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Garry Peterson
@resiliencesci.bsky.social
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Director FinBio.org
Professor of Environmental Science
with focus on Resilience in Social-Ecological Systems
Stockholm Resilience Centre, Stockholm University stockholmresilience.org

projects:
regimeshifts.org
biospherefutures.net
goodanthropocenes.net .. more

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Garry Peterson @resiliencesci.bsky.social · 23d
Resilience Science Must-Knows

Nine essential insights from global resilience science to help decision-makers navigate a turbulent world.

Developed in dialogue with decision makers, and synthesised by an international team of resilience researchers

www.stockholmresilience.org/research/res...
Resilience Science Must-Knows
Nine things every decision maker should know about resilience
www.stockholmresilience.org

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Garry Peterson @resiliencesci.bsky.social · 17h
Public Health Guidelines for Social Connection: An International Delphi Study
Card+
doi.org/10.1016/j.he...

Popular summary
theconversation.com/we-created-h...
Redirecting
doi.org

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Garry Peterson @resiliencesci.bsky.social · 21h
The Disaster to Come: New York’s Next Superstorm www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
See Which New York City Neighborhoods Could Get Hit By the Next Hurricane (Gift Article)
Heavy rain would make a hurricane catastrophic. See the neighborhoods that could face the worst flooding.
www.nytimes.com

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Garry Peterson @resiliencesci.bsky.social · 1d
Perception of own centrality in social networks
Kovářík+
doi.org/10.1073/pnas...

people systematically misperceive their position in social networks and these misperceptions are correlated with academic outcomes, suggesting better understanding social structure could improve academic outcomes
We collected data on social networks from 11 independent classes in Loyola University Andalucia (Fig. 1A; Materials and Methods). In our sample, 484 (474) subjects reported their estimate of their own popularity (centrality). Fig. 1 B and C depict the distributions of the true and perceived in-degree and the deciles of centrality to which participants believe they belong, respectively. At the aggregate level, Fig. 1 B and C show that the true distributions of popularity and centrality exhibit “fatter tails” than their perceived counterparts. There is considerably higher frequency of unconnected/peripheral as well as highly connected/very central individuals in the true distribution, as compared to the distribution of perceived centralities.

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Garry Peterson @resiliencesci.bsky.social · 1d
Cultural innovation can increase and maintain biodiversity: A case study from medieval Europe
Spitzig+
doi.org/10.1073/pnas...

"profound changes in the floristic landscape ...that occurred between approximately 500 and 1000 CE can be described in terms of a critical transition" in regions SES
A gradual, profound change in the floristic landscape of the Lake Constance region occurred between approximately 500 and 1000 CE. Pollen-estimated plant diversity in the western Lake Constance region between 2000 BCE and 2000 CE, as measured by Shannon’s Diversity Index. Each point and bar indicate the mean and distribution (± one SD), respectively, of Shannon’s Diversity Index for all pollen samples, across all cores, within a 50-y time window.

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Garry Peterson @resiliencesci.bsky.social · 1d
IonE at U Minnesota, USA
environment.umn.edu

is hiring up to 2 research professors
impact-focused sustainability research capacity.
​
To apply
➡️Assistant: hr.myu.umn.edu/jobs/ext/371...
➡️Associate: hr.myu.umn.edu/jobs/ext/371...
➡️Full: hr.myu.umn.edu/jobs/ext/371...
Institute on the Environment | Discovering Solutions to Earth's Greatest Enviromental Challenges
IonE is leading the way toward a future in which people and the environment prosper together.
environment.umn.edu

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Garry Peterson @resiliencesci.bsky.social · 1d
OpenAI needs to raise at least $207bn by 2030 so it can continue to lose money, HSBC estimates
on.ft.com/4ojxyY7

"What might not be clear from the above is that the HSBC software team is very, very bullish on AI as a concept"
Please use the sharing tools found via the share button at the top or side of articles. Copying articles to share with others is a breach of FT.com T&Cs and Copyright Policy. Email licensing@ft.com to buy additional rights. Subscribers may share up to 10 or 20 articles per month using the gift article service. More information can be found at https://www.ft.com/tour. https://www.ft.com/content/23e54a28-6f63-4533-ab96-3756d9c88bad OpenAI’s cumulative free cash flow to 2030 may be about $282bn, it forecasts, while Nvidia’s promised cash injections and the disposal of AMD shares can bring in another $26bn. The broker also includes OpenAI’s $24bn of undrawn debt and equity facilities and, at the 2025 mid-year point, its $17.5bn of available liquidity. Squaring the first total off against the second leaves a $207bn funding hole, to which HSBC adds a $10bn cash buffer for safety’s sake.

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Garry Peterson @resiliencesci.bsky.social · 1d
"Archaeology is a weapon for us,

If anyone tries to invade our lands or undermine our presence, we can show that we have been here for centuries and that this place belongs to us."
-Kumessi Waurá Kuikuro, who participated in excavations with Heckenberger in 2018
www.science.org/content/arti...
To unearth their past, Amazonian people turn to ‘a language white men understand’
A model partnership between archaeologists and the Kuikuro people has helped rewrite the history of early Amazonian societies
www.science.org

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Garry Peterson @resiliencesci.bsky.social · 1d
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doi.org/10.1126/scie...
Headless bodies hint at why Europe’s first farmers vanished
Wave of mass brutality accompanied the collapse of the first pan-European culture
doi.org

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Garry Peterson @resiliencesci.bsky.social · 1d
<<"evidence points to “something of a cultural collapse.” From a demographic point of view, the LBK was a stunning success story.
...
“As LBK people multiply, communication becomes more and more difficult, and society breaks apart,” say Gronenborn>>
www.science.org/content/arti...
Headless bodies hint at why Europe’s first farmers vanished
Wave of mass brutality accompanied the collapse of the first pan-European culture
www.science.org

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Garry Peterson @resiliencesci.bsky.social · 1d
‘Catch Them Doing Something Good.’- Deb Fallows
www.ourtownsfoundation.org/catch-them-d...

across the USA "citizens are finding new ways to work together to meet the challenges of this time."
'Catch Them Doing Something Good.' - Our Towns
In communities large and small across the country, citizens are finding new ways to work together to meet the challenges of this time.
www.ourtownsfoundation.org

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Garry Peterson @resiliencesci.bsky.social · 1d
10X in Jacksonville assembled a novel “convergence” of three ...philanthropists; bureaucrats; actuaries...[they] recognized the many interests they had in common and engaged seriously on short- and long-term collaborations to protect their communities"
10across.org/events/10x-c...
HIGHLIGHTS FROM THE 10X CONVERGENCE: October 22- 23, 2025 - Jacksonville, Florida - Ten Across
Ten Across represents a cross-section of the country which is a strong indicator of the future.  The selected geography—roughly following the arc of the U.S. Interstate 10 from coast to coast—is on th...
10across.org

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Tobias Plieninger @plieningerlab.bsky.social · 2d
Reconnecting people to nature is key for biodiversity action. Our new study identifies 5 ways people relate to #Natura2000:
🐾 Learning
🏞️ Heritage
🪴 Care
🧑‍🌾 Multifunctionality
👭 Collaboration
Revealing such narratives can build new alliances & place PAs at the heart of society.
doi.org/10.1002/pan3...

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Garry Peterson @resiliencesci.bsky.social · 2d
“To remain competitive internationally, Sweden must meet its climate targets. Ordinary people want to be part of the transition, and we know it can be done fairly.”
-J Lindholm, President of LO, the Swedish Trade Union Confederation.

English
www.stockholmresilience.org/news--events...
24 reforms for a people-centred climate policy in Sweden
The research programme Fairtrans , hosted by the Centre, presents a groundbreaking agreement for a people-centred climate policy in Sweden, backed by major Swedish civil society organisations.
www.stockholmresilience.org

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Garry Peterson @resiliencesci.bsky.social · 2d
"Major Swedish organisations representing a total of 5 million members have negotiated 24 climate policy reforms grounded in science. Implementing these proposals could rapidly reduce emissions in a fair and effective way."

Swedish
fairtrans.nu/unik-overens...
Unik överenskommelse – 24 reformer för en folklig klimatpolitik - Fairtrans
Mikael Karlsson (Uppsala universitet), Beatrice Rindevall (Naturskyddsföreningen), Johan Lindholm (LO) Foto: Tobias Sterner/Björn Nordqvist/Clara Dagh ”Sveriges klimatpolitik går åt fel håll. Utsläppe...
fairtrans.nu

Reposted by Katharine Hayhoe, Garry Peterson, Sangeeta Mangubhai

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Simon Donner @simondonner.bsky.social · 2d
UN climate summits are a strange hybrid of diplomatic negotiations and a sprawling climate change bazaar. You can learn a lot about the state of climate action from watching the negotiations and from the many concurrent panels and side events. Here are five themes that emerged frequently at #COP30:

Reposted by Garry Peterson

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Mark Parrington @mparrington.bsky.social · 3d
The State of Wildfires website provides interactive maps for evaluating 2024-25 global fire season for detailed context (e.g., burned area anomaly by ecoregion shown below) stateofwildfires.com/latest-report/. For tropical Africa, the Congo Basin had one of the most extreme seasons in 2024.

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Garry Peterson @resiliencesci.bsky.social · 3d
“I think what the problem is right now is the methodology of consensus,
because this consensus has turned into veto...
So the most ambitious agenda has been eliminated.
Veto is what is happening here.”
-Torres, Colombia’s Environment and Sustainable Development Minister
drilled.media/news/COP30-w...
COP-tastrophe: How the COP of Implementation, Truth, Forests, and Indigenous Peoples Failed on All Counts
COP30 began full of promise but ended as yet another reminder that the mechanism for global climate governance is broken.
drilled.media

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Garry Peterson @resiliencesci.bsky.social · 4d
"only chance of keeping 1.5C within reach
is ... concrete roadmaps to
accelerate the phase-out of fossil fuels and
protection of nature.
We got neither.” - Johan Rockström on COP30
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Cop30’s watered-down agreements will do little for an ecosystem at tipping point
Delegates made minimal headway on timetable for replacing oil and gas or on firm commitments to reducing carbon emissions
www.theguardian.com

Reposted by Garry Peterson

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PIK_climate @pik-potsdam.bsky.social · 4d
"Warming is going to exceed 1.5°C. We are heading into overshoot within the next few years": a stark message by PIK Director Rockström & James Dyke in @theconversation.com. Yet, science shows a way back: fossil-fuel phase-out, nature protection, carbon removal.
theconversation.com/the-world-lo...
The world lost the climate gamble. Now it faces a dangerous new reality
The world bet on collective but voluntary action to keep global warming at a safe level.
theconversation.com

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Stockholm Resilience Centre @sthlmresilience.bsky.social · 6d
“This is a clear sign that the EU’s regulatory efforts on sustainable finance are too soft on anti-greenwashing measures,” says Centre researcher Beatrice Crona. “As a result, green investing is doing very little to shift actual investment allocations.”

Learn more: buff.ly/LEZhfZ8
Green funds only slightly differ from others, new study finds
A new study from researchers at the Centre and at KTH The Royal Institute of Technology has analysed nearly 7,000 European funds. They found that most “green” portfolios mirror conventional ones –…
buff.ly

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Stockholm Resilience Centre @sthlmresilience.bsky.social · 6d
Unique agreement!

Researchers and key civil society actors together present 24 reforms for a people-centered climate policy in Sweden. The proposals span ten areas, including:

- major investments in railways,
- electric vehicles,
-wind power,
- and green skills provision.

buff.ly/hmxON1h
Headline on top of image of solar panels

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Garry Peterson @resiliencesci.bsky.social · 6d
"...archaeologists have identified up to 11 canoes—ranging from 800 to 4,500 years old—within the same site. The 4,500-year-old canoe is now the oldest recorded in the Great Lakes."
www.wisconsinhistory.org/canoe
The Mendota Canoes | Wisconsin Historical Society
In partnership with Wisconsin’s Native Nations, we are preserving a pair of historic dugout canoes recovered from Madison’s Lake Mendota in 2021 and 2022.
www.wisconsinhistory.org

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Garry Peterson @resiliencesci.bsky.social · 6d
Wisconsin Historical Society
www.wisconsinhistory.org/canoe

Archaeologists mapped the location of 16 canoes submerged in the lake bed of Lake Mendota in Madison
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Archaeologists find ancient canoes used by Indigenous people in Wisconsin
Sixteen submerged canoes were discovered along Lake Mendota’s shore at a kind of prehistoric parking lot
www.theguardian.com

Reposted by Garry Peterson

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Urban Systems Lab @uslnyc.bsky.social · 7d
🌿 TODAY at #COP30:
Launching the NATURA Global Roadmap for Urban NbS—the FIRST global assessment of urban nature-based solutions
✨ 1000+ publications
✨ 150+ case studies worldwide
✨ 80+ expert contributors
✨ 7 regional teams
🎥 New video live now
📄 Get the reports at nbsroadmap.org
#NBSRoadmap

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Raj Patel @rajpatel.org · 7d
Now that I can post freely about books, there's quite a backlog. First, get your library to get a copy of the Oxford Handbook of Land Politics. (30% discount below) Ian Scoones lists the reason to read it and, as always, he's right: www.tni.org/en/article/t...
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The Nature of Cities @tnoc.bsky.social · 7d
#TNOCEssay
What happens when you ask people around the world to photograph the outdoor places that keep them healthy?
Read the essay and join the conversation: buff.ly/SEdE9TS
#UrbanNature #HealthyCities #Photovoice #NatureForHealth #TNOC

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Tobias Plieninger @plieningerlab.bsky.social · 7d
Which innovations around #ForestEcosystemServices are being developed in Europe? And where do we find them? A continent-wide mapping exercise led by Marko Lovric, an output of the SINCERE (sincereforests.eu) & InnoforEst (innoforest.eu) projects. #OpenAccess. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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The Society for Social-Ecological Systems (SocSES) @socses.bsky.social · 7d
📣 Upcoming webinar on how local “seeds” and participatory foresight can help guide pathways toward more sustainable and just futures 🌱

🎤 @amandajimenezac.bsky.social from @sthlmresilience.bsky.social

🗓️ 25 November 2025
🕑 7 am Mountain / 15:00 CET / 16:00 CAT
🔗 Register here: tinyurl.com/4pb3ybfz

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Garry Peterson @resiliencesci.bsky.social · 7d
"13.4% of homeowners — about 1 in 8 — are unprotected by homeowners insurance"
New Census Bureau data shows homeowners in the South and the Gulf Coast are particularly vulnerable.
www.nbcnews.com/data-graphic...
The share without insurance is highest in the South, where 15.7% of homeowners lack insurance entirely or pay so little for it that experts say the policies wouldn’t protect them. That’s a double bind in a region where households are both less financially able to weather severe climate events but — in many cases — more likely to experience them. Under-insurance rates are higher in counties with majority-minority populations. Twenty-two percent of homeowners are uninsured in majority Native American and Native Alaskan counties, and 14% are uninsured in counties that are majority-Black.

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Garry Peterson @resiliencesci.bsky.social · 7d
data from
Property Insurance and Disaster Risk: New Evidence from Mortgage Escrow Data
Key+
doi.org/10.3386/w32579

"a new dataset to study homeowners insurance using over 74 million premiums from 2014–2024 inferred from mortgage escrow payments"

Premium increases -> lower home value