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The assault on science intensifies.

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I'd be shocked if this means not preparing bases for climate impacts, but at this point, I wouldn't put it past this administration to do the absolutely dumbest goddamn thing.

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Join us this week in Bristol for our Workshop on Elections and Climate Change @polstudiesassoc.bsky.social @environmentalpol.bsky.social @psaepopsg.bsky.social @jeppjournal.bsky.social @conorlittle.bsky.social @matpaterson.bsky.social @drsophiah.bsky.social www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/workshop-e...

submitted 6 days ago • 0 comments

The far right assault on climate action getting more coordinated. And the UK Conservative Party now unambiguously part of it. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

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This is remarkably accurate.

submitted 61 days ago • 0 comments

📢 New Blog: Community or Corporate Control? PhD researchers Mingwei Zhang, Wangshu Liu & Guyeon Kang analyze Luke Yates' Platform Politics insights on platform power, digital governance & regulatory struggles—offering key takeaways for sustainable cities & policy reform. 🔗Read it: bit.ly/4gKR7Vo

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🚀 Still a few weeks left to apply for the ERC project FOOD CHARITIES PhD positions! ⏳ #Sociology #SocialSciences #Ethnography Each PhD will focus on one city—Palermo 🇮🇹, Kyoto 🇯🇵, or Rotterdam 🇳🇱—to study food insecurity through comparative & collaborative ethnography. 🌱✨ Don’t miss this opportunity!

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Really looking forward to this event with Profs Mat Paterson (@matpaterson.bsky.social), Jen Bagelman @bagelwoman.bsky.social), Mark Whitehead & Dr Danielle Young (@notesnthemargin.bsky.social). Feel like it's going to be a rich conversation on climate science, politics, power + a few giggles :-)

submitted 12 days ago • 1 comment

📢 Join us for the SCI Seminar with Dr. Stephanie Barrientos! 🌍 Explore the shift from voluntary standards to regulatory frameworks in global supply chains. 📅 20 Feb | ⏰ 10:00-11:00 AM | 📍 AMBS 3.008 🔗 Register: bit.ly/4gvw499 #HumanRights #Sustainability #GlobalValueChains #Regulation

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The paper everyone uses in seminars for the last two years is finally published!

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Trump’s agenda won’t let his energy secretary achieve ‘energy abundance’ #Climate

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Want to make sense of the craziness going on in the world economy and America’s role in it? Come and see the irrepressible Mark Blyth speak at LSE this coming Thursday www.lse.ac.uk/european-ins...

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Come join us! New three year postdoc to work at @manchestersci.bsky.social with @helenholmes.bsky.social on sustainable healthcare. Closing date 17th Feb. www.jobs.manchester.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai...

submitted 19 days ago • 0 comments

Let's hope so. whether she goes or not is secondary, but backtracking on this disastrous direction the govt has taken is crucial.

submitted 21 days ago • 0 comments

nicely done.

submitted 25 days ago • 0 comments

Disastrous decision on Heathrow. They're essentially saying “fly, baby, fly” to the developers who don’t give a fig about the climate emergency. The world is literally on fire and the arsonists are giving speeches.

submitted 25 days ago • 14 comments

Sounds like a really important – and sad – piece: What if we all regularly publish papers on sustainability in journals whose parent companies are anything but interested in ending the fossil age? #research #publishing #journals journals.librarypublishing.arizona.edu/jpe/article/...

submitted 25 days ago • 0 comments

Labour's simplemindedness will be its downfall - and ours. You can't build and bulldoze your way out of the housing crisis. Unless you also change the system, you'll still leave millions without decent homes. My column today explains why. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

submitted 28 days ago • 70 comments

Anything by Japhy Wilson is worth a read. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

submitted 32 days ago • 1 comment

I’m very excited to have this open access article out in @ripejournal.bsky.social ! www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

submitted 34 days ago • 5 comments

Is your MP saying UK climate targets are fit for purpose? If so, please send them this, explaining why they’re really not with 3 quick animations👇

submitted 38 days ago • 1 comment

New article! #OpenAcess A tale of two coals: the politics of time in coal phase out by Bregje van Veelen. This article brings sociological literature on ruination to bear on the political processes of fossil fuel phase out. doi.org/10.1080/0964...

submitted 38 days ago • 0 comments

Good luck with that Ed. I think that horse may already have bolted. The challenge is now to win it! I would rephrase his last point to read that most british people are actually on his side so he should take the culture war to the anti-net zero populists and win.

submitted 39 days ago • 3 comments

Until now, anti net zero types in the UK had mostly avoided explicit climate denial. They seemed to be emboldened. Not clear iif it will help them though. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

submitted 39 days ago • 1 comment

Cannot stop thinking about how Octavia Butler wrote a book in 1993 about climate change. It opens with deadly fires in LA in 2025. In the story, a fascist President has just won office with the campaign slogan "Make America Great Again." She was a modern day Nostradamus. If only we'd listened.

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Trump administration is about to test the preferences and political strength of the "decarbonizable sector" w respect to IRA producer and consumer tax incentives. Do utilities, carmakers want to keep the transition going and are they politically influential enough? www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

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We make a few observations in this piece. 1) Labour is no longer just fighting the Tories but also has a three way fight with the Greens and Reform also. The GP came second in 40 seats in the election, all of them urban English Labour held seats. /1

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Another good piece about the increasing criminalisation of climate activists based on the findings from the new report out of University of Bristol: www.theguardian.com/environment/... For the full report by @berglundoscar.bsky.social et al., go here: crecep.blogs.bristol.ac.uk

submitted 72 days ago • 6 comments

Really enjoyed this episode about climate justice in universities, with @profjohnbarry.bsky.social and @jenniecstephens.bsky.social Loved John's point about finding hope and joy in climate action, very different from optimism without agency. Hope requires urgency and action #SpeirGorm #Climate

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As I wrote here, fossil fuels went from the sidelines to headlines at COP28. www.climatechangenews.com/2024/01/17/h... But at #COP29, they went back to the sidelines again, if the number of mentions in the IISD summary report is anything to go by.

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Britain leads the world in cracking down on climate activism, study finds - Research shows UK police arrest environmental and climate protesters at three times the average global rate Story by @damiengayle.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/environment/...

submitted 74 days ago • 24 comments