroscope, with system updates coming directly from DJI in China. Unexpectedly that 🇨🇳 system was down for a full 19h from the evening of September 22nd, which is why the airport had to be closed.

Achievement unlocked. 0/100 at lecture. f(End of semester, no exam), I guess. #valueUniEd.

Guess which idiot is now seeking this induction pack under FOI?

It's mid-October & ARC haven't updated us since mid-July on the Brand New Grants System. When will we be told? What schemes will even run? ARC "paused" (cancelled?) the only Indigenous scheme, plus Laureates & all Industry Fellowships, and so far there's no replacements. ARC? Anyone?

Visiting an alpine ice cave - the mass of ice just a few years ago was level with the top of the spiral staircase. Will be gone altogether soon, even though the oldest layers are dated approx. 3000 years BP

Well done Shafaq Aftab. When a reviewer stole her work and published it under his own name, she fought for a YEAR to get the journal to retract the paper. Just wondering why it took Wiley a YEAR to do this. 🧪 #academicsky retractionwatch.com/2025/10/03/w...

I suspect one reason they hide their identities is to conceal past restraining orders and DV arrests.

📌 bsky.app/profile/mark...

Are we great yet? Mark Bray, a Rutgers University professor and expert on anti-fascist groups, is fleeing to Spain with his family due to death threats that stem from a campaign by Turning Point USA and other conservative groups to get him fired, falsely labeling him as an antifa member.

Oh look, vaccines work.

www.nobelprize.org/prizes/chemi... #unimelb #Robson congratulations!

Ahead of tomorrow’s #NobelPrize announcement, I went on a deep dive in search of the most obscure physics Nobel Prizes in history. That means it's time for a thread on...🧵 PHYSICS NOBEL PRIZES YOU’VE NEVER HEARD OF – PART 1 (1/n)

Happy to announce that I'll give a talk on how we can make rigorous causal inference more mainstream 📈 You can sign up for the Zoom link here: tinyurl.com/CIIG-JuliaRo...