Lent is here so have a little listen to this fantastic season of The British Food History pod!

I'm oddly halfway there so ... this was fun to hear! 😄 Interesting thoughts. @Alisekirtley youtu.be/A7d2o0uesqs?...

Something a little more light hearted for you today. youtube.com/shorts/QcvOw...

about this time every night, I get hit by a wave of sadness about resigning from Monkey Cage, having worked so hard to make it what it was. The viciousness in the world was victorious this time , but I hope to work on my phoenix wings, or at least have my ashes spread on the strawberry patch.

Mic-drop moment that deserves a revolution behind it. My apologies for sharing from Shambook. youtube.com/shorts/7eQIU...

"I them jobs:" a thought on wealth creation. I gave you a job. He said. A job is not an asset, it's a liability. A job completed becomes an asset. Where wealth is created. A hole in the roof is a liability, a job. A fixed roof is an asset. Who is the wealth creator, asset owner or roofer?

The EU-Mercosur trade deal will be a disaster for rainforests and other natural ecosystems in South America, as well as the climate. Every environmentalist should be fighting this. share.google/FkOsGQPzuMDO...

Fantastic conversation with SUCH a fascinating scientist. youtu.be/7nOFnOYfj8k?...

The rainforest the world forgot. The Congo basin is the second largest rainforest on Earth, and a critical defence against climate breakdown and species loss. Why then, is it so neglected? share.google/HrPOEJxfATQX...

Huge potential even if I'll never live to see it, it's what the people of the future deserve, so so much better that the hangover of the recent past. youtu.be/MuTV1SiYeu4?...

We're told one of these land uses is 'productive', while the other is not. But in terms of photosynthetic levels, as well as the production of clean air, water, no flooding, a stable climate, etc, etc, the natural ecosystem wins hands down. As for biodiversity, let's not even go there.

a BOLD CLAIM! Fascinating conversation. Halfway through, my brain is still spinning round the idea that life, (or code,) that copy's itself, is more stable. So evolution of complex life, may be said to obey the second law of thermodynamics. What do you think? youtu.be/rMSEqJ_4EBk?...

good morning everyone! Splash your face with some refreshing culture and see how it feels 😉❤️ www.instagram.com/reel/DQClhD-...

What a brilliant lady and inspiring to see not just talk of how terrible everything is, but genuine pushback 💪🏽👏🏽 youtu.be/Ohwaf1N94sM?...

This was very accessible and REALLY interesting from a historical perspective. youtu.be/8yB1008CLis?...

How old is the old Holloway from the straights of Dover, past Stonehenge, to seaton? Why Seaton? Unless that route led to a now submerged land route, to seal hunting as the sea ice wasn't far off the NW coast of Ireland? 🏺 I suspect the route, is older than Britain being an island.

Sign the petition if you want to continue living in a democracy without corporate free zones stealing your money, your land, your homes, and your human rights. petition.parliament.uk/petitions/72...

There is a key moral distinction between immigration policy on new arrivals, no matter how draconian, and on people who have already been granted status, on set conditions. It is about being a country that keeps its word. If we're not that, we might as well fucking give up now.

“Harvard geneticist David Reich said … increasingly sophisticated analysis of genetic material made possible by technological advances shows that virtually everyone came from somewhere else, and everyone’s genetic background shows a mix from different waves of migration that washed over the globe.”

New argument against AI regulation just dropped. Checkmate, atheists. www.wsj.com/tech/peter-t...

Million-Year-Old Skull Pushes Back Homo Sapiens Origins By 400,000 Years www.iflscience.com/million-year...

Join Dr. Mark Plotkin today, as we uncover how the spice trade fueled exploration, commerce, medicine, and culture and review Roger Crowley's new book Spice: The 16th-Century Contest that Shaped the Modern World.

A laymen discussion on what has changed, and what we may be able to do. youtu.be/sZDh8JvUG1Q?...

These are the 2 apes I was privileged to speak with. The orangutan, Chantek, spoke ASL w/ the help of Dr. Lynn Miles. Kanzi, the bonobo, spoke w/ a lexigram board w/ the help of Dr. Sue Savage-Rumbaugh. It was the privilege of my life to meet these two amazing beings. RIP Chantek & Kanzi. 🦍🦧❤️💔😢

Fire your imagination with this amazing picture painting of ancient, ancient Australia 🦘🐊...🦖! Thank you for this ❤️ @stefanmilo.bsky.social 🏺 youtu.be/raAKdLmKQho?...

I wrote this back in March but I think it's important now more than ever to understand competitive authoritarianism--and the concrete steps that can be used to fight back against it. It's going to be difficult, but it's not a lost cause--and the fight is worth it. I explain the best strategies here:

Crossing climate tipping points, such as ice sheet loss and AMOC collapse, becomes possible beyond 1.5°C To prevent this, emissions cuts need to speed up Could +ve tipping points, shifts to zero-emissions technology and behaviour, foster self-sustaining change? theconversation.com/how-to-help-...

Pleistocene music

If you're in Birmingham for @rgsibg.bsky.social, come say hello! 😄 I'm giving a talk titled "Illustrating Wonder: Communicating Glaciology Through Comics and Visual Storytelling" featuring work from my recent trip to @tarfalaresstation.bsky.social. ⭐️ @geolassoc.bsky.social

Our upcoming exhibition, 'Through Ice & Fire', opens on 12 September at the Polar Museum. A fusion of contemporary art and cutting-edge Antarctic research, the exhibition connects geology and our industrial past with the science of glaciers, ice sheets and the climate. @geologicaljo.bsky.social

No surprise, the genetics, but I was hugely surprised the word had SUCH ancient roots, Palestine. youtube.com/shorts/BkNdx...

For context: a Gt of water is a billion metric tons, or one cubic kilometre. So with a little rough maths, 5000km³ of water, would cover the area of Texas in waters 7.1 meters deep

This is my friend Cordelia. I met her not long ago but heavens, she is SO good. Highly highly highly recommend you give her a follow if your high functioning, but feeling the strain of it all. www.instagram.com/p/DNRBdwkohu...

Good morning! Here are your 3 minutes of peace & calm. #OceanDevotion

She speaks truth which is absolutely needed. youtube.com/watch?v=UXIT...

The most astonishing thing you will see for months. I'm extremely confident about that. @brianklaas.bsky.social @brianmoore666.bsky.social youtu.be/4NJko3CIMl4?...

We are about to superpower environmental ignorance without the correct weighting.

AI will be extremely useful in finding resources to extract, massively, however, ... People in modern society don't know (weighted interest) the impact. AI is not going to weigh what modern society is not in touch with. An enormous problem, as billionaires in competition dictate the trajectory.

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The argument that urban heat islands are biasing temperature records continually comes up. There is a long history of papers showing it's effect minimal globally (and the world is 70% oceans with no urbanization). My colleague Robert has an updated analysis for global land:

Someone make a film of a war in 40 years time where different people,AIs and AGIs are struggling between us to determine who gets rights. Final plot twist the hero/heroine sacrifices all for what turns out to be just a clever LLM lying!🙃 (LOTS for me to look up in this.) youtu.be/axuGfh4UR9Q?...

Despite damning evidence the govt clinging on to private ownership of water in England; people fleeced for 36 years. Prospect is sewage dumping, health hazards, lack of investment, higher domestic/business costs, tax dodges, asset-stripping. Public ownership is the only way out.

24/7 Self-driving taxis Waymo has overtaken Lyft in San Francisco. It took six months. Thing is not just that AI will replace whole industries, and won't be regulated. It's AGI is being postulated, and we don't even have economic regulators who understand basic economics! youtu.be/BLfV4sidcJM?...

Every year, my church does a 4 day walking pilgrimage from Trafalgar Square to Canterbury Cathedral. I'm only walking one day of it this time, but I am raising money to help the homeless in London, in aid of The Connection, St Martin's homelessness charity. www.justgiving.com/page/captain...

"Hannah joined by Murray Shanahan, Prof' of Cognitive Robotics at Imperial College London and Principal Scientist at Google DeepMind, for a philosophical deep dive on AI. Everything from consciousness and metacognition in animals, to symbolic AI and neural networks." youtu.be/v1Py_hWcmkU?...

Food box delivery at 2am is annoying. Still, now I'm off down a rabbit hole and it's FASCINATING!!! Someone will be tired at 6am🫣 "Don't believe the AI hype, this is where it is going. Oxfords Michael Wooldritch." #AI #philosophy youtube.com/watch?v=Zf-T...

In 2017 I wrote about Charlie - an AI that works for you. @inrupt.bsky.social labs now has Charlie working. Thanks to the FT for my op-ed online today ⬇️ www.ft.com/content/79d2...

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I hugely admire this practice. It seems I may be about to get hands-on myself with one, potentially six acres of land here in the Sussex Weald. The growing conditions are quite different here- geology, rain etc but got to start somewhere. youtu.be/5aALAiYFLJw?...