"More professors in the United States have been fired for controversial views in the past week than any other week in all of American history." www.insidehighered.com/opinion/colu...

The Kimmel monologue was 18 minutes of extraordinary, raw television that will be hated by the people who wanted him off the air for good. Trump and Brendan Carr lost this one as badly as it's possible to lose.

Much needed. Coming to a library near you in 2026!

useful piece in the NYT by David Wallace-Wells

This is very disconcerting

Trump Spends Entire U.K. Trip Trying To Figure Out Where He Knows Prince Andrew From

Bruce Springsteen paying tribute to Victor Jara, who died on this day, after being detained and tortured in a Santiago arena. www.tiktok.com/t/ZP8SPVW9t/

Essential Episodes Every New Listener Should Hear. We've put together an EvC Starter Pack featuring some of our most popular episodes for those new to the podcast: www.energyvsclimate.com/the-energy-v...

The UK’s problems aren’t caused by immigration on.ft.com/46p3BPl

Did Melania hang herself with invisible twine?

get a load of these assholes

"The ‘Gaza Riviera’ is a fantasy plan that relies on urbicide and expulsion" Jon Silver in the Conversation theconversation.com/the-gaza-riv...

Read our comment on the NDCs in Africa prior to the COP in Brazil: 'A faltering process: Unpredictable funding undermines the development of ambitious African climate plans' www.development-today.com/archive/2025...

Le Monde says it up top ten times more straightforwardly than anything I’ve seen in top US papers: www.lemonde.fr/en/internati...

On Monday, I'm talking with Patrick Kipalu of the Rights & Resources Initiative about *critical minerals in Africa*. Specifically, we're going to discuss how to avoid yet another chapter of the resource curse -- how Africa can enduringly benefit from this boom. Got any questions?

"Hundreds of flags have been installed, and the clear up may cost an est. £250,000. That money could have been spent to fill over 3,300 potholes and provide ~12,000 hours of care for older and disabled residents” yorkmix.com/flag-removal...

Bolsonaro has been found guilty of mounting an attempted coup. This is how it's done.

“But are there not many Fascists in your country?" "There are many who do not know they are Fascists, but will find it out when the time comes.” - Hemingway, For Whom the Bell Tolls (1940)

"Harvard can't use race as a factor in admissions, but ICE can use race as a factor in detentions" is a retrenchment essentially to a pre-Civil War understanding of the Constitution. It's vanishingly few steps removed from "Latinos have no rights which the white man is bound to respect."

Also, isn't this an absolutely gorgeous cover?

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"Flags are bits of colored cloth that governments use first to shrink-wrap people’s minds & then as ceremonial shrouds to bury the dead." Arundhati Roy

I found this history fascinating, especially how the US under Bush I a) pushed to create the IPCC to center government representatives, not scientists, in UN climate action; b) used the IPCC to block binding emission targets and carbon taxes on rich countries, which seemed imminent in 1988.

Fortress Afungi (in Cabo Delgado, Mozambique) www.zitamar.com/shut-out-of-...

2* postdocs in environmental histories www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DOM447/t...

Looks like a good read!

excellent thread on opposing the consolidation of the authoritarian regime in the US

That Trump and Trumpism are fascist doesn’t explain the sheer vandalism of unleashing mass murdering mayhem via RFK to replace medical/scientific institutions of immense value and prestige with medieval peasant superstitions. That is a criminal madness facilitated by but above and beyond fascism.

Some music for your Saturday RS youtu.be/lv7jq7Mu-yA?...

RFK Jr looks like he’s been sampling the diseases at the CDC

the line btw nationalist pride and anti-immigrant sentiment can be difficult to tease out, sometimes by design... www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Gift link for the on-going drama at the Centers for Disease Control. If Kennedy wins this fight, expect his new rubberstamped committee to endorse changing childhood vaccines schedules this fall. They are trying to bring back infectious diseases because they are crazy www.nytimes.com/2025/08/28/h...

Today, when the global publishing economy has increasingly digitised and centralised, the bookshop feels almost radical just by existing... theconversation.com/a-university...

Shooting with film and a fully manual camera is a good way to get a sharp reminder about how much work digital cameras do for us...

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...

good line in the comments here: "Buoys are the paper ballots of navigation: even if all else fails, they work." www.nytimes.com/2025/08/24/u...

The head of the world’s largest climate fund on the economic consequences of extreme weather — and getting the private sector on board: on.ft.com/4mVYb54

This was very funny... www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

The geopolitical alignments of the 21st century are shaping up to be petrostates versus the electrostates. The U.S. and Russia are presently aligned on one side, and China and the E.U. are leading the other side along with most low-carbon “emerging” economies.

Interesting case for regional integration for African development by @hofrench.bsky.social, posted early in the day so may have been missed (gift link) www.nytimes.com/2025/08/19/o...

This thread is amazing...

I learned beginner Basque at UChicago, an experience that i still cherish. This is fucking appalling to hear

My grandmother, who lives just outside Philadelphia, turned 104 last Thursday and the local ABC affilliate did a short story about her: 6abc.com/post/104-yea...

My grandmother, who lives just outside Philadelphia, turned 104 last Thursday and the local ABC affilliate did a short story about her: 6abc.com/post/104-yea...

"I am the lawyer for a multinational group active in the energy sector that intends to displace a small Amazonian indigenous community from their territories in order to build a dam and a hydroelectric plant … How can we get the lowest possible price in negotiations with these indigenous people?"

I have a new article out: "Do artifacts have political economy?" It's a riff on an old argument by Langdon Winner about the embedding of politics in technology #STS #sociology #technoscience #technology #innovation journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...