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Sustainable 💚 language teaching 🌍 one byte at a time @uniofeastanglia 🦉Whereof one cannot tweet, thereof one must be silent

[Spanishbytes @Spanishbytes]

Spanish teaching books can't go where you can go as a teacher. In this chapter I am telling you why and how I started a journey of inquiry and problem solving that took me from #Diversity to #decolonisation, and then to #sustainability and beyond. Read-Comment-Share it 👍

[Gaza Notifications @gazanotice]

🚨BREAKING: As the world watches the Israel-Iran exchange, Israeli warships open fire on Gaza’s shores, injuring displaced families sheltering in tents by the sea.

For the fourth day, Gaza is under total internet blackout and under nonstop bombardment, unseen and unheard.

[Mark Ruffalo @MarkRuffalo]

Thank you Javier Bardem for your decency, your courage, and love for all human beings. You are a beacon of light, amigo.

[Spanishbytes @Spanishbytes]

@PabloDalby Congrats, Pablo! Great work.

[Prof. Stefan Rahmstorf 🌏 🦣 @rahmstorf]

Guterres says what about 99% of us climate scientists are thinking.
Don’t let yourself be fooled by the massive fossil fuel industry propaganda effort that has been going on for decades.

[Survival International @Survival]

Yannick Ndoinyo, a Maasai man from Tanzania, explains what's wrong with Protected Areas.

In neighboring Kenya, @NRT_Kenya's carbon offsetting project on Indigenous lands is devastating Indigenous people's lives. NRT is making millions from this.

Act now: https://t.co/6eFGG4fiFz

[Mike Galsworthy @mikegalsworthy]

You can’t rejoin the EU by the back door.

To rejoin the EU, there���s a very open & clear set of processes.

We need to sort our own house out… and then go knocking on the EU’s only door - the front door.

[Spanishbytes @Spanishbytes]

#cultures of integrity versus fueling #groupthink

[Adam Grant @AdamMGrant]

In cultures of politeness, dissent is a threat to social harmony. People nod and smile even if they disagree, and silence fuels groupthink.

In cultures of integrity, dissent is a sign of commitment to quality. People voice their views, and respectful debate improves decisions.

[Spanishbytes @Spanishbytes]

Mitigating #globalwarming affecting the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation with severe impacts: drastic temperature decreases in Europe, shifts in tropical rainfall affecting global #agriculture, increased #weatherextremes in the #NorthernHemisphere needs investment now!

[Prof. Carl Sagan @ProfCarlSagan]

How much do you think?

[Spanishbytes @Spanishbytes]

Manipulative behaviour has terrible consequences, in #politics too: "Populists invent or dramatize problems, preferably those associated with resentments. And they ignore or negate real problems, torpedoing #solutions (...) because the changes required do not suit some people."

[Prof. Stefan Rahmstorf 🌏 🦣 @rahmstorf]

"Populisten erfinden oder dramatisieren Probleme, bevorzugt solche, die mit Ressentiments zu tun haben. Und sie ignorieren oder negieren echte Probleme, torpedieren Lösungen (...), weil die Veränderungen erfordern, die manchen Leuten nicht passen." https://t.co/VlAF6sB2tT

[Adam Grant @AdamMGrant]

In cultures of politeness, dissent is a threat to social harmony. People nod and smile even if they disagree, and silence fuels groupthink.

In cultures of integrity, dissent is a sign of commitment to quality. People voice their views, and respectful debate improves decisions.

[rachelle_earwaker @r_earwaker]

New HBAI data out today also provides an update on food insecurity.

It's sadly not surprising , but it is heart-breaking to confirm that in 2022/23, 7.2 million people were in households experiencing food insecurity in the UK - up by 53% (!!) on a year before.

A🧵 below: 1/x

[Sit At The Table™ (est. 2011) @SitAtTheTable]

“Each time a #woman stands up for herself, without knowing it possibly, without claiming it, she stands up for all #women.” – Maya Angelou

#WomensHistoryMonth2024 #WHM #WHM2024

[Spanishbytes @Spanishbytes]

"La magia de la cocina de las abuelas no era amor sino trabajo. Basta de cursilería, es menosprecio disfrazado. Y sí, hoy también es el día de esas mujeres trabajadoras". Pues claro que sí. https://t.co/urrHzYjeES via @el_pais

[The Nobel Prize @NobelPrize]

Happy International Women's Day!

We're celebrating women who have changed the world. Here's all of the amazing women who have received the #NobelPrize and their remarkable achievements at the time of the award.

Who are the women who inspire you the most?

#IWD2024

[Anthony Pym @AnthonyPym3]

La traductrice et l'auteur parlent de la traduction du livre Explorations des théories de la traduction. Livre disponible gratuit en en ligne: https://t.co/O6oAlhEYbz
https://t.co/hvRuLNxTzq

[Spanishbytes @Spanishbytes]

#CaliEsCOP16 , host city for #COP16 in October – the first biodiversity summit since a historic UN deal was made to halt the rampant loss of #biodiversity, in Montreal, Canada at the end of 2022. "Political leaders really need to step up.” https://t.co/ReYXC1fHf5

[Spanishbytes @Spanishbytes]

The poly-crisis we are experiencing across the planet is an anthropological @crisis: it is the crisis of humanity failing to stay human/become Humanity. Communication of truth is aid, & lies kill, at every level, leading towards catastrophes, unfolding.
https://t.co/Kt3FZOwrtT

[Spanishbytes @Spanishbytes]

The project of The Narrative of the Just Energy needs #EDUcators to inspire, empower & challenge the status quo to enact real transformation. Our influence is both immediate and far-reaching, shaping the minds and actions of future leaders and innovators
https://t.co/YvBMoVko8z

[Spanishbytes @Spanishbytes]

https://t.co/YvBMoVko8z Getting ready for #COP28UAE So excited to present The Narrative of the Just Energy Transition, a bold initiative developed through Europe's Energy Earthshot (#EEE) catalyzed by @thebteamhq, in collaboration with Massive Change Network @MAUMC24.

[Carlos Javier González Serrano @Aspirar_al_uno]

Las grandes ciudades albergan cada vez menos espacios públicos en los que poder reunirse sin la urgencia del consumo, se reducen los parques y los bancos en los que sentarse. El negocio no tolera espacios “inútiles” donde detenerse, contemplar o conversar y aislarse del consumo.