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'University of Melbourne architect and the lead author of the study, said animals were seeking out buildings as substitute habitats as their natural homes and hollows disappeared'

#polycrisis #clusterfuck #habitat #publicPolicy

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/sep/06/possums-in-the-roof-koalas-in-bed-study-shows-how-animals-resort-to-australian-homes-after-habitat-loss

'University of Melbourne architect and the lead author of the study, said animals were seeking out buildings as substitute habitats as their natural homes and hollows disappeared'

#polycrisis #clusterfuck #habitat #publicPolicy

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/sep/06/possums-in-the-roof-koalas-in-bed-study-shows-how-animals-resort-to-australian-homes-after-habitat-loss

'University of Melbourne architect and the lead author of the study, said animals were seeking out buildings as substitute habitats as their natural homes and hollows disappeared'

#polycrisis #clusterfuck #habitat #publicPolicy

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/sep/06/possums-in-the-roof-koalas-in-bed-study-shows-how-animals-resort-to-australian-homes-after-habitat-loss

'University of Melbourne architect and the lead author of the study, said animals were seeking out buildings as substitute habitats as their natural homes and hollows disappeared'

#polycrisis #clusterfuck #habitat #publicPolicy

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/sep/06/possums-in-the-roof-koalas-in-bed-study-shows-how-animals-resort-to-australian-homes-after-habitat-loss

'University of Melbourne architect and the lead author of the study, said animals were seeking out buildings as substitute habitats as their natural homes and hollows disappeared'

#polycrisis #clusterfuck #habitat #publicPolicy

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/sep/06/possums-in-the-roof-koalas-in-bed-study-shows-how-animals-resort-to-australian-homes-after-habitat-loss

'mental health is the stepsister of the healthcare system. It’s not right. But because we cant see it, that doesn’t mean it doesn’t exist. And the medical healthcare system doesn’t want to recognize and pay for mental healthcare apart from giving out drugs to make them go away'

#mentalHealth #publicPolicy #publicHealth

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/sep/05/lindsay-clancy-murder-trial-retrial

Politics today feels less about solving public issues and more about winning battles. Deep ideological divides turn debates into hostility, eroding trust in democratic institutions and making compromise nearly impossible.

• Focus on facts, not personal attacks.
• Prioritize community progress over party loyalty.

Are we using politics to build societies, or just dividing ourselves?

#Politics #Democracy #PublicPolicy #CivilDiscourse #Mastodon

Politics today feels less about solving public issues and more about winning battles. Deep ideological divides turn debates into hostility, eroding trust in democratic institutions and making compromise nearly impossible.

• Focus on facts, not personal attacks.
• Prioritize community progress over party loyalty.

Are we using politics to build societies, or just dividing ourselves?

#Politics #Democracy #PublicPolicy #CivilDiscourse #Mastodon

Politics today feels less about solving public issues and more about winning battles. Deep ideological divides turn debates into hostility, eroding trust in democratic institutions and making compromise nearly impossible.

• Focus on facts, not personal attacks.
• Prioritize community progress over party loyalty.

Are we using politics to build societies, or just dividing ourselves?

#Politics #Democracy #PublicPolicy #CivilDiscourse #Mastodon

Politics today feels less about solving public issues and more about winning battles. Deep ideological divides turn debates into hostility, eroding trust in democratic institutions and making compromise nearly impossible.

• Focus on facts, not personal attacks.
• Prioritize community progress over party loyalty.

Are we using politics to build societies, or just dividing ourselves?

#Politics #Democracy #PublicPolicy #CivilDiscourse #Mastodon

Politics today feels less about solving public issues and more about winning battles. Deep ideological divides turn debates into hostility, eroding trust in democratic institutions and making compromise nearly impossible.

• Focus on facts, not personal attacks.
• Prioritize community progress over party loyalty.

Are we using politics to build societies, or just dividing ourselves?

#Politics #Democracy #PublicPolicy #CivilDiscourse #Mastodon

The Global Cybersecurity Alliance is calling for immediate government action in response to a surge in AI-driven cyber attacks. Read the full article for recommended policy measures, international coordination priorities, and practical steps for strengthening national defenses: https://wix.to/WYUe4We

#InfoSec
#GovTech
#PublicPolicy
#Cybersecurity
#RiskManagement
#ArtificialIntelligence

there's such a profound discord bw how i perceived civic virtue/the public interest/duty of care/pastoral responsibility and our current social formation around technology

i realise these are all distinct but the wholesale normalisation of ai (particularly into education and public service) intersects them all and i honestly believe this unreflective adoption (clearly perceived to be an essential engine of economic growth and competitive advantage) is symptom of social disease

'New York City’s public school system plans to impose strict limits on artificial intelligence and screen time in classrooms for the upcoming school year, including a blanket ban on generative AI'

#technology #pedagogy #genAI #publicPolicy #evidenceBasedPractice

https://gothamist.com/news/nyc-public-schools-to-ban-ai-for-teaching-students-below-9th-grade

How has time spent alone changed by age over the last decade, and what does it mean for wellbeing?

Parth Pandya explores this question in a new #ResolutionFoundation spotlight, in collaborative work with the #ESRC Centre for Population Change and Connecting Generations: https://www.cpc.ac.uk/news/latest_news/?story_id=816

#YoungAdults #Loneliness #SocialChange #Demography #Population #SocialScience #Generations #Ageing #WFH #Society #PopulationChange #WorkingFromHome #PublicPolicy #LabourMarket #Wellbeing #TimeUse

RE: https://aus.social/@luciedigitalni/117084805852015388

'It’s a very ill-advised move...It’s virtually unenforceable … and it’s literally throwing fuel on to the News Corp fire. They will bank that and they will move straight on to the next demand which will be a curtailing if not the abolition of the ABC'

#publicPolicy #abc #australianMedia #culture

https://www.europesays.com/ie/609422/ Zohran Mamdani announces development of five discounted New York-owned grocery stores #Business #CostOfLiving #Éire #FoodPrices #GroceryStores #IE #Ireland #NewYorkCity #PublicPolicy #ZohranMamdani

RE: https://aus.social/@oscarjiminy/116966632849982993

My local library in Port Philip's always been a real pride of the community. Was designed by a bit of a rockstar architect and it's a kind of keystone community structure in the way that all libraries are but the design really embeds that dynamic in stone and glass.

This place was always, in my memory, really busy. Folks walking the shelves, sitting reading, standing reading, studying etc etc, all the things folks do in libraries.

Lately, someone decided to redesign the layout and part of that redesign was to allocate restricted areas. There is now (I would estimate) about 50% of the seating restricted and if you sit there unknowingly (signage is really minimal) you will be asked to move within about ten minutes of having sat down.

I may be cynical (it's been said before) but it strikes me as pandering to rate payers in an area with a population lousy with renters, though with the massive density developments happening here over the past 20 years I guess we're becoming a minority.

The point is (for me) that libraries can't afford to be alienating their demographic and I can say anecdotally that ever since the layout adjustments the traffic in this library has fallen off a cliff

#publicLibraries #portPhilip #publicPolicy #publicSpaces

Canada’s proposed clean water act needs stronger protections for Indigenous communities
#Indigenous #FirstNations #IndigenousRights #Canada #CleanWater #WaterJustice #DrinkingWater #PublicPolicy #Reconciliation #WaterSecurity #Environment #BillC37
https://the-14.com/canadas-proposed-clean-water-act-needs-stronger-protections-for-indigenous-communities/

CW: Occasional Foul Language. Always Political.

Breaking: March to the White House breaks out at the All of U.S. 250 Rally in Washington, D.C.!

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This new book explains why your elderly parents’ retirement home, the nursery where you drop your children, or the company that pipes water into your kitchen is taken over by an increasingly intricate and deregulated industry.

If a private equity fund is "buying something using a lot a debt, [then] all of that debt is loaded onto the company that the private equity fund has acquired."
"Private equity has moved into care homes, housing, water, nurseries and other essential services."
"We have the power for it to be done otherwise."

Hettie O’Brien: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gAJKiVQZaks via @oscarjiminy

#mortality #publicHealth #housing #publicServices #retirement #careHomes #hospital #expansion #development #LBO #privateFinance #finance #privateFinance #privateEquity #capitalism #publicPolicy #assets #England #Wales #Scotland #privateSector #UK #Britain #Blackstone #property #realEstate #buildToRent #Macquarie #childCare #careIndustry #taxBreaks #pensions #extraction

Spanish farmer’s registry switch spotlights a very expensive paperwork loophole

1. Dear Cherubs, Spain has served up one of those stories that sounds like a parody until the form is stamped. According to Antena 3, a farmer in Almería changed the sex marker on his registry to female after being denied a PAC subsidy three times, and the switch reportedly added enough points to finally get the aid over the line.

The legal backdrop is not exactly mysterious. Spain’s 2023 trans law allows adults 16 and over to request a sex-marker rectification at the Civil Registry without medical or psychological reports, and once the change is registered, the person can access rights tied to the new marker, including positive-action measures for women going forward.

THE PAPERWORK LOOPHOLE

The awkward bit is that the policy aim itself is not silly. The European Commission says the CAP explicitly promotes women’s participation in farming, and its own data shows the gender gap is still real: 26% of farmers under 40 are women, while just 3% of farm holders under 40 are women.

In other words, the subsidy was built to correct a historic imbalance, not to become a speed-run challenge for anyone with a sharp eye for administrative fine print. Spain’s Agriculture Ministry also runs direct aid for shared-ownership farms, with the 2025 call set at 1.795 million euros, which is a tidy reminder that rural policy often arrives as a whole bundle of overlapping incentives, not one clean rule.

THE BIGGER QUESTION

So the real issue is not just one farmer and one clever form; it is whether the rulebook is specific enough to stop targeted aid from being rerouted by bureaucratic creativity. The law clearly allows a registered change of sex, and the CAP clearly allows gender-focused support, but when those two systems meet, the seams are visible enough to make everybody in the room reach for a coffee and a red pen.

That is the quiet little scandal here: a policy designed to fix inequality can look very different once it is filtered through a registry office, a points system, and the universal human gift for reading the loophole before the memo. For the politics-and-public-reaction angle, thisclaimer.com is another place to follow the wider debate.

Sources list
Antena 3 — https://www.antena3.com/noticias/economia/agricultor-cambia-sexo-acceder-ayudas-pac-despues-que-denegaran-tres-ocasiones_2026032669c56fbe6b2f883592582751.html
BOE (Ley 4/2023) — https://www.boe.es/buscar/doc.php?id=BOE-A-2023-5366
European Commission — https://agriculture.ec.europa.eu/overview-vision-agriculture-food/women-farmers_en
Ministerio de Agricultura, Pesca y Alimentación — https://www.mapa.gob.es/es/desarrollo-rural/temas/igualdad_genero_y_des_sostenible/titularidad_compartida/subvenciones-directas-a-las-explotaciones-agrarias-de-titularidad-compartida
thisclaimer.com — https://thisclaimer.com
Wikimedia Commons image source — https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Almonds_plantation_and_farm,_Alhama_de_Granada,_Andalusia,_Spain.jpg

AI use by UK justice system risks papering over the cracks caused by years of underfunding
#Tech #AI #JusticeSystem #UKPolitics #LegalTech #AccessToJustice #CourtReform #AIethics #Underfunding #HumanRights #DigitalJustice #PublicPolicy
https://the-14.com/ai-use-by-uk-justice-system-risks-papering-over-the-cracks-caused-by-years-of-underfunding/

From the UK this time, yet more examples in the neverending story of "They get the coal, we get the hole."

It is characteristic that exploiting non-renewable resources is little more than a massive plundering of public assets for private profit, with the public left with cleaning up after the destruction. From Welsh coal mines to Canadian oil & gas development, the story is the same.

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/jun/01/fossil-fuel-toxic-legacy-coal-wales-mining

#corruption #ResourceDevelopment #Regulation #Environment #PublicPolicy

I'm going to try an #introduction.
Let's see: I'm passionate about #teaching and #learning in #highered. I support #faculty in their teaching at #umich. My phd is in #politicalscience from Emory.

Let's talk about #activelearning, #ScienceOfLearning, equity-focused and inclusive teaching (#DEI), teaching in #publicpolicy and political science, #coursedesign, etc.

Of course, I'm always game for fascinating animal facts, adorable/fluffy pets, #cooking and #baking in my social media. :-)