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Ioannis Rigkos-Zitthen
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Political Geographer by training. Working on food security in a period characterized by permanent and overlapping crises.
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New book review!

Capitalism at the limit: a political ecology of a world in crisis by Ulrich Brand and Markus Wissen.

Reviewed by Daniel Nyberg.

doi.org/10.1080/0964...
September 7, 2026 at 8:43 AM
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What if martial arts are a form of philosophical practice?

Mark Stone explores self-cultivation, character formation, and human flourishing across Greek and East Asian philosophical traditions: spklr.io/63324ERCMK

#Philosophy #PhilSky #MartialArts 📚💙 @hss.springernature.com
Springer Nature & Palgrave Macmillan present 'Philosophy and Martial Arts as Ways to Virtue' by Mark Stone. Text: 'Provides significant philosophical background and understanding of martial arts practice.' Book cover shows an autumn forest path with a traditional building.
August 25, 2026 at 4:17 PM
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LLMs are making writing styles more similar without changing overall meaning, says analysis in @nathumbehav.nature.com. Findings indicate using LLMs could make it more difficult to identify important clues about aspects of a person’s identity, personality, & mental health from their language:

#AI 🧪
The shrinking landscape of linguistic diversity in the age of large language models - Nature Human Behaviour
Sourati et al. find that variance in writing complexity dropped on social media, news and scientific writing after ChatGPT’s release, a shift from individuality towards uniformity. LLM polishing strips cues to gender, age, ideology and moral values.
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August 25, 2026 at 6:47 PM
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OA continues to grow, helping research reach more people, in more places, faster.

For researchers, authors, and editors, our OA Report provides valuable insights into the publishing models, trends & technologies driving open research forward: spklr.io/63324Er8bk

#OA #OpenScience
text reads: '2025 Open Access Report: What Researchers, Authors & Editors Need to Know About The Future of Open Access,' by Deidre Hudson Reuss for Springer Nature. Background: Aerial view of vibrant coral reefs in clear turquoise ocean.
August 26, 2026 at 3:42 PM
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New guest post from Luis Harrison.

Treating right-wing populists as inherently anti-climate... risks weakening efforts to advance ambitious climate action, since it prevents us from recognising how adaptable and flexible populist discourses have become.

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In this guest post, Luis Harrison discusses the research from his recently published article in Environmental Politics: Climate populism: the limits of the ideational and discursive approaches. There is a persistent assumption in both public and academic debate that meaningful climate action is primarily championed by the liberal left and centre. Policies such as net zero, nature conservation, and decarbonisation are commonly associated with progressive politics and institutions like the UNFCCC and the COP process. By contrast, climate scepticism and denial are often portrayed as defining features of exclusionary right-wing populism.
December 10, 2025 at 7:34 AM
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Have you already seen the world’s largest spider web spanning 106 square metres? Check out November’s sharpest science shots, selected by Nature’s photo team: spklr.io/63326B5Tgq

🧪 #SciencePhotography
This is the world’s largest spider web — November’s best science images
The month’s sharpest science shots, selected by Nature’s photo team.
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December 6, 2025 at 1:15 PM
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Have you considered publishing your #SDG-related research as a book? Publishing it #OpenAccess ensures your insights reach a global community of academics and policymakers.
spklr.io/63322BglAu

#ResearchPublishing
December 6, 2025 at 4:02 PM
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“The essential questions of whether or how to use it come down to far thornier societal issues: How can we best balance the risks and benefits? How can we ensure that it’s used in an equitable way? How do we make legitimate decisions about SRM on a planet with such sharp political divisions?”
Why the For-Profit Race into Solar Geoengineering is Bad for Science and Public Trust
By David Keith and Daniele Visioni Last week, an American-Israeli company that claims it’s developed proprietary technology to cool the planet announced it had raised $60 million, by far the largest k...
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November 24, 2025 at 8:01 PM
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🌊 #IlliberalWave No.44
🗣️ People are talking more and more about #Fascism, and often confusing it with #Populism.
💡 @kennypd.bsky.social discusses the features of fascism and argues that we need to understand how it stands out.
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🌊 The nature of fascism and why it differs from populism
People are talking more and more about fascism, and often confusing it with populism. Paul D. Kenny argues that we need to understand how fascism stands out. It has never been just a matter of words o...
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November 20, 2025 at 11:30 AM
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The road to a first-author paper often isn't short or direct. Unlike her colleagues, Poojashree Chettiar faced a five-year wait to publish her PhD project. Here’s how she coped: spklr.io/63324BMXYA

#PhDChat #PhDSky #AcademicSky
Lessons from a long road to a first-author paper
Unlike my colleagues, I faced a five-year wait to publish my PhD project. Here’s how I coped.
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November 16, 2025 at 12:44 PM
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💰 #NATO has agreed to a historic 5% defence spending target. But @osmansabrikiratli.bsky.social of @ecprsgir.bsky.social presents 🆕 evidence revealing that what Americans truly care about goes beyond the numbers. In fact, democratic allies may have more leeway than they realise.
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What Americans really think when European allies don’t cooperate
NATO recently agreed to a historic 5% defence spending target. But Osman Sabri Kiratli presents new experimental evidence revealing that what Americans truly care about goes far beyond the numbers. In...
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November 14, 2025 at 10:31 AM
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🦋 #ScienceOfDemocracy No.122
💭 In a time of anthropogenic existential crises, writes @ioannisrz.bsky.social, this new stage in the Science of Democracy conversation highlights how plural thinking can help rejuvenate democracy.
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🦋 The pluriverse of democracy
In a time of anthropogenic existential crises, writes Ioannis Rigkos-Zitthen, this new stage in the Science of Democracy conversation highlights how plural thinking can help rejuvenate democracy
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October 24, 2025 at 11:10 AM
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🧭 #EUEnlargementDilemmas No.30
🗣️ War in #Ukraine has transformed how often #EUleaders talk about enlargement, but not how they frame it.
🏅 Based on @jeppjournal.bsky.social research, Nicole Scicluna shows that enlargement remains cast as a conditional, merit-based process.
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🧭 Framing wartime enlargement: still a process, after all
Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has transformed how often EU leaders talk about enlargement, but not how they frame it. Nicole Scicluna shows that despite geopolitical urgency and family rhetoric, enlarg...
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October 15, 2025 at 8:34 AM
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🗣️ #ProEU MEPs pursue #democratisation based on institutional mimicry.
🔗 Jan Pieter Beetz, @gillespittoors.bsky.social & Wouter Wolfs argue that this risks overlooking potentially better alternative models that might better connect with European citizens.
👉 bit.ly/48gEEs2
Why the EU’s democratic deficit persists
Pro-EU MEPs have long pursued a logic of democratisation based on institutional mimicry. But as Jan Pieter Beetz, Gilles Pittoors and Wouter Wolfs argue, this path has become ideologically entrenched ...
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October 9, 2025 at 8:35 AM
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💼 We often consider business groups to be the dominant lobbying force in Brussels.
📘 But, based on @ejprjournal.bsky.social research, @frederikstevens.bsky.social shows the opposite: citizen groups are more likely to influence what gets on, or stays off, the #EU’s agenda.
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Why citizen groups outpace business in EU agenda-setting
We often consider business groups to be the dominant lobbying force in Brussels. But, based on his latest research, Frederik Stevens shows the opposite: citizen groups are more likely to influence…
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October 1, 2025 at 9:37 AM
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📙 Drawing on @prxjournal.bsky.social research,
@rubenvanseveren.bsky.social shows why politically cynical citizens often praise the idea of #Referendums, but may not be enthusiastic when they take place.
👎 Low interest can mean low turnout, invalid results + wasted effort.
➡️ bit.ly/3VKlG5I
Why disillusioned citizens may back referendums in theory but not in practice
Ruben Van Severen shows why politically cynical citizens often praise the idea of referendums, but are not necessarily enthusiastic when they take place. Drawing on research in Flanders, he shows how ...
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October 1, 2025 at 8:22 AM
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Protecting Indigenous territories in Amazon rainforest areas with high levels of forest cover may help reduce the number of cases of several diseases in the surrounding areas, according to an analysis published in @commsearth.nature.com: spklr.io/63329ByPOU #environment #conservation
Indigenous Territories can safeguard human health depending on the landscape structure and legal status - Communications Earth & Environment
Indigenous territory extent in the Amazon biome can reduce the incidence of fire-related and zoonotic/vector-borne diseases, but only in certain contexts, according to an analysis of disease incidence data from the region.
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September 12, 2025 at 12:45 PM
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#OpenAccess in The GJ:

'On commons, state institutions and capitalism' by @ioannisrz.bsky.social & @nikoskapitsinis.bsky.social

This commentary explores the essential nature of commoning as a practice of collective care within today's political climate.

doi.org/10.1111/geoj... #geosky
Screenshot of a commentary abstract in The Geographical Journal by Ioannis Rigkos-Zitthen & Nikos Kapitsinis (2025) entitled 'On commons, state institutions and capitalism' with a blue banner at the top. Within the contemporary context of multiple and overlapping crises, which critical scholars often call the Anthropocene epoch, commons and commoning have been presented as a promising way to approach and address the emerging problems. Commons are often presented as spaces antithetical to capitalism, governed in a radical democratic fashion. We argue that to deepen our knowledge on how commons contribute to politics of our times, we need to understand both the embodied relations of care within the commons and the ways commons are related to the state. On these grounds and by presenting commons as an empty signifier, we aim to provide a nuanced understanding of commons contribution to politics in the Anthropocene.
July 16, 2025 at 1:43 PM
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Increased military emissions is one of the dangers of increased military spending, but the bigger concern as I explained to @grist.org is that an ever more militarised world is the opposite of climate justice. grist.org/climate/how-...
How reducing the US military budget would also reduce emissions
New research shows that even with modest reductions in military funding, the United States would keep a whole lot of carbon out of the atmosphere.
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July 16, 2025 at 9:42 PM
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✨Once again, I am so grateful to be able to work, think, write, rewrite and share emotional highs and lows with the wonderful @corinna-viajera.bsky.social and @sware.bsky.social 💜

Read some results of our common care-full endeavour in the latest issue of @environmentalpol.bsky.social
June 27, 2025 at 9:21 AM
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My thoughts on why NATO's new spending pledge is catastrophic for people and the planet. www.aljazeera.com/opinions/202...
NATO’s 5 percent spending pledge is a threat to people and the planet
The alliance’s spending surge will prompt war, cut services and worsen the climate crisis.
www.aljazeera.com
June 26, 2025 at 10:48 PM
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Online first at Space and Polity: "The more-than-human commons in a crisis-ridden context: the case of the women’s collective and the chamomile-bee commons in Skouries of Halkidiki, Greece" by @ioannisrz.bsky.social & @nikoskapitsinis.bsky.social
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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June 20, 2025 at 11:13 AM
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Latest issue, Vol 34, Issue 4 out now.

8 research articles and 3 book reviews.

See below for details.

environmentalpoliticsjournal.net/editorial-an...
May 21, 2025 at 11:54 AM