Director FinBio.org
Professor of Environmental Science
with focus on Resilience in Social-Ecological Systems
Stockholm Resilience Centre, Stockholm University stockholmresilience.org
projects:
regimeshifts.org
biospherefutures.net
goodanthropocenes.net
Garry Peterson
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1 million X The Everything App accounts
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I'll be there at WBF in FUT11 along with colleagues from FinBio.org and IPBES
Two days later. @altmetric.com score nearly doubled. Upper bound reach around 5 mil BlueSky accounts and 1 mil Twitter accounts.
Again if you’d like to read the editorial is is available here:
diabetesjournals.org/care/article...
Garry Peterson
"26 of the world’s top 65 banks reduced their fossil fuel financing in 2025,
yet still the world’s largest banks...committed $906 billion to companies conducting business in fossil fuels in 2025"
www.bankingonclimatechaos.org
news:
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
"Our brains mistake the smooth, fluent sensation of being told something — whether in a lecture hall or by AI — for the harder, messier process of actually learning. And generative AI is the most fluent thing that humans have ever built."
giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...
"Something remarkable happened in April. For the first time in history, wind and solar generated more electricity than gas across the entire planet. Not in a country. Not in a region. Globally."
Tons of great news here from Danny Kennedy (via @billmckibben.bsky.social's newsletter, which rules).
Michael D. Green, PhD
Notes from the Field — Singapore & Indonesia, May 2026
Our team has two fully funded PhD positions on ( #systemic) physical #climate #risks for housing and for different ‘climate risk owners’. Come work with us in Delft. Details below ⬇️
Garry Peterson
If the goal was to not let them share reprints of an editorial, maybe having the police escort them out was not the best choice 😭😭 @altmetric.com
www.altmetric.com/details/1954...
David Roberts
🌍 Future ecosystems will differ from those of the past. This isn't just a forecast; it's already occurring. At #WBF2026, we'll explore a crucial question: how should we respond to ecological novelty? Join us on Sunday, June 14, 15-to16:30 in Room Wisshorn. #NovelEcosystems #Biodiversity #Ecology
As Japan’s population ages, labour shortages become a pressing challenge, affecting both provision of public services & economic vitality. These pressures are particularly acute in rural areas experiencing depopulation, where shrinking workforces & declining populations compound existing challenges.
Michael D. Green, PhD
Interesting example of indigenous fire management in Brazil. More than 10 years of partnership! apnews.com/article/braz...
A new smartphone-location data analysis reveals how lopsided Japan's tourism really is: just seven of Japan's 47 prefectures contain 72 of its top 100 inbound-tourist hotspots. 25 prefectures don't appear at all. How Japan's responding - and how you can help - below.
Alejandro Ordonez
Altmetric
The criticism of Trump, Kennedy, and Bhattacharya that was so subversive that the ADA had to eject the Editor-in-Chief of their flagship journal from their annual meeting for sharing it? Prior today it had fewer than 1000 views.
Do your thing.
Christian Dimmer
Social Complexity of Climate Change
Carl T. Bergstrom
Mark Lubell
Putting humans in the loop is pointless if they simply rubber-stamp authoritative-sounding information
🌟 TWO fully-funded 4-year PhD positions 🌟 at TU Delft (NL) on how #climate #risks impact our #homes, property #prices, #inequality, #mortgage portfolios and eventually #systemic economic and social #stability. What can different ‘climate risk owners’ do to reduce adverse impacts? Details 👇
Excited to convene with @laurap18.bsky.social FUT11 at #WBF2026 — "Shaping #Biodiverse #Futures: Applying the #NatureFuturesFramework from Local to National Scales."
Come talk about nature futures with us 👇
Mon 15 + Tue 16 June, Room Flüela.
meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/WBF2026/sess...
A Tokyo Shimbun and Kyodo analysis of 2025 smartphone-location data finds seven prefectures account for 72 of Japan's top 100 inbound-tourist hotspots, while 25 prefectures don't appear at all.
Cornelia Reiher examines local government responses to international labor migration in rural Japan, highlighting how perceptions of foreign workers' roles in regional revitalization shape their (in)visibility and support amid population decline & labor shortages #OpenAccess doi.org/10.1080/1869...
