Prof Rachael Garrett
@rachgarr.bsky.social
Prof of Conservation & Development @Cambridge_uni; feminist & anti-racist. food systems; supply chains; conservation; tropics; sociobioeconomies; GLP SSC co-chair @glp-earth.bsky.social
Pinned
Reflecting on the Global Land Programme
#GLPOSM5 & the Science Steering Committee meeting in Oaxaca to begin trying to express how meaningful these events have been to me.
#GLPOSM5 & the Science Steering Committee meeting in Oaxaca to begin trying to express how meaningful these events have been to me.
Can we just start referring to him as piggy now?
November 22, 2025 at 9:35 AM
Can we just start referring to him as piggy now?
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Tämä lienee jo tuttu
November 12, 2025 at 9:25 PM
Tämä lienee jo tuttu
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The Israeli army killed Gaza civilians in a free-for-all, say ...
... Israeli soldiers who served there.
... Israeli soldiers who served there.
November 10, 2025 at 9:21 AM
The Israeli army killed Gaza civilians in a free-for-all, say ...
... Israeli soldiers who served there.
... Israeli soldiers who served there.
Congrats to this group!
Honoured to receive this ERC Synergy grant to work with these fantastic researchers!
Rob Marchant, Laura Pereira, Unai Pascual, and Thomas Hickler will use their ERC Synergy Grant to understand how nature and societies interact in and beyond mountain socioecological systems ⛰️
@rob-marchant.bsky.social @laurap18.bsky.social @upascual.bsky.social
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#ERCSyG
@rob-marchant.bsky.social @laurap18.bsky.social @upascual.bsky.social
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#ERCSyG
November 10, 2025 at 9:27 AM
Congrats to this group!
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One analytical model shows that, as of November 5th, the dismantling of U.S.A.I.D. has already caused the deaths of 600,000 people, two-thirds of them children. https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/jUzNSc
The Shutdown of U.S.A.I.D. Has Already Killed Hundreds of Thousands
The short documentary “Rovina’s Choice” tells the story of what goes when aid goes.
newyorkermag.visitlink.me
November 6, 2025 at 9:00 PM
One analytical model shows that, as of November 5th, the dismantling of U.S.A.I.D. has already caused the deaths of 600,000 people, two-thirds of them children. https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/jUzNSc
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On average Meta shows its platforms’ users an estimated 15 billion “higher risk” scam advertisements every day.
(Meta earns about $7 billion in annualized revenue from this category of scam ads each year.) www.reuters.com/investigatio...
(Meta earns about $7 billion in annualized revenue from this category of scam ads each year.) www.reuters.com/investigatio...
Meta is earning a fortune on a deluge of fraudulent ads, documents show
Meta projected 10% of its 2024 revenue would come from ads for scams and banned goods, and it internally estimates that its platforms show users 15 billion scam ads a day, company documents show.
www.reuters.com
November 6, 2025 at 4:14 PM
On average Meta shows its platforms’ users an estimated 15 billion “higher risk” scam advertisements every day.
(Meta earns about $7 billion in annualized revenue from this category of scam ads each year.) www.reuters.com/investigatio...
(Meta earns about $7 billion in annualized revenue from this category of scam ads each year.) www.reuters.com/investigatio...
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Gutsy and fascinating work developing a chicken pain index, in essence, as a path to more ethical animal-agriculture futures in a protein-hungry world by @cleoverk.bsky.social 🧪🐓. Paper and summary: 🧵
November 6, 2025 at 6:20 PM
Gutsy and fascinating work developing a chicken pain index, in essence, as a path to more ethical animal-agriculture futures in a protein-hungry world by @cleoverk.bsky.social 🧪🐓. Paper and summary: 🧵
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"In total, the Gates Foundation (formerly known as the The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation) has donated $3,519,491 to Lomborg’s think tank. The most recent tax filing on record includes a 2022 donation to the Copenhagen Consensus Center worth $1.25 million" - @rtakver.bsky.social, @desmog.com
Bill Gates Gave $3.5M to Think Tank Run by Climate Crisis Denier Bjorn Lomborg
Tax records reveal that the billionaire’s foundation has donated for years to Lomborg’s Copenhagen Consensus Center.
www.desmog.com
November 6, 2025 at 1:13 AM
"In total, the Gates Foundation (formerly known as the The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation) has donated $3,519,491 to Lomborg’s think tank. The most recent tax filing on record includes a 2022 donation to the Copenhagen Consensus Center worth $1.25 million" - @rtakver.bsky.social, @desmog.com
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"Perhaps the most striking findings is that the British public vastly overestimates the cost getting to net zero by almost 14,000%, fueling scepticism & a reluctance to pay. On average, they estimate it will need 28% of GDP by 2050, compared to @thecccuk.bsky.social forecast of just 0.2%"
"Perhaps the most striking findings is that the British public vastly overestimates the cost getting to net zero by almost 14,000%, fueling scepticism & a reluctance to pay. On average, they estimate it will need 28% of GDP by 2050, compared to @thecccuk.bsky.social forecast of just 0.2%"
Are the advocates for net zero losing the fight?
The cost of misunderstanding: How public perception shapes the net zero debate
fgsglobal.com
November 4, 2025 at 10:02 AM
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"Perhaps the most striking findings is that the British public vastly overestimates the cost getting to net zero by almost 14,000%, fueling scepticism & a reluctance to pay. On average, they estimate it will need 28% of GDP by 2050, compared to @thecccuk.bsky.social forecast of just 0.2%"
"Perhaps the most striking findings is that the British public vastly overestimates the cost getting to net zero by almost 14,000%, fueling scepticism & a reluctance to pay. On average, they estimate it will need 28% of GDP by 2050, compared to @thecccuk.bsky.social forecast of just 0.2%"
@lailaberning.bsky.social congratulations on your stellar defense today!!
November 3, 2025 at 9:33 PM
@lailaberning.bsky.social congratulations on your stellar defense today!!
ICMY ‼️
GLP land system science experts published our 8️⃣ policy principles for sustainable & just land systems.
Following these principles from agenda setting to formulation to implementation can help improve land policy.
@glp-earth.bsky.social @royalsociety.org
@camunigeography.bsky.social
GLP land system science experts published our 8️⃣ policy principles for sustainable & just land systems.
Following these principles from agenda setting to formulation to implementation can help improve land policy.
@glp-earth.bsky.social @royalsociety.org
@camunigeography.bsky.social
October 30, 2025 at 1:24 PM
ICMY ‼️
GLP land system science experts published our 8️⃣ policy principles for sustainable & just land systems.
Following these principles from agenda setting to formulation to implementation can help improve land policy.
@glp-earth.bsky.social @royalsociety.org
@camunigeography.bsky.social
GLP land system science experts published our 8️⃣ policy principles for sustainable & just land systems.
Following these principles from agenda setting to formulation to implementation can help improve land policy.
@glp-earth.bsky.social @royalsociety.org
@camunigeography.bsky.social
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Policy principles for sustainable and just land systems @rachgarr.bsky.social etal. @royalsociety.org
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October 23, 2025 at 1:45 PM
Policy principles for sustainable and just land systems @rachgarr.bsky.social etal. @royalsociety.org
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That's 250 million not going to helping people.
@senategop.govpeeps.us @houserepublicans.bsky.social
This is how you serve your country? What a joke.
@senategop.govpeeps.us @houserepublicans.bsky.social
This is how you serve your country? What a joke.
Scoop: Trump has started demolishing the White House's East Wing facade to build his ballroom. The president had claimed construction of the $250 million building wouldn’t ‘interfere’ with the existing White House structure. /W @ddiamond.bsky.social wapo.st/4hqBNiU
White House begins demolishing East Wing facade to build Trump’s ballroom
The president had claimed construction of the $250 million ballroom wouldn’t ‘interfere’ with the existing White House structure.
wapo.st
October 20, 2025 at 6:56 PM
That's 250 million not going to helping people.
@senategop.govpeeps.us @houserepublicans.bsky.social
This is how you serve your country? What a joke.
@senategop.govpeeps.us @houserepublicans.bsky.social
This is how you serve your country? What a joke.
Public write up of our recent @consletters.bsky.social paper.
"Our results were clear: across both countries, our experts judged that #political will and #law enforcement were by far the most important factors for protecting #forests...
theconversation.com/protecting-b...
"Our results were clear: across both countries, our experts judged that #political will and #law enforcement were by far the most important factors for protecting #forests...
theconversation.com/protecting-b...
Protecting Brazil and Indonesia’s tropical forests requires political will, law enforcement and public pressure
How Brazil and Indonesia have cut down on deforestation.
theconversation.com
October 19, 2025 at 3:18 PM
Public write up of our recent @consletters.bsky.social paper.
"Our results were clear: across both countries, our experts judged that #political will and #law enforcement were by far the most important factors for protecting #forests...
theconversation.com/protecting-b...
"Our results were clear: across both countries, our experts judged that #political will and #law enforcement were by far the most important factors for protecting #forests...
theconversation.com/protecting-b...
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wikipedia's data shows that AI is siphoning traffic away from the site, which is a danger to its sustainability. ironically Wikipedia is more important than ever to users who want reliable information instead of slop, and to AI companies that need it for training data www.404media.co/wikipedia-sa...
Wikipedia Says AI Is Causing a Dangerous Decline in Human Visitors
“With fewer visits to Wikipedia, fewer volunteers may grow and enrich the content, and fewer individual donors may support this work.”
www.404media.co
October 17, 2025 at 1:15 AM
wikipedia's data shows that AI is siphoning traffic away from the site, which is a danger to its sustainability. ironically Wikipedia is more important than ever to users who want reliable information instead of slop, and to AI companies that need it for training data www.404media.co/wikipedia-sa...
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Baha and Samaa have worked hard to make their tent into a nice home for their girls, but it provides neither shade nor insulation, it's infested with insects, and they're all suffering from the effects of malnutrition. Please help. gofund.me/db56c7ce3 @mommunism.bsky.social @lexialex.bsky.social 🍉
September 26, 2025 at 4:11 PM
Baha and Samaa have worked hard to make their tent into a nice home for their girls, but it provides neither shade nor insulation, it's infested with insects, and they're all suffering from the effects of malnutrition. Please help. gofund.me/db56c7ce3 @mommunism.bsky.social @lexialex.bsky.social 🍉
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🚨🇪🇸 Breaking: Spain has dispatched a navy vessel to support the Global Sumud Flotilla heading to Gaza. Speaking from New York, Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez said Spain “condemns the genocide” in Gaza and demanded Israel uphold international law and allow Spanish citizens to sail safely in the...
September 24, 2025 at 7:03 PM
🚨🇪🇸 Breaking: Spain has dispatched a navy vessel to support the Global Sumud Flotilla heading to Gaza. Speaking from New York, Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez said Spain “condemns the genocide” in Gaza and demanded Israel uphold international law and allow Spanish citizens to sail safely in the...
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Reporting here: www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...
Israel attack on Yemeni newspaper was second deadliest on journalists ever recorded
Press freedom group says ‘brutal and unjustified attack’ is deadliest since 2009 Maguindanao massacre in Philippines
www.theguardian.com
September 20, 2025 at 8:09 PM
Reporting here: www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...
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The age of warnings is over.
The climate and nature crisis is already here, threatening our food, health and national security.
On 27 Nov, top UK experts deliver the official briefing our leaders urgently need. Make sure your MP attends❗️
#TimeToStepUp
www.nebriefing.org
The climate and nature crisis is already here, threatening our food, health and national security.
On 27 Nov, top UK experts deliver the official briefing our leaders urgently need. Make sure your MP attends❗️
#TimeToStepUp
www.nebriefing.org
September 9, 2025 at 11:23 AM
The age of warnings is over.
The climate and nature crisis is already here, threatening our food, health and national security.
On 27 Nov, top UK experts deliver the official briefing our leaders urgently need. Make sure your MP attends❗️
#TimeToStepUp
www.nebriefing.org
The climate and nature crisis is already here, threatening our food, health and national security.
On 27 Nov, top UK experts deliver the official briefing our leaders urgently need. Make sure your MP attends❗️
#TimeToStepUp
www.nebriefing.org
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I’m sharing a Palestinian account every day and today is Rania. Rania’s husband who was a university professor of commercial law recently broke his leg when trying to get aid and now Rania is trying to take care of her children Aya, 18, Jana, 16, Oday, 11 and Kinda, 6.
August 27, 2025 at 8:42 AM
I’m sharing a Palestinian account every day and today is Rania. Rania’s husband who was a university professor of commercial law recently broke his leg when trying to get aid and now Rania is trying to take care of her children Aya, 18, Jana, 16, Oday, 11 and Kinda, 6.
🖤 If you don't know where to start on the world's conservation problems, advocacy is a key way to do that.
✨ As our research shows, these efforts can help build political will & the associated policies needed for change.
Read about it: tinyurl.com/2s4y6en7
@conservation.cam.ac.uk
✨ As our research shows, these efforts can help build political will & the associated policies needed for change.
Read about it: tinyurl.com/2s4y6en7
@conservation.cam.ac.uk
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July 24, 2025 at 5:42 PM
🖤 If you don't know where to start on the world's conservation problems, advocacy is a key way to do that.
✨ As our research shows, these efforts can help build political will & the associated policies needed for change.
Read about it: tinyurl.com/2s4y6en7
@conservation.cam.ac.uk
✨ As our research shows, these efforts can help build political will & the associated policies needed for change.
Read about it: tinyurl.com/2s4y6en7
@conservation.cam.ac.uk