I am really curious about this terrible headline @bradplumer.bsky.social because obviously you know so much better. Did the editors override you to write this? Also, why does the article consistently refer to RCP8.5 as a high emissions scenario when it is no such thing (8.5 is radiative forcing)..

This BBC article states that "climate change is believed to have played a role in such hot spells as this." Let me fix it: Climate change IS making these hot spells more likely and more dangerous. Scientists have been warning of this for decades. www.bbc.com/news/article...

There's an exceptionalist belief that the UK's immune to the worst political extremes. In reality, we were lucky not to get a fascist government in the 1930s. Now that the world's richest man supports our most extreme political party, we need more than luck. We need to get the money out of politics.

Excellent piece

Quite amusing

Processed it better. I need to stop posting these so hastily

Absolutely agree. God I hate having to watch a stupid self-promoting video just to find out how to do one simple thing

Fantastic podcast, highly recommended listening

And now from The Beaverton! 😂 www.thebeaverton.com/2026/05/carn...

A very good afternoon to the absolute hero who organised and parked this beauty in the middle of little Tommy’s far-right hate march. ❤️

"A modest tax on incomes over $2 million has balanced New York City’s $124.7 billion budget..." Awkward silence, after being told that decades of #austerity (i.e. tax cuts for the rich and service cuts for everyone else) was the only way to balance the books! www.normalisland.co.uk/p/muslim-soc...

Such an excellent piece. Everyone should read this

Spain's Prime Minister awarded the United Nations Special Rapporteur on Palestine with its highest civilian honour on Thursday for her work documenting atrocities in the Gaza Strip.

Well written and worth reading

Great initiative, sounds a little like @peercomjournal.bsky.social another excellent project which I highly recommend & encourage everyone to support!

a little reminder

Our planet is in crisis. We need to stop those who pollute and destroy our planet for profit. Honour to speak at #LettersLive - with MC Benedict Cumberbatch. 📸 Chris Floyd & Andy Paradise

Beautiful piece

I caught a grad student at the movie theatre last Sunday. I take my kids there to see Super Mario Galaxy and I see a grad student three rows up. I tapped him on the shoulder and told him he either leaves now no questions asked or I speak with his dissertation chair come Monday morning. He left.

Signed! #academicsky

Haha exactly

Oh yes

If Bessent needs information on the causes of climate change, he should consult "The Causes of Climate Change," available to all on NASA's website. (Spoiler alert: "Human activities are driving the global warming trend observed since the mid-20th century.")

Fascinating and clever idea!

The time between fossil fuel crises is just going to keep shrinking, until there's no discrete single "crisis" - just one unbroken prolonged state of global suffering due to fossil fuel unreliability The best time to ditch fossil fuels was 30 years ago. The second best time is now

Starmer should immediately & unequivocally ban access to British airspace to US warplanes. The UK should not be accomplice to a US President who is threatening more war crimes. Period.

Funny that we banished the women's studies scholars and critical race theorists immediately before proving everything they said more correct than they ever could have imagined.

Excellent news. Nice to see some progress on the academic publishing crisis

NEW: I’ve found an opaque financial vehicle owns a large chunk of the Observer. And neither it or the Guardian will say who it is. Why? Well there is a clue. Which goes by way of Saudi Arabia… 1/ open.substack.com/pub/broligar...

Shamsia Hassani (born 1988), recognized as the first Afghanistan born female muralist and street artist #WomensArt

Loving this

'The Stacks' by UK textile artist Rachel Wright, machine embroidered on calico with various fabrics #womensart

You might have formed the impression that Paul Johnson, former director of the Institute for Fiscal Studies, knows what he's talking about. The media treats him like the voice of God. But here he is - and not for the first time - talking out of his hat. Let's break it down in a short thread. 🧵

“Asking a pro-growth lobby group what they think of environmental regulations is like asking Tony Blair about an illegal war in the Middle East – you’re going to get the wrong answer” I think my opening sentence hit it on the head 😉

Haha

Exactly

Funny. Can’t imagine why promising to try to make awful things better seems to resonate so much…

Greens: hope not hate Reform: hate not hope Labour: these are the same

Oh yes

Introducing Hannah Spencer MP 💚

Interested in uncertainty in Environmental models? You’re still in time to submit to our session “D3. Synthesising advances in uncertainty exploration in land change modelling to inform planning and policy
Ben Black, Orlando Roman and myself, conference.iemss.org Dublin July 12-16th 2026

This election is an appeal for trust, a battle against fear and a straight fight between Greens and Reform | Hannah Spencer

Hope parliament is greyhound accessible! 💚😂💚

Wonderful news. Congratulations Aasiya and the Leicester team! 💚🎉 Next stop: Gorton and Denton! 🚀

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The oldest Mesolithic human remains yet found in Britain belonged to a 2.5-3.5-year-old girl. Found in a cave in Cumbria. Stretches the Mesolithic cave burial ‘tradition’ back a bit and pretty far north given looks to be just after the end of the Younger Dryas.

Incredible

Necessary but not sufficient. He knew. And still appointed him. Starmer needs to go.

Absolutely on the nail!

Sad news. Uno was a kind and generous person, always open for friendly discussion on any topic..