Not a single day in 2025 was cooler than the 1991-2020 average, on a global scale. @copernicusecmwf.bsky.social

Friends, Claudette Colvin—the 15-year-old who refused to give up her seat on a Montgomery bus in March 1955 & joined the federal case against bus segregation that went to the Supreme Court — died today at age 86. But there are lots of myths and mis-impressions about her. A short corrective thread:

There is abundant empirical evidence that refutes the production /land equation. Whereas the belief in intensification tends to rely on modelling of optimal scenarios along limited variables.

Bringing the drama of a Caravaggio to asparagus 🫡

buttons coming back, shitty door handles slowly being made illegal, now just make cars small again and we’ll be getting somewhere

Finally met the Big Prawn 🦐

New paper out in Ecology Letters! Led by Ennia Bosshard and Chris Kaiser-Bunbury, we show that proximity to natural habitat doesn’t consistently support pollination in tropical smallholder farms. Landscape complexity matters more than distance. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

🌍 African #savanna science is heavily skewed: 46% of studies come from just 2% of #ProtectedAreas. Using the new ADSPA geodatabase, this work identifies five #bioclimatic groups and reveals major research gaps across underrepresented savannas. 🐘 🔗 doi.org/10.1111/ddi....

I've been thinking about disability and vulnerability in urban food systems recently and just caught up with this gem. For what is a very rich discussion this was also a fantastic primer for anyone thinking about disability. Highly recommend.

AI is a climate issue. AI is a climate crisis.

Collapse of key Atlantic current could bring extreme drought to Europe for centuries, study finds. @swinda.bsky.social That's an under-appreciated impact of #AMOC shutdown, of particular concern given the recent results showing much higher likelihood of this. 1/2 www.livescience.com/planet-earth...

Great article. Food, IP, colonialism, so many themes. www.theguardian.com/food/comment...

For context, total crop output revenue in the UK is about £10 billion. Losses in 2024 due to heat and drought were £600 million. Pretty bad. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Migratory behavior may come and go throughout the deep history of an animal species. Do Africa’s Mass Animal Migrations Extend Into Deep Time? www.sapiens.org/archaeology/...

New post by me on #MITPressReader @mitpress.bsky.social On the 100th anniversary of the #ScopesMonkeyTrial the ways we depict #evolution can still give an erroneous progressive view (that evolution leads to humans or ‘increased complexity’). thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/is-our-pictu...

Interesting arguments here about persistent stress for humans in industrial societies - but misses out on highlighting all the weird health outcomes in human history that have been downstream from culture and society onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

This was already demonstrated over half a century ago with the banning of DDT. Why are we on repeat here? share.google/tX0kljiyYfOn...

2 months ago I was speaking with a Neanderthal specialist and they brought up extinction. I put it to them that if Neanderthals and humans were mixing and their DNA is present in Eurasian ancestry, is extinction the right word? share.google/uVHOfFdQ6tPP...

If you thought drop bears weren’t terrifying enough. DROP CROCS.

Definitely fine and no dangerous precedent or cascade of effects could occur from this www.abc.net.au/news/rural/2...

Oh, I love this. A new species of sea anemone was discovered recently that parks itself on top of a hermit crab shell like a hat. It seems to feed partly off the crab's faeces, but it also excretes a hard shell that extends the crab's home. In return, it's carried around the seafloor like a king.

For people interested in food systems and policy interactions, or if you just love Sankey diagrams, myself and colleagues from CSIRO made an interactive dashboard for Federal policies in Australia. foodsystemhorizons.org/insights/pol...

US used coffee breaks to personally threaten negotiators in global climate talks on shipping: “They went from delegation to delegation . . . threatening them. Telling them to go back and speak to their capitals, warning what would happen if they didn’t change their minds,” the diplomat said.

If climate policy had a “best buy,” it might be methane cuts Global methane mitigation has a benefit–cost ratio >6:1, even before accounting for near-term climate feedbacks A strong case: it’s among the most efficient levers in climate policy www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Useful new paper www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Glad to report that nature is returning for the undergrads.

We're doing Nikolai Vavilov again but this time the whole biosphere is at stake.

Marshall McLuhan said "a light bulb creates an environment by its mere presence" - foods and food tech are likewise disruptive technologies that shape environments around them.

Baking was critical to the Lower Kingdom. It allowed the stationing of large forces to counter tribal raids into the fertile Nile region. Bread production on that scale required advanced yeast filtering through linen bags. If hadn't been for cotton-tied dough, they'd been harried long time ago.

Climate change is a major risk for food inflation but economics may be a more immediate risk in many cases. www.ft.com/content/b5d7...

Multispecies tern

This is a really interesting paper led by the brilliant Alex Bertacchi using isotopes to understand landscape use by ancient foragers in Malawi. I had a very minor role in the fieldwork back in 2019. Good science can take a long time 🏺 www.nature.com/articles/s43...

Oh oh (redux) ... ‘This is bad news’: Australian tropical rainforest trees switch in world first from carbon sink to emissions source. Researchers say carbon emissions change in Queensland tropical rainforests may have global #climate implications. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

How is this repeatedly made into a policy issue - by *all* parties - when the blunt fact of the matter is that grown adults who are obliged to pay for their own education, and relentlessly pursued to repay their loans, should be able to study whatever the fuck they want.

What does a healthier diet look like for us and for the planet? The new EAT-Lancet report is out today. With less food waste, better farming shifting diets with 2/3 more fruit +veg+nuts & much less meat we can cut food emissions in half & protect water & wildlife. www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

US capital is more interested in power and control than it is in profits, otherwise we would implement more profitable policies like UBI and a 4 day 32 hour work week.

Land restoration in Burkina Faso’s Centre-Ouest and Kadiogo regions is women’s work. Here, women have made fertilizer trees their indispensable allies in reviving farmland. Thanks to these nitrogen-fixing and shade-providing trees, they’re bringing degraded soils back to life.

It's alarming how many people need to hear this: racism is not the natural and inevitable response to the presence of (the wrong number of) racialised Others. It is a learned response, and as such it is contestable and replaceable. This is anti-racism 101. Entry level stuff.

Brutalist Canberra

🍽️ @uniofexeteresi.bsky.social are walking the walk with sustainable local food #LocalFood

I am looking for a multispecies archaeologist with a strong theoretical and interpretive profile to join my group (100%, 3 years): uni.koeln/2E7CR Deadline: 30.09.2025. Apply here: uni.koeln/ZQMKA ("Wiss2508-21") @nakedprimate.bsky.social @mesh-research-hub.bsky.social @unicologne.bsky.social

“The apes were particularly fond of figs, which contained some of the highest levels of alcohol the team recorded” www.theguardian.com/science/2025...

New paper on the intersections of ethnobiology and degrowth: two ways of understanding our place in the world through action-oriented, imaginative research into socioecological relationships. doi.org/10.1177/0278...

A database of archaeology Codes of Ethics. 🏺

🤯 The EU plans huge cuts to rules protecting workers, rights & the environment. We join 470+ groups warning von der Leyen: protections are being sold for profit! Laws must serve people & planet, not corporate gains. Full statement 👉 corporateeurope.org/en/2025/09/o... #RulestoProtect #SOTEU

Ramphastos dicolorus Linnaeus, 1766 | Tucano-de-bico-verde | Red-breasted Toucan . Trilha dos Tucanos, Tapiraí -SP, Brasil 📸 #Canon R7 + rf 100–400mm #wildlife #birds #photography #naturephotography #nature #Brazil #biodiversity