Monster typhoon in the Philippines..

The next EU budget under pressure. And this piece does not mention anything about science funding. To my understanding that is also undergoing fairly large changes, but does not create heated debate like regional subsidies and agriculture.... www.politico.eu/article/parl...

Erittäin hyvä juttu SoTe:sta. Tämä on juuri näin. Meidän hyväosaisten työssäkäyvien on tingittävä saavutetuista eduista. Kyllä pystytään, kun sillä varmistetaan että (ainakaan tämä) systeemi ei romahda. yle.fi/a/74-20190934

Excellent article about AI boom and bust. www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...

Good that EU got some agreement, bad that it is way too unambitious.

"His signal achievements, and the way he accomplished them, inflated his belief not only in his genius but also in how to succeed" This is (IMO) a prevalent and harmful feature of the way academia and funding systems work. www.statnews.com/2025/11/07/j...

Life is really strange and wonderful. www.scientificamerican.com/article/worl...

Ajankuvaa on se että Itäkeskukseen Stockmannin tilalle tulee Budget Sport, ja Kaisaniemeen Rosebud-kirjakaupan tilalle Rusta. Laatu ja kulttuuri ei myy, halpa ja bulkki myy (katsokaa vaikka sitä miten paljon Temu:sta juuri Suomeen tilataan). Samaan aikaan pitäisi tehdä kestävyyssiirtymää.

Ummm... not good development for AI.

Today Nov 6 is International Day for Preventing the Exploitation of the Environment in War and Armed Conflict. Given the environmental impacts of recent conflicts in Gaza and Ukraine, we clearly need to do better. joint-research-centre.ec.europa.eu/jrc-news-and...

Kenellä oikeasti tulee mieleen, että Suomen kaikki vaalidata on juuri nyt hyvä siirtää Bezosin palvelimille? Ei tätä voi edes keksiä. #yhteiskunta

NASA is under threat if this happens. www.politico.com/news/2025/11...

Media divide is so visible on this issue in the USA. www.ndtv.com/world-news/z...

Bleak. www.reuters.com/sustainabili...

This is very good piece.

Trump administration is making another behind-closed-doors attempt to gut environmental protections in the Northwest Forest Plan that covers most of the country's remaining old-growth forests. 🌏 www.opb.org/article/2025...

Defined by #rivers - Cambriae Typus 1606 by Humphrey Llwyd - 1st printed map to show #Wales as a country #dyddllunymap #mapmonday #geography #envhist #cartography #placenames #language

Forrest Smith, the only National Park Service engineer cleaning up abandoned oil and gas wells, lost his contract, leaving 93 orphaned wells on park lands unmanaged. These leaking wells release methane and toxins, threatening human health and the environment.

The power of visualisation.

Go to the autumn (1880) by Ivan Shishkin

ping @terevaden.net @bios.fi @ezhakala.bsky.social @helmiraisanen.bsky.social @ahokasjaj.bsky.social and others..

Oh dear....

What is going on? Why create fake ship signals right now?

Very interesting!

This is concerning. www.theguardian.com/education/20...

Really good discussion piece by @drshepherd2013.bsky.social al in Forbes about hurricane Melissa and about future of category 6 hurricanes. www.forbes.com/sites/marsha...

Global Risk report is again out. www.axa.com/en/news/futu... The top ten are not surprise, but still we should take these seriously. Note that this is not a scientific report, but based on annual survey 1/4

Muhammad Ali

ping @terevaden.net @bios.fi @ahokasjaj.bsky.social

Not so far apart. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

This is not sustainable. academic.oup.com/bioscience/a...

Still the best estimate with current track is +2.7C, which is really too much, and even +3C is not outside the margin. We are recklessly uncaring about the future. Situation is geeting worse, not better 1/3

Important study, quite technical and hard to follow without expertise, but here is really nice explainer thread.

Supply lines in (dis)connected world...

You restore a river, the fish will return.

This might be my favorite JWST image from the nearby Universe so far. You’re seeing the late stages of evolution of a star like the Sun, after it’s exhausted its nuclear fuel. This is a transient phase where it’s ejected its outer gas layers, which are then irradiated by the hot stellar remnant.

Knife-edge elections in the Netherlands. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...

"The cognitive mechanisms that are triggered in people as a result of the effects of climate change share fundamental similarities with aggression in other settings. ...Both of these situations demonstrate what is known in psychology as “hostile attribution bias” 1/3

Wow. Just wow.

What is this...

Climate change, poverty, disease, biodiversity loss, breakdown of democracy, overuse of natural resources... They all are connected, they are wicked problems that are nigh-impossible to solve with "silver-bullet solutions". They need all to be tackled at the same time. Hard, but we must try 1/2

Climate change charged monster storms are here. Melissa is just the first.

Yesterday's livestream focused primarily on the dynamics, context, and likely devastating impacts of Category 5 Hurricane Melissa--which just made landfall in Jamaica as one of the strongest Atlantic storms ever observed--was recorded and is available now at the same link below.

Oh dear. Monster of a storm, has even strengthened in the last hours before landfall. Horrible.

Monster is making a landfall...

"The truth is that we have failed to avoid an overshooting above 1.5C in the next few years. And that going above 1.5C has devastating consequences. Some of these devastating consequences are tipping points, be it in the Amazon, be it in Greenland, or western Antarctica or the coral reefs."

Excellent thread about the internet as a whole as we understand it nowadays...

This is very bad news... committed 3m sea level rise will change the face of the earth (from human perspective), as most of the largest cities are well below that level...

Uh-oh....

"The internet may have become an irreplaceable linchpin of modern life, but it is also a web of creaking legacy programs and physical infrastructure, leading some to wonder what it would take to bring it all down." www.theguardian.com/technology/2...