He was burned by taking that stance at the Mirror. In that echelon of the media there's nothing to lose by being a hawk and a lot of jeapardy for asking questions.
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He was burned by taking that stance at the Mirror. In that echelon of the media there's nothing to lose by being a hawk and a lot of jeapardy for asking questions.
Excited this piece with excellent colleagues is now out! We examine implications of geopolitical turbulence in the world for the GEP research agenda @yixiansun.bsky.social @matpaterson.bsky.social
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π£ call for papers for a special issue for Frontiers for Environmental Archaeology πΊπ¦ π π π.
Topic summaries/abstracts due May 20th.
The topic is nice and broad so if you have an idea, please reach out.
#archaeology #insects #entomology #multispecies
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In "a little bit of knowledge is a dangerous thing" news, we are all hostages in the world of CO2 fans' disingenuous motivated reasoning π
Might be different to the one you had in mind but this made me think of Toni Morrison on the function of racism as a distraction - the longer speech is also worth a listen (original audio in link)
kottke.org/24/08/the-tr...
π£ call for papers for a special issue for Frontiers for Environmental Archaeology πΊπ¦ π π π.
Topic summaries/abstracts due May 20th.
The topic is nice and broad so if you have an idea, please reach out.
#archaeology #insects #entomology #multispecies
www.frontiersin.org/research-top...
They just can't help themselves from helping themselves
Thank you! And totally agree - kefir for the win π₯
Following ban of 'milk' as a term I fell into a small rabbit whole of the concept of milk as we understand it in Europe. π§΅
So when lobbying efforts lead to banning of very common terms, it feels more cynical than a genuine correction to avoid misleading.
Now if things claim to be 'natural' but are ultra processed, that's a different story. Similar with the term 'healthy' - these can be very misleading. 7/7
So milk in the European context at least is a categorisation/ontological term attached to a range of processes, functions, and qualities. 6/7
Soya milk from China was described as milk by a Spanish missionary because that's how he understood it's form and function. Interestingly, in Chinese the word for soy milk "Doufujiang" (θ±θ ζΌΏ) refers to broth, and was often consumed in ways similar to other soups. 5/7
When we think of food substitution, these alternatives are being used in place of other milks, so we're referring to their function as foods. 4/7
We still use milk as a term for extraction (you can milk attention from people, venom from a snake), and as a connotation for something soothing (milk of magnesia, milk of human kindness). 3/7
Research the genealogy of milk or lac/leche/lait you will find the terms come from extraction process (milk=to rub) or qualities (lac/lait/leche=refresh/soothe). 2/7
I hear what you're saying, however imo the problem would be if the term genuinely misleads. Milk is used as a term because it describes a form and function so it's quite useful.
As I fell down a rabbit hole, a short𧡠- feel free to ignore but might be interesting 1/7
Excellent explainer of Mont Pelerin Society (MPS) & Atlas Network by Gareth Hutchens, ABC.
#Auspol
www.abc.net.au/news/2026-01...
Very happy to see that the UK can produce its own boneheaded agricultural nomenclatural protectionism after leaving the EU. Makes you proud.
Some people have intolerance to dairy milk or prefer the taste of alternatives.
Book cover - Archaeology for Today and Tomorrow
Now open access: Archaeology for Today and Tomorrow.
www.taylorfrancis.com/books/oa-mon...
#archaeology
#openaccess
Map of Europe and Africa, part of the Middle East and Asia, showing regions growing drier or wetter with climate change.
Researchers from @ucl.ac.uk analysed + mapped data on which global regions are getting wetter, which drier as the climate changes. We've loaded this map onto our website so you can investigate what's happening in your area via this link:
watershedinvestigations.com/find-out-wha...
A graph showing daily temperature anomalies since the 1940s
Not a single day in 2025 was cooler than the 1991-2020 average, on a global scale. @copernicusecmwf.bsky.social
A photo of teenage Claudette Colvin in glasses and a sweater.
Friends, Claudette Colvinβthe 15-year-old who refused to give up her seat on a Montgomery bus in March 1955 & joined the federal case against bus segregation that went to the Supreme Court β died today at age 86. But there are lots of myths and mis-impressions about her. A short corrective thread:
There is abundant empirical evidence that refutes the production /land equation. Whereas the belief in intensification tends to rely on modelling of optimal scenarios along limited variables.
Bringing the drama of a Caravaggio to asparagus π«‘
buttons coming back, shitty door handles slowly being made illegal, now just make cars small again and weβll be getting somewhere
I thought it was important that they're specifically not humans and the films reject human technologies as extractivist. Someone could make an Avatar film where they become an elephant, or a chimpanzee. What does colonialism/extractivism look like from their perspective.
Can of 7 Mile American IPA with an image of a cowboy riding a big prawn. The same prawn?
The town even sells a prawn themed IPA π¦
