policyrelevant.bsky.social
Lecturer in Public Policy at Edinburgh Uni researching corporate power and planetary health - currently global plastics treaty | ‘most improved PhD student’ 2017-18 | part-time Kieran Tierney Ultra
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If you can't access this journal DM me and I'll send you a copy
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I occasionally DJ and it’s genuinely very cool to see the breadth of knowledge / interest that people have in music - it seems way more pluralist and diverse than it was for millennials
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incredible
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that’s a fair point
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having spoken to colleagues at different institutions it definitely seems to be ‘a thing’
I’ve heard from colleagues that people are answering phones in seminars / lectures which I find absolutely astonishing
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low-level disruption has become an increasing issue - I’ve even had seminars where students continue to talk while peers are presenting
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late addition but ‘Plastic Unlimited’ by the sociologist Alice Mah - a brilliant analysis of how corporations are fuelling the global plastics crisis
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no doubt - as stupid as Trump sounds, it is speaking to a cultural politics of American life that has petrochemicals at its core
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really?! maybe I can enlist some colleagues into complaining about it
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I have found a loophole where you can rent an apartment but ofc it's more expensive than just booking direct
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it's not but we used to have key travel and they were also bad
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we all know this, but it's good to vent sometimes
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I had no idea this existed - thanks for flagging
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this take is going to age quite badly, I would predict
there’s something to be written about the tensions between social justice and the willingness of some public health researchers to support the policies of authoritarian regimes
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I realise that editors might write the byline, but I’m not sure removing additives from ultra-processed foods is much of a counter-weight against the hollowing out of domestic and international health funding