Solar and wind accounted for 90% of new US electrical generating capacity added in the first seven months of 2025 electrek.co/2025/10/01/fer…

US coal industry is having a good year. Demand for the dirtiest fossil fuel is increasing, utilities are running their plants harder, and miners are boosting production bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

Whistleblower doctor fired : Dr. Jeanne Marrazzo, who was on administrative leave, alleged that the Trump administration had defied court orders and undermined vaccine research nytimes.com/2025/10/02/hea…

Stopping science: National Institutes of Health (NIH) is implementing a contingency staffing plan that will again roil a research apparatus that has already been heavily disrupted during the second Trump administration. fiercebiotech.com/research/nih-r…

Blame game: Education Department employees furloughed this week discovered their email accounts had been manipulated while they were out of office to include partisan talking points that blamed the government shutdown on Democrats nbcnews.com/politics/trump…

Tenure emerged from academic freedom disputes, but it is industry practice because it recruits and retains skilled knowledge workers. Leaving this out prevents scholars from withstanding attacks that seek to remake how academic labor is performed today. time.com/7320703/academ…

The future is here, but unevenly distributed ht DOcelot1

Our article with Timothy Fraser and Small: Connecting Social Capital and Vulnerability: Citation Network Analysis of Disaster Studies TL;DR: most influential works in the field point to strong synergies between social capital and vulnerability research. ascelibrary.org/doi/10.1061/%2…

Social network access and growth: Building relational resilience for street crew-involved men through a community-based intervention TL;DR: building bridging ties reduced arrests and shootings tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

New #article from Robinson: Urban Climate Integration Framework (UCIF): A Multi-Scale, Phased Model TL;DR: importance of aligning technical interventions with institutional capacity and community participation to enhance effectiveness mdpi.com/2073-445X/14/1…

New #article from Zeno-Gonzalez et al: The Sancocho Recovery following Hurricane Maria: NGOs, weak government, and improvised responses in rural Puerto Rico TL;DR: role of NGOs and faith-based organizations in accessing resources for disaster recovery sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

New #article from Chowdhury et al: A Holistic Geospatial Framework for Assessing Disaster Resilience in Coastal Bangladesh TL;DR: 62% of the coastal region fell into very low (15%) or low (47%) resilience categories sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

New #article from Becvarik et al: Community resilience to the health and wellbeing impacts of environmental and climate change: a review TL;DR: need for further studies on health impacts and hazards to establish greater consensus on indicators iopscience.iop.org/article/10.108…

Sanae Takaichi, a veteran conservative lawmaker in Japan who cites Margaret Thatcher as an influence, is set to become Japan’s first female prime minister after prevailing Saturday in an important leadership election nytimes.com/2025/10/04/wor…

Billionaires driving higher education: conservative ideas behind the Trump administration’s “compact” for universities were developed in part by Marc Rowan, a wealthy financier who has sought to shape higher education nytimes.com/2025/10/03/us/…

Japanese government is embracing what mid-20th century economist Joseph Schumpeter called capitalism’s “creative destruction,” the need for innovators to replace weaker rivals bloomberg.com/features/2025-…

Trump administration this week tried to make nine elite research universities an offer they can’t refuse theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/…

Japan has built a first of its kind renewable energy source that runs day and night, powered by salt and fresh water zmescience.com/ecology/japan-…

Largest electric utility in Illinois is rolling out a program for a vehicle-to-grid electric school bus-charging pilot, testing the functionality of bidirectional chargers that could make energy cheaper for customers and reduce grid load insideclimatenews.org/news/03102025/…