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Walz announces that Rep. Melissa Hortman is dead as a result of a "politically motivated assassination"

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🚨Today, +230 civil society organizations welcome the renewed commitment of +90 countries to forge a binding global treaty to end plastic pollution and protect human health and the environment by addressing the full life cycle of plastics 🌍✊ www.breakfreefromplastic.org/2025/06/11/n...

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Can I just shock you? I like Reform. Despite what I said 48 hours earlier

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tech companies are determined to force AI into areas of social and cultural life where there exists no appreciable demand anyone who’s taught at a university knows that students tend to want in-person, interactive teaching, not some soulless chatbot

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super useful policy brief by @gaiazerowaste.bsky.social on the final round of negotiations over a UN global plastics treaty

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www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... Happy to share this new article just published in Food Policy journal! We show that concentrated corporate power matters for people's agency within food systems. Open access! Highlights and abstract below

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new @ciel.org briefing on corporate influence and steps that could be taken to minimise conflict of interest in a future Global Plastics Treaty

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incredibly cool paper that uses geolocated data of oil spills to show how fossil fuel companies exploited the regulatory uncertainty of Brexit to increase pollution

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Equinor has made an online game for kids, called «Energy Town». Try running a city without oil or gas, and find out that Equinor (the game) finds this impossible. You’ll «run out of money» quickly. www.wonderverselearning.com/play

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back on my archival research on Big Food and plastic pollution This is the message to shareholders in PepsiCo's 1970 annual report, which boasts of the company's promising research into a 'burnable plastic bottle' that will solve the 'solid waste problem'

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The Rehearsal, but its endless scenarios of unloading crates from your online food shop in front of the delivery driver

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Equally shitty is that this is also true at fossil fuel extraction sites: so many missing & murdered Indigenous women, in particular, have disappeared in proximity to "man camps" for oil & gas mining.

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Adobe’s Acrobat repeatedly asking if it can generate a garbage summary of the article I’m trying to read

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writing a paper on the temporal dimensions of corporate power and been reading some of Niklas Luhmannn's work on 'present futures' I always struggled to get into systems theory, but found this paper so interesting (and way ahead of its time in many ways) www.jstor.org/stable/40970...

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Now that reducing #plastic production has moved to center stage in the #plasticstreaty negotiations, the next question is: how? We have some answers! Led by the amazing @taraolsen.bsky.social, here's a new paper on how to realistically reduce plastic production. www.cell.com/one-earth/fu... 🧵

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The BBC news is giving a lot of attention to Trump’s restrictions on international students yet is largely uninterested in the U.K. government’s pursuit of the same policy goal. Why?

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⚠️ NEW PAPER ⚠️ @peternewell.bsky.social and I have a new piece out in Environmental Politics on the politics of phasing out fossil fuels in the UK 🇬🇧 - and what it means for fossil fuel phase-out policies globally 🧵

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Team lawful neutral all the way.

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was in Napoli last week and whenever I told someone I was Scottish they almost always brought up McTominay the love for this man is unreal

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Kaufmann, Goodwin, Mounk, Pinker The definitive Nightmare Blunt Rotation

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on a zoom call and I can’t unmute because a guy is practicing the bagpipes outside my office an excuse so comically stereotypical that I have to assume my colleagues think I’m lying

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How do we move past fossil fuels? Join our event with Susana Muhamad, recent Minister for Environment under Petro in Colombia. Responses by @peternewell.bsky.social (@suspol.bsky.social) and Amiera Sawas (@fossiltreaty.bsky.social). 3pm this Friday at LSE. Sign up: www.eventbrite.com/e/1372260551...

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can’t wait to read this

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New commentary with colleagues from @ciel.org @greenpeace.org and @scientistscoa.bsky.social on the UN global plastics treaty and corporate capture We highlight power imbalances in negotiations, and suggest ways to strengthen the democratic legitimacy of a future treaty

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New commentary with colleagues from @ciel.org @greenpeace.org and @scientistscoa.bsky.social on the UN global plastics treaty and corporate capture We highlight power imbalances in negotiations, and suggest ways to strengthen the democratic legitimacy of a future treaty

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taking the opportunity to shamelessly promoting my research on corporate power and UPFs off the back of @theguardian.com's investigative work we need to start thinking about industry strategies in terms of a wider political economy of delay www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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