Cómo leer un río Cómo las danzas del agua y el sedimento pueden terminar creando controversias diplomáticas.

caviarism.substack.com/p/como-leer-...

Hace años escribí este textito sobre la isla Santa Rosa y los vaivenes del Amazonas.

Lo reboto de nuevo porque puede leerse diferente en este contexto de nuevas locuras diplomáticas, que siguen dándole la espalda a los modos de ser de los ríos amazónicos.

Very excited to be joining the team at @mcgill-isid.bsky.social !

What Caused the 'Baby Boom’? What Would It Take to Have Another? Governments worldwide are trying to increase fertility with cash. But the most famous birthrate "boom" had a lot to do with science and technology, as well.

www.derekthompson.org/p/what-cause...

My great friend and colleague @eiremaz.bsky.social just published this article!

www.theatlantic.com/economy/arch... "The most promising avenue—one that could address the needs of millions of Americans who feel shut out of growth and prosperity (...)—might be a fusion of AOC/Bernie populism with a more political, less technocratic version of abundance."

Recent Climate Setbacks Will Not Derail the Green Transition At a moment when all countries need to raise their ambition on climate action, the opposite seems to be happening. But hope isn't lost. Three actions can accelerate the green transition even amid rece...

www.wri.org/insights/gre... "We must move away from a narrative of decarbonization to one that focuses on building a better, more prosperous future for people."

How to Legislate in a Half-Known World Why lawmakers should act on a “rational basis review” of the available evidence, rather than waiting for definitive proof.

www.afterbabel.com/p/legislate-... "We must stop assuming that we have to prove harm before acting. When it comes to children’s minds, companies should have to prove safety before operating."

How to redraw a city - Works in Progress Magazine Japan faced some of the world’s toughest planning problems. It solved them by letting homeowners redesign neighborhoods together.

worksinprogress.co/issue/how-to...

Brazil to auction oil exploration rights months before hosting Cop30 Sale covering 56,000 square miles to go ahead despite opposition Indigenous and environmental groups

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Money not infertility, UN report says: Why birth rates are plummeting ‘Lack of choice, not desire’ is reason for global fertility crisis, UN says in a global report.

According to UNFPA, 39 percent of people said financial limitations prevented them from having a child.

www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/6/...

I got fooled by AI-for-science hype—here's what it taught me I used AI in my plasma physics research and it didn’t go the way I expected.

www.understandingai.org/p/i-got-fool...

10.9 million people would lose health insurance under Trump’s tax cut bill, CBO projects 'Big, beautiful bill' would result in 10.9 million people losing health insurance, primarily Medicaid.

www.statnews.com/2025/06/04/t...

AI Found a ‘Magic Potion’ That Can Bring Dead Batteries Back to Life Electric vehicles leave behind mountains of dead lithium-ion batteries. A new “injection” brings them back to life

www.scientificamerican.com/article/revi... By adding the electrolyte whenever the battery neared that threshold, the team was able to restore most of the cell’s capacity each time—and it carried on working almost as well as a new battery.

Curtis Yarvin’s Plot Against America The reactionary blogger’s call for a monarch to rule the country once seemed like a joke. Now the right is ready to bend the knee.

www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

Eight Policy Principles to Guide our Relationship with Digital Technology Policies have enabled cars and airplanes to be used safely. No such policies exist for social media or AI. Progress is being made to fix this gap—beginning with protecting our kids.

www.afterbabel.com/p/eight-poli...

Saúl Lliuya nos muestra el camino Los horizontes para litigar los daños atribuidos a emisores históricos de CO2 se han ampliado con este fallo.

open.substack.com/pub/caviaris... interesante post de @barriozevallos.bsky.social sobre las nuevas estrategias de litigación internacional para financiar la adaptación climática, y el lugar especial del Perú en ese proceso.

Rubio Reportedly Pauses New International Student Visa Interviews More than 1.1 million international students were enrolled at U.S. colleges and universities in the 2023-2024 school year.

This level of cruelty, ignorance and incompetence, all at once, is just incredible.

www.forbes.com/sites/sarado...

heatmap.news/politics/tru... such an important analysis by robinson meyer.

"This will hit wind, solar, and batteries hard; (...) But higher interest rates will also make it harder to build new natural gas plants."

Escribí algunas reflexiones en Substack sobre la nueva data de perdida de bosques tropicales de U Maryland y GFW.

Link abajo!

morningtrojan.com/p/usc-carol-... Folt’s $350,000 pay bump from 2023 — more than twice the median USC professor’s salary — will likely keep her in the running for the country’s highest-paid university president.

Fires Drove Record-breaking Tropical Forest Loss in 2024 | World Resources Institute Research The Forest Pulse draws on the most recent data and analysis to reveal the latest trends in global forest loss and deforestation. This page is updated annually using annual tree cover loss data. Update...

Latin America was particularly hard hit, reversing the reduction in primary forest loss seen in Brazil and Colombia in 2023. gfr.wri.org/latest-analy...

Harvard Sues Trump Administration Over Move to Bar International Students

www.nytimes.com/2025/05/23/u... 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼

9 Federally Funded Scientific Breakthroughs That Changed Everything

www.nytimes.com/2025/05/16/s... worth remembering as the orange clown slashes the US research system.

Trump Administration Halts Harvard’s Ability to Enroll International Students

www.nytimes.com/2025/05/22/u... disgusting

Warming of +1.5 °C is too high for polar ice sheets - Communications Earth & Environment Warming of +1.5 °C above pre-industrial levels is too high for the Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets, and even the current climate forcing of +1.2 °C is likely to lead to several meters of sea-level ...

"even current climate forcing (+1.2 °C), if sustained, is likely to generate several metres of sea-level rise over the coming centuries" www.nature.com/articles/s43...

This is a great thread.

China's aluminum sector is huge, well over half of global production. Aluminum is extremely energy/electricity intensive. Decarbonizing this sector in China would be an emissions win probably on the scale of the IRA (the greatest law since sliced bread).

Book cover of Forgotten Experts: Astrologers, Science, and Authority in the Ottoman Empire, 1450–1600 by A. Tunç Şen

Forgotten Experts by A. Tunç Şen offers a history of Ottoman court astrologers and traces their shifting authority and prestige over the long sixteenth century.

www.sup.org/books/mi...

#ReadUP #HistorySky

From defenders to skeptics: The sharp decline in young Americans’ support for free speech Americans across all generations still value free speech. But for younger Americans, especially, that support is less strong and seems increasingly conditional.

theconversation.com/from-defende...

In 2021, 71% of young Americans said people should be allowed to insult the U.S. flag (...) By 2024, that number had fallen to just 43% – a 28-point drop. Support for pro‑LGBTQ+ speech declined by 20 percentage points...

Tornadoes knocked out my home power for days, but my Rivian became a backup energy savior The title says it all. Heavy thunderstorms and tornadoes ripped through the Midwest Thursday evening, leaving thousands of homes without...

electrek.co/2025/05/19/t...