This is The Economist ignoring the risks of economic centrality. Rather, making fun of economic poly-centricity.

Unfortunately, nobody in the US talks about how much the lack of building and urban design is actually increasing everybody's cooling need (and cost). For those, who can afford it. Because we also don't talk about the people who can not.

Stewardship practices enhance nature’s contributions to people 🌍 academic.oup.com/bioscience/a...

4/ Phenomena such as emergence, self-organization, resilience, criticality, feedback loops, and adaptation challenge purely reductionist approaches to science and invite broader forms of interdisciplinary and intercultural collaboration.

Reactionary centrism can never fail, it can only be failed.

Our physical attribution model for #urban heat islands offers a valuable analytical framework for understanding the urban energy balance during #extreme #heat events. #academicsky #greensky #sciencesky #AcademicChatter #ClimateChange #climate #ipcc 🧪

📢 Discover how #systemsthinking is reshaping K–12 learning in Türkiye at the #ISDC2026 Plenary featuring Meltem Ceylan Alibeyoğlu. 📅 Pre-conference Virtual Events: July 14-16, 2026 📅 July 20-24, 2026 at Delft, The Netherlands 🔗 https://ow.ly/FSW950ZfC3y#systemsthinking#ISDC2026#SystemDynamics

Still angry? You bet I am. Totally unnecessary damage to the country and so many people. Advance notice of sweary alt text

This.

Hear it from Christiana Figueres: holding systemic risk and systemic opportunity together can give us the energy to move forward. 1 year ago, Christiana Figueres, @outrageoptimism.bsky.social, spoke at our symposium about taking a systems approach to climate risk. youtu.be/B-246r-noxo?...

🛋️ Free to download here: csh.ac.at/news/its-the... Enjoy! Printed copies can be picked up at our CSH office. The video above was generated with Canva based on our photos.

Early season monsoon stats in India showing rainfall already ~40% below normal. With El Niño strengthening, this is likely to bring a notable impact to crop yields as forecasts suggest the country's weakest monsoon in a decade. India is among the world's biggest producers of rice, sugar, and cotton.

Practically everywhere, children are exposed to above-average #heatwave duration. data.unicef.org/resources/ch...

Does this street look closed to you? We shouldn’t need to host the #WorldCup in order to open streets for people. #UrbanTruth #Vancouver

There's almost zero critical questioning out there. Honestly. Even when experts are in the room, basics go unchecked. And AI is going to make it worst, of course. Beware of being homogenised by the answers to your prompts. Beware of limited questioning dressed up as insight.

A historic wreck and a changing climate, yes, but ... does this deserve the spotlight? Is this beyond the boundary of what deserves public attention? Where is the boundary of what really matters?

A new urban sociality.

🚨Reminder: Apply to the iDiv Fellowship Programme! Spend dedicated time at iDiv to advance your research and collaborate with our biodiversity community. 📅 Deadline: 24 June 2026 🔗 www.idiv.de/research/fel...

Heroes!

Mr. Bartanen, your assignment shows good effort, but it would benefit from a stronger critical stance, particularly addressing how to maintain researcher agency and intellectual integrity. For this reason, I’m giving it 49 points.

From beliefs to outcomes: How human conceptions of nature shape environmental trajectories 🌍 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

When Frontiers started automating the editorial process, I stayed. I reasoned that as long as the automation could be turned off, human editors can still ensure rigorous, high-quality peer review. This now became impossible - the system has been entirely hijacked by algorithms.

SFI Science Board Fellow Simon Levin (Princeton University) has been named a Fellow of the Royal Society. Since the 1970s, his work has been rooted in mathematical theories and models to better understand a range of environmental issues.

Good night, Koch bros 💤 --- Don't let the solar panels hit you on the way out!! h/t @janfichtner.bsky.social

The most extreme heatwaves physically possible already today could dwarf all events in recent memory. And even more worrying, they occur successively after one or more extreme heatwaves in the same summer. 🔥 Paper: www.nature.com/articles/s43... @erichfischer.bsky.social @commsearth.nature.com

🌎 This #WorldEnvironmentDay we're looking ahead to #WOHC2026 - dedicated events under the theme of "climate change, Environment, Ecosystems Health" highlight how there's no #OneHealth without a healthy environment. Learn more & register at: globalohc.org/minisite/9WO... #NowForClimate

Same #climatechange, different #city heat challenges, and solutions: Humid city? Stop paving and (see +). Dry city? You need wind corridors, shade and (see +). Background climate controls urban heat island mechanisms. + details doi.org/10.1016/j.uc... #academicsky #ipcc #greensky #sciencesky 🧪

Walkable cities aren’t just sustainable: they’re safer!🚶‍♂️🏙️ But what does walkability actually mean for safety? Check out the eye-opening insights from Pina and team below! 👇

The secret to high-performing research teams is clear expectations from Day 1. This toolkit features guides from @ox.ac.uk @york.ac.uk @turingway.bsky.social to help you build a great research group. Dive in: whiterose.ac.uk/erh/create-a... #AcademicChatter #LabManagement #ResearchCulture

LLMs are used widely in the behavioral sciences. But we have no good standards for how to do so. We introduce a consensus-based reporting checklist to improve transparency, reproducibility and ethical accountability of LLM-based research in the behavioural sciences. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Climate Counter-Reformation?

Walkable cities aren’t just sustainable: they’re safer!🚶‍♂️🏙️ But what does walkability actually mean for safety? Check out the eye-opening insights from Pina and team below! 👇

Systemic risk from the Environment to the Macro-economy. Clever use of methods. Nice estimates. I'd say estimates are conservative: 1. indirect effects, 2. secondary impacts, and 3. regional clustering, i.a., would make things worse.

𝗛𝗼𝘄 𝗰𝗮𝗻 𝘀𝗰𝗶𝗲𝗻𝗰𝗲 𝗷𝗼𝘂𝗿𝗻𝗮𝗹𝗶𝘀𝘁𝘀 𝗿𝗲𝗮𝗰𝗵 𝘁𝗵𝗲𝗶𝗿 𝗮𝘂𝗱𝗶𝗲𝗻𝗰𝗲 𝗮𝗺𝗶𝗱 𝗔𝗜 𝘀𝗹𝗼𝗽, 𝗻𝗲𝘄𝘀 𝗮𝘃𝗼𝗶𝗱𝗮𝗻𝗰𝗲, 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝘀𝗽𝗶𝗻 𝗱𝗼𝗰𝘁𝗼𝗿𝘀? @istaresearch.bsky.social brought together a panel of brilliant science journalists for a thought-provoking discussion, including our current journalist in residence @elisecutts.bsky.social! #SciWri

Vous êtes du Havre ou des alentours ? Je recrute des havrais(es) dans le cadre d'une étude (rémunérée) pour ma thèse !⬇️

Just published from @ifisc.uib-csic.es in Phys. Rev. Research: Some results for the modeling debate on Higher Order versus Pairwise interactions link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/...

Is that a trend? The laptop guy?

Albania, Canada, ... we are unstoppable.

What does a nature-centric response to risk look like? The Biomimicry Institute shows how nature-inspired solutions can help address systemic risks, from climate change to biodiversity loss. www.asranetwork.org/srr-series/t... #WorldEnvironmentDay

Same #climatechange, different #city heat challenges, and solutions: Humid city? Stop paving and (see +). Dry city? You need wind corridors, shade and (see +). Background climate controls urban heat island mechanisms. + details doi.org/10.1016/j.uc... #academicsky #ipcc #greensky #sciencesky 🧪

#NetSci2026 lightning talks (4) @netscisociety.bsky.social @netsciconf.bsky.social

Great results! A point in this paper reminds me of Axelrold 97 (see table 1 www.jstor.org/stable/174371).

If your only value in the classroom is knowing more than the students, you don’t understand pedagogy

3/ The task was deliberately concrete. Teams had to reproduce a target result, inspect code and data, identify coding errors, and propose robustness checks. This was not a survey of AI attitudes; it was a structured test of AI in actual empirical research work.

Chapter 13: @jsaramak.bsky.social & @pholme.bsky.social on temporal networks of social interactions. A fascinating chapter showing why static network snapshots often miss the most important thing: the timing and order of interactions. Social networks are dynamic processes, not just fixed structures.

Old housemates, old school friends, family members, - they even asked a local launderette for an itinerary of what I've had washed! All this from billionaire owned media because they don't want a party to continue growing that challenges power & wealth. Join.greenparty.org.uk

When I see an AI summary, I avert my eyes like I walked in on my grandmother changing clothes.

Where's infill growth more effective? Insights from fractals and complexity science can help prioritising for a range of goals, e.g., emissions reduction. This related research was inspired by coral reef growth, a similar process from a complex systems view: gmd.copernicus.org/articles/12/...

#OTD: Biologist, writer & environmental trailblazer Rachel Carson was born May 27, 1907. Her iconic book "Silent Spring (1962) detailed the harmful effects of pesticide use, specifically DDT, on nature & humanity - and is widely regarded as having ignited the modern global environmental movement.