Rob Marchant, Laura Pereira, Unai Pascual, and Thomas Hickler will use their ERC Synergy Grant to understand how nature and societies interact in and beyond mountain socioecological systems ⛰️ @rob-marchant.bsky.social @laurap18.bsky.social @upascual.bsky.social 👉 buff.ly/ZQhLp4h #ERCSyG

Israeli forces carry out air attacks in southern and eastern Lebanon in violation of US-brokered ceasefire.

Clam shells sound warning of Atlantic ‘tipping point'. New research from @exeter.ac.uk using centuries-old clam shells has found signs that key Atlantic Ocean currents may be losing stability. Full paper: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... 🦑🐟🧪🌐🌍🌊 #AcademicSky @uniofexeternews.bsky.social

‼️New paper out led by Anita Lazurko as part of #Bionext project 🐺 Excited to share #NFF visions for Europe exploring #transformativechange at the #nexus Read 👇🏽 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... @sthlmresilience.bsky.social @futureecoafrica.bsky.social

🎥 #TCESG25 in 3 Minutes In August, we gathered in Johannesburg to reimagine how transformation happens. Imagination. Inquiry. Expression. Community. Nothing captures the energy like this film 👇 ▶️ www.youtube.com/watch?v=QA8I... More from the gathering: 🌍 transformationscommunity.org/tc-esg-2025-...

And this is why we should keep doing this work: bsky.app/profile/koja...

‼️Our new Nature Sust paper from @futureecoafrica.bsky.social @sallyarchibald.bsky.social @odirilwes.bsky.social 🦥Just ahead of #SBSTTA-27 & #COP30 🐘6 Principles for getting Natural Climate Solution right in #Africa 🎣 Link👇🏽 www.nature.com/articles/s41... @sthlmresilience.bsky.social

💡Ideas sparked at #TCESG25 are ready to grow! Special issues are open in Global Sustainability, Earth Stewardship, COSUST & Earth System Governance 📚Now’s the time to build on the ideas & connections that took shape during the conference! 🌱Explore more transformationscommunity.org/tc-esg25-pub...

COUNTRY ANALYSIS: We have downgraded the #US climate action to "Critically insufficient" - it's the most aggressive, comprehensive and consequential climate policy rollback the CAT has ever analysed. 🔗 bit.ly/CAT_US

🦭🌊🦑Our EU Project #INSPIRI to #inspire, #imagine, #test & #action aspirational visions for Europe’s waters is launched! thanks Jerneja and team for a wonderful kick off meeting. Looking forward to the next 3 years with this crew 💙🧜🏽‍♀️🐚🦈

🌍 What could a just, thriving future for people and nature look like? @laurap18.bsky.social explores why we need transformative scenarios—and how the Nature Futures Framework helps us imagine better paths forward. ✨🌱 Watch here. @ecioxford.bsky.social @oxfordgeography.bsky.social

Recommended read: In an interview with @lemonde.fr, the French economist Thomas Piketty argued that protecting the planet from climate change requires wealth redistribution.

@ecioxford.bsky.social @univofmaryland.bsky.social @sdclayton.bsky.social @kwatene.bsky.social @hannahritchie.bsky.social @peterfrankopan.bsky.social @jaspermontana.bsky.social @ymalhi.bsky.social @michael.muthukrishna.com @erleellis.bsky.social @laurap18.bsky.social @davidobura.bsky.social

✨Join us for A Night Under the Stars at #TCESG25 Enjoy a marimba band, traditional South African braai, & powerful art & storytelling experiences. Highlights include The Antidote, Our Ocean is Sacred VR & more 🗓 20 Aug |🕡 18:30 Arrival Seats are limited transformationscommunity.org/tcesg25-regi...

Israel has assassinated five more Al Jazeera journalists in Gaza, killing them in an airstrike Sunday targeting a media tent outside Al-Shifa Hospital. Among the dead is veteran correspondent Anas al-Sharif, who reported extensively from northern Gaza since October 2023.

A once in a lifetime opportunity to end plastic pollution for good. Sign this petition and let's get a Global Plastics Treaty in place! act.gp/3HrhdRu

Motherfucking wind farms…

🌎🌿Take action now—submit your session or workshop proposal to shape the 4th World Biodiversity Forum, WBF2026, next June at the ☀️Davos conference center in Switzerland! 🇨🇭 shorturl.at/YeHuz #Biodiversity #WBF2026

According to scientists, practical experience of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES) would be instructive for the establishment of the IPP. 2/4 @thelancet.com

OUT NOW: The laid-out version of the FULL @ipbes.net #TransformativeChange Report 💥 Explore how fundamental change can halt biodiversity loss and secure just and sustainable futures for all. 🌏🧪 Access the full report in English⬇️ https://www.ipbes.net/transformative-change-assessment

In a landmark case brought by the sinking Pacific island nation of Vanuatu, the ICJ’s 15 judges decided unanimously that governments have a legal duty to protect the climate

ICJ Advisory Opinion: World’s Top Court Lays Out Historic Protections For Climate-Impacted Nations in Landmark Ruling earth.org/icj-advisory...

✨ Learn about eco-friendly solutions & climate action. Read more about the project: hanneliecoetzee.com/portfolios/2... #EcoArt #Sustainability #ClimateAction #CommunityChange @laurap18.bsky.social @esgproject.bsky.social

COMMENTARY: How to leverage trade to achieve a 2050 ocean dream. By @drrashidsumaila.bsky.social . www.nature.com/articles/s44... in @npjOceanSustain

‘Where cure is not an option, prevention must be the priority’ Prof Karen Morrow #TippingPoints #PrincipleofPrevention with procedural obligations and restraint requirements 🔥

Great presentation from Andy Stirling (SPRU) at #Metascience2025 highlighting how engagement with policymakers is as much about 'justification' as 'truth'. We must seek to embrace uncertainty and not hide complexity in academic labour, understanding that dissensus is a powerful bulwark to democracy.

IPBES task force on models and scenarios NFF explained Nature Futures Framework @laurap18.bsky.social + doi.org/10.1016/B978... "This chapter examines the NFF and its potential to guide transformative policy solutions rooted in diverse and locally held values of nature."

📢 Just out in @nature.com: Oxford Uni, UNDP‬ & others propose a 'Nature Relationship Index', a bold new metric to track how well people & nature thrive together. A hopeful framework to reimagine progress beyond GDP. 🔗 www.nature.com/articles/s41586-025-09080-1 #NatureRecovery @ox.ac.uk @undp.org

It’s so exhausting dedicating your career to try to save the planet from existential threats and then some orange man starts firing missiles everywhere

How can we create just & sustainable futures for people & nature? 🌍✨ 🧪 The @ipbes.net #TransformativeChange Assessment explores the deep shifts needed to tackle biodiversity loss. youtu.be/H9B4oO9CJAc

Provisional agreement aimed at ending fighting in eastern DRC expected to be formally signed on June 27.

Super excited to see all the data @jasonhickel.bsky.social and team have on #GlobalInequality Very useful for @earthcommision.bsky.social pathways! Check it out here: globalinequality.org

New paper co-authored by FEFA co-PI @laurap18.bsky.social shows how Black, Indigenous, and Women of Colour in the Amazon are imagining more equitable futures through storytelling. Decolonial praxis emerges as vital for reimagining sustainability transformations. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

I do love it when reviewer 2 asks me to cite myself 🤓

🦈Last day of #UNOC3 and we have the closing panel from the scientists on #research, #policy and #action for #SDG14 🐚 ‘Knowledge without power sharing is not enough’ Jasmine Nyagah 💙 @sciencecouncil.bsky.social

East Africa’s marine heart is coming back to life thanks to this new UN World Restoration Flagship. Congratulations to The Comoros, Madagascar, Mozambique and Tanzania for their efforts to revive 4.85 million hectares, while uplifting their communities: www.decadeonrestoration.org/restoring-no...

Why are #ocean solutions stalling? Jean-Pierre Gattuso and Laura Pereira call for a shift in how #science and policy function - starting with breaking silos across disciplines and governance frameworks: council.science/blog/rethink... #UNOC3 @jpgattuso.bsky.social @laurap18.bsky.social

🌊The transformative potential of the ocean sciences and the Ocean Decade depends on reinforcing inclusion as a shared responsibility—across institutions, funding streams, and scientific agendas. 💙 Leave no one behind… Read more 👇🏽 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Great opening remarks by Essam Mohammed, DG of @worldfish.bsky.social refers to policymakers asking ‘Is it really worth it?’ In context of smallscale fishers? Yes! And we are helping provide the data to make this sector less invisible @solvingfcb.org #UNOC3

Our @solvingfcb.org PI William chairing this #OOSC keynote panel of incl the wonderful Yunne Shin and Christina Hicks talking all things fish, fisheries and food 🐟 🎣 🍱 💙

Spent a wonderful day yesterday with TBA21 and Radical Ocean Futures showcasing their three science fiction short films showcasing ocean #futures and backcasting policy implications for today. We followed this with a public engagement @sthlmresilience.bsky.social @futureecoafrica.bsky.social

Yes! Come and join us 💙🧜🏾🐋

💪🏾 A superhuman effort led by @friedrichbohn.bsky.social with @anabastos.bsky.social Anja, Niak, Romina, Giles et al to get this first 2024-2025 Perspective on 🪼 Biosphere research 🐸 ‪@c-pob.bsky.social‬ 🦋 👇🏽 Our 8 key findings bg.copernicus.org/articles/22/... & www.c-pob.org

Gaza, police violence and the fight for the future: @ahendriks.bsky.social, Jeroen Oomen and myself discuss how our University's inaction and its oppression of students harm collective futures www.uu.nl/en/opinion/g...

staging a show-and-tell about a fake genocide during a real genocide to the government that has done the most to seek justice for that real genocide is designed to break our brains. They know what they are doing. www.cnn.com/2025/05/21/w...

It's official: the #PandemicAccord is officially adopted by the World Health Assembly! My warmest congratulations to @who.int Member States for their commitment to keeping their people and the world safer. What a moment in global health history. Together!

Best time with the best team! Our #BlueAfrica synthesis team met in 🌊 Cape Town this week under @ascend-uct.bsky.social to discuss all things African #BlueCarbon 🐚 Biodiversity 🦦 and People 🧜🏾 Looking forward to working with this crew in the next 2 years @odirilwes.bsky.social @kimzoeller.bsky.social

Just touched down in Cape Town for the first of our #BlueAfrica synthesis workshops with @ascend-uct.bsky.social 🧜🏾 Super excited to meet the team and start grappling with Africa’s blue carbon data in the lead up to #COP30 with @futureecoafrica.bsky.social & Conservation International roadmap 💙

I think a lot about what Carl Sagan said in one of his final interviews.

💥Paper ‼️ @silvanajuri.bsky.social led this review of #FuturesThinking in the context of #sustainabilitytransformations 🦋 for those interested in #TransformativeChange #Sustainability in the context of #biodiversity #ocean #climate #equity #inclusion and #justice 🦈 👇🏽 lnkd.in/dQtM_rNm