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Josh Moody @byjoshmoody.bsky.social · 3d

MIT rejects "compact" proposed by the Trump administration.
MIT prez wrote: it "would restrict freedom of expression and our independence as an institution" and "is inconsistent with our core belief that scientific funding should be based on scientific merit alone."
orgchart.mit.edu/letters/rega...

Regarding the Compact | MIT Organization Chart

orgchart.mit.edu

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richsulley.bsky.social @richsulley.bsky.social · 3d

Friday Morning Podcast Recommendation

www.linkedin.com/posts/richar...

This time it's @emmanewman.bsky.social and @aptshadow.bsky.social's Starship Alexandria

Starship Alexandria: Episode 7 - The Ministry for the Future | Richard Sulley

𝗜𝘁’𝘀 𝗽𝗼𝗱𝗰𝗮𝘀𝘁𝘀 𝗮𝗹𝗹 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝘄𝗮𝘆 𝗱𝗼𝘄𝗻 This month’s Starship Alexandria (https://lnkd.in/eUZtjXMq) covers a book I'm still wrestling with several years after reading it. Kim Stanley Robinson’s Ministry for t...

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Now Then magazine @nowthenmag.bsky.social · 4d

"I've increasingly embraced an identity as both a scientist and an activist"

At the @granthamcsf.bsky.social's Sustainability Summit, scholars and scientists explored what roles art and activism have to play in furthering serious action on climate breakdown 🪧

@sheffielduni.bsky.social

"There is no neutral path anymore": How can scientists take action and tell stories to avert climate collapse?

An afternoon at the University of Sheffield’s Sustainability Symposium saw discussion on the roles of art and activism in furthering serious action on climate breakdown.

nowthenmagazine.com

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Grantham Centre for Sustainable Futures @granthamcsf.bsky.social · 5d

We're excited to be hosting the @sheffielduni.bsky.social Sustainability Symposium 2025 today!

Through panel discussions featuring academics, practitioners & activists, we will be exploring how systemic change comes through true interdisciplinarity and the creation of community. #SheffSustSymp

Jon Alexander speaking at the University of Sheffield Sustainability Symposium 2025

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Ed Hammond @se13ed.bsky.social · 7d

Policymaking - developing and agreeing policies, and then implementing them - is difficult, but plenty of people (increasingly) confuse it with "coming up with ideas for policies" which is, indeed, very easy. Same philosophy that says that announcing the thing is the same as doing the thing

Tony Yates @t0nyyates.bsky.social · 7d

Someone who thinks 'policymaking is generally not very complicated' either does not know what they are talking about or has very strong ideological leanings that help disappear the trade-offs that worry the rest of us.

Wrath of God Bot @wrathofgodbot.bsky.social · 8d

Good thing he has a high quality team of thoughtful people with a firm grasp of the issues and how complex governing is

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richsulley.bsky.social @richsulley.bsky.social · 7d

She seems nice...

"Just about every single message is about migration or grooming gangs, with a heavy focus on crimes committed by asylum seekers. “We already have British sex criminals,” one message reads. “We don’t need any more!”"

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richsulley.bsky.social @richsulley.bsky.social · 8d

Alien : Earth is great, but the choice of closing credit songs is brilliant

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richsulley.bsky.social @richsulley.bsky.social · 9d

Reading the replies to this, they are variously "don't make it down to individuals", "the market will decide", "it needs government intervention".

But mainly read as "I don't want to change my lifestyle, for any reason"

Dr. Genevieve Guenther (she/they) @doctorvive.bsky.social · 9d

Until people in the climate movement very publicly stop eating meat and flying, we're not going to seem trustworthy.

I will die on this hill.

David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 9d

Meat is a blind spot for people who care about climate. When I used to have dinner with my colleague Wally Broecker, the climate scientist who coined the term “global warming”, he would always order a steak.

richsulley.bsky.social @richsulley.bsky.social · 9d

Purple is my colour

Grantham Centre for Sustainable Futures @granthamcsf.bsky.social · 11d

Hot off the press - our new Grantham Centre t-shirts are here! 👕

A huge thank you to the award-winning social enterprise @printedbyus.bsky.social for producing them 🙏

This amazing local organisation teaches homeless and vulnerable people new skills to help them move towards more fulfilling lives

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Nix Rust @nixrust.bsky.social · 10d

New #EatLancet report is out! What does it state? I've watched the livestream so you don't have to. Here's a summary of the findings
🍊🥓🍒

www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

The EAT–Lancet Commission on healthy, sustainable, and just food systems

The global context has shifted dramatically since publication of the first EAT–Lancet Commission in 2019, with increased geopolitical instability, soaring food prices, and the COVID-19 pandemic exacer...

www.thelancet.com

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richsulley.bsky.social @richsulley.bsky.social · 11d

From Twitter, an age ago, when it was fun.

richsulley.bsky.social @richsulley.bsky.social · 11d

always looking for an opportunity to deploy the Hexagon of Aims. #unprisoningyourthinkrhino

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richsulley.bsky.social @richsulley.bsky.social · 11d

for better analysis than I can offer see bsky.app/profile/nixr... and bsky.app/profile/newe...

richsulley.bsky.social @richsulley.bsky.social · 11d

𝗪𝗵𝗮𝘁’𝘀 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗖𝗹𝗶𝗺𝗮𝘁𝗲 𝗖𝗵𝗮𝗻𝗴𝗲 𝗔𝗰𝘁 𝗲𝘃𝗲𝗿 𝗱𝗼𝗻𝗲 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝘂𝘀?

In today’s race to the bottom news the current temporary holder of the Conservative Party leadership has said a government formed by her party would scrap the 2008 Climate Change Act.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

richsulley.bsky.social @richsulley.bsky.social · 11d

Leaders weighing up potential electoral failure having one eye on the lucrative right wing talk circuit in the US setting their stall out now for their future career to the detriment of us all.

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richsulley.bsky.social @richsulley.bsky.social · 11d

But we are repeatedly seeing parties scrapping decades old consensus, denying the science, making claims about the damage and ineffectiveness of ongoing programmes to chase fringe votes.

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richsulley.bsky.social @richsulley.bsky.social · 11d

Businesses repeatedly ask for certainty when it comes to setting ambitious climate change targets, allowing them to make long term investment decisions.

www.corporateleadersgroup.com/news/cop29-b...

The Public overwhelmingly supports targets and action.

climateoutreach.org/btc/2025/

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richsulley.bsky.social @richsulley.bsky.social · 11d

To rip it up, or even threaten to, is mindless vandalism.

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richsulley.bsky.social @richsulley.bsky.social · 11d

Through the Climate Change Committee and carbon budgets it has provided a framework for successive governments to monitor progress and plan for the future.
How we will adapt to the inevitable impacts of the changed climate is also a requirement of the act.

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richsulley.bsky.social @richsulley.bsky.social · 11d

There’s not much to be added to the discussion beyond what has already been pointed out. The UK was a global leader when it drafted this legislation, it had cross party support and has driven the progress in decarbonisation and growth in green industries we have seen.

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richsulley.bsky.social @richsulley.bsky.social · 11d

𝗪𝗵𝗮𝘁’𝘀 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗖𝗹𝗶𝗺𝗮𝘁𝗲 𝗖𝗵𝗮𝗻𝗴𝗲 𝗔𝗰𝘁 𝗲𝘃𝗲𝗿 𝗱𝗼𝗻𝗲 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝘂𝘀?

In today’s race to the bottom news the current temporary holder of the Conservative Party leadership has said a government formed by her party would scrap the 2008 Climate Change Act.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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richsulley.bsky.social @richsulley.bsky.social · 11d

not directly comparable but "Autobesity" is the cause

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Possible @wearepossible.bsky.social · 12d

The Chancellor says airport expansion will grow the economy.

But here’s the truth: business travel is flat, and more Brits fly out than tourists fly in.

So who’s benefiting? Mostly wealthy frequent flyers.

It’s time they paid for their pollution 👉 https://bit.ly/3FXQefR

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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social · Nov 12

Earnest post, but: a thing I like here is it’s okay to have moments of happiness in public without being broadly scolded, and I believe that sustaining this kind of humanity will be very important as we resist fascism.

We have to sustain each other. Making joy isn’t denial, it’s how we will survive

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Kevin Anderson @kevinclimate.bsky.social · 14d

As Labour open their annual conference, I’d be interested if anyone can share Ministers/MPs’ views on further expanding UK airport capacity; expansion that's incompatible with UK climate commitments, not to mention increased volume & frequency of aviation noise! climateuncensored.com/gatwick-expa...

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richsulley.bsky.social @richsulley.bsky.social · 17d

That is leadership, or at least it would be.

Taking the fight to Reform UK, not reflecting their position.

We deserve better.

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