Olaf Corry

Sourdough in a heatwave

"Comparisons need to include geopolitical, ethical, and social risks, in addition to environmental ones even if they are harder to quantify. Furthermore, public participation is crucial throughout the process, from identifying risks to determining the appropriate actions.” - @olafcorry.bsky.social

"What sparked Carney’s intervention was not Sudan, Venezuela or Gaza. It was the US threat to Canada/Greenland. A western prime minister took umbrage only when the US threatened to treat the prosperous West in the same way it has long treated the Global South." www.middleeasteye.net/opinion/carn...

MAGA!

Rye loaf baking - this is what you do on Bluesky, right?

Come to this if you're in London on 5 November. A talk on the Gaza genocide and its broader contexts by one of the leading authorities on the Middle East (and my former PhD supervisor) @gilbert-achcar.bsky.social. It will be well worth your time. www.soas.ac.uk/about/event/...

Sinister argument-shopping considerations behind denial of @declassifieduk.org of a parliamentary press pass. Worrying. Join me in telling Westminster that you also care about freedom of the press in the UK. I've just signed my name. secure.declassifieduk.org/page/178447/...

Today, we’re welcoming the very first cohort of students joining our MPhil in Global Risk and Resilience!

Why is SAI framed as the solution to the air pollution-cooling dilemma? A student of ours modelled and found that temperature anomalies resulting from a reduction of China and India’s AQSLCFs under SSP3-7.0 might be negated by a 0.05% reduction in global carbon emissions! Is SRM more realistic?

CSER is looking for a part-time Research Assistant to work closely with Centre Director Prof S. M. Amadae (@amadae.bsky.social) Deadline: 6 July 2025 Find out more and apply below ⬇️ www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/51403/

Direct Air Capture (DAC) without the hot air? Interesting calculations on the mind-boggling scales involved if plans to mechanically capture and store CO2 from the atmosphere for global climate abatement are taken seriously. By @cer54.bsky.social mlg.eng.cam.ac.uk/carl/climate...

Apparently this was 'intelligence-led': "30 Metropolitan police officers, some armed with stun guns, smashed down the door of the Grade II-listed building and arrested the young women inside." www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m...

4 people having a lovely time discussing Inter Barca @barryglendenning.bsky.social , Mark Langdon and Jonathan Fadugba @footballweekly.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/football/aud...

Just read it. @georgemonbiot.bsky.social is right. What more can I add? www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

It never ends. She’s dead, along with her entire family. #FreePalestine The Palestinian photojournalist Fatima Hassona, killed along with ten family members in an Israeli air strike on her home in northern Gaza, is the star of a doc…

"Forsvarsanskaffelser er en god kandidat til å toppe den uhellige kåringen av det temaet som er av størst samfunnsmessig viktighet og har den høyeste økonomisk kostnad – men som er gjenstand for minst kvalifisert analyse og debatt." @bergtora.bsky.social statogstyring.no/en-samfunnsv...

I used to admire The Economist for being well reasoned even if I disagreed. The Economist's racist, deceitful spiel on Gaza taken apart www.owenjones.news/p/the-econom...

Fascinating paper by Jenny Andersson and E. Rindzeviciute on the "co-production of technoscience and political governance that was explicated in the work of IIASA", and a resulting "redefinition of the world and reshaping of the political role of technoscience" sciencespo.hal.science/hal-01361235/

The idea of an 'energy transition' falsely projects a history of technological change onto the cumulative history of energy/materials. - Fascinating insight. The "Energy Transition" is a Pipe Dream | Jean-Baptiste Fressoz www.planetcritical.com/p/jean-bapti...

Fascinating read: science, start-ups, security state, solar radiation modification and secrecy - all in one ill boding story. undark.org/2025/03/17/s...

"like all techne - the extraordinary sophistication of these technologies coexists, cooperates in an essential way with sophistry, psycho-rhetoric, and the most cursory, the most archaic, the most crudely opinionated psychagogy, the most vulgar psychology" - Derrida on nukes and nuke-speak.

Velskrevet og oplysende essay af historiker Niels Brimnes om dansk slaveri. Argumenter og oplysninger fremfor holdninger i præcis fremstilling af afgørende karakteristika ved forskellige typer af slaveri - illustreret ved eksempler fra Caribien, Osmannerriget, Nord- og Vestafrika. shorturl.at/rbl5T

Russian military spending over past decade = roughly two thirds the combined UK & France total, and roughly half the combined UK + France + Germany total (source: SIPRI) Those who think even more should be spent should be made to work a lot harder to justify it www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Cycling is 10 times more important than electric cars for reaching net-zero cities and 100 times more fun.

In a new article in Science this month www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... @olafcorry.bsky.social and I argue that the geopolitics of solar radiation modification (SRM) demands prior agreement on non-deployment to make space for well-governed research. (Abridged here, but still a long thread ... 2/33)

There is something really spooky going on at the Presidential Inauguration. Apparently, no women can enter the room where it is happening unless they are on the arm of a man, who appears to be there to guide them, as if they are unable to walk unaided. Is this the new America that Trump wants?

A brilliant analysis of the “science-first, governance later” approach that still dominates geoengineering debates from @duncanmclaren.bsky.social and @olafcorry.bsky.social www.science.org/doi/full/10....

Har skrevet om @madsejsing.bsky.social's nye bog 'Verden er ikke længere den samme' for Eftertryk. Hvor krydser klingerne egentlig mellem nymaterialister og økomarxister? Og er der et fælles projekt? Læs mit bud her: www.eftertrykket.dk/2025/01/12/k...

"Given that premature deployment [of #geoengineering] is almost universally ruled out, why not start there? This common ground could be seized on by states and formalized as an international nondeployment framework." @duncanmclaren.bsky.social @olafcorry.bsky.social www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...