The speed at which AI is being embraced by higher education is quite extraordinary. We barely have principles, let along rules, as to how it could/should be used in education yet that isn't stopping some universities going all in.

ChatGPT “Edu” is the same chat model, with some greater leeway on message limits and a promise not to use the prompt data for training. It’s not meaningfully designed for education in any sense. This is just marketing for an existing general purpose product in a potentially lucrative sector.

The International Energy Agency's new report "makes it abundantly clear that fossil fuels are already on their way out and their demise would be greatly accelerated if we simply stopped funding their extraction." Better use of capital (elsewhere) is the key, the article explains.

Salary sacrifice is making electric cars and bicycles more affordable by allowing employees to pay for them in monthly instalments from their pre-tax salary. Could it be used for home heat pumps and solar panels too? Thom Groot, CEO at The Electric Car Scheme, says yes ⤵️

Great article and particularly liked the stocks/systems aspect 🙏... no nothing is also the mantra of Terry Smith (investor)...certainly works for him! - although not always in a sustainable manner 😒

What if I told you that a key part of the solution to the climate crisis is to do nothing? A key part, not the entire solution of course. But doing nothing is the vital element of a strategy that would massively accelerate sustainability transitions. www.technosphere.earth/fossil-fuels...

My latest for Technosphere Earth. www.technosphere.earth/fossil-fuels...

1. Just so we’re clear, this is the clip that got Jimmy Kimmel’s show shelved by ABC. If I’m missing any other clips please let me know.

I absolutely 😍😍😍 videos like this (disclaimer I 😍6 hour videos of train journeys). But this really is inspirational stuff. The future is two-wheeled!

I am shamelessly proud of “From farm to fork in the road”. If you would like me to give that talk or one of the others listed below then let me know. I don't seek any payment/expenses from charities, schools, community groups etc... www.jamesgdyke.info/talks/

Yep. www.denver7.com/politics/the...

I'm mad as hell, and I'm not going to take it anymore. So I wrote a blog about ten things you can do *right now* to help defeat Farage, Musk, and rightwing populism. From scrutinising Reform councillors to demanding the UK Govt leave X - get involved: guyshrubsole.substack.com/p/ten-things...

Watch Brian Eno's Together For Palestine benefit w/ Damon Albarn, Portishead, Sampha, Jamie xx, Neneh Cherry, Paul Weller & more www.brooklynvegan.com/watch-brian-...

For fans of Generation Kill, I would suggest it is impossible to read that sentence without hearing it in Sergeant Major John Sixta's accent.

"Nearly 90% of annual upstream oil and gas investment since 2019 has been dedicated to offsetting production declines rather than to meet demand growth." The age of fossil fuels is ending. Our job is to accelerate its demise. New @iea.org report: iea.blob.core.windows.net/assets/0edbe...

Defending the Earth is deadly work. A new report illuminates how much. #Climate

"while #climate action was, at best, part of the ‘3rd mission’ of the financialized university, it could be seen as the ‘1st mission’ of the climate justice university" - @martinsokol.bsky.social & @jenniecstephens.bsky.social link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Human-made global heating caused two in every three heat deaths in Europe during this year’s scorching summer, an early analysis of mortality in 854 big cities has found I think the UK is higher up this chart than most people would expect www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Fans of “The Twilight Zone” remember Robert Redford’s breakout role in the episode “Nothing in the Dark” (1962) — in which he plays an elderly woman’s .. special guest. “I don't prefer to look back at my earliest efforts,” he once said, “but I have to admit I'm proud of that one."

Now he is very openly promising to crush civil liberties in order to "save civilization." This is naked fascist talk

"Israel has committed genocide in the Gaza Strip, UN Commission finds" The UN joins other experts including the International Association of Genocide Scholars, Holocaust historians, and multitudes of lawyers in concluding this is genocide. www.ohchr.org/en/press-rel...

Heh yes. Pretty much this. www.technosphere.earth/new-report-c...

I've written to Keir Starmer, Kemi Badenoch and Nigel Farage, urging them to join me in condemning Elon Musk's dangerous remarks inciting violence yesterday. As leaders, we must stand together and make clear Musk will face serious consequences for these actions.

"I was one of the first Labour MPs to leave Twitter back last summer...That was a basic defensive move to protect against a website which has become a highly-partial cesspit of misinformation and algorithmically-charged hate." bylinetimes.com/2025/09/15/m...

Here's how to support my work: I'll be teaching a version of my Columbia class on Race, Media and International Affairs 101 and 102 next month for @resistanceschool.bsky.social. The course is online/ hybrid. Deadline is Sept. 19th! Sign up! www.resistancesummerschool.com/fall-2025-re...

Some personal news: I've been fired from the Washington Post in the aftermath of the Charlie Kirk shooting. Thread incoming. substack.com/@karenattiah...

It's not just that there are lots of racist extremists on X (there are) or attempts to 'interact' with them are doomed to failure (they are), it's that your participation on the platform further enriches the racist extremist Elon Musk and amplifies his agenda. Why cannot people understand that?

No matter what #Musk says or does, many on the left continue to post on and pay for X, a clear example of how progressive movements are beholden to the narrative that we don't have to change anything at all about our lives to achieve our political goals. I wrote about why that's bad in July ⬇️

Call for Papers, 2026 Cambridge Disinformation Summit Research on systemic risks from technology that affects information streams or the amplification or monetization of disinformation. www.linkedin.com/pulse/call-p...

It melts my head that X is still used for official Government communications, and, catching up on today's news and the fact we have a foreign billionaire inciting violence on our streets, it's clearer than ever that this should end. I raised this in Parliament last week 👇

Well there goes any chance that @racheldonald.bsky.social will be visiting the USA anytime soon. People are being fired for merely quoting Kirk's words. Can you image what ICE would make of this? There is absolutely no chance the reasoned & nuanced argument put forth here will be considered. 1/5

Vast ice sheets in the polar regions are collapsing as global warming increases - driven by increasing greenhouse gas emissions. Could geoengineering refreeze these areas? Alas, this is a fantasy, and perhaps a dangerous one. My latest for Technosphere Earth. www.technosphere.earth/new-report-c...

The reason the swings in the system are becoming so extreme is because of this (Piketty, saying out loud what everyone on all sides knows): archive.is/TRAjt

I’m a broken record on this, but — there are so many examples of famous people radicalised by midlife career/personal knockbacks. Ant Middleton was on yday’s march. He got done for tax offences and lost his TV work. Now he’s mates with Tommy Robinson.

"In the years to come, we will all be judged by how we behaved in this period, when the beast woke from its slumbers. Whether we stood up and were counted or hid in the shadows..." When he finds his voice @iandunt.bsky.social is not just excellent but inspirational. open.substack.com/pub/iandunt/...

After Paris, the IPCC justified the expansion of the fossil-fuel system by implicitly promising that we could "overshoot” 1.5C yet ultimately meet the target anyway. What does this mean? Read my deep dive into Andreas Malm & @wimcarton.bsky.social's *Overshoot* lareviewofbooks.org/article/the-...

reposting with alt text because this feels incredibly significant. the right-wing disinfo machine means a lot of the people grieving Charlie Kirk never heard any of the things he said that would have tarnished his brand as Guy Who Just Wants to Have Dialogue Across the Aisle

Why the USA is loosing. "what nation in its right mind would sign up to pin its energy future on the United States, suddenly the ultimate unreliable nation? Instead, with a one-time buy of a bunch of Chinese tech, you control your own energy future" billmckibben.substack.com/p/a-tale-of-...

Trump tells NATO members to buy US LNG before he makes empty promises to take bigger steps to isolate Russia. That may be the more perceptive headline.

Plans to refreeze the Arctic have a snowball's chance in hell of succeeding. Authoritative analyses that conclude "needs further research" isn't likely to change that. www.technosphere.earth/new-report-c...

Make no mistake, the global turn toward authoritarianism is heavily oil-funded. drilled.media/news/casey-m...

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Plans to refreeze the Arctic have a snowball's chance in hell of succeeding. Authoritative analyses that conclude "needs further research" isn't likely to change that. www.technosphere.earth/new-report-c...

“In a very literal sense it cannot imagine another response to the climate crisis. They truly do believe there are no alternatives, & so are resigned to lashing themselves to 1.5°C even as it disappears under the surface.” - @jamesgdyke.info www.technosphere.earth/its-the-end-...

In news that will be sure to rock the publishing world, I have moved from Substack to Ghost. Welcome to Technosphere Earth a place to talk about people and planet. Don't forget to like & subscribe! www.technosphere.earth/new-name-new...

🔥🌍 New research led by Prof. @soniaseneviratne.bsky.social at @ethz.ch, with lead author @yannquilcaille.bsky.social, shows how greenhouse gas emissions from major fossil fuel and cement producers have significantly intensified global heat waves. 👉 Full article: go.ethz.ch/2u

As the world rapidly heads into #climate #overshoot I've noticed a disturbing pattern in journal articles recently. I'll summarize it quickly in this thread 🧵

The age of warnings is over. The climate and nature crisis is already here, threatening our food, health and national security. On 27 Nov, top UK experts deliver the official briefing our leaders urgently need. Make sure your MP attends❗️ #TimeToStepUp www.nebriefing.org

Geoengineering is not going to save the poles from climate change — @newscientist.com

🧪🧵A carefully considered review of the most prominent polar geoengineering concepts by a large international group of polar science experts concludes that they are dangerous distractions. www.frontiersin.org/journals/sci... 1/2