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A Global South Strategy for Evaluating Research Value with ChatGPT
Robin Nunkoo, Mike Thelwall
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.01882 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2508.…

A Global South Strategy for Evaluating Research Value with ChatGPT
Research evaluation is important for appointments, promotions, departmental assessments, and national science strategy monitoring. Whilst Global North universities often have sufficient senior researchers for effective peer review and enough trust in citation data to use it for supporting indicators, the same is less likely to be true in the Global South. Moreover, Global South research priorities may not align well with citation-based indicators. This article introduces a ChatGPT-based strateg…

"Fast-growing, global-south cities are ‘strikingly underrepresented’ in climate research"
#Climate #ClimateChange

Fast-growing, global-south cities are ‘strikingly underrepresented’ in climate research - Carbon Brief
Climate change research in urban areas is skewed towards large, well-established global north cities, says analysis of over 50,000 studies.

This #oil & #gas financing/production analysis is interesting in many ways.
▶️ #China is actually ranked fourth, but not mentioned anywhere in the report.
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"According to the Committee on Climate Change, the UK’s share of global emissions is approximately 1 per cent. However, the carbon budgets they have recommended, up to 2043, are equivalent to 1.79% of what they acknowledge to be the available global budget for only a 50% chance of limiting warming to 1.5 degrees. Britain is setting too large a carbon budget for itself, taking nearly twice its fair share"
From my latest piece.

Renewables, carbon and the energy crisis
Article originally published at North West Bylines, 31 July, 2025 Based on a longer, fully referenced pamphlet, jointly published by Steady State Manchester and DegrowthUK available HERE Renewables…

The NHL announces a new partnership with DAZN, which will begin distributing NHL.TV in almost 200 countries around the world before the 2025-26 season (David Satin/The Streamable)
https://thestreamable.com/dazn-deal-nhl-tv-global-distribution

DAZN announces multiyear with NHL, bringing NHL.TV to nearly 200 countries around the world
Although not available in North America, NHL.TV is a fantastic way for global NHL fans to access games.

Climate benefits of afforestation and reforestation with varying species mixtures and densities in the north-western boreal lands
Enoch Ofosua, Kevin Bradley Dsouzaa, Daniel Chukwuemeka Amaogud, Jerome Pigeond, Richard Boudreaultc, Juan Moreno-Crubb, Pooneh Maghoule, Yuri Leonenko
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.03300

Climate benefits of afforestation and reforestation with varying species mixtures and densities in the north-western boreal lands
The boreal forest plays a crucial role as a global carbon sink. This study uses two 250-year simulations of Canada's Taiga Plains, an area targeted by the 2 Billion Trees Program to evaluate afforestation and reforestation strategies that vary by species mix, planting density, and surface albedo. Medium density stands, 600 to 1400 trees per hectare, composed of mixed species with approximately 25 to 40 percent deciduous trees sequestered 15 to 30 percent more net ecosystem carbon than conifer m…

More summer weather extremes in Europe likely as North Atlantic Oscillation intensifies under climate change https://phys.org/news/2025-06-summer-weather-extremes-europe-north.html

More summer weather extremes in Europe likely as North Atlantic Oscillation intensifies under climate change
Due to global warming, the North Atlantic Oscillation, an atmospheric circulation pattern that strongly influences European weather, is becoming more extreme in the summer, according to a study published in Communications Earth & Environment.

Patterns and Dynamics of Netflix TV Show Popularity
Nahyeon Lee, Jongsoo Lim, Hyeong-Chai Jeong
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.01620 https://

Patterns and Dynamics of Netflix TV Show Popularity
We investigate the global dynamics of media consumption by analyzing daily top-ranked Netflix TV shows across 71 countries over a span of 822 days. Using an information-theoretic framework, we quantify diversity, similarity, and directional influence in consumption trends through three core measures, Shannon entropy, mutual information, and Kullback-Leibler (KL) divergence. Entropy reveals that content diversity varies by region, with North America and Europe exhibiting highly dynamic viewing p…

Four wealthy nations
—the United States, Canada, Norway, and Australia
—account for the majority of planned oil and gas expansion over the next decade,
according to new data published by Oil Change Internationalon Monday, the first day of the Bonn Climate Change Conference in Germany.
Oil Change's analysis,
titled Planet Wreckers,
notes that if those four Global North nations stopped their planned new oil and gas extraction,
32 billion tons of carb…

'Planet Wreckers': 4 Rich Nations Plotting Nearly 70% of New Oil and Gas Over Next Decade | Common Dreams
"This is not just hypocrisy," said one climate campaigner. "It is a death sentence for communities on the frontlines of the climate crisis."

Semafor appoints Matthew Martin as its Saudi Arabia bureau chief and its global head of sovereign wealth fund coverage, as it expands its Gulf coverage (Arab News)
https://arab.news/pymky

Semafor appoints Saudi Arabia bureau chief as part of regional expansion
DUBAI: Semafor has appointed Matthew Martin as its Saudi Arabia bureau chief and global head of sovereign wealth fund coverage as the news platform expands its Gulf edition. He will head the growing team in Riyadh and be a part of the wider editorial staff led by Semafor Gulf editor Mohammed Sergie. Martin, who has over two decades of journalistic experience, was most recently Bloomberg’s chief correspondent for SWFs in the Middle East and North Africa region.

Knowledge-guided machine learning for disentangling Pacific sea surface temperature variability across timescales
Kyle J. C. Hall, Maria J. Molina, Emily F. Wisinski, Gerald A. Meehl, Antonietta Capotondi
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.08490

Knowledge-guided machine learning for disentangling Pacific sea surface temperature variability across timescales
Global weather patterns and regimes are heavily influenced by the dominant modes of Pacific sea surface temperature (SST) variability, including the El Niño-Southern Oscillation (ENSO), Tropical Pacific Decadal Variability (TPDV), North Pacific Meridional Mode (NPMM), and the Pacific Decadal Oscillation (PDO). However, separating these modes of variability remains challenging due to their spatial overlap and possible nonlinear coupling, which violates the assumptions of traditional linear meth…

In rejecting diplomacy and choosing war, not only in breach of international law but at the behest of a country pursuing annihilation in Gaza, the US has delivered a resounding blow to the architecture of global affairs. It has signalled that countries that negotiate (Iran) face stark consequences, which those which rush to own the bomb (North Korea) can avoid. The cost of this reckless act may not be fully felt or comprehended for decades.
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/jun/22/the-guardian-view-on-trump-bombing-iran-an-and-reckless-act?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

Astrophysical Quantum Matter Revisited: Flat-Band Topological States on a Zero-Flux Dipole Sphere
Jeff Murugan
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.04363 https://

Astrophysical Quantum Matter Revisited: Flat-Band Topological States on a Zero-Flux Dipole Sphere
We study strongly correlated fractional topological phases on a two-sphere threaded by a magnetic dipole field with globally vanishing flux. Solving the Dirac equation in this background produces spheroidal wavefunctions forming a highly degenerate manifold of normalizable zero modes, with degeneracy proportional to the total absolute flux. We introduce a non-Abelian spin gauge field near the equator to hybridize the north and south domain-confined modes, forming a global flat band. Projecting …