On train to #NobelPeaceConference reading The New York Times "No education beyond 6th grade. No employment in most places, no publicspace access. No unaccompanied travel. No leaving home uncovered. And now, the sound of a woman’s voice outside the home has been outlawed in Afghanistan."

Free Narges now! Malala Yousafzai , Maria Ressa , Shirin Ebadi, Nadia Murad , and many other award winners, intellectuals, politicians, and public figures have united to demand freedom for Narges Mohammadi. Join us in the fight for her freedom! Take action: write “Free Narges” on

The history of three infectious diseases — smallpox, polio, and measles — before and after a vaccine was available. From my article on humanity's long fight against infectious diseases: ourworldindata.org/microbes-battl…

Breaking news! 📢 72% of people across 18 of the 20 wealthiest nations believe that #ECOCIDE should be a CRIME! 🌎 This is according to a global poll conducted by Ipsos and commissioned by Earth4All + Global Commons Alliance. FULL STORY➡️: stopecocide.earth/2024/ipsos-sur… #StopEcocide

Today we (Earth4All Global Commons Alliance Wellbeing Economy Alliance - WEAll ...) publish our #G20 survey on attitudes to planetary stewardship IpsosUK. Large support for #ecocide legislation. "Time to criminalize environmental damage", says survey p.dw.com/p/4kJSs?maca=e…

I am still unsure how much access these LLMs have to actual academic literature - full papers on journal sites. Does anyone have any insights? nature.com/articles/d4158…

BREAKING NEWS The 2024 #NobelPrize in Physiology or Medicine has been awarded to Victor Ambros and Gary Ruvkun for the discovery of microRNA and its role in post-transcriptional gene regulation.

The Jodies Resolution is almost mythical. By chance, I was in Amsterdam for a wedding last May and moored right next to the reception, there she was. The ship is priceless for Natural Environment Research Council, IGBP research, ECORD and, i would say, for humanity. theguardian.com/environment/20…

Well… congratulations to Demis Hassabis our local boy done good! A win for Finchley, and I dare say the first Nobel for comprehensive Christ's College Finchley & state grammar Queen Elizabeth school Barnet. Congrats to David Baker and John Jumper. Loving your work!

great write up summarising the work of today's The Nobel Prize laureates

Ya está en librerías 'Un planeta para todos. Una guía de supervivencia para la humanidad. Un informe para el Club de Roma', de Sandrine Dixson, owen gaffney, Jayati Ghosh, Jorgen Randers, Johan Rockström y @estocknes. Con prólogo de Christiana Figueres y Elizabeth Wathuti , O.G.W 🇰🇪. icariaeditorial.com/inicio/4821-un…

usa by the numbers

Great oped Owen Jones The Guardian. @earth4all_ ran a global survey with IpsosUK this year. In US while 80% think democracy is good, 41% think a strong autocratic leader also works, and most want economic and political reform. This is what Trump has been promising.

Just added Mexico. Now up to 28 countries and I need to rethink the layout. robbieandrew.github.io/carsales/

this is the event — temperatures not cooling down once La Niña conditions were re-established — that climate scientists said would imply something quite bad

More and more people are saying this: Tariffs for oligarchs! (A little tax will do: no need to ban them—unless they don't pay)

Great thought piece imagining America in 2050 by Daron Acemoglu The Nobel Prize. A parallel with @earth4all system dynamics modelling that includes a social tension index that provides a rough guide to institutional trust as inequality rises ft.com/content/4e3f17… via @ft

Apparently it is once again time to bring back the lesson on tariffs from Ferris Bueller

Is it a useful exercise to list the largest oil and coal companies? Will it help bring emissions down? I don't think so. They are pumping because it is legal, extremely profitable and high demand. This is where most effort needed. theguardian.com/environment/20…

#CriticalMinerals shouldn’t be battlegrounds. Our new publication in Science Magazine introduces a Global Minerals Trust—a shared governance framework to stabilize markets and protect communities. Let’s move from competition to cooperation. Read here: doi.org/10.1126/scienc…