On Teaching in the context of Misconduct; With some Ring of Gyges thrown in. open.substack.com/pub/digressi... Come for a picture by @erikangner.com stay for the ring of Gyges

Because the issue of population change is so widely misunderstood, here's a short thread which seeks to lay it out simply. It explains why there is almost nothing anyone can do to change the global population trajectory, both as numbers rise, then as they fall. 🧵1/13

Recycled polyester pumps more microplastic into our soil, our waterways, our bodies

Godfrey Reggio & Philip Glass on "Koyaanisqatsi" www.youtube.com/watch?v=PK03...

We are just in time to celebrate the birthday of Peter Kropotkin—the geographer, author, and anarchist revolutionary widely known for helping to popularize the concept of mutual aid—with this account detailing his narrow escape from a St. Petersburg prison. crimethinc.com/KropotkinBre... 🏴

A new 'hypertropical' climate is emerging in the Amazon, exposing trees to deadly stress. phys.org/news/2025-12...

Brazil’s Pesticide Observatory: Lula's government authorises more pesticides banned in Europe to supply large-scale agro-export farms. blogdopedlowski.com/2025/12/08/o...

Denial didn’t vanish. It learned how to look reasonable. Today it sounds nuanced, balanced, even thoughtful….especially when amplified by Grok. My new article explores how human denial of environmental issues has evolved into something far more sophisticated. open.substack.com/pub/lylel/p/...

Ornitólogos dizem que descobriram na amazônia uma ave parecida com o dodô (Raphus cucullatus), extinto no século 17: o sururina-da-serra (Tinamus resonans). 📲 Leia mais na #Folha: folha.com/ciencia 📝 Joe Trezza/The New York Times 🎦 Morais et al, Zootaxa (2025)

Scientists call for urgent measures to protect underwater forests in a new global Marine Animal Forests Manifesto A team of scientists led by ICTA-UAB researchers are calling for action to restore, and manage one of the ocean’s least known yet most important ecosystems www.uab.cat/web/sala-de-...

An issue we're seeing at all levels of university is that many students are simply refusing to do *anything*. They aren't reading the syllabus, aren't following assignment guidelines, aren't engaging with material, ignoring deadlines. And this might seem like old news, but it truly has ramped up.

Hey Murdoch fake-news media! The study you report on here 1. Predicts nothing but is about the past. 2. Is not about Gulf Stream but #AMOC. 3. An AMOC collapse wouldn’t cause an Ice Age. Incompetence or intent to confuse? The study by Ren et al shows AMOC has weakened: www.nature.com/articles/s43...

Here are a range of responses to the EPBC announcement. The old laws were decades out of date. A new playing field will strengthen the hand of the groups campaigning against new fossil fuel protects & in support of enviro protection. That’s where the work continues. www.foe.org.au/a_big_day_fo...

"Can I have a relationship with these animals alive? Or is the killing, the eating, that magical bridging, a crucial part of my love, part of my relationship with these animals, with the world?" Gretchen Legler ponders hunting, intimacy, and how food shapes our relationship with the natural world.

💔Blue whales are going eerily silent Blue whale vocalizations dropped nearly 40% alongside a collapse in krill and anchovy populations "it’s like trying to sing while you're starving,” Ryan adds “They were spending all their time just trying to find food" www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/arti...

OTD in 1859, Charles Darwin’s Origin of Species was published. He’d been working on a long treatise titled “Natural Selection,” but learning that Alfred Russel Wallace had developed a similar theory, he shifted toward a shorter “abstract.” 🌱🐋🧪 #histSTM #evobio

Thrilling news from BP: they found even more oil off Brazil. Climate crisis? Melting planet? Relax, BP’s got barrels to fill! www.upstreamonline.com/exploration/...

Who're the parties that'll be served by the @albomp.bsky.social govt ramming regressive EPBC laws thru parliament by year's end, & why do they feature in the Business Council of Australia-led 'Alliance of 26 industry groups'❓ Also, why TF is the Group of 8 universities amongst them❓

En tentant d’intégrer la sortie des énergies fossiles dans l’accord de la COP30, l’UE s'est présentée comme le « chevalier blanc de la transition », explique le chercheur Édouard Morena, qui dénonce « l’hypocrisie » de l’Europe. Lire l'article ➡️ https://l.reporterre.net/t6a

Fixed the headline… “Labor pledges to pass some kind of #nature laws as Greens demand laws actually protect nature rather than providing a free pass for #eco- #climate- & #water-destructive mining” #auspol www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

Fool me once — shame on you. Fool me 30 times — shame on me. www.bbc.com/news/article...

The IUCN calls the extinction crisis a mix of “hope and concern.” But hope thrives in the absence of honesty. Humanity would rather lie to itself about endless growth than face the reality of limits.

É extremamente frustrante perceber que nosso editorial sobre o fracasso da COP29 pode ser integralmente usado para a #COP30, apenas mudando os números. COP29: fracasso esperado expõe crise climática global www.ecodebate.com.br/2024/11/23/c...

Kissing Has Existed for at Least 16 Million Years, Scientists Say. And humans are far from the only species locking lips. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/19/s...

Ecologists call for an ecosystem approach as the only way to halt the vanishing of UK wildlife

Animal testing to be phased out faster as UK unveils roadmap for alternative methods www.gov.uk/government/n...

In an ideal society the leaders would be the wisest and most virtuous of people. In a less than ideal society they would be chosen more or less at random, as by chance. In our actual society, they are... well I'm not sure exactly how to describe it, but let's just say we are "totally fucked".

By me for @thecanaryuk.bsky.social: COP30 Brazil — the hypocrisy of promoting climate leadership while pushing highways, oil projects, and deregulation that threaten the Amazon. www.thecanary.co/discovery/en...

If only the public understood what Brazil’s agribusiness, the “ruralistas”, really stands for: profits for the elite, industrial-scale farming that crushes small farmers, destroys the environment, and serves exports over people.

Teaching an octopus to play piano #animal #sentience #philsci #philsky #science youtu.be/PcWnQ7fYzwI?...

"I think instinctively we know that's bullshit."

"Applied ethics is the application of moral theory to the real world." fivebooks.com/best-books/d...

boosting this one again because I'm not seeing enough Bertrand Russell hate on the TL

Bit late to this but it's such a clever piece of AI criticism, developing a literary critique of Sam Altman's auto-metafiction story as a way to explore the grave threats to the "intellectual infrastructure" of the humanities - and HE more broadly - posed by AI lareviewofbooks.org/article/lite...

I witness my students undergo major transformations as they learn to see past the basic ways their sense of the world has been framed by human exceptionalism. As the wool is pulled from their eyes, they come to experience Nature as more alive, animate, and aware. (1/2)

Forests purify and cool air for the world’s physical health, store carbon, and cache water, interdependent systems we cannot afford to let decline.

bp progresses plans for the significant Bumerangue discovery, offshore Brazil More fossil fuels ahead of #COP30 www.bp.com/en/global/co...

The Republican-controlled US Senate voted to scrap a Biden-era policy that protected millions of acres in the Alaskan Arctic from fossil fuel drilling. The final vote on the resolution was 52-45, almost entirely along party lines. Sen. Fetterman was the only Democrat to join Republicans.

They call it the Tropical Forests Forever Facility (TFFF), but it looks more like a Wall Street land grab. Turning forests into profit machines won’t save them, it just hands power to the same banks that helped destroy them! #COP30 #Brazil globalwitness.org/en/campaigns...

Drastic emissions reduction is not only needed now “as soon as possible,” but this year. This month. Every single one of us needs to make cuts wile those of us working on systemic change get a move on, faster and more urgently. And that means legal+mindset change. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Wetlands offer some of the best natural solutions to modern crises. They can clean water by filtering pollutants, displace floodwater, shelter wildlife, improve our mental and physical wellbeing & capture climate-changing amounts of carbon. We need wetlands now more than ever!

Recommended listen: The latest episode of the @drilledmedia.bsky.social podcast discussed how the animal agriculture industry has – and still does – “obstruct…climate policy”.

Zoos call it conservation. We call it captivity. Breeding animals who will never be free doesn’t protect species, it protects the business model. 📢 Share if you agree that freedom, not captivity, is real conservation. #TruthAboutZoos #FreedomForAnimals

“we might add “natural cooperation” as a third fundamental principle of evolution beside mutation and natural selection” 🧪 #ComplexSystems #Evolution www.science.org/doi/pdf/10.1...

I think this is kind of neat and I don't think anyone else has noticed it (I've looked and I can't find anyone who has) osf.io/preprints/so... Maybe I should back off "justification" language, but it's at least a remarkable coincidence. I still think someone else *must* have noticed it...

"Sycophancy", the phenomenon of artificial intelligence (AI) excessively agreeing with or flattering users.

Brazil’s Ministry of Agriculture is celebrating the export of live native birds to the UAE, for “ornamental purposes” and zoo displays, as “economic diversification.” Exploiting wildlife isn’t diversification, it’s commodifying Brazil’s biodiversity! go.shr.lc/3WhxI6T

Why we are getting more stupid. Slavoj Zizek