New in PNAS with @seanjwestwood.bsky.social and @ylelkes.bsky.social: Why depolarization is hard: Evaluating attempts to decrease partisan animosity in America @prl.bsky.social @pnas.org www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Saw a patient in the ER that was struck by a car while riding their bicycle. They noted that they were not intending to make a police report because the driver had stopped and been nice. Mutual kindness is heartwarming, but there are reasons why making an official report is important. 1/ #bikeTO

David Wallace-Wells is the best climate journalist working today, arguably the best journalist period, and this is a fantastic summary of where things stand on climate change:

I have a new @nytimes.com guest essay w/ @davidkeith.bsky.social about sunlight reflection. We note its not a solution for climate change and at best a band aid to treat systems, and suggest if its ever done it should only be to replace the cooling from air pollution today:

Heute rollte die #KidicalMass wieder durch Wien 😍 Wir klingeln für gute Laune und sichere Radwege für Jung & Alt! ☀️🤹🚲🛝🛴🍀💦🌻 www.kidicalmass.at @radelnforfuture.at @radlobby.at @kidicalmass.bsky.social #RadLiebeWien #WienLiebe

People often use products for less time than they expect, but this can generate more waste — and increases spending on replacements.🛍️ #SystemsChangeLab explains how the transition to a circular economy can create a more sustainable, resilient and efficient economic system: bit.ly/4pjGfTS

This is an absolutely brilliant paper that I can only recommend to all those interested in transport poverty/equity but also in sustainable transport/climate, and on how to reconcile the two. I can only hope that it will have the impact it deserve doi.org/10.1016/j.er...

To blame the shift to renewables or the combustion engine ban for Germany’s economic malaise confuses cause and effect. It is the costly and unnecessary over-reliance on fossil fuels and the insistence on combustion engines which no longer sell in China that deserve a closer look. #technologieoffen

Düsteres Szenario, das sich in den USA durch Instrumentalisierung des Charlie Kirk Mordes durch die Trump-Gang abzeichnet. Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/19/o...

Women, non-native English speakers & those form low-income countries are disadvantaged in science but by how much? We found that women with non-English first languages from low-income countries publish up to 70% fewer in English than their counterparts. 1/5 doi.org/10.1371/jour... #languagebarriers

"China is the only large country driving the energy transition at anything close to the necessary speed and scale." It's also the only one whose energy transition is not hamstrung by reliance on the motive force of renewables profitability. Coincidence? I think not.

🇦🇹 Eine sehr österreichische Geschichte 🇦🇹 Wie hierzulande der Plan zur Rettung der heimischen Natur von Lobbys mitgeschrieben wird und warum ein Interessenskonflikt manchmal kein Interessenskonflikt ist. www.derstandard.at/story/300000...

In Linz beginnt‘s… …heute mit einem Vortrag über den Zweiten Österreichischen Sachstandsbericht zum Klimawandel #AAR2 bei der #Nachhaltigkeitskonferenz der @wko.at. #WissenSchafftKlimaschutz

In the midst of the noise, there are moments that remind you that you don’t have to give in to the chaos. But instead choose what brings you back to the beauty of life. #sunset #sky #photography #nature #colorado #inspiration #clouds #cloud #wellbeing #birds #reflection #photo #healing

You know how Austria is 90% renewable, 10% gas -- and the latter had been Russian gas until very recently? Well, turns out Austria's O&G company, OMV, signed a contract that basically paid Putin EU market prices. Who benefited from 'cheap' Russian gas? Gazprom, not Austria. 🤷

🌍 Do Carbon offsets work? An analysis of 89 multinationals finds buying carbon credits does little for real emission cuts. Offsets play only a minor role, with airlines most reliant. 🔗 www.nature.com/articles/s41... #SciComm #ClimateCrisis 🧪

We're halfway between the IPCC 6th and 7th Assessment Reports, and an international team of 61 scientists updated some of the key metrics used in the reports. As I wrote for @climateconnections.bsky.social, the findings were pretty bleak, but there are some glimmers of hope 🧵 (1/6)

Whoa! Elsevier fired @richardtol.bsky.social, longstanding Editor-in-Chief of the journal Energy Economics. Richard's side of the story should be ringing alarm bells. #EconSky Fraud and cover-up richardtol.substack.com/p/fraud-and-...

I wrote a thing. As someone who survived the 1970s and kept the receipts.

Hot off the press: We can provide for the first time a systematic attribution of recent #heatwaves to the emissions of #carbon_majors. Essential new #Nature article coordinated by @yannquilcaille.bsky.social at @ethz.ch, with numerous contributors @usyseth.bsky.social: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

A rapidly growing body of research has consistently shown how pervasive and problematic #microplastics have become. A 2024 #ScienceReview provides an overview of this research and the progress made in understanding these pollutants. https://scim.ag/4nePO4G #ScienceMagArchives

Come be my colleague! We are indeed casting a wide net in the GLOBAL HISTORY OF TECHNOLOGY search. **All** fields, areas, and periods of the History of Technology will be considered! #historyoftechnology #STS

So proud of this collaboration led by @cssn.org 110 top experts from around the world 13 chapters on who is blocking or slowing action on climate change A quantum leap in our understanding of why society has failed to solve this Will be free online Oct 14 1/x global.oup.com/academic/pro...

I am so glad to have contributed airborne lidar scanning #ALS data from several temperate forests 🌳🌳🌳 in 🇨🇵 #IMPRINT Plenty to do w/ this global atlas on tree canopies #GCA, the 8th contient 🌐🌎🌲🌳 @agencerecherche.bsky.social @cnrs-hautsdefrance.bsky.social @cnrsecologie.bsky.social @cnrs.fr

Future is surely going to ask just how we could be so careless of the dangers of #PlasticWaste and #PlasticPollution "The scale of uncertainty around how much plastic is entering our atmosphere is alarming" phys.org/news/2025-09...

"Scientists and modelers have not merely warned of the #ClimateCrisis - they have also, often unwittingly, contributed to it by reinforcing an uncritical faith in technological salvation & sidelining more structural social transformations" www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

New starter pack with @ipcc.bsky.social #AR7 scientists (bureau, authors, REs)! Full list: apps.ipcc.ch/report/autho... For SR cities scientists see separate starter pack! @dianaurge.bsky.social @sherilee.bsky.social @siir-kilkis.bsky.social @janfuglestvedt.bsky.social go.bsky.app/2FuXb3Y

Yep. "…clear that fossil-fuel companies, and their adjacent organizations, are the primary lobbyists for CCUS subsidies and that these subsidies benefit fossil-fuel companies at the expense of both taxpayers and the future health of our planet" www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

⚠️Safe underground carbon storage could reduce warming by 10 times less than previously thought. New research by @iiasa.ac.at with scientists from @imperialcollegeldn.bsky.social mapped safe areas that can be used for underground carbon storage 🧵

What a coincidence, just as I am asked to indicate which CE policy questions models can answer, google scholar alerts me of a new article by @dominikwiedenhofer.bsky.social et al. listing 517 (!) intervention strategies that have been studied with models. 👀 www.annualreviews.org/content/jour...

Our recent report, Decades of Deceit, comprehensively documents how major fossil fuel companies have misled the public and prevented climate action. We created a timeline that shows a small selection of their actions. Explore it here:

Each year, air pollution from US oil and gas kills an estimated 91,000 Americans, making it the 8th most common cause of US death, and afflicts ~210,000 US kids with asthma. Pollution-related illnesses disproportionately affect Black and Asian communities.

A new statistical analysis in Science of geochemical datasets suggests that the U.S. could reduce its dependence on critical mineral imports by recovering ore byproducts from its active metal mines. Learn more: https://scim.ag/46eiMen

Motherfucking wind farms…

🚨New study alert! Can #greensky define ‘information subsidy’? Would you recognize ‘solutions denial’? Here’s a thread on the networks opposing offshore wind in the Northeast USA, tracing how many of the discourses used against wind come from fossil fuels.. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

My lab's been attacked by an anti-wind group and their lawyers. They threatened the science funding of my whole university, to shut me and my undergraduate research assistants up. NYT just covered it. 1/n www.nytimes.com/2025/08/25/c...

Comment out now in Nature Reviews Biodiversity where we argue that blocking renewable energy, esp wind and solar, for biodi reasons is unnecessary - we can manage any tradeoffs. And unchecked climate change is far, far worse! Don't let biodi become political football www.nature.com/articles/s44...

Years of repeated exposure to heatwaves may accelerate ageing, particularly among manual workers, rural residents and people from communities with fewer air conditioners, according to a study in Nature Climate Change. #medsky 🧪

Annual updates to ‘climate forcing’ data sets would allow simulations to keep pace as global warming accelerates. go.nature.com/45N9aXt

Der Zweite Österreichische Sachstandsbericht zum Klimawandel #AAR2 zeigt die notwendigen Politikmaßnahmen zur effektiven Erreichung von Klimaneutralität (insbesondere Abschnitt E der Zusammenfassung SPM). Der Entwurf des Klimagesetzes erscheint nicht ausreichend. #WissenSchafftKlimaschutz

A study published in Nature Climate Change analyses net primary production (NPP) trends from 2003 to 2021, revealing an overall increase in planetary NPP, primarily due to terrestrial enhancements despite a decline in oceanic productivity. go.nature.com/4fP7uBA 🧪

This Review, published in Nature, utilises an abrupt change framework, focusing on evidence for the system behaviours that are indicative of emerging regime shifts and tipping dynamics in the Antarctic environment. go.nature.com/45H0bqS 🧪

Märchenerzählungen und Illusionen haben längst auch Teile der Wissenschaft erfasst, ob in GB oder Österreich. Das ist die ultimative Kapitulation vor einer immer bedrohlicheren Realität auf die wir als Gesellschaft dann immer unangemessener reagieren. Ein Teufelskreis der Realitätsverweigerung.

Which leverage points need to be addressed to push socio-economic systems in a more sustainable direction? Starting from D. Meadows, we herein argue the pivotal role of socioeconomic material stocks as enablers & inhibitors of transformative change @bokuvienna.bsky.social doi.org/10.1016/j.ec...

"Melting on the Arctic’s Svalbard Islands Shows the Climate Future Is Now" by @bberwyn.bsky.social for @insideclimatenews.org: insideclimatenews.org/news/1908202...

Neue Studie @pik-potsdam.bsky.social zu #PlanetareGrenzen 60% (!) globaler Landfläche geschädigt, CO2 Speicherung, Pflanzenwachstum gefährdet. "...risk of triggering large-scale, abrupt, or irreversible environmental changes that could destabilize Earth’s systems" 1/2 www.cell.com/one-earth/fu...

Mitigation scenarios assessed in IPCC reports all have positive, and quite decent, economic growth. This figure is from the IPCC AR5, but will look similar in AR6 (what about AR7?). @beatricecointe.bsky.social & Antonin Pottier discuss why this is@ journals.openedition.org/regulation/2...

The global distribution of wealth is enormously consequential. Yet, how the mega trend of our time, climate change, impacts this distribution remains vastly understudied. @lucaschancel.bsky.social @gregorsemieniuk.bsky.social & co finally raise this crucial question in their latest article.

Looking for a job in physics or environmental science and related areas? Just announced --- an outstanding opportunity in Okinawa, multiple cluster hires, very generous internal funding including full support of students/postdocs! OIST is English language institute. www.oist.jp/careers/facu...

🥳🚨🤩 Job opportunity with me at Uni Lausanne working on the REAL project! 2 year Postdoctoral position in postgrowth climate mitigation modelling focused on food, biomass, land-use Link here for details and application. Deadline 15 Sept! tinyurl.com/33rfw3xz