The Biodiversity Intactness Index - country, region and global-level summaries for the year 1970 to 2050 under various scenarios on the @NHM_London Data Portal DOI: https://t.co/j3yHk3mfKu https://t.co/zTesJXH7Vn
The Pacific Ocean’s ‘Great Garbage Patch’ has a hidden twist: 46% of its plastic mass is fishing nets, outweighing the infamous plastic bags and straws combined
Israel bombed and murdered the Prime Minister of Yemen along with several cabinet members, and there is zero outrage in Western media… it’s barely even a story. The level of impunity is breathtaking.
The Scotsman newspaper tomorrow (Tue 2 Sep) will run an obituary for Dr Ulrich E. Loening (1931-2025), the pioneering molecular biologist who led the Centre for Human Ecology at Edinburgh University; contributed by his colleagues and family, p. 43 and online.
I hope that the more artificial “intelligence” becomes a thing, the more real intelligence - intellectual, emotional & spiritual - will be sought out. A hunger will arise in the psyche for real presence, substance and meaning not conflated with data shovelled pattern recognition.
BREAKING 📢 The Government's own MPs and many others across parties call for a BAN on destructive bottom-trawl fishing in offshore marine protected areas🪸
This intervention from the Environmental Audit Committee shows that pressure is building 💥💥💥
https://t.co/zkmfaG4UHm
A lot of these dead 'cleaner' fish were put in fresh water meaning that their cells exploded one by one. This industry is an ethical and environmental nightmare. @rspcaassured@SoilAssociation What are you thinking? Stop legitimising this awful industry. #Offthetable
This report shows how abundant Scottish seas can be, the terrible consequences of a lack of protection, and that the marine legacy of MSPs is little more than a litany of broken promises as the damage continues. @MairiGougeon @MairiMcAllan@lornaslater
https://t.co/bSWWx0V0Eo
On Sunday we revealed more than 400 University staff have higher pay than Scotland's First Minister. They include Edinburgh principal Peter Mathieson who earns £380k. Today he announced 350 staff had taken voluntary redundancy with further cuts feared. https://t.co/g1Th3bE9bt
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This is what should be on every front page right now. What's happening in the US right now is an illegal power grab by a private citizen.
IT'S A COUP.
It's a digital coup. It's Musk who's leading it. The consequences are terrifying. And it's coming for us next.
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as an anthropologist, one of my specialisations is authoritarianism & revolutionist practice in response to it
one of my research foci for is the social processes of a society's descent into authoritarianism
a historian once told me:
it happens slowly, then all at once.