Local News Initiative: Rapidly Expanding Local News Networks. “In Medill’s 2025 State of Local News Report, one of the fastest growing categories of new local news organizations was outlets that are part of national networks, like TAPinto. There are now 853 local news sites across 52 networks providing original reporting, according to the report.”
https://rbfirehose.com/2025/12/11/local-news-initiative-rapidly-expanding-local-news-networks/
University of Exeter: “Exploitative” online money gaming in India causing financial, health and social harm, analysis shows. “‘Exploitative’ online money gaming in India is harming people’s financial and mental health and causing deep social problems, a new study shows. The analysis says new legislation which bans these games is constitutionally defensible and justified.”
New York Times: The Writer Who Dared Criticize Silicon Valley. This link goes to a gift article. “Paulina Borsook’s ‘Cyberselfish,’ which offered dire predictions about the tech world’s love for libertarianism, is finding fans. It only took 25 years.”
https://rbfirehose.com/2025/11/30/new-york-times-the-writer-who-dared-criticize-silicon-valley/
The Conversation: From invasive species tracking to water security – what’s lost with federal funding cuts at US Climate Adaptation Science Centers. “When the Trump administration began freezing federal funding for climate and ecosystem research, one of the programs hit hard was ours: the U.S. Geological Survey’s Climate Adaptation Science Centers.”
Are CSIRO’s sweeping job cuts a sign Australia doesn’t care about the extinction crisis?
Cuts to the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation include:
"climate intelligence and advice; unlocking net zero; waste; and valuing and restoring biodiversity, nature and healthy ecosystems."
“… The direction appears to be, at the moment, that we are prepared to drop the ball on our extinction crisis, our global leadership in biodiversity science or in Southern Ocean science.”
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https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2025/nov/21/csiro-job-cuts-australia-extinction-crisis
#science #research #ClimateCrisis #BiodiversityCrisis #Extinction #EPBCAct #PublicGood #CSIRO #climate #FossilFuels #Australia #VibeShift
I wrote a blog post about an unpublished paper with a surprising result -- unequal sharing can promote cooperation.
https://nadiah.org/2025/06/01/cooperation-unequals
The post is backdated to when the draft was written (delayed because of teaching).
Some aspects were pretty unintuitive to me. Did I interpret the model correctly?
In an unpublished paper, Staab et al. (2022) studied the effects of heterogeneity in endowments and productivities on cooperation. They were particularly interested in the effect of allowing players to share the jointly produced goods unequally. Surprisingly, they found that unequal sharing can promote cooperation.
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