Minority influence: how can degrowth step up?
A contribution to the ecosocialism vs horizontalism debate.
by Anna Gregoletto and Mark H Burton
In the series Prospects for Degrowth
https://degrowthuk.org/2025/10/29/minority-influence-how-can-degrow…
Walter Koroshetz,
director of the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke,
will soon be leaving his role
His departure in the coming days means nearly half the 27 NIH divisions will have interim leaders.
Koroshetz sent an email to NINDS staff late Friday night explaining that a request to reappoint him was denied, adding that his current temporary extension ends Sunday
Minority influence: how can degrowth step up?
A contribution to the ecosocialism vs horizontalism debate. by Anna Gregoletto and Mark H Burton* A debate is in progress between alternative strategy prescriptions for degrowth. On the one side, what we might call minima-maxima or degrowth as under-labourer in a democratic socialist transformation. ‘Minima’ because it realistically notes that degrowth (whether it is a movement or not) "does not have the capacity to…
The Gavle Goat is DOWN! This massive straw goat, which is destroyed most years - despite the best efforts of the organizers - through various forms of arson, was taken down by a completely novel method: high winds.
https://metro.co.uk/2025/12/27/worlds-
Director of NIH neurological disorders institute is ousted, adding to leadership churn (Jonathan Wosen/STAT)
https://www.statnews.com/2025/12/27/nih-neurological-disorders-stroke-institute-director-koroshetz-ousted/
http://www.memeorandum.com/251227/p33#a251227p33
A Nonparametric Discrete Hawkes Model with a Collapsed Gaussian-Process Prior
Trinnhallen Brisley, Gordon Ross, Daniel Paulin
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.21996 https://
A US judge decertifies a class action that accused Apple of monopolizing the market for iPhone apps, citing errors in the plaintiffs' damages model (Jonathan Stempel/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/boa
A Theoretical Analysis of Discrete Flow Matching Generative Models
Maojiang Su, Mingcheng Lu, Jerry Yao-Chieh Hu, Shang Wu, Zhao Song, Alex Reneau, Han Liu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.22623
"Hundreds of road signs and billboards in France have been decorated with fake flames. Here’s why"
#France #Climate #ClimateChange