Nice to see kava is now legally available in Australia!

Always the most chaotic birds! Sulphur crested cockatoos #birds 🪶

Subsidizing global decarbonization: how Chinese state support for clean technologies enables and (potentially) obstructs a worldwide green transition Over the last decade, green technologies have been deployed at record-breaking speeds across the world. No actor has been more important to this process than China, which now dominates what is cons...

🆕 🗞️ New Publication online today: Subsidizing global decarbonization: how Chinese state support for clean technologies enables and (potentially) obstructs a worldwide green transition - with @mathiaslarsen.bsky.social

www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Screenshot of a Guardian update on the situation in the middle east. The headline reads: "UK, Germany and France condemn Iranian attacks" and goes on to note that: "The UK, Germany and France have condemned Iranian attacks on countries in the region, saying Iran must refrain from indiscriminate military strikes. They did not comment on US and Israeli attacks on Iran. British prime minister Keir Starmer, French president Emmanuel Macron and German chancellor Friedrich Merz issued a statement Saturday saying their countries didn’t take part in the strikes on Iran but are in close contact with the US, Israel and partners in the region. The three countries have led efforts to reach a negotiated solution over Iran’s nuclear program."

Utterly gutless. These supposed 'leaders' have the moral fortitude of those pissweak little toadies that hang around with bullies, and go squealing to the teacher the bullied kids start fighting back.

For those interested in value theory and the critique of political ecology:

This new article by André Novas Otero shows how rent can only be understood in terms of its double basis (natural difference and class power), and how this double basis helps explain the persistence of uneven development.

Delectible black-naped monarch making a very welcome appearance on our late-afternoon walk. Manipal, Karnataka. #birds 🪶

Reclusive (i.e. always hiding in the dark scrub!) Indian paradise fly catcher. Manipal, Karnataka. #birds 🪶

White browed bulbul. Manipal, Karnataka, India. #birds 🪶

India wants COP30 to focus on climate adaptation, but dries up own fund The Indian government has been allocating zero budget for a flagship climate adaptation scheme for the past two years.

www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/11...

When in Rome (India)...

Mining Sovereignties in Courts: Voicing Plural Sovereignties in Juridical Spaces This article examines how settler courts both facilitate and impede the acknowledgment of Indigenous sovereignty in socio-juridical spaces. Indigenous environmental litigation is a complex category an...

I am delighted to see this out and happy to be alongside so many brilliant scholars—it was a difficult paper to articulate (read it and you will see why 😄). Much love to the reviewers and editors who made the paper infinitely better! www.uowoajournals.org/ltc/article/...

Majestic white-throated Kingfisher. Manipal Lake, Karnataka, India. 🪶#birds

If you're attending #POLLEN26 then check out our panel below

The relationship between experienced losses and damages, risk tolerance and livelihood thresholds in the East Gippsland, Australia, farming sector Losses and damages are residual impacts of climate change that occur despite mitigation and adaptation actions. Losses and damages are borderless, alb…

Happy to share a new paper from research done during my postdoc. Drawing on interviews and surveys, this paper examines the relationships among experienced losses and damage, risk tolerance, and livelihood thresholds among farmers in East Gippsland, Australia.

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

The story of a dropped and snatched fish—Ft.Western Reef Heron and Brahminy Kite #birds 🪶

The relationship between experienced losses and damages, risk tolerance and livelihood thresholds in the East Gippsland, Australia, farming sector Losses and damages are residual impacts of climate change that occur despite mitigation and adaptation actions. Losses and damages are borderless, alb…

Happy to share a new paper from research done during my postdoc. Drawing on interviews and surveys, this paper examines the relationships among experienced losses and damage, risk tolerance, and livelihood thresholds among farmers in East Gippsland, Australia.

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Australian bird of the year 2025: vote for your favourite #birdoftheyear in the Guardian / BirdLife Australia poll From little penguins to (very big) cassowaries, every bird has its fans. Vote for your favourite in the 2025 Guardian/BirdLife Australia poll

The best election is here (and notorious)—love to watch how friends and family have their own favourites and how many arguments kick off as to what is strategic voting 😆www.theguardian.com/environment/ng-interacti...

How Victoria’s Treaty could change Australia

“We should celebrate when the Bill becomes an Act,” writes Marcia Langton. “It will transform the bitterness of more than 200 years of history into a new and exciting era of becoming more than a postcolonial province with a ‘regrettable’ history.” satpa.pe/3a2C6Hi

Orange minivet. Udupi, Karnataka, India. 🪶

Building relationships between First Nations Peoples and Western scientists to increase capacity to understand, respond and adapt to climate change Warning: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people should be aware that this paper contains name(s) of deceased person(s). First Nations and their People have stressed to Western scientists that Co...

Happy to share a recently published paper I played a small role in writing. Led by wonderful First Nation scholars across Australia, this paper shows the difficult but not impossible ways to build relationships between First Nations and Western scientists for climate action.

doi.org/10.1071/es24...

Building relationships between First Nations Peoples and Western scientists to increase capacity to understand, respond and adapt to climate change Warning: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people should be aware that this paper contains name(s) of deceased person(s). First Nations and their People have stressed to Western scientists that Co...

Happy to share a recently published paper I played a small role in writing. Led by wonderful First Nation scholars across Australia, this paper shows the difficult but not impossible ways to build relationships between First Nations and Western scientists for climate action.

doi.org/10.1071/es24...

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Great new paper by the excellent Dr Kelly Dorkenoo and Phasy Res, on the historical, social, and political-economic production of climate-related loss in northeastern Cambodia.

It further reinforces the complex and political drivers of climate loss.

www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Osprey hunting at Kielder Water, Northumberland. 🪶

P.s Orkney is wonderful!

On holiday, but necessary to intervene. Don't make me tap the sign "no such thing as natural disasters (or climate disasters)". There are, however, climate-exacerbated disasters, but the underlying vulnerability of societies is the root cause. Always will be.

This is not new but always important

Wheatear from Orkney, Scotland. 🪶

Our 1st Impact Factor is in. We got an IF of 3.6, putting us in Q1 for social issues! 🥳
We are delighted by this result. Thank you to our brilliant authors, editorial team, reviewers and readers for making this possible ❤️

Shaina Potts, Judicial Territory: Law, Capital, and the Expansion of American Empire - @dukepress.bsky.social, September 2024
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@newbooksnetwork.bsky.social discussion with Second Cold War Observatory. newbooksnetwork.com/judicial-ter...