As floods & fires rise, oceans boil & ice melts, and "safe" temperatures are breached, something momentous just happened in the heart of the EU. No one has heard about it: journalists were present, but their editors refused to publish 🤯. 🧵, please RT. #BeyondGrowth2023 1/

Striking map from a new study by Lenton et al.: after 2.7 °C global warming the purple areas will basically be too hot to live. A billion people could be on the move to cooler lands. Guardian article: theguardian.com/environment/20… The study (open access): nature.com/articles/s4189…

🧵 A remarkable story from Glasgow: How the 'murder capital of Europe' cut crime by getting mothers talking to gang members and what we can learn. (1/15)

Not another bias! Behavioural economics has excelled in identifying biases. We have now reached the point of diminishing returns in this quest. What lies ahead in behavioural sciences? Making sense of the reasons we behave the way we do. 🧵

Sometimes a crisis hits so hard that a country needs help from others to overcome it. That’s not one-way humanitarian saviourism, it’s international solidarity. 200 South African firefighters land in Edmonton, Canada to help fight the wildfire. Sound up 🔊

Three of the most terrifying graphs on the internet right now.

‘Labour of Love’ installation, 2022, a visual depiction of the 650 times artist Sarah Maple fed her baby over three months to highlight the sheer volume of work that is expected of mothers and to challenge people to rethink the value of the time spent #WomensArt

Average house price today: £285,000 Average salary today: £26,000 Multiple : 11x House price 1993: £56,500 Salary 1993: £17,800 Multiple : 3.2x To those saying “oh we survived higher interest rates in the 90s” : YOUR house price was NOT 11 times your salary! #InterestRate

**new blog post** I've been considering framing degree awarding gaps as deficits in the validity of our assessments, and I've tried to make the case for this being a helpful way of thinking about them. Thoughts welcome! michaeloneill.org/blog-1/2023/6/…

The government must extend its free breakfasts programme to every vulnerable child in the UK. Agree? Sign now

I was at the pre-inquest into Ruth Perry’s death today. There is a lot to unpack. Ofsted took up almost the entire right-hand side of the court with a team of seven. The family, Ruth’s GP, Brighter Futures, the school/Reading Borough Council all had legal representation.

Time is money. If it takes twice as long to do something you earn half as much. This is the brutal fact at the heart of Brexit. Let’s "Brexit" a £12.99 paperback, blow by blow, and see what difference leaving the single market has made.

**new blog post** critical reflections on the admin students must do to access equitable treatment in assessments. michaeloneill.org/blog-1/2023/7/…

I’ve been to an awards ceremony at my son’s school today. Kids were awarded for 100% attendance, and specifically for coming into school when ill and “pushing through.” A teacher was awarded for working every evening &always being available. This needs to stop. It’s just wrong.

From the Guardian this morning, one chart to tell you all you need to know about for whose benefit the economy is now run:

Grinning dinosaurs posing with the comet.

Taking a van to the EU as a Scouts volunteer- a thread. Buckle up! In my volunteer role in Scouting I use my D1E to support teams of younger leaders who don’t have D1 on their license as that was removed on 1st Jan 1997. I was asked to drive a 3.5tonne van to Switzerland /1

£4.9 billion profits, up 40%, when your nan daren’t leave her immersion heater on. There is something unfathomably wrong with this. But hey, don’t pay attention to these cowboys, look at the boat people instead.

Remember: whatever small part of the planet you inhabit, it is not representative of the whole globe. 🟥 = warmer than 1981-2010 average 🟦 = cooler than 1981-2010 average Data: ERA5