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Aug 14, 2025
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Three things I’ve been thinking about: managing for means vs. extremes, slowing down, and divisiveness
Here are three things I’ve been thinking about this week – 30/12/2025
Dec 30, 2025
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Where Predirections is heading next
Some reflections on the directions this newsletter is taking and a special upgrade offer
Dec 27, 2025
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The baselines have shifted — we’re fixing rivers anyway
How river restoration is succeeding in surprising and inspiring ways.
Dec 22, 2025
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I interrupt my break for some news...
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Nov 23, 2025
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What I wish I knew: 33 thoughts for early career researchers
Apr 29, 2025
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Short-term thinking is killing the planet
Feb 23, 2025
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The paradox of patient urgency
Mar 19, 2025
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Nexus Notes – Moa de-extinction, rewilding fire regimes, and a warning from the future
Jul 19, 2025
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Nov 19, 2025
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Nexus Notes – Antarctic moss, human right to a safe climate, extinction of ecologists(?), and the importance of feedback
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Nov 12, 2025
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Real action requires looking forward, not back
The world is changing at pace – a pace that requires approaches that are anticipatory, not reactionary
Nov 7, 2025
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Nexus Notes – Anticipatory Global Biodiversity Framework, funding cuts, billion dollar disasters, and multifunctional scapes
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Oct 30, 2025
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Emergence: How interactions create complexity from simplicity
Emergence is about how complex patterns, structures, and behaviours arise from interactions – giving rise to new system properties
Oct 23, 2025
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Nexus Notes – Updated Planetary Boundaries special edition
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Oct 8, 2025
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Species did nothing to deserve this... we decide what happens next
One in six vertebrate species were highly exposed to unprecedented temperature in 2024
Sep 25, 2025
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