joão miguel lima

Esse território precisa de mais medidas de inteligência urgentemente. Talvez seja algo para o Plano Amazônia: Segurança e Soberania (AMAS), no combate a crimes ambientais.

Chemical Colonialism is an unavoidable issue to debate #glyphosate.
"Substances banned for more than 10 or 20 years in the European Union because of risks to human and environmental health continue to be sold indiscriminately – by companies headquartered in the EU"
doi.org/10.1016/j.cl...

My visit as a postgraduate researcher at #CardiffUniversity has come to an end. My thanks to #CAPES for the funding.
Time to pack and return to Brazil 🙂🙂
Glad with what I learned and happy with the people I met.
Next step: fieldwork!

France’s 'Climate Sense' project puts you in a 50°C #climate chamber, a glimpse of a possible future.

Not a graph. Not a report. A physical experience.

Imagine if political leaders everywhere had to feel that heat before making climate decisions.

climatesense.fr

#earthsystem
"We will reflect on representation, engagement, and structural gaps in the ESG network, and gather your input to inform the South-South Initiative’s future strategy."
📝 Read more and register: www.earthsystemgovernance.org/event/webina...

Potosí Silver Mines - Contrasts Mines represent a site of wealth and speculation where inert rock and ore are given cultural, political, and economic meaning.

"Potosí’s silver mines were a portal (...) to the first interconnected global economy. In addition to funding Spain’s rapid colonial expansion, (...) coincided with (...) a silver-based tax policy in Ming dynasty China"
by ann haeyoung @contrastsmag.bsky.social
contrastsmag.net/article/poto...

Fico embasbacado

Submissions on "fortunes" due in two weeks!

More info & submit: contrastsmag.net #STS

Launching Reckoning Science We believe in science and its achievements, but also in the need to examine how it is actually made, including its limits and its entanglements with politics, money, and power.

Excited to announce that my post doc, Sasha Kaurov, and I are launching
reckoningscience.org/launching-re...
Please take a look, read, and subscribe! All proceeds will go to supporting the underfed post-doc.

Thanks for sharing!

You may want to watch at least the first 50s of this, @robinjsmith.bsky.social 🥲

Anxiety makes us miss things while they're still within reach. But I celebrate it, I miss it, I long for more, I'm worried about what's next, all at once. Exhausting and refreshing?

Boa aula, professor! É uma tecnologia que facilita e potencializa o impacto dessas mensagens fascistas

Good question..

It feels like tech for tech's sake, a performative projection of technology.. a very costly one!

ANTHROPOCENE HISTORY - Journal Launch October 2026

Contributions on Anthropocene History for the inaugural and subsequent issues are now welcome.

More information here: www.kth.se/anthropocene...

Bute Park through the seasons

The same #ButePark pathway through summer, autumn and winter

Great news from Brazil: new tetravalent single-dose #dengue vaccine to be available in the public healthcare system from the 2nd semester of 2026

Time to academically kickstart the new year with Monica H. Green and @csmbr-pisa.bsky.social

Escrevi um press release no blog @scielo.org em Perspectiva: Humanas sobre o artigo "Antinegritude, racismo fundiário e seletividade racial no meio rural brasileiro", que discute a (falta) de uma racialização da questão agrária no Brasil.

What Not To Do If You Are Accused Of Harassment: The Case Of Boaventura de Souza Santos | Platypus In this text, we intend to revisit the well-known case of the Portuguese sociologist Boaventura de Souza Santos, following its unfolding since the accusations that surfaced after the publication of th...

What happens when progressive theory collapses under everyday practice? This new post revisits the Boaventura de Sousa Santos case and proposes a feminist counter-manual on harassment, power, and institutional responsibility in academia.

Read it here: blog.castac.org/2025/12/what...

#STS

I've just started listening to Oxfam Cymru's Green, Fair and Caring podcast series on #JustTransitions
It's so inspiring to find people engaged with policy today because they know what that means for #futuregenerations

Feeling stuck in academic limbo with no prospects is the worst. No wonder it may lead to depression and anxiety.
I've seen steps 4 and 5 here and there. Hopefully change is taking place. Great post.

🦇 Multispecies aggregations of bats drinking from pools of kitchen drain in the Amazon raise concern of spillback from humans and domestic animals to bats. Authors highlight need for future studies on the potential risks of pathogen transmission

Lamentável que as leis atuais permitam esse favorecimento aos agrotóxicos

Bem curioso esse quadro.. É o tipo de situação em que pesquisas qualitativas viriam a calhar para entendermos melhor.

Rob Hopkins in front of the projection of his presentation

Yesterday I got to hear Rob Hopkins sharing his experience on being a time traveller who's been to the #future, basis for his latest book 'How to fall in love with the future'.

Such an inspiring talk! Glad I went to Talgarth for this Black Mountains College event.

You can still register to attend the in-person session of the #Futures Thinking seminar with Barbara Adam, Emerita Professor at Cardiff University’s School of Social Sciences, this Thursday at 4pm events.cardiff.ac.uk/view/futures...
#sociology

Science, Technology, & Human Values STS School

Applications for the 2026 Science, Technology, & Human Values STS School close 10 December 2025. The event will be a meeting point of interdisciplinary dialogue, spanning 4 days of seminars, workshops, keynotes and fieldtrips. 22-25 June 2026, Seoul, Korea. Visit sthvschool.org for more info ⏰ ⏰ ⏰