Hisham Zerriffi
@hishamzerriffi.bsky.social
Energy Resources, Development and Environment Lab (ERDELab) PI, @UBCforestry Assc Dean EDI. Energy, equity, justice, climate change, bioenergy. But also TTRPGs and photography (https://pixelfed.social/i/web/profile/499807930552574625). he/him.
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Hello new Bluesky followers!
A re-intro:
Academic in Forestry faculty but not a forester. Work on energy, land-use, climate, equity, justice. Often at intersection of energy & forests.
With a dash of TTRPGs, nerdy stuff and politics.
And photography:
portfolio.pixelfed.social/nomademoderne
A re-intro:
Academic in Forestry faculty but not a forester. Work on energy, land-use, climate, equity, justice. Often at intersection of energy & forests.
With a dash of TTRPGs, nerdy stuff and politics.
And photography:
portfolio.pixelfed.social/nomademoderne
My wild story of the time? I was a PhD student studying critical infrastructure protection. Was on mailing list of an electric power industry group for reliability. They started forwarding notices from law enforcement on people to look out for (essentially BOLOs). Lists of Arab men.
Post 9/11 thread for people to post the wildest shit they remember from 01 to 06
I'll start:
People thought Osama had an entire mountain hollowed out that he was using as his base and that's why AQ was hard to find and that somehow a group of like 30 dudes arranged this.
I'll start:
People thought Osama had an entire mountain hollowed out that he was using as his base and that's why AQ was hard to find and that somehow a group of like 30 dudes arranged this.
November 15, 2025 at 4:38 AM
My wild story of the time? I was a PhD student studying critical infrastructure protection. Was on mailing list of an electric power industry group for reliability. They started forwarding notices from law enforcement on people to look out for (essentially BOLOs). Lists of Arab men.
This is wild but not pleasant trip down memory lane.
Post 9/11 thread for people to post the wildest shit they remember from 01 to 06
I'll start:
People thought Osama had an entire mountain hollowed out that he was using as his base and that's why AQ was hard to find and that somehow a group of like 30 dudes arranged this.
I'll start:
People thought Osama had an entire mountain hollowed out that he was using as his base and that's why AQ was hard to find and that somehow a group of like 30 dudes arranged this.
November 15, 2025 at 4:24 AM
This is wild but not pleasant trip down memory lane.
Enjoyed a nice taste of the old country with Kid2
November 14, 2025 at 5:03 AM
Enjoyed a nice taste of the old country with Kid2
So is Star Trek predicting a future where TechBro attitudes and approaches dominate science and engineering but without the billionaires, social Darwinism, and outsized influence on politics and economics?
This thread seems to support that.
This thread seems to support that.
A full 20% of academic output from the Vulcan Science Academy is dedicated to interdisciplinary research into "Why Are Human Like That?" Many hypotheses, few breakthroughs.
November 14, 2025 at 1:35 AM
So is Star Trek predicting a future where TechBro attitudes and approaches dominate science and engineering but without the billionaires, social Darwinism, and outsized influence on politics and economics?
This thread seems to support that.
This thread seems to support that.
The series of emails from our property manager regarding the months long attempts to first fix and then try to replace our building’s front door access system has been a journey.
Latest: despite assurances from vendor, it is not actually possible to transfer all info from old to new system.
Latest: despite assurances from vendor, it is not actually possible to transfer all info from old to new system.
November 13, 2025 at 5:49 PM
The series of emails from our property manager regarding the months long attempts to first fix and then try to replace our building’s front door access system has been a journey.
Latest: despite assurances from vendor, it is not actually possible to transfer all info from old to new system.
Latest: despite assurances from vendor, it is not actually possible to transfer all info from old to new system.
Reposted by Hisham Zerriffi
Published today in Earth System Science Data: The Global Carbon Budget 2025
essd.copernicus.org/preprints/es...
essd.copernicus.org/preprints/es...
Global Carbon Budget 2025
Abstract. Accurate assessment of anthropogenic carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions and their redistribution among the atmosphere, ocean, and terrestrial biosphere in a changing climate is critical to bette...
essd.copernicus.org
November 13, 2025 at 3:07 PM
Published today in Earth System Science Data: The Global Carbon Budget 2025
essd.copernicus.org/preprints/es...
essd.copernicus.org/preprints/es...
Carbon Offsets: Climate Solution or Sustainability Illusion?
Having a ton of fun running an exercise asking people to design a “bad” and “best” offset system.
Part of UBC Sustainability Hub event for COP30.
Doing this with my @forestry.ubc.ca colleague Greg Paradis
Having a ton of fun running an exercise asking people to design a “bad” and “best” offset system.
Part of UBC Sustainability Hub event for COP30.
Doing this with my @forestry.ubc.ca colleague Greg Paradis
November 12, 2025 at 9:47 PM
Carbon Offsets: Climate Solution or Sustainability Illusion?
Having a ton of fun running an exercise asking people to design a “bad” and “best” offset system.
Part of UBC Sustainability Hub event for COP30.
Doing this with my @forestry.ubc.ca colleague Greg Paradis
Having a ton of fun running an exercise asking people to design a “bad” and “best” offset system.
Part of UBC Sustainability Hub event for COP30.
Doing this with my @forestry.ubc.ca colleague Greg Paradis
Reposted by Hisham Zerriffi
NEW: Global fossil fuel use will peak before 2030 – unless 'stated policies' are abandoned
Contra some terrible news coverage, IEA World Energy Outlook shows coal near peak, oil peaking by 2030 & gas by 2035 (see chart)
What's going on? 🧵 + cool charts
www.carbonbrief.org/iea-fossil-f...
Contra some terrible news coverage, IEA World Energy Outlook shows coal near peak, oil peaking by 2030 & gas by 2035 (see chart)
What's going on? 🧵 + cool charts
www.carbonbrief.org/iea-fossil-f...
November 12, 2025 at 9:02 AM
NEW: Global fossil fuel use will peak before 2030 – unless 'stated policies' are abandoned
Contra some terrible news coverage, IEA World Energy Outlook shows coal near peak, oil peaking by 2030 & gas by 2035 (see chart)
What's going on? 🧵 + cool charts
www.carbonbrief.org/iea-fossil-f...
Contra some terrible news coverage, IEA World Energy Outlook shows coal near peak, oil peaking by 2030 & gas by 2035 (see chart)
What's going on? 🧵 + cool charts
www.carbonbrief.org/iea-fossil-f...
Thankful I wore pretty boring clothes my entire vacation in Ireland. These are brutal. But also hilarious
I am calling upon the people of Ireland to immediately begin construction of a thread on this site about how you or someone you know was roasted for a fashion choice. We need it.
All roasts must have come from Irish people *only*. Please respect this important rule, it makes a difference.
Tanks
All roasts must have come from Irish people *only*. Please respect this important rule, it makes a difference.
Tanks
November 12, 2025 at 3:59 PM
Thankful I wore pretty boring clothes my entire vacation in Ireland. These are brutal. But also hilarious
I mean it’s not like there’s a government organization that collects and analyzes these kinds of numbers, so what are they supposed to do?
November 12, 2025 at 2:22 AM
I mean it’s not like there’s a government organization that collects and analyzes these kinds of numbers, so what are they supposed to do?
“what we call “scientific racism” could be called “fantasy racism” instead, a belief that people can be reduced to quantifiable numbers, like so many digits on a character sheet.”
Great piece on racism in fantasy, efforts to change it, pushbacks, and the link to IRL racism of some powerful people.
Great piece on racism in fantasy, efforts to change it, pushbacks, and the link to IRL racism of some powerful people.
The far right is obsessed with Lord of the Rings and Musk keeps posting about "hobbits" because modern scientific racism owes more to fantasy worlds and gaming systems than genetic science, and they see both as effective mediums for right-wing propaganda www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
Why Elon Musk Needs Dungeons and Dragons to Be Racist
The fantastical roots of “scientific racism”
www.theatlantic.com
November 11, 2025 at 10:45 PM
“what we call “scientific racism” could be called “fantasy racism” instead, a belief that people can be reduced to quantifiable numbers, like so many digits on a character sheet.”
Great piece on racism in fantasy, efforts to change it, pushbacks, and the link to IRL racism of some powerful people.
Great piece on racism in fantasy, efforts to change it, pushbacks, and the link to IRL racism of some powerful people.
Canada has lost its measles-free status.
Ideology wins out over science and we all lose.
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
Ideology wins out over science and we all lose.
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
As Canada loses measles-free status, outbreak in northeast B.C. continues | CBC News
Measles cases in B.C. make up almost seven per cent of the total in Canada, with the vast majority of them clustered in the province's northeast, where health officials said the virus spread through a...
www.cbc.ca
November 11, 2025 at 3:02 AM
Canada has lost its measles-free status.
Ideology wins out over science and we all lose.
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
Ideology wins out over science and we all lose.
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
Kinda delighted that the Louvre heist “Fedora Man” is actually a 15 year old kid with an impeccable sense of style who happened to just be there to visit the museum.
Chapeau off to Pedro Elias Garzon Delvaux.
www.cbc.ca/news/world/l...
Chapeau off to Pedro Elias Garzon Delvaux.
www.cbc.ca/news/world/l...
Turns out 'Fedora Man' in viral Louvre heist photo isn't AI — just a French teen with style | CBC News
When 15-year-old Pedro Elias Garzon Delvaux realized an Associated Press photo of him at the Louvre on the day of the crown jewels heist had drawn millions of views, his first instinct was not to rush...
www.cbc.ca
November 10, 2025 at 8:50 PM
Kinda delighted that the Louvre heist “Fedora Man” is actually a 15 year old kid with an impeccable sense of style who happened to just be there to visit the museum.
Chapeau off to Pedro Elias Garzon Delvaux.
www.cbc.ca/news/world/l...
Chapeau off to Pedro Elias Garzon Delvaux.
www.cbc.ca/news/world/l...
Whole family got our Fall dose of good science today.
In and out in no time and fully covered (flu and COVID).
Yeah science!
In and out in no time and fully covered (flu and COVID).
Yeah science!
an illustration of dolly parton playing a guitar with the words " vaccine vaccine vaccine " above her
Alt: an illustration of dolly parton playing a guitar with the words " vaccine vaccine vaccine " above her
media.tenor.com
November 8, 2025 at 9:56 PM
Whole family got our Fall dose of good science today.
In and out in no time and fully covered (flu and COVID).
Yeah science!
In and out in no time and fully covered (flu and COVID).
Yeah science!
Reposted by Hisham Zerriffi
I must’ve been a postdoc at MIT or a new-ish engineering professor when I first heard the story of how Ben Barre overheard colleagues talking about how his research was so much better than his ‘sister’ Barbara’s.
We're disappointed to see Ben Barres's powerful book "The Autobiography of a Transgender Scientist" among the ~400 titles removed from the Naval Academy Library. Needless to say, we're proud to have published his book and will keep it — and his memory — alive.
The Coming Out of a Transgender Scientist
"I know that I am making the right decision because whenever I think about changing my gender role, I am flooded with feelings of relief."
thereader.mitpress.mit.edu
November 8, 2025 at 3:38 PM
I must’ve been a postdoc at MIT or a new-ish engineering professor when I first heard the story of how Ben Barre overheard colleagues talking about how his research was so much better than his ‘sister’ Barbara’s.
A fun Friday brain cleanse thread.
Don’t think anyone has mentioned The Blues Brothers yet.
Don’t think anyone has mentioned The Blues Brothers yet.
November 8, 2025 at 1:21 AM
A fun Friday brain cleanse thread.
Don’t think anyone has mentioned The Blues Brothers yet.
Don’t think anyone has mentioned The Blues Brothers yet.
Reposted by Hisham Zerriffi
The Economist Says We Need to Invent Phrenology Again.
A new paper suggests a photo can tell a recruiter much about an applicant’s personality
Should facial analysis help determine whom companies hire?
A new paper suggests a photo can tell a recruiter much about an applicant’s personality
econ.st
November 6, 2025 at 7:56 PM
The Economist Says We Need to Invent Phrenology Again.
Reposted by Hisham Zerriffi
Honestly one of the worst, most disturbing paragraphs — on the basis of process, substance, and effect — I’ve read in a Supreme Court order or opinion in a very long time.
![Displaying passport holders' sex at birth no more offends equal protection principles than displaying their country of birth—in both cases, the Government is merely attesting to a historical fact without subjecting anyone to differential treatment. And on this record, respondents have failed to establish that the Government's choice to display biological sex "lack[s] any purpose other than a bare ... desire to harm a politically unpopular group." Trump v. Hawaii, 585
U. S. 667, 705 (2018) (internal quotation marks omitted).
Nor are respondents likely to prevail in arguing that the State Department acted arbitrarily and capriciously by declining to depart from Presidential rules that Congress expressly required it to follow. See 22 U. S. C. §211a.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:36eqtmzysqf7wsslczw4uxcd/bafkreigev37etpfwfdxjlnt3pz5qyueldxo3k6rfxw5ip477gp7inlrctq@jpeg)
November 7, 2025 at 12:55 AM
Honestly one of the worst, most disturbing paragraphs — on the basis of process, substance, and effect — I’ve read in a Supreme Court order or opinion in a very long time.
Reposted by Hisham Zerriffi
Global Greenhouse Gas (GHG) emissions rise again in 2024, up 2.3%.
This is our collective progress, 10 years after the Paris Agreement.
www.unep.org/resources/em...
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This is our collective progress, 10 years after the Paris Agreement.
www.unep.org/resources/em...
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November 5, 2025 at 8:24 AM
Global Greenhouse Gas (GHG) emissions rise again in 2024, up 2.3%.
This is our collective progress, 10 years after the Paris Agreement.
www.unep.org/resources/em...
1/
This is our collective progress, 10 years after the Paris Agreement.
www.unep.org/resources/em...
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And before the “purity test“ people come out to play, this is not about policy differences.
It’s about seeing people as people deserving of all of the rights as anybody else. That should not be up for policy debate.
And before the “purity test“ people come out to play, this is not about policy differences.
It’s about seeing people as people deserving of all of the rights as anybody else. That should not be up for policy debate.
It’s almost like if people tell you that to win you have to turn your back on poor people, or Muslims, or trans people, or immigrants, you can just say, “no, that’s immoral, we’re not doing that,” and keep doing good old fashioned organizing and campaigning and things will be ok
November 5, 2025 at 9:14 PM
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And before the “purity test“ people come out to play, this is not about policy differences.
It’s about seeing people as people deserving of all of the rights as anybody else. That should not be up for policy debate.
And before the “purity test“ people come out to play, this is not about policy differences.
It’s about seeing people as people deserving of all of the rights as anybody else. That should not be up for policy debate.
In case you wanted some specifics on the Liberal 2025 budget cuts on the environment.
thenarwhal.ca/carney-budge...
thenarwhal.ca/carney-budge...
November 5, 2025 at 8:34 PM
In case you wanted some specifics on the Liberal 2025 budget cuts on the environment.
thenarwhal.ca/carney-budge...
thenarwhal.ca/carney-budge...
The last time I critiqued the current Prime Minister's climate action I was told I was being overly critical and should read his book and look at the Liberal Party platform.
Not sure how to square that sentiment with today's budget - $ for LNG and CCS and sets a path to eliminate industrial cap
Not sure how to square that sentiment with today's budget - $ for LNG and CCS and sets a path to eliminate industrial cap
November 5, 2025 at 5:40 AM
The last time I critiqued the current Prime Minister's climate action I was told I was being overly critical and should read his book and look at the Liberal Party platform.
Not sure how to square that sentiment with today's budget - $ for LNG and CCS and sets a path to eliminate industrial cap
Not sure how to square that sentiment with today's budget - $ for LNG and CCS and sets a path to eliminate industrial cap
Teen Vogue was one of the very few mainstream media outlets that used well researched and well written articles on politics and economics to speak truth to power.
That appears to no longer be the case moving forward and our media landscape will be all the poorer.
That appears to no longer be the case moving forward and our media landscape will be all the poorer.
thank you for all the support; the statement from our union is now live here with some more reporting.
now that this is public I can confirm that the majority of today’s layoffs were women of color. there are no longer any Black women working at Teen Vogue.
now that this is public I can confirm that the majority of today’s layoffs were women of color. there are no longer any Black women working at Teen Vogue.
November 4, 2025 at 6:37 AM
Teen Vogue was one of the very few mainstream media outlets that used well researched and well written articles on politics and economics to speak truth to power.
That appears to no longer be the case moving forward and our media landscape will be all the poorer.
That appears to no longer be the case moving forward and our media landscape will be all the poorer.
Reposted by Hisham Zerriffi
The letter is crashing because so many people are trying to sign it (which is good). According to federally connected ethics peeps, the most important thing we can do if we are directly affected is to fill out this form and ask to make a formal complaint:
services.priv.gc.ca/demande-info...
services.priv.gc.ca/demande-info...
November 4, 2025 at 3:15 AM
The letter is crashing because so many people are trying to sign it (which is good). According to federally connected ethics peeps, the most important thing we can do if we are directly affected is to fill out this form and ask to make a formal complaint:
services.priv.gc.ca/demande-info...
services.priv.gc.ca/demande-info...
Canadian Academics:
Your demographic data as an applicant and/or reviewer is being sought by a parliamentary committee where some members are pushing an anti-EDI agenda.
This 🧵 outlines the massive problems with this.
There is a sign-on letter circulating, hopefully you've seen it.
Your demographic data as an applicant and/or reviewer is being sought by a parliamentary committee where some members are pushing an anti-EDI agenda.
This 🧵 outlines the massive problems with this.
There is a sign-on letter circulating, hopefully you've seen it.
The Canadian Parliamentary Standing Committee on Science and Research is launching a US-style attack on EDI in Tri-Council funding.
As part of this attack, they are demanding disclosure of confidential demographic info + reviewer comments of all Canadian researchers who have applied b/w 2000-2025.
As part of this attack, they are demanding disclosure of confidential demographic info + reviewer comments of all Canadian researchers who have applied b/w 2000-2025.
November 3, 2025 at 9:24 PM
Canadian Academics:
Your demographic data as an applicant and/or reviewer is being sought by a parliamentary committee where some members are pushing an anti-EDI agenda.
This 🧵 outlines the massive problems with this.
There is a sign-on letter circulating, hopefully you've seen it.
Your demographic data as an applicant and/or reviewer is being sought by a parliamentary committee where some members are pushing an anti-EDI agenda.
This 🧵 outlines the massive problems with this.
There is a sign-on letter circulating, hopefully you've seen it.