Lisa Shields

Executive Vice President, Strategic Communications, Access Industries & the Blavatnik Family Foundation. RTs, Follows ≠ endorsements.

[Christiane Amanpour @amanpour]

Lebanon’s President Joseph Aoun has this message for Iran: “There is a huge difference between helping us or interfering in our internal affairs… The people of Lebanon are paying the price… You are destroying the country for the sake of your own interest.”

@LBpresidency

[The Times of Israel @TimesofIsrael]

Astrophysicist Paz Beniamini from the Open University of Israel on Tuesday became the first scholar in the Ra’anana-based institution’s 52-year history to receive Israel’s prestigious $100,000 Blavatnik Award for Young Scientists.

Beniamini, 41, is an associate professor of physics and head of the Astrophysics Research Center at the Open University (ARCO), and an adjunct research professor at George Washington University in the United States.

Beniamini told The Times of Israel that his research focuses on “some of the most extreme environments in nature,” where particles can be accelerated to close to the speed of light and magnetic fields may be 100 trillion times greater than those on Earth.

[Catriona Miller @cmillerartlife]

Anna Airy born #OTD 1882, thankfully now better known, especially for her extraordinary WW1 paintings. You can see her at @I_W_M Blavatnik galleries (a must if you've never been), also currently on well-researched Beauty and Destruction exh about Blitz https://t.co/1jRVSrwics

[Justin Trudeau @JustinTrudeau]

Had a day of insightful and thought-provoking conversations with the @UniofOxford’s @BlavatnikSchool on the future of democracy in a tech-driven world. 

Thank you to Dean Woods, to the Blavatnik students, and to the Canadian alumni I had the pleasure of speaking with.

[Al Gore @algore]

Twenty years ago today, An Inconvenient Truth made its debut in movie theaters across the U.S.

I’ll be honest: I was skeptical that my slideshow about the climate crisis could become a successful movie. But thanks to our immensely talented director, Davis Guggenheim, Jeff Skoll, who made the ultimate decision to make the movie, and the incredible team behind the film — Laurie David, Lawrence Bender, Scott Z. Burns, Lesley Chilcott, Ricky Strauss, Diane Weyermann, and so many others, the film was a huge success, and opened the eyes of millions around the world to the threat posed by the climate crisis.

While I wasn’t sure that there’d be widespread public interest in a science-based slideshow, I have never doubted humanity’s ability to solve this crisis.

We know we must act, and Mother Nature is making that clearer and clearer every day. We’re already feeling the rapidly worsening impacts of a warming planet. Those impacts are evidence that our cause is even more urgent than it was 20 years ago. And as a result, the global movement for climate action has grown into the largest morally-based movement in the history of the world.

We also know now that we can act. Indeed, in the past 20 years, we’ve made tremendous progress: The world came together in 2015 to forge the historic Paris Agreement, which despite the recent U.S. withdrawal, continues to drive global action and ambition. Incredibly, last year, renewables made up 86% of all the new electric power installed around the world. In the U.S., renewables were 92% of all new power capacity!

Electric vehicles are now 25% of all new car sales worldwide and the sales of gasoline-powered vehicles have been declining since they peaked in 2017.

Unfortunately, however, the crisis is still getting worse faster than we are deploying the solutions — solutions that are now way cheaper than the dirty and dangerous fossil fuels still spewing heat-trapping pollution into the sky as if it is an open sewer.

So, while this is a natural occasion to reflect on the 20 years since the movie came out, I’m focused much more intensely on what we need to do now in order to shape what our world will look like in the next 20 years.

I’m still presenting my updated slideshow all over the world, training grassroots climate leaders and working with partners in 194 countries and territories who are creating change in their communities, in their workplaces and schools, and in their nation’s policies.

From what I’m seeing and hearing, I have no doubt that we will win this struggle. But it is still not clear that we will win it in time to avoid catastrophic damage and the dangerous negative tipping points that the climate scientists have long been warning us we must prevent.

Will we muster the moral courage and political will to solve this crisis?

Well, if you ever doubt our ability to do so, just remember that political will is itself a renewable resource. It’s up to all of us to renew it.

Photos: Still from An Inconvenient Truth, 2006.
Climate Reality Project training in Nashville, TN, 2026.

[Science girl @sciencegirl]

At the Spanish Riding School in Vienna, Lipizzaner stallions continue a centuries-old tradition of classical horsemanship, blending precision, grace, and deep rider–horse harmony in every movement.

[Shay Segev @DaznSegev]

DAZN is delighted to partner with Havoc Robotics to bring the National Havoc Robot League’s World Championship Pro Tour to fans around the world, for free.

Robot fighting combines engineering, creativity, and high-intensity competition and it’s capturing a new generation of fans.

We’re accelerating the growth of innovative and fast-growing sports like NHRL by helping them build global audiences.

@dazngroup #robotfighting #globalhomeofsport #NHRL

[Lisa Shields @lshieldslks]

@rkyncl @paleycenter @joshgroban Great evening and remarks, Robert. Well deserved honor!

[Robert Kyncl @rkyncl]

It was great talking about the future of @warnermusic with CNBC's @jonfortt and WMG's Global Head of Strategy Lisa Yang at the @amplify_summit last week. Huge opportunity ahead.

[Robert Kyncl @rkyncl]

Wonderful night at the @paleycenter Honors. Thank you for the incredibly kind words @joshgroban. Congrats to all my fellow honorees!

[SpaceX @SpaceX]

Starship’s twelfth flight test will debut the next generation Starship and Super Heavy vehicles, powered by the next evolution of the Raptor engine and launching from a newly designed pad at Starbase. The launch is targeted as early as Tuesday, May 19 → https://t.co/2gZQUxS6mm

[Simon Schama @simon_schama]

This is THE BEST! Happy happy birthday dear David - we need at LEAST another half century of you

[Robert Kyncl @rkyncl]

Dropped by @CNBC's @SquawkStreet to talk with @davidfaber about @warnermusic's incredible Q2. Proud of our team and the work we're doing to drive value growth for our artists, songwriters and shareholders.

Let's keep it going! 🎶

[Robert Kyncl @rkyncl]

.@warnermusic is teaming up with @ParamountPics to bring our artists & songwriters’ stories to the big screen. 📽️

Every artist deserves to tell their story in their own way - we're excited to partner with world-class filmmakers to make that happen.https://t.co/c7ntxeCNGD

[Lisa Shields @lshieldslks]

@rkyncl @warnermusic Bravo!!! 👏

[Robert Kyncl @rkyncl]

Another massive quarter for @warnermusic! 🚀 That’s 4 in a row now.

Double-digit growth, streaming growth is accelerating, and we’re just getting started with what’s next in tech and AI.

Huge credit to the team and our artists & songwriters - the strategy is hitting and the future looks big. 🎶📈

[Richard Engel @RichardEngel]

He's an international treasure

[Lisa Shields @lshieldslks]

‘We’re Adrift’: Arne Duncan on Democrats’ Education Agenda @The74 https://t.co/grgkm6lQXx

[S Sebag Montefiore @simonmontefiore]

Smuggled video reveals defiant song of hanged Iran protesters

https://t.co/BkjKeiT13u

[Niall Ferguson @nfergus]

I take my hat off to @scmallaby. His biography of @demishassabis is more than just a penetrating study of individual genius. It's the best history yet of AI and the network of brilliant minds who built it. Book of the year.