John Donnison, BBC News, paraphrased Last week, doctors in what's left of al-Shifa hospital in Gaza City had to perform a Caesarian section on a nine-months-pregnant woman who'd had her head blown off. They managed to save the baby.

🚨 Oxfam and over 100+ humanitarian organizations, incl. @savethechildren.org, @amnesty.org, @msfincanada.bsky.social & @careintuk.bsky.social, sound the alarm: let aid into #Gaza. Read our joint statement👉 oxf.am/4o2lY4J

💡 Nouveau IOB Working Paper (2025.04) par Sara Geenen & @sarahgeokl.bsky.social: "Faire face aux risques: les risques et la précarité dans les mines artisanales et à petite échelle en #RDCongo" 🔗 Read more: medialibrary.uantwerpen.be/files/2137/0... #DRC #RDC #DRCongo #ArtisanalMining

Another year, another @uantwerpen.be university team in the Antwerp 10 Miles in April, which is sponsored by TWO (2) oil companies. I thought the university was supposed to be "climate neutral" by 2030 and "fossil free" by 2050 - but is fielding a team at a fossil fuel PR event in a climate crisis??

Montréal recule sur la piétonnisation de Sainte-Catherine Ouest et maintiendra pour l’instant la circulation automobile sur l’ensemble de la rue. Un comité de travail sera néanmoins mis sur pied avec les commerçants afin de tester graduellement l’arrivée d’une rue piétonne.

📚 Nouveau IOB Working Paper par @sarahgeokl.bsky.social, Sara Geenen & Hadassah Arian: Certaines initiatives pour assainir les mines de #cobalt en #RDC restent discrètes. Les entreprises s'invisibilisent pour éviter les "risques" perçus. 🔗 medialibrary.uantwerpen.be/files/2137/7... #DRC #RDCongo

Another year, another @uantwerpen.be university team in the Antwerp 10 Miles in April, which is sponsored by TWO (2) oil companies. I thought the university was supposed to be "climate neutral" by 2030 and "fossil free" by 2050 - but is fielding a team at a fossil fuel PR event in a climate crisis??

Momodou Taal, the Black Cornell University student targeted by ICE for protesting against Israel’s genocidal assault against Palestinians, has announced he is leaving America. x.com/MomodouTaal/...

Une très belle lettre. Non à une répétition de l'érreur boréale @coalitionavenirquebec.org !!! www.lapresse.ca/dialogue/opi...

Another dataset I like is from the National Atmospheric Deposition Program, which has maps of the US that show we fixed the acid rain problem by implementing stricter emission controls on power plants. nadp.slh.wisc.edu/maps-data/nt...

👏 Great news! 🇫🇷 Today French MPs voted to #BanPFAS from consumer products like clothing and cosmetics. Over 140,000 citizens called on their MPs to back the ban & this is a huge win for the protection of people’s health & environment in France. More in our news story: buff.ly/4bb9Vfb

I support a strong Global Plastics Treaty that cuts plastic production so that we can finally turn off the tap and end the age of plastic - for our communities, our country, and our planet. Join me act.gp/42PXUdg

I am incredibly honoured to have been offered an #MSCA postdoctoral fellowship for my research project GenderedMinerals, which considers European Union critical raw materials policy through an ecological feminist lens, working with the fantastic @dianavelaalmeida.bsky.social. More details to come...

Alvaro Barrington at the Tate Britain - absolutely gorgeous exhibit. www.bbc.com/arts/arts-in... "He reveals his process in creating his art to reflect his Caribbean heritage and family memories, from the strength of women in his life to the broader themes of resilience and survival.""

Huge miigwech, thanks to @thetyee.ca for including Winipek and so many other great books on this year’s Holiday Reads list! thetyee.ca/Culture/2024...

Concordia University hired Israeli security firms to suppress pro-Palestinian student protests.

I don't know who needs to know this, but Pro Publica has an online thing that will format a letter to your US health insurance company to demand the records behind a claim denial. (which the insurance is then legally required to provide in most cases) projects.propublica.org/claimfile/

« C’est comme si c’était la fin du monde. On doit protéger nos enfants des insectes, de la chaleur, et il n’y a pas d’eau propre, pas de toilettes, et pendant ce temps, les bombardements se poursuivent. On a l’impression d’être des sous-humains. » www.lemonde.fr/internationa...

You seem to have misunderstood. A reduction from 8 billion to 2 billion would have zero impact on the climate - the richest 80 million humans cause more greenhouse gas emissions than the poorest 5 billion humans.

The #Belgian state is found guilty, by a Belgian court, of #CrimesAgainstHumanity in the colonial #Congo 5 women, forcibly removed from their mothers as children between 1948-53 and sent to a #Catholic mission, brought the case. www.theguardian.com/world/2024/d...

A starter pack with great colleagues working in this area, incl @sarahgeokl.bsky.social @terrefebiruk.bsky.social @janahoenke.bsky.social @carolinavestena.bsky.social @kaikodden.bsky.social @econgeo.bsky.social @michaelreckordt.bsky.social and more! go.bsky.app/F5kHhiN

When people park selfishly across pavements they make life incredibly difficult for people in wheelchairs and many others We headed out with @pamthomas01.bsky.social to see the challenges she faces on a daily basis because of this selfish behaviour www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/news/liverpo...

The same state that questioned Mayron’s fitness to care for her four children forced her to continue a pregnancy that risked her life to have a fifth — one that would require more intensive care than any of the others. projects.propublica....

"Every year, billions of vehicles worldwide shed an estimated 6 million tonnes of tire fragments. These tiny flakes of plastic, generated by the wear and tear of normal driving, [account] for 28% of microplastics entering the environment globally." theconversation.com/car-tyres-sh...

#AcademicFreedom in theory: “A scholar’s freedom to express ideas through respectful discourse and the pursuit of open discussion, without risk of censure.” (#UBC Strategic Plan) @caut.bsky.social #cdnpse In practice: ⬇️

I'm seeing an increasing number of people say it's inappropriate to express joy or do joyful things because of the ongoing genocides. I respectfully disagree, for a few reasons.

This report on how emissions could be recalculated with colonial rule in mind by @carbonbrief.org came a year ago. Definitely worth rereading to put the COP outcomes into perspective and ask questions about responsibility. www.carbonbrief.org/revealed-how...

This disaster in Samoa was worsened by vaccine disinformation fuelled by an eager RFKjr. I dread to think what harm he can do next 🧪

If you have family or friends who aren't convinced of the horrors brought upon Indigenous people in Canada maybe tell them the story of how the federal government murdered thousands of sled dog puppies to try and destroy the Inuit way of life

🔴 About 130,000 Palestinian children under the age of 10 trapped in north Gaza since October 6 when Israeli forces launched a siege, reports Save the Children. LIVE updates: aje.io/34qdmr

#SouthAfrica has an enduring housing crisis that the poor majority in the cities largely solve for themselves by building "informal" settlements. Now, the government wants to address that by making it easier to evict people: www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2024...

"Elon Musk, whose companies have received nearly $8 billion in government funding through an assortment of federal grants, tax breaks, government subsidies and contracts, proposed today that senior citizens need to 'tighten their belt' to help balance the national budget." See? It's not hard.

It's time to end this cruel "sport" once and for all. @thegreenparty.bsky.social are working towards a total ban on greyhound racing and we'll continue to amplify that call.

It's not fashionable to talk about consuming less as a climate solution because our economy is based on selling us crap that no one needs. Still, I challenge you not to buy anything even if there's some crazy Black Friday sale.

www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle... Expropriation is climate reparation!

"Genocide,colonial conquest, the seizure of resources from the poor: all are resurgent, even before Trump returns to the White House.The rich have learned how to game our political systems. Capital has found the means of solving its longstanding problem:democracy" www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Portuguese Foreign Minister, Paulo Rangel, says Portuguese authorities will carry out the ICC warrants, if the circumstance arises.

Summer UK temperatures have warmed faster than global average temperature. But the very hottest days have warmed 4x faster than the global average, especially in south-east England. Global warming is not "just" 1°C or 2°C. The effects of climate change are non-linear, especially for extremes.

How privatisation works (and Thames Water is just the latest example). 1. A government takes a national asset built up with taxpayers' money and the work of public servants over many years, and hands it, for a fraction of its value, to a private company. 2. In doing so, it creates a monopoly. 🧵

I was invited to deliver this year's Kogon Lecture at TU Darmstadt but I was canceled and called antisemitic due to my statements on the genocide in Gaza. Please consider signing this letter of support. Thank you for your solidarity. 👇 docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

The cement company that paid millions to Isis: was Lafarge complicit in crimes against humanity? – podcast

Migrating all my open access work that have been published over the past 3 years to this space, as many new folks coming in. Today, our piece on "Labour, Efficiency, Critique: writing the plantation into the technological present-future". #geosky #geo journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

I want you all to know that I valiantly ignored vacuuming to write this piece about yesterday's haka, haka in general, and why I think it resonates so far. #kikorangi the-opinionist.ghost.io/tenei-te-tan...

Thanks everyone for the generous interest in this starter pack. Very glad it's been useful 🙏. It's already reached its limit of 150 people (non-dormant accounts only) so I can't add more people to this one. But there are some other great starter packs with overlapping themes, linked below 🧵

Maybe other accounts can be suggested to be added to this starter pack. go.bsky.app/SNvMPk3