caviarism.substack.com/p/como-leer-... Hace años escribí este textito sobre la isla Santa Rosa y los vaivenes del Amazonas. Lo reboto de nuevo porque puede leerse diferente en este contexto de nuevas locuras diplomáticas, que siguen dándole la espalda a los modos de ser de los ríos amazónicos.

Very excited to be joining the team at @mcgill-isid.bsky.social !

My great friend and colleague @eiremaz.bsky.social just published this article!

www.theatlantic.com/economy/arch... "The most promising avenue—one that could address the needs of millions of Americans who feel shut out of growth and prosperity (...)—might be a fusion of AOC/Bernie populism with a more political, less technocratic version of abundance."

www.wri.org/insights/gre... "We must move away from a narrative of decarbonization to one that focuses on building a better, more prosperous future for people."

www.afterbabel.com/p/legislate-... "We must stop assuming that we have to prove harm before acting. When it comes to children’s minds, companies should have to prove safety before operating."

According to UNFPA, 39 percent of people said financial limitations prevented them from having a child. www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/6/...

www.scientificamerican.com/article/revi... By adding the electrolyte whenever the battery neared that threshold, the team was able to restore most of the cell’s capacity each time—and it carried on working almost as well as a new battery.

open.substack.com/pub/caviaris... interesante post de @barriozevallos.bsky.social sobre las nuevas estrategias de litigación internacional para financiar la adaptación climática, y el lugar especial del Perú en ese proceso.

This level of cruelty, ignorance and incompetence, all at once, is just incredible. www.forbes.com/sites/sarado...

heatmap.news/politics/tru... such an important analysis by robinson meyer. "This will hit wind, solar, and batteries hard; (...) But higher interest rates will also make it harder to build new natural gas plants."

Escribí algunas reflexiones en Substack sobre la nueva data de perdida de bosques tropicales de U Maryland y GFW. Link abajo!

morningtrojan.com/p/usc-carol-... Folt’s $350,000 pay bump from 2023 — more than twice the median USC professor’s salary — will likely keep her in the running for the country’s highest-paid university president.

Latin America was particularly hard hit, reversing the reduction in primary forest loss seen in Brazil and Colombia in 2023. gfr.wri.org/latest-analy...

www.nytimes.com/2025/05/23/u... 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼

www.nytimes.com/2025/05/16/s... worth remembering as the orange clown slashes the US research system.

www.nytimes.com/2025/05/22/u... disgusting

"even current climate forcing (+1.2 °C), if sustained, is likely to generate several metres of sea-level rise over the coming centuries" www.nature.com/articles/s43...

This is a great thread. China's aluminum sector is huge, well over half of global production. Aluminum is extremely energy/electricity intensive. Decarbonizing this sector in China would be an emissions win probably on the scale of the IRA (the greatest law since sliced bread).

Forgotten Experts by A. Tunç Şen offers a history of Ottoman court astrologers and traces their shifting authority and prestige over the long sixteenth century. www.sup.org/books/mi... #ReadUP #HistorySky

theconversation.com/from-defende... In 2021, 71% of young Americans said people should be allowed to insult the U.S. flag (...) By 2024, that number had fallen to just 43% – a 28-point drop. Support for pro‑LGBTQ+ speech declined by 20 percentage points...

Bell Labs once housed both the discovery-focused researchers and scaling-focused engineers, creating a melting pot. This dynamic has dwindled as large companies outsource R&D to start-ups and universities and silo business units even more. www.worksinprogress.news/p/why-its-so...

www.fao.org/newsroom/det....

singularityhub.com/2025/03/28/w... There is evidence that when asked to explain how they reach a decision, models will sometimes provide plausible explanations that don't match the steps they took.

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The green state must rise from the ashes of the derisking state and its climate risk-loading foe, not as an anachronism but as an instrument of survival. www.phenomenalworld.org/analysis/ind...

China spent decades securing access to the world’s critical resources, building out the processing and refining infrastructure, and subsidising local manufacturing and consumption. It now dominates all stages of the supply chain, from mines to factories. www.ft.com/content/f867...

The debate in Congress over the future of federal energy spending could affect the direction of entire industries. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/13/c...

78% of new solar, wind, and battery projects have been built in Republican districts. 77.7 GW of clean energy capacity has been built in these districts since August 2022, bringing in roughly $100 billion in private investment. newsletter.cleanview.co/p/the-republ...

Science Magazine gets it wrong. 🧵

"For me, the answer now lies in refusal, the withdrawal of participation from systems that require dishonesty as the price of belonging." Today I am resigning from the National Science Board and the Library of Congress Scholars Council. I wrote about my decision in TIME. time.com/7285045/resi...

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www.bloomberg.com/news/article... "The Trump administration is also cutting funding for American science just as China is challenging its primacy across multiple technologies."

"The researchers found that from 2019 to 2022, an annual average of 30 million people — approximately one-third of a percent of the world’s population — migrated each year." www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

www.nytimes.com/2025/05/10/c... 🤢