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Prof Rachael Garrett

@rachgarr

Prof of Conservation & Development @Cambridge_uni; feminist & anti-racist. food systems; supply chains; conservation; tropics; sociobioeconomies; GLP SSC co-chair @glp-earth.bsky.social

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You cannot talk like this about any other minority in America.

And if it was any other president’s adviser who said something like this about any other minority, it’d be the instant end of their presidency.

02.03.2026 07:54 👍 23871 🔁 5954 💬 1731 📌 632
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Creating Communities to Help Interdisciplinary Scientists Thrive - Eos Solving complex challenges often requires diverse expertise, but skepticism remains within traditional academic institutions and mindsets regarding interdisciplinary science and scientists.

For interdisciplinary scientists lacking a home, one path forward is building a new community of researchers with shared interests, say Laura Vang Rasmussen, @rachgarr.bsky.social, @sofiananni.bsky.social, @nramankutty.bsky.social, & Ariane de Bremond @glp-earth.bsky.social. eos.org/opinions/cre...

13.02.2026 14:59 👍 6 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 1

Almost as remarkable as the flooding is having a public service that actually functions. There are crazy floods often in the us and people are largely on their own.

#climate change

08.02.2026 07:44 👍 7 🔁 0 💬 2 📌 4

Nobel prize is about as good an indicator of morality as the fifa peace prize.

05.02.2026 09:25 👍 19 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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Video: First Vehicles Cross Reopened Gaza Border The Rafah border crossing between Gaza and Egypt reopened Monday after having been largely closed since May 2024. It allowed some Gazans who had fled during the war to return. Sick and wounded people ...

Thank goodness

www.nytimes.com/video/world/...

03.02.2026 07:18 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

Billionaires are 4,000 times more likely to hold political office than ordinary people.

Over half of the world’s largest media companies have billionaire owners.

9 of the top 10 social media companies are run by just six billionaires.

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19.01.2026 06:01 👍 17 🔁 11 💬 1 📌 2

New Oxfam Inequality report just dropped:

Billionaire wealth has grown by 80% since 2020.

The world’s 12 richest billionaires have more wealth than the poorest half of humanity.

Elon Musk is the first ever person to have over half a trillion dollars wealth.

19.01.2026 06:01 👍 21 🔁 18 💬 1 📌 1
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Hello friends! Thank you for all of your help and support. My children were so excited for fresh eggs we were able to get with donations and I would love for them to feel this excitement again. www.gofundme.com/f/reham-and-...

08.12.2025 19:24 👍 6 🔁 8 💬 0 📌 3

Imagine setting out in a desperate attempt to save your loved ones from starving and being shot in the back as you carry a bag of flower.

No, I will #neverforget.

07.12.2025 11:09 👍 10 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 8
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Can we just start referring to him as piggy now?

22.11.2025 09:35 👍 20 🔁 0 💬 3 📌 0
Climate summit:
What if it is a Big hoax and we create a Better world for nothing

Climate summit: What if it is a Big hoax and we create a Better world for nothing

Tämä lienee jo tuttu

12.11.2025 21:25 👍 28 🔁 6 💬 1 📌 0
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The Israeli army killed Gaza civilians in a free-for-all, say ...

... Israeli soldiers who served there.

10.11.2025 09:21 👍 5 🔁 7 💬 0 📌 0

Congrats to this group!

10.11.2025 09:27 👍 12 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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The Shutdown of U.S.A.I.D. Has Already Killed Hundreds of Thousands The short documentary “Rovina’s Choice” tells the story of what goes when aid goes.

One analytical model shows that, as of November 5th, the dismantling of U.S.A.I.D. has already caused the deaths of 600,000 people, two-thirds of them children. https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/jUzNSc

06.11.2025 21:00 👍 9257 🔁 6013 💬 435 📌 1284
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Meta is earning a fortune on a deluge of fraudulent ads, documents show Meta projected 10% of its 2024 revenue would come from ads for scams and banned goods, and it internally estimates that its platforms show users 15 billion scam ads a day, company documents show.

On average Meta shows its platforms’ users an estimated 15 billion “higher risk” scam advertisements every day.

(Meta earns about $7 billion in annualized revenue from this category of scam ads each year.) www.reuters.com/investigatio...

06.11.2025 16:14 👍 189 🔁 112 💬 12 📌 19
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Gutsy and fascinating work developing a chicken pain index, in essence, as a path to more ethical animal-agriculture futures in a protein-hungry world by @cleoverk.bsky.social 🧪🐓. Paper and summary: 🧵

06.11.2025 18:20 👍 4 🔁 1 💬 2 📌 0

So needed!

06.11.2025 18:25 👍 10 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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Bill Gates Gave $3.5M to Think Tank Run by Climate Crisis Denier Bjorn Lomborg Tax records reveal that the billionaire’s foundation has donated for years to Lomborg’s Copenhagen Consensus Center.

"In total, the Gates Foundation (formerly known as the The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation) has donated $3,519,491 to Lomborg’s think tank. The most recent tax filing on record includes a 2022 donation to the Copenhagen Consensus Center worth $1.25 million" - @rtakver.bsky.social, @desmog.com

06.11.2025 01:13 👍 115 🔁 67 💬 8 📌 10
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Are the advocates for net zero losing the fight? The cost of misunderstanding: How public perception shapes the net zero debate

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"Perhaps the most striking findings is that the British public vastly overestimates the cost getting to net zero by almost 14,000%, fueling scepticism & a reluctance to pay. On average, they estimate it will need 28% of GDP by 2050, compared to @thecccuk.bsky.social forecast of just 0.2%"

04.11.2025 10:01 👍 118 🔁 77 💬 4 📌 7

@lailaberning.bsky.social congratulations on your stellar defense today!!

03.11.2025 21:33 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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ICMY ‼️

GLP land system science experts published our 8️⃣ policy principles for sustainable & just land systems.

Following these principles from agenda setting to formulation to implementation can help improve land policy.

@glp-earth.bsky.social @royalsociety.org
@camunigeography.bsky.social

30.10.2025 13:24 👍 7 🔁 2 💬 2 📌 0
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Who Are the Federal Forces Behind Trump’s Mass Deportations and Crime Crackdown? As President Trump deploys ICE, Border Patrol, the National Guard and other forces to U.S. cities, here’s how to tell them apart — and what their powers are.

#USA2025

How to Make Sense of the Federal Forces on the Streets www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

24.10.2025 12:45 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 2 📌 0
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Policy principles for sustainable and just land systems @rachgarr.bsky.social etal. @royalsociety.org
royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/epdf/10....

23.10.2025 13:45 👍 7 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0

That's 250 million not going to helping people.

@senategop.govpeeps.us @houserepublicans.bsky.social

This is how you serve your country? What a joke.

20.10.2025 18:56 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

@conservation.cam.ac.uk @camunigeography.bsky.social @homertoncollege.bsky.social

19.10.2025 15:18 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

The study revealed how international #diplomacy and advocacy by civil society have been pivotal in creating the awareness and demand for political leadership to emerge. Moving to the 2010s, #Indigenous rights were seen as an important complement to political will and law enforcement."

19.10.2025 15:18 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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Protecting Brazil and Indonesia’s tropical forests requires political will, law enforcement and public pressure How Brazil and Indonesia have cut down on deforestation.

Public write up of our recent @consletters.bsky.social paper.

"Our results were clear: across both countries, our experts judged that #political will and #law enforcement were by far the most important factors for protecting #forests...

theconversation.com/protecting-b...

19.10.2025 15:18 👍 15 🔁 6 💬 1 📌 0
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Wikipedia Says AI Is Causing a Dangerous Decline in Human Visitors “With fewer visits to Wikipedia, fewer volunteers may grow and enrich the content, and fewer individual donors may support this work.”

wikipedia's data shows that AI is siphoning traffic away from the site, which is a danger to its sustainability. ironically Wikipedia is more important than ever to users who want reliable information instead of slop, and to AI companies that need it for training data www.404media.co/wikipedia-sa...

17.10.2025 01:15 👍 7769 🔁 3750 💬 90 📌 340
A Palestinian man adjusts the doorway of a tent whilst a smiling Palestinian woman sits just inside it.

A Palestinian man adjusts the doorway of a tent whilst a smiling Palestinian woman sits just inside it.

Baha and Samaa have worked hard to make their tent into a nice home for their girls, but it provides neither shade nor insulation, it's infested with insects, and they're all suffering from the effects of malnutrition. Please help. gofund.me/db56c7ce3 @mommunism.bsky.social @lexialex.bsky.social 🍉

26.09.2025 16:11 👍 11 🔁 17 💬 2 📌 0
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🚨🇪🇸 Breaking: Spain has dispatched a navy vessel to support the Global Sumud Flotilla heading to Gaza. Speaking from New York, Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez said Spain “condemns the genocide” in Gaza and demanded Israel uphold international law and allow Spanish citizens to sail safely in the...

24.09.2025 19:03 👍 852 🔁 341 💬 18 📌 48