Alexander Hall

Its out!🤩 Mine & @WillMasonWilkes new edited collection 'Most Adaptable to Change: Evolution and Religion in Global Popular Media' is now available now. DM me w/any accessibility Qs and/or a discount code. upittpress.org/books/97808229… #scicomm #histSTM #envhist #twitterstorians

Our 2025 State of the Climate Report was just published in BioScience by scientists from around the world with an alarming message. This video (2 minutes) shows the key highlights: doi.org/10.1093/biosci…

The @LancetCountdown 𝟐𝟎𝟐𝟓 𝐑𝐞𝐩𝐨𝐫𝐭 shows that: 𝐂𝐥𝐢𝐦𝐚𝐭𝐞 𝐜𝐡𝐚𝐧𝐠𝐞 𝐢𝐧𝐚𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐢𝐬 𝐜𝐨𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐥𝐢𝐯𝐞𝐬, 𝐡𝐚𝐫𝐦𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐥𝐢𝐯𝐞𝐥𝐢𝐡𝐨𝐨𝐝𝐬 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐞𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐨𝐦𝐲 #ClimateAction 𝐨𝐟𝐟𝐞𝐫𝐬 𝐚 𝐥𝐢𝐟𝐞𝐥𝐢𝐧𝐞 and keeps people healthy.

@RogerPielkeJr A link would be great! Without knowing the specifics of the methodology your NY Post article felt very similar to arguments being made by older climatologists in mid 20th C, as the discipline became less descriptive and more computational

@Green_Gambit I’ve written extensively on the problems with WWA methods I am happy to discuss if you’d like

This is an absolute classic in climate journalism/advocacy Subgenre = defend/smear Doesn’t really hit the mark IMO To be fair, it’s a tough situation to try to defend And despite their best efforts, I’m not remotely a climate skeptic eenews.net/articles/clima…

@RogerPielkeJr So your problem is with her scholarship or more accurately the methodology employed? It seems a more effective strategy might be to critique this in a professional setting rather an op-ed...

@Green_Gambit Well let’s think about that If we put a group of experts in mouse evolution in charge of reviewing literature on detection & attribution of trends in extreme weather phenomena under the IPCC framework, would that be a good idea? I jest But of course we want relevant expertise

@RogerPielkeJr Perhaps, I don't know the stats on peer reviewed literature in this area. Is there evidence that in past iterations the disciplinary make up of this team has affected their abilities objectively review the literature?

@Green_Gambit Given the prevalence of EEA in the peer reviewed literature on extreme events and detection/attribution you could justify 1 person with this expertise on the author team (ie, 5%) Even that would be over-representation But 9? That’s a stacked deck, quite obviously

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@RogerPielkeJr I wasn't so enamored by the EENews piece. In your New York Post article "Otto is joined by two other lead authors and 17 other authors. Of these 20, nine focus their work on “extreme event attribution.” To me this reads like pluralism, or diversity of methods. Storm in a tea cup?

@Green_Gambit You are correct I should have said “implies” IMO a bit too clever Any other parts of the EENews article concern you? Eg, the false statements?

Alongside the fab Dr Sarah Qidwai, you can hear my northern tones on the latest episode of the @Science_Belief podcast: Where is the global in the history of science? scienceandbeliefinsociety.org/s4-episode-9-w…

@RogerPielkeJr The article doesn't say "Otto’s WWA has “nothing to do with litigation”" - its says, "Otto said...that her work with the IPCC has “absolutely nothing to do with litigation.”" I thought you were all about honesty and transparency?

The article says that Otto’s WWA has “nothing to do with litigation” The below is from her current home page Doth protest too much methinks

The digital online version is fully open access, so please read, critique and share among your networks. Its taken so much work to get here, I can't wait to hear what folks think 🤩 PLS RT!

We advocate for more engagement between social scientists & historians, we contend that social scientists can enhance their own study designs w/insights from historians, like an understanding of how scientific terms have been used to serve specific imperialist agendas.

NEW BOOK! 🚨📢Super excited to see, Contending International Perspectives on Science, Culture, & Belief: From Complexity to Globality, edited by Prof. Fern Elsdon-Baker, Dr Stephen Jones, and Dr @JamesIRiley, out in the world! (Open-access) taylorfrancis.com/books/oa-edit/…

The fact this graph (from University of Reading) is not widely seen or understood by the public shows humanity is failing and unfit for purpose.

I hope someone somewhere is looking into this. Days of sickness absence taken each month by doctors in England for Pregnancy Related Disorders.

Even before these new changes, accessing the UK's citizen funded public broadcaster's written records was opaque & lacking accessibility for the average person. Join me in signing this open letter.

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I've long been an advocate of climate action at the municipal level. Great to see how a major city like Boston is facing adaptive measures head on! #ClimateCrisis theguardian.com/environment/20…