1/ A longtime Wired editor just wrote a mush-brained essay about how he totally missed the political rot of Silicon Valley (& still doesn't get it). But in the late 1990s, a Wired journalist warned of a toxic ideology bubbling up from tech. Paulina Borsook has largely been erased. Let's change that

🚨New article🚨 Why has the promise of universal ownership been broken, as @benbraun.bsky.social has suggested? Our argument: because the Big Three are hardly universal. They mainly invest in those that can insulate themselves from environmental harm - big tech & financials in the Global North. 🧵

#HPS program at the University of Copenhagen invites applications for Postdoc in History and Philosophy of Science as part of research project Human Variables in Biodiversity Assessment (PI: Joeri Witteveen): employment.ku.dk/faculty/?sho... #philsky #PhilJobs #philsci Deadline is November 7, 2025.

I am a new Expert Voices columnist @science.org and my first article just came out! In it, I argue that scaling technology has a dark side, particularly when it comes to alleviating inequality and injustice. And I suggest what scientists, engineers, and policymakers can do about it.

Registration for experts interested in serving as Expert Reviewers and providing scientific comments on the First Order Draft of the Special Report on Climate Change and Cities is now open! Register here: apps.ipcc.ch/comments/src... ⚠️ Registration closes 30 Nov2025 🔗 www.ipcc.ch/2025/09/17/p...

This question yielded a fascinating thread (I suspect it’d spark the interest of @alexandreviolle.bsky.social , @bard.lahn.no and @ueberdruss.bsky.social)

ANTI-ANTIFA = FA

Question for Energy/Climate folks: I'm looking to understand the pipeline from energy cost projections (e.g. IEA WEO estimates) to IAM models to IPCC reports. Am I right to think that the IAMs get estimates from WEO and then IAM outputs shape the reports? Any explanatory cites would be appreciated!

Hot off the press: We can provide for the first time a systematic attribution of recent #heatwaves to the emissions of #carbon_majors. Essential new #Nature article coordinated by @yannquilcaille.bsky.social at @ethz.ch, with numerous contributors @usyseth.bsky.social: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

seems about time to remember all the marvelous anti-war and anti-recruitment songs, so here is my open-ended playlist. add and enjoy!

🗓️ Abstract deadline: 01 October 2025 Manuscript deadline: 01 January 2026 #STS #energy #transitions #cocreation #cfp @sciasculture.bsky.social

Our paper is out today in @nature.com where we assess a Prudent Planetary Limit for Geologic Carbon Storage: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

By the end of the century, some scenarios already breach our proposed prudent limit of geologic carbon storage When we extrapolate scenarios beyond 2100, we find almost all would breach this limit by 2200 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

NEW STUDY: How much CO2 can we safely store in geological formations? In a new @nature.com study, we cross-check established academic and industry estimates with various risk factors. We find a prudent geological CO2 storage limit that is about 10x smaller. /1

We’re running out of backstops.

1/5 En fait, c'est un peu plus compliqué que ça : historiquement, les scénarios du Groupe 3 ont d'abord été développés pour le Groupe 1, qui avait besoin de projection des émissions de GES. Aujourd'hui, Groupes 1 et 3 collaborent étroitement, notamment sur la définition de la neutralité carbone.

Type 3 bands you like, and this site will recommend others you might like too. The neat detail: the site started out completely empty, so its recommendations all come from the triplets we have entered. www.gnoosic.com

Very happy to receive the TESG Best Paper Award for my research on Chinese green finance investment in Thailand! It explores how Cold War infrastructures are being converted into green assets functioning as an eco-temporal fix—helping the military junta navigate political instability.

Souligner cette tension et documenter les contradictions et limites des sciences de l'atténuation n'en est pas moins nécessaire, mais à mon avis 1) pour comprendre le Groupe III du GIEC ajdh, il faut comprendre que son mandat est de résoudre une équation insoluble avec les coordonnées actuelles

Dans quel monde c’est une conclusion-choc, je ne sais pas, Hélène Guillemot a documenté il y a près de 10 ans l’incrédulité des scientifiques du climat face à l’objectif de 1.5C. Le problème c’est que tout inatteignable que ce soit, on n’a guère d’autre choix que de l’atteindre. shorturl.at/cOn7w

L'asso Expertise climat fait un super travail pour que les médias s'appuient sur le travail des scientifiques et pas sur de pseudo-experts autoproclamés, pour traiter des questions de climat et de biodiversité. Ils ont besoin de vos dons pour un nouveau projet : www.helloasso.com/associations...

Rossiter coined the term "Matilda effect" for when women's scientific work is attributed to men. It was a twist on the "Matthew effect," famously attributed to Robert Merton, but actually studied jointly by Merton and his wife Harriet Zuckerman, who was denied co-authorship

Entendez-vous l'Eco, présenté par Aliette Hovine, change de format. L'émission devient hebdo avec 1 partie consacrée à l'actualité et l'autre plus centrée sur l'éclairage que nous apporte l'histoire de l'éco Pour la rentrée, nous avons essayé, nous avons essayé... www.radiofrance.fr/francecultur...

Dagupta & Heal (1979), “Economic theory and exhaustible resources”.

Call for Nominations – Verena Winiwarter Prize for the best article contributing to global environmental history International Consortium of Environmental History Organizations - @iceho.bsky.social Deadline – 15 August 2026 niche-canada.org/2025/08/26/c... #envhist #globalhistory

knitters rejoice!

Mind-boggling. This is not democracy. The "fossil fuel sector [is] primary force behind..$954-million (2024 USD) lobbying campaign [on] (CCUS etc.).. comprised at least 54,243 contacts of high-ranking government officials..w/ significant legislative results." www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

What, AI can massively remove carbon dioxide from the atmosphere now? 🙃 🤪 (content sponsored by Microsoft)

With great joy—and a touch of nervousness—I’m thrilled to share that my first academic monograph will be published by @mitpress.bsky.social in May 2026! It examines the organism–environment relationship in biology from an integrated #HPS perspective: mitpress.mit.edu/978026205282... #evosky #philsky

excited to share the call for the workshop EXTRACTIVE NATURES / NATURES OF EXTRACTION happening at @uobrisceh.bsky.social on 6-7 Nov 2025, 
made possible by the @britishacademy.bsky.social deadline: 10 September! full call below ⤵ #envhist #envhum

Paul Tobin, @stacydvandeveer.bsky.social and I are delighted to announce our new, open access, edited book ‘Stability and politicization in climate governance’. bit.ly/45Gb6RM. It is packed full of fantastic chapters about different aspects of climate politics. Here’s a short thread. 1/

From the replies (bsky.app/profile/dasb...) here's Sam Altman doing what the quoted post described. He seems serious about it.

Please do repost this message to reach more people, for an ongoing project. I hope to speak to/hear from #climate and #democracy #researchers who are willing to discuss/reflect on how they navigate their research topics in times of climate breakdown and democratic #backsliding. Please reach out!

Mitigation scenarios assessed in IPCC reports all have positive, and quite decent, economic growth. This figure is from the IPCC AR5, but will look similar in AR6 (what about AR7?). @beatricecointe.bsky.social & Antonin Pottier discuss why this is@ journals.openedition.org/regulation/2...

Finally managed to turn this into a real blog post: Whatever happened to the Bielefeld School of STS? Where did Karin Knorr Cetina come from? Why did she go to Bielefeld of all places? And where did Bielefeld disappear to? wondrousmachine.substack.com/p/whatever-h...

To concur, I think LLMs in their current design & use are inherently flawed because they rely on a confusion of information with text. (& specifically with a specific type of text that mimics written human language) But information is very much not reducible to text.

Science studies folks! Dominik Huenniger and I are delighted to solicit contributions for the @hsnatsci.bsky.social "Essays and Reviews" section! Our Call for Proposals is in the image and I will also thread the text. tl;dr We are experimenting with some new formats and excited to hear your ideas!

"A living visual archive on cybernetics in the expanded field. Browse and contribute images of all kinds: diagrams, schematics, photos, graphic elements, and other visual fragments."

Michel Callon's foundational work in actor network theory has inspired generations of STS scholars. Callon was 4S president 1998–2000. He was awarded the Bernal Prize in 2002. We thank the Center for the Sociology of Innovation for sharing this in memorium: www.csi.minesparis.psl.eu/en/featured-...

The Center for the sociology of innovation learned with great sadness that Michel Callon has passed away. A graduate of the École des Mines, Michel joined the center in the late 1960s and was its director from 1982 to 1994.

Dude has some magic beans for you. “the energy required is going to be a lot for AI systems, but the amount we’re going to get back, even just narrowly for climate [solutions] from these models, it’s going to far outweigh the energy costs.” Here's the thing./1 www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

The rumours are true, we are indeed putting on another Science, Technology, & Human Values STS School! 22-25 June 2026 in Seoul, Korea - hosted by Seoul National University + KAIST, w/ support from the Korean Association of STS (KASTS) + AusSTS. See www.sthvschool.org Applications close 10 Dec 2025

In a new piece for @granthamicl.bsky.social, @frediotto.bsky.social and I unpack the significance of the ICJ’s landmark advisory opinion. We reflect on how it reshapes the legal framing of climate action and what it means for states’ obligations going forward.

What shapes fossil-fuel investment decisions? What are pension funds’ climate considerations? And how does the portfolio risk concept influence these issues? Excited to see my paper "The dark side of diversification: Passive finance and fossil-fuel investment" published in @finandsoc.bsky.social! 🧵

Three key takeaways: - Fossil fuel subsidies and licensing can now constitute internationally wrongful acts - The 1.5°C limit is no longer aspirational - it's a legal obligation - States cannot hide behind "concurrent causes" to avoid climate reparations 2/5

Communiqué de la SDJ de l'@afp.com : "Depuis que l'AFP a été fondée en août 1944, nous avons perdu des journalistes dans des conflits, nous avons eu des blessés et des prisonniers dans nos rangs, mais aucun de nous n’a le souvenir d'avoir vu un collaborateur mourir de faim." #Gaza

🧵Maybe meant as a joke, but creative types: this is a good idea! People smarter than me have pointed out how badly climate change needs narratives that shape imagination, but that it's HARD because standard narratives are structured around heroes fighting decisive battles that bring...

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Symposium on legal subjectivities in and through the anthropocene, Frankfurt, 27-28 November CfP deadline 31 August, more at soziologie.de/call-for-pap...