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I'm no think thank, but I think this is wrong.

Rutte ondertussen: "we GaAn diT eChT mET ziJn aLLeN vOELeN"

This is Brexit

The death knell for nudging? “When this publication bias is appropriately corrected for, no evidence for the effectiveness of nudges remain.” pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pn…

Entomological field work in July makes me so frustrated. Many nature reserves mown down to the bottom. Nothing left for insects. No-one ever studied insect mortality due to drying out after mowing. Our conservation must become more integrative with more entomologists being heard.

Dear god this letter written by Jacques de Kadt in 1948 denouncing the Dutch war against Indonesian independence is so spot on and still applies today in so many ways

Mooizo, weg met deze “gewasbeschermingsmiddelen” in de openbare ruimte. Sowieso is daar geen “gewas te beschermen”, dus dan is gif gewoon een beter woord. En dat is dus nu weer verboden buiten de landbouw - gelukkig👏🏻

The obsession of the capitalist class with "innovation" sits awkwardly alongside their insistence that "there is no alternative". We are allowed to imagine new gadgets but not a just economy.

Minor detail, maar dat Hitler een socialist zou zijn is geen extreemrechtse theorie. Het is een neoliberaal stokpaardje. Friedrich Hayek populariseerde dit idee in zijn klassieker The Road to Serfdom. Fascisme en sociaaldemocratie waren 'rivaliserende socialistische groeperingen'

New pandemic phase just dropped: Long COVID is real and real expensive.

Gisteren deelde de NOS een artikel met de titel: ‘stop met delen van mensonwaardige beelden van daklozen’. Het stuk maakt behoorlijk wat reacties los. Hierbij een poging te reageren op de meest gehoorde kritische reacties. linkedin.com/pulse/reflecti…

Common mergansers are clumsy on the ground, but they can run very fast, especially on the water surface, just before taking off. [read more: buff.ly/3zymjFe] [📹: buff.ly/3RXhhch]

I *love* audiobooks. When I was a high-school-aged page at a public library in the 1980s, I would pass endless hours shelving and repairing books while listening to "books on tape" from the library's collection. 1/

1. The world's extinction experts say mass extinction is here and may be complete by 2200 (the scientific community has reached a consensus on this), accepting the fundamental elements of capitalism are what need changing, calling for the 'abolition of perpetual economic growth'.

The crazy thing about white readers not reading about POC because they “can’t relate” is that readers of color spend their lives not relating to *anything* we read and yet we keep enjoying books anyway

Meer weten hierover? Kijk eens op #home" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">fao.org/faostat/en/#ho… of bekijk dit interessante verhaal (specifiek over dit onderwerp vanaf 1:13:00: youtube.com/watch?v=h4E-g6… (7/7)

On Saturday we're celebrating the winners of the protest poetry challenge on Young Poets Network: bit.ly/1381celebration Second-prize winner Charlie Jolley will be performing her poem about saving Sheffield's trees via recorded video. (1/3)

Fire ants use tools They've been observed covering inaccessible surfaces with particles to facilitate food search & transportation. In this case, they covered a double-sided tape with glass gravel [full paper: buff.ly/3zw8fMj] [📹 Horace Zeng]

Time for a thread about people leaving their jobs to fight climate change. If you have a related story to share, please do so in replies. 🧵