We are sleepwalking into a catastrophic global conflict.

Our political class shows no interest in de-escalation, diplomacy or restraint — and it is always other people's children who pay the price.

In a world of endless war, we need voices for lasting peace.

Los Angeles County today has about 10 million human residents. It also has over 5000 active oil wells, often in residential areas. This makes L.A. the largest urban oil extraction complex in the United States. One in three residents of the county live within one mile of a well.

As I'm writing again about the climate crisis (when was I *not* writing about the climate crisis?) and the complicity of universities in perpetuating it, just uploaded the OA version of this, in case you couldn't access it on the publisher website: janabacevic.net/wp-content/upl…

ahahahhaha seems I've agitated the bots

Speaking of scholarly burnout, here's a reminder of something I wrote five years ago, for the occasion of ASOS, but more widely applicable (and also a reminder of Reply Guys who *did* drop into my mentions before reading to the end 😁) janabacevic.net/2019/12/01/why…

every once in a while I stumble across an article that describes (better) everything I've been writing about/mulling over/speaking to colleagues in the past five(+) years. this one is 🙌. thanks, Erin Bartram!

❗️This: 'this 'burnout' that secure scholars are feeling is phantom pain where their colleagues should be. To use a term that every other normal worker in the US uses to describe their workplace: you are suffering from intentional systemic understaffing.' contingentmagazine.org/2023/01/07/a-p…

I saw Back to Black this afternoon and, beyond noting that it seems to follow this year's trend of superficial fictional glosses of excellent existing documentaries (see: Bob Marley), this covers - brilliantly - almost everything else I thought: theguardian.com/music/2024/apr…

Two job opportunities working with my trusted friend Tim Rapley Northumbria Uni:
The PLACES Implementation Study - Senior Research Assistant work4.northumbria.ac.uk/#en/sites/CX_1…
The CHESS Cluster Randomised Controlled Trial - Qualitative Research Fellow work4.northumbria.ac.uk/#en/sites/CX_1…

repeat after me: 'climate change will make weather patterns more extreme and even less predictable'

not 'woops, need to put a wooly jumper on after sunbathing in my garden' 😡😡

(oh, also, heatwave + frost? wave goodbye to your crops)

Tens of thousands of people have been evacuated from 10 northern regions in Kazakhstan because of floods in the area, the authorities have said.
The worse than usual seasonal floods have been caused by melting snow.

bbc.com/news/world-eur…

All the Ukraine/Russia war experts turned affirmative action experts turned Gaza hospital ballistics experts turned academic plagiarism experts turned “AI analysts are now gonna shift to become Persian Gulf and Iran policy experts.

anyway in case there is no world tomorrow morning, it was nice knowing y'all (well, not exactly *all*, but you know who I mean), thanks for all the craic, when they kick at your front door etc. etc. [that line from Guns of Brixton], & see yous on the other side ✊

See also: citations in scientific journals blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsocial…

Reading this in book form and reminded how excellent it is Salvage salvage.zone/the-tragedy-of…

Miss out on what? This round of effects of global heating?? 😖

Do better on reporting on climate, Bristol Live.