Melissa Gregg

Ecologists are leaving the field as AI moves in Technology is revolutionising how we gather and assess data on nature, presenting huge benefits and no little irony

Click-baity title but this gives a good overview of how AI tools are benefiting ecology & our understanding of the natural world. www.irishtimes.com/environment/... 🌏🧪

This Tuesday, a ‘blood moon’ will be followed by a rare sky spectacle The moon will turn red for 58 minutes as it’s plunged into the Earth’s shadow

On Tuesday morning, a total lunar eclipse will be visible over all 50 US states. For 58 minutes, the moon will turn a rusty red as it slips into the Earth’s shadow. The East Coast will also see a rare selenelion, when both the sun & eclipsed moon are simultaneously visible: wapo.st/4u3iJgo (gift). 🌎

'The new tobacco': The cities banning fossil fuel adverts Cities across the world are clearing their billboards of flight ads, SUVs, cruise ships and petrol cars in an attempt to cut emissions.

Love the visuals in this piece. What is advertising after carbon? www.bbc.com/future/artic...

Early sketch of Tektronix Sunset plant location, c1951, with a timeless description of Beaverton: “If you land here you are lost”

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Come join us in Bristol @bristolbiosci.bsky.social!

We are looking for new collegues working across a broad spectum of topics in biology, including ecology & environmental change. Get in touch if you have Qs!

Apply here by 8 March: www.bristol.ac.uk/jobs/find/de...

A recipe for finding and mapping data centres Geographers like me are really interested in understanding landscape changes. I’ve been doing some research on how the infrastructure of digital life (e.g., data centers or semiconductor fabs…

By focusing on Washington County in Hillsboro, OR, we observe changes to land, waterways and air quality that semiconductor manufacturing has brought since the 1970s. Josh explains one of the methods here: electronicplanet.xyz/2026/01/21/a...

What Grows in a Silicon Forest?: Environmental Amnesia in High Tech Expansion A lecture by Melissa Gregg, Professor of Digital Futures in the Bristol Digital Futures Institute & University of Bristol Business School.

Speaking at Goldsmiths today on my current collaboration with Prof Josh Lepawsky, What Grows in a Silicon Forest? We chart the waves of environmental impact high tech industries bring, many of which appear unsolvable (PFAS) and irreversible (farmland erasure). www.gold.ac.uk/calendar/?id...

@devikanarayan.bsky.social We need to talk about "cookie licking" some time

The Anthropic Hive Mind As you’ve probably noticed, something is happening over at Anthropic. They are a spaceship that is beginning to take off.

"If you have a strictly online or SaaS software presence, with no atoms in your product whatsoever, just electrons, then you are, candidly, pretty screwed if you don’t pivot." steve-yegge.medium.com/the-anthropi...

Climate change is reshaping the Winter Olympic Games Cortina d’Ampezzo records almost one-fifth fewer freezing days annually compared with those in decade after 1956 Games

The infrastructure “required to maintain the illusion of a reliable winter . . . contributes to the very climate deterioration that is making traditional mountain environments a scarce resource” giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...

Bale out: How a huge Northwest hay exporter got into trouble If you’ve ever traveled east to west in Washington, hay trucks are a consistent sight, tracing the mountain pass over Interstate 90, funneling into Puget Sound ports where the hay is loaded on ships a...

Excellent headline www.opb.org/article/2025...

Workers are ‘friction-maxxing’ to resist AI Real-life meetings, in-person hiring and learning skills from scratch: the future may be intentionally inconvenient

Lauren Berlant wrote the book on this and it has nothing to do with AI. It’s the eternal human dilemma - the inconvenience of other people. giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...

Technoecologies - Daniel Cardoso Llach - The Mississippi Colossus Boxtown is a neighborhood in South Memphis established in 1863 by emancipated former slaves. Since 2024, it is also the home to one of the world’s largest supercomputers, property of Elon Musk’s artif...

“In a caustic twist of history, while the first Colossus was built to decode and disrupt Nazi messages, the second seems inclined to recast and amplify them.” www.e-flux.com/architecture...

Utility watchdogs accuse PGE of skirting new law meant to make data centers pay for rising demand • Oregon Capital Chronicle PGE doesn't plan to simply assign the costs of energy investments needed to support data centers, to data centers.

Consumers should not have to subsidise a specific industry's energy needs, especially when its products have been purposefully designed to grow demand for energy. What happens in this case is going to set precedents for every other DC build out. 👀 oregoncapitalchronicle.com/2025/12/15/u...

Pilitika / Robbins Island at risk YouTube video by Bob Brown Foundation

Part of The Carnival of Alive and Extinct Animals at Cygnet Folk Festival this weekend. As Bob Brown said, the wilful acceleration of species extinction has to stop!

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Solstice greetings: guiding lights · Probable Futures It’s a testament to technological progress that lighthouses have become scenic. These towers with their glass rotundas are now mostly quaint relics whose images evoke nostalgia and attract tourists to...

“We are all sailors now” probablefutures.org/perspective/...

A3 Poster, 12 Birds of Bruny Island — Lois Bury A3 Colour poster of the 12 Birds of Bruny in ‘12 Days of Christmas’ format. There are 12 endemic birds of Tasmania, all found on Bruny. Perfect for Christmas or not.

The longest day of the year here in Tasmania started and finished with these friends lois-bury.squarespace.com/shop/12-ende...

Hobart Hurricanes claim victory in WBBL grand final The win comes just 10 months after the men’s side secured their first BBL title…

I can finally enjoy cricket again pulsetasmania.com.au/news/hobart-...

The Texan Ideology | Fred Turner The Texan Ideology reflects a century-old fusion of the oil industry and millenarian Christianity.

Fred Turner updates the California Ideology thesis for our current era, showing it is consistent with the age old mission of white men exploiting an unregulated frontier: thebaffler.com/salvos/the-t....

Heading in to hour 13 of Melbourne airport chaos

A bit of Tassie history

The final step allowed visitors full immersion in the future city at scale.

Futurama was Bell Geddes’ remarkable design for GM at the 1939 World’s Fair. The work of building giddy expectations for a fossil fuel century. Again from Roland Marchand’s “Creating the Corporate Soul”.

Change The Story Change The Future An Indigenous AR Intervention At The Metropolitan Museum Of Art

This in every museum and gallery! changethestorychangethefuture.com

Climate TRACE We make meaningful climate action faster and easier by mobilizing the global tech community to track greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions with unprecedented detail.

Intrigued by Al Gore's indefatigable commitment to just keep on communicating about climate: climatetrace.org/about

More historical refs for myopia pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...

Note to self as I head outdoors for the rest of the day www.nationalacademies.org/news/2024/09....

@bleudeciel.bsky.social I would love to grab the reference to Paramount and Oregon forests for a current project. Ordering your book now! 🤓

Sustainable Media: Lessons from Film History YouTube video by Distinctive Voices

Brian R. Jacobson delivers an exquisite lecture on environmental impacts of media - and alternative imaginaries beyond oil youtu.be/24FcbPZWohs?...

In the Nov-Dec issue of ACM-Interactions, I summarize ongoing discussions with @digitaldang.bsky.social and others working on the regional contours of electronics afterlives. interactions.acm.org/archive/view...