I really hope the folks behind #ISA2024 ISA heed this constructive feedback that Philippe M. Frowd shared.

Reminds me of the attached #ISA2024 panel about Global South scholars and passport inequality, an important topic for sure, but featured ZERO Global South voices 😬🙃

Hear hear: our new paper raises alarms about the cooptations of climate mainstreaming and offers lessons based on decades of gender mainstreaming critiques.

Thank you Steven Lam for this interdisciplinary adventure 🙏

If you are using LLMs for summarizing long docs, you really should read this paper

Over 50% of book summaries (incl by Claude Opus and GPT-4) were identified as containing factual errors and errors of omission

Lesson: don't blindly assume AI summarization tools work. Test them.

A ‘decolonise’ conference that’s rejected a panel on Palestine because they only want topics that aren’t divisive 🙃 tells you everything you need to know about ‘decolonisation’ and UK universities 🫠

Check me out on the newest episode of the Vox podcast The Weeds - we talk #UNCLOS and #BBNJ and colonialism in ocean governance. Plus, I get to make my argument against calling it the 'High Seas Treaty' Vox

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Judgment Verein KlimaSeniorinnen Schweiz and Others v. Switzerland - Violations of the Convention for failing to implement sufficient measures to combat climate change
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#ECHR #CEDH #ECHR press

The IDF's official 'rebuttal' (idf.il/189654) to +972 Magazine's and the The Guardian's incredibly sickening revelations that they've automatized the mass murder of Gazans with AI (972mag.com/lavender-ai-is…) is quite stunning because they actually validate pretty much all their…

'researchers dissected 178 cans, processed between 1979 and 2019...half the cans contained nematodes..they found that..number of worms per gram of tissue significantly increased over time in chum and pink salmon but not change in sockeye or coho salmon.'

scientificamerican.com/article/decade…

This is without a doubt one of the most important pieces of reporting on Gaza, and by far one of the most disturbing: 972mag.com/lavender-ai-is…

All by Israeli journalist Yuval Abraham יובל אברהם based on whistleblower accounts from within the IDF and intelligence agencies.

Israel has…

Here in our new paper, we consider the causes of and solutions to multiple converging and interwoven crises on Earth, including climate change, ecological destruction, disease, pollution, and socio-economic inequality. doi.org/10.1093/pnasne…

Happy to share SSHRC has funded our research on post-disaster resettlement & #climatechange adaptation in the Philippines 🇵🇭 Excited to celebrate our win ISA #ISA2024 w Dr. Corey Robinson (@BordersOrders) & Gin Cuaton (@gincuaton)🥂

York U Research & Innovation Faculty of Liberal Arts & Professional Studies Dahdaleh Institute for Global Health Research

Our #SEAwise colleague Troels Jacob Hegland 🐟🇩🇰🇳🇴 🌊 features in the #LifeBelowWater section of Aalborg Universitet's sustainability report, which spotlights his work with the Danish #Fisheries Commission, as well as Centre for Blue Governance’s work on @EmpoerUS_EU & @ecotiparticEU. 👉 loom.ly/9CllTSg

Sylvia Wynter writing about the emergence & development of the racial-colonial world-system, in deep engagement with Wallerstein’s work. Worth a look:

.International Feminist Journal of Politics will host the special issue on feminist solidarity amid planetary threats that Shirin Rai and I are putting together.

We are collecting abstracts until May -- please consider joining this collective effort to make sense of what is happening and what is possible 🌷

We are happy to be featured twice in Aalborg Universitet's recent sustainability report 💫 which highlights Troels Jacob Hegland 🐟🇩🇰🇳🇴 🌊 work in the Danish Fisheries Commission and our work on EmpowerUs and ecotiparctic

Full report:
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If the fact below got your attention, you might be interested in this article Steven Gonzalez Monserrate via The MIT Press @mitpress.bsky.social: The Staggering Ecological Impacts of Computation and the Cloud
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#Internet #CloudComputing #Anthropology #Computing #Environment

20 years ago PACBI - BDS movement called for the boycott of Israeli universities. Responding to this call, I wrote a book investigating Israeli universities' complicity in settler colonialism. Towers of Ivory and Steel: How Israeli Universities Deny Palestinian Freedom is out today Verso Books

Universities are funny. Hey what if we took a medieval institution for training priests and aristocrats and combined it w a hedge fund, sports franchise and resort for teenagers

Oh and it'll be the backbone for fundamental research for our entire civilization

New: The story of the poor indigenous Peruvians working —sometimes even for free— helping the world’s richest person sell $9,000 vicuña sweaters

It is the finest wool in the world, but in the Andes, they see none of the wealth bloomberg.com/features/2024-…

📢 Gender data is political - it's not just a technical issue.

Learn about the barriers and enablers to mobilize political will for #GenderData in our new report with Data2X and LDRI - Africa. ⬇️⬇️⬇️