By one of Fernando Pessoa's alter egos.

In India, droughts made more severe by climate change are making it harder for farmers to earn a living and, as a result, to find partners and marry. By Karan Deep Singh and Elke Scholiers for Deutsche Welle…

"we've got to live, no matter how many skies have fallen." d.h. lawrence

““Most of the women in this economy are shouldering responsibilities all on their own,” Seema said. “Ninety-nine percent of them are single women and mothers, and the ones that are married usually come from households where they don’t have much support from their husbands or families.””

A profile of Anke Gowda, retired sugar factory worker from Karnataka, and his library of two million books free for anyone to borrow and read. www.bbc.com/news/article...

I read Stephen Markley's ambitious novel 'The Deluge' at the fag end of 2025. Sharing my reflections on this excellent piece of speculative fiction. #booksky #bookreviews joph.in/book-review-...

“India has witnessed a fivefold surge in waste tyre imports from developed countries over the past few years.” Excellent reporting uncovering yet another ‘value chain’ of an anti-care global economy. #climate #environment www.reporters-collective.in/trc/india-is...

The study “warns that a precipitous drop in global aid could lead to 22.6 million additional deaths by 2030 across 93 low- and middle- income countries, including 5.4 million children under the age of five”. www.asiaresearchnews.com/content/21-a...

I read Stephen Markley's ambitious novel 'The Deluge' at the fag end of 2025. Sharing my reflections on this excellent piece of speculative fiction. #booksky #bookreviews joph.in/book-review-...

For the 1st time, archaeologists have direct proof of far-flung social networks during the last Ice Age. “In times of climate crisis, cooperation—not conflict—was a successful strategy,” says @cnrs.fr's @solangerigaud.bsky.social. “It’s good to recall that as a lesson from our past.” 🏺 @science.org

"In the male-dominated online communities, women become the target of misogyny, because they are seen as standing in the way of their success — but this hostility could just as easily be directed toward another marginalized group."

“The world’s richest 1% have used up their fair share of carbon emissions just 10 days into 2026, analysis has found. Meanwhile, the richest 0.1% took just three days to exhaust their annual carbon budget, according to the research by Oxfam.”

Fascinating story about how genome-based theories of disease clouded our understanding of exposome-based explanations of disease and how those errors are now slowly being corrected. “Your exposome is the sum of your own personal environmental exposures, from the womb to the casket.”

I’d been reviewing some of readings and saved tweets and came across one by @existentialcomics.com. “No justice had ever been won without making someone uncomfortable.”

Behind Indore deaths, civic collapse, health system struggling with deluge of patients

"Among today’s adept practitioners, the lie has long since lost its honest function of misrepresenting reality. Nobody believes anybody, everyone is in the know." - Theodor Adorno, Minima Moralia

“Its 11-year-old Building Institutions and Networks, otherwise known as BUILD, gave grants to 574 social justice nonprofits in 47 countries, via five-year grants ranging from around $2 million to more than $10 million.” www.alliancemagazine.org/blog/ford-fo...

There’s a Silicon Valley billionaire freak out happening about a potential wealth tax ballot initiative in California. I hope everybody understands—the only way to make billionaires pay a similar *income* tax rate as their secretaries is via taxing unrealized cap gains or wealth

If you're interested in some granular national data on innovative social protection approaches - check out: greeneconomytracker.org/policies/inc... UNRISD also have lots of great research 😊 www.unrisd.org/en/research/...

According to the ILO's flagship report 2024-26, dealing with climate shocks and implementing just transition policies 'requires comprehensive social protection systems to be in place ex ante". There is already a massive shortfall:

"If survival always involves others, it is also necessarily subject to the indeterminacy of self-and-other transformations." - Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing, 'The Mushroom at the End of the World' #booksky

In a statement, the bishops’ association said that it was “particularly shocked” by an incident in Jabalpur, where a visually impaired woman attending a Christmas programme was assaulted by a BJP leader. Read more: scroll.in/latest/10895...

I think it's sweet that the oldest surviving printed book in the world - the Diamond Sutra - is also the oldest creative work explicitly released into the public domain, with a colophon at the end that says it was created for universal free distribution. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diamond...

ABSOLUTELY LOVE THIS. I cannot imagine knowing stuff without getting sucked into a citation rabbit-hole / wonderland and then reflecting on how these works engage with each other.

I think this post nails the actual problem, for researchers at least—AI hallucinations would simply not be a problem in academic work if we’d not normalized citation-as-signaling rather than actual engagement—you can only cite a fake paper if you’re not in the habit of reading the papers you cite

“Censors banned 13 films, citing national security reasons, between 2021 and July this year, while 50 films were “required to be modified,” the office said. Hong Kong banned no films between 2016 and 2020, but that figure jumped to 10 in 2023.”

Harsh Mander on supporting independent Southasian journalism. We’re aiming for 100 new patrons by year-end. If you value this space, consider supporting us : https://ow.ly/c1tW50XN6Pk

One of my favourites: an important, critical intervention by Tania Murray Li, particularly salient in these times. If imminent development is failing, what must come ‘after development’? ideas.repec.org/a/bla/devchg...

One of my favourites: an important, critical intervention by Tania Murray Li, particularly salient in these times. If imminent development is failing, what must come ‘after development’? ideas.repec.org/a/bla/devchg...

"J&J’s exit isn’t an outlier; it’s part of a broader retreat from infectious disease research across the pharmaceutical industry, as companies shift toward drugs for wealthier markets: cancer, obesity, autoimmune disorders." They call this a "textbook market failure". Damn textbooks.

“The current shift to devolve the scheme to states and without commensurate fiscal support, now threatens its existence. States lack the central government’s financial capacity.” Open letter to the Indian Government in Support of the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA)

"The relational aspect of human powers suggests that our relations with others are really important for determining our individual and collective powers. Who and what we connect and relate to, and how we do so, profoundly affects what we can do and become."

It would be heartless not to empathise with Gen Z and Alpha (and whatever comes after) who are getting raw deal on nearly every front. The study-to-work pipeline is fundamentally compromised in an area traditionally preferred.

Jeez.

Mumbai’s rapid data center growth deepens energy pressure, fuels coal dependence and exposes widening inequality. Read Sushmita's report for @techpolicypress.bsky.social to learn more: https://loom.ly/cuSIyzM 📸Credit: Gloria Mendoza/Better Images of AI/CC by 4.0.

Someone please tell me this is AI.

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"Living all of your life staring into a smartphone in a megacity and eating prepared fast food without ever knowing where it comes from and how it is produced does not mean that some holy bond between you and nature has been broken; it just means that…

“Much like governments’ agreed-upon nationally determined contributions to cut greenhouse gas emissions, governments could also commit to national inequality reduction plans with clear goals to reduce income and wealth inequality…” article-14.com/post/the-hid...

‘The Fever’ by Wallace Shawn is such a masterpiece. One of my favourite parts, packed with interlinked concepts: charity, meritocracy, ownership, freedom. wischik.com/lu/senses/fe...

"a visible link between rising temperatures and domestic violence" Climate justice is feminism.

Excellent 🧵

‘The Fever’ by Wallace Shawn is such a masterpiece. One of my favourite parts, packed with interlinked concepts: charity, meritocracy, ownership, freedom. wischik.com/lu/senses/fe...

Thoughts and prayers, interminable.

Over the years, farmers of Kerala have been moving away from rubber. The reasons are many and all directly or indirectly linked to a changing climate. scroll.in/video/108928... In this week's #EcoIndia, we discuss how Kerala's farmers are adapting to the growing crisis of its rubber industry.

Clean air is de facto commodified in the Delhi region. You get the air you can afford. The massive inequality ensures only a few ‘merit’ healthy breathing. When it comes to air, policymaking itself has been emancipated. Don’t hold your breath for good governance.

I’ve been following Jacob Collier since his early YouTube days. It has been delightful to witness his musical journey and growth. Such a gift! (Also one of the few artists who makes it a point to perform in India) Sharing a couple of versions of ‘A Rock Somewhere’

Doing no harm > doing good. The principle must be followed across different roles/positions one assumes.

In general, things would be way better if only there was an intellectually honest and serious commitment to prevent maleficence.