Sorry to mention climate change here but we're all scurrying around in a thin film of atmosphere shared between all of us and we shouldn't overheat the thing keeping us alive!!

The 25 Happiest Countries In The World, According To The 2026 World Happiness Report Finland tops the list of the world’s happiest countries for the ninth year—but the bigger story this year is a growing divide in youth happiness.

Being the Happiest Country in the World for the ninth year in a row has a whole different meaning during these chaotic times. What makes Finns happy? Social support, GDP per capita, freedom, and healthy life expectancy.

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Oil isn’t getting through the Strait of Hormuz but sunlight and wind are.

Net zero will cost less than fossil fuel price rise, UK climate adviser says Climate Change Committee report comes after days of turbulence in global energy markets

Achieving net zero by 2050 will cost less than a fossil fuel price shock according to @thecccuk.bsky.social, which advises governments on climate policy. By @attractamooney.bsky.social and @pickardje.bsky.social for the @financialtimes.com:

Contrary to what is said here, I do consider myself a happy taxpayer.

Love the combined sense of chaos and determination in this!

Your academic career as a GIF? This was one of my favorite strings back in the days of Twitter.
Maybe we can recreate it?

#academicsky #research

Finland 👋

We are waiting for your submissions! The call for the International CSR Communication Conference in Finland closes on March 31, 2026 📢
The conference theme is "CSR Communication in the age of political instability: Building hope in a hopeless world"🕊️
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#CSRCOM2026 @lut.fi

Special Issue The politicization of CSR communication: Navigating an increasingly complex landscape of responsibilities. Deadline March 30, 2027, for Corporate Communications: An International Journal.

📢 Politicization of CSR Communication - Special Issue call for papers 📢
Topics may include CSR communication related to sustainability backtracking, stakeholder dissent, polarization, partisanship, or political pressure on companies.
Full CFP:
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"For many, the law is the only substantive guardrail. But with that safeguard being weakened every day, today’s leaders and educators need to reflect and act."
"Business leaders are increasingly wondering: “I can, but should I?”"

image from today's hearing

Epstein survivors raise their hands to signal they've been ignored by Trump's DOJ as AG Pam Bondi refuses to look at them

(Roberto Schmidt/AFP via Getty)

In the letter: “A handful of global oligarchs with extreme wealth have bought up our democracies; taken over our governments; gagged the freedom of our media; placed a stranglehold on technology and innovation; deepened poverty and social exclusion; and accelerated the breakdown of our planet,”

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This line graph illustrates the percentage change in agency staff levels from the previous year for nine major U.S. federal scientific and health organizations between the fiscal years 2016 and 2025. The agencies tracked include the CDC, Department of Energy, EPA, FDA, NASA, NIH, NIST, NOAA, and NSF. For the majority of the timeline between 2016 and 2023, the agencies show relatively stable fluctuations, generally staying within a range of +5% to -5% change per year. However, there is a dramatic and uniform plummet starting in the 2024–25 period. Every agency depicted shows a sharp downward trajectory, with staffing losses ranging from approximately -15% to over -25%. The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) shows the most significant decline, dropping to roughly -26%, while the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) shows the least severe but still substantial drop at approximately -15%.

This is the most astonishing graph of what the Trump regime has done to US science. They have destroyed the federal science workforce across the board. The negative impacts on Americans will be felt for generations, and the US might never be the same again.

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In the beginning of this speech, the PM of Canada Mark Carney refers to companies' role in sustaining powers that harm societies. It takes one company to start resisting for the illusion to begin cracking.

"Friends, it is time for companies and countries to take their signs [of compliance] down."

CEOs are on eggshells as Trump retreats from climate institutions that don't "serve American interests".

"When even the most powerful business leaders stay quiet because they fear retribution, it says something about the state of the democracies they operate in".

What a difference to the 1st term.

“We will not let ourselves be blackmailed. … This is an EU issue that affects many more countries than those now being singled out. Sweden is now having intensive discussions with other EU countries, Norway and the UK for a coordinated response.” - Ulf Kristersson, prime minister of Sweden

Predictions from sustainability leaders for 2026 🌱
Number 1: Addressing the energy impacts of AI

"[Communicators] will need to spend far less time elevating high-level commitments and far more time translating complex, operational decisions into language stakeholders can understand and trust."

"The long term is sooner than we think" 🚨

Kuvakaappaus lakitekstistä: (Haitta)vaikutus voidaan kuitenkin katsoa vähäiseksi, sillä sen on tutkittu vaikuttavan lähinnä naisiin ja lakimuutoksen arvioidaan koskevan vain joitain tuhansia synnytysikäisiä, jotka työskentelisivät ilman perusteltua syytä solmitussa määräaikaisessa työsuhteessa.”

Oli pakko käydä lukemassa, lukeeko hallituksen esityksen perusteluissa määräaikaisuuksien helpottamiseen liittyen ihan oikeasti näin kuten on väitetty, että vaikutus on vähäinen, "sillä sen on tutkittu vaikuttavan lähinnä naisiin".
Kyllä siellä tosiaankin näin lukee.

JUST IN: A federal judge has ordered the Trump administration to restore $12 million in grants to the American Academy of Pediatrics, saying the terminations appear to be retaliation for the group's view points re: vaccine safety/efficacy. ecf.dcd.uscourts.gov/cgi-bin/show...

Altmetric Explorer screenshot: Showing 5,011,088 mentions (from 4,918,333 individual posts) of research outputs from the results of your search query.

Since Jan 1 2025, which feels like four trillion years ago, research has been shared on here 5 million whole-ass times. Bluesky recently passed 2 billion posts IN TOTAL.

So 0.25% of the entire site's traffic was citations to research.

That is actually massively high. Is it? Yes. Here's why.

We had a good run

Joululahja kiersi jälleen eduskunnassa, ja sen laittoi liikkeelle Riikka Purra – antoi sen yllättävälle henkilölle Eduskunnassa joululahjan voi saada ihan keneltä vain. Moni yllättyi kunnolla. Entäpä kuka on jakanut kollegoille itse tekemiään pipareita joulun alla?

Every year, I see this story about Finnish members of the Parliament giving their political opponents praise as a surprise Christmas gift. This year, especially, it feels good to know that we can still reach beyond antagonism in Finland.

It’s especially ironic because the lecture is exactly about the ‘paralyzing cowardice’ of today’s elites.

About universities, corporations and media networks bending the knee to authoritarianism. /4

How much do elites influence societal polarization? Quite much, it turns out. This is such an intriguing study that shows how a handful of influential voices is enough to drive dramatic societal rifts - even in a country with a strong tradition of political plurality, such as Finland.

Finland’s Alexander Stubb Calls for Rules-Based Approach to Global Wars in First G20 Speech | AC1B YouTube video by DRM News

Finland’s President Alexander Stubb @alexstubb.bsky.social made an excellent short 3 minute speech at the G20 summit in South Africa about multilateralism and urging nations to cooperate fairly following the rules to achieve sustainability.

Worth watching:

The Dual Climate Impact of News Media Organizations - NordMedia Network Commercial news media organizations hold a unique and vital role in the climate crisis. As business organizations, they have a corporate responsibility to evaluate, report on, and minimize the environ...

Commercial news #media face dual climate duties: cutting their own footprint and weighing the impact of their #journalism. A new MedieKultur article by Meri Frig, @lauraonen.bsky.social &
@maaritjii.bsky.social shows how #Nordic newsrooms navigate both.

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