Global heating accelerated from a steady rate of less than 0.2C per decade between 1970 and 2015 to about 0.35C per decade over the past 10 years. This is the highest seen since they started systematically taking the Earth’s temperature in 1880
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Testing showing LLMs like Claude have demonstrated "remarkable capabilities and new risks for AI-assisted science"
github.com/malizad/SocS...
New #article from Fakioglu et al: Place attachment of earthquake victims residing in Antakya (Hatay) after the Kahramanmaraş earthquakes on February 6, 2023
TL;DR: Sustainability and place-protective behavior increased place attachment
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
New #article from Eninnaya et al: Examining quality information flow in rural communities during disasters: findings from leaders in emergency
TL;DR: credibility hinges less on message content alone than on trust, embeddedness, and transparency
www-tandfonline-com.ezproxy.neu.edu/doi/full/10....
New #article from Tanaka et al: When Flood Warnings Fail: Psychological Predictors of Information Clarity and Evacuation Intention
TL;DR: limitations of one-size-fits-all communication strategies
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
SONA disaster museum and actual disaster operations center (currently in hibernation) in Tokyo
Disaster response starts with social capital
Much sacrifice: Google pledges roughly three hours of its annual profit to fight climate change www.engadget.com/big-tech/goo...
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Our new #article with Kyne and Kyei: Development and Diffusion of the Social Capital Index (SoCI)
TL;DR: SoCI complements existing indicators and deepens understanding of relational capacity, vulnerability, and resilience
www.mdpi.com/2076-0760/15...
Disaster planning and resilience frameworks have often prioritized the physical over the social. But the invisible networks of trust and connection that shape how communities respond, and recover have been overlooked. Our new framework elevates them.
www.researchgate.net/publication/...
Sea levels around the world have been underestimated, with ocean levels an average of 30cm higher than previously believed. In some areas of the south, including SW Asia and the Indo-Pacific, they may be 100-150cm higher than previously thought.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
New risks: US Nuclear Regulatory Commission issued its first construction approval in nearly a decade allowing TerraPower to begin work on a site in Kemmerer, Wyoming. This new reactor is sodium-cooled and incorporates energy storage as part of its design arstechnica.com/science/2026...
A house with no bathrooms: Japan is looking into using a remote deserted Pacific island nearly 2,000km from Tokyo as a site for burying nuclear waste some 15 years after #Fukushima www.channelnewsasia.com/east-asia/ja...
Chan is one of a growing number of Americans turning to plug-in solar — also called “balcony solar” as it’s often slung over balconies — to help bring down soaring energy bills. www.cnn.com/clean-energy...
Social capital through commerce? The yoghurt delivery women combatting loneliness in Japan share.google/Mel75Bg3La8X...
Nazi heaven: secretary of Miami-Dade County’s Republican Party started a chat for conservative students. Within 3 weeks it was filled with racist slurs, dozens of ways for violently killing Black people, and slurs for gay people and Jews
www.miamiherald.com/news/politic...
New #article from Turmel lessard and Morin : Losing your home after major flooding in Quebec: A look at how men adapt
TL;DR: people postponed their retirement or used savings set aside for it, reused goods, established relationships with their new neighbors
www.erudit.org/en/journals/...
New #article from Bayoulou et al: Social perceptions of gender-based violence among displaced communities in Burkina Faso and their interactions with protection systems
TL;DR: gender-based violence is embedded in social norms and structural inequalities
www.researchsquare.com/article/rs-8...
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Worth the read: The train has left the station: Agentic AI and the future of social science research www.brookings.edu/articles/the...
AI hype: Two primary areas are driving these substantial gains: Customer support and software development.
In these targeted functions, the technology is already delivering on its transformative promises, significantly streamlining core business operations fortune.com/2026/03/03/g...
Many of the scientists Epstein courted were already well-established and well-funded. So why didn’t they all just say no? Science talked with three who did just that. Here’s how Epstein approached them, and why they refused to have anything to do with him. www.science.org/content/arti...
15 years after the #Fukushima meltdowns, #nuclear reactor restarts in Japan will lift sales at Mitsubishi Heavy Industries' (MHI) nuclear power unit to a record 400 billion yen ($2.54 billion) next business year www.reuters.com/business/ene...
For many Trump voters, opposition to progressive cultural politics stems from the fear that it is damaging the minds, morals, and well-being of the next generation beyondmaga.us?utm_source=s...
Send in the clowns: court hearing involving the mass dismissals of federal workers was briefly derailed on Tuesday when a Trump administration attorney contradicted the sworn testimony of an agency head www.govexec.com/workforce/20...
EPA rolls back rules as chemical firms claim provisions in RMP protection system too expensive to implement www.theguardian.com/environment/...
AI fraud : Mainstream chatbots presented varying levels of resistance to deliberate requests for fabrication
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Japan and the United States are working to include a #nuclear power project in the second round of deals under Japan's $550-billion investment package www.reuters.com/sustainabili...
