Fascinating research by @samuelfinnerty.bsky.social on how scientist-activists navigate the tensions between their professional and activist roles, based on research with our group @scientistsforxr.earth

For university climate action people ... you are not alone! The Climate Justice Universities Union (CJUU or "Climate Uni") has a new North America branch, with a kickoff event tomorrow Feb 26 6pm eastern (online only, the in-person option was canceled). climatejusticeuniversitiesunion.org

Now available for pre-order!!! bookshop.org/p/books/brou...

The REVERB initiative reports that travel emissions, including aviation, are "live music’s biggest climate challenge – and its greatest opportunity." Founders and @tufts.edu alums, Lauren Sullivan and Adam Gardner will receive the 2026 Lyon & Bendheim Citizenship Award! reverb.org/concert-trav...

Good thread. Informative about ICE and FEMA schemes especially in Florida. And, at a deeper level, nice job remiding us how to use social media simply for discerning the empirical truth rather than just marking out ideological loyalties.

Those no good unfaithful lying cheating banks help finance private prisons and war bonds, and they went back on their climate pledges. From @xrboston.bsky.social on Instagram. www.instagram.com/reel/DU3v8Ot...

In this episode of the low-carbon travel and tourism show, Lifestyles of the NOT Jet Set, we walk across Washington DC to the Lincoln Memorial, on the same week that the Buddhist Walk for Peace is scheduled to arrive after walking from Texas. Episode 23: Pilgrimage. youtu.be/EAZBv1Px61o?...

An extraordinary new column in the Daily Telegraph (no, that's not a typo!) by Ambrose Evans Pritchard. Yes, it includes two charts by Carbon Brief, sure. But stay for the concluding few paragraphs about the electoral suicide of climate denial... www.telegraph.co.uk/business/202...

I don’t know who needs to hear Jesse Jackson leading the kids on Sesame Street in this beautiful call-and-response reminding them that every child is somebody, but here it is

Theres a quiet myth that #climate adaptation is less contentious than mitigation. It isn’t Who's protected? Who pays? Who decides? If we can’t transform society to decarbonize justly, why think adaptation will be easier? Both hinge on fairness, equality &democracy Reminded of key Qs by @volts.wtf

Jackson's 1988 campaign was an inspiration, and later he would speak in my neighborhood of DC, explaining how high DC would rank as a state in terms of population, tax revenue, military service, and contributions to the arts. He inspired the Bernie Sanders wing of the Democratic Party.

Very funny Bill McKibben reply to a critical letter in NYRB: "I’m grateful to Mark Roller for producing an almost pitch-perfect summary of the anti-renewable talking points that have been in circulation for decades. These would have been wrong in, say, 2016, but in 2026 they are just silly."

XR activists arrested in Harvard Sq while demanding that banks stop funding genocide, ecocide, private prisons and climate crisis! The planet and our neighbors are in danger; we're standing up for them no matter what! @xrglobal.bsky.social@[email protected]

Join us on #ValentinesDay to tell dirty banks to Stop Melting the Wrong ICE & drop fossil fuels! Jamaica Plain: xrboston.org/action/valen... Harvard Square: xrboston.org/action/v-day... Wear your favorite breakup outfit. Bring bank breakup signs or borrow ours. @xrglobal.bsky.social #Activism

Walk for peace: Buddhist monks arrive in Washington after 2,300-mile journey reut.rs/4kqhinI

Apparently we went from 'fringe to familiar' last year. And if we have anything to do with it, flight-free travel is going to become the norm in no time. www.timeout.com/news/how-to-...

Friends reminded me recently of the inspiring journey of Anthony Viaux, who left work as an Air France pilot to pursue a path that felt more authentic and enjoyable to him. #notjetset www.euronews.com/green/2025/0...

Here in the UK we've had one of our wettest winters ever. At the same time, we seem to be as addicted to cheap flights as ever before. Will we ever wake up?

For anybody, from any party, who values the rule of law, democracy, and our constitutional republic, this video is 11 minutes well spent. It's not a partisan political thing. It's about the rule of law, and it may give you pride in our representative government.

Mike Tyson -- the boxer, convicted rapist, and celebrity spokesperson for the "Black Energy" sugar-sweetened caffeinated beverage -- now also has a cruelly fat-shaming MAHA ad in the Super Bowl. I don't "take my hat off" to MAHA Inc. for this commercial. @nationalfoodmuseum.bsky.social

This Valentine's Day, 14 Feb, join @xrboston.bsky.social and me at Harvard Square for an event with droll themes about romance gone bad ("Break up with your toxic bank"). xrboston.org/action/v-day...

Caught the northeast regional home to Boston from DC overnight after the party last night, so that I could teach on Boston Campus today. Slept fine with Turtl product and an eye patch. Not happy though that the "cafe car" has no coffee (!). @Amtrak, you know I'm usually your biggest fan. #notjetset

Watched the Bad Bunny show live last night in DC at a party at The Grill from Ipanema in Adam's Morgan, a block from my childhood home, with friends from all over the United States and Latin America. Standing ovation. Singalong with favorite lyrics. Loud cheers.

Sir Ian McKellen performing a monologue from Shakespeare’s Sir Thomas More on the Stephen Colbert show. Never have I heard this monologue performed with such a keen sense of prescience. Nor have I ever been in this exact historical moment.TY Sir Ian, for reaching us once again. #Pinks #ProudBlue

The "global aviation regime [is] adept at shaping user practices & culture to enable & encourage unconstrained air travel… This has influenced the public’s perception of possible regulatory regimes…" "confront…artificial[] acceleration [of] demand." OPEN ACCESS: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Recognizing the lack of popular appeal in my boring old factual data analysis: “You don’t really want some economist on the radio telling you, ‘Oh, don’t worry about the food prices — the Bureau of Labor Statistics says food price inflation is normal,’ ” he said. www.wbur.org/news/2026/02...

The first 3 episodes of the podcast "Sabotage" from @goodluckmedia.bsky.social are full of insight into climate activism, outrageous art-themed protests in museums, the Getty family (connections with oil industry and art), and climate science and scientists. Immediately signed up on Patreon.

When demand exceeds supply, higher prices may restrain demand quantities, or empty shelves may ration supply, but something somewhere must give. "Panic buying ahead of the winter storm isn’t preparedness. Here’s who it hurts." -- Ayurella Horn-Muller @grist.org. grist.org/food-and-agr...

These 3 sectors are always listed together as "hard-to-abate" but they are distinct. Cement and steel are "hard-" but not "impossible-to-abate" on the supply side. New green cement and steel tech has a cost. But these techs are still highly worthwhile. Aviation, of the 3, is even harder (1/2)

"Yes, obviously." @zackpolanski.bsky.social has such strong political and personal low-carbon convictions that BBC asked if he would fly as prime minister. Simply avoiding unnecessary flying is a sensible troll-proof position. #notjetset www.thenational.scot/news/2581478...

SABOTAGE from @goodluckmedia.bsky.social & Yellow Dot 🙌👁️ "Why It’s Impactful: It is incredible that the Sabotage team got to embed with Just Stop Oil to give us insight into a world not commonly explored (mostly for safety) and to help us understand it. This would not have happened without trust."

Lunch hour, Mystic River, in January. #notjetset

As we contemplate the past history and future potential of Non-Violent Direct Action (NVDA), asking ourselves whether these methods have enough muscle to really matter, we notice how much people in power fear whistles, disdain, and peaceful refusals of service.

William A. Masters has been awarded the 2026 Georg and Greta Borgström Prize for Global Food Security 🏆 His work brings economics, agriculture, and nutrition together to make healthy diets more affordable worldwide. 🔗 Read more: https://bit.ly/4jWQpre

Amazing video about the lies the Tech CEOs tell us daily about AI, in particular in relation to climate change and energy needs by @climateadam.bsky.social Really love this one! youtu.be/py0XpKxAnNU?...

Even while loving democracy, we can recognize this moral limitation: politicians in a democracy sometimes find stable electoral success even while disregarding or antagonizing fractions of the population that are marginalized and disenfranchised. (1/2)

APA @apaphilosophy.bsky.social will give a commemorative bookmark and a copy of "Academic Ethics Today" to donors at certain levels. Also: The APA is cancelling a much-praised 3-year climate-friendly conferencing pilot, after the first one underperformed. www.apaonline.org/news/717954/...

Look at those smiles!! Hope you had a wonderful time ☃️

Wisdom. #flyingless #notjetset

#ValentinesDay #ClimateAction #Heartbreak #Boston #Massachusetts

I'm glad this video has gone viral. My wife (a trumpet player) and my mother-in-law (in her late 80s) loved Brass Solidarity at the Honk festival in Cambridge this fall. If you like this spirit, locally, you may like the events page for @xrboston.bsky.social , which often features the BaBam band.

Sometimes it may be because God just wants to chat when we're not otherwise busy. When we wake up at 3am with world events on our mind, we can pray, "okay, God, you can have this time." It doesn't cure insomnia, but it cures that dreadful cycle of sleeplessness and self-criticism for sleeplessness.

brass solidarity band performing “stand by me” in the streets of whittier next to alex pretti’s memorial. the crowd started chanting “the people united will never be defeated” so they incorporated it into the song. i love minneapolis

Blessings for friends in Minneapolis, standing up for what's right, facing deadly danger. May you be fortified in coming days by small signs foretelling your victory.

Sometimes an activity ... such as skiing ... can be enormously carbon intensive if we fly to a downhill skiing resort and zero carbon if we stash some used skis in the rafters of a garage, wait patiently for a seasonal storm, and be sure to set aside work when it arrives. #notjetset

Democrats shouldn't try to close ICE detention facilities but instead focus on fostering a culture of abundance within those ICE detention facilities

Three implications: (1) falling costs for solar+battery are lovely good news, (2) we still should plan for elevated costs per unit after sunset and not overpromise near zero cost for solar all day, (3) next let's ramp up courage on demand reduction in difficult to electrify sectors (aviation).

'The... dairy checkoff program collects funds from farmers for... efforts such as the famous “Got Milk?” campaign of the 1990s and 2000s. What’s notable here, experts say, are two things: The campaign’s emphasis on whole milk,... and the fact that government officials ... advertise milk directly.'

"Stop running and look around" suggests @zackpolanski.bsky.social.

This is what airport expansion looks like. This is Jhosselyn, standing in front of the house she was given after being displaced for the Pacific Airport in El Salvador. Over a year into construction, and the housing is of such low quality that it's illegal. That's why we say #EndAirportExpansion.