I really think that post-Trump the US should erect a statue of a naked Trump to remind themselves

RealClimate: National Climate Assessment links www.realclimate.org/index.php/ar...

Risk analysis now needed of relative vulnerability of these forest age groups to climate-related and other stresses, as noted by authors (e.g. Anderegg, W. R. L., et al. (2022). A climate risk analysis of Earth’s forests in the 21st century. Science, 377(6610), 1099–1103. doi.org/10.1126/scie... )

The super-funding of T&Co.'s own paramilitary -- otherwise known as ICE -- is for me the scariest part of the BBBill. Read here for Kovensky's reporting and Skocpol's historical analysis .This story needs more & wider coverage. Please help to spread the word. talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/criti...

"Teaching sustainable development" is a workshop that @alicia-harley.bsky.social and I will be running at the National Sustainability Society ( #NSS @the-nss.bsky.social) conference in October. More here: www.linkedin.com/posts/willia...

Authoritative reminder that the important thing is not whether you benefit from T & Co’s actions, but rather their systematic & intentional violation of the law - not least the separation of powers in the Constitution & the protections in the Bill of Rights. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

"Just..."?

Harvard has set an example for other higher-ed institutions - rejecting an unlawful and ham-handed attempt to stifle academic freedom, while taking steps to make sure students can benefit from an environment of intellectual inquiry, rigorous debate and mutual respect. Let’s hope others follow suit.

Very much worth reading in its entirety on how to think about protests, protest numbers, and what is changing. Thanks!

Brilliant reflections on being there and its importance for the journey ahead. Wow!

Hands Off Protest in the Boston Common

Prof. Selin's election as a #AAASFellow is a well deserved honor and, together with her leadership of the new MIT "Center for #Sustainability Science and Strategy," great news for efforts to bring science to bear on advancing solutions to the challenges of #sustainabledevelopment. 🧪

CAPACITY BUILDING TO PROMOTE #EQUITY FOR #SUSTAINABILITY Virtual seminar on 3/26 with Nasif Khan (BRAC), Sharmila Murthy, (former Dir for Environmental Justice at White House), Grant Wilson (Earth Law Center), moderated by Alicia Harley (Harvard). 🧪 Register: www.hks.harvard.edu/events/capac...

Trump’s latest attack on Black communities is his dismantling of the EPA’s environmental justice offices—eliminating protections for communities poisoned by corporate pollution. @shalisemyoung.bsky.social discusses the latest public health failure.

Out of Putin’s war and Trump’s treachery, a new Europe is being born

‪ Carney previously led set up the important Task Force on Climate Related Financial Disclosures ( www.bankofengland.co.uk/-/media/boe/... ) and has written a searing, deeply informative book on the links between the rise of the market society and the decline of the role of values in public life.

Who funds biomedical research? @nature.com www.nature.com/articles/d41...

This is deeply illegal, violating appropriations law, authorizations law, and the Impoundment Control Act. It is also deeply immoral, condemning people to die.

Nice statement from NAS President Marcia McNutt on the need for science based analysis for policy decisions. www.nationalacademies.org/news/2025/03...

CAPACITY TO TRANSFORM DEVELOPMENT toward #SUSTAINABILITY Virtual seminar on 3/12 with Steve Nicholls (SAfrica Climate Com), Chuck Rumsey (Ecotrust Canada) & Amanda Woodrum (ReImagine Appalachia), moderated by Alicia Harley (Harvard).🧪 Registration & info here: www.hks.harvard.edu/events/capac...

TODAY IS THE DAY! 🧪☀️⬇️ Join us at the Lincoln Memorial or your local site to Stand Up for Science!

literally nothing can prepare you for this EPA press release www.epa.gov/newsreleases...

CAPACITY TO ADAPT IN SUPPORT OF SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT Virtual seminar on Feb. 26 featuring Carolyn Kousky (EDF), Aditi Mukherji (CGIAR), and Claudia Thyme (IDF). Moderated by Alicia Harley (Harvard). Registration and additional information available here: www.hks.harvard.edu/events/capac...

CAPACITY TO MEASURE PROGRESS TOWARD SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT Virtual seminar on Feb 12 featuring Carrie Exton (OECD), Eli Fenichel (Yale / OSTP), Mary Ruckelshaus (NatCap Project) & Alicia Harley (Harvard). Registration & additional information available here: www.hks.harvard.edu/centers/mrcb...

Postdoc Program at Univ of Minnesota’s Inst on the Environment (IonE) For interdisciplinary research in sustainability. Visit IonE Postdoc Fellowship "Apply Here" page: sites.google.com/umn.edu/ione... . Deadline Feb 2. Please reach out to [email protected] with any questions

A new independent news source. Led by Jennifer Rubin and Norman Eisen, it promises to provide the kind of reporting and commentary that we need so badly now. Their promise is "not owned by anybody," which means they need subscribers. Please consider joining!

The achievement of #net-sero #carbon #emissions in #aviation could be a very big deal for #sustainability ... especially for those of us who fly a lot. 🧪

The benefits of removing toxic chemicals from plastics are nicely analyzed in this excellent PNAS work by Cropper etal ( doi.org/10.1073/pnas... ). They show trillion $ damages, but also significant health improvements from existing & potential regulation. Call for paradigm shift toward precaution.

New "Synthesis of evidence yields high social cost of carbon due to structural model variation @ uncertainties" by Moore et al in @pnas.org combines lit & expert opinion for insights on #sustainability. 🧪 doi.org/10.1073/pnas... . See related work by coauthors @moritzdrupp.bsky.social, @gwagner.com

#Inequalities strain the efficacy of local governments & citizen satisfaction with them. Top down interventions don't relieve those strains. Bottom up ones do & thus can foster #sustainability. So conclude Andersson et al in World Development, 188, 106855 (sadly not OA) 🧪. doi.org/10.1016/j.wo...

Food system metrics are proliferating. This new blog by Fanzo (@jessfanzo.bsky.social) etal reviews current offerings, argues importance of covering full spectrum of consumption & production components in relevant nature-society systems & assessing resilience to shock www.cgiar.org/news-events/...

Great graphic. Does anyone have something even better? An update?

" #Sustainability of Animal-Sourced #Foods and Plant-Based Alternatives" is a new #PNAS Special Feature edited by Martin Qaim, Rodolphe Barrangou, & Pamela Ronald (www.pnas.org/topic/561). It explores technical, environmental, nutritional, health, and socioeconomic dimensions of the question.🧪

Admirable and awesome. Another solution (admittedly from a galaxy far away...): www.heiner.co.at/traditionell...

Worth following! Based in their Inaugural Conference (www.nationalsustainabilitysociety.org/meetings/sea...) they are serious, really trying to provide a forum for linking (serious) scholars and (experienced) practitioners, not yet very good at it, but one of the few quality games in town. IMO...

Thanks @waiterich.bsky.social . My strategy has been to spend the little time I have to follow people who I find post really interesting stuff & to rely on them (collectively) to bring to my attention people who do interesting stuff that I dont yet know about. Like I read journals. Thoughts?

So to make Bluesky (or Mastodon) work, it seems to me that we need to get back to the sustained dialog on substantive points that was Birdtalk at its best. But it seems to me that this requires us to engage on a few posts, rather than just using it for our own talking points. What am I missing?

Note: A scientifically solid & practically useful literature on "tipping points" in local nature-society systems has been available since at least the early 1960s: Ricker (1963) "Big Effects from Small Causes" in fisheries management, Holling (1973) "Resilience & stability of ecological systems."

This critique of "tipping point" framings in discussions of climate action applies even more strongly to its use in the context of other (i.e. non-climate) planetary boundaries where appreciation of spatial heterogeneity & context dependence are transcendently important for effective policy design.

New paper alert! While simple climate projections expect northern forests to become more productive with warming and take up more carbon, we show why this may not happen. Reminder that permafrost is the backbone of the Arctic. www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

"Twenty years of blogging in hindsight" from @brasmus.bsky.social at RealClimate provides a valuable & sobering perspective on changes in the challenges & opportunities of bringing scientifically sound knowledge to bear on the crisis of #climate change. Thanks! www.realclimate.org/index.php/ar...

This great paper has implications not only for Florida @ #SLR, but also for #adaptation studies more generally. It shows ways to better "evaluate how ongoing policy decisions may lead to, open up, or foreclose different possible futures," esp. how policy can affect #fairness in #risk spreading.

Disturbing, indeed. Does anyone have ideas on specific actions those of us in the science community who are (presently) in more protected positions can do to counter the attackers and support the attacked?

This list of things to be thankful for gets a #11: Thanks, Steve Walt, for keeping up the tradition and for your regular doses of reason in FP.

Not to mention a rosette, to wear wherever you like to wear such things...

#Metrics for #sustainabledevelopment take a major step forward with publication of "UK #inclusivewealth & income accounts" by the Office for National Statistics. (2024). www.ons.gov.uk/economy/econ.... It moves #humancapital & #naturalcapital to a center place in accounts of human #well-being. 🧪

Amen! This is why I continue to focus on the ultimate goal (end) of sustainable development: improvements in people's well-being, equitably distributed within & across generations. Measures to slow climate change are among the means for working toward this ultimate end. But not the ultimate end.

"Collective PES Contracts Can Motivate Institutional Creation to Conserve Forests: Experimental Evidence" by Grillos et al.) in Conservation Letters, e13066 (2024) doi.org/10.1111/conl... shows how "an external incentive program can stimulate the endogenous creation of informal institutions." OA!

The pursuit of #sustainability must be about how we use and conserve water as much as how we manage energy. This work by @petergleick.bsky.social lays out the challenges and potential from a long-term, science-based perspective. Invaluable!🧪

Very useful 🧪. But misprint alert: the dates spanned are 1974 to 2024. Full cited source is Shattock et al (2024). Contribution of vaccination to improved survival & health: Modelling 50 years of the Expanded Programme on Immunization. The Lancet, 403(10441), 2307–2316. doi.org/10.1016/S014...