Freedom is when I don’t have to pay taxes and people who exercise their constitutional rights are beaten, shoved into camps, and shot in the back or the face by masked agents of the state

see our new paper on the concept of habitability and what it means for adaptation: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... @priestleycentre.bsky.social

This Perspective synthesizes insights from the past use of nature markets to identify design factors that are necessary if such markets are to achieve their environmental aims www.nature.com/articles/s41...

🎉 Yay, das Video zu unserem Pixi-Buch zu #Starkregen und #Dürre ist nun verfügbar: www.youtube.com/watch?v=lbTB...

NEW: For the new @natclimate.nature.com series Solutions in Practice, profiled a novel AI-powered long-range monsoon onset forecast with a 4-week lead time sent to 38 million Indian farmers, allowing them to plan for growing season based on the timing of the rain! www.nature.com/articles/s41...

This is a social tipping point of magnitude, please do not oversee it: disasters removed from cover. This is a second round of major change in the (re)insurance system in response to climate impacts. We first characterised a first round of major changes with price spikes and local cover removal:

Long overdue refresh of the SocioPatterns website! ✨ sociopatterns.org New content & datasets, and a chance to celebrate 17+ years of collabs, ~100 publications, 2000+ studies using our data. Thanks – more ahead! @alainbarrat.bsky.social @wouter-vdb.bsky.social @foolsdelight.bsky.social @isi.it

Are students losing their voice to AI? A Warwick study analysed 10 years of submitted work to find out: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Vancouver City Council unanimously approved implementation steps on the Rupert + Renfrew Area Plan, including a significant City-Initiated rezoning in the low rise apartment zones of the plan comprising 2580 parcels… dailyhive.com/vancouver/ru...

I warmly welcome the news that we will finally get Northern Powerhouse Rail, and the news that it is starting in Yorkshire is historic. #NorthernPowerhouse #RailReform

FYI: We will be releasing the 2025 edition of the Gallagher Re Natural Catastrophe & Climate Report next week on January 21.

The main new pervasive spatial pattern in the XXI century is citizens killed in the public space by their own governments, of course forerunners started in the XX century.

Influence or die!

Great article, this is what matters most on Earth right now. Forget the chaotic fascist. Repeat: forget the orange noise!

Cool summary on the role of grasslands as carbon sinks. In short, grasslands with grazers on it can potentiate soil organic carbon storage. It challenge the assumption of reforesting everywhere: doi.org/10.1126/scie...

Interesting cascading implications at the household level.

So, as sympathy for the US (government!) and its big tech and #broligarchs decreases (again and again)... ... let us #MEGA (make Europe great again) and use European tools! Break free from US-tech. ;) 🇪🇺 1️⃣ euroalternative.co 2️⃣ www.goeuropean.org

How to communicate science in Reddit? Any players or good experiences?

A hitchhiker’s guide to information theoretical measures in psychology by @nielsvs.bsky.social with me and Yves Rosseel authors.elsevier.com/c/1mOwr53na-... osf.io/preprints/ps...

No, I cannot stop saying "beaver bombing"

A world with weak institutions is a world unable to adapt to climate change: we are heading towards limits and barriers to adaptation. link.springer.com/article/10.1... #academicsky #climatechange

This OPEN ACCESS article with @lindashi.bsky.social & Rob Olshansky explores how dominant property practices inhibit climate adaptation. Governing Land on a Dynamic Earth: How Property Shapes Planning for Equitable Climate Adaptation www-tandfonline-com.libproxy.berkeley.edu/doi/full/10....

Forecasting specific events is hopeless, more so with specificity and longer time horizon Forecasting trends (that spawn events) slightly easier, but still subject to projecting a future that follows the rules of the past The complex interplay of social forces remains elusive #riskmanagement

#Wildcards 2026-2030: US will invade Greenland, and only once they got supplied there (critical minerals), they will be able to fully move their focus to the Pacific region.

Busting a myth? Netherlands is average in car ownership. Bike and train integration is still poor. Utrech in particular is surrounded by low-density housing. Data: newseu.cgtn.com/news/2019-09...

That's a pretty small concert arena (or one largish farmer's field)

Why US need far-right in Europe? 1) Follow Trump's naivety against China, even after he lost trade war 2) Accept Ukraine lost, so that a new alliance with Putin enable annexing Greenland to source rare earths and critical minerals 3) Buy drone software and lose mil sovereignty and political power

Best news to finish the year.

Feeling the heat of accurate communication?

Yorkshire Water’s Thruscross Reservoir on 16 September (left) and today (right) — now full and overflowing. Another situation of a tremendous hydrological swing and another lucky escape from critical drought. But we won’t always be so lucky…

This is no sperm donation. This is a bad father escaping responsibility.

"Peakers," power plants "meant to run only in short bursts during periods of spiking electricity demand," are "often decades-old, fossil-fueled facilities" that "emit more pollution when they are running and cost more to produce electricity..." Data center demand is keeping them online.

2025 : connivence entre #ElonMusk et le #Kremlin pour soumettre l' #Europe ... (Dimitri Medvedev est le Vice-président du Conseil de sécurité de Russie, ancien Président de la Fédération de Russie) ... 2026 ⬇️

Burgum claims "national security concerns" created by wind turbines are detailed in a "classified report" & pertain to "radar interference," adding that "if you wanted to attack a population center on the east coast our country, you would send a swarm of drones right through one of these wind farms"

Nature Climate Change December issue includes: 💰 Q&A with funding agencies and their role in research ⬇️ low oxygen in rivers globally 💡 night light and ecosystems 🗣️ negative/positive probabilities for communication 🐦 hybridization to reduce vulnerability & much more www.nature.com/nclimate/vol...

Plausible 2026-2030 #wildcards seem clearer than usual: - AI bubble will sunk US economy - Cloud cover becoming much less frequent due to feedbacks that science could not predict - Geoengineering will dominate climate policy This makes for a grotesque yet intellectually beautiful end of the year

No. That's echo chamber creation. You would be helping their goals.

Oriente Occidente di Rampini | Putin e la «strategia dell’anaconda»: per «strangolare» l’Europa copia le mosse della Cina contro Taiwan https://www.europesays.com/it/232271/ Cos’ha in serbo Putin per il resto dell’Europa, se la sua invasione dell’Ucraina si conclude con un successo? …

A wooded multi-channel #chalkstream in a Norfolk (eastern England) military training area that has avoided tidying & dredging. Lots of fallen wood & bankside trees. Sparkling gravel patches, sands & leaf packs. Crystal clear waters fed by healthy local springs. Everything we have lost & want back

Ecovoltaic it is!

The virus variety appeared out of the blue. The lab leak and the sabotage options remain open.

Risk is no longer what it used to be 😅 Like many premature optimisations during the long, stable pax Americana period (including the design of our entire digital systems), many detailed concepts and practices of the art and science of #riskmanagement relied on a global order that is now crumbling.

Brexit should be seen as clear evidence that leaving the EU is a very bad economic strategy.

Feeling grateful after reading this,on the vacuous debates on civilizations.

Mockler: Young people are having trouble accumulating capital in the form of housing or in the form of investing. And due to that, you see a lot of younger people turning against the system. We're not loyal to a system that hasn't been loyal to us.

Scenarios for pre-pandemic zoonotic influenza preparedness and response | EU Ctr for Disease Prevention and Control, Dec 4, 2025 www.ecdc.europa.eu/en/publicati...

It's the moment when he takes the medal out of the box and puts it on himself for me. That's one of the most pathetic things I've ever seen lol. He's so desperate to get it.

Every winter, #CommonMurres flood back to the #FarallonIslands to breed. Strong NW winds are their cue, some mornings we see 350–400k murres (nearly the entire Farallon population) gather offshore, then take to the sky in giant looping formations called Murrenados before landing en masse. 🦉🌎🧪

Billionaires' heads on photo-defecating robotic dogs art installation grabs attention