@marshhel.bsky.social
On here because I’ve missed… chatting, silly jokes, climate scientists, decent debate… Profile work in progress.
August 20, 2025 at 10:45 AM
@garyseconomics.bsky.social . Have you come across? yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300...
Trade Wars Are Class Wars
A provocative look at how today’s trade conflicts are caused by governments promoting the interests of elites at the expense of workers Winner of the Lio...
yalebooks.yale.edu
August 11, 2025 at 7:58 AM
@garyseconomics.bsky.social . Have you come across? yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300...
This makes for disturbing reading not least as this is someone simply asking a legitimate question at AGM. No protesting, no disruption. And worse, the IR team at the very least would know who they are - and in some cases, have been in dialogue for years.
Brynn O’Brien, executive director at ACCR, reflects on an increasingly repressive environment at fossil fuel AGMs, urging investors to push back against a hollowing out of shareholder rights www.netzeroinvestor.net/news-and-vie...
Are we entering a ‘dark age’ for shareholder participation in fossil fuel AGMs?
Brynn O’Brien, executive director at the Australasian Centre for Corporate Responsibility (ACCR) reflects on an increasingly repressive environment at fossil fuel AGMs, urging investors to push back a...
www.netzeroinvestor.net
May 16, 2025 at 7:27 AM
This makes for disturbing reading not least as this is someone simply asking a legitimate question at AGM. No protesting, no disruption. And worse, the IR team at the very least would know who they are - and in some cases, have been in dialogue for years.
The biggest review of the pensions system in a generation is underway. Sign the petition for:
💷 Decent pensions for all
☀️ A just transition to a thriving low-carbon economy
🚫 A phase-out of funding for fossil fuels, deforestation & other harmful industries
✍️ act.350.org/sign/fairer-...
💷 Decent pensions for all
☀️ A just transition to a thriving low-carbon economy
🚫 A phase-out of funding for fossil fuels, deforestation & other harmful industries
✍️ act.350.org/sign/fairer-...
May 1, 2025 at 10:43 AM
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I just learned that the entire press team at the FDA was fired last week. The *entire* press team.
It's difficult to grasp how bizarre this is.
To wrap my brain around the idea, I made a list of things the FDA is responsible for, and that reporters now have no one at the agency to ask about... 🧪🛟
It's difficult to grasp how bizarre this is.
To wrap my brain around the idea, I made a list of things the FDA is responsible for, and that reporters now have no one at the agency to ask about... 🧪🛟
April 8, 2025 at 3:28 PM
I just learned that the entire press team at the FDA was fired last week. The *entire* press team.
It's difficult to grasp how bizarre this is.
To wrap my brain around the idea, I made a list of things the FDA is responsible for, and that reporters now have no one at the agency to ask about... 🧪🛟
It's difficult to grasp how bizarre this is.
To wrap my brain around the idea, I made a list of things the FDA is responsible for, and that reporters now have no one at the agency to ask about... 🧪🛟
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Major UK investors join push for retail giants to pay workers ‘real living wage’
Major UK investors join push for retail giants to pay workers ‘real living wage’
Axa and Scottish Widows back ShareAction campaign for chains such as Next to pay at least £12.60 an hour
Major investors including Axa and Scottish Widows are backing shareholder resolutions pressing retailers Next, Marks & Spencer and JD Sports to increase pay for thousands of workers.
More than 100 individuals and eight institutional investors, which manage over £1tn in assets, are backing an effort to encourage companies to pay a “real living wage”, which is designed to ensure workers can cover necessary household costs. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
March 27, 2025 at 10:56 AM
🩸Frequent blood donors may grow healthier blood cells
Genetic changes in blood stem cells from frequent donors may help produce healthy, non-cancerous cells - adapting to regular donation.
🔗 www.genengnews.com/topics/cance....
#SciComm 🧬 #BloodDonation 🧪
Genetic changes in blood stem cells from frequent donors may help produce healthy, non-cancerous cells - adapting to regular donation.
🔗 www.genengnews.com/topics/cance....
#SciComm 🧬 #BloodDonation 🧪
Regular Blood Donations May Trigger Beneficial Genetic Changes in Bone Marrow Stem Cells
New research shows that mutations in DNMT3A in blood stem cells of frequent blood donors may bolster the production of noncancerous cells.
www.genengnews.com
March 13, 2025 at 10:03 PM
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1. You feel powerless? Don’t know what you can do to resist the rise of fascism?
Here is an answer: Good Things.
Fascism inflicts pain and harm as a matter of doctrine.
Kindness, care and conviviality defend us from it.
The more we build community, the less it can take root.
🧵
Here is an answer: Good Things.
Fascism inflicts pain and harm as a matter of doctrine.
Kindness, care and conviviality defend us from it.
The more we build community, the less it can take root.
🧵
March 10, 2025 at 1:12 PM
1. You feel powerless? Don’t know what you can do to resist the rise of fascism?
Here is an answer: Good Things.
Fascism inflicts pain and harm as a matter of doctrine.
Kindness, care and conviviality defend us from it.
The more we build community, the less it can take root.
🧵
Here is an answer: Good Things.
Fascism inflicts pain and harm as a matter of doctrine.
Kindness, care and conviviality defend us from it.
The more we build community, the less it can take root.
🧵
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Yet again, France ahead of the UK but what a worthwhile initiative for US researchers👇
Dear US colleagues,
In response to the Trump administration, my university @univ-amu.fr is setting up a new program dedicated to welcoming American scientists wishing to pursue their work in France.
There are several M$ in the budget.
www.univ-amu.fr/en/public/ac...
In response to the Trump administration, my university @univ-amu.fr is setting up a new program dedicated to welcoming American scientists wishing to pursue their work in France.
There are several M$ in the budget.
www.univ-amu.fr/en/public/ac...
Safe Place For Science: Aix Marseille Université ready to welcome American scientists | Aix Marseille Université
In a context where some scientists in the United States may feel threatened or hindered in their research, our university is announcing the launch of the Safe Place For Science program, dedicated to w...
www.univ-amu.fr
March 8, 2025 at 2:47 PM
Yet again, France ahead of the UK but what a worthwhile initiative for US researchers👇
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NEW: A moment in Munich.
Zelenskyy says Russia is creating 15 new divisions of 150,000 soldiers: "Maybe these soldiers are for Ukraine. Maybe they are for you.”
He ends hoping for peace.
A long, standing ovation.
What a contrast to Vance, met with silence as he torched transatlantic relations.
Zelenskyy says Russia is creating 15 new divisions of 150,000 soldiers: "Maybe these soldiers are for Ukraine. Maybe they are for you.”
He ends hoping for peace.
A long, standing ovation.
What a contrast to Vance, met with silence as he torched transatlantic relations.
February 15, 2025 at 10:19 AM
NEW: A moment in Munich.
Zelenskyy says Russia is creating 15 new divisions of 150,000 soldiers: "Maybe these soldiers are for Ukraine. Maybe they are for you.”
He ends hoping for peace.
A long, standing ovation.
What a contrast to Vance, met with silence as he torched transatlantic relations.
Zelenskyy says Russia is creating 15 new divisions of 150,000 soldiers: "Maybe these soldiers are for Ukraine. Maybe they are for you.”
He ends hoping for peace.
A long, standing ovation.
What a contrast to Vance, met with silence as he torched transatlantic relations.
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Successful rollout of solar panels could lift 1.2 million people in UK out of fuel poverty, & help decarbonise the UK’s electricity system
In fuel-poor households savings from rooftop solar panels could reduce energy bills by 24% say @resfoundation.bsky.social
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
In fuel-poor households savings from rooftop solar panels could reduce energy bills by 24% say @resfoundation.bsky.social
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Solar panels could cut fuel-poor UK families’ energy bills by 24%, says study
Call for means-tested grants or loans to cover upfront costs that prevent poorer households from benefiting
www.theguardian.com
February 13, 2025 at 7:51 AM
Successful rollout of solar panels could lift 1.2 million people in UK out of fuel poverty, & help decarbonise the UK’s electricity system
In fuel-poor households savings from rooftop solar panels could reduce energy bills by 24% say @resfoundation.bsky.social
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
In fuel-poor households savings from rooftop solar panels could reduce energy bills by 24% say @resfoundation.bsky.social
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
For 90 mins away from the world, wld recommend #Titanique. Mad, bonkers fun, amazing singing. Deserved to be full. Loved it! 💙
February 9, 2025 at 6:32 PM
For 90 mins away from the world, wld recommend #Titanique. Mad, bonkers fun, amazing singing. Deserved to be full. Loved it! 💙
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Very much worth a watch if you have not yet seen the PM’s brief and moving speech to Americans and Canadians.
“From the beaches of Normandy …to the streets of Kandahar, we have fought and died alongside you during your darkest hours. We're always there, standing with you."
“From the beaches of Normandy …to the streets of Kandahar, we have fought and died alongside you during your darkest hours. We're always there, standing with you."
Trudeau: Canada will retaliate with 25% tariffs on $155B of U.S. goods
YouTube video by CBC News
youtu.be
February 2, 2025 at 5:12 PM
Very much worth a watch if you have not yet seen the PM’s brief and moving speech to Americans and Canadians.
“From the beaches of Normandy …to the streets of Kandahar, we have fought and died alongside you during your darkest hours. We're always there, standing with you."
“From the beaches of Normandy …to the streets of Kandahar, we have fought and died alongside you during your darkest hours. We're always there, standing with you."
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You can say, “gravity isn’t real,” but if you step off the cliff, you’re still going down.
And if you convince other people it’s not real, you are responsible for what happens if they make decisions based on the information you withheld.
And if you convince other people it’s not real, you are responsible for what happens if they make decisions based on the information you withheld.
The White House climate page is now gone. Climate change is not. www.whitehouse.gov/climate
www.whitehouse.gov
January 21, 2025 at 8:53 PM
You can say, “gravity isn’t real,” but if you step off the cliff, you’re still going down.
And if you convince other people it’s not real, you are responsible for what happens if they make decisions based on the information you withheld.
And if you convince other people it’s not real, you are responsible for what happens if they make decisions based on the information you withheld.
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Letter printed in The Times, 1st Jan 2025.
January 9, 2025 at 11:49 AM
Letter printed in The Times, 1st Jan 2025.
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Concern over the #ClimateCrisis may evaporate in the White House from Jan, but financial costs are now starkly apparent to Americans in the form of soaring insurance premiums. Those in riskiest areas for floods, storms & wildfires suffer the steepest rises
How climate risks are driving up insurance premiums around the US – visualized
‘Tight correlation’ between premium rises and counties deemed most at risk from climate crisis, experts say
buff.ly
December 6, 2024 at 2:05 PM
Concern over the #ClimateCrisis may evaporate in the White House from Jan, but financial costs are now starkly apparent to Americans in the form of soaring insurance premiums. Those in riskiest areas for floods, storms & wildfires suffer the steepest rises
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Last chance to register for our 'Loading the DICE' Webinar to hear how: Flawed economics is risking your pension, savings & future dreams - 11:00-12 GMT today https://buff.ly/4glDU5R #ClimateRisk
Loading the DICE: Flawed economics is risking your pension, savings & future dreams - Carbon Tracker Initiative
4 December | Online Pension funds are risking retirement savings by relying on flawed economic research...
buff.ly
December 4, 2024 at 10:35 AM
Last chance to register for our 'Loading the DICE' Webinar to hear how: Flawed economics is risking your pension, savings & future dreams - 11:00-12 GMT today https://buff.ly/4glDU5R #ClimateRisk
Hooray!!! One of my favourite accounts to follow.
'It is an indecent thing for a gentlewoman to stand mumping alone'
One of our all-time favourite performances! Watch Olivia Colman read the hell out of Lady Elizabeth Compton's hilarious 17th century letter of demands to her husband: www.youtube.com/watch?v=4pIr...
One of our all-time favourite performances! Watch Olivia Colman read the hell out of Lady Elizabeth Compton's hilarious 17th century letter of demands to her husband: www.youtube.com/watch?v=4pIr...
Olivia Colman reads a hilarious seventeenth century letter from a wife to her husband
YouTube video by Letters Live
www.youtube.com
November 27, 2024 at 9:13 AM
Hooray!!! One of my favourite accounts to follow.
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Big news! The 'all scientists who do climate' feed now stands at:
🌏 3500 MEMBERS 🌎
...more than it ever had on Twitter!
Huge welcome to #3949, my fav colleague @brasmus.bsky.social, and #3500, @johndparker.bsky.social, who says he’s “not good at social media.” No longer, John!
Pin it here ⬇️
🌏 3500 MEMBERS 🌎
...more than it ever had on Twitter!
Huge welcome to #3949, my fav colleague @brasmus.bsky.social, and #3500, @johndparker.bsky.social, who says he’s “not good at social media.” No longer, John!
Pin it here ⬇️
November 26, 2024 at 2:21 PM
Big news! The 'all scientists who do climate' feed now stands at:
🌏 3500 MEMBERS 🌎
...more than it ever had on Twitter!
Huge welcome to #3949, my fav colleague @brasmus.bsky.social, and #3500, @johndparker.bsky.social, who says he’s “not good at social media.” No longer, John!
Pin it here ⬇️
🌏 3500 MEMBERS 🌎
...more than it ever had on Twitter!
Huge welcome to #3949, my fav colleague @brasmus.bsky.social, and #3500, @johndparker.bsky.social, who says he’s “not good at social media.” No longer, John!
Pin it here ⬇️
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Look who's here!
Electricity access is set to continue improving this year – a positive sign after setbacks in recent years.
But faster progress is essential to get on track with the goal of delivering access to all those who lack it.
Read more in our new commentary 👉 https://iea.li/3UZOsPw
But faster progress is essential to get on track with the goal of delivering access to all those who lack it.
Read more in our new commentary 👉 https://iea.li/3UZOsPw
November 19, 2024 at 10:47 AM
Look who's here!
Tad concerned this is like quitting smoking then trying a vape.
November 18, 2024 at 2:56 PM